User: jcuervo

Re:Simple Answer = Patch-Day at Hotmail

On: MS Hotmail Offline For Hours

99 servers to patch on the net, 99 servers to patch Take one down, patch it to hell 98 servers to patch on the net

Re:Morning simulator

On: What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack?

Related hack: I had an X10 unit set to brighten/dim from crontab. At night, it brightened, and towards the morning, it dimmed.

I had a photocell replace cron at one point, but I liked the gradual bright/dim more than *click*ON!*click*OFF!* :-)

Re:SG1 solves a BIG problem in an elegant way

On: Stargate Atlantis Coming This Summer

I bet it would take hundreds of years to establish a good communication between the species.

Yeah, and how come there's Elvish on Narsil's blade in some scenes, and not in others?!#@%

...

Anyway. Hi, my name is suspension of disbelief. Pleased to meet you.

Re:who are these chumps???

On: Ebay Suspends Phone Number Sales

bash.org quote (from memory):

"I'm going to be rich when I invent a way to stab people in the face over the internet"

Re:slashdotted

On: Google's Bigger Index

Hmm. Wonder if Google has a cache of itself...

Yup.

Funny: Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.

[COMPLETELY OT] Re:IBM has an INCREDIBLE reply

On: SCO Adds Copyright Claim to IBM Suit

If it's work, most people will wait.

Hmm.

<rhetorical>What do slashdotters do for work?</rhetorical>

Re:At the very least

On: SCO Complaint Filed -- Including Code Samples

Hrm. I'm on a 14.4 right now, so I'm not sure if your link is slashdotted, or I am. :P

Re:Deja-vu

On: Profile of the Mind of a Virus Writer

I think I've been here before... I've been told this usually happens because of a glitch in The Slashdot...

jcuervo: What was it? What did you see?
hyperherod: A story went by... and then another one that looked just like it.
jcuervo: How much like it -- was it the same story?
hyperherod: I'm not sure, it might've been...

Re:Losers

On: The World of Virus Writers

And then the typical media figure of $X billions just may be legit

If damages from something like that reach $X billion, the media will then begin to report it as $Y trillion.

Re:I agree

On: The World of Virus Writers

Replicating an existing virus is ''lame,'' the worst of all possible insults.

Heh. I can come up with better insults than that.

Re:Bluff bluff bluff

On: SCO Adds Copyright Claim to IBM Suit

Can the judge moderate them -1 redundant?

Their karma already sucks. :-)

Re:Parent's Nethack reference

On: SCO Adds Copyright Claim to IBM Suit

hmm. I'm naming my [nethack] puppy "Darl" from now on.

And killing it.

Re:IBM has an INCREDIBLE reply

On: SCO Adds Copyright Claim to IBM Suit

Groklaw has a copy, so if you're really interested you can find it there. I'm not posting a link, as I don't want to /. THEM, so it will take a bit of searching. But it's there. Look for 203cv0029400000103.pdf .

You want to not /. them, so you make us bang on their site looking around for it? :-)

Cool, $FAMOUS_PERSON slashdots.

On: Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles

According to WP, anyway. I was previously unaware of this.

Wonder who else is running around in the slashdot shadows.

...Wonder how the hell they found out $FAMOUS_PERSON's username.

MOD PARENT SIDEWAYS

On: Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles

I have the feeling he's actually saying something interesting, but I have no bloody clue what the hell it is.

Re:Face it, you are geek COMMIES

On: DARPA-Funded Linux Security Hub Withers

Face it, you are geek COMMIES, at least most here are.

Darl reads slashdot??!

Re:no idea ...

On: Scientists Create New Form of Matter

Hmm.

"Scientists create new way to blow up lightbulbs."

Cool.

Hrm, heard it

On: Virtual Dummy To Try On Clothes

One of my bosses[0] at my last job left the company to go screw with something like this at another company. Think around 1998. Dunno whatever happened to it.

I actually thought it was kind of an original (but lame) idea at the time, but it seems slashdot knows better.

[0] Was he my boss? I have NFI, I had 1093280182 bosses, and they all kept whining about a "TPS report" or something... and they took my stapler...

Re:I did this.

On: Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company?

but it's pretty much impossible to write 30 useful programs with an average beginning-to-end time of 3 days. If you could do that, you'd be giving Bill Gates a run for his money...

Sorry, thought we were talking about useful programs, here... :-)

[OT] Uh... from where?

On: Why iPod Mini is a smart move for Apple

from the dept.

Hmm... Does the Department hang out in The Building and throw a The Party?

Re:The "infringing" code

On: One Company's Response to SCO

What all this means is: SCO is basing their case on the values of #defines!

They're betting on the stupidity of the average judg--uh.

Maybe we're screwed after all.

Debug information?

On: Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth

It sent them a core dump?

Re:This is sooo easy to block

On: Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word)

I have a $COMPANY wlan/eth/dsl router at home. It's not great, but it's not bad, either. One of the things I particularly appreciate is the keyword blocking. If doubleclick, say, tries to hit me with some ads, I all I see is a little thing saying "BLOCKED [...]". Nice, that.

Squid would probably do it, too, if I ever get that box back up.

Riiiiiight.

On: SCO Wants to License Europe

"Hmm. This isn't working in the states. I know! ..."

Re:What I'd like to see more than a rant...

On: BSD For Linux Users

foreach("Amiga", "Mac", "OS/2", "*BSD", "WinXP", "Linux") {
print "$_ is better than your OS.\n";
}

__END__

Uhm... you forgot one.