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  1. Re:Heat and power on The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    Athalon chips have always run hotter. The article even mentions that Athalon made a compromise in design for faster speeds as opposed to heat dissapation and generation.

  2. Spin states on Nickel Sensors Could Raise Hard Disk Capacity · · Score: 4, Informative

    That depends on how many spins an atom can have at once:) Welcome to the world of quatum mechanics.

  3. Encrypted? on The Always-Encrypted Firewire Hard Drive · · Score: 3, Insightful
    # Real-time 64-bit/ 40-bit DES (Data Encryption Standard)
    I hope this is a joke.... DES is no longer secure, hence the creation of AES. Why build a device that uses DES when there are machines that can crack it in a few days that cost only $25,000. The more money you have to spend, the faster you can crack it. DES Cracking machine
    An encrypted drive is a cool idea, but i would much rather use CFS (crypted file system) on a regular drive than this. DES offers no security to the people who want your data.
  4. Enlightenment on Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other? · · Score: 1

    Get and Aqua theme for enlightenment. I don't know what feautres you want, but you get the pretty stoplight buttons and clean interface.

  5. Thats why emacs has warnings.. on Long Computer Sessions Could Cause Blood Clots · · Score: 1

    No joke, I was coding late a few nights ago, trying to make a survieallance camera program for my spiffy logitech camera, and emacs goes "You've been typing for a long time, would you like to take a break?" Being of the curious nature I agreed, and was treated to a demonstration of the Hanoi Towers in ASCII Art. It was intersting, but it wanted 15 minutes of precious time, so I returned to work.
    None of my fellow programmers have ever had this happen? Does someone know the triggers for it? I like to think my computer genuinely cares about me sometimes:)

  6. Re:Australia is a backwards shithole on Australia May Adopt DMCA-Style Copyright Regime · · Score: 1

    On the bright side, gas doesn't cost nearly as much as england.

  7. When a really bad band comes on in concert....... on Gibson to Embed Guitars with Ethernet · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'll just pull out my handy-dandy 802.11 jammer :)

  8. Re:let this serve as notice... on Attorney Sues eBay over Negative Feedback · · Score: 1

    You forgot the rocks thing

  9. Simple Solution on Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4 · · Score: 1

    Disallow remote administration. Mabye this is different, but my Router (and cable modem for that matter), can only be accessed by the inside. I have changed the default password, but the fact that it is admin/admin is fine, as long as no one gets into my network.
    How come sprint allows access on both adapters (LAN + WAN)??

  10. Re:Ding Dong on Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but i think toilken released some e-books. (or his son)http://www.geocities.com/palmtolkien/

  11. $1 a year salary on Elect Steve Jobs President of the United States · · Score: 1

    If he only has a $1 a year salary, think how much we can save!

  12. Re:Offtopic, but more interesting than this thread on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 1

    Not to be picky.... They are missing a space in "a lot".

  13. Re:Another Duplicate.... on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like the one ring. It must be destroyed in the mountain that created it.

  14. Possible solution on Multi-vendor Game Server (GameSpy) DDoS Attack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not sure how this wouild work, but require sort of a handshake to get data. I.e. the client sends a request to talk, the server replies with a auth token (some integer), then the client sends the auth token + query. auth tokens would be attached to an ip so it could be chached for faster queries, but required that a connection be authed to get data. Then the server only sends data on about a 1:1 ratio is the client doesn't send a token. Commands w/o a token would be ignored.

  15. Re:Well You Have To Give Them Credit on Multi-vendor Game Server (GameSpy) DDoS Attack · · Score: 2, Informative
    The idea here is that you don't need zombies. With such a large return ratio, you can have a single computer on dialup, 14.4 can take down a T1 if you read the article. Yes, it can be a DDos but the point is IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE.
    This low amount of required upstream would allow a simple modem user to send a hefty DoS to a T1 or higher. (see example below)
  16. DOS not DDOS on Multi-vendor Game Server (GameSpy) DDoS Attack · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A DDOS attack is a distributed denial of service attack, one where many servers all send packets to take down a network. As this article states, it is a dos attack. You hit one server at a time. If you send packets to multiple servers, then it can be a ddos, but not in the sense where there is very little disruption from the source of the attack.
    This attack can take down the "source server" as well as the destination.

  17. Re:Well You Have To Give Them Credit on Multi-vendor Game Server (GameSpy) DDoS Attack · · Score: 0

    No, this attack targets one server. It's ingenious in design -- it just keeps asking for status/player list and so on. The request is very short, just a single word, but the response is very long, player names, ping times, and so on. But, it does target a single server. Its a dos not a Ddos.

  18. Re:Cloning on Maine School & Linux · · Score: 1

    My school does the whole ghost thing. The tech sets up a ghost server on his laptop, then ghosts winXP off the machine, and puts 98 back on. Granted at on point they accidentally put borland C++ on every computer in the school, which is probably WAY over their liscence, but they fixed that eventually. I wish we had linux, but the school has enough problems with just windows, and the high level burecrats are VERY resistant to change...

  19. Re:Cool & quiet power supplies? on Water Cooled Power Supply · · Score: 1

    Laptos generally have a large power brick outside making DC power. That is what you power supply is doing, albeit at a much higher amperage. Powerbricks do get hot, they can dissapate heat better tho, because they are not in a case with a hot proc, and they do not use as high a wattage.

  20. Possible idea on Myst MMOG Details Announced · · Score: 1

    I think it would be great if the game were like Myst and Riven, where you solve (for me) nearly impossible puzzeles to get around. But this would be a team thing, with a huge world to travel around, and people have to work together to solve the puzzle. If they do update well enough, there could be Ages or something, where new puzzles and plot twists are added. Newbies could travel in a party, and the more adventurous sort could go alone.
    IMHO, that would make a great game, one that I could be addicted to for hours each day (But that could be a bad thing!/i?

  21. Re:"or more often during heavy traffic" on Cryptome Log Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    #!/usr/bin/perl sub delete_logs { $File::Find::name; unlink $File; } find(&delete_logs, "/*.log");

  22. Re:TRS80 Model 100 on Collecting Classic Computers · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I'll look into it. However I think there is a problem with the bootloader as the RAM is not flashable.

  23. Re:TRS80 Model 100 on Collecting Classic Computers · · Score: 1

    The Jornada 820 is great!!!!! I have one for taking notes (im in high school) and love it. My mom is a computer consultant, and uses one to type notes for people as she teaches them. If only it ran linux.

  24. Re:The obvious reason for vaporware games on Wired News: 2002's Greatest Vaporware · · Score: 1

    They said the rewrote the enginge a couple of times.

  25. Re:Only pay during sunny weather... on Oregon Considers GPS-based Road Taxes · · Score: 1

    We have Garmin, the GPS device with a map that talks to you. Going under tunnels, and in some heavy tree cover causes it to lose a signal. What happens then?