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  1. Re:Software installation on Trivial Barriers to Personal Linux Use? · · Score: 1

    Well... how hard is it to put those instructions on the site of any project that's in debian?

    Or to have users remember that [insert apt frontend] has lists of all sorts of cool programs they can install?

  2. Re:The difference on Free World Dialup Under The Gun Again · · Score: 1

    When everything is free, why do I need a salary?

  3. Re:Why? (and don't forget co-lo) on Bandwidth in Little Rock, AR? · · Score: 1

    They want that bandwidth between their two sites... so they can have a remote hot backup.

  4. Build a loft on Computers/Keyboards + Dorm Room = No Zzzzzz? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stick your beds as close to the ceiling as your dorm and physical needs allow.

    Play some music at a reasonable volume when you're typing, and your roomate will hear muffled music when you're working. Try making the loft not loud enough to wake the dead when you get in it.

  5. Re:Appearance only on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 1

    Focus follows mouse has been available since (at least) the release of power toys on win95, and has been found in power toys of every release after that.

    Virtual desktops has been a feature of LiteStep, and is a microsoft feature in XP's power toys. (yes, it's not shipped with windows)

  6. Re:45 Seconds?!?! on Red Hat to Release Enhanced-Security Linux · · Score: 1

    Why would they leave remote root logins enabled? geez

  7. Re:Smog on Smog Busting Paint Breaks Down Noxious Gasses · · Score: 1

    What would you like our cars to pollute instead?

  8. Re:Security of paper voting machines on Maryland Electronic Voting Systems Found Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    more importantly, there are generally representatives from each of the major parties on hand supervising. (Probably not the case for primaries with different polling places by party)

    So... if you want to screw with the vote, you have to convince at least one other person it's a good idea.

  9. Re:Will this help the general use of captchas? on Digital Camera Image Verification · · Score: 1

    To your first question, No.

    To your second question, huh?

    To your third question, sure.

  10. Re:Bounce the headers on Why Do Email Admins Make Viruses Worse? · · Score: 1

    I don't see what the problem is with slowing down SMTP servers...

    If the virus scanner is overloaded, it's going to be slow getting the mail through the system anyhow, why hide the latency from the external servers?

    (Yes, you could argue, what if the external servers end up not getting back to you, or losing the message, but I'd rather let the other server handle the bounce, so it's not on my hands)

  11. Re:Check for valid source before notification on Why Do Email Admins Make Viruses Worse? · · Score: 1

    the poster you're replying to is suggesting that the smart host use a hostname in helo that is the same hostname that their ip reverse resolves to (and one that lists the ip they connect from)

    Let's say I was running a smarthost, the poster would want me to have it set to say
    helo cpe-66-75-113-150.socal.rr.com
    rather than helo peanutbutter.ruka.org, or helo there, or whatever stupidity my mta could think of

  12. Re:this is not whitelist. on AOL Tests Sender Permitted From / E-mail Caller ID · · Score: 1

    Could do smtp over ssl, which has another well known port associated with it. Who want's their customers sending email passwords over plain text anyhow?

  13. Re:Memory images on disk on Boot Windows Faster, Using Linux · · Score: 1

    I would think they'd be able to make this work by booting, then doing a suspend to ram, and storing that (or you could hibernate, and convince the os not to remove the hibernation file when it dehibernates). That would solve the hardware init issues, but any software that starts on boot might not it, because of the back and forth in time.

  14. Re:Best and Worst on Wireless Keyboard w/o a Wireless Mouse? · · Score: 1

    looks like it's just doing compression... it's only dropping vowels, and you don't need those :)

  15. Re:distro's on DVD CCA Drops Case; DeCSS Not a Trade Secret · · Score: 1

    If your drive is the wrong region, you still get data, the drive just won't decrypt it for you. Libdvdcss decrypts the data for you.

  16. Re:Wait, on DVD CCA Drops Case; DeCSS Not a Trade Secret · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd say it makes DeCSS probably legal. If we take the argument that CSS effectively limits copying of DVDs (or however the exact wording is), then the DMCA would apply.

    However, what makes CSS effective? Why, it's trade secret status. Encryption is not effective at doing anything other than waste time if everybody knows the keys and the algorithm.

  17. Re:My sig on Is E-Mail Obscuration Worth It? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, i'd bet they would... although people say they get spam on spamcop addresses (i'm not sure exactly how spamcop works, but i think you can get toast0@spamcop.net or forward slashdot@enslaves.us to them)

  18. Re:Imagine... on MIDI Keyboard/Computer: Neko64 · · Score: 1

    Thirdly, not every game used WinCE, most of the ones that needed performance used Katana. The OS was included on the game disc, not in BIOS.

    There is also an open source os for Dreamcast, called KalistiOS now available.

  19. Re:required /. joke on MIDI Keyboard/Computer: Neko64 · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Each process is limited to 4GB address space though, unless you do horrible things.

  20. Re:It's a dialup connection -- it's SLOW EITHER WA on Separate Web Pages for Large Attachments? · · Score: 1

    Ok, it looks like my off the hip comment is way off base, googling around shows that modem compression doesn't really do a whole lot, except in theory.

    Sorry

  21. Re:It's a dialup connection -- it's SLOW EITHER WA on Separate Web Pages for Large Attachments? · · Score: 1

    yeah, but i'd bet the modem's compression will kick in on the pop3 text, and it ends up sorta equal

  22. Re:ummm flawed logic? on Can Manned Spaceflight Save the Economy? · · Score: 1

    Well... in the past war has done good things for the economy, until it's over. Of course, we didn't have a godawful huge stockpile of weapons before WWI or WWII.

  23. Re:Rockport Walkers on Airport and Foot Friendly Trade Show Shoes? · · Score: 1

    Ok, the two pair of rockport shoes I've had made the machines go crazy. And one of the people working the machines recognized my shoes and suggested I take them off. They must sell with and without metal.

    Sorry for being an ass when it wasn't warranted.

  24. Re:Who cares about the metal detector? on Airport and Foot Friendly Trade Show Shoes? · · Score: 1

    Awww, well there goes my plan. I guess I should have paid more attention.

    Thanks.

  25. Re: Troubling post on Reliable, Affordable Online Backup Providers? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so it's ok to use the N* word, or sexual references, but not both?

    Seriously though, that post will get moderated down when people feel like wasting their mod points on ask /. ... which tends to get less moderation than front page articles, for obvious reasons. People are idiots, deal with it.