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  1. It's all the things besides the firewalll... on Fedora Core 2 test1 Released · · Score: 1

    being able to route mail there, running a PHP IMAP frontend to have webmail wherever, being able to ssh in and send wake-on-lan events to machines in your house, rolling your own WAP, running an ad-filtering proxy/cache in a centralized location, etc. etc. etc.

  2. The grandparent probably ran startx. on Fedora Core 2 test1 Released · · Score: 1




  3. Ballmer's absolutely telling the truth. on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    The source code has NOT been modified or tampered with.

    Notice he didn't add "downloaded by everyone with broadband and a clue".

  4. I know that... on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've hacked Samba myself and I am 100% sure it's reversed engineered.... heh.
    The point is now they can claim that they had potentially had access to their trade secret (not that they necessarily copied it verbatim). The can call all the work into question, and while it can be pretty thoroughly shown that this is not the case, it could take awhile to sort it and out and by then Samba could be tainted in the eyes of less savvy IT persons.

    Not a great plan, IMHO, but quite possible. The same argument goes for Wine, but others had already brought that up.

  5. Samba 3.0 is potentially, royally, screwed. on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Before now, it could be assumed that Samba developers were working from scratch- clean room implementations, because it wouldn't be possible for them to have the source code.

    Now, unless the leak and spread can be precisely pinpointed, the Samba project could be the target for attacks under the "assumption" that they were sitting on this and that's why it works as well as it does. Whether or not they think this is true is irrelevant, they just need to let their legal team sink their claws into it, and muddy the waters.

  6. Nothing else except maybe...oh on Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link? · · Score: 1

    A Sun V240? And I'm not even trying to think of anything halfway exotic.

  7. Well, it'd be cooler, at least... on Linux Duracell CPU Load Monitor · · Score: 1

    if he was measuring the current with one of those VU meter displays. That would kick ass.
    The backlight for the VU meter could be triggered by the serial port being active... you'd probably need to use a molex connector and pull from the system power for that though.

    The only reason I could see going with the Duracell thing is if the colors matched your case or something, which I don't see here.

  8. live-headers is the shiznit. on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 1

    Ever debug interaction with a website and your companies' proxy server?

    Live-http-headers to the rescue.

    Ever wonder how XYZ website's gallery tries to prevent you from using a download tool to slurp a whole image set down?

    Live-http-headers to the rescue.

    What's wrong with the goddamn cache?

    Live-http-headers to the rescue.

    I want to find a URL to save this trailer instead of streaming it.

    Live-http-headers to the rescue. :-)

  9. Mod up! on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 1

    Aside from google toolbar... what is there?

  10. If you were a REAL developer... on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't be sweating the difference between dropDownList.selectedValue vs. dropDownList.options[dropDownList.selectedIndex].v alue

    Your tools should be handling all that OO structure. You mean it doesn't predicate as you type within the context of the DOM of the page you're editing for? Or you don't even have code generation scripts that parse the XHTML and insert the hooks for you?

    Archaic!

  11. Two words: Electrostatic Bath. on Enderle's Ferrari Laptop · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the Latitude can handle it...

  12. Huh? on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no decent explaination... emergent intelligence...
    it may explain why things can be completely random at a quantum mechanical level, but balance out in larger systems...


    It's called the Central Limit Theorem and Superposition. You've got billions of identical particles (low variance), and a huge sample size at macroscopic scales, thus your mean (likelyhood of "expected" things, the precision, and thus "intelligence" in systems) will be pointy as a pin.
    I am 100% dead serious.

    Perhaps maybe your REAL question is "why are quarks so damned sticky, protons so stable, and h_bar conveniently small?" because that encapsulates the huge gap between the quantum world and the stable world we live in.

  13. The ls in ls DSC* is superflous. on Microsoft's Search Engine Plans · · Score: 1

    also, use the $(cmd args) notation instead of backticks. It's more readable (and it works in ksh and bash, so there's no excuse)

  14. More expensive motherboard == on Dell's New Linux Blog · · Score: 1

    not feasible for Dell to "customize". Still, I wouldn't count on ever being able to swap them unless you have a few cheap $40 microATX boards to sacrifice.

  15. I'm not dead yet! on 'Moss-covered Tortoise' 2.0.40 Linux Kernel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's awesome.

    FYI: The local root exploits were fixed in various .40-pre patches, but they hadn't actually released a new stable version... not until after that interview a few days ago... :-)

    Way to give it a kick in the ass!

  16. runas /user:administrator netsh.exe on Red Hat to Release Enhanced-Security Linux · · Score: 1

    type ? to learn how to use netsh. It's pretty bitchin.

  17. This makes as much sense as... on EA Vs. Marvel Fighting Games Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    Marvel vs. the WWE.
    Marvel vs. the Sportscenter Team
    Marvel vs. the Survivor champions
    Marvel vs. Sprite, 7Up and Sierra Mist.

    Marvel vs. Carvel Ice Cream Man!

  18. It's because e and pi (and trig identities) on The Golden Ratio · · Score: 1

    are all derived from the exponential series. The exponential series can be used to derive exponents to any base (e being the "simplest"), and trigonemtric identies by substituting various coefficients in the summed series.

    So you expand e^(i*x) and discover what you get is actually an intertwining of the expansion of -sin(x)*i and cos(x). It's not that amazing... and by making x = Pi the sin terms will sum to 0 and the cos term is -1 by defintion... and -1 + 1 = 0.

    So there.

  19. Well, that's not exactly a good way... on Which Style Init Scripts Do You Prefer? · · Score: 1

    to shut down oracle.

    You stick dbshut inside /etc/init.d/oracle 's stop) section.

    If you want a controlled way to free resources which isn't handled by just sending a signal to a daemon, then it's nice to have a script that can handle it, and a procedure to call it.

    Plus it's also nice to link in a K99final script into rc0.d that does something like unlock all tapes in a carousel, send a message to a router or load balancer or whatever.

  20. Mod up +1: Just what I was about to say. on Who is Responsible for Advice Labels on Games? · · Score: 1

    The monitor can't induce a seizure by itself. The video game designer has to purposefully draw images that flash from light to dark at 5-20Hz.

    Now, it could be that in a _game engine_ they never intended it to do that, but the uses puts himself in a situation where that occurs. Imagine barrel rolling in a fligh simulator while out of control over a dark landscape and bright blue sky. Imagine the sky and ground roll in and out of view about 5 times a second. That could induce a seizure, even if the designer didn't intend to.

    But the monitor has nothing to do with it. They are fixed refresh rate.

  21. Companies can barely get a game through the door on Who is Responsible for Advice Labels on Games? · · Score: 1

    before properly testing it for crashes and other things that make the game unplayable without patches later.

    What makes you think they have the resources, knowledge, money, or time to do a study with epileptics? They don't.
    For it to be even worth putting on the box it'd have to be a clinical study, and that would totally fuck up a release schedule. It's impossible. Just stick a EULA in the installer.

    Publishers, if they have the presence of mind, will add a seizure warning just to cover their bases. This is, of course, if the warning doesn't interfere with the box art (or otherwise enhances it... )

  22. Yes. You have to use dog years. on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    n/t

  23. BIOS - [Advanced] - FSB - 200MHz - F10 on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 1

    durrrr.... that was hard....

  24. The IAs are roughly comparable timing wise... on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 1

    so you just use ICC with SSE2 turned off. That seems to work just fine.

  25. I was responding to the +1 Informative mods... on GameCube-Powered Webserver · · Score: 1

    not so much the parent. You could take it either way.

    Although I still wanna see the Tom's Hardware shootout. :-)