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  1. Re:TBF with a big bucket on Microsoft RickRolls Wi-Fi Network Leechers · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's actually pretty easy in linux. http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.classless.html#AEN691 In fact, http://lartc.org/ has loads of good stuff.

  2. Re:Why don't apps just use their own copy of the . on "Side By Side Assemblies" Bring DLL Hell 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Actually that was a big problem with the GDI+ library a few years ago. People have even written their own vulnerable DLL scanners for this sort of thing.

  3. Re:Just do it! on Senate Approves 4-Month Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 5, Informative

    Obligatory Wikipedia page explaining this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

  4. Re:"Not on the phone!" on UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed · · Score: 1

    "Never write when you can call; never call when you can visit; never talk when you can whisper; and never whisper when you can wink." -- supposedly by Russell Long

  5. Re:no privacy here, no privacy there on Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK · · Score: 1
    Well... Their transport secretary gave some great quotes in about building a massive telephone/internet database:
    • "If they are going to use the internet to communicate with each other and we don't have the power to deal with that, then you are giving a licence to terrorists to kill people."
    • "The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist."
  6. Re:gethrtime() ? on RT Linux Patches · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like it.

    This function is a non-portable RTLinux extension. gethrtime returns the time in nanoseconds since the system bootup. This time is never reset or adjusted. gethrtime always gives monotonically increasing values. hrtime_t is a 64-bit signed integer.

    The actual resolution of gethrtime is hardware-dependent. It is guaranteed to be better than 1 microsecond.

    Odd that RT Linux is the first hit in google actually.

  7. They call it "httpmail". on Hotmail Begins to Upgrade Free Accounts · · Score: 1

    Yeah. It's called "httpmail" and uses WebDAV. More information can be found here and here.

    Maybe they'll add an extension for Mozilla/Thunderbird one of these days.

  8. Re:Viruses vs virii on HP Shelves Virus Throttler Program · · Score: 1

    Not really. This link explains it quite well:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20040208152350/http://w ww.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html

    It doesn't really have a commonly-used Latin plural. Some believe it to be 4th declension. I haven't studied this stuff in almost a decade, so I am not sure.

  9. Re:ext3 to reiser4 ? on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    Possibly using convertfs, but I have no idea if it works or not.

    This page seems to have more info about it.

  10. Re:This is all bull -- Change the law on Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing Algorithms · · Score: 1

    No offense, but there are plenty of examples of (at least partial) technological solutions to social problems. For instance, the ignition lock on my car prevents people from casuallly stealing it.

    This might not solve the social problem of people wanting to steal cars, but is a decent try at solving the technological problem of people being able to easily do it.

  11. Just use Bluetooth on Palm Finally Announces SD WiFi Card · · Score: 1
  12. Blame WIPO and friends for the confusion on Microsoft's Marshall Phelps On Patents And Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The whole idea of "Intellectual Property" and putting all of these totally different things under one heading has led to this confusion.

    We should get rid of that term COMPLETELY and go back to using copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. Why lump them together?

  13. Apparently, he understands the value of unlicensed on FCC's Chairman Powell Starts Blog · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Apparently, he understands the value of unlicensed spectrum:
    When broadcasting rules were created in the 1920s, white spaces were required to prevent interference with adjacent stations in a local market and with stations on the same channel in other markets. In today's digital world, it may be possible to deploy low-powered, smart digital wireless devices that would use these blank spaces without interference. This could mean reclaiming almost 1/3 the broadcast TV spectrum in crowded markets like Los Angeles to 2/3 of the spectrum in less crowded markets without interfering with full-powered TV broadcasts. Broadcasters, however, claim these unused channels as "their" spectrum. Yet a public policy that favors innovation and experimentation would seek to open these unused channels to develop new wireless services...just look at how much value has been created in the sliver of spectrum that has become Wi-Fi! If the high-tech community believes that new digital technologies will enable this kind of new thinking about and use of spectrum, then I need to know that.

    Adding more unlicensed spectrum would potentially allow for more than three non-overlapping channels (1,6,11) in 802.11b/g. Having a few more ISM bands could be VERY useful.

  14. Re:Sure but does it require new equipment on IEEE Approves 802.11i · · Score: 1

    From Broadcom's site:

    Broadcom's new solutions provide the enhanced features, performance and software drivers required for the demanding enterprise WLAN market. The software has been extensively tested in system verification test labs at Broadcom and at customer sites. The BCM4306 and the BCM4309 incorporate hardware support for WEP and AES and system support for the leading security protocols, WPA, TKIP and 802.1x, and software can be upgraded to the forthcoming 802.11i security standard.
    From the dmesg dump on a WAP54G (based on the same hardware):
    eth2: Broadcom BCM4306 Wireless 802.11b/g Controller 3.11.30.5 (Compiled in . at 17:23:17 on Feb 12 2003)

    They COULD probably do it. Apparently, the hardware acceleration was in there all along.

    Also see: Hardware specs

  15. Hotmail DOES offer alternative access. on Rediff Joins The 1GB Webmail Club · · Score: 1

    Hotmail offers rather interesting protocol used by Outlook/Outlook Express that lets programmers do just about anything with a hotmail account using WebDAV.

    jhttpmail has more information.

    Now we just need native support added to Mozilla and I'll be happy.

  16. Look into Visual Slickedit. on Windows Compatability on the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Try Visual Slickedit, one of the best IDEs I've ever seen. Kinda expensive, but worth it. Try the trial version if you don't believe me.

    It has native support for (not just color coding!):

    Ada, dBASE, JSP, Slick-C, Ant, Delphi Pascal, Lex, Tcl, ANTLR, DTD, Pascal, Transact SQL, C, Fortran, Perl, VHDL, C++, High Level Assembler, PHP, Visual Basic .NET, C#, HTML, PL/SQL, VB Script, CFScript, IDL, PowerNP Assembler, Verilog, Ch, InstallScript, PVWave, x86 Assembly, CICS, Java, Python, XML, COBOL, JavaScript, REXX, XSD, DB2, JCL, SAS, YACC

    And syntax highlighting for more.

  17. NLDN on When Lightning Strikes · · Score: 5, Informative

    For a bit of fun, you can check out the National Lightning Detection Network, which shows recent lightning strikes in the USA over the last few hours.

  18. Keyring? on Netgear's Amusing "fix" for WG602v1 Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you are talking about something like Keyring. One password lets you decrypt a bunch of other passwords stored on the device.

    I guess you could say they are bound in darkness too because they are encrypted and useless without the main password, which "finds" them all.

  19. WAP54G also had SNMP issues in 1.08 on NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open · · Score: 2, Informative
    I was able to change NVRAM parameters using snmpset regardless of the community strings as long as SNMP was enabled on the WAP54G.
    dma@laureate:~$ snmpwalk 192.168.1.254 -O n -v 1 -c froqegftoeqgteqg
    enterprise
    .1.3.6.1.4.1.3955.1. 1.0 = STRING: "v1.08, Aug 05, 2003"
    ...
    .1.3.6.1.4.1.3955.2.1.8.0 = IpAddress: 192.168.1.254
    .1.3.6.1.4.1.3955.2.1.9.0 = IpAddress: 255.255.255.0
    ...

    dma@laureate:~$ snmpset -c wghwgqgqerc -v 2c 192.168.1.254
    .1.3.6.1.4.1.3955.2.1.8.0 a "10.0.0.1"
    SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3955.2.1.8.0 = IpAddress: 10.0.0.1
    The changes took effect when the device was reset or power cycled. I didn't really investigate further. I reported this to Linksys. Not sure if they did anything about it.
  20. Re:Different versions of Google on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1

    Try http://www.google.com/ncr.

    I guess "NCR" stands for "no country redirect" or something.

    I wonder if this one works.
  21. Re:New.Net is spyware! -- Use the archive. on ICANN to Incorporate TLDs Already In-use? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dude. That's why we have archive.org. When stuff is DMCAed or C&Ded, one can usually still get the stuff.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20030410191057/http://w ww.cexx.org/newnet.htm

  22. Re:Uh, this is people getting fed up on Intel Releases Linux Driver For Centrino WLAN · · Score: 1
    Well Broadcom actually "released" a fully-functional driver for the MIPS architecture. It can be found in Linksys access point firmware images as "Broadcom BCM43XX 802.11 Wireless Controller".

    I guess you could reverse-engineer it.

    The source code to "wl.o" is NOT part of the GPLed code at Linksys's GPL page.

    If anyone actually got it to work, rest assured someone would feel threatened and DMCA it off the face of the Internet.

    However, there are FAR worse ways to disrupt communications than by tweaking a few lines of code in a driver.

  23. Re:Source for XP patches? on Stop Christmas-Gift PCs From Feeding Worms · · Score: 1

    Oh and if you are REALLY hardcore, you can parse this XML file to get all of the stuff:

    mssecure.xml
    (This file is used by Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.)

  24. Re:Source for XP patches? on Stop Christmas-Gift PCs From Feeding Worms · · Score: 1
  25. Re:I kind of like SiteFinder on McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation' · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can use google, believe it or not. Search sidebar (Ctrl-E), Customize (Alt-Z or toolbar option on top of search sidebar), Autosearch Settings.