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  1. That's HB to us UK residents... on Cancelling Out CPU Fan Noise · · Score: 1

    ... you beowulf cluster of insensitive clods in soviet russia!

  2. If we assume the acheivement is tied to IQ.. on City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups · · Score: 1

    ... then it would be fair to say that the test scores are normally distributed, assuming your average class is a random sample of the population (as opposed to a high or low ability grouping due to school assessments), therefore 68% will be within one standard deviation, and, more importantly, the normal curve is symmetrical about the mean, and therefore there are exactly HALF above and HALF below the mean.

    QED

  3. Re:So tiresome... on Chernobyl...18 Years Later · · Score: 1

    I think he (or she) is reffering to the fact that GPRS (aka General Packet Radio Service) is a 'phone network and that GPS (aka Global Positioning System) would be a better bet. I'm sure you could triangulate with GPRS, but you would need the 'phone company's assistance as they generally don't relay that information to you and even if they did, the 'phone companies could just decide not to give you your location if you were anywhere near a power plant. GPS, on the other hand, relies on YOU triangulating your own location with multiple timing signals sent by satellite that are accurate to very small fractions of a second (therefore, one can calculate one's distance from each satellite based on the difference in the time readings), although there are more accurate signals sent by the satellites, these are encrypted (hence why only the military can make use of those). HTH TheScienceKid

  4. Make that two again on SCO Lists Specific Code-Infringement Claims · · Score: 1

    Although I don't know if MS OS/2 1.2 counts..... I have three machines running that (a 486 25Mhz, a 486 50Mhz and a pentium 66Mhz all with Novell NE3200 EISA network cards :D) so, ner ner ne ner ner! Darma be kamned!

  5. Loser Only Comment would be more accurate on Announcing Cooperative Linux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's a troll link to tubgirl. Don't waste your time.

    Lets go forwards, not backwards; Upwards not forwards; and always twirling, twirling towards mod points. In other words, vote this troll out of office with your modpoints. It's the right thing to do.... don't let Kodos win.

  6. Re:Security should be simple on The Future of Security · · Score: 1

    There's always SELinux or RSBAC. You can use role compatibility and type enforcement to specify rights. One thing I tried with this that worked quite well was to configure all 'approved' media applications to automatically transition to the audio role, then configure the permissions on /dev/dsp0 so that only processes running in the audio role could write to the device. One could quite possibly create a texteditors role that all text editors transition into that restricts network and file access with a system like this. All processes it launched would be in the same role (configure role compatibility so that the net role is not compatible with texteditors so that the text editors couldn't execute net programs in the net role, they would be stuck in the texteditors role and therefore the attempt would be futile.)

    Thought for food, my friend dear.

  7. Because it's a reserved name on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    Someone can't own example.com because it is reserved: See RFC 2606 ( http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html ) section 3 and I quote.... "3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the following second level domain names reserved which can be used as examples. example.com example.net example.org" Regards, TSK

  8. Re:XFS Filesystem on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's sgi's eXtended File System.

  9. Can you say Jabber? on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 1

    http://www.jabber.org/wiki/index.php/E2E - I can personally vouch for Jabber having an encrypted mode.

  10. Re:Knoppix - let me try again. on Knoppix Tips and Tricks · · Score: 1

    sorry.... slashdot keeps cutting the middle out. I can't figure out why, you'll just have to read the config help on NTFS Write support in 2.6 yourself.

  11. Re:Knoppix - let me try again. on Knoppix Tips and Tricks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's really gonna bake your noodle is can you write to anything other than a pre-existing file or change the size of a file? I'm afraid your noodle's cooked.... because it doesn't. To quote linux-2.6.0-test11/fs/Kconfig ....

    config NTFS_RW
    bool "NTFS write support"
    depends on NTFS_FS
    help
    This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.

    The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
    changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
    renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
    so you may find that some very small files (

    It is perfectly safe to say N here.

  12. Re:Knoppix on Knoppix Tips and Tricks · · Score: 1

    What's really gonna bake your noodle is can you write to anything other than a pre-existing file or change the size of a file? I'm afraid your noodle's cooked.... because it doesn't. To quote linux-2.6.0-test11/fs/Kconfig .... config NTFS_RW bool "NTFS write support" depends on NTFS_FS help This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to so you may find that some very small files ( It is perfectly safe to say N here.

  13. How about No. Be a winner - try rgrep -i. on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    Why not try rgrep? Instead of doing.... /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-19.7>find . -type f | \ xargs grep ip_vs_state ...you can do... rgrep -i ip_vs_state /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-19.7 ...which is much shorter and succinct. Plus you get the filename printed out (unlike doing xargs grep -i ip_vs_state which wont give you the file :D) Losers moan about not line numbers and filenames when using xargs. Winners go home and use rgrep.

  14. Stick that in your pipe and combust it. on Embedded Linux VPN Router Near Release · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ, Sir/Madam. So stick that in your pipe and combust it! (Proud member of British Mensa, a Linux user for over two years now and my first AS exam is on the 8th Jan so I think I've made my point.)

  15. Isaac Asimov's "Oh the fun we had" on Technology In Primary Education, Boon Or Bane? · · Score: 1

    Now compare this to Isaac Asimov's "Oh the fun we had"... I think both are equally distopian, so a middle ground needs to be found, but we could argue about this all day and get nowhere, because it's a matter of personal opinion.

  16. GDI on What Might UserLinux Look Like? · · Score: 1

    The system that is used in windows to draw the graphical UI is called the GDI (Graphical Device Interface?) iirc.

  17. Back in my day on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    Back in my day all we had was ROT-13... and WE LIKED IT. A 1G hard disk was sweet and 16M ram was the cat's pyjamas. Uphill both ways too!

  18. Re:Wow!!! Can you say VMS? on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    VMS was the ancestor of NT, which was certainly around in the 80s... whilst this doesn't neccesarily mean that the code hasn't been completely rewritten, only Microsoft know The Truth(TM), so don't blow this guy off so quickly.

  19. Re:Your Honor - is this Judge Bill and Ted? on Digital Art For Your Wall-Mounted TV · · Score: 1

    Excellent! We so gave that goatse guy a melvin.

  20. Re:You mean troll... MODS READ THIS on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: 1

    That's a nice troll you've got going there.... and that redirect to goatse.cx is just the icing on the cake.... shame the mods are going to take it all away from you, all that you've worked so hard for.

  21. Re:Deny them DNS services - No, but it encourages on Handling User Grown Machines on a Large Network? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not, but the average student who is plugged into the LAN probably is for a reason - if they actually want to use the network for anything, they'll need to register their machine and get DNS set up, which I am sure is sufficiently effective to 'encourage' people to patch their systems and have them checked out.

  22. Re:release-worthy? - Not quite there on SPARC! on How To Upgrade Linux To The 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps it is release-worthy to those on an ix86 platform, but I had to modify include/smp.h to get it to compile on sparc, moving #include into the #ifndef __ASSEMBLER__ section to avoid the redefinition of ALIGN that caused compiling to fail.

  23. Fe Fi Fo Fum I smell the blood of a troller dumb on Consumer Electronics Industry: Linux is the Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The original reads "Linux, currently a software system mostly used to power big servers and personal computers, is also now emerging as a small set of computing code to drive devices like mobile phones, remote controls and TVs." this Arrrrchive reads "Linux, currently a software system mostly used to power big servers and personal computers, is also now emerging as a small set of computing code to drive devices like mobile phones, remote controls and smart vibrators." and undoubtedly contains more idiocy. Please, don't subscribe to trolls.... vote them down with your modpoints, for gods sake.

  24. Re:That's cyrillic... on "Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked · · Score: 0

    no... it's not. I am familiar with cyrillic, see the other posters pointing out that it is in fact greek, which I believe the Gentoo guys figured out. This has been a Public Information Broadcast by the Monster Raving Looney Party. Peace, Out.

  25. Ob Simpsons Re:Opinion of the RIAA and its Tactics on Ask a Music Producer/Publicist About Filesharing and the RIAA · · Score: 0

    The RIAA's campaign seems to have the movement of a runaway freight train, why are they so popular?