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  1. Re:This is going to confuse the hell out of people on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors · · Score: 1

    Ughhhh - You are an Eeeeeeevullll naughty person and desrve to die in BSOD hell...

  2. MS is catching up on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors · · Score: 1

    This is just the MS's attempt to catch up with Mandriva, Red Hat, Novel, Debian and Slackware...

  3. Re:Heh... on Floating Nuclear Power Station · · Score: 1

    Russia actually has a long history of using retired nuclear subs to power towns.

  4. Re:Visual Studio .NET on Windows XP In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    It's been a few months since I last played with Bart's, but I would say yes you could. The big problem is to create the initial Bart's disk - then you can add pretty much whatever you want to the image. Plan on wasting a weekend on it. Note that you need a proper Windows CD which is kinda costly for something that you may end up not using much. A workaround is to download the Server 2003 evalation version from MS and use that to build the system.

  5. Works, but a little limited on Windows XP In Your Pocket · · Score: 2, Informative

    BartsPE has a limit on the number of processes you can run and it has to restart after 24 hours. Despite that, it is quite useful as an emergency Windoze especially since it cannot get infected by crapware. However, even the teenie tiny Puppy Linux has more useful features...

  6. Cool! on Bulky System Requirements for Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Run of the mil low end Windoze machines will continue to make fantastic high performance Linux machines...

  7. Illegal to block it on Refugee Radio Station Blocked by Red Tape · · Score: 1

    As far as I understand the rules, local authorities do not have the legal power to stop a radio transmitter, since that is a federal matter.

    So the officials that are refusing to allow it, are overstepping their authority and sooner or later someone else will come down on their heads like ton of bricks.

  8. Re:Nope - not on my v1.06 Firefox on Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users · · Score: 1

    OK, I tried that. It does freeze FF. However, I don't see how that is exploitable to run arbitrary code. Random freezes in Firefox while browsing the web isn't exactly new and happens to me all the time - annoying yes, but not a security problem. For example, my FF PDF file handling is not configured right and for the life of me, I can't figure out how to configure it. So whenever I click on a PDF link, FF freezes up. Very freaking annoying, but hardly a security exploit.

  9. Re:closed standards on International Call for Open Standards · · Score: 1

    No, I'm referring to telecom standards - you cannot talk to someone in another country by phone if the communication protocols are secret. Similarly, you cannot exchange a word processor document with someone else if the file format is secret. We have had open telegraph, radio and phone standards for more than 100 years. It is time to open other data standards as well. MS is just being bloody minded about it.

  10. Date problem on Linux Five Years Away From Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Linux 5 years away from being a major server player? It must be a pre-Google and pre-Yahoo poll. The only explanation I have is that this Gartner poll is from 1995 and took a while to get published.

  11. Re:So, the question is ... on Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users · · Score: 1

    How about: Fix it before the bug is found?

    This seems to be a Bogus FUD Bug - it does't affect FF at all.

    I call Bullshit.

  12. Won't fix - Bogus FUD Bug on Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users · · Score: 1

    I guess this Bogus FUD Bug will be another "Won't Fix" item in the Firefox Todo list, since you can't really fix a bug that isn't there...

    Oh well, what the hell - Yosarian, Catch 22.

  13. Re:more info at - Bogus FUD bug on Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that also doesn't trigger anything in Firefox. This seems to be a bogus exploit.

  14. Nope - not on my v1.06 Firefox on Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    I made a page with the supposed bad link full of dashes and all that happens, is that FF tries to do a Google lookup on "keyword:---lots of dashes here---"

    This seems to be a dud exploit...

  15. Re:working around an exchange server on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, you can get meeting notices with mutt and mail, but inserting them into a calendar is the useful part...

  16. Lifetime supply of batteries on New Twist on Power Walking · · Score: 1

    Considering that my Sony MP3 player goes for a whole month on one AAA cell, your 30 pounds of spare batteries will corrode, self discharge and MP3 will be obsolete as a music format, before you get to the end of that many batteries...

  17. Re:closed standards on International Call for Open Standards · · Score: 1

    Well, telecom standards have been open for more than a century. That hasn't prevented the Bells of the world from making money. Confusing data stadards is plain schtooooopidttt.

  18. Re:Density question on First Results From Deep Impact Mission · · Score: 1

    "about 36 stone per hogshead" Even more interesting is the impact speed of about 60 million furlong per fortnight...

  19. Don't worry on First Results From Deep Impact Mission · · Score: 1

    This probe proved that at least this comet is not a threat at all. If such a comet would hit the earth, the result would be pretty much nothing at all. The water will eventually wash out of the atmosphere as rain and the rest is so little, nobody will even notice the comet hit the earth - it will simply disappear in a white cloud when it hits the upper atmosphere.

  20. Planetary puff ball on First Results From Deep Impact Mission · · Score: 1

    Since their chariots are puff balls, the Gods are now proven to be poofters...

  21. Re:13 Million mail infrastructure on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, only 10 machines to handle the mail, but you forgot about the 50 machines running Spam Assassin and ClamAV...

  22. Re:working around an exchange server on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    If you would switch to Evolution, then you'd get your meeting notices too.

  23. I'll pray for you... on Cisco Flaw Opens Routers to Attack · · Score: 1

    Geezo, that piece must come from an incredibly bad Psychology text book. I'll pray for the poor students that have to suffer through those classes...

  24. Nobody to sue? on Cisco Flaw Opens Routers to Attack · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to know is who Cisco is going to sue over this bug... ;-)

  25. Ten buttons on Logitech Unveils Smart Mouse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Welcome to our new 20 fingered overlords... I guess the next mouse model will have 101 buttons and will plug into the keyboard connector.