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  1. Somewhat Simple -- perhaps non-obvious. on Efficient Use of Network Load-Balancing w/ SSL? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Setup an OpenBSD box with a crypto card. Let it do all of the dirty work. That box should proxy requests to the load balancer and other webservers in unencrypted form.

    Lets you buy a single cert, and with hardware crypto you should be able to handle enough for a modest load -- more than a few million pages daily.

  2. Re:Pass the crack pipe on New Open Video Codec From Xiph/On2 · · Score: 2

    I think this is another case of what we see more often isn't necessarily what is.

    Most USians (Americans in the USA) believe their primary import source is Korea, Taiwan, etc. due to the labels on a number of products they see on a regular basis.

    It's simply the #1 source of imported consumer good -- but certainly no where near others in $ value.

  3. Re:Pass the crack pipe on New Open Video Codec From Xiph/On2 · · Score: 2

    OGG has taken over a ton of MP3 markets. The most obvious is music / audio included with a ton of games.

  4. Re:Thnk that's funny? on Geeks and Chefs, Unite · · Score: 2

    So it'll be a love hate relationship?

    You love when the fridge gives you a treat, you hate when it calls you names for taking the treat.

  5. Re:Only for "power lusers" on Making Computing More Human-Centered · · Score: 2

    No, but a combination of speech and finger pointing could be useful.

    'Pull up directory tree'.

    'Move all files in directory' 'to directory' 'and transform from gif to png' -> Computer moves from dir1 to dir2 and runs them through a gif to png filter (rename file, change contents).

    Aside from noise levels in offices, this could be a quick way of getting stuff done. Not code though. Saying the names for various brackets is way too time consuming -- even if you go with square, round and squiggly rather than proper names.

  6. Re:Double billed? on Commercial NNTP Gateway Recommendations? · · Score: 2

    Check again in a few weeks.

    I don't have one either with Rogers, but I'm faily confident I'll see one before September.

  7. Re:And the score is.... on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 2

    I hope that in 2 years or more, I'll get used.

    Me too, but in the good way -- and with an increased frequency ;)

  8. Double billed? on Commercial NNTP Gateway Recommendations? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you buy 10GB worth of news from GigaNews will Comcast also bill you for going over the cable modem monthly transfer limits by 5GB?

  9. Hello World boring? on Building A J2EE App with Linux · · Score: 1

    Simply write the program in assembly, and have the computer say Hello World without a pre-recorded wave or audio file. Now do it without an operating system (self bootable, sound card drivers build in, etc.)

    That said, good tutorial.

  10. Re:Hell no! on Mobile Phone in Your Teeth! · · Score: 2

    You would prefer a late night phone call that wakes you up to thank you for the system not crashing?

  11. Re:Mac OS X is not really BSD. on FreeBSD 4.6 · · Score: 2

    What does price or freedom have to do with anything?

    BSDi certainly wasn't free, but it sure was BSD and in some cases was well worth the price.

    Thats like saying, "Thats not bread because it doesn't have a hard brown crust on it". You just haven't been paying attention to the breads which don't brown.

  12. Re:Lemme Go Wild With This on A Web Browser in Your BIOS? · · Score: 2

    Firewire is very close to accomplishing what you mention above. It doesn't have quite the following yet, but is quite capable.

  13. Re:Airport security and ethical problems on Terahertz Imaging:Another Way to See Through Walls · · Score: 2

    You forgot paper with squared corners. Only round paper is allowed on airplanes.

  14. Re:Uhm...Okay. Wait a minute. on Terahertz Imaging:Another Way to See Through Walls · · Score: 2

    I thought we all hated windows! Damnit, now I'm confused.

  15. Re:I've always found on Memorable Programming Assignments? · · Score: 2

    Thats easy. Just make sure N is 1.

  16. Re:Damn, I tried it on Linux and the Smile.D Virus keeps us Smiling · · Score: 2

    Maybe not binary executables, but the people running unknown email attachments (often uncompiled -- non binary) would be equally willing to run a shell script which grabbed a small pron movie or promised pretended to be a quake installer.

    Heck, I've often wondered how many people would run a program claiming to rid your computer of viruses (media term -- not mine for most of this stuff) but came from an unknown source. I bet you could get lots of corporate information with it -- and that one wouldn't surprise them to be in their system tray and taking cpu time and doing disk work.

  17. Re:Here's an idea on Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers? · · Score: 2

    Has nothing to do with you. What you use is trivial. GBit nics / routers are cheap and you're probably no where near those levels. 10mbit stuff is even cheaper :)

    That said, it's the multi-terabit routers (the fridge sized ones) that cost big bucks. Thats the reason most fibre is dark -- unused.

    The infrastructure is in the ground, but it costs way too much to actually turn it on.

  18. Re:OpenGL peanut gallery on Comcast in Court, AT&T Gets Greedy · · Score: 2

    You said it yourself. The model doesn't cost $10 a month to rent. As such they've LOWERED the rental fee to something that better describes it and removed the modem rental fee subsidising the internet service(s).

    As such, they've raised the price of those who bought their own modems to something more reasonable given that modems don't cost $10 a month -- and they no longer have the subsidy of customers who do rent their modems.

    Given the above, reworded version what you said, they've actually corrected a problem which was screwing over a majority of their customer base for the benefit of a few.

  19. Re:Dimmer? on Hello MEMS, Goodbye Monitors · · Score: 2

    Ahh definatly. Without the colour masking (which blocks atleast 50% of the light -- even on white) I could see them being quite bright indeed.

  20. Re:A *VERY* Simple answer to cheating. on Game Developers Cracking Down on Cheating · · Score: 2

    Yes, in a closed source commercial game thats possible.

    Doesn't help the homebrew opensource guys any though -- as it becomes dirt simple to get around those.

  21. Re:Damn, I tried it on Linux and the Smile.D Virus keeps us Smiling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps, but:

    rm -rf ~

    The above can be just as fatal if not more to most people.

    It's easy to reinstall the system, it's tough to re-create all of those projects you were working on.

  22. Re:Sex is salacious? on Artificial Inteligence Common Sense Database · · Score: 2

    heh.. I can just picture a T1000 picking up another T1000 in a bar -- then leaving together.

  23. Re:A *VERY* Simple answer to cheating. on Game Developers Cracking Down on Cheating · · Score: 2

    (One simple version of) What you have to do is align the key data elements in contiguous memory in a platform independent format and then do MD5 (or similar) checksums on it. Every few hundred {your favorite quanta here} transmit the new checksum to the game server. If a given client participant's checksum is wrong then reset the client, if the client persists in "going bad" then a cheat has almost certianly been used and the client is ejected and barred from the server for some time (say two days).

    How does this help? The cheater simply needs to keep a copy of the data they're using in the client as normal, and a copy of what the server expects elsewhere so that they can send it in.

  24. Re:This is getting really old on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 2

    CIBC.. They upgraded their website about a month ago from a perfectly functional version to one that won't allow Mozilla to login.

    Some weird javascript or something that bumps it back out to the frontpage. When I complained they said they knew and were working on it.

    Funny thing is that other affiliate banks (Presidents Choice Financial) appears to use the same backend -- similar style, binary conventions and server cluster -- but it works fine.

  25. Re:too many bugs for me on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 2

    3 is definatly a video driver issue.

    I've had the same thing with many programs under ATI video cards. Seems it has something to do with specific drawing methods.

    I've not seen in with mozilla, but many a time I've lost the X in all windows to a green and black mess.