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  1. Re:And the Chips? on Windows, Linux 25 Year Old "Clunkers"? · · Score: 1

    IMHO not much of that survived the risc-cisc wars, cpu design by now is more like a linux-way of adapting to standards then following a certain architecture

  2. Bootloaders are ugly! on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 1

    and static, well, unless you use windows, or apple/mac that's all i have to say 'bout them for now ... a bit dissapointed that bootloaders are still part of the 'we need some work here' part in the oss application sea.

    But i use grub, as it's prettyfiable though a slight bit of a mess to configure, liked lilo because it's simpler and just boots.

  3. Re:GRUB! on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 0, Troll

    do short replies mean more experienced people are at work ?

  4. Re:wmf? on Exploit Released for Unpatched Windows Flaw · · Score: 1

    there's surely something about you i cannot quite put my finger on yet ...

  5. Re:Different ideas of Freedome on Podcasting Censored by Government · · Score: 1

    Ow! I'm staggering, just the timing i figure.

    Okay, so right now in Belgium it's a bit difficult to argue >against people of different etnicity ? Nope, but is is if you're making a job out of it like the political party in question does, making people feel like shit about almost our entire society. Unless you adhere to their 'culture'. Multicultural is a no go for them, despite the fact it's a human 'symptom' ...

    But, by all means, do not think one is required to shut up ! We DO have justice, law, courts, media and possibly a dozen other ways to pronounce whatever it is you have to say. From what i'm told you people in the U.S.A. don't carry the weight of consecutive wars like the Belgian people. That probably does stimulate a bias on both sides of perception.

    You are still convinced the U.S. standard of freedom is 'real' ?

    'Cmon, freedom became a product to sell, a consumable, probably ever since wars have been fought. Or to put it in more generalising terms, ever since the first law has been passed, the first border had been drawn ...

    Freedom is the right not to harm others, Freedom is the right to do what you need to do for your own wellbeing, Freedom is no borders, Freedom is equal priviliges, and more importantly, primarily even, FREEDOM = FREEDOM, no can do changing that.

    One can argue you have need for some kind of control, for everyone elses benefit ... and hey, that's also a trueism, but what about that, for every conviction a law was passed. That does not mean putting people in jail will change the world though, on the contrary even ... still for some people it's probably a good thing ...

    One could consider this; could law be considered a eugenic mechanism to breed more docile people or what kind of people do you think would be required in a 'free' world ? How about that for a trade-off you know ?

  6. handcranck interface on MIT Unveils Prototype for $100 Linux Laptop · · Score: 1

    A handcranck ! Would take hours of crankin' to reload that battery ! Especially when your doing some hefty first person shooter action or some artfull fractal renderings.

    So ...

    If anyone would be smart enough to build a 'universal rodent interface' or simply supply us with a 'genetically adapted' rodent in addition to a universal rodent interface would this not preemptively solve any rsi on those fragile child body's cranking away in the middle of a jungle to play they favorite blast-a-way ?

  7. Re:Sigh, you chaps still don;t get it. on The State of Linux Graphics · · Score: 1

    still these people make great efforts and are often skillfull programmers ... wich is why i subscribed to openusability.org ... maybe you should too

  8. TPC your friendly neigbour on Microsoft Stalling TCG Best Practices Document? · · Score: 1

    Well, to me, thanks but no thanks.

    Unless i have ABSOLUTE certainty i'll be able to NOT use TPC-technology at choice i will start collecting non-TPC motherboards from this day forth as to build a FREE-technology computer system tomorrow.

    I mean ... actually, what security ?
    To privatise from whom ?
    In wich war ?
    A virus ?
    A ... company ?
    A governement ?
    A nation ?
    Unknowns ?

    And at what cost ? Why not spend all that great money on making great software, better tools ... spending it on sponsorships people coding great software for the world for almost nothing ...

    Knowledge is power, Control is power, this is a step too far ... Maybe microsoft started seeing some light ... as one should not cary guns if one is hoping to avoid armed conflict ...

    gasp!

  9. SMTP vs Mailclient on Replacing SMTP? · · Score: 1

    Okay, so it's a great idea to have old-new idea's like mail2000 and some variations on it.

    What about a mailclient that would issue certificates with a one-time-key encryption back and forth between sender-receiver. You would receive my encrypted key and issue back an authorisation with your encrypted key. Based on your email adress and the key we both issued a somewhat advanced checksum is compiled and the email adresses are authorised to send or/and receive messages to one another. This would require no changes to SMTP or SMTP servers (wich took long time to become stable AND secure). AND autorisation based spam-fighting would enable users to simply ERASE all other mail in their box or keep it for review. Authentication spamming could probably easily be countered by some limits built into the mailclients on both sides. Receiver would automatically erase all double requests etc.

    So it's a bit of a pgp-thing mixed with icq, shaken not stirred. And probably you'll laugh, but it will not cost fortunes and a whole new infrastructure would it ?

  10. Re:Yay! My networks are over to IPv6!!! on Replacing SMTP? · · Score: 1

    Wahahahahahahahahhahahahaha,


    you coward.

  11. Re:DefendMail project on Replacing SMTP? · · Score: 1

    Hey, this project's pretty old allready isn't it ? Or should i say mature ? I kind of seem to remember it from, oh no, waay back.

  12. Re:It's a shame on Ricor PVRs To Hit Russia · · Score: 1

    Although i've never been too fond of P2P i've never intentionally killed a kitten for it. Be carefull who's name you use next time.

    "i'm bewildered enough to write this stuff down so stake it just slightly serious"

  13. and what about TCL-TK ???? on Drawing Graphs on Your Browser? · · Score: 1

    http://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/ for more information, i've kind of figured this is quite interesting stuff though i have no experience but the plugins.

  14. A measur for nothing on Australian Linux User Group Fights Back Against SCO · · Score: 1

    SCO stated it's going to demand a Unixware license fee from all >> company's
    AFAIK, SCO's trying to get money from the larger company's around wich are getting a monstrous return-on-investment from using kernels wich contain code wich SCO claims has either been derived or copied from their codebase.

  15. Didn't you notice on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 1



    There are quite a _FEW_ posts following this remark ! ?

    Now i'm wondering what kind of things people dare to eat on the other end of this carefully timeframed message.

  16. what if i read just parts of it on RMS Calls On Linux Developers To Replace BitKeeper · · Score: 1

    well ? what then what ?

  17. Re:Those hyperintelligent pandimensional beings!! on Psychotic Lab Mice · · Score: 1

    Hey,

    You've neglegted to mention these mice-minds had the earth built for research purposes and thus are actually fooling us rather well into thinking it's us and not . . . them

  18. Re:guns dont kill people ... on Freenet 0.5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that's a good one.
    So after http:// telnet:// ftp:// https:// there is freenet:// ???
    Would be really nice :)

  19. Re:Serious health Warning for beertravellers on Linux Beer Hike in Slovakia · · Score: 1

    Hey Jan,

    I did my best at making an informative (neutral) posting of a topic that's bound to stir some emotions. Therefor i included the statement the ticks are not those spreading Lyme's disease but encephalitis for wich a vaccin exists etc.

    Wouldn't want a billion dollar lawsuite from some tick diseased americano no ?

  20. Limit but effective Anti-spam email add-on on EU Rolls out Anti Spam Strategy · · Score: 1

    *Breath*, Here i go . . .

    I'm pretty concerned by all this legistlation efforts on spam, not becaus i mind the spam to end. But because it's a great workaround for any privacy laws in place. Mind the life-log project and other similar enhancements. Might a simple software proposal not cause enough effect ?

    In the end let's not forget spam is not allways unwelcome to some, and there's both legal and illegal mass-mailing.

    The general idea is to have some talented programmer(s) write a standardised (rfc'ed) plugin for a number of email client(s) wich will improve point-to-point authentication and even point-to-list/group authentication. As such spamming could be ended by letting the user CHOOSE wich he or she want's to receive mail from. Much like an ICQ-client does but, preferably, more secure and with some funtionality to counteract some actions like authorisation-flooding. I allready but some work into this idea, cough*, but AFAIK lack the skills to write one myself.

    I've posted this proposal here and there on a couple of occasions but for now people are baffled by the available brainpower interested in earning millions. Amazingly enough these people are proposing humongous databases wich will cost a LOT, wreak havoc on any privacy law out there and in the end will probably fail at really resolving the spam issue.

    That's what we call dotbangers (xXx) over here, though the word's pretty hard to translate.

    Feel free to send me a mail or message if you'd like to start a project on this.

  21. Re:I always suspectedd these two words are close on Linux Beer Hike in Slovakia · · Score: 1, Funny

    There have been attempts to restore some information from the attendees to previous events, unfortunately all attempts have failed. In the end the doctors said it is best to simply give up any restore procedures and hire some agency to make sure people drink less next time.

  22. Serious health Warning for beertravellers on Linux Beer Hike in Slovakia · · Score: 5, Informative

    To bad i couldn't find a joke to insert but ... There's currently a true tick-plague going on in almost the whole of eastern europe. People you'd better get that vacination now since it takes about three weeks to kick in. Pluspoint is the ticks concerned are not spreading the dreaded Lyme's Disease but merely Tickborne Encephalitis. English Health Information here Dutch Health Information here

  23. Re:The Installfest on CD Duplicator Refuses Linux Job, Citing MS Contract · · Score: 1

    This is getting to me ... cowering people ... an article over at the register wich is stating Open Source is in for a really exciting trial (read dangerous). And now this, i hope you'll have to go and get another five hundred cd's to make copies or something of that order.

    Just to make the world awake to the powers that are trying to get HOLD OF OUR LIVES while still being merely human.

    So i'm a bit emotional ! All this multi-national more powerfull then the people and their governement kind of news i getting me pretty *ngry just because of the stupid fact these trials are about to happen.

  24. Re:No worms for me, please! on Worms Going Further, Faster · · Score: 1

    Hmm, last time i looked a mac wich was only used for file/picture storage got infected really badly. Eventually it turned the mac-world is pretty much infested with a high concentration of viruses as well, while a worm is probably not as common indeed. Yes, you do need some AVirus software too, even on a Mac.

    FYI : G4Laptop looks yummy, really yummy

    When people say there's a lot of attention towards the pc/windows platform and this makes for a lot of attacks that's obviously true. Even Microsoft made a statement about it, though they forgot to mention they're attracting more hackers with every new release of there OS/Gui Platform. One could even suspect them of simply having lured most of the current generation of people-who-love-to-mess-in-transistorland.

    You probably kind'of get what i'm getting at. This condition quite probably indicates the apple/macOS platform is a virgin island to hackers since the ploits never got exposed. And i'd say, only God knows how many MacOS-networks are a playgarden to those with the skills. Hence running a Mac is a really stupid thing to do when you're looking for some kind of trustworthy environment.

    Haha.

  25. Devolved keyboard it is on One-Thumb Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Since it is not wireless ...