Slashdot Mirror


User: Old+Wolf

Old+Wolf's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,798
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,798

  1. Re:Mars to Earth. on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our newest Slashdot cliche.

  2. Re:and bush says... on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...zero-gravity porn. I can't wait

  3. Re:Great Acronym! SFU! on Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge · · Score: 1

    Argh. I bet you were one of these people too:

    <joe> Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side
    <dave> ROFL!!!!!11
    <SonicBurst> Sorry I dont understand what you mean dave, what is ""rofl"" ? Although it does bear a passing resemblance to another acronym I know, "ROTFL" (Rolling on THE floor laughing), is it something similar?
    <dave> yeah :)
    <SonicBurst> What??? :-)

  4. Re:BBC already made them & there's a DVD box s on Narnia to be Created in New Zealand · · Score: 1

    These are shit. Comparing these to the upcoming versions will be like comparing Bakshi's LOTR to Jackson's LOTR, or comparing windows to vms. The sooner they are burned the better. Bad acting (including the guy in the lion suit) , and fairly hastily-assembled sets.

  5. Re:The Chronicles of Prydain on Narnia to be Created in New Zealand · · Score: 1

    Oh yes these were excellent. Of course it doesn't help that I spent the whole series saying Eiddileg as 'idle leg'. What I liked most about the series is in the final paragraphs, it says something like ..."and over time, people forgot about [the characters]", and I was like "how could anyone ever forget that"... and then 5 seconds later "oh :)"

  6. Re:5 movies? on Narnia to be Created in New Zealand · · Score: 1

    The Last Battle is the best of it (if they can avoid being sued by the bible for copyright infringement). I'd expect that they'd join "Prince Caspian" and "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" into one. As for the other elision - either Horse and his Boy, as you say (esp. in these anti-muslim times), or the Magician's Nephew (they might save that for a prequel if the other 5 succeed).

  7. Re:Linux is their benchmark then on Intel C/C++ Compiler 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Examples?

  8. Re:Not bad. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. Every man and his dog (and his government) knows that the WMD line was just to try and provide some legal justification for what they wanted to do anyway.

  9. Re:Slightly off topic.... on For Us, The Living, by Robert A. Heinlein · · Score: 1

    One of my favourites is "Glory Road". I fell for it completely and I like material which deals with that particular issue:) (Not to give any spoilers for those who haven't read it).
    I couldn't stand The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress though, it was like wading through concrete. Maybe I missed its point..

  10. Re:There's something kinda Lovecraftian about this on Australian Pilot Stranded In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    He noticed the headwind right at the start of his trip. Now, he could have gone and taken the most direct route to his destination and been fine, but he wanted to fly exactly over the South Pole. This detour is what made him short of fuel.

    (As reported on NZ radio)

  11. Re:Need better crypto on The Death Throes of crypt() · · Score: 1

    Just set the dials to "O P E" and then slaughter your entire platoon

  12. Re:So much for longer passwords being more secure? on The Death Throes of crypt() · · Score: 1

    What the poster meant (as I read it anyway) was:

    There's only N possible one-character passwords, (N = the number of usable-for-password characters in the character set, = 256) so one-character passwords could be brute-forced in an instant, by using the method of calculating the hash for all 1-character passwords, and looking up the candidate hash in that list.

    Incidentally, does this mean it will help your password to include uncommon characters (eg. control codes, high ascii) in the hope that brute-force programs will limit themselves to alphanumerics to save time?

  13. Re:HOWTO on New rsync Released to Fix Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Actually you can combine steps 2 and 3, saving keystrokes:

    tar xzvf

    This has been possible in every OS (except windows) I've ever used (except for old versions of sunos)

  14. Re:P Is For Pirillo, P Is For Pathetic. on Online! The Book · · Score: 1

    Lockergnome is actually quite cool (well, it was back in 1999, I haven't read it lately). Maybe he deserves some credit after all.

  15. Re:P Is For Pirillo, P Is For Pathetic. on Online! The Book · · Score: 1

    Why does he have the Lockergnome guy all over his website?

    (*crosses fingers* I hope it's not the obvious answer..)

  16. Re:This is the same Dvorak... on Online! The Book · · Score: 1

    We can punish him by pronouncing his name wrong

  17. Re:The sequels are even better on Online! The Book · · Score: 1

    My CS lecturer said that you aren't meant to use PTR any more, apparently Reference books are the 'in' thang now.

  18. Re:correct me if I'm wrong on Online! The Book · · Score: 1

    Hey, the Dark Ages called, they want their non-metric systems back

  19. IN SOVIET RUSSIA on Online! The Book · · Score: 0, Troll

    new arrangements of you come up.

    Now why wasn't that one in the Rapier Wit webpage?

  20. Re:I think I'll wait.... on Online! The Book · · Score: 1

    I think I'll wait for the MMORPG adaptation

  21. Re:What were you expecting? on Online! The Book · · Score: 1

    The local stores are still selling dial-up modems by the bucketload.

  22. Re:Sirtaj Singh Kang on 96 Hours Of Open Source Talks In Bangalore · · Score: 1

    Where does this come from?
    (eg. that potato guy saying "It's a trap" comes from some Lucas movie)

  23. Re:Too complicated... on A Secure and Verifiable Voting System · · Score: 1

    Paper recounts are also unreliable (isn't that what the problem was in the last US election?)
    Whatever the new system is, its worst fallback state has to be an improvement on paper recounts.

  24. Re:Too complicated... on A Secure and Verifiable Voting System · · Score: 1

    Yeah and what if the scantron reader scans wrong? You've just changed the one-step process:

    1) possible error

    to the two-step process:

    1) definitely works
    2) possible error

  25. Who? What? on Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices · · Score: 1

    So, for the rest of the world: what is FatWallet (when they aren't being DMCA slaves), and how did they know Wal-Mart's planned prices when nobody else did?