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  1. Re:massing spam for training purposes. on Seven Spam Filters Compared · · Score: 3, Informative
    YES: http://spamarchive.org/

    Also remember you need to feed nonspams to bayesian filters also.

  2. Re:XGA DLP on Plasma TVs vs. LCD Projectors for Your Home Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

  3. Re:XGA DLP on Plasma TVs vs. LCD Projectors for Your Home Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    Please elaborate on the "modifications to improve ht quality".

    Thanks.

  4. Re:Chez moi on Virus Scanner Auto-Replies - A Good Thing or Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    For us (running a mail server for our workgroup of 5 people, including tech support), it's been 1200 received (and caught by Amavis), and about 3000 bounces, notices, etc., thanks to these damn whiney AV's.

  5. Re:The Slashdot story missed the interesting part. on SoBig: Worst is Yet to Come · · Score: 1
    Actually, extending this, maybe the way to fight open machines is to cause the open machines to send themselves excessive traffic, rendering them fairly useless until their operators fix them, but not negatively impacting the rest of the net.

    The evil side in me says machines like that should all be wiped by the worm on a certain date, and then display a message to the user in every language to secure their damn computers.

  6. Re:Yeah but on Ocean Sponge May Be Best for Fiber Optics · · Score: 1

    They only care about cute animals.

  7. DNSSEC mini HOWTO on DNSSEC: Good Enough? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Paul Wouters from the FreeSWAN project spoke at DefCon 11 on DNSSEC... he has some materials online at: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/dnssec/

  8. Re:Suse ? on The Increasing Cost of Red Hat Linux? · · Score: 1
    Also it must be noted that neither one allows you to load a copy of it on a "test" or "development" box! You must plunk down the $350-$800 again!

    I think with RH, you can load it on other systems, but you won't be able to use UP2Date. (You can still copy the RPMs off another machine, or d/l the SRPMs.)

  9. Run out screaming on Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office · · Score: 1

    If texting is a no-no, then perhaps we should run out of the theater screaming how awful this movie was to everyone waiting in line for the next showing.

  10. MCI on Grading Telco & ISPs During the Blackout of 2003? · · Score: 1

    I'm in southern California, and around 18:00 PDT Monday, our T1 connection to MCI pretty much quit working to 95% of the internet. MCI said there were routing problems due to the NE blackouts... whatever.

  11. Re:Exactly what we need (ironic) on Stimulated Gamma Decay Weapons · · Score: 1

    The current metal detectors don't use X-Rays, IIRC.

    However, the conveyor luggage scanners, and the backscatter metal detectors in development do.

  12. Re:Practical? on Home Biomass Power Generators · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dude, you're talking about methane emissions (surplus methane generated by other processes).

    This would be BURNING the methane, which would produce CO2 and H20, similar to burning natural gas.

    I have never heard that burning methane is any worse than burning any other carbon-based fuel.

  13. Re:q3radiant on Architecture / Home Design Software? · · Score: 1

    Cool. Is it possible to print something looking like blueprints from this?

  14. Re:Works well, since when? on The Web Programming CD Bookshelf · · Score: 1

    I think they've fixed those (and other) problems...

    I'm running XP at 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor, with system fonts enlarged, and using 20 points default fonts in Mozilla, and Safari works fine now.

    They also initially had some major problems with unreadable gray text in some sections of some books, but I haven't seen any more of that lately either.

    They give out free trials of the business version if you give them the email addresses of yourself and 4 other people in your workgroup. No credit card needed.

  15. Re:O'Reilly and their upgrade policy on The Web Programming CD Bookshelf · · Score: 1

    I wonder if "fair use" legal theory would give you the right to copy someone else's electronic versions of the books you own.

  16. Duh on Remove iPod European Volume Cap · · Score: 0, Troll

    No need to hack the iPod, just use more efficient headphones.
    Duh.

    BTW, The site's gone, thanks to Apple.

  17. Re:Other choice than Trustic - SPAMCOP on O'Reilly Article on Spam Defense · · Score: 1
    it blocks about %80 of SPAM that gets delivered - I will just have to live with the other %20.

    FYI, you don't have to just live with the rest. I use Spamcop's RBL, AND I also use BogoFilter. Or, you could use SpamAssassin or many other filters on your server.

    My BogoFilter setup correctly marks about 98% of the spam IT SEES, with NO false positives. (This is NOT counting whatever gets rejected by the RBL.)

  18. Re:So What did people get? on Inkblot Passwords · · Score: 1

    I do this for some of my passwords...

    Unfortunately, it's also been mentioned in a few articles lately, and there was mention of crackers taking Bartlett's or other books of common phrases and feeding them to John the Ripper or Crack.

    The good news is Bartlett's doesn't seem to be available in electronic form.

  19. Re:Blade Runner on Movie-Licensed Games That Might Not Suck · · Score: 1
    Heh. Sierra/Dynamix made a Blade Runner style knockoff (based on the movie, not the game, I assume). They even hyped it as being like Blade Runner, I dunno if they had any permission :P

    I think it was Rise of the Dragon

  20. Re:Street Fighter on Movie-Licensed Games That Might Not Suck · · Score: 1

    That was a movie based on the game, not a game based on the movie.

  21. Re:No sound! on Build Your Own Gauss Pistol · · Score: 1

    Well, AirSoft and PaintBall guns can break bottles too.

  22. Re:FreeVo on Cable Boxes With DVD, MP3, Networking · · Score: 1

    probably $10-20 EXTRA / month on your cable bill.

  23. Re:Copyright NOT on Cable Boxes With DVD, MP3, Networking · · Score: 1

    It's called MacroVision.
    Betas are immune to it.
    So are _some_ Tivo's and/or S3 units.
    Maybe some PC cards are immune too, I haven't tried it.

  24. Re:Maybe they can run with the Buffalo? on Cloning Mammoths · · Score: 1

    I don't know about mammoths, but American buffalo are not very aggressive. I've been 20 feet from them at Yellowstone, and they seemed disinterested. Much like cattle.

    I don't think it would be a major problem if they got out.

  25. The article didn't mention on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 1

    DirectTV are also sending similar letters to people who are buying blank DTV cards on eBay.

    A friend of mine is being asked to pay $3500 for buying some (3 or 4 over 1 year) HU cards.

    They did NOT accuse him of having a card programmer.

    He did not sell or give the cards to anyone else.

    His lawyer friend is advising him to pay up.