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  1. No on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 1

    The GPL is about freedom to use and modify the software, not price.

  2. Re:Is this really that hard? on Handling Viruses in an Uncontrolled Network? · · Score: 1
    2. the IDS alerts then trigger shutting down their switch port and notify an admin. Depending on your switch port mapping database, you can even email the user.

    How do they then check their email?

  3. Re:Stack on Is the x86 Architecture Less Secure? · · Score: 1
    It's totally insane.

    It's not totally insane. The stack and data areas both grow into unallocated space. In a system without paging (such as the 8080, which the 386+ is ultimately decended from), this is the easiest to allocate. It only becomes a problem on stack overflow or memory exhaustion. It's also the way most architectures work. (at least the 8080, 8086, 80286, 80386+, 2502, 6800+, 68000+, VAX, etc, which is to say every architecture I've ever programmed in assembley). I have a PPC assembley book at home which I'll check after work, but I don't remember anything about the stack growing up.

  4. Mod Parent Up on Firefox Breaks 50,000,000 Barrier · · Score: 1

    It's worse than Newfoundland.

  5. Re:I Dub Thee too, "Sir Troll" on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 1

    I always thought this had more to do with prelinking and using premptable kernel than any compilation optimizations (neither of these require an source-based distro).

  6. Re:I Dub Thee, "Sir Troll" on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or do a Stage 3/GRP install and cut out the compile time almost completely.

  7. Re:GUI installer should use the GRP. on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 1

    Before they removed the screenshots you could clearly see that it gives you the option to use GRP.

  8. Re:Gaytoo on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 1
    So, I use a distro where I can install things quickly, and get on with configuring them. Debian.
    So do I. I use gentoo. Actually, most things are configured correctly out of the tree. And those that I do configure myself don't have the configuration files hosed by the next update. And the stable base system isn't years out-of-date.
  9. Re:Not compiling on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Already available on What to Expect from Linux 2.6.12 · · Score: 1

    SELinux is in the main tree, it's just not turned on by default. Same with the kernel preemption feature. I'm not sure what the article is on about.

  11. Re:Out of curiosity on Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System? · · Score: 1

    Filesystem calls are a pimple compared to the mountain of disk seeks required if access paterns to the database are random. They may also make the difference between using an off the shelf database and writing one yourself.

  12. Re:Best Game for Bored Workers on Satellite Easter Eggs · · Score: 1

    Another example of the harm BBCode is doing to the web.

  13. So close on Lessons Proprietary Software Can Teach Open Source · · Score: 1

    But it's not "in soviet Russia".

  14. Re:hand washing/cleaning on Keyboards are Havens for Super Bugs · · Score: 1

    Great for hospitals, but for other environments... restaurants for example almost always use heavily scented liquid hand soap. Consequently any of their customers with alergies can't wash their hands properly after using the facilities.

  15. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    I was alive, and still am. I didn't have to walk uphill both ways either; the town was fairly flat.

  16. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    What town? I lived in Fort St. John from 1982-1989.

  17. Re:HUH??? on Next Gen Oxyride Batteries Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    They're disposable, and available in Canada under other trademarks than Oxyride.

  18. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I lived in Northern BC, we went to school in the dark, had recess in the dark, had sunshine for noon hour, and went home in the dark, and played outside in the dark.

  19. Re:Can they do this? on CherryOS Goes Open Source · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As their project was a GUI wrapper for PearPC, they can open source the wrapper, but they can't distribute PearPC with it because their license has been revoked.

  20. Re:Competition? on Portrait of The Last Remaining Pinball Wizard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or it could be that pinball machines are so well made and timeless that few customers are buying new ones rather than repairing or buying used.

  21. Mod Parent Up on EZTree Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  22. No on DNS Cache Poisoning Spreads Malware · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article is about DNS Cache poisoning, not DNS spoofing. In DNS cache poisoning you're effectively telling the victim's DNS server to query your (fake) server for all of a class of requests (ie *.com), instead of the one it should be querying. DNS spoofing only tries to fool reverse lookups.

  23. Re:Why not both? on Cooler Servers or Cooler Rooms? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I can see it now, our server rooms will eventually have a rack or two devoted entirely to the radiators for the liquid cooling systems of servers, which run hot enough form plasma.

    It seems more likely to me that the radiators would be placed outside. I could forsee water cooled racks that come with a centre mounted warm and cool water manifolds plumbed to high flow lines to take all the water to one big radiator outside...

    Or probably easier to manage, a 2-4U centre mounted unit with the manifold and pumps for that rack, circulating water through that rack and to/from a central resevoir (55 gallon plastic drum) in the server room, and annother set of pumps and very large pipes to take the water through an outside radiator.

    Each (1U, 2U, etc server ) unit could have it's own rear mounted hose attachments (and bleed valve) in a modular fashion so you just hook up a new computer to the warm and cool manifolds, open the valves, bleed the air, and your new unit is cooled. To remove it, just shut the manifold valves, open the bleed valve, put a bucket under the lines, and take the lines off the connectors.

  24. Re:The EU on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 1
    Take that, you people who are going into Canada on a one-way trip.

    Which seems to me to be a good reason for Canada Customs to ask to see US passports... As a matter of professional courtesy to make sure visitors are not going to get stuck.

  25. Re:What's next? Interstate travel? on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 1

    And when visiting Canada, remember: the speed limit signs are in KM/h, not Miles/hour. You may not drive 30 miles/hour in a school zone, and 120 miles/hour on the freeway is right out.