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  1. Re:If Sun is on the ropes... on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free! · · Score: 1
    they have moved over half the company towards Internet based products.

    Until about NT, they were using NetBEUI as their default "non routable" protocol. IP/SPX was optional. TCP/IP - what is that?

  2. Re:Swearing? on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Download it HERE on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    Are you having a laugh? Posting a link on Slashdot that contains Windows source code? Not even some starving vultures that haven't eaten for a month, and are really weak, and skinny, and can't even fly, because they need food so much, and their feathers are all falling out, and they can't stand up properly, and they're almost blind, from some strange lack of protein - erm - they couldn't eat a mouse faster, not even if it was sauteed in a nice bacon sauce by a top Parisian chef, in a nice restaurant in, well, I guess it would most likely be Paris. And there would be vetinarians around, to make the birds well enough to be able to eat.
    I think you get my picture.

  4. Re:it's true on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 4, Funny

    fw calum $ grep -ir " shit " /usr/src/linux/* | wc -l
    15
    fw calum $ grep -ir " fuck" /usr/src/linux/* | wc -l
    40
    fw calum $ grep -ir " crap" /usr/src/linux/* | wc -l
    98

    Should I have been doing this on the company firewall? Probably not.

  5. Lots of sploits. on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    They'll be a sudden flurry of exploits coming soon. After that, if Microsoft move to leave Windows open, it should start benefitting from the multiple eyeballs approach. I wonder (if it's true) what nasty tricks will be found in the code to prevent interoperability?

  6. Good for the South Korean porn industry on Scientists Claim They Cloned Humans · · Score: 1

    I predict that in 18 years, the first porn film will be made with over 100 Korean twin lesbian sisters. I also predict that it will be popular, strangely enough

  7. Re:The Popup Killer spreads the Gospel on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 1

    Riding on the "kills popups" and "has tabbed browsing" has worked very well so far. However, once IE gets those (and I think it's coming in a service pack for IE), what will Mozilla have that's sufficiently good enough to make people change?

  8. Re:Alert the media... on Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    You guys are so uptight about this nipple thing. Someone on UK TV said "F**king c**ts" with 12 million people watching, and only about 80 people complained.

  9. Re:Um. on Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy · · Score: 1

    I would say never to use robots.txt to hide anything that is secret. One of the first things someone might do if they were snooping/attacking your site would be to look for /adminarea or /secretstuff or /picsofmenaked in robots.txt.
    Don't link to it. And use .htaccess to require a password. Oh, and SSLRequireSSL wouldn't hurt. Store it on an encrypted partition too, if you're really worried.

  10. Re:stupid terms of service and the court on Worst Terms of Service Ever · · Score: 2, Funny
    if someone had a contract that required an illegal activity (like human slavery or prostitution)

    Damnit - lucky for me the chains won't let her get to the computer to read Slashdot...

  11. Re:Services listen on ports. on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1
    Or you could do it the right way: set up xinetd so port 301 only accepts connections from localhost, then from home type: ssh -2CNx -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa -L 3301:localhost:301 me@mysambabox.mydomain.com

    All very nice and secure. But when there is a remote root exploit for SSH, you'd be very happy to have a nice little knocking combo keeping your port 22 hidden.

  12. Conservative on Talking With 2.0 Kernel Maintainer David Weinehall · · Score: 0

    Hmm :) The 2.0 kernel maintainer says: "In autumn 2002 I also started to work quite a lot for the Debian-project"

  13. Why don't you lot like all the new tech in phones? on Plain Cell Phones Fading Away? · · Score: 1

    Not wishing to troll, but I've noticed that a lot of people on Slashdot aren't embracing mobile technology as much as they might. Maybe the coverage in the US is bad, maybe the calls are expensive, I don't know.
    But GPRS, MMS, Phone, and Bluetooth are all essential for my phone. I want to browse the web while on the bus, I want to snap a picture, and email it to someone. I want to have a sound recorder to record interesting stuff.

  14. Re:Really? on DARPA-Funded Linux Security Hub Withers · · Score: 1

    Only 187 comments though, and 2 5s and a 3 in the last 24 :)

  15. Re:If you also remember... on Columbia Disaster Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I watched CNN once, and was surprised to see a map of "Europe" with England written right across Great Britain. I bet all the Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish really love that. I heard that something like 40% of Americans couldn't put their finger on the US on a map if all the countries names were taken away. I suppose with CNN educating them like that this is possible, and understandable.

  16. Re:null routing to sco? on SCO Offline · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think that would make sense. If all the ISPs in the world drop traffic to SCOs AS, that would work. And, erm, sometime, when it's all quiet, if they remember, they can put the routes back.

  17. Re:Still room for lock in.. on IETF Approves XMPP Core as Proposed Standard · · Score: 1

    I use SSL for the server connection - but GPG encryption with everyone that supports it. Who cares if they can sniff your messages when they're encrypted anyway?

  18. Re:Excellent on NVIDIA Drivers for 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The fact that it has been relatively prompt seems to suggest that they are still somewhat interested in the Linux market.

    Maybe we should all download it, even if we don't have an NVidia card, just in case they are monitoring the stats of Windows and Linux driver downloads.

  19. Re:Connective tissue on Scientists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you freeze your room to a billionth of a degree C, then you can truly claim to have a room temperature semiconductor.

  20. Re:Am I the only one? on More MyDoom Gloom · · Score: 1

    Dogs are always good. "Happy as a dog with two dicks" for example.

  21. Re:Off Track on More MyDoom Gloom · · Score: 1

    What would be pretty effective is if all the emails were sent from sales@sco.com. The return bounced emails, and the n00bs complaining would pretty much render that address useless as well as clog up their mail servers.

  22. Re:Globalization at its finest on DNS Root Servers Outside US Surpass Those Inside · · Score: 0
    As for why some ccTLDs are derived from the local language (.de, .es) and some aren't (.jp, .ru), your guess is as good as mine.

    Russia and Japan are the worst examples to choose - they don't use the Latin alphabet.

  23. Re:So roll your own kernel on The 2.7 Kernel: Back To The Future For Linux · · Score: 1
    I actually choose to make most stuff modules, if I can. The reason? You can pass parameters to modules. If they're compiled into the kernel, it's a reboot, and a kernel parameter. If it's a module, it's just modprobe module param=value param2=value2 etc. (modinfo eepro100 for examples)

    The other thing I like abount modules, is that if you want to have an experiment with something news, load a module (say some of the CBQ packet schedulers, and it causes your machine to lock up - you can reboot, and delete that module, and not have to worry about it again.)

    Also, I was stuck with using an old HP network card once, which I had two identical ones in the machine. The module only initialised the first one. The solution? cp hp100.o hp100-2.o and then insert the hp100-2 as well. Modules are good for a lot of things. (I think I have misremembered the card name, but it was an old HP isa card.)

  24. Wooaaaaa, hold on, cowboy! on The 2.7 Kernel: Back To The Future For Linux · · Score: -1, Redundant

    2.7 ?! I'm not on 2.0 yet!

  25. Re:Hot Gas != Plasma on Columbia's Final Minutes in Detail · · Score: 1
    I suggest that you consider foam (mental vision : put ice cream in a tall glass, pour root beer over it - the foam is the fluffy stuff on top ... )

    Aaaaaaaaahhhh. The fluffy stuff on top, you say? :)

    Is plasma what this guy was attempting with mayonnaise?
    (Hello Grub..)