Slashdot Mirror


User: caluml

caluml's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,262
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,262

  1. Re:Chocolate Factory is Not a Remake on War of the Worlds, Chocolate Factory Trailers · · Score: 1
    since the book is incredibly darker than the movie.

    It's been a long time since I read it - but I don't remember this? Can anyone explain where this darkness lies?

  2. Don't bother with the Russian food jokes. on Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Before people start mocking Russians, and their food situation, just let me say that I ate more of, and better quality food when I was in Russia than I usually do in the UK. Salo though, is horrible stuff.

  3. Re:buffer overruns on Debian Announces Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8 · · Score: 1

    Calums radical idea. Why can't we simply remove strcat and strcopy from glibc (or provide a patch that does the same)?

    Once the users start moaning that package-foo.1.2.3 fails with Unknown function: strcopy, or whatever, developers will soon moving to the new calls.

  4. Re:obligatory on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1

    No, of course not. But who then gets to deem what is needed for Destruction (tm)? Slashdot next? Indymedia? Google? (Perhaps not :) )

  5. Re:obligatory on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even better. Include a file from that server in the main page of slashdot, such as an image. However, this is just vigilantism. I have more bandwidth than you, so I'm right. A war doesn't show who is right, just who is left.

  6. Re:Simple Way To Counter Lycos Threat on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1

    I've often thought that the ultimate denial of service attack would be if you could change the IP in the A record for www.google.com to that of any other site would render the site unaccessible. (Unless it was big enough to cope.) Anyone got root@ns1.akamai ? :)

  7. Re:What a buffoon on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 1

    Rouge = French for red.
    Rogue is probably what you meant.

  8. What would being a member do? on MPAA Looks to Sniff Internet2 Traffic for Sharers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Would being a member even make it technically possible for them to "sniff" the traffic? I'm a member of the exclusive Internet One club, and I can't sniff arbitary traffic.

  9. Re:Well, that's helpful. on Ballmer Threatens Linux Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    Liux

    Although that was most likely a typo, it strikes me as a good name for an Asian Linux. Lucy Liu, perhaps?

  10. Re:In Soviet China... on China to Have Over 100 Eyes in the Sky · · Score: 1

    All of us are in the gutter. It's just that the stars are looking at some of us.

  11. More propoganda. on Richard Clarke on Cyberterrorism and Iraq · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this propoganda would work?

  12. Re:Electrical Tape on UK Group Wants Mandatory Flash For Phone Cams · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How will they address the video capture mode of new phones then? Require the light to stay on all the time? Make it emit an annoying bleep while it is recording? Battery life will suffer too. Sure to be popular.

  13. It's a silly solution. on UK Group Wants Mandatory Flash For Phone Cams · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Im sure no-one will figure out putting their finger over the flash, or taping something over it, or opening up the phone, and cutting wires.

  14. Re:Someone help me out here. on Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful · · Score: 1

    Wicked! Soon the US will be able to get a missile to any point in the world in a few minutes. That'll help make the world a happier place.

  15. Re:Speed comparison question on Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful · · Score: 1
    A (possibly stupid) question:

    The only stupid question is an unasked one.
    Any fool can ask a question which the wisest of men cannot answer.
    Too many cooks spoil... Wait, no, that's nothing to do with it.

  16. NLP on The State of Natural Language Programming · · Score: 1

    Nothing to do with making people do what you want then?

  17. Re:Disconnect and motivation on The Music Man · · Score: 1
    Let's suppose that Diana Krall's greatest hits and I can only find it at 96Kbps

    I have some MP3s on my server, which is in a remote country - Russia? China? erm, Chile? :) and I would buy a CD of them if I know where I could buy them from. Stuff that's either a white label, or unknown, or out of stock. It's not just people not wanting to pay for Britney. Some of it is people that have found new music, and can't find it anywhere else.
    Also - I've actually realised that I buy DVDs after I have downloaded a film, and watched it, and LIKED IT. If I don't like it, I don't buy it. And I certainly don't blow £10-20 on a random film I haven't seen. I'd say that my use of P2P ends up with me spending more than if I didn't use it.

  18. Re:My Soapbox on Are Usability & Security Opposites in Computing? · · Score: 1
    create a series of passwords, which may be as simple as adding a number to the end.

    Yeah, that's what I do. I use ^^tw3xJJs (which is my base password), and then add a letter to the end from across the top row. I'm on u at the moment. I'm not sure whether to start the second row starting asdf... or lkjh... Any ideas?

  19. Re:Room for a non-free browser? No. on Opera Facing Losses While Firefox Usage Grows · · Score: 1

    For a long time, the Cisco (who bought from Altiga) VPN Concentrator 3000 web interface didn't work with Firefox, or Mozilla. I had to RDesktop to a Windows Terminal Server, and use it via IE from there.
    One software upgrade, it started working. People (in this case Cisco), are obviously receiving lots of "It doesn't work in Firefox" requests, and are listening. I personally have used Mozilla/Firefox for years now, and I haven't found much that doesn't work. If I did, I wouldn't use the site. If I really had to, I'd write/email/contact the site owner, and STILL not use the site. I refuse to buy hardware with no Open Source drivers, much as I'd like a snazzy GFX card. I refuse to use a site that won't work in Firefox. I wish other people would take a stand, instead of giving in easily.

  20. I would have thought that the Internet had more. on Wal-Mart's Data Obsession · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who says how much data the Internet has available?

  21. Dropping does work. on Creative Data Loss · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whenever a drive is considered binable due to it dying, I always drop it from about 10 cms onto my desk. Occasionally, (if it's not down to electronics), it can jolt it back into life. Then it's boot from a Gentoo Live CD, and backup everything quickly over NFS.

    A little gem I heard a while ago: There are 2 kinds of people. Those that have lost data, and those that will.

  22. Re:Dear Broadband on AOL Dumping Some Broadband · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is like a ready made template... :)

  23. Re:Something I've wanted for years ... on Automatic Scanning for Cameras in Theaters · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know what the law says in the UK? I'd like to do more urban/street photography, but I want to have a leg to stand on if someone starts to get funny.

  24. What's a good alternative for people stuck with... on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Windows?
    If anyone wanted to listen to my Icecast streams, or the ogg recordings I made, I always pointed them at Winamp, as it worked, and was free. And I couldn't be bothered answering lots of questions about codecs, and stuff.
    What's the best thing now?

  25. Re:3 bad results. on Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Just searched again now. For orange, and Orange.
    Orange County Government Web site
    ... complied with the State Environmental Quality Review More... 10-27-04 This Week in Orange County By Orange County Executive Edward A. Diana I wrote to you earlier that I had been facilitating budget ...
    http://www.co.orange.ny.us/ cached feedback

    Linux - first result:
    Linux Gazette | Making Linux just a little more fun!
    Linux Gazette would like to thank its sponsor: Latest Posts - Home - Past Issues - Old Format - The Answer Gang - FAQ Submit an Article - Sections Ask The Answer Gang a Question - Send Comment to ...
    http://www.linuxgazette.com/ cached feedback

    Search for Google, and I get a link to toolbar.google.com with www.google.com as the second result.