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  1. Re:Thanks for pointing out the obvious... on Hotmail Begins to Upgrade Free Accounts · · Score: 1

    and the dumb spammers remove the part before the +...

    I subscrible to mailing lists as randomletters+mailinglistname@mydomain.net and receive spam to mailinglistname@mydomain.net... I actually suspect that it's simplistic mail-to-web archiving tools, which htmlize the email and convert the addresses to mailto: links which are actually to blame.

    Still, it's kinda amusing to see spam to ridiculous addresses which are obviously harvested...

  2. Re:Weird, but cool! on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    wouldn't state 3 be empty? I mean I can see what kind of information could be in states 1, 2, and 4, but I can't visualise anyone with information in state 3...

  3. Re:EveryDNS does dynamic addresses. on Dynamic DNS - The Good, The Bad and The Cheap? · · Score: 1

    forward chron...

    Undergrad - BSc Theoretical Physics
    Honours - Mathematics (Pure)
    Paying my way thru uni - IT Consultant
    Job after uni - Programmer
    Schmooze the boss and become - data miner
    Give it all up and go back to Uni for - MEngSc Mechatronic Eng.

    (It's just begging for a
    ???
    Profit! )

    As for what prompted them - I'm a widely interested person. I'm deeply interested in a large number of techincal fields from Physical sciences to Life sciences, electronics, mechanisms, computer systems and software, artificial intelligence, psychology and cognitive sciences, etc, etc.

    And as I came to each major decision point in my life, there came an opportunity to embark on something new which was interesting. What those names hide is which field the techniques were applied in... Programming projects included property management systems, bioinformatics systems, and artificial intelligence bots. Datamining was in biotech and financial fraud.

    All in all, I was just having fun, and finding people along the way who found my fun useful...

  4. EveryDNS does dynamic addresses. on Dynamic DNS - The Good, The Bad and The Cheap? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well EveryDNS is a DNS hosting service which also offers dynamic addresses... It's really been great, I've been with them for the last three years without problems...

  5. Re:Details? on Infinium May Have Content Partners · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's a freakin' x86-based windows box... and you don't want PC games on it?

    So what are they going to release then?

  6. Re:Wake me up... on Infinium May Have Content Partners · · Score: 1

    for WinXP embedded? it's not a reach ... if it's not already possible to run it, it shouldn't take much...

  7. Re:What I don't understand is... on New IFPI Boss Vows to Extend Recording Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Oh... I get it now...
    Guess I'm just too young to remember such classic jokes...

  8. Re:took now on 2.2 inch LCD Display featuring VGA Resolution · · Score: 1
    That's all we need is another blog running spammer.


    well at least his rate is lower than Roland's... http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=i4u shows only about 1 article per month...
  9. Re:What I don't understand is... on New IFPI Boss Vows to Extend Recording Copyrights · · Score: 1

    That'd be Pete who left the band (or was kicked out)... and was replaced by Ringo Starr...

    And he's not dead yet...

  10. Re:took now on 2.2 inch LCD Display featuring VGA Resolution · · Score: 1

    i4u runs the source page ...

    and it seems, he simply babelfishes the japanese press releases directly into his articles...

  11. Re:Cool on Doom 3 Linux Client · · Score: 1

    Which is in windows - where he claimed a K6-2 was too slow to play (less than 20 fps by your own admission)...

    so where's the contradiction?

  12. Re:Irrelevant on Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers · · Score: 1

    which is essentially the same thing... "exchange zones" vs "geographic area"...

    Exchange zones cover 1-10 suburbs, depending on size and population density. Still, I live near the boundary between two exchange zones, which means that someone a few doors from me connects to a different exchange than I do.

    I should have pointed out that I was only discussing wired providers. All Australian mobiles are in the same "mobiles" area code nationwide, so there's no issue with keeping mobile numbers Australia-wide.

  13. Re:Anyone want to clue them in to scheduled jobs? on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 1
    Aviation expects 99.9999% uptime ... we didn't require the customer to reboot.
    It's a good damn thing too... Unless your system could reboot in 31.536 seconds...

    I get worried when someone mentions five-9s uptime (5 minutes a year downtime), six-9s is just out there... that's less than 32 SECONDS of downtime a YEAR!
  14. Re:not quite so hard... on Online Poker Bots Becoming Problematic? · · Score: 1

    where's the HOT GRITS?

  15. Re:Irrelevant on Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers · · Score: 1

    Not sure how this works in .us, but over here .au the deal is that if you remain connected to the same exchange then you can keep the same number, regardless of who you pay the bills to. But move up the street into the next exchange's zone, and you're up for a new number...

    In the internet version, all "exchanges" (routers) are owned by one organization, and thus, if you change providers, you change addresses. If you remain in the same datacentre, and connect to the same router, you can keep the same address, if you wish. I don't see the similarity between "Phone Number Portability" (or whatever the term is over there) and owning phone numbers/IP addresses/IP blocks.

    With mobiles, the situation is different; the routing process is entirely different, and relies on much faster dynamic propagation of routing changes than IGRP necessitates.

  16. Re:Comment period on U.S. Government Wants June Passenger Records · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sad, but true....

    Guess that's the end of liberty, for the illusion of temporary safety...

  17. Re:That doesn't matter... on Automotive Tires Without Air · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I forgot about that... I just read it in the article, and it tripped my "crazy Americans" filter coz we haven't seen it down here in .au.

  18. Comment period on U.S. Government Wants June Passenger Records · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hopefully, in the 30 day comment period, the airlines make some worthwhile objections...

    Who am I kidding?

  19. sig reply on 3G Internet Access Via PCMCIA Card · · Score: 1
    Windows in 6 Bytes (IA-32) : 90 90 90 90 CD 19
    I get the soft reboot, but why the four no-ops?
  20. Re:Available in Australia on 3G Internet Access Via PCMCIA Card · · Score: 1

    It's also available in limited areas at 1Mbps (and I mean real 1Mbps) via http://www.iburst.com.au/.

    I was involved in the trial in Sydney at the start of the year, and it rocked... That said, their expansion is really slow, and I'm back in Melbourne, so it's out of the question now...

  21. Re:Irrelevant on Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers · · Score: 1

    In what sense do you "own" a phone number?

    Switch area codes, get a new phone number - switch ISPs, get a new block... seems similar enough to me...

    Or am I missing something?

  22. Re:Are these guys for real? on Automotive Tires Without Air · · Score: 2, Informative

    BTW, that quote was from TFA...

    Anyway, some poking around on a search engine led me to this search
    http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=Michelin+Red+Gui de+restaurants
    and specifically to the Michelin Red Guide to Restaurants...

    It seems that it's not crazy Americans this time, but crazy Europeans... My bad...

  23. Are these guys for real? on Automotive Tires Without Air · · Score: 1
    Michelin, famed for the star ratings it gives upmarket restaurants, will also present ...
    I'm not from the US, but does a tyre manufacturer really go out and rate restaurants?

    Really?
  24. Re:But wait: on Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers · · Score: 1
    that's probably mostly because the www. is a CNAME to a swedish(?) uni...
    $ dig www.ipv6.org any shake.stacken.kth.se any

    ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> www.ipv6.org any shake.stacken.kth.se any
    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63697
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;www.ipv6.org. IN ANY

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    www.ipv6.org. 3449 IN CNAME shake.stacken.kth.se.

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    ipv6.org. 3444 IN NS ns2.hyp.net.
    ipv6.org. 3444 IN NS ns3.hyp.net.
    ipv6.org. 3444 IN NS ns1.hyp.net.

    ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
    ns1.hyp.net. 27610 IN A 194.63.248.53
    ns2.hyp.net. 42329 IN A 67.17.159.182
    ns3.hyp.net. 27610 IN A 207.44.178.49

    ;; Query time: 9 msec
    ;; SERVER: 130.194.1.99#53(130.194.1.99)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 22 12:13:03 2004
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 173

    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35095
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 3

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;shake.stacken.kth.se. IN ANY

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    shake.stacken.kth.se. 3464 IN AAAA 2001:6b0:1:ea:a00:20ff:fe8f:708f
    shake.stacken.kt h.se. 3464 IN A 130.237.234.41

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    stacken.kth.se. 3464 IN NS ns.stacken.kth.se.
    stacken.kth.se. 3464 IN NS foot.snowman.sunet.se.
    stacken.kth.se. 3464 IN NS head.snowman.sunet.se.
    stacken.kth.se. 3464 IN NS b.ns.kth.se.

    ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
    ns.stacken.kth.se. 3464 IN A 130.237.234.17
    ns.stacken.kth.se. 3464 IN AAAA 2001:6b0:1:ea::100
    head.snowman.sunet.se. 17025 IN AAAA 2001:6b0:8:1::53

    ;; Query time: 9 msec
    ;; SERVER: 130.194.1.99#53(130.194.1.99)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 22 12:13:03 2004
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 242
  25. Re:A chat with the chat bot on ALICE Wins Loebner 2004 Prize 2004 · · Score: 1

    I got (on my first try)...

    Human: how's life?
    ALICE: Everything's fine, what's new with you?
    Human: nothing much.
    ALICE: Would you like to know what's new with me?
    Human:. same old same old.
    ALICE: Yes, it is much the same.
    Human: so, what's new with you?
    ALICE: Whoa. not much what's new with you?
    Human: nothing much.
    ALICE: Would you like to know what's new with me?

    seems too easy to confuse...