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  1. Not losing everything... on HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Instability, yes...
    Games? No...

  2. Re:How big a threat is this? on HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That, or ditch Windows entirely (novel idea, I know :-)

  3. Re:Problems? on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1

    First one I played was ATV Offroad Fury 2, and NAT did cause problems with that one. Depends on the developer, I guess.

    No doubt I confused the cable company here... ordering a 2nd IP, then telling them 2 weeks later that I didn't need it any longer.

  4. Re:there is a total of 1 billion IPs left on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1

    IPv48... imagine the length of an address then... half a page? :-)

  5. Re:Problems? on US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage · · Score: 1

    Voicechat/videochat... is the protocol UDP in that case? I know I've had problems with that and getting my PS2 to work right through my router (source port gets mangled, so both sides end up getting confused).

    Ended up cooking up a little toy to help that situation. Even got games working with that that outright said that they didn't support NAT at all and wouldn't work with it (Auto Modellista comes to mind, as an example :-)

  6. Re:gartner group... on Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it a Microsoft rep, though, that said "If you want security, use Netscape", when the whole SSL thing with IE came up?

  7. Re:Time to invest in prisons! on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1

    Rumor has it that Microsoft is working on something like you'd see in here.

    You didn't hear that from me, though.

  8. Re:SU on Apple Tries to Patent Fast User Switching · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the information. I guess I need to look more closely at the man page :-)

    If yours wasn't a reply to my own comment, I'd mod it up.

  9. Re:one reson why on Online Voting In 2004 To Require Windows · · Score: 1

    HTTPS (especially once any implementation bugs are fixed) is good enough for banking and the DMV (at least here in North Carolina), but it's not for voting? It seems like if they got together one or two decent people to develop a web app and secure the server, the client OS wouldn't be an issue.

  10. Re:SU on Apple Tries to Patent Fast User Switching · · Score: 1

    Um, yes, you can log in as any other user with "su", at least under Linux. It takes a username as an argument (assuming root if you don't give one) and prompts for the password of the account to switch to.

    Of course, some environment variables are still based off of the original login, so if you have trouble there then you need to logout and login. In most cases, though, su works just fine.

  11. Audio blog posts? on AOL To Launch Blogging Service · · Score: 1

    No thanks.

    It's already hard to understand some people over the phone, without MP3 encoding potentially making that even worse (with the number of dialup customers AOL still has, I don't see them using a decent bitrate just yet). This isn't counting nasal voices if someone happens to be sick.

    Typed blog updates, on the other hand, are a lot easier to understand (even with a ton of typos), are possible to skim through to get a general idea, etc. You also bypass all of the "um"s and "uh"s that go with the monologues of a lot of people.

    Me, I'll just stick with the blog system I already have. Updates either through the web or with a dedicated client, RSS feeds (both incoming and outgoing) and not tied to a specific ISP.

  12. Is it just me... on Real-World Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    ...or does this sound a lot like WideRay? Hypertag is aimed (no pun intended) at a broader range of devices, though, which is very nice.

  13. Re:SCO Matrix... on Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix · · Score: 1

    You're thinking about Microsoft. Cypher ended up betraying to the machines, remember? Novell's been trying to get SCO to calm down, since they actually own the rights to what's being disputed.

  14. Re:They pulled MySQL out! on PHP 5 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    It comes with bundled versions of a few libraries. One of these (that was most useful to me) was the GD library. The official one won't have any GIF support until next year (in relation to that bloody patent that hasn't expired everywhere yet), but the one bundled with PHP does have read-only GIF support (which is apparently still legal, patent or no).

  15. Re:looters ? on Hall On Worldwide Open Source Movement · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the artist needs their dime (literally about all they get per song per copy, if that much).

  16. Re:squid on Transparent Web Caching Patented · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unless you're using squid to balance the load between servers all over the Internet, it doesn't look like it will. It seems like all of the claims are based around a system that redirects requests from a client to a server to a mirror of that server that may be closer and, consequentially, quicker to access.

    Basically, if you're in Finland and try to hit google.com, something like this might automatically redirect you to google.fi instead, so you're not going over a slower trans-Atlantic link.

  17. Re:The way it should be on RIAA To Sue Hundreds Of File Swappers · · Score: 1

    This is assuming all college students are vegetables?

  18. Re:WRONG on RIAA To Sue Hundreds Of File Swappers · · Score: 1

    What I think you meant to say was that it is illegal to obtain music created by the multinational music cartels in a manner they have not approved and licensed. ...or thought of, for that matter, until years after it became widespread.

  19. Re:We keep losing customers! on RIAA To Sue Hundreds Of File Swappers · · Score: 1

    Just like PanIP?

  20. What they're doing... on Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Spam Efforts · · Score: 1

    ...has already been done.

    Of course, just like everything else they're doing, they have to try and one-up everyone else somehow.

  21. Re:Let's get this out of the way. on GNU/Linux bootable CD on XBOX: dyne:bolic · · Score: 1

    IIRC, they were going to do a PC version, then Microsoft bought them and steered them away from that... initially, anyway.

  22. Re:Let's get this out of the way. on GNU/Linux bootable CD on XBOX: dyne:bolic · · Score: 1

    Especially now that Microsoft has Bungie Studios in their pocket.

  23. Re:Usage vs Development on Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Open Source Bill · · Score: 1

    Big difference... commercial software licenses rarely run out after a certain amount of time (unless you've signed your soul over to Bill Gates' subscription program, then perhaps they do).

    Hardware like what you're listing, on the other hand, is consumed, wears out, etc. Bombs, for example, can only be used once (duh...). It's ridiculous when applied the way you're applying it, sure.

    Why am I replying to this troll? Perhaps because I can't mod him down now...

  24. Re:Usage vs Development on Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Open Source Bill · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be nice if that logic had broader coverage?

    The government buys copies of Windows, so the people get those copies, since they actually paid for them.

  25. Re:Another URL on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 1

    IBM would then own said code and would hopefully continue to distribute it GPL

    That is, if they were doing so in the first place.