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  1. Messenger 7 detected as Spyware?? on Microsoft Releases AntiSpyware Program · · Score: 1

    I am running the beta of Messenger 7, and AntiSpyWare detected "Messenger Plus!" as spyware and says it is not to be trusted.

    I have not installed any additional Messenger add-ons to my PC, so this must have come bundled with the beta.

  2. Wireless support on HP iPAQ hx2750 Pocket PC Review · · Score: 1

    the device supports 64 and 128 bit WEP encryption, 802.1x using PEAP, SmartCard or Certificates

    But does it support WPA?

  3. Re:Videos of Asian Tsunami... on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    Right click

    I'm on a Mac, you insensitive clod!

  4. A real-life "kamikaze" novel - Vathek on Kamikaze Novel Writing · · Score: 1

    "Vathek" by William Beckford is a classic example of a book written "kamikaze style" in 1786 (or thereabouts).

    It is a dark gothic novel about a caleph who sells his soul to the devil, and it is one of my favourite stories - but most amazing of all is that Beckford wrote it in a single sitting of 3 days and 2 nights.

    The e-text is available over at Project Gutenberg.

  5. Re:Ooh, I take that back,,,, on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    I've slept on the matter, and now I take this back (hehe) and revert to my original claim - Highlander II happens to be on TV again right now (gotta love cable), and it is definitely worse.

    See one of the other posts for a better explanation than I can give.

  6. Ooh, I take that back,,,, on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    ...the worst movie ever is Escape From L.A.

  7. Highlander II on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    Especially the Director's cut.

    I watched this on TV about 2 hours ago. What were they thinking?? Shame - the first one was alright.

  8. Re:This isn't necessarily against SEC rules! on Google Creators Interviewed by Playboy · · Score: 1

    Looking through the comments, it seems to be populated by teenagers titillated at the prospect of having geek content in a softcore porn magazine.

    hehe, you said tit.

  9. I own nothing.com.au on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    I am lucky enough to own the nothing.com.au domain, which I am sure is used by many many Australians for this purpose.

    This account gets so much spam (>10k per day some days) that I no longer use it for email.

    I run several layers of spam filtering, but 500-600 per day still make it through.

    On the positive side though, it does allow me to really test the effectiveness of various spam filters.

  10. Re:sorry for what on Author signs MyDoom virus · · Score: 1

    MyDOOM takes advantage of the user's ability to run executables directly from his/her email client.

    If they were running a recent (patched) version of Outlook or Outlook Express, they would have been unable to execute the attachment as it is "unsafe". I actually *tried* to infect a test machine with this virus and couldn't without modifying the registry to allow these attachments.

    The problem is people running old (98, Me, etc) and unpatched versions of Windows.

  11. Re:Patch breaks OWA in Exchange 2003 on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 3, Informative

    It must just be your university. OWA 2003 does not send the username/password in the URL, and I can confirm that our OWA is still functioning perfectly after applying the patch.

  12. Re:unfortunatly... on Half-Life 2 - A Linux User's Lament · · Score: 1

    and windows is pretty idiot proof in that respect..

    Make something idiot proof and they'll make a better idiot.

  13. Re:You're asking the wrong question on Can .NET Really Scale? · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, but we're based in Australia where that is considered large. We're pushing out 3-4 terabytes of data each week.

  14. Re:You're asking the wrong question on Can .NET Really Scale? · · Score: 1

    Whoopsie, I meant hundreds of thousands not hundreds of tens. Bit of difference there :)

  15. You're asking the wrong question on Can .NET Really Scale? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am the network admin at a large .Net website (5+ million unique visitors each month) and we often handle hundreds of tens of simultaneous requests. The entire site runs on 6 webservers and two database servers that run at less than 50% capacity during peak times.

    If you can't scale above 100 connections on a 3GHz system then you are doing something wrong. Check your code, check your databases.

    Your question is about as useful as "I have a piece of string that is not long enough, what can I use instead that is longer?"

  16. Actually, Australia did get attacked on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    In WWII Japan invaded the Australian territory of New Guinea, there were then air raids on Papua (another Australian territory at the time). Then in 1942 they bombed Darwin, Australia's most northern capital city.

    The British were more concerned with defending India and wouldn't commit troops to helping Australia, but fortunately for us the US did so.

    You can fine more info here.