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  1. Some other useful links on Space Weather Warning · · Score: 3, Informative


    Scroll down to Satellite Environment plot
    http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html

    there is also a plot which will update live
    http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/satenv.html

  2. DVDs on Fair Use Review in Australia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    BEGIN rant

    We can't get everything that is Region 1 coded in Region 4. Hacking your player is probably illegal.

    One DVD store worker actually recommended I download the stuff I was looking for because it is never going to be released here in Oz.

    rant END

  3. Kiosk mode on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. Re:Sanitize already available on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    Actually less clicks than currently - you can have it setup to automatically clear everything you want and keep what you do want - eg some cookies, some passwords, all form info - when you close the browser. If you don't want automatic it is still less clicks in the new interface.

    Almost working perfectly - bugzilla=284086 is a small pain (if you have the download window open) ff won't clear as it should - but this marked as a 1.1 stopper.

  5. Re:Copy? on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    It is currently a max of 4 mouse clicks and has been in ff1.0 (and earlier - like phoenix versions) there for a while.

    There is also a button you can currently put in your toolbar to do this.

    Or you can setup ff in kiosk mode and closing the browser clears it all autmatically.

  6. Re:Stack on Is the x86 Architecture Less Secure? · · Score: 1

    Pardon my ignorance showing

    "(the ideal solution being not to have overflowable buffers)."
    That would help.

    But why I ask is the OS allowing one process to overwrite memory of another. Even for the same program why doesn't label x1..xN as for function x and y1...yN for function y and if x says more please - write it at x(N+1) that is not in y's allocation? What logic says it is OK to overwrite another allocation with something already being used? Is it just that the stack is limited? As another posted said is it a hangover from days of tightly limited system resources and no swap?

  7. By default on Slashback: Passports, Microscopes, IQ Points · · Score: 1

    By default (at least on my yahoo accounts) it doesn't save sent emails automatically.

    You have to turn it on.

    When I operated under the previous muchg smaller MB limit, I didn't save many sent emails either.

  8. Re:TP-M my ass. on Microsoft Scales Down Palladium · · Score: 1

    And screw booting Knoppix?

  9. Re:It's all about firmware? on AACS Specifications Released · · Score: 1

    How do you disable firmware updates?

    What wires need cutting in general?

  10. Insensitive clod! on Would You Pass the Information Literacy Test? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am male /.er.

    Please don't tease the trolls.

  11. Re:The weirdest thing just happened! on Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go buy whichever product it advertised.

    I don't know what it was.

    adblock killed it

    I had to click two or three times before I got into the future.

  12. Re:web sites to be banned in Utah on Utah Governor Signs Net-Porn Bill · · Score: 1

    Yahoo.com

    Yahoo groups has some great porn

  13. Re:Author pays or user pays? on Wellcome Trust to Require Open-Access Publishing · · Score: 2, Informative


    "The only way to achieve this is that research is registered before it is carried out, and only allowed to proceed if the results will be published, regardless of the 'success' or 'failure' of the research."

    I don't think this will work quite the way you want it to.

    I can see what you are trying to achieve and broadly agree. But registered with who? For what? If I find and interesting side alley not directly related to what the project was registered as can I still publish it? Ever?

    If universities weren't wedded to bureaucracy and academics didn't go on power trips something like this might work.

    The current system might suck, and your proposal might mitigate some of that for public health research, but as a long time watcher of bureaucratic power games - regsiter to publish is an open invitation to petty minded power junkies to push their own agendas - "Oh we can't register and hence legitimise research that might involve <???> becuase we might get sued". No registration,no funding, no research.

    Very sad yes.

  14. Author pays or user pays? on Wellcome Trust to Require Open-Access Publishing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am not sure what is the best answer.

    Maybe differtent strokes for different folksis the way to go.

    What is undeniably good is that people are trying to do something about access to the information and the cost of accessing it.

  15. Re:ftp://[someserver]/sol.exe on State-Sponsored Solitaire? · · Score: 1

    Please post a link to zipped version so when the admins remove sol etc the games can be downloaded extracted and run direct from directory without installing.

    Works for a lot of windows programs - not ideal, but unless someone installs a process manager that identifies and deletes the process, allows only registered programs to start or audits all the hard disk space in an ord nothing can stop getting around a "locked" down windows box.

  16. Re:Solitaire is boring on State-Sponsored Solitaire? · · Score: 1

    Like this?

    http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/blockf al l
    "Blockfall is a Tetris-like game,..."

    Obviously not installed by default. But I am sure you can work it out.

  17. IPv6? on How ISPs May Quietly Kill VoIP · · Score: 1

    All this QoS stuff they require to do the "dirt" as such - will it provide some oomph to IPv6?

  18. Re:I used NT 4.0 for a long time because on Creaky Operating Systems Form IT Foundations · · Score: 1

    The IBM Thinkpad R50 I am typing this on is running NT4.00.1381 SP1.

    USB works for mouse, keyboard and floppy drive (yes an occassional glitch but not BSOD).

    I don't know what was done to make it work but it does.

    Never mind the Designed for XP sticker on it. Apparently IT is rolling out the upgrade soon (July).

  19. Re:Ethics relating to SMS Spamming on Telco Spams and Gets Huge Fine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You do nothing.

    But if some AC was also in the smae carriage and posted the list to /. or emailed the list to some investigative organisation [spamhaus.org ?]. I am sure some good would come of it.

  20. Re:Financial Services on Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support · · Score: 1

    They should be able to afford to pay someone(s) to take OO.o or GNUmeric - both of which will take code plugins and can access whatever external libraries - and adopt it to their needs including writing a specific and good conversion process.

    Don't like OO.o - pay someone to fix it. Have the code escrowed. Never again have your multi-billion derivative portfolio held to ransom.

    WTF is your Risk Manager doing about this operational risk? Do they have a plan?

  21. AC in there I replied to on Music Piracy Unit Raids ISP in BitTorrent Assault · · Score: 1

    Teach me to reply to an AC (now modded troll)

  22. Re:SMH Article on Music Piracy Unit Raids ISP in BitTorrent Assault · · Score: 1

    Our mate (NOT) John Howard PM, cricket tragic and major wanker, decided after a massacre (Port Arthur) by a nutter to basically restrict gun rights.

    Mandatory buybacks of most types of weapons.

    Try this http://members.ozemail.com.au/~confiles/buyback.ht ml

    Not effective, was cammed - only outlaws now have guns. Unless you are farmer (Howard voter) or a sporting shooter who has access to a major safe

  23. Re:Now where will I run to? on Canadian Government Going Big Brother? · · Score: 1

    You are so wrong.

    As well as being a member of the Echelon team, we have an idiot government getting cosy with the religous nutsos, very few links in or out of the coutnry (so very easy to monitor) and some dreadful laws - ripping a CD to an mp3 is illegal there is no fair use clause in Oz; secret detention, trials where the defendant can't know the evidence. Don't get me started on PartVI(a) of the Crimes Act. Books are expensive. CDs a major ripoff. TV shows, DVDs - particularly sci-fi - are way old when they get here. Broadband in Oz is generally thought to mean 256kdown/64k up if you can get it.

    But you can drink alcohol and see strippers at 18. And our women are the best.

  24. Reverse to ATA? on Build Your Own PBX · · Score: 1

    Can you point in the direction of instructions please?

    I tried googling but ata in google with a qualifier or two still brings up way too many machine specs.

    TIA

  25. Very compatible on MS-DOS Paternity Dispute Goes to Court · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A fellow I once worked with got his CP/M version of Wordstar to work on MS-Dos by hex editing one byte.