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  1. MOD PARENT DOWN!! IMPERSONATION! on Microsoft Revenue Up, Tries to Hook Third World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    MOD PARENT DOWN!! IMPERSONATION!

    Look closely at his name! RAY_R_NOND? looks like raymond but spelled rayrnond. See it?

    See the FAQ


    I have re-posted this AC comment because it needs to be seen, and someone has modded it down unfairly.

  2. Re:Unearned Income...ehh on Microsoft Revenue Up, Tries to Hook Third World · · Score: 1

    In double-entry, accrual basis accounting, all money must come from somewhere.

    If someone pays you for a service you have provided, or are providing right now, the money comes from Service revenue. For example, if I bill you for this post, the journal entry looks like this:

    DR Accounts Recievable: mcasson 1000.00
    ---CR Service Revenue: Slashdot posts 1000.00
    --Wrote Slashdot reply

    Money that you recieve as a pre-payment for future services comes from unearned revenue. Like this:

    DR Cash: Chequeing #34324 10,000.00
    ---CR Unearned Revene: future Slashdot posts 10,000.00
    --Client prepaid for future posts.
    Then, when I make the the posts that were prepaid for, it looks like this:
    DR Unearned Revenue: future Slashdot posts 1000.00
    ---CR Service Revenue: Slashdot Posts 1000.00
    --Made post
    The observant will notice that Unearned Revenue is actually a Liability account, not a Revenue account.

    IANA-Accountant

  3. w00t! on X.org and XFree86 Reform · · Score: 1

    Now you'll be able to theme twm!

  4. One that should be on the list... on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    Night shift at a convenience store in a bad neighbourhood.

    I've seen all of these:

    • Gang fights in the parking lot
    • Stabbings in the parking lot
    • Fights inside the store
    • Assaults on me in the store (twice) and on my way home (once)
    • Baseball-bat beatings inside the store
    • Being threatened with a knife, and a dirty needle
    • Drug overdoses in the bathroom
    • Tampering with food products
    • Store robbed at gunpoint 5 minutes after I left

    And this was in a medium size city (pop 100k) in Canada. This is why I've gone back to university despite it sending me deeper into debt.

  5. Actually, YOU report in... on Currency Detection Discovered in More Products · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Suddenly, the expensive printer in your office starts printing every image (but not text) in fluorescent green. It has plenty of magenta toner, plain paper, a surge suppressor, etc. It's having the same problem with both Windows and BSD or Linux computers, so you know it's not a driver issue.

    So, what do you do?

    You call tech support to find out you need to do a firmware upgrade, remove the network card, turn the printer off & back on, while holding a button, turn it off, replace the network card, turn it back on, and calibrate it 3 times.

    Have this same trouble ticket a few times and I bet they'll notify the RCMP, MI-6, FBI, or whatever it is in your country.

    All because someone at your office was "playing" with a new logo design, that happens to include a scanned image of the "great pyramid" on the US dollar bill.

  6. PIPEDA on Northwest Gives Personal Data to NASA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In Canada, the airlines would be liable for damages from every customer for this (assuming there was no regulation requiring them to share the information).

    IANAL

    PIPEDA

  7. Re:Yeah, but will it run... on Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not Solaris 9, nor Linux.

    But the real question is... Could a SunPCI card installed in a Linux 2.6 x86 machine be incorporated into a NUMA subarchitecture?

  8. rabbits on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 5, Funny

    We'll have rabbits and chickens and live off the fat of the LAN.

    Appologies to Steinbeck

  9. Re:What were they thinking? on More ApeXtreme Info · · Score: 1

    If you read the article, you'd see that the GPU in use is made by VIA. The S3 core is just included as part of the motherboard chipset, but is disabled.

  10. Here's what I get... It's not slashdotted at all. on Apartment Lit Solely by LEDs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because of the absolutely phenomenal number of requests for this
    site (due to its being listed on Slashdot), we have had to take
    the unusual step of temporarily disabling the content of the
    site until things calm down :-) We apologise for any inconvenience
    that this may cause.

  11. Re:Okay, an offtopic question. on Speak Freely To Be Withdrawn January 15 · · Score: 0, Troll

    An answer vaguely on topic...
    You might also link one of these to multiple failed xlock passwords.
    don't forget to make it run nohup.

    #!/bin/bash

    su <<EOF
    (rootpassword)
    wall "Ack! someone's breaking in the door!"
    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda

    EOF

    ----------------
    or, more realistically,

    #!/bin/bash
    # this script does not assume that it will run to completion
    # so it tries to prioritize. It also has never been tested.
    su <<EOF
    (rootpassword)

    wall "Physical Security Compromized!"

    # Kill encryption keys.
    killall -TERM\
    /usr/bin/gpg-agent /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/local/bin/speakfreely\
    /usr/bin/kgpg /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/sshd
    umount -f -d (any cryptoloop filesystem)

    # Dispose of accidentally saved data
    # Comment out the first two lines if you don't use TmpFS
    rm -rf /tmp/*
    umount /tmp
    swapoff /dev/hda2
    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda2

    # Warning: if you don't use TmpFS for /tmp,
    # you need to do something here to clean & scrub /tmp

    # make sure we can start up cleanly.
    mkswap /dev/hda2

    # Shut it down

    /sbin/shutdown -h now

    EOF

  12. We are on 2003: Year of Apache · · Score: 1

    We're developing a new system to replace our existing one. Apache 2 has LDAP Authentication. Courier IMAP has LDAP Authentication... So our new system can have a single user database.

  13. How to keep your logs Nimda free on 2003: Year of Apache · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. Set up a free hostname (eg example.ods.org) on somewhere like ods.org
    2. Configure (example.ods.org) as a virtual host, where you keep all your real contents. (Turn UseCannonicalName Off)
    3. Set up per host access and error logs for (example.ods.org)
    4. Leave a 0 byte index.html in the default site directory (and make sure you don't have and CGI, w3perl, etc lying around that might have an unknown vulnerability).
    5. Tell all your friends to use (http://example.ods.org) instead of your IP.

    Now your host access and error logs for (example.ods.org) have all the real accesses, and the default logs have all the CodeRed, Nimda, Spam Proxy attempts, ISP TOS Checker, and 5cr1p7 k1dd13z.

  14. Not always. on 2003: Year of Apache · · Score: 1

    In 2000 I installed Apache on Windows NT for a small business website here that couldn't use an ISP Virtual Server because the site needed to be close to their stock database. I didn't hear from them for a few months (and I had plenty of opportunity to, I played D&D with the owner every week).

    About 6 months later they asked me to build them a linux webserver because their NT server was crashing too much because of some other software on it. I built it on old hardware they had lying around and slapped it on a cheap UPS/Power conditioner. No problems since.

  15. Re:A few first-hand comments.. on AP Article On Cyborg Steve Mann · · Score: 1

    So then, all people in all cultures are cyborg because they do not exist without knives and fire? Then let us dispense with the term cyborg, and call eachother human. Some of us are just more obsessed with our expensive tools.

  16. Re:What does this have to do with online stuff? on AP Article On Cyborg Steve Mann · · Score: 1

    A better question would be: What does this have to do with "Your rights online"? I don't see anything about rights or legal or ethical issues asside from that the guy likes to push sales clerks around.

  17. Re:AOL... on Microsoft Soft-Pedals Dialup · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, high prices, pay as little as possible for tech support personnel, customers too uninformed to use something else, marketing hype.... I think that sums up their business success. Kind of like Microsoft Windows, and Tobacco, isn't it?

  18. Whoops, there goes my town's big employer. on Microsoft Soft-Pedals Dialup · · Score: 3, Informative

    We have a big call centre here. MSN is one of their big clients. I guess most of those people will soon be out of work.

    From what I've heard, the big problem with MSN isn't the advertizing, it's that they install really buggy software ("MSN 8"). A lot of people ended up getting fired from the callcentre for telling MSN customers how to use the plain-old PPP settings & Internet Explorer/Outlook Express to use MSN. It solved their problems, but wasn't in the allowed script.

  19. Re:Tired of Sco... on SCO Approaches Google About Linux Licenses · · Score: 1

    It's Easy.

    1. Pick your site to boost (ie www.sco.com/releases.cfm)
    2. Pick your phrase to link to it (ie stock manipulation)
    3. Tell all your friends to tell all their friends to put a link like
      <a href="http://www.sco.com/releases.cfm">stock manipulation</a>
      in their blogs. It's even better if their blog entry is talking mostly about investment news (more likely to be authoratative for "stock manipulation")
    4. Don't bother selling SCOX short. so many people already have that there's not enough stock on the market to cover their shorts without driving up the price.
    5. Wait a few weeks for the search engines to spider all the blogs and do the PageRank (or whatever that particular search engine call it) thing.
  20. Re:150 watts of? on First Look At Intel Tejas & Socket 775 · · Score: 1
    Isnt there work being done than giving off heat???

    Changing the state of a bit is work. Changing it back is un-work. This results in zero net work. At least that's how my professor explained it.

  21. Re:Interesting on First Look At Intel Tejas & Socket 775 · · Score: 1

    No bent pins.

  22. Re:150 watts of? on First Look At Intel Tejas & Socket 775 · · Score: 1
    Is that dissipated heat?

    Unless it emits light, moves rocks uphill, accellerates your car, or charges one whopper of a battery, yes, that's dissipated heat.

    It's called conservation of energy. Here is a NASA page explaining it. It's not rocket science, but it is important to understand for building rockets, bicycling, etc. Along with Conservation of Mass and Conservation of Momentum it forms the trilateral commission that keeps us all from building those "free energy" devices I keep hearing about.

  23. In other news on Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1
    From the Website:
    WinTel Server 10 Times Less Expensive To Operate Than Linux Mainframe

    In other News

    • Pocket Calculator 100 times less expensive than Windows Desktop
    • Tricycle 1000 times less expensive than Sports Car
  24. Re:I run my own mail server, not blocked on You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam · · Score: 1

    Running sendmail properly configured to do delivery of outgoing local mail is not running a server by most ISP agreements that I have seen. What you are doing is.

    If properly configured (with the -q option) sendmail won't listen on port 25; it periodically processes the outgoing mail queue. By default on most recent desktop Linux distros I've tried, sendmail is set up to process the queue periodically, delivering the mail direct to the recipient's mail exchanger. This is one of the behaviours that AOL blocks. It is also the only way I can get emails out in a timely manner as my ISP's server is unreliable.

  25. False Positives on You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam · · Score: 3, Informative

    AOL blocks any mail that is routed direct to the Mail Exchanger (Or simply has the headers stripped to anonymize it's origin)

    This excludes a whole lot of out of the box UNIX/Linux/BSD installs, as well as anonymizers and some website registration verification scripts. I'd rather not have to send your website login password through 3 different servers before it reaches your ISP. (Of course, the password shouldn't be sent through the email anyways, but a lot of sites do).

    That's not what I'd call "being conservative". To me, being conservative would be tagging suspected spam as such, and letting the MUA filter it into a seperate mailbox. AOL can include a MUA (Netscape) on it's disk, so it can be pre-configured.