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  1. Re:SUN GPL'ing OpenSolaris? on Sun Considering GPL For OpenSolaris · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Flash, proprietary drivers and patent-encumbered codecs.

  2. Re:IPv6 adoption. on Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name · · Score: 1

    Not at all! Without a packet filter, your ISP can send your NAT box a packet destined for your internal LAN and the NAT box will happily pass it along.

    The security does not come from the NAT, it comes from the packet filter!

  3. Re:tabs on 4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps all 100 of those people had registered an interest in signing up for ADSL service. Try looking your phone exchange (and theirs!) up at The Broadband Resource. See what your 'ADSL prereg' status is.

  4. Re:2 weeks on this approach on How to Prevent Form Spam Without Captchas · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Has it affected your site's ham rate (or the derivative thereof)?

  5. Re:tabs on 4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers · · Score: 1

    It sucks living in the sticks; however why do you think the phone company has a duty to sell your DSL services at a loss?

  6. RTFA on Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund · · Score: 1

    They did not.

  7. Re:Nice front but what about the backend? on Managing Money With Linux Apps · · Score: 1

    You really don't want to trust MySQL with such a task! ;)

    Seriously though, there used to be a PostgreSQL backend, but it has falled into disuse. Perhaps some day it will be revived.

  8. Re:Does it support budgetting? on Managing Money With Linux Apps · · Score: 3, Informative

    Budgetting was added in 2.0. Since it's a new feature it probably isn't quite as advanced as some would like... yet. But, as always, development is ongoing!

  9. Re:Well... on Sun To Choose GPL For Open-Sourcing Java · · Score: 1

    The choice of venue and choice of law clauses.

  10. Re:IPv6 adoption. on Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name · · Score: 1

    No. If your ISP wants access to your network, they can happily send you packets destined for 192.160.0.0/24, and your NAT box would happily pass them through. Unlessthe NAT box was also a packet filter, in which case your security comes through the filtering, which will not magically disappear just because people upgrade to IPv6.

  11. Re:IPv6 adoption. on Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name · · Score: 2, Insightful
    BTW, Internet users in asian and third-world countries already have to suffer through 4-5 layers of NAT. But I guess end-to-end connectivity isn't important for non-first-worlders?

    I'll also take this opportunity to plug The Digital Imprimatur again:

    Over time, this equality among Internet users has eroded, in large part due to technical workarounds to cope with the limited 32-bit address space of the present day Internet... With the advent of broadband DSL and cable television Internet connections, a segmentation of the Internet community is coming into being...

    The typical home user never notices NAT; it just works. But that user is no longer a peer of all other Internet users as the original architecture of the network intended. In particular, the home user behind a NAT box has been relegated to the role of a consumer of Internet services. Such a user cannot create a Web site on their broadband connection, since the NAT box will not permit inbound connections from external sites. Nor can the user set up true peer to peer connections with other users behind NAT boxes, as there's an insuperable chicken and egg problem creating a bidirectional connection between them.

    Sites with persistent, unrestricted Internet connections now constitute a privileged class, able to use the Internet in ways a consumer site cannot. They can set up servers, create new kinds of Internet services, establish peer to peer connections with other sites--employ the Internet in all of the ways it was originally intended to be used. We might term these sites "publishers" or "broadcasters", with the NATted/firewalled home users their consumers or audience.

  12. Re:IPv6 adoption. on Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name · · Score: 1

    To be more explicit that the other reply to your post: NAT is not a packet filter. In the IPv6 world, people will still go out any buy £30 black boxes that they put in between their PCs and their Internet connection. But instead of doing NAT and packet filtering, these devices will just do packet filtering. The general population will still refer to them as 'routers'. :)

  13. Re:IPv6 adoption. on Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name · · Score: 3, Informative

    NAT is shit, IPv6 means we can get rid of it once and for all.

    This should really be a Frequently Answered Question, it comes up every time a story about IPv6 is posted. :)

  14. Re:Python on Core Python Programming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And I'd been using that for years before I bothered to read the documentation and discovered:

    <pre>print '%(imperative)s, a %(adjective)s %(noun)s!' % {'imperative': 'Look!', 'adjective': 'built-in', 'noun': 'templating system'}</pre>

  15. Re:Facing Worlds... on Some of the Best Game Levels of All Time · · Score: 1

    Matched in equal measure by the frustration at getting repeatedly sniped at the spawn point...

  16. Re:Heatsink is supposed to be that hot... on Cooking With the XBox 360 · · Score: 1

    My Athlon XP 2500+ idles happily at 65 degrees, and goes up to 75 under load. At first I was mildly concerned, but after four years, I'm no longer so worried. :)

  17. Re:it;'s nasty. on IE7 Released As High-Priority Update · · Score: 1

    To differentiate their product from the competition.

  18. Re:Use GMT on Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? · · Score: 1

    s/most OSes/broken OSes/

  19. Re:Pfft. on Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? · · Score: 1

    You should be using time_t...

  20. Re:Oh , yeah? Well, I can do you 0.0001% better! on Fastest Waves Ever Photographed · · Score: 1

    Also, the speed of light in air is probably a bit less than that of the speed of light in a vacuum ("the Speed of Light", c, ~3e8 m/sec).

  21. Re:How to disable the Windows FW in 2 lines of VBS on New Windows Attack Can Disable Firewall · · Score: 1

    What's you point? That's only a problem if you can run that code as a non-administrator...

  22. Re:No back doors? on Seagate To Encrypt Data On Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Like you can copyright random data...

    But I see what you mean. You are referring to the libdvdcss project. I don't see it in Debian, however...

  23. Re:No back doors? on Seagate To Encrypt Data On Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Tell it to 2600.

  24. Re:No back doors? on Seagate To Encrypt Data On Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    But the downside to your country is that I can't watch DVDs over there without breaking the law. ;)

  25. Re:No back doors? on Seagate To Encrypt Data On Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I believe silence can be used as admission of guilt, but I only read it on the Internet so it may be a load of crap.

    For the record, even though the RIP act has been law for some years now, the schedule under which contains the laws under which the police can demand decryption keys has not yet been made active.