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  1. Re:He's right, you know on Decrypting the Secret to Strong Security · · Score: 2

    Do they check all the IP packets arriving at your computers then? :)

  2. Re:Why stop at Linux? on Taking Linux to New Heights · · Score: 2

    When I get really fucking high, I usually prefer to be on a BSD system.

    Which one - OpenLSD, NetLSD or FreeLSD?

  3. Re:Wisenut? on Honeymoon Over For Google? · · Score: 2

    It should be mentioned that the user agent was in the error message.

  4. Re:Wisenut? on Honeymoon Over For Google? · · Score: 2

    I use opera and yet I always report Mozilla or OE as my user agent because so many sites give me an "upgrade your browser" page if I report Opera

    Yep, and they'll continue to do so until they start seeing people using Opera.
    Can't you see the problem? It's like being sucked down to the lowest common denominator, and then web-developers just say, aaaah, everyone is using IE.

  5. Re:Wisenut? on Honeymoon Over For Google? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I use my windows box to do net stuff (cuz face it, alot of browser plugins and such arent available on windows)

    Such as?

    Listen, until people start seeing the Linux browser count start going up in their weblogs, they won't bother making these strangely unknown "plugins and such" for Linux.

    Fuck companies that don't release stuff for Linux. Yeah, that's what I said. Fuck em. There have been times when having Windows would have been easier. Or when I wanted a game. But I've made my decision. I'm not going to change my OS cos narrowminded companies don't support it. If they don't want my money, well that's their problem. Plenty of linux friendly companies do. And they'll be the ones that come out on top.

    I'll grant you that you can't do somethings without Windows - but surfing the net? Please.

  6. Re:Wisenut? on Honeymoon Over For Google? · · Score: 3, Funny

    HTTP 500.100 - Internal Server Error - ASP error
    Internet Information Services


    Lol - that's what you get when you try and run enterprise services on non-enterprise OSes... :)

    OK, so I'm trolling a bit.. :)

    But I'm saddened to see yet another Slashdotter using Windows NT 5.1.
    Surely you can tear yourselves away from the soft, familiar womb that is Windows.... Try it, give it a go, be adventurous. You might never leave the town your were born in, but do something crazy, wild, exciting in your life.... /sarcasm

  7. Kleenex is a verb? on Honeymoon Over For Google? · · Score: 2

    Since when is that?

    I'm going to Kleenex my nose?

  8. Benefits!? on Hyper-Threading Speeds Linux · · Score: 2

    * 128-byte lock alignment
    * Spin-wait loop optimization
    * Non-execution based delay loops
    * Detection of Hyper-Threading enabled processor and starting the logical processor as if machine was SMP
    * Serialization in MTRR and Microcode Update driver as they affect shared state
    * Optimization to scheduler when system is idle to prioritize scheduling on a physical processor before scheduling on logical processor
    * Offset user stack to avoid 64K aliasing

    Is that all?! I hoped it'd do the post-integer-supercooled-re-automation-longterm-bu zzword-cipher-reallignment too. That's something new that you guys haven't heard of yet ;)

  9. Hardware companies have a lot to lose on Transmeta to Incorporate DRM in TM5800 Processor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and nothing to gain.

    What are the benefits of producing this kind of DRM hardware?

    On the other hand, they could drive millions of people like us running. And guess who buy/advise what kind of hardware to buy?

    It's a risky proposition.

  10. It's a knack. on The Art of Deception · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a knack, social engineering.
    I've read the book, and just like some people couldn't sell food to a starving man, only a few people can pull it off.

    Get one tiny piece of information from one person, another from another, and after a while, enough of those pieces make you sound like you are an employee. And we all help our fellow downtrodden, overworked employees, don't we.

    EG. If you have an intranet at work, I bet you have a nickname for it. And if someone asked you for something from it, and said "I can't get to the XXXX today, not sure why, it seems to be down..." you'd probably go and find the info for them.

  11. Re:Suddenly everyone on Adult Content Revenue To Pay For UK 3G Licenses · · Score: 2

    You realize that with shell quoting, this will only kill the same PID repeatedly.
    You know, I tried it, and it worked, but I added the su - -c bit, and just assumed that single and double quotes would be the same. I shall update my sig ASAP.

    Did it work OK? And do you know how close our Slash ID's are? ;) We're like Slash Brothers.

  12. Re:Registering 18+ on Adult Content Revenue To Pay For UK 3G Licenses · · Score: 2

    I have to go get some drinks for the kid next door.

    Why are you trying to get your next door neighbours kids drunk....
    Sound dodgey to me.. ;)

  13. Suddenly everyone on Adult Content Revenue To Pay For UK 3G Licenses · · Score: 3, Funny

    Suddenly everyone starts looking for jobs in UK mobile telcos.....

    What a job - working out how to get porn from the internet, onto mobiles.
    Hell, you might need to commission official research into the most "effective" types of porn... and that could take months. Years even, if properly abused...

  14. Not a troll, or an Anti-American post but.... on High-Tech Foosball Mod Project · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd love to know how it came to be called foosball?
    Is it to do with the German way of spelling it, with that crazy B letter they have?
    I've only ever known it as table football. In fact I couldn't work out what you were talking about at first :)

  15. Re:Secure File Deletion on Linux and Forensic Discovery · · Score: 2

    Or of course there is shred.

    From the man page: shred delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its contents

    It comes with the fileutils package (on RedHat anyway). Can't see any differences between wipe and shred. Apart from the fact that one comes already installed. Is there any difference?

  16. Re:Thankless Job on Life in the Trenches: a Sysadmin Speaks · · Score: 2

    Quote I hate IT stuff unquote
    Maybe you shouldn't work in IT then. Leave it to those of us who enjoy tinkering, and playing with new technologies.

  17. Re:Scientist Report Card on Top 25 Science Stories of 2002 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Uh-oh ;)

    I can see this type of report card replacing the steps to profit.

    Bill Gates report card:
    Making money. A
    Not pissing people off. F
    Making good software. D
    Breaking Linux. E
    Getting media giants interested in locked Palladium PCs. C

    Overall summary.
    Bill Gates is a very good pupil, who has stolen a lot of interesting stuff from a lot of people.
    However, Mr and Mrs Gates, he is slipping down the class, and is refusing to stop chasing the girls Features, and Ease Of-Yoos. I have told him to try and work towards getting into either the Stability or Security University, but he's not listening.

    Must try harder.


    Can you see now why I'm not a comedy script writer?

  18. Re:To coin a medical phrase on Windows Security Holes Go Mostly Unexploited · · Score: 2

    We've got an agressive firewall policy. (e.g. no tftp from funny locations.)

    Lol, you think that's aggressive?
    What's your permissive settings - nicely reverse NAT the internet onto your local network so it looks like everyone on the internet comes from one address? ;)

  19. Re:Information can build fortunes on New Study on Americans' Expectations of the Net · · Score: 2

    Nowadays, it's kind of expected that access to information should be nigh on instant. I dare say there are instances when fortunes have been won and lost due to a mail server being heavily loaded, and an email taking 1 hour to make it's way over the wires, but with current technology, we've pretty much built up the expectation that it's instant. And if it isn't, people want to know why now.

  20. Re: A study released Sunday on New Study on Americans' Expectations of the Net · · Score: 2

    Lol :)
    You didn't say you were American though.. :)
    And our schooling system isn't that great anyway. We're just like you - except we're 25 years behind. Give it another 20 years, and we'll have kids killing each other in school. ;(

  21. A study released Sunday on New Study on Americans' Expectations of the Net · · Score: 4, Funny

    A study released Sunday...?

    I didn't realise Sunday was being held by study.
    (Brits will get it.)

    Mod away. There are more important things in life than karma. Hey, that makes a good sig...

  22. My mum still doesn't get it. on New Study on Americans' Expectations of the Net · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She has heard of this thing called the internet, but she doesn't appreciate it.

    She asked me what I did for work, so I explained. "But you're not making anything, not doing anything", she said.
    I'm working with information, I told her.
    But that's not real, she said.
    If people don't understand the value of information, well. Mind you, if there was a nuclear war, we'd all forget about computers pretty quickly and start trying to grow enough food to survive, find un-contaminated water, and somewhere to stay safe until the nuclear winter was over.

    What's my point? I don't know. Maybe I've been insightful. Maybe not. I'll tell my Mum I talked about her on Slashdot though - that'll confuse her... :)

  23. Re:Some other kind of bomb? on Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster · · Score: 2

    Hmm. -1, Incorrectly remembered by me then. Oh well.

  24. Phewww! on H2O/IP · · Score: 2

    It's the closest some geeks will get to water this year... :)

  25. Some other kind of bomb? on Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster · · Score: 2

    Well, I must say that I've never heard of this at all. You learn something new every day.
    it doesn't sound like a nuclear device to me. But aren't there bombs that cause damage, but don't leave radioactivity? Neutron bombs? or something?
    Forgive me if I'm wrong - the body clock hasn't got used to waking up early after the Xmas holidays/parties/late nights.