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  1. Re:Not I on Survey Shows Admins Avoiding SP2 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Surely you only need to download once?

  2. How to turn off in firefox on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1, Redundant

    type about:config into the address bar and scroll down to the network.prefetch-next entry. Ensure that this is set to false.

  3. Typecast??? on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    Ecclestone is scared of being typecast... as what? A bit of a weirdo?

    I'm thinking... Shallow Grave, he played a bit of a weirdo... that TV series, what was it - second coming? - he played a bit of a weirdo... 28 days later, he played a bit of a weirdo. Now he's playing what has to be the ultimate weirdo.

    If you ask me, he's already pretty much cast to type.

  4. Let's get pissed!! on Would You Drink This Water? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm. Brit joke only, methinks.

  5. Re:Nice? no on A Look at the Newly Released Mozilla Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    It's called using repetition for effect. It's one of those things you learn in any basic English class, but I guess you didn't take any basic English class, right? (oh look, I did it there).

  6. Didn't AudioGalaxy try this? on Can P2P Filter Copyrighted Content? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The courts decided that it wasn't enough to remove works known to be copyrighted: rather they must know that works were not copyrighted.

  7. Disney wins!! on The Oldest Mouse Contest · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mickey's been around for 75 years.

  8. Re:Wow... can you imagine on Ultra-Cool Wireless Wearables · · Score: 2, Funny
    Somebody with a high-gain antenna will just immediately "see" what you are seeing.

    Of course, because encrypted secure communications is a technology for way in the future, right?

  9. Re:Whuh? on Professional Apache Security · · Score: 1
    Heh. I didn't say it is that easy - I said if it's that easy.

    As far as I know I've never managed to do it - no-one's hacked any of the sites I've built. But there may be a first time :)

  10. Whuh? on Professional Apache Security · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it's that easy to make stuff insecure without realising it, then the httpd.conf file needs more obvious comments.

    If it's not actually that easy and it's down to the stupidity of the admin, then a book is unlikely to help: just read the various HOWTOs and follow them step by step, you can't really go wrong.

    Of course there will be ways around security models but you'll defeat the average script kiddy just by following word-for-word instructions and installing the latest patches.

  11. Re:do you wanna bet... on The RIAA and MPAA Target Day-Job Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Good to see that your company is paying for you to post to slashdot.

  12. TiVo + network + PC on Panasonic Combined DVD-R & PVR Device · · Score: 1

    If you're that bothered, why not hook up a network card to your TiVo, extract the data from the hard disk over the network and burn a movieCD?

  13. Re:FAA Preliminary Accident Report on RIP: Leonard Zubkoff · · Score: 1

    From http://www.zampino.net/letter.html

    There was a GPS found floating on the lake (a navigational tool) which had your brothers flights recorded on it. The last flight time was 1/10 hour or about 1 to 6 minutes of flight time. There was another record which showed his flight from Ketchikan to Winstanley lake. From this information it would stand to reason that he was attempting to leave Winstanley Lake when the crash occurred. Also I found fresh footprints at the Winstanley Lake US Forest Service cabin site. These may or may not have been from your brother if he had spent the night at the cabin. His departure from Ketchikan on August 28th, as reported by the FAA, 03:49 PM is Alaska time, which is one hour earlier than Seattle. So he departed from here Wednesday afternoon.

    So they wouldn't have been up that high.

  14. Build a better system on Closed Gnutella System to Prevent Bandwidth Hogs · · Score: 4, Insightful
    If you make a system which allows this kind of abuse you should expect it to happen.

    The solution is not authentication - it's building better network infrastructure.

  15. Re:MySql over Postgres? perl over php? on Web Development with Apache and Perl · · Score: 1
    someone writing a book has to make these choices

    But the author makes a specific decision of one over the other within the book. Therefore his decision becomes a contentious point.

  16. MySql over Postgres? perl over php? on Web Development with Apache and Perl · · Score: 0, Insightful

    My, this guy is making all the right decisions today...

  17. Re:stupid patents on German EU Delegate Sues 'Unknown' Over Echelon · · Score: 1

    Sorry dude.

    breathe.com is already gone...

  18. Re:What's the problem? on Motorola's Getting To Know You · · Score: 3

    They are using an oligopolistic position to force their customers to comply to unfair terms against their wishes.

    That's illegal, that's why it's wrong.

  19. Re:So what's wrong with that? on Time Warner: Making An Offer They Can't Refuse? · · Score: 1

    You twat.

  20. Re:[OT] Sybase on MySQL And PostgreSQL Compared · · Score: 1

    Well I've been running Linux+Sybase on a Dual P166 (!!) with 64MB RAM for our telesales database for the past 1.5 years.

    It started out with only 3 users which I figured would be fine, and has grown to around 15 concurrent users with around 60000 user records and probably 200000 contact records.

    I've never had any problems with the database. Highly recommended.

  21. What a load of bollocks on Cell Phone Usage on Airplanes == Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    Quote:

    the CAA says its results show "interference levels that exceed demonstrated susceptibility levels for aircraft equipment approved against earlier standards".

    End quote

    So they haven't actually any evidence that mobiles cause problems, just proof that they theoretically might.

    Sounds like a non-event to me.

  22. Re:Innovatory Micro$loth? on Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links · · Score: 1

    Of course it is what you or I call non-symbolic ("hard") links. Exactly the behaviour you describe.

    Geoff

  23. 13 billion years... on Most Distant Object in Universe Discovered · · Score: 1

    Ok, so if the universe has been expanding for 16 billion years, and this star is 13 billion light years away, that means we're seeing it 13 billion years previously -- which means it must have travelled to the point it was at when we're seeing it in 3 billion years, ie 4 times the speed of light...

    ?

  24. Swap file size limit... on LinuxDVD CSS Decrypt - Source Available · · Score: 1

    Uhh... so create more than one 128MB swap file...

  25. Re:Boring! on Geeks in Space, Episode 4 · · Score: 1

    Have to say it sounds a hell of a lot like Wayne's World to me...