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  1. rm -Rf * on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 0

    wouldn't 'rm -Rf *' be just as bad a choice of password? Enter it by force of habbit after having your login script changed - and ouch.

  2. Space Balls anybody? on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 3, Funny


    ROLAND: No, wait, wait. I'll tell. I'll tell.

    HELMET: I knew it would work. All right, give to me.

    ROLAND: The combination is one.

    HELMET: One.

    SANDURZ: One.

    ROLAND: Two.

    HELMET: Two.

    SANDURZ: Two.

    ROLAND: Three.

    HELMET: Three.

    SANDURZ: Three

    ROLAND: Four.

    HELMET: Four.

    SANDURZ: Four.

    ROLAND: Five.

    HELMET: Five.

    SANDURZ: Five.

    HELMET: So the combination is one, two, three, four, five. That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life. That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage.

    HELMET: We have the combination.

    SKROOB: Great. Now we can take every last breath fresh air from planet Druidia. What's the combination?

    SANDURZ: One, two, three, four, five.

    SKROOB: One, two, three, four, five? That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.

  3. IPv6? on Linksys Shows Off New Products To SOCALWUG · · Score: 1

    So when are Linksys going to support IPv6? That's what I'm waiting for.

  4. Re:From an IT guy on Sasser Worm Disruption Growing · · Score: 1

    How do you know what is a laptop and what is a desktop though?
    No, the only way you can combat this is to only allow machines to connect to the main network if they are running uptodate antivirus and firewall. And to date, Cisco appears the only way to enforce that.

  5. Re:free or not, Gmail is not good... on On The Privacy Subtleties Of GMail, Other Webmail · · Score: 1

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  6. 2G webmail on HDD Assault Cannon · · Score: 1

    The other option would be to offer a webmail account with 2Gb storage. It would be more newsworthy than this article - even if it would be for only one person.

  7. Re:Maybe a stupid question... on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 1

    That sounds wonderfull, but that's the job for VMWare - not CoLinux. And if vmware isn't already installed, then you're going to have to install it which means rebooting the pc.

  8. Re:april fools on Google's Copernicus Center · · Score: 1

    Well Google News has it on the front page with 560 related. So either the News department of Google are in on it, or all the news corporations have bought it. And we all believe what the news corporations sell us don't we?

  9. Re:no reg link... on Earth Acquires a Quasi-Moon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Discovery article says that New Scientist magazine reported it Saturday, making it sound like a new discovery. But then it goes on to say it's been around since 1996. So how is this news?

  10. It was mine on Google's Bigger Index · · Score: 0, Funny

    And on the very same day my latest website get's into Google! Coincidence?

  11. Errm Again? on Scientists Claim They Cloned Humans · · Score: 1

    Just how is this different to the human that was cloned around Christmas 2003 by the cult?
    If we've only cloned stem cells this time, it's not exactly exciting news is it?

  12. Not Effective on Surveillance Cameras in Britain Not Effective? · · Score: 1

    They're not effective in my experience. Just last night at the takeaway the cops came in asking for the cctv footage of a few days ago. The reply? "Sorry, it's done on a rolling basis - we only ever have the past 24 hours".

    Then when my mates were mugged, sure they got cctv footage of the victims running away - but nothing of the guys who did it.

  13. Re:This one? on More MyDoom Gloom · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you could write something in perl. You'd just have to get people to run it, which judging by MyDoom, is quite easy.

  14. Forget SCO on Today's Windows Virus - MyDoom / Novarg · · Score: 1

    OK, so it attempts a DDOS on SCO. Big deal. There's other questions I have about this virus that nobody's answered anywhere yet.

    1. Why are most of the copies I'm seeing coming from Israel?
    2. Sophos say it searches for addresses, yet I'm seeing it going to the usernames joe and fred at several domains where those users don't exist. Is that programmed into the virus, or has a spammer been hit before he could email joe@every domain he could find?

  15. Re:Backhoes don't respect biometric hand prints on Fort N.O.C.'s Security in Obscurity · · Score: 1
    it's like you think the employees use the server for gathering Unreal Tournament games after hours or something.

    I wondered why my dns lookups were slow today!

  16. Big Deal on Fort N.O.C.'s Security in Obscurity · · Score: 1

    So they're safe from us. Big deal. Are we safe from them?

  17. Re:Here we go again... on 'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You · · Score: 1

    Yes, Pine is good. But people use Outlook for more than just email. Outlook is a PIM, with calendars, task lists, shared public folders. It's way more suitable for the work environment.

  18. Re:an EXE?!! on 'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You · · Score: 1

    Except for this one. Maybe that's why it's newsworthy?

  19. Re:Everything is made cheap and unrepairable... on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    It was around July that happened, and we're in the UK if that makes a difference. Plus Dell laptops are built to be taken apart, which is more than can be said for the Vulcan I gave up on fixing over New Year.

  20. Re:Everything is made cheap and unrepairable... on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I'd have to agree there. Once you can convince them you need something replacing they'll send a guy out next day to swap it over.

    "My hard disk is dead and it's still under warranty"
    "Can you run the diagnostics utility for me"
    "But it's not recognised in bios, that won't help"
    "I need you to run it anyway" ...
    "Error, no hard disk detected"
    "We'll send you a replacement tomorrow morning"

  21. Tips on Blocking Pop-ups at the ISP Level? · · Score: 1
    OK, a little off-topic maybe, but I got sick and tired with popups and spyware at work today so here's what I did.
    1. Rolled out IE-SPY AD through the user's netlogon scripts.
    2. Slowly adding the worst of the offending sites to the blacklist on our isa servers

    Doing that for a 60 user company is a lot different to doing it for an ISP though, you'll want something like proxomitron but on a much larger scale.
  22. Re:Yahoo Move on Yahoo to Dump Google · · Score: 1

    It already is, maybe not in commercial terms but definitely in terms of usability.

  23. Re:And this matters why? on Open Source Firm Releases Patch for IE Bug [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    I'm tempted to agree here, and besides - instead of patching 60 office pcs with an unsupported patch, wouldn't it be better to add a rule to your web proxy/firewall?

  24. Re:Are you sure? Even with the embedded %00? on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    Yes, the following string is filtered out by slashdot, but viewing properties definitely gives the url

    http://www.microsoft.com@zapthedingbat.com/secur it y/ex01/vun2.htm

    with a funny square block thing before the @

  25. Re:Not patching this month...... on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    Actually, right-click and properties will give you the actuall address. But yes I agree, nobody in their right mind would do that on every single page they view.