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  1. Re:*cough* on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 1


    So why compare a kernel to a user-level application (ie: sendmail)? The Linux kernel is considered to be damn good also (well..).

  2. Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1


    Yes, what you describe is Huffman Coding.

    But he is not a "nit":
    Huffman compression uses Huffman Coding based on the *entire* input string, unlike gzip which uses LZ77 with a sliding window, followed by Huffman Coding.

    You nit.

  3. Re:Quality on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 1

    Why don't you try Epitonic?

  4. Re:Animatrix example on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 1


    FYI- it is indeed very easy with mplayer, using the audio out driver. I did this on Linux recently so I could listen to Bowie's "Ziggy Startdust" DVD at work as an mp3, instead of having to buy the CDs when I already owned the DVD.

    yeeeeee-ha.

  5. Re:Vancouver's Pretty Nice on Justice Department Proud of Patriot Act Slippery Slope · · Score: 1


    Hardly on the socialist side, more's the pity.

    And the federal government is a lot more right-wing than the states.

    But come here anyway.

    "Australia's pretty nice, though it's a bit on the socialist side and some of the states are run by right-wing bluenose politicians, and the beer's not any better than American beer, though they do have more of it, and they're more friendly and less polite than the Canadians."

  6. Sea of Microwaves? on Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves · · Score: 1


    With a Sea of Microwaves floating around, I'm worried one of them will hit me in the head. They are bloody heavy y'know!

    Oh well at least we can capture them and cook instant popcorn whenever we like.

  7. Re:I know nothing about Open Firmware, but: on Unreasonable Limit on Open Firmware Passwords · · Score: 1


    My apologies..

    The previous post explaining this bug could be in the OF App, and not OF itself probably explains this.

  8. I know nothing about Open Firmware, but: on Unreasonable Limit on Open Firmware Passwords · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Do you need your password to be accepted in order to change the password?

    The "solution" in the article is to "change your password if necessary". But how do you change your password when your previous password is not accepted?

  9. Re:Is code generation always necessary? on Code Generation in Action · · Score: 1

    "My question is, wouldn't developers rather use purely object-based packages, if they could, rather than code generators?"

    A resounding YES! I am thoroughly sick of using dodgy code generators / wizards in a certain buggy-as-hell O-R mapping tool .. if you don't do things in a certain order, the xml files will corrupt and you're up shite creek.

    I generally turn to doing just the initial generation using the IDE, then editing the XML by hand thereafter.

  10. Re:dan bernstein's position on this on DNSSEC: Good Enough? · · Score: 1


    Hear, hear.

  11. Re:For follow-up research on Pants Were Optional, 100,000 Years Ago · · Score: 1


    And it's migration to every other day of the week :p

  12. Re:Don't think so on WineX and the Future of Linux Gaming · · Score: 1


    Yeah, that's a fair enough dig at my comment. I was not really thinking in terms of commercial games (and I should have been).

    The same is true where I work (also not the gaming industry).

  13. Don't think so on WineX and the Future of Linux Gaming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If MS Word worked really well under wine, would that stop people from wanting a native Linux word processor?

    WineX is great, but nothing beats a native game, and developers using WineX as an excuse to be windows-only are just lazy.

    Okay perhaps you are right - laziness is very common after all ;)

  14. Re:auto following links - spread worms on Paul Graham: Filters that Fight Back · · Score: 1


    The point is to simply follow the link, not to parse or render the recieved HTML.

    But yes, the idea is daft as many people have already pointed out.

  15. Re:Our solution on Surviving Slashdotting with a Small Server · · Score: 1


    No, but ignoring ACs (or moderating them down) is pretty standard.

  16. Re:No Excuse on Acxiom Hacking Details Made Public · · Score: 1

    An ex-employee.

  17. Re:8000 developers? on Oracle's Infrastructure Now Fully Linux-ized · · Score: 1


    *riddup*

    TOAD is fantastic. I even use it under VMWare .. tora is okay too, but it doesn't make a croaking sound when you fire it up, so that's no good.

    Yes I did consider writing a shell script that plays the sound before launching tora. Still .. not the same.

    The only problem with TOAD is all the blocking OCI calls and a single-threaded UI can lead to a very interesting experience with long-running queries.

  18. Re:What'd they have before? on Oracle's Infrastructure Now Fully Linux-ized · · Score: 1


    Most developers at Oracle currently run windows 2000. I'm pretty certain RedHat will be chosen for the desktop .. it's currently not supported officially, but I know work is underway on it.

  19. Re:Funny. on Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid · · Score: 1

    Did you think if the subject heading said "funny" you would be modded as such?

    RTFA.

    And I quote: "In March, federal agents seized Hawash, 38, from a parking lot outside Intel Corp., where he worked".

  20. Re:Their results are suspect on A Water Molecule's Chemical Formula Isn't Really H20 · · Score: 1


    but what they found was trihydrogendioxide.

  21. This is fantastic news on Scorched3D Takes Classic Series Crossplatform · · Score: 1


    Scorched Earth was the most amazing MS-DOS game and it got me through many a high school IPT (information processing technology) class.

    mmm those state-of-the-art plasma nuke graphics.

    heh.

  22. Re:they better not on Desktop Linux Sliding in Under the Radar? · · Score: 1


    It's not that rare...
    add VMWare and IntelliJ to your list.

    There are lots of multi-platform, commercial java apps that people could be installing on Linux.

  23. Re:When people will care... on Hardly Anyone Cares About Computer Voting Problems · · Score: 1



    today you have been given 10 monitors to meta-monitor.

  24. Re:Gets the social inertia going the right directi on Will Munich's Linux Desktops Be Running Windows? · · Score: 1



    Windows rarely bluescreens when running under VMWare. I use windows in VMWare on Linux at work every day, and it's alot more stable than running windows natively.

    A little bit slower, but not too bad .. if I need to edit a complex document, I just renice VMWare for awhile and it's perfect.

  25. Well, no... on Wireless Link Calculator On A Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..I can't say that I have ever wanted to do that.