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  1. Re:A few things about SSL on Making Sense of Mismatched Certificates? · · Score: 2, Informative

    SSL cert is set up to one hostname

    The parent is for all intensive purposes is correct. Class 3 SSL certificates are assigned to a common name (foo.com). Unless the certificate contains a wild-card, it ill not work for bar.foo.com. It will however work for foo.com/bar.

    It sounds like the bank in question has a Class 3 for CN=bank.com and their webapp is located at online.bank.com. The browser caught the mismatch and throws a warning.

    Please alert the webmaster of the institution with a full description of the error.It's easy to resolve on their end (they have to gen a new csr and order a new certificate).

    BBH

  2. Re:Workaround is disaster for laptops on Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around · · Score: 2, Informative

    There needs to be a solution that supports write-replace without spinning up the disk drive.

    How do you intend on writing to the disk drive... without spinning it up? Is this not what you're asking? If this is indeed your question, the answer is already "by using a battery backed cache".

    BBH

  3. Re:American Idol on Diebold Admits Flaw In Voting Software · · Score: 1

    We can vote with high confidence for American Idol but the guys who make our freaking ATM machines can't get it right?

    Wait.. You think that they actually count the votes for Idol? I was under the impression that they picked whoever had the highest network ratings and simply charged people $1 to 'feel' like they're voting.

    BBH

  4. Re:everything old is new again on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    My first car was a '72 LTD, and I vouch for this.

    Traction is like freedom.. You really don't have a good concept of exactly what it is until you are suddenly without it.

    BBH

  5. Re:everything old is new again on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    You act like this would be an innovation, but my 1990 Geo Prizm had this feature

    Agreed. People should probably learn to drive on two different types of vehicles. First is a Yugo (or other other ultra compact like a Geo Metro/Le Car). Second is a 1970 Chevy full size C-10 with no power steering or power breaks.

    Once a driver learns the nuances of those two extremes, they can drive pretty much anything. In a small tight vehicle (Jeep CJ), sneezing is dangerous. In a 70's Fordzilla, you can slam the breaks and crank the wheel, yet the vehicle continues in a straight line.

    New automobiles, even cheap ones, are an order of magnitude better than what we had in the 70/80's in terms of handling and safety.

    BBH

  6. Re:bill, don't throttle on Morality of Throttling a Local ISP? · · Score: 1

    Why not simply bump up the priority of http(s), smtp, and VIOP via generic QOS? Why not implement a transparent bit-torrent cache to reduce your bandwidth? Basically, why doesn't the OP entertain technologies that will improve things for your customers, or is that no longer the status quo?

    BBH

  7. Re:Like the phonograph.... The what? on Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format · · Score: 1

    @Warmness of sound on phonographs may be the equivilent to the mp3 sizzle that he talks about.

    Regarding phonographs. Those of us that prefer phonograph recordings do not prefer it because of the characteristics of the media. We prefer it because albums released on vinyl are mixed and mastered differently. Current "pop" cd media is overly compressed and normalized to the Nth degree. This makes the audio "loud", and to the untrained ear, loud=quality. Vinyl cannot be mastered in such a fashion, as too much bass can cause the needle to jump out of the valley. To summarize, Vinyl today typically has greater dynamic range than compact disks because it is an inferior format that does not allow the mastering methods that are applied to CDs. This is not to say that high-dynamic-range can not and is not ever applied to CDs. There are any CDs out there that are just fine (Listen to the La's first album for example). There is a noticeable trend towards compressed/louder though.

    Regarding the "Sizzle". Most people have never heard a real cymbal, snare drum, Fender Bassman, etc. These people sometimes become musicians and buy the first amp that sounds like what they have heard on their Ipod (usually a Line6 or a piece of crap with a POD plugged into it). Thankfully, a few of these musicians become "good musicians" and buy Bassmans, AC30s, and JMP50s. The same applies to listeners. Once they make it past Tizz and Boom, a few of them run into a friend with a Dennon/HKardon and some good speakers. It's almost a religious experience re-discovering your entire music collection through a high quality stereo.

    If you're an audiophile, it's your duty to evangelize good sounding gear. If you're not an audiophile, it's your duty to buy a dime bag, go to your audiophile friend's house, and bring your CD collection.

    BBH

  8. Re:What are you trying to do? on Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    @Proxy: the firewall can enforce this. Users don't use the correct proxy? No web access. Printers: Configure the printer to allow only certain users/groups, etc. etc..

    Configure a transparent proxy. Users don't try bypassing proxies when they don't know they're using one to begin with.

    BBH

  9. Only Minimum framereat changes on S3 Linux Driver Outperforms Its Windows Twin In Nexuiz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is curious is that only the minimum framerate seems to change (which bumps up the average). The max remains the same, which may indicate that the benchmark is CPU bound.

    BBH

  10. How does this affect us? on No Patch For Excel Zero-Day Flaw · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Do home users and corporations still use Excel or Microsoft products? If so, I have a patch for them, though it comes on a 690MB ISO.

    BBH

  11. Re:Not a new idea on Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy · · Score: 1

    The word is "Freenet". You can grab it at http://freenetproject.org/ . Yes, it's slow. Yes, there's pedophiles, anarchists, warez, racist propaganda and terrorist communications. There's also Alicebots, anonymous trolls, etc. Think of it as being like Slashdot's early days.

    BBH

  12. Re:No proof yet... on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Wow, your post is in bold lettering and features and exclamation point, so you must be right. You even quote a page from a "magazine" to support your argument.

    I'm curious. What does "Our Unabashed Dictionary" define autim as?

    BBH

  13. Re:a lot of .NET development has been on Microsoft Accused of Squandering Billions On R&D · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Having worked with/at both MSR and GE CR&D in Niskayuna, I'd have to say that the former pales in comparison to the latter. MSR seemed like a bunch of academic tinkerers, whereas the GE gents created things on a weekly basis that totally blew my mind. Look at how much effort MS has put into photosynth, and what a turd the end result was. For the same money, GE developed the openMRI.

    You may argue that the openMRI took twice as long to develop, but I can assure you that the folks at GE work from 9-5 due to union constraints while MS employees work SA* hours.

    BBH
    SA hours means that you work 8 hours on your "day off".

  14. Re:MySQL & LDAP? on The Incredible Shrinking Operating System · · Score: 2, Informative

    It struck me as kind of strange that they'd strip out something like CUPS...I mean, don't even most normal users like to print documents?!?!

    It is not being "stripped out" in the sense that it is no longer available, or must be installed via the package manager. It is installed on demand (when you setup a printer). It is much like how Ubuntu handles samba. Samba is not installed untill you right click a folder and select "share", at which point the user is told that Samba is being installed. I believe the user prompt is actually nicer than that. Something to the effect of "Ubuntu is installing the software necessary to complete this operation".

    Cups is not necessary unless you have a printer installed (whether physical or virtual).

    Occasionally, Ubuntu does things that seem odd though. When setting up an encrypted array via MDRaid, one of the dependancies is a mail server. Ubuntu decided that I would be best served if it installed "Citadel", a full groupware solution, rather then sendmail or postfix. This would be the equivlent of windows installing Exceed if an app had a dependency on an SSH client.

    BBH

  15. Re:Did anyone use the Linux client? on CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I tried out the Linux client, and was unable to make it work despite having the game working under wine. I really wish that CCP had simply contributed the necessary bug fixes directly to wineHQ (or crossover), rather than a proprietary spinoff.

    BBH

  16. $30K? on FDA Testing Artificial Liver · · Score: 1

    Doctors also will ask if any benefit is big enough to cover what could be a $30,000 price tag.

    Is this per use or per machine? Can a single machine be refitted and used multiple times ( like a dialysis machine)?

    BBH

  17. Re:Wines, cheeses, trees on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    I find that these names come from two distinct groups of people. The first is the mainframe folk who have never had to worry about administering more than 5 servers. The Second group is the MCSE's and RHEL papered SA's that have never worked in a real enterprise and want to show off how many Star Trek star ships they know the names of.

    Then you have the folks that "almost" have a clue and have run into this issue before. You'll find them naming servers "webserver1" instead of org-environment-http-1.datacenter.company.tld. It's only when you run into SA's that have to maintain an enterprise consisting of multiple organizations and data centers that you see useful nomenclature standards arise. Delimited server names are not without issue though, especially when managers continuously reinvent their orgs. Development becomes Solutions Delivery. Then Solutions Delivery becomes Product Delivery. Then you acquire another contract and PD splits into the Product and Customizations teams. Holy crap I hate my job!

    BBH

  18. Re:waiting game on AMD Adds OpenGL 3.0 Support To Graphics Drivers · · Score: 1

    Would you be satisfied with the terms "provides a subset of OpenGL" or "Provides a 3D API based on loosely OpenGL"? Much like OpenGLES or, for lack of a better example, GLIDE?I realize that "opengl-esque" is a broad term which possibly would include Direct3D, metal, and almost every 3D API in history.

    Sorry in advance for the overuse of quotes.
    BBH

  19. Re:waiting game on AMD Adds OpenGL 3.0 Support To Graphics Drivers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uhm. PS2/PS3 and the Wii do not support OpenGL

    This is correct, though they both utilize openGL-esque APIs. Mesa wrappers are already showing up for the Wii.

    BBH

  20. When you don't know what you're doing on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    It does appear that MS is making the same mistake again, though take the following into consideration.

    As an SA, I do my fair share of on-call support for systems that I have no idea how to operate. It's not that I'm dumb, it's just that I don't have time to learn the intricacies of the 50+ custom written J2EE apps running in my enterprise. One person cannot be a MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Bea WLS, Tomcat, Apache, Jboss, IIS, ATG Dynamo, Unicenter, CFengine, Nagios, Zabbix, and Samba expert, and if they are, they make more than me.

    Anywho... When I receive support call, I do what anyone else that doesn't know WTF they are doing should do. I look at the ticket, ctrl-c the relevant bits of the stack trace, and put that string into the JIRA (our ticket system) search box. From there, I do exactly what the last on-call SA did to fix things.

    This ensures that if it was done incorrectly before, it is done incorrectly again in _exactly_ the same way.
    I have a feeling MS is stealing my work methodology.

    BBH

  21. Re:Hilarious... on Microsoft Brings Back DRM · · Score: 5, Funny

    This just in. Microsoft will now be laying off "5001" workers.

    BBH

  22. Re:Lame on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, but we only consider critiques from users numbered below 636672.

    I'm a windows 95 user, so I am only able to consider critiques from users numbered below 65534.

    BBH

  23. Re:Reactionary. on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 0, Troll

    You appear to be conflating conservative with Republican, but the two are not interchangeable, particularly with respect to the administration that just left office.

    And you appear to be conflating republican with Republican, but the two are not interchangeable, particularly with respect to the administration that just left office.

    BBH

  24. Re:Wrong Comparison on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 1

    you lose another 7% in transmission and then another 1-2% in the heater itself

    Shenanigans!

    Electric heaters are 100% efficient at turning electricity into heat. What other form of energy is your electric baseboard generating if not heat? Light? Sound? Xrays?

    BBH

  25. Re:Lead time? on All of Vietnam's Government Computers To Use Linux, By Fiat · · Score: 1

    Yikes, I hope no one was using SQL Server. 6 months to move every system to a new operating system? Moving one single system is a huge effort that most companies wouldn't even think about doing in such a short time.

    Two words....

    LEROY JENKINS!!!!!!

    BBH