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  1. PHP Manual on Writing Open Source Documentation? · · Score: 1

    The PHP Documentation Team is always looking for contributors. For an easy start, you could help by documenting undocumented functions, for example..

  2. Re:Smart move. on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 4, Informative

    Funny thing is, there's a big flaw in their click script: http://www.slashdot.cm/click.php?b=zQmE%2BQ3Pc00%3 D&term=slashdot&position=1&to=aHR0cDovL3NsYXNoZG90 Lm9yZy8 Ability to redirect to any site you want? GNAA will have fun with this.

  3. Re:Dear Ianoo, on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    HAHA. Nice one.

  4. Upcoming books galore on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Penguin should have thought about that before releasing the book? Dumbasses. On the plus side, I've decided to becoming a budding author. My debut book is scheduled to be released on April 1 2005, and its name will be "cia.gov".

  5. Re:Cross Platform? on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 0

    Yeah yeah, sorry, I'll just crawl into a corner and die now.

  6. Re:Cross Platform? on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's a scripting language. You don't "comile" (sic) it, it's interpreted, and yes, code that works on Linux works on OS X and Windows (for the most part).

  7. Re:Apache 2.x MPM is safe with PHP 4.3.x on PHP 5 RC 1 released · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Here's what Rasmus said 6 days ago in a bug report:

    We are not talking about just Apache2 here. We are talking about
    Apache2+an MPM+PHP+3rd Party Libs. The folks at apache.org are only
    concerned with Apache2 itself, and for serving up static files it is
    better than Apache1 in many respects. However we have to worry about a
    lot more stuff here. In fact, we couldn't care less about serving up
    static files. The main issues as I see them are:
    <p>
    1. Thread safety issues.
    - It is very difficult to track down threading problems and we don't
    have decent tools to help us.</blockquote>
    - The thread safety of many 3rd party libraries are unknown
    quantities and can depend on the OS, libc and even compile flags.
    - Many distributions seem to ship with the Worker MPM as the default
    and that is the MPM that gets the most attention. This is a hybrid
    multi-process, multi-threaded MPM.

    2. You can eliminate the threading problem by running the prefork MPM
    which effectively makes Apache2 behave just like Apache1 in the way it
    forks processes and serves one request at a time per process. Issues
    here:
    - Apache2 itself is rather fringe still. It has approximately a 5%
    marketshare vs. 65% for Apache1 at the time of this and out of that I
    would guess the majority are running the Worker MPM. So we are talking
    about a fringe MPM in a fringe server. This means it has not had
    anywhere near the attention from people running large production web
    server farms that it needs for me to comfortably say that this is a
    solid piece of code with all the kinks worked out.
    - The benefits of moving to Apache2+prefork are questionable. The
    new filter API would be one of the benefits, but it still has some
    issues and by default we run PHP as a handler, not a filter currently.
    You can optionally run it as a filter but people have had problems with
    that.

    Until such a time when enough clueful PHP people think there are enough
    realworld useful features in Apache2-prefork or even Apache2-threaded to
    actually sit down and bang away at PHP and the majority of the PHP
    extensions under Apache2. Or if enough regular users report back that
    they tried it and had absolutely no problems then we will change our
    reccomendation, but for the time being I don't think that we in good
    faith can tell users that Apache2+PHP is something they should be
    putting into production.
  8. "Home Brew"? on World's Smallest Homebrew RC Unit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn, when I saw the title of this article, I was imagining a minature home beer brewing kit, with a remote control to deliver beer to my desk! The disappointment upon reading the rest of the story was overwhelming.

  9. microsoft.com already doing this on Microsoft Releases 'Caller-ID For Email' Specs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not sure if this is mentioned in the .doc, but _ep.microsoft.com already appears to be doing this:

    _ep.microsoft.com. 1H IN TXT "<ep xmlns='http://ms.net/1' testing='true'><out><m>" "<mx/><a>213.199.128.160</a><a>213.199.128.145</a> <a>207.46.71.29</a><a>194.121.59.20</a><a>157.60.2 16.10</a><a>131.107.3.116</a><a>131.107.3.117</a>< a>131.107.3.100</a>" "</m></out></ep>"

  10. Re:Goodie, goodie, goodie! on Kazaa Offices Raided · · Score: 1
    Can't you quote something Australian? :->

    G'day mate? Crikey? ... I am actually Australian, btw. :(

  11. Re:WOW on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I watched a documentary on the Big Dig a couple of weeks ago on Discovery channel's "Extreme Engineering" series.. it was quite interesting.

  12. Re:Whatever on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 1

    I've been using smtp.mail.yahoo.com.au for years without any hickups.

  13. Re:Whatever on Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yahoo provides a free, stable, POP3 service. Their "Yahoo! Delivers" advertising emails are very easy to filter out, so it's a very effective free POP3 IMO. Just filter their bullshit, and you will have no problems.

  14. Re:I'm glad you explained what Cougar is on Cougaar 10.4.6 Released With Source · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Cougar Bourbon with open source code! I was about to set up a homemade distillery and save myself some money!

  15. Typical on Man Arrested in Australia Over Nigerian E-mail Scam · · Score: 2

    Let's feed him to the lions at the Western Plains Zoo (in Dubbo). ;)

  16. Re:MUD clients on What is a Good Free MUD Client? · · Score: 1
    Some more info on MUSHclient. Plugins: triggers/aliases/timers/scripts with their own "namespace". Supports JScript/VBScript/PerlScript/PythonScript. Is still being actively developed! MUDs are disappearing and a lot of clients either die off, or there's no new features added, not so with MUSHclient, the author still actively develops it, and he regularly participates in the forums on his site, and will actually listen to feature requests and bug reports. The only bad thing (for the slashdot crowd anyway), is it's not open source, and is nag-ware. Other than that it's a great client.

    PS: Whatever you do, stay away from zMUD for win32. It's full of bloat and MUSHclient beats it feature-for-feature, and if it doesn't, ask Nick Gammon (author of MUSHclient) to add it!

  17. No set limit? on ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping · · Score: 2, Informative

    Having no set limit is the worst possible thing they could have done. Being in Australia, I know all about broadband download caps, and not having a defined limit is the worst solution. It's subjective, you may or not be punished by the ISP, you don't know how much is "too much" so if you really do download a lot (even legitimately) you are hestitant to download too much incase you're punished.. besides, what does the "average user" download? You have no idea, so the ISP can define the "average user downloads" as whatever they like, whenever they like, and against whoever they like. It's the ultimate of evils!

  18. Re:Good for BIND on BIND Strikes Back Against VeriSign's Site Finder · · Score: 1
    From ISC's site:

    Briefly, a zone which has been declared "delegation-only" will be effectively limited to containing NS RRs for subdomains, but no actual data outside its apex (for example, its SOA RR and apex NS RRset).

    I'm not a DNS wizard, but couldn't Verisign counter this by providing a valid NS RR for non-existant domains that points to one of their nameservers, then dish up IN A 64.94.110.11 from there?

  19. Australians and Beer on Beer-Coated CDs are Optical Biocomputers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm Australian, and I don't like beer. Is there something wrong with me?

  20. 5.1 on Computer Game Improves Children's Hearing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This makes even more sense with surround sound coming into play in a lot of recent games. Kids concentrating on where the sound is coming from; do this for hours a day, every week, and soon enough their directional sound navigation (if you will) is increased.

  21. Re:When is Slashdot... on Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would Darl McBride be the joker?

  22. "Funny" on Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anyone else find it amusing that lately a lot of the high-ranking posts on SCO topics have been "Funny" ones? Is it just because there's nothing left to talk about except SCO mockery? :P

  23. Re:"humanoid"? on Japanese Robot on Diplomatic Tour · · Score: 1

    Ah, thanks for the clarification.

  24. Re:"humanoid"? on Japanese Robot on Diplomatic Tour · · Score: 1

    Oops, mimic even.

  25. "humanoid"? on Japanese Robot on Diplomatic Tour · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What defines a "humanoid robot"? How much do you have to mimick a human to receive this classification?