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  1. Re:Just use ISDN on VoIP As a Solution To Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    Actually - let me qualify that: No power is provided to premises equipment (phones etc.)

  2. Re:Just use ISDN on VoIP As a Solution To Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    European practice is to power them from the central office

    Not the case in the UK I'm afraid - ISDN2e (BRI 2 channels) has no CO power.

  3. Re:Registered Mail on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    ..and have a look at Axcrypt for data that's to be sent via CD/DVD (or emailed) - very easy to use to create encrypted, self-extracting (if you know the key) files.

    http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/ ...and it's Open Source

  4. Tuesday? Meh! on Open Source BIND Alternative Launches · · Score: 1

    I understand they may be experts on Tuesday, but they know jack shit about the rest of the week.

  5. Re:Community edited on Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Joe was eaten by a Grue

  6. PCFile on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 2, Informative

    1993 called to recommend PCFILE!

    http://www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/database/pcfile/

    Mind you, you'll have to toss Jim Button $10 as it's shareware!

  7. Re:Bricking on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not a very difficult fix for any tech savvy person with surface mount device reworking equipment - or a soldering iron, a steady hand and a great deal of faith in their ability (or practical experience) to rework SMDs with the wrong kit.

    FTFY

  8. Re:FRANK@SHOEMAKER@WOULD@CALL@THIS@NOISE on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    Woah, this is the last time I use the scribble paper from the pen section of the local stationery shop as a fax test sheet.

    Damn, looks like I got the destination number wrong too.

  9. Re:So is the cat dead? on Quantum Cryptography Broken, and Fixed · · Score: 1

    I'd ROT13 the cat too, just to be sure

  10. Re:Not free for everyone on Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Hi - was sneaking in a reply to my original but I see you've already covered it - I read the BBC article and note that the Scots are sending raiding parties to Buckfast!

    I stand corrected!

  11. Re:Not free for everyone on Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0 · · Score: 1

    If you think Buckfast Abbey is in Scotland then you may have been drinking waaaay too much!

    It's in Devon - way down in South West **England**.

    http://www.buckfast.org.uk/site.php?use=maps

  12. Re:I say old boy... on Sailing Robots To Attempt Atlantic Crossing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed old chap - we let you have the old one.

    Mind you, I hear rumour that the poor old buyer mistakenly thought he was getting our dear Tower Bridge.

    Silly Sausage.

  13. I say old boy... on Sailing Robots To Attempt Atlantic Crossing · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "The Times of London"? Never heard of it.

    You mean "The UK national paper 'The Times'".

    There's more to the UK than Buckingham Palace, tea at the Savoy, Harrods and and Big Ben, Mr P.

  14. Re:Is this really news? on Changes In Store For PHP V6 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You moan - yet you took the contract.

    Biting the hand that feeds you just a tad!?

  15. Re:For which value of 'code'? on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for pointing that out - very fascinating to see.

  16. Re:dajones70 on Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Absolutely MailScanner - thread over!

    http://www.mailscanner.info/

    Our organisation runs 5 Linux Servers around the UK for mail services and they are all using MailScanner + Postfix + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Bitdefender.

    Great installation instructions (all-but bitdefender) here: http://www.hughesjr.com/content/view/14/

    The mailing list for MailScanner is very well supported by the users and the devs.

  17. Re:But ?!!!? on A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or search for Sarah Connor?

  18. Re:Wait, what? on A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone · · Score: 4, Funny

    It displays targetted ads from paid advertisers on billboards *and* blocks ads from other unpaid advertisers

    Fixed that for them?

  19. Two great books on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 2, Informative

    An excellent starter is "The Art of Electronics By Paul Horowitz, Horowitz, Winfield Hill"

    http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957

    You should also have a look at the classic:
    "Foundations of Wireless and Electronics
    by M.G. Scroggie "

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Foundations-Wireless-Electronics-M-G-Scroggie/dp/0750634308

  20. Forums on Folders vs. Tags For Shared Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    There's been some good email-oriented suggestions but maybe you'd also like to consider a private forum, setup on an in-house system (takes minutes with a CMS like Joomla and fireboard) where you can create sub-categories as required, contribute to multiple issues with an nice visual overview of all live topics and see a complete threaded history of all discussions.

    An added benefit is that if all connections are secured (https) then provided the core system is setup properly, all correspondence is safe from prying eyes compared to plain-text emails flying across teh Internets (assuming you are not encrypting your emails).

    Throw in a file repository system (remository under Joomla?) and you have a central location for all key files, which means you eliminate the headache of multiple versions attached to (insecure) emails.

  21. Re:GREAT movie, but Paltrow doesn't work... on Iron Man Released · · Score: 1

    Fair comments on the film - it was good, but not great. It took a while to 'get going' and the action scenes could have been a bit longer, but my 7 year old son and I enjoyed it

    Have to say I wasn't aware Jeff Bridges was in this film and I only recognised him half way through. I spent the rest of the film thinking 'ohmygod - what's happened to the fresh-faced actor from Tron and the Fabulous Baker boys - then I started to realise how old *I* was too!

  22. Re:The bad buy sucks. on Raytheon Exoskeleton Brings "Iron Man" to Life · · Score: 1

    Clippy could be a PITA:

    "Looks like you have raised your arm and engaged weapons:
    O Do you want to incinerate your victim?
    O Do you want to launch homing micro-rockets?
    O Are you writing a letter?
    O Were you just going to scratch your nose?"

  23. Re:I Saw It on Raytheon Exoskeleton Brings "Iron Man" to Life · · Score: 1

    Try "cgi" at www.google.com. There - that wasn't hard, was it?

    Phew - good job you posted AC otherwise you'd feel embarrassed, we'd know who you are and strangers in the street would be be pointing at you and smirking for the rest of the day.

    Your penalty is to watch TRON 3 times in a row this Sunday.

  24. Re:Another movie slashvertisment on Raytheon Exoskeleton Brings "Iron Man" to Life · · Score: 1

    Saw it yesterday with my 7 year old son at a local preview. The film's not bad, but it does take time to get going.

    The film's not going to be a classic, but it's well made and passed the time.

  25. Quick and simple test.. on DARPA Sponsors a Hunt For Malware In Microchips · · Score: 2, Funny

    If:

    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"

    Comes out as HERRO WORD

    You're pwned.