User: Eudial

On the other hand

On: Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux

On the other hand, how many (desktop) Linux converts used to run Windows?

Stability

On: Slackware 9.1 Released

There is nothing that is as stable as slackware. After all, it has been around since the dawn of linux.

If you compare the crash statistics between say RH and Slackware, you'll see the difference. After all, crashes=downtime, and downtime=lost money if you're a company. If you're a private person, crashes=cursing, and cursing=CHA penalty, and that means higher barter prices.

Someone should inform Intel about...

On: Intel Warns Asia Over Linux Plan

Someone should inform Intel of inter platform compability, as it is fairly uncommon in the Windoze market.

slashsco.org countermessage

On: SCO's Open Letter to Open Source Community

Your Rights Online: The open source community's Open Letter to SCO

Posted by CptnTaco on Tue September 09, 08:21 AM
from the now-pay-us dept.
redmond_r00lz writes "the open source community has posted an open letter to SCO There's some things the open source community mentions that I hadn't heard of yet, like "Up yours!". ;)

Not like they can sue them or something

On: Microsoft Dislikes Nations Trying to Escape Lock-in

Not like they can sue them or something and besides those parts of asia havnt really been the counties that has been known for actually *paying* for the sowtware, have they?

Hmm

On: "Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked

As the only thing in common (this far) is the comments, and the comments are simply ignored by the compiler (doesent affect the produced executable), then SCO can't claim to own of the linux kernel (when it is compiled), since their "intellecual property" (or whatever) isnt actually compiled.

In soviet russia...

On: Russia Plans Martian Nuclear Station

... MARS plans nuclear plants on YOU!

Am i the only one that finds this disturbing?

On: Apple's School Days are Numbered

http://w1.901.telia.com/~u90121759/ahem.JPG

Look cloesely at the "sponsorship announcement" next to the article.

Re:XML Image format?

On: Afterstep 2.0 Beta Includes XML Graphics System

Yes, that way we can make our images 128 times bigger! The 4M image of yesterday is the 512M image of today.

Why do i not blame them?

On: Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express

Who would continue development on such a bloated, buggy and virus-infested application anyway?

Overclock your CPU and GPU...

On: Aquarium Modcase

Overclock your CPU and GPU and get free fish soup! Just add carrots!

Re:Damnit, pacman has become BIG all the sudden

On: Gentoo Package Accused of Violating DMCA

161 Mb?
That's some emulator.

Damnit, pacman has become BIG all the sudden

On: Gentoo Package Accused of Violating DMCA

>Filesize: 161,212k
Last time i checked pacman was like 50k.

Re:Linux people: Rejoice!

On: Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise

Yes, but since this is something i scribbled together in 3 minutes and is not supposed to be secure (it's just supposed to enable you to grin evilly @ the virus)

Linux people: Rejoice!

On: Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise

All the Linux users (and *BSD for that matter) are walking around with a big smile on their lips days like this.

To make this smile even bigger: Compile this and execute it as root (all ports below 1024 are restricted and needs root permission to be listened to)

Now you can actually *see* when the worm tries it's futile attack on your superior OS.

// begin mblaster_l.c
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define PORT 135

int main()
{
int sock_f;
struct sockaddr_in sockaddr_l;
socklen_t len_s;
struct sockaddr_in remote_a;
char buffer[4096];
int remote_p;

sock_f=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
if(sock_f<2) { printf("Error: %s \n","Could not create socket"); return 1; }

sockaddr_l.sin_family=AF_INET;
sockaddr_l.sin_port=htons(PORT);
sockaddr_l.sin_addr.s_addr=INADDR_ANY;
memset(&sockaddr_l.sin_zero,0,8);
if(bind(sock_f,(struct sockaddr*)&sockaddr_l,sizeof(struct sockaddr))==-1)
{ printf("Error: %s \n", "Could not bind socket"); return 1; }

if(listen(sock_f,30)==-1) { printf("Error: %s \n", "Could not listen to socket"); return 1; }
len_s=sizeof(struct sockaddr);
while(1)
{
if((remote_p=accept(sock_f,(struct sockaddr*)&remote_a,&len_s))==-1) continue;
if(recv(remote_p,&buffer,4096,0)==-1) continue;
printf("Received data from %s \n",inet_ntoa(remote_a.sin_addr));
printf("%s",buffer);
close(remote_p);
}
}

// end mblaster_l.c

Re:Lets use another language...

On: Flavor vs. Flavour

You forgot to mention that american coffee infact isnt coffee. It's got about 1/2^1024mg coffee in it the rest is sugar and water. Unless it's decaf. Then it's just sugar and water.

This is hard...

On: Flavor vs. Flavour

I mean. Flavour is brittish english. No doubt. But even as i'm an american english speaker, i prefer the brittish version.

I don't know what would be the worse

On: Lufthansa Systems Chooses Linux

I don't know what would be the worse, the autopilot BSODing (duuh) or saying "Segmentation fault" (due to faulty closed source 3rd party drivers, ofcourse).

Voicechatting does NOT work in games.

On: MUD Co-Creator Bartle On Voice Chat in MMOGs

Here are some reasons why:

1. People will speak all kinds of languages.
2. People will scream.
3. There will not be any 1337speak (that way we can't decide who's a newbie or not)

Things of annoyance:

On: Worst Linux Annoyances?

1. When X Crashes and completely screws up your screen (so that you can't even C-M-F{x} out and restart X) and you have to SSH into the computer and reboot it from another computer located 36.7 miles away. (otherwise it'd screw up the filesystem)
2. When your TTY screws up because it can't display binary files.
3. SCO.

Interesting idea

On: Replacing SMTP?

But there are protocols that needs upgrading aswell.
For an instance HTTP, it could use some on the fly compression (which would speed up things a bit).

Re:I work for M$

On: Desktop Linux Sliding in Under the Radar?

If you indeed do work for M$ they're going to lynch you when they find out you've been haning out on a pro linux site such as slashdot.

Re:As if things would be easier...

On: The Failures Of Desktop Linux

well, that's cheating.

what "normal" office computer user would be able to install that?

As if things would be easier...

On: The Failures Of Desktop Linux

Have anyone tried intracting with a Linux network using a Windoze box? Now THAT's a challenge.

Re:Seems a bit harsh

On: Sweden Crunches Cookies

Who would seriously use both IIS and ASP anyway? That's like stupidity^2.