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  1. Re:DNS Solves This on Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP · · Score: 1

    That's because you do not port numbers across area codes, only internally

  2. Re:user on Missing Open Source Security Tools? · · Score: 1

    man find
    especially the -user, -group, and -perm flags
    Writing the shell script around find that asks for the username, checks the users group memberships, and prints the matching lines is an exercise left to the reader.

  3. Re:Personally, I thought differently... on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    If the individuals held at Gitmo would/could claim US citizenship/res alien status they should be afforded the rights that a US citizen enjoys, otherwise I hope they rot.

  4. Re:Personally, I thought differently... on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 0

    Again, the Florida Congress/Assembly has the power to levy taxes, not the governor. Has civics education slipped so far that people don't understand how government works?

  5. Re:what resolution? on ATi HDTV Tuner For The PC Arrives · · Score: 1

    1080i is 1920 px wide x 1080 px wide
    720p is 1280 px wide x 720 px high

  6. Re:external modem with dhcp on Modem Success Stories With Linux? · · Score: 1

    Something similar is to get a router with a serial interface and a serial modem. I'm using an Asante Friendlynet ($30.00 on ebay) and a 3COM/USR USB/Serial D/F/V external v.90, 5605 I think. (haven't priced one in awhile) Best thing is, when you get broadband, just switch over to the ethernet wan port and away you go.

  7. Re:well.. on Modem Success Stories With Linux? · · Score: 1

    Some of the dial-up accelerators use a combination web proxy and a radius implementation, snoop a windows client and reverse engineer what squid needs to tell the accelerator, or even better, offer your services to write a F/OSS implementation of their client, assuming the company will release the needed APIs.

  8. Re:God damn on Looking Forward to Intel's Grantsdale and Alderwood · · Score: 1

    I've got and i845 chipset micron at work that boots off of USB CD-RW, found that out when I came back from lunch with a freeBSD sysinstall screen one time!

  9. Re:Lobbying = Corruption. on Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill · · Score: 1

    I'll trade you the NRA and RIAA for the AFL-CIO and Greenpeace!

  10. Re:Starts with 3GLs. on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I worked in the Engineering computer lab during college, the fact that the people who program in Fortran can breed is a wonder to me.

  11. Re:This may be. on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 1

    I was merely referencing their common roots, both (all three) claim Abraham (Ibrahim) as their (great * x )-patriarch, and one of his sons. As I understand it though, the Genesis story is held by all three faiths prior to the sending away of one of Abraham's sons to father another great nation.

  12. Re:This may be. on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which works if you believe current evolutionary theory, there are at least 2 billion on this planet who would be glad to assert the chicken came first, based on Judeo-Christian (and by extension Muslim) story of creation in Genesis. My money is on the egg, but accepted genetic and atomic theory are much different now than they were just 100 years ago, perhaps Darwin was looking at the problem ass backwards too.

  13. Re:I'm no luddite on Bioterrorism Charges Brought Against Professor · · Score: 1

    Study the introduction of the potato in the old world, it kindled the industrial revolution and raised the planet's population ceiling. I don't hear anyone complaining about it now.

  14. Re:I'm no luddite on Bioterrorism Charges Brought Against Professor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tell that to the guy who bred the first mule.

    When you talk about ecological destruction, are you talking about the overpopulation "problem" that these technologies will create or the unfounded fears of watermellonpeace who are actually so anti-business that they'll delibertly mislead consumers or destroy crops. Study the introduction of the potato in the old world for some insight on how this planet's population ceiling has been raised over the past 10,000 years of agriculture and animal husbandry. As for convicing the environmentalists, I'm waiting for them to wrap their minds around the basics of GE/GM technologies, as the bulk of their arguments have been based on hatred for profit making business.

  15. Re:I'm no luddite on Bioterrorism Charges Brought Against Professor · · Score: 1

    Northrup King, Monsanto, and Cargil would have went out of business long ago (since the late 1940's) if their sterile hybrids of corn and soybeans were capable of cross-pollination. Their techniques for seed control have been field tested for 60 years now, just because they are picking genes a la carte in the lab instead of trial and error in the field doesn't mean the end of world agriculture, despite the fears of some of the true luddites out there.

  16. Re:I'm no luddite on Bioterrorism Charges Brought Against Professor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do realize that every food crop/animal that man has raised since the dawn of time has been slectively bred to produce higher yields, disease resistance, and/or other physical traits (Dog and Cat breeds look nothing like their ancestors, neither does your baked potato). GE/GM crops are just allowing us to add factors that would normally take millenia to add.

  17. Re:Great! on Intel To Release Next-Gen BIOS Code Under CPL · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone know of a webserver written in Forth, I've go an Ultra2 that needs a bios webvserver installed.

  18. Re:Nice... on First Looks At PCI-X, BTX, New Chipsets, And More · · Score: 1

    The joys of sun hardware! Quad Fast Ethernet, great little cards, standard PCI or SBUS with four 10/100 full duplex ports. They can be multiplexed (Trunked is sun's terminology) together so you can get 2 "200FE" or 1 100FE + 1 "300FE" or 1 "400FE" interface(s). We use them in a 2x200 config for "cheap" switch redundancy.

  19. Re:There's no doubt about it on More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job · · Score: 1

    Never mind that the Windows NT kernel has had O(1) scheduler since 1989

    Did not know that, thanks

    do you mean Sun's "Firehose"? And how is Solaris's new TCP/IP stack a microkernel personality?

    Whatever is going in Solaris 10, I knew it was Fire*. As for its microkernelness, I got the impression when I first read about it, very low-level, high-performance, and looks to be built for being massively threaded, which is kind of handy when you look at Sun's Processor roadmap, 8-16 cores/processor by the time UltraSparc 6 or 7 comes along. Imagine each processor keeps say a TCP stack, an apache2/mod_perl send, and a apache2/mod_perl recieve instance each on a core on the same proc, message passing between the two should take place at L1 or L2 cache, which may be shared between the individual cores, a connection request would hit the processor, the stack decodes it, sends a message to the apache recieve instance to start processing the data in L1, it takes the data, mangles it and the apache 2 send instance transmits to the tcp/ip stack for packetising and comes back to you, no paging, no swaping, it just flies data in and out as fast as it can, death to the slashdot effect!

  20. Re:There's no doubt about it on More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that Be/OpenBEOS is highly OO, someone modbomb me if I am wrong.

  21. Re:There's no doubt about it on More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Andy teaches operating systems theory and design. The monlithic *NIX kernel had been tweaked and perfected for 21 years at that point, its interfaces were well designed and (reasonably) well documented, it was not interesting from a pure research or teaching perspective. 13 years later, some things have changed, but still the actual linux kernel work is "polishing the turd" that Thompson and Ritchie created at Bell Labs. The linux kernel is now a base for some of the more promising research in CS theory (the O(1) scheduler comes to mind), but linux is not a pure research OS by any streach of the imagination.

    Look at where we are heading now on the hardware side, NUMA, Async Processors, and Multi-core processors all have interesting side-effects when you look at micro vs monolithic kernels. When one looks at Sun's "FireMan" next-gen TCP/IP stack, it has elements of a microkernel personality siting on top of the Sun kernel. OSX/darwin's development also seems to favor moving to a pure microkernel arch in the future as Power5 and Power6 are developed. Imagine if the Quartz layer was simplified down to another microkernel running on the base Niwrad kernel.

    I guess what I'm saying is that you have two different worldviews represented in that flamefest between Andy and Linus. Andy's itch to scratch was theoretical, Linus's proved to be practical. Both are valid and both are important to this young science, so don't be so quick to judge the good doctor for being honest about his student's work.

  22. Re:fox news bias on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    It looks like a paradox, but it really isn't. There are a lot of people who don't get (Cable|Sat|dsl-video-landline service that I work for), the big 3 networks package up esentally the same newscast and frankly it does have a pro-liberal bias. Have you ever seen Peter Jennings say, "fark it, social security needs to scaled back" or Dan Rather saying something positive about the work the US military is doing in Iraq/Afghanistan. I for one want a smaller government, lower taxes, deficit reduction, abortion banned, and a strong military. The big 3 do not support any of those positions, and frankly CNN and MSNBC don't either, so I turn to Fox News. You also have customer inertia, Kronkite -> Rather have done what, the last 45 years of CBS evening news, its a familiarity with those "old, trusted sources" that keeps people watching, but that generation is being pushed out with people who watched the first Gulf War from start to finish on CNN and watched the Clinton impeachment start to finish on Fox.

  23. Re:Ask for specific maps on Where's Your 'D-Spot?' · · Score: 1

    Yeah we've got internal maps (I work for a rural cell carrier), we pay lots of money for those and have to keep them confidential to stay competitive. If $big_cell_carrier knew we had a known dead spot at the mall, they could have their sales people ask "Do you go to the mall, our service works and those other assholes don't", we would be farked, our internal maps (and call accounting) allow us to capacity plan for dead areas, if we are really losing traffic at point A and there is a business case for it, we make it work, but it takes time.

    That being said, there will be much gnashing of teeth as we transition off TDMA in the near future, shit we still have customers requesting straight analog.

  24. Re:One way street... on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    Civilians are not to be subject to attack. This includes direct attacks on civilians and indiscriminate attacks against areas in which civilians are present.
    There is to be no destruction of property unless justified by military necessity.
    Civilians must not be subject to collective punishment and reprisals.
    Civilians must not receive differential treatment based on race, religion, nationality, or political allegiance.


    Tell those to Nick Berg's family and Thomas Hamill. We are fighting an enemy who will not abide by GC, therefore we are not honor bound to the GC either.

  25. Re:bake sale on Army Plans Overhaul of Infantry Gear · · Score: 1

    At least in my state, education funding has doubled in the last 10 years and what has it got us, nothing! We are still in the basement of real measurements (ACT/SAT/CTBS/AP) scoring. Throwing dollars at a problem does not get it fixed. Breaking the teachers union and makings students, parents, and teachers responsible would get people motivated.