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  1. spammers dodgy credit card processor on Bringing Down A Copycat Site · · Score: 1
    check this out!:

    http://www.e-buyonline.com/mk.php/

    No SSL - and the most dodgiest credit card processor webpage i've seen in a while :)

  2. Re:Fellow Aussies, don't worry... on Australia Chooses Education Over Filtering · · Score: 1

    good to see.

    I have a carton of Coopers in my fridge and had a few 'red' coopers longies last nite :)

    Boags is also kick ass.....

    Not a real fan of XXXX - you must be a qlder :)

  3. Choose your virtualisation software carefully on Red Hat, Novell To Package Xen · · Score: 0

    I teach a security course around the world.

    Back in the old days we were using phyiscal systems which was a nightmare, but now its all on one box. So much easier. Now instead of organising stuff to ship via special freight which would cost thousands of dollars per shipment. I carry everything on the plane onboard luggage!

    For the last course I migrated the desktops to use Microsoft Virtual Machine - which was a disaster. MSVPC cannot (and probably wont) go into the promiscious mode, and a lot of the scanner and spoofing tools simply do not work.

    This is not a problem with vmware as its fairly close to a true virtual environment.

    MSVPC is great for business applications but thats about it - choose your software wisely :) I don't expect MS to improve with network support - but it would be nice.

    Ive since moved back to Vmware. (It was a business decision to try it out MSVPC, not technical)

  4. Re:Fellow Aussies, don't worry... on Australia Chooses Education Over Filtering · · Score: 1

    yes, especially when that person is an Anonymous Coward.

  5. Re:Fellow Aussies, don't worry... on Australia Chooses Education Over Filtering · · Score: 1

    what is left to sell?

    Our beloved Vegemite is owned by a cigarette company.
    I think we have Telstra just by a nose.
    Next goes the railways!

    Privatisation has taught us one thing, consumers are never considered first....

  6. the chairs! on Using Computers To Weed Out Art Fakes · · Score: 1

    those chairs in the picture are really expensive....

    (my previous job used them everywhere)

    and are very comfortable - especially for long periods of time

    game on!

  7. Re:If you want a quiet machine on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    with a pair of plyers and a blow torch

  8. Re:Wow! on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    the problem is, its not news worthy for the 500,000 users that browse the front page on a daily basis....

  9. Wow! on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its amazing how many stories are irrelevent on Slashdot and that even with powerful tools available http://www.google.com/ some people can't be bothered to look.

  10. Rehashed up! on The Definitive Guide to MySQL, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or is everyone over the re-hashed books on anything technology specific....

    I started off using mySQL years ago but in the past 12 months migrated everything to PostgreSQL. I picked up a book on PGSQL just to see what im missing out on and could not justify the cost. (books in Australia are very expensive: $USD70 for the average book in oz).

    I think books are great to get your started to know something like SQL but hardly worth buying every revision...or technology...

    Especially when most of these bibles are 200 pages of APIs.

  11. Re:If you want a quiet machine on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 2, Informative

    the shuttle website describes it as the following:

    "The Integrated Cooling Engine uses convection (liquid) cooling to transfer heat away from the processor and other critical system components. Copper tubing, coated in nickel and filled with distilled water provides the conduit through which heat is radiated out of the chassis."

    Its my understanding that all shuttles use ICE*

    Cheers.

    * I could be wrong....

  12. If you want a quiet machine on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Buy a shuttle.

    I have two, one which is a power workstation, AMD64, Radeon 9800 Pro, 2 gigs ram, sata disks and still is very quiet.

    They are both stacked on each other and are very sexy units.....uses liquid cooling mechanisms for cooling and are competitively priced.

    Google for the website to slowdown the slashdot tidelwave.

  13. I hope they learnt their lesson on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    Keep it simple, stupid.

    These days I can't live without Firefox.

  14. what does this mean? on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its a bug release - ala no new features.

    Keep those bug reports coming!

    "This is a rough changelog for the RC-1 release. It's probably got a few bugs on it that aren't actually fixed and it's certainly missing a few bugs that were fixed, but it should give you a pretty good idea about most of the 250 or so bugs we've fixed since the Preview Release."

  15. but the question us geeks want to know..... on Superman Set To Fly · · Score: 1

    does he run on linux?

  16. Thats all nice.......but on DVB-T STB/MPEG2 Player That Can Access SMB Shares · · Score: 1

    how much does it cost??

  17. only the french on France to Allow Cell Phone Jamming · · Score: -1, Troll

    need such a system - because everybody is too arrogant to turn off their fone

    in australia if you answer a mobile call you usually get verbal abuse from your other sitting patrons

    i can see cinema prices go up to manage this new form of mobile resistance infrastructure

    viva le french!

  18. multiple configurations per virtual domain? on Beginning PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1

    At the moment im writing a fairly lengthy PHP app and will probably co-host it somewhere in the next 6 months.

    My concerns like most savvy developers will have security on their minds at all times. I don't want to rely on the ISP's config, and if they want to change something that might seem insigificant, but at the same puts my app in danger of falling over or exposing some security weakness.

    So, I was wondering if its yet possible to have multiple php.ini files for each virtual domain under apache? If not, do you know if anybody is working on it?

  19. huh on Complete List of Bugs Fixed in SP2 · · Score: -1, Troll

    windows has bugs?

  20. G4 Powerbook? on Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released · · Score: 1

    I'm going to buy a G4 powerbook, any comments on that, taking into considering the architecture and hardware used?

  21. you can't replace me on The New Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL Graphics Card · · Score: 4, Funny

    It won't replace my S3 - 1 meg

    Never..

    Never......

    Never !!!!

  22. thanks to apple on iPod Generation 4 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    for bringing their products to the masses.

    Now its cool to own mac stuff, and not as geeky. When im podding down the street I get stopped by common folk, conversations are struck and I'm meeting new people all from a little white music device.

    "oh I want one of those, whats yours" - is all thats said until a conversation is struck.

    I have a 3rd gen ipod, and very happy with it. I wont bother with a mini, or the 4th because mine is going great guns.

    Some would say expensive, but if they can charge the market and get away with it to get the best margin then goodluck to them.

  23. Re:grass is always greener on Slackware 10.0 Officially Released · · Score: 1
    I have a similar approach although with one slight twist:

    I install app in:
    /usr/local/software/FooProgram-1.0/

    and create a symlink from:
    /usr/local/software/FooProgram

    which points to:
    /usr/local/software/FooProgram-1.0/

    Whenever you install a new version of app, and then your happy with it, i then just change the symlink without needing to update any other dependancies within scripts etc.

    Your milage may vary for this approach but it works quite well for me.

  24. certs do add value on Are IT Certifications Meaningless? · · Score: 1

    to white wash certs all together is just silly. They at the very least provide a baseline from no knowledge to at least some level of understanding of the technology.

    Do you think a degree would assist in designing a complexed network architecture model? I doubt it. What about if that same person had certs? Probably not guarenteed, but at least that person has posibilty delt with the product.

    And with the argument of certs being "easy" because of brain dumps ect, you get that everywhere, I know lots of ppl that cheated at different levels to get their degree.

    The real solution is, real world experience, I'd prefer to employ somebody that has actually done it many times before, then base it soltely on a degree of sorts. Not saying they don't have their place.

  25. Re:Yeah, but... on The Future of SysAdmins' Positions · · Score: 1

    consider contracting.