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  1. Super Star Wars on History of Star Wars Video Games · · Score: 1

    Has anyone here actually played Super Star Wars on the SNES? I can't believe UGO gave them a good review. I got the feeling that it was made by the Japanese who never saw the movies.

    The game was filled with retarded crap that makes no sense. In one sequence you fly around your landspeeder, shooting blue balls out of your engines at jawas in little floating flying pods that shoot back at you. And you have to get gas for your landspeeder by shooting moisture towers.

  2. AOL for broadband? on AOL Plans A Standalone Browser · · Score: 1

    What about AOL for broadband? Isn't that pretty much the same thing? You use their browser and shitty software but use your own internet connection.

    Can we please have a huge party when Netcraft confirms AOL's death?

  3. Re:Latency on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I believe that the reason women "attempt suicide" twice as frequently as men is because whoever got those numbers counted slitting your wrists as a suicide attemp.

  4. OT: Windows error ads on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Look at this screenie I snapped while booting a customer's computer with Slax: Linux Registry.png.

  5. Re:TCO on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 1

    No spellchecker either?

  6. When their assignments look like this on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 1

    You can cut back your kid's computer use when their assignments look like this.

  7. Re:Knoppix can install debian testing on Debian Sarge Installation Slide Show · · Score: 1

    FYI, there's a menu button with a penguin on it next to the kmenu which opens a root shell by default. Less work, more explaining I guess.

  8. Ubuntu on Debian Sarge Installation Slide Show · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or is this the same exact installer that Ubuntu uses?

  9. OT: sshd on BitTorrent Servers Under DDoS Attacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was thinking about that, but then I'd be locked out if at a friend's place or if an IP changed. I was thinking about doing knockd, except I have a regular hardware router, I don't want to foward the closed ports to my box. But just for you, here's my compromise :)

    tail -F current | bash ~/bin/sshdblocker2.sh

    #!/bin/bash
    #This script will go through the sshd log and DROP all the script kiddies/ wormed zombies out there attacking my precious server.
    #written by JT Hundley

    #This function will block the bastards. It will make sure that they are only blocked once.
    dropem()
    {
    #Extract the offending IP address from the line:
    ip=$(echo $line | cut -d " " -f 12)
    #if that ip is already specified in the iptables rules, then do nothing.
    if iptables -L -n | grep "$ip" &>/dev/null; then
    echo Duplicate
    else
    #otherwise, drop it like a sack o' shit!
    iptables -A INPUT -s $ip -j DROP
    fi
    }

    #Here's the real shit:
    while read line; do
    #Check for bad stuff:
    if echo $line | grep -i 'Illegal user test' ; then dropem
    fi
    done

  10. Netcraft confirms it: on BitTorrent Servers Under DDoS Attacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is official; Netcraft confirms: Bittorrent is dying.

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Bittorrent community when IDC confirmed that Bittorrent market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all P2P services. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Bittorrent has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Bittorrent is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Bittorrent's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Bittorrent faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Bittorrent because Bittorrent is dying. Things are looking very bad for Bittorrent. As many of us are already aware, Bittorrent continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    Azureus is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Azureus developers Bob Wentz and J.D. Stone only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Azureus is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    BitTornado leader TheShad0w that there are 7000 users of BitTornado. How many users of burst! are there? Let's see. The number of BitTornado versus burst! posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 BitTornado users. Bittorrent posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of BitTornado posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dbblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

    Jesus Christ this trolling shit is hard to do. I know I left the other half with BSD :(

  11. Re:You think it was DDoS, but... on BitTorrent Servers Under DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    I'm getting a bunch of ssh brute force attacks from asia too, check your logs everyone.

  12. Submarine Patent on Thomson Releases MP3 Surround · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any company that uses a submarine patent is evil in my book. Well it's probably more of a bait and switch, but I already found the links.

  13. Attention crackers: on Nmap Author Receives FBI Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    wget --user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.75.t ar.bz2

    Does that not solve the problem?

  14. Re:Windows and Linux? on Cross-Platform Java Sandbox Exploit · · Score: 1

    If you're like me and run Gentoo, it's harder to replace the rest of the system compared to your measily un-compiled home directory!

    In all seriousness, back up /home and /etc regularly and don't worry about it.

  15. Re:Superior ? on NVIDIA Announces Intel nForce Chipsets Coming · · Score: 1

    I've have an nForce2 board (Asus A7N8X Delux) and some things have only worked in Linux for half the time I've had it. I couldn't get on the network at all until the reverse-engineered unstable testing hacked forcedeth driver came about in the 2.6 kernel.

  16. Re:Common knowledge? on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somebody from CookingWithCum.com would. It's a real web site!

  17. Televangelists on Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack, Senate Told · · Score: 1

    Where have I heard that quote? Ahhh, yes, washed up televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

    When confronted by the Assemblies of God leadership, Jimmy had no choice but to confess. He told them that he suffered a lifelong addiction to pornography. It was probably no real surprise to them. All the signs were there. Swaggart had written an article in 1987 asserting that "pornography is now considered as addictive as drugs." And over the years he had campaigned for tougher anti-porn legislation.

    Fucking religious fanatics and the sheep that listen to them.

  18. Re:And this solves what? on UK Group Wants Mandatory Flash For Phone Cams · · Score: 1

    If you outlaw outlaws, only outlaws will have outlaws.

  19. Better than out of date machines on Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System? · · Score: 1

    Auto-Update isn't evil if you do it right in the right environment. Do we want our desktops managed this way? No, but a school? In the right place, yes.

    I think one of the big problems of automatically updating a lot of machines would be the downloading of all of them. It'd be cool if it was cached some kind of way, maybe use something like bittorrent: have them talk to a tracker, but only distribute the files locally.

  20. Re:Things of the past on Nanoloop: GameBoy Advance Hard Disk Recording · · Score: 3, Funny

    development truely that advantageous?

    You need your web browser to branch it's development and get a spell checker.

  21. Re:Obviously on Computers Linked to Glaucoma? · · Score: 1

    I encourage *everyone* on slashdot to go toke up. Period.

  22. Re:Cheap labor? on Competition Fosters Next Generation Of Linux Talent · · Score: 1

    They'd be doing free work for me and everyone else who owns a Thinkpad. I just bought one, the real challenge is to buy a Thinkpad from IBM without and operating system, this is the actual reply I got from them:

    Dear J.T,
    Thank you for contacting IBM.
    Please be advised, it is not possible to ship out an IBM ThinkPad or Desktop without an Operating System.
    We apologize for any inconvenience that you may have experienced.

    I haven't even received the laptop yet, but I guess they know that I'll be inconvenienced when it's recieved :(

  23. Crystal Silicon Ingot on The CPU: From Conception to Birth · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did anybody else's butthole start to hurt when they saw the Crystal Silicon Ingot?

  24. OT: Daisy-chaining UPSes? on Keeping Computers (And People) Warm In Winter? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever daisy-chained UPSes together? What happens when the power goes out? Does the bottom one just charge the one above it until the top one is dead, or does the house explode or anything like that?

  25. Re:Pseudo Letter to Microsoft... on SMPTE Adoption Of WMV9 Hits Some Snags · · Score: 1

    Very nice, I read the whole thing and had a good laugh :)