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  1. Re:You guys are seriously ticked off? on Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October · · Score: 1

    Do you know how much you have to pay for 250gb of transfer from a reasonably well known colocation provider?

    £20 for 1TB/month.

  2. Re:I'll Stick With Firefox 3 on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    I run Firefox 3 with two plugins

    Those are not plugins.

  3. Re:Firefox vs IE on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Its upto you to make a choice.

    Dumb blonde verses rich and powerful guy.

    I choose the guy.

  4. Re:Crash recovery... on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Implementing a feature Opera has had for years, now that's what I call innovation.

    It's never worked for me. Whenever Opera has crashed, more than the tab that caused the crash, crashed - the entire browser crashed.

  5. Re:Download doesn't work on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    What is your ISP, out of curiosity?

  6. Re:25 years of... on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple is one of GCC's biggest contributors.

    For OS X platform specific code.

    Or maybe you're thinking of WebKit.

    Which took so many years for the original KHTML team to decipher and make it useful because of how Apple released the sourcecode initially.

    KDE will be using it as well.

    Indeed, there is no point for them have projects running in parallel, thus the KDE team's decision to unify efforts which Apple didn't do initially is quite beneficial.

  7. Re:What has he done lately? on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 1

    Nautilus did replace something: Midnight Commander.

    Sorry, I'm still using 'mc' and have no interest in nautils as nautils fulfills another completely different function, a graphical file manager for Gnome.

  8. Re:What has he done lately? on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 1

    And you know that whole Mac thing is a pretty big stuff.

    Translation anyone?

  9. Re:A few nice words about Andy Herzfeld... on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 1

    Didn't come with a monitor either

    Indeed, and was capable of using a regular television as a monitor, which really helped "bring the price down" for people. I think it was a smart decision overall.

  10. Re:25 years of the Mac on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 1

    Nothing's changed, it's still apples to oranges. Just as you might not have needed built in sound then, you may not need FW, BT, dig audio, wireless net, IR remote, stack of dvds form factor now.

    I find Macs more expensive, hell, just look at my current laptop:

    My HP DV6000 widescreen laptop which came with 2GB RAM, built in webcam, nvidia graphics card with 512MB dedicated RAM with all the essentials including wireless, bluetooth. Has HDMI, a built in SD card reader, remote control. It came with Vista, but I installed Kubuntu on it (which worked out of the box with it).

    I bought this from comet for £399, and guess what... That is the cheapest price I can pay for a Mac, and a Mac Mini costs £399.

    The only 'advantage' the Mac Mini has over this laptop is that it's 1.83GHz, while this laptop has a 1.66GHz processor. But - this machine has been the best gaming and work machine I've ever had, I doubt the Mac mini would live up to that with just a tiny bit faster processor, it doesn't even have a decent graphic card with dedicated RAM.

    Macs are certainly affordable now, but you seriously cannot tell me Macs are cheaper.

  11. Re:25 years of the Mac on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 3, Funny

    Early on, it was a revolutionary machine, way ahead of its time. The mouse, the GUI, and desktop publishing were all new. The price was high in 2008 dollars, but so was the price of an MS-DOS machine. It was a fairly open environment; you could buy the manual that described all the APIs ("Inside Mac") very cheaply, in a phone-book format. This was roughly the period of the 68000 cpu.

    Honestly, you compare a Amiga to the Apple systems and Apple really cannot be compared with Amiga systems, at all. I don't think the Apple was way ahead of it's time, the GUI, publishing, while it was all new, it was all done far better by the Amiga.

    I still remember when Apple switched to the Power PC platform and the Amigas were still outdoing the machines in 3d graphics etc. with it's old m68k processor and custom chips.

    I have not been impressed by Apple over the years.

  12. Re:Stopped using SSL on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    How about for free?

    A one time (per FQDN), 90 day trial.

  13. Re:Stopped using SSL on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    the only attack that can be made on a connection to -begin with-!

    Incorrect.

    How are you supposed to intercept the data if you're not somewhere in the middle?

    You could be passively reading the communications in real time, looking at logged data that was recorded along the route to the server etc.

  14. Re:Stopped using SSL on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    A signed SSL certificate can be had for as little as 15 dollars per year. That's one vente mocha latte (whipped cream and caramel, please) per 4 months.

    That doesn't cover a entire domain, only a specific FQDN. I need a wildcard certificate to cover all sub domains that have login credentials and private information.

  15. Re:But will it be on the desktop? on If Linux Fails, Blame Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    Debian doesn't support it because Debian doesn't have a proper 'rpm' command for the user to execute; alien doesn't count.

    "The standard does not dictate what package format the operating system must use for its own packages, merely that RPM must be supported to allow packages from third-party distributors to be installed on a conforming system."

    ''By using alien Debian is LSB-compatible by all practical means, but according to the description of the lsb-package, [the presence of the lsb-package] "does not imply that we believe that Debian fully complies with the Linux Standard Base, and should not be construed as a statement that Debian is LSB-compliant." This theoretical possibility of Debian's non-compliance to LSB might be considered a valid criticism, however slight''

    Gray area.

    Personally, I consider it a non-issue since Debian users can double click the .rpm in question graphically and get it installed just fine.

    Furthermore, package names often differ somewhat between various distro repositories, so the dependencies too frequently can't be resolved.

    LSB dictates what is included with the system, if it isn't included, you need to package the required libraries with your application.

  16. Re:Stopped using SSL on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    You can afford the hosting costs to maintain a website, yet you're too lazy or cheap to get a certificate signed by a third party?

    I can barely afford the server costs at the moment actually.

  17. Re:Stopped using SSL on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    CACert.

    "Unknown Certificate Authority" popups on the browsers.

  18. Re:Stopped using SSL on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    Ahh wildcard certificates. A phishers wet dream.

    Also necessary when you have multiple sub domains which users use, such as mail, mobimail, forums, cal, admin, etc.

    So how is www.citibank.at.yourdomain.com? (signed by verisign!, it must be safe.)

    You could buy a single certificate that could be using that URL. What is your point?

    Instead of droping SSL for your users, I'd suggest doing more research. (hint: basic startssl certificates are free)

    I did, that CA's certificates does "unknown certificate authority" popups.

    I'd suggest you either do more research before making security decisions for your sites, or hire someone to advise you.

    I have done plenty of research which you obviously have not. I am also not going to hire people when I am not getting paid in the first place, it's already a lot with just the server costs.

  19. Re:Nobody considers that import on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your information is already out there in public records.

    And I know which ones too.

    Google your phone number and see what comes up.

    Three results, all of which, not even related.

  20. Re:website supports https on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    so just stick an s after the http and you're golden.

    Failed to Connect

    The connection was refused when attempting to contact *domain here*

    Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.

            * Could the site be temporarily unavailable? Try again later.

            * Are you unable to browse other sites? Check the computer's network connection.

            * Is your computer or network protected by a firewall or proxy? Incorrect settings can interfere with Web browsing.

  21. Re:Solution for sites that have both http and http on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is force all http requests to go to https and presto, its done.

    I will perform a MitM attack and just intercept all HTTP requests and have it query the HTTPS URL while I read all their data unencrypted.

  22. Stopped using SSL on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 4, Informative

    I stopped providing security on my websites when browsers made it too difficult for the average user (that I deal with) to continue using the site with a self signed certificate.

    Sure, it won't help against a man in the middle attack. But that is truly the only attack that using self signed certificates is vulnerable to. Unlike completely unencrypted content.

    If godaddy, verisign etc. didn't charge insane prices like £107 per year for a wildcard certificate for one domain, I would do actually buy the certificates needed. I already find 10USD too much for a wildcard certificate for the numerous domains I operate, so it would have to be quite a significant drop. It's not like they do any verification with the £107 certificates, they just want a credit card number.

  23. Re:How is this news, anyway? on Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    Opera has similar functionality for a few months now.

    But it doesn't work because barely anyone uses Opera.

  24. Re:DPKG is brutal logic on Solving Sudoku With dpkg · · Score: 1

    Install a new glibc version and dpkg will faithfully remove all the packages that depended on the old version of glibc. Even if it means removing the linux kernel.

    Didn't happen here. But maybe that's because the package was created to handle this situation, since it had "provides" and "replaces" paramters in the package. for the older version in question.

  25. Re:But will it be on the desktop? on If Linux Fails, Blame Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    Create an LSB RPM? Do you seriously see Debian/Ubuntu users installing RPMs, even LSB ones?

    I have and they have no problems doing so.

    Try it. Make an LSB RPM, post it on Debian/Ubuntu forums, and watch yourself getting flamed left and right.

    Nobody has ever complained about my LSB RPMs of glfrontier before in #ubuntu or #kubuntu.

    I don't do the forums thing outside of Slashdot.