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  1. OMG, I just found a Win9x exploit on Apple Responds to Exploit · · Score: 0, Troll
    At the login window, if you press ESC you can gain full access to the system!! No username/password needed.

    Sorry to release this 'sploit "into the wild" without warning Microsoft, but I figured it was important to warn Win9x system admins ASAP. I also thought that Microsoft has had plenty of time to find/fix this major flaw --it is 2003...

  2. BMW has not gravitated towards MS systems, for now on If Microsoft Built Cars... · · Score: 2, Informative
    Quote from the November 2003 issue of Roundel (BMW CCA Magazine):

    Teaching Bill how to do iDrive:
    BMW CEO Helmut Panke has been named to Microsoft's board of directors. Microsoft (Windows CE Automotive) had been the star-crossed operating system controlling the 7 series dashboard; BMW abandoned WinCE in the new 5 series.
  3. Re:Why Bother: on Apple's iTunes DRM Cracked? · · Score: 1
    This method does the following

    DRM AAC -> AAC

    Good point, but you're losing quality no matter what. Consider the big picture:

    Studio master recording -> AAC[.m4p] (if done properly)

    Studio master recording -> CD -> AAC[.m4p] (probably how iTMS does it) (assuming you're dealing with an AAD disc)

  4. Re:6. No Ogg Vorbis! on 5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod · · Score: 1
    C'mon every body jump on the Ogg Vorbis bandwagon... Free formats rule!

    BTW, that CD that you just burned... Sony and Phillips just got a royalty for that. I'm sure that disgusts you enough that you're going to create a new free removeable media format and throw away all of your CDs, right?

    Be sure that your Beowulf cluster supports the new format as well. Oh, and don't spend too much time working on that new media spec though, you still have to find time to proclaim that BSD is dead.

  5. Re:Could you imagine bluejacking bombs? on Spammed by Bluetooth · · Score: 1
    If it requires a two-way handshake... how about bluetooth tarpits?

    Of course you could probably get around that with multithreading.

  6. Re:But pencils are still cool... on Writing in Space with a Cheap Ballpoint Pen · · Score: 2, Funny
    But it leaves all that rubber shit from the eraser floating around.:)

    The rubber shit is to insulate the electronics from the conductive graphite.

  7. Re:Linux vs Unix on Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat · · Score: 1
    The other 5% of the industry that cares about large 100+ CPU systems is the most important segment. Just because there are a few installations of these systems, that doen't mean that millions of people don't use/rely upon them daily.

    Take OpenVMS and Tandem NSK.

    Quote from HP:

    NonStop servers process 66 percent of credit card transactions, 95 percent of securities transactions, and 80 percent of automated teller machine (ATM) transactions. They also participate in 75 percent of electronic funds transfer (EFT) networks.
    Sure the number of systems running those OSs number in the hundreds, but when those systems process nearly every EFT transaction, stock transation and E911 call; suddenly it doesn't matter what 95% of the industry thinks...

    We're really just talking about apples and oranges here, but to say that UNIX is dead because of a dwindling marketshare is ignorant. Those people who say that UNIX/BSD is dead would also say that OpenVMS and Tandem NSK are dead too --and that is short-sighted.

  8. Re:UNIX / LINUX on Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat · · Score: 1

    If you took all of the good UNIX stuff and put it into Linux, you'd end up with Solaris.

  9. Re:I'm looking for a chick from many ads on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 1

    You're referring to her???

    http://www.pacificbellasr.com/

    Just surf for five minutes and you're sure to find this gal. Of course I had to google(images) for "operator", because I couldn't remember where I had seen her last.

    Rumor has it that she's dating the IT Guy in the featured article.