User: SHEENmaster

oh shit, more helicopters

On: New ssh Exploit in the Wild

I thought OBSD would keep me same fram them!

(good job theo; great OS/distro)

carry it over to the real world

On: Protests, Politics And Parties In MMORPGs

forward microsoft all of your M$ worms, asking how the hell they could get defense contracts without bribery/extortion.

If that involves too much thought, just go streaking at SCO.

I doubt the bots check

On: Where Is Spam When You Want It?

If I was blackmailed into writing a spambot, I sure as hell wouldn't write a good one.

apple

On: Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch

already has DRM

try this one

On: Where Is Spam When You Want It?

spamthistohelpusout@someresearchcompany.com

Does it run Linux or another UNIX workalike,

On: Personal File Server For The Masses

and can I get a shell on it?

Anything powerful enough to act as a decent fileserver for me, by which I mean able to tunnel rsync through ssh at a decent rate, is fast enough to run inetd servers of BSD games or host a MUD.

I won't buy machines that are crippled. Does it do more than an $80 120gb hard disk dropped into a $5 PC with an ethernet card?

modern version of solaris

On: Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO

come with a crippled version of Sun's compiler, and offer GCC on a latter CD. Older Solaris software is designed to use their compiler rather than GCC.

Solaris comes with GCC in this respect as SCO OpenServer comes with pthread support. It's available, but is not installed by default.

(I'm speaking from heresay, I just run Solaris 2.6 and then only on one of my sparcs.)

I'd do it for free

On: Tzero Electric Car: 0-60 in 3.7 Seconds

Just to take a peak at the regerative systems.

Locking people into getting repairs fromt he manufacturer has been a major influence on automotive design for years, why should this be any different?

overused

On: Plasma Comes Alive

I for one welcome our new florescent desk lamp overlords...

furthermore

On: Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities

google doesn't bother with extraneous crap. Altavista and AllTheWeb both support more types of searches than google.

A single feature is useless when another engine still returns better results. I still use google for text searches, only hopping over to altavista for a music search.

they mentioned Evil Dead's musical

On: Monty Python's Holy Grail goes Broadway

and evil Monte Python has an even larger evil cult following.

(In all seriousness, Evil Dead 3 sucks. Evil Dead 2 is "meh". The original is awesome. Can't attest the musical, it's a self respect thing.)

time is cyclical

On: Using an Old Satellite Dish as a WLAN Antenna

So tell us stranger...

What is it like living in the future?

I've already started on one

On: Using an Old Satellite Dish as a WLAN Antenna

Days ago. And IIRC, it was a /. article that inspired me.

Isn't there a way

On: Booting Linux Faster

to reboot without rebooting, such that uptime remains the same but kernel upgrades can take place?

I remember reading about it somewhere, but it was skimpy on details, sufficing to say that it was a "bad idea".

It may be scaled to half speed

On: G5 PowerBook "Challenge"

but it can still compile KDE3 in a few minutes.

I amn

On: Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards

and I did.

Why not fake an email from verisign's CEO to cut the crap? I've always wondered why such a technique isn't used more often.

yeah

On: Worst Jobs In Science

It's one of the few jobs that doesn't involve killing animals, though I'm sure such an act is somehow entailed in it.

C, C++, and Java

On: Does C# Measure Up?

share portability in common. I can write an app in C, and run it on my server, laptop, palmtop, ancient SunServer, or even a Windows machine. The same goes for Java and C++.

If I use C#, I'm effectively locked into .NET. Mono is a good start, but not enough to make my code reliably portable.

C# has all the speed of Java with all the portability of X86 assembly linked to Windows libraries. Microsoft's BS patents will help ensure that the portability problems aren't corrected.

The real purpose behind .NET is to make the platform compatibility promised by NT 4 available without opening the source.

I don''t know the guy, or anything about him

On: Head Of Homeland Cybersecurity Named

but it seems to me that bribes from Mirrosoft for "defense contracts" comprise the largest threats to national electronic security.

Let's just switch everything over to OpenBSD and pray to cueriel that we keep good relations with Canada.

their problem is that they don't show details

On: Can Recent MS Patents Affect Mono and DotGNU?

I can't patent "A Device that Catches Small Animals", but I can patent "An Improved Device for Capturing Small Animals by Use of Magical Cheese" in the hardware world. In the software world, I can go so far as to patent "Magical Cheese" without the recipe for said cheese or an investigation into my magical bacteria.

We don't need to do completely away with software patents any more than we need to do away with all patents. We need to make both reasonable.

By reasonable, I mean non-profit groups should be exempt, patents should last 2-5 years depending upon the technology involved, and nothing that significantly advances a previous technology should fall under that technology's patent.

Patents should spawn innovation in exchange for the disclosure of the underlying technology. They shouldn't hold innovation hostage for decades to come.

like this

On: Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash

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share the damn drivers!

On: Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash

And let us take a crack at them. Suddenly you'll have NetBSD running directly on the card, twice the framerate in Linux as in windows, and (worst of all) both companies' products will be advanced, eliminating the advantage over one's competitor by tossing more money at the problem.

Betterment serves no profitable purpose unless it is unatainable by one's competitor. If someone can show how they'll make more money by making a better product while also aiding their competitor in the same endeavor, they might help us out a bit more.

SCSI dumb terminal

On: 3D File Manager on Linux Wins NSF Prize

Let a second processor take care of the rendering. (Firewire being too slow. If you can only read at 50 billion letters a second, feel free to use such antiquated technology.)

it's still overhead

On: 3D File Manager on Linux Wins NSF Prize

I run OpenBox to avoid the overhead of KDE or GNOME, as well as for its better interface.

If a 3d interface is begun, it won't be an openbox/blackbox style system in which one can quickly and easily do what's needed after learning the controls. It will be a feature-barren, "dumbed down" interface like KDE or GNOME that for all intents an purposes is designed to look like winshit.

I have nothing against KDE and GNOME, they show how beautiful X can be and help entice new users. We already have 3d in the sense of virtual desktops, and 3d graphics are irrelevant in comparison.

ls -R /

On: 3D File Manager on Linux Wins NSF Prize

/: bin boot cdrom dev devs etc floppy home initrd lib lost+found media mnt music opt proc root sbin tmp usr var vmdebian vmlinux vmlinux26 /bin: arch bash cat chgrp chmod chown cp cpio csh date dd df dir dmesg dnsdomainname echo ed egrepe-- false fgconsole fgrep fuser grep gunzip gzexe gzip hostname kill ksh ln loadkeys login ls lspci mkdir mknod mktemp more mount mt mt-gnu mv nc netcat netstat pidof ping ps pwd rbash readlink rm rmdir run-parts rzsh sed setserial sh sleep stty su sync tar tcsh tempfile touch true umount uname uncompress vdir zcat zcmp zdiff zegrep zfgrep zforce zgrep zless zmore znew zsh zsh4

And the list goes on. One HELL of a ferris wheel.