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  1. Coffee-nosed??? on Build Your Own Computer · · Score: 1

    I think you mean toffee-nosed..

    sorry to be a pedant...

  2. Re:IAAP -- Here it is in plain English. on Mastering Light · · Score: 1

    The detail you seem to have missed is that the hall of mirrors is actually moving, hence the doppler shift.

  3. Re:For how long? on Mastering Light · · Score: 1

    This of course all assumes that GR is correct....

  4. Re:Huh? on Fizzer Worm Uninstalling Itself · · Score: 4, Funny


    Hmmm... yes, it seems as though this is opening a can of worms...


    Sorry, I couldn't resist it.

  5. Re:Boot from USB Ramdisk? (Or convert?) on A Truly Silent Desktop PC · · Score: 1

    The new chipset from intel (Canterwood) does this.

    Have a look at this

  6. Re:Save your money. on The Two Towers DVD Release Dates · · Score: 1

    Most of the reason I bought the extended edition of FOTR was for the extendedness of the film. The Aditional stuff is nice, but the 30mins of so of extra footage makes the film soo much better. The Cinema release seems rushed in comparison.

  7. Re:Forget that! on The Two Towers DVD Release Dates · · Score: 1

    You mean you can wait that long to see the special editions......

    Me I'll grab the special edition as soon as it comes out. The special^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hextended edition of the first one was sooooooo much better.

    BTW, anyone know what the UK release dates are?

  8. Re:Apple version? on Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux) · · Score: 1

    but how would mouse gestures work with only one mouse button?

  9. Re:Shame on Concorde to be Grounded · · Score: 2, Informative

    It did crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973. There's even a video of it here (towards the bottom of the page)

    The crash was actually caused by a Frence Mirage Jet up there trying to photograph it, and nearly crashing with it.

  10. Re:fr1st ps0t #2 on End of Intel-Pin-Compatible CPUs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why can't you have simple "plug'n play" processors? Then you'd have real competition among all the companies...any processor on any mobo!

    The prolem is that that would require processors to use a standard interface to the chipset on the mobo, which they don't. There's no real open standard for one either. Besides when you start standardising, you nearly always end up compromising somewhere along the line, which will lead to a performance penalty, and I doubt anyone will go for it if that's the case.

  11. Re:Sendmail.... on Security-Fix Sendmail 8.12.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I bet if Qmail were as widely used as Sendmail, people would find more bugs, it's really more like security by obscurity.

    A couple of points about that statement:

    -Qmail claims to be the number 2 MTA on the internet (although I haven't seen any figures to back that up). I think that counts as widely used.
    -The qmail code is significantly smaller than sendmail, so by the laws of statistics alone, it will fewer flaws.
    -There was a reward of $1000 offered to anyone who could find a verifiable security hole in qmail that went unclaimed for 3 years.

    On the whole, qmail has a pretty good track record with only one minor bug that I've heard about(I started using it at version 1.03, so I can't speak for earlier versions.)

  12. Re:Sendmail.... on Security-Fix Sendmail 8.12.9 Released · · Score: 1

    even better than that, just create the following symlinks:

    /usr/lib/sendmail -> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
    /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail

    to use qmail's supplied sendmail wrapper.

  13. Re:Sendmail.... on Security-Fix Sendmail 8.12.9 Released · · Score: 1

    erm.... I'd like to challenge you on one point:

    Qmail ONLY works with procmail. It requires procmail for local delivery.

    In my experience, procmail is not required at all for qmail. I have several sites using qmail that don't use procmail.

    I suppose it may be necessary if you want to do delivery into /var/spool/mail/$USER. I've never wanted to do that though. If you need mbox delivery, why not just use ~/.email or something similar.

  14. Re:I wonder if they've solved... on Chi Mei Announces 20" Active Matrix OLED Display · · Score: 1

    It all depends what you're using them to view.
    For some things, the blue's not a problem, as long as the red end of the spectrum's working fine ;-)

  15. Re:Aaargh! on AMD Moving to a 400MHz Bus? · · Score: 1

    That explains it. I was wondering what that smell was.

  16. Re:You drink waste water anyway.. on Don't Eat The White Snow Either · · Score: 1, Informative

    I remember reading that all the water you drink has been through at least 6 people before you get it.

  17. Re:In other news on 98% of DNS Queries at the Root Level are Unnecessary · · Score: 3, Funny

    50% of /. posts are duplicates

  18. Re:In related news on 98% of DNS Queries at the Root Level are Unnecessary · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Actually I think you'll find that it's 88.2%.

  19. Re:No need for inter-worm communications on Malicious Distributed Computing · · Score: 1

    I remember reading something that said that theoretically a worm designed to start scanning the whole IP space and, on each _sucessfull_ infection, pass half it's space onto the newly infected machine, could cover the entire IP space in around 15 minutes.

    That sounds pretty effective to me.