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  1. Re:Damn script kiddies on How to Jam a Worldwide Satellite TV Broadcast · · Score: 1

    bash-2.05b$ ping -c 4 www.microsoft.com
    PING www.microsoft.akadns.net (207.46.249.222) 56(84) bytes of data.

    --- www.microsoft.akadns.net ping statistics ---
    4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3012ms

    bash-2.05b$

    What's your point?

  2. RPMs, an' all. on Binary Package Formats Compared · · Score: 5, Informative
    How to roll your own RPMs. Very useful. You can open up a package, say postfix, or mozilla, customise the config files for your organisation, and re-make it. Then you can just install at your leisure.

    Best thing about RPMs? GPG signatures built in. Try rpm -K whatever-x.x.x.rpm next time. Second best thing? rpm -Va.

  3. Re:It's like sex... on "Quick 'n Dirty" vs. "Correct and Proper"? · · Score: 1

    Or 3. I had sex many times with the beautiful HR woman ( and lots of her female friends, at the same time), **AND** wrote an amazing program, which made the company **TONNES** of money? :)

  4. Re:Appropriate on Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix · · Score: 1

    Mrs Torvalds vs. Mrs Gates, anyone?
    Mud, foam, and oil should all play their part in it.

  5. Re:Ha! on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1

    Haha, you idiot, it was B!
    Everyone knows that..

    B: All your friends in your e-mail address list

  6. Re:Out of date but... on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1

    gentoo root # emerge search purity
    Searching...
    [ Results for search key : purity ]
    [ Applications found : 0 ]

    As the old guy in the Fast Show would say - Oh, bugger.

  7. Re:explaining to non-techies on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1

    And just after everyone gets happy with gigabytes, we'll have to remind them that the correct term would now be gibibytes.

  8. Re:Why Techs Are Dweebs From Another Planet on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1

    There are maybe some good points in there - but I'm not going to strain my eyes reading it without paragraphing. Something about Word documents, and diabetes, and gigabytes, or something...

  9. Re:Hey, at least it's not running IRIX on How to get 1.5 TeraFlops from Linux · · Score: 1
    The GUI is about 500x more usable than the horrors of OpenWindows or CDE on Solaris.. bleugh.

    I've never used Irix, but rating the GUI to Solaris' nastiness doesn't impress me at all ;) KDE baby...

  10. Re:Personal Take on Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users · · Score: 1
    What we need is truely anonymous file sharing that totally protects the sharer. (Help from networking/coding gurus appreciated.)

    Please mod me up so we can get some help/visibility with this.

  11. Honesty is the best policy on Messaging Over IPv6 Headers · · Score: 4, Funny
    The initial idea was to make something very stupid using IPv6

    Well, at least he's upfront about it :)

  12. Re:Bengali script on Menu Shadows in GTK2 · · Score: 1

    I have no idea, but searching for the name of the PDF (rupashibangla) on Google gives some hints. "More Progress on the Bangla Opentype font issue...."

  13. Re:Challenge to Slashdot on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages · · Score: 1
    I have used sixxs.org and it works fine. I just happen to think that one of the major geek/networking sites should use the new version of the major routed internet protocol.

    In fact, I don't consider that you can call yourself a networking bod unless you've played with it. I expect it's different in the US though, where IPv4 addresses fall out of the sky. I had to argue with my ISP to get a /26. That's 64 addresses. And yes, I can quite easily justify that amount.

  14. Re:IPv6 useful? Not really. on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages · · Score: 2, Informative
    Using IPv6 in Linux will be as easy as "modprobe ipv6" in almost any modern distro. If you're using a distro where the kernel package doesn't have IPv6 compiled in already, or as a module, then you should pick another one!

    Here are some very simple notes that I scratched about getting Redhat 8 working with IPv6 over IPv4. It's really that simple.

  15. Re:Challenge to Slashdot on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages · · Score: 1
    Chicken and egg.

    And I use IPv6 - my system is set up to use IPv6 first, and IPv4 if there aren't any AAAA/A6 records.

    Apache 2 is fine anyway - you might as well upgrade now...

  16. Challenge to Slashdot on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Slashdot - put your money where your mouth is, and implement IPv6 here. Run 6 over 4 if you don't want to get native IPv6 connectivity.

    The same goes for all site owners here.

  17. Windows holds us back - again. on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's Windows, dragging it's heels, as per usual.

  18. Re:Distro Upgrade? on Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming · · Score: 1

    Yes, but install the new modutils first.

  19. Good idea. on Microsoft Patenting IM Translation? · · Score: 1
    I'd never thought of that. But it's a damn good idea.

    That's all, nothing insightful here today. Move along please.

  20. Re:Uh huh.. on A Critical Look at Trusted Computing · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the number of Universes, Worlds, and Beaches, it still might be the first grain of sand I pick up.

  21. Re:Uh huh.. on A Critical Look at Trusted Computing · · Score: 1
    So your[sic] going to break a 2048 bit RSA encryption with your outdated hardware in how many millenia?

    You never know - it might be the very first key combo you try. That's what random means.

  22. Re:only two things are certain in life.... on US Cell Phone Users Discover SMS Spam · · Score: 1
    digital phones

    Uh? As opposed to what? Those ancient analogue phones? You're kidding me.
    /me is getting more and more surprised....

  23. Re:only two things are certain in life.... on US Cell Phone Users Discover SMS Spam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You pay to receive SMSs? That's messed up.

  24. Trying to sell me phones. on US Cell Phone Users Discover SMS Spam · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The worst thing about it? I work for a mobile phone company, I have the latest phones (GPRS, 3G, Bluetooth, MMS, etc) and all the calls paid for by that company, and yet, I still get messages like:

    Upgrade ur mobile nw to the l8est nokia fones.

    Pah.

  25. Re:Redhat, Debian, Gentoo on Introduction to Debian · · Score: 1

    Thanks, man. Gentoo seems to have very good docs, but there was no mention of this - wierd.