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  1. Re:Gawd. on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When someone sues Slashdot for bandwidth charges incurred for an unannounced deluge of traffic, I'm sure they'll start thinking about it.

  2. Re:Crack on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves · · Score: 1
    I can imagine that some of those shards could actually hit you in the eyes, but yet nowhere is there a warning of this.
    Should this happen, I expect you could sue them for millions.

    Anyway, I'm just going to try that CD breaking thing I read about on the interweb now.

  3. Information. on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Information wants to be free. As in speech.
    Discuss.

  4. Re:What? on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 3, Funny

    What I want to know is why everyone is so surprised that Florida is in the water? It was built on a swamp, for gods sake. Didn't anyone watch Gentle Ben when they were young?

  5. Re:First post, bitches! on IT Career Horoscopes · · Score: 0, Troll

    If I had meant to post anonymously, I'd be annoyed. But I've got waaaaaay too much karma to care.

  6. First post, bitches! on IT Career Horoscopes · · Score: -1, Troll

    First post, bitches!

  7. Re:DVD Knoppix? on Knoppix 3.3 Is Out · · Score: 1
    I can burn and ship it for you. Send your E-Mail to s_herlam AT ira DOT uni DOT de

    2 .....
    3 Profit?

  8. Not big enough. on Single-atom Laser Built at Caltech · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want a laser that can burn a 200 metre-wide hole through the moon from Earth.
    What's that you say? Why? What do you mean, why?

  9. Re:Good timing! on Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch · · Score: 1
    And will it be an un-doable patch (some are) or not (some are not)?

    Sure it'll be un-doable. It's up to you if you want to undo it though.

  10. The thin end of the wedge. on Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The thin end of the wedge.
    Remember where you were when the world started to roll over, and let MS tickle its belly.

    But Grandad, didn't you try to fight them?
    No little one, it just seemed harmless at the time...

  11. Safeway in the US? on Total Information Awareness, For One · · Score: 1

    http://vilimpoc.org/research/map-safeway/
    And I thought the transatlantic tide only came one way...?

  12. Re:Only accepting gold nuggets on Now We Have the Internet, But Why Do We Need It? · · Score: 1

    Oooh, scandalous. I was amazed to learn that in some places in the US, people pay for incoming calls. Conclusion? Everywhere is different.

  13. Re:Whining galore on End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death · · Score: 1
    At first, when you first discover NAT, you think that it's a good thing. Then, after a while with it, you realise it's limitations.

    Tell me, how do you support more than 1 user behind a NAT device wanting to do H323/SIP without some kind of application layer gateway/proxy?

  14. 404, page not found, and errors elsewhere on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1
    http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/19/

    Server Error
    This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server's error log.

  15. Re:This is actually important on Booting Linux Faster · · Score: 1

    linux init=/bin/yourcustomscript

    /bin/yourcustomscript :
    mount / -oremount,rw
    /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
    /etc/init.d/net start

    should be pretty fast.

  16. Re:Energy, money, etc... on Booting Linux Faster · · Score: 1
    I turn off my machine at night because it saves me money on my electric bill and because it saves electricity.

    True. But things usually break during power on. How long until the money you save in your electricty bill has to be spent on a new hard drive?

    I leave my boxes running as they are less likely to break.

  17. Re:The Amazing Flying Hackers of China! on New Microsoft Worm Coming Soon? · · Score: 1
    True. It would have to run for x hours, trying to infect other hosts before "delivering its payload".

    What would be a good value for x?

  18. Re:The Amazing Flying Hackers of China! on New Microsoft Worm Coming Soon? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    To be honest, I hope it just trashes boot sectors before writing random crap all over the hard drive. That might actually get the message through. All these soft viruses just make people think of it as an inconvenience. When something bad happens, people might just start sitting up and taking notice.

    Mod me down, troll/flamebait, I know.
    However, mod me up if you feel that this might make people start patching their systems.

  19. Re:Patch delivery mechanism on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 1
    rpm -K to verify signatures

    I chose not to mod you up, but to reply btw.

    I do hope everyone reading this has installed the Redhat GPG public key in their copy of GPG, and does what this chap does.
    rpm -K *.rpm 2>&1 | grep -v "md5 gpg OK" might be better, as you'd only see the ones that fail though.

  20. Re:Solid state is the way to go. on Turing Award Winner On The Future of Storage · · Score: 1

    Grub - have a look on my homepage at link nr. 2. It's truely horrible, and I have you to blame for it :)

  21. Solid state is the way to go. on Turing Award Winner On The Future of Storage · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "programmers have to start thinking of the disk as a sequential device rather than a random access device."

    I think we'd all be better off when solid state, non-mechanical disks become commonplace.

    Is there any reason other than cost why we can't have 100Gb solid-state drives yet?

  22. Re:Fines won't cut it... on Russ Cooper's Internet Penalties Plan · · Score: 1

    Woah dude, I wouldn't like to be in your shoes. Looks like you've pissed off some pretty powerful people.

    # whois 127.0.123.23 @whois.arin.net
    [whois.arin.net]

    OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
    OrgID: IANA
    Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
    City: Marina del Rey
    StateProv: CA
    PostalCode: 90292-6695
    Country: US

  23. Re:very early on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1
    Actually, I've been waiting since this morning to see if this would be confirmed on slashdot or not.

    Confirmed on Slashdot? That's a pretty bizarre thing to do. As if some random submitter and Cmdr Taco are more reliable than securityfocus, sans, openbsd, etc?

  24. Re:CRAP! on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good point. Something like:

    iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW --limit 5/min --limit-burst 1 -j ACCEPT
    iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j DROP ...might do the trick of slowing them down. Mind you, you wouldn't be able to get a connection either if they were attacking your box

  25. Re:Good second check. on Nmap Gets Version Detection · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's trivial to see that anyway. telnet host.that.youre.unsure.of 10025
    Trying 2001:618:15:226::237...
    Connected to gk.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 gk.umtstrial.co.uk ESMTP Postfix
    quit
    221 Bye
    Connection closed by foreign host.