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  1. Re:UPDATE 9:15 AM CDT on Blackberry Network is Down · · Score: 1

    My 7130e stayed at 1xev all this morning until I did a resend on a "Red X" message and it did a lot of network activity for 10 seconds then I saw 1XEV and a blue check mark.

  2. Re:Time to listen to Michael Moore on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    It worked so well when the Germans did it. (Did I just go there? Oh yes I did)

  3. Re:Another Hollywood illusion shattered. on Knight Rider Car for Sale · · Score: 1

    I read in the past, the reason KITT wasn't street legal was because it does not have a functional front bumper. It has a molded plastic air scoop where the bumper would be and it extends out several inches further than the regular bumper would.

  4. Re:Customize the Bootscript, Trim the Fat on How To Speed Up Linux Booting · · Score: 1

    A few years back I did this with Gentoo, there was actually an option to initialize things in parallel during boot. It did help the speed a lot but a few things didn't seem to like it due to some dependencies not being initialized before other things came up.

  5. Re:Squirrelmail on Do You Allow Webmail Use on Your Network? · · Score: 1

    The last place that I worked restricted webmail access from regular PCs but set up a locked down Citrix server that could go to the major webmail sites. So you just go to the URL for the .ICA file and it would open a IE6 window that you could use to get some outside mail. Downloading anything or whatnot was restricted and cookies were purged after you logged off.

  6. Re:LoS or Satellite? Crypto? Trackable? on Military System Offers Worldwide Cell Access · · Score: 1

    Info on the device from LGS:

    http://openphi.net/tenacious/?p=63

  7. Re:am i the only one here? on Blood Vessel Shunt May Save Limbs In War · · Score: 1

    I just wanted to know why simply connecting a tube from one blood vessel to another is a revolutionary technique. It sounds like something that should have been around for at least 100 years.

  8. Re:Mobile fingerprint kit? on Army of Davids Beats Pentagon Procurement · · Score: 1

    TFA said that it also tracks locations of events and provides data that can be used. Even if it is catch and release, you start to build a M.O. on people and organizations in the area. Maybe certain guys always seem to operate within .5km of a certain suspected stronghold. If they catch that guy again, they could lean on him a little bit about that stronghold and maybe he might give up something useful. Or if they keep picking up the same guy but never have anything on him to keep him, maybe they could start building profiles on these people and linking relationships and such. To me, it sounds like a good idea.

  9. Re:Apples moves into VM on Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax · · Score: 1

    I think this is why the new version of MS VirtualPC "supports" Vista for the first time. They probably put something in there to eep you from cloning your VMs on to multiple installations of VirtualPC. I've never tried before but I assume that XP can't tell the difference between multiple installations of VPC and therefore probably won't try to reactivate. I was never able to get Vista running in the current version of VPC because I didn't have enough free memory to get Vista past the 512MB check. But I assume it will probably work.

  10. I've already seen this on Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video · · Score: 1

    There was a video clip I found a few days ago that was made by a bunch of kids and when I went back to show it to someone else there was a Viacom warning.

  11. Re:Can we fix the headline? on British Police Identify Killer in Radiation Case · · Score: 1

    Not only that, by posting that it could be considered libel on Slashdot's part to say he is a killer without him being convicted of it.

  12. Can we fix the headline? on British Police Identify Killer in Radiation Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could we change the Slashdot headline to say they have charged someone. Legally a representative of the police or any legal branch of a government, would not say "We've identified the killer". It is up to the courts to decide if he killed someone, not the police. The police can only supply evidence to the prosecutor and a jury will decide if he did it or not.

  13. Conspiracy theorize all you want on Bill to Treat Bloggers as Lobbyists Defeated · · Score: -1, Troll

    Freedom is still freedom. In this case I think freedom of the press applies.

  14. Re:General Information on Solaris 10? on Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Slashdot is not google. :)

  15. Re:Good! on Microsoft Worried OEM 'Craplets' Will Harm Vista · · Score: 1

    So why isn't your company purchasing a VLK version of Windows and making Ghost images of each model?

  16. Re:To quote Champ Kind on Researchers Find Potential Cure for Cancer · · Score: 1

    huh?

  17. To quote Champ Kind on Researchers Find Potential Cure for Cancer · · Score: 1

    But we found that when the right sugar is matched with the right chemical partner, it can deliver a powerful double-whammy against cancer cells."

    WHAMMY!

  18. A few of the ones I've seen. on What Bizarre IT Setups Have You Seen? · · Score: 1

    I was working for an IT consulting company and my contract with a client had just ended. They had no new contracts available so they offered me 2 weeks severance as long as I agreed to hang out at their main office and be the office computer guy for a few hours a day. One of the first things they had me do was to look at a PC in a conference room that they said they thought had a virus. So I fired it up and found Sub 7, back orifice, some sort of IRC bot and numerous other trojans running. For whatever reason I pulled up ipconfig and saw that the IP address of this computer was a 4.x.x.x which I immediately recognized as a Verizon IP address. Mind you this was plugged into a wall jack in the building. So I ran across the hall to the PC on my desk and sure enough it had a 4.x.x.x IP. I checked about 3 other computers and they did as well. I went back into the room that had their networking equipment and saw that they had plugged a Fujitsu DSL "modem" directly into their switch in the office and it was handing out IPs to the computers on their network. I told the VP out there that their entire network, servers and printers were publicly accessible from the internet and they should assume their entire network had been compromised at this point. I asked him why they (meaning him since he set it up) did this and he basically said "Well....It worked..." So I had them pick up a cheapo Linksys router and threw it in place and told them to buy updated copies of Norton Antivirus and load it on all their computers. By that time, my time was up and I left them to their own devices.

    The next place I worked as was as an on-call part time network admin. They would just call me at home whenever they needed something done. Their main file/print/exchange server was fairly decent looking but inside was a different story. It had a 1.2GB IDE drive, 20GB drive and a 10GB drive combined into a volume set, and then that volume set was partitioned into 3 equally sized drives. Most of their exchange stuff was spread across those 3 partitions. The file data was on a 36GB IBM 10k drive. My first order of business was to get rid of that 1.2Gb drive that must have been inherited from another computer. Luckily they had a unopened 40GB drive floating around that I used to move all data to and if they didn't need it for another purpose I was going to get rid of all the drives in the volume set, but sadly they needed it for another computer so I broke the volume set and removed the 1.2GB drive and then created single partitions on each drive and redistributed the exchange data. They had recently purchased a MaxAttach NAS box which I configured to make differential backups of the server. Other things I had to deal with were the 5$ network card in the server failing and dumping garbage onto the network (confirmed by Ethereal). I told the head guy to buy an Intel Pro/100 card to replace it. He went down to Fry's and came back with a 10$ Realtek card that the guy told him was "just as good". That card lasted about a week and started having autonegotiate problems with the switch. I brought it back up to the head guy there that he went against my recommendation. So he took it back and got the Intel Pro/100 card that I had asked for initially and the network performance nearly doubled. A few weeks later the server went down again this time the 10K drive had overheated and started filling the event log with disk errors. I told him to buy a pair of 10K 36GB drives so I could set up mirroring as well as 2 front mounted drive fan kits. After that the server was running like a champ. I was going to throw out the old 36Gb drive but I took it home to use as a place to temporarily hold data. I ran IBM diagnostics on it and it completed a wipe and was able to remap the bad sectors and worked great as the main drive in my old SGI Indy. There were some other things I had to do there as well such as convert their 486 server with a 540MB drive that ran Novel 3.x to a new NT server after the drive failed. This server held all the data from their Accp

  19. Sounds like an old SunOS issue on Apple Closes iSight Security Hole · · Score: 1

    Some versions of SunOS had /dev/audio set with permissions that anyone could access it. So someone would just have to telnet into the computer with a non-root account and dd if=/dev/audio of=/export/home/joeschmoe/capture and get a dump of anything being said in that room.

  20. Re:Whom to Trust? on FCC Won't Release Cell Carrier Reliability Data · · Score: 1

    Largest network meaning most owned cell towers. But doesn't mean best coverage. They own their towers and the former AT&T towers. Phones however stay on their home network pretty much at all costs. So if your phone has 1 bar of service on cingular but there's an AT&T tower sitting in your back yard, you'll get crappy service because your phone isn't smart enough to understand that AT&T and Cingular are the same company now.

  21. Re:at first glance on UCLA Hacked, 800,000 Identities Exposed · · Score: 1

    Myself as well. I chuckled at first and then reread it and was disappointed.

  22. Re:I had this idea as well. on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 1

    True, Maximum PC tried this about 6 years ago. They purchased a 4GB ram drive for about $16,000 and installed Windows on it but it, like what you said, only took a few seconds off the startup.

    What I'm hoping for is some sort of a compressed hibernate state that is just to the windows logon screen. A normal hibernate file is 512 to 1024 MB which is everything you were running. If the file was say 64mb then maybe it would accomplish this task.

  23. I had this idea as well. on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 0

    Possibly now that we have the hybrid flash/magnetic hard drives this could be possible. A highly compressed start image could be put together by windows much like how you could create a Linux kernel with just the drivers for the things you have in it. This could be loaded into the flash area of the drive and pulled into ram very quickly. A flag could be set to that if the hardware had changed and the system was unbootable, the next restart would attempt to load the OS in the normal way.

  24. Re:Graphics Cards on Notebook PC Manufacturer Who Will Sell Parts? · · Score: 1

    When the Dell XPS laptops came out, they were advertised as having upgradable video.

  25. The package is called PPP on Plastic Packages Cause Injuries, Revolt · · Score: 1

    Pilfer Proof Packaging. But the compromise I've seen at some places is a hard plastic shell with an alarm wrapped around it. When you take your item to the register, they remove the alarm which also allows you to open the plastic shell and take your item.