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  1. Re:Security Patches on Apache May Stop 1.3, 2.0 Series Releases · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD still won't include 2.0 or 2.2 in the distribution because the licence is not acceptable to them. I imagine they will continue take an interest in the 1.3 branch.

  2. Re:How about a new port of Mozilla for Mac OS X? on Classilla, a New Port of Mozilla To Mac OS 9 · · Score: 1

    Forgive me if I am being naive, but is SeaMonkey not a direct replacement for the old Mozilla suite?

  3. Error on Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks · · Score: 1, Funny

    "only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed."

    Can I have my cheque now?

  4. Re:Council explanation? on Council Sells Security Hole On Ebay · · Score: 1

    "Interestingly", there is devolved Government for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but not England. Having said this, greater London does have some autonomy due to having an elected Mayor.

  5. Re:Obsolete on VeriSign Jacks Up .com, .net Prices To the Max · · Score: 1

    Technically, all domains are already terminated with a "." to denote the root of the DNS system, "/" is an HTTP construct. Try missing "." out of a BIND zone file for fun results!

    Personally, I hate the way nominet handles SLDs in my country more, I can only register:

    .co.uk
    .ltd.uk
    .me.uk
    .net.uk
    .org.uk
    .plc.uk

    Why can't I just have stocksy.uk, nominet? Why?

  6. Re:Scalable ? on Debian Cluster Replaces Supercomputer For Weather Forecasting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps they mean it is scalable in the sense that one could simply add more machines to the cluster, rather than adding more cores to the machines already in place.

  7. Monkey man on Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail · · Score: 1

    Mr. Ballmer, those who dwell in glass houses should not throw stones. Or chairs.

  8. Ah, engineers. on Storing CERN's Search for God (Particles) · · Score: 1

    'During this one month, we need a huge disk buffer,' says Pierre Vande Vyvre, CERN's project leader for data acquisition. One might call that an understatement.
    I expect he referred to the problem of finding the God Particle as "distinctly non-trivial".
  9. Re:So how will then handle accents? on UK's Public Cameras Listen For Trouble · · Score: 1

    As somebody who has visited Napoli, I can assure you that "I'm going to fucking kill you and take all your money!" sounds pretty similar in any language.

  10. Re:Help, Mimes! on UK's Public Cameras Listen For Trouble · · Score: 1

    At least a mime artist would just pretend to beat seven types of crap out of you. You'll be fine as long as it's not Mimo, the literal mime.

  11. Re:Boxen Is Not A Word on Free Geek Robbed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And I think that a burglar burgles, but that won't stop talk of 'burglarizing'. Some groups of people use language that other groups consider incorrect, no need get all uppity about it.

  12. Re:Why would I want to... on Apple's Leopard Strategy to Kill Microsoft and Dell? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How did you get modded 'insightful'? Apple's software is nothing like as open as I'd like in an ideal world, but to claim it is "even more closed" than Windows is rather silly.

  13. Re:Why would I want to... on Apple's Leopard Strategy to Kill Microsoft and Dell? · · Score: 1
    The video cards for macs have a different firmware or something
    They do, but it can be flashed. I'm using a Radeon 7000 lifted from a Dell in my G4 at work.
  14. Re:Proxies? on Proxy Sites Offer Secret Passage to Myspace · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't flamebait. Proxies have been a problem for years and years, the advent of web two-point-oh does not have any bearing on the problem.

  15. Not really a new problem on Proxy Sites Offer Secret Passage to Myspace · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I was in school (5 years ago), schools were trying to block well known proxies, but were unsuccessful at blocking those of us with 'home brewed' proxy servers. This wasn't really such a problem, because the policy was "get caught looking at sites x, y or z and you lose your computer privileges", why does this approach not work with advent myspace et al?

    Proxies aren't such a big deal anyway, I worry more about the possibility of a savvy user with a bootable USB flash drive and OpenVPN.

  16. Re:slashdot on Banner Ad on Myspace Serves Adware to 1 Million · · Score: 1

    This happen when they set us up the bomb?

  17. Re:Least favourite on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 4, Funny

    He he, you said boobies.

  18. Re:My mom... on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1
    Maybe a Mac *would* be easier!
    You'd think so wouldn't you? When my Dad used Windows, if I asked him to click on something, he'd always reply "Left or right click?". A few years ago I switched him over to an eMac and thought I'd heard the last of the left/right click thing. Now, when I ask him to click on something, he'll respond "Double click or single click?" - AAaaaaaagh! (brain bursting).
  19. Re:Windows Successor? on Microsoft Ponders Windows Successor · · Score: 1

    Of course, you realise that NT is at least partly POSIX compliant?

  20. Re:Cable all the way on How Much Should Broadband Cost? · · Score: 1

    Don't tar all ADSL providers with the same brush. I have an "up to 8Mb" service, more like 4Mb in practice for £20 per month. More importantly for me, its got a 448k upload speed, and my IP address has never changed, even when I upgraded to a higher speed. Moreover, my provider doesn't complain about me running things like SMTP, HTTP, FTP or DNS servers like NTL used to.

  21. My own study on Windows Servers Beat Linux Servers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Debian Sarge x86: 63 days, 19:43
    Debian Sarge PPC: 61 days, 12 min
    OS X 10.4 PPC: 51 days, 1:02
    NetBSD m68k: 107 days, 37 mins

    So, if you want the highest uptime, use NetBSD on a 25MHz 68040. Further, I contend that my study is at least as believable as the article cited in the submission.

  22. Re:Airbus doesn't have the best record on this on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 1

    The crew was not experienced with the 737-400. Engine 1 was on fire, because smoke was entering the cockpit, they assumed engine 2 was faulty because air for ventilation was bled from only engine 2 on 737s prior to the 737-400, (which bleeds air from both engines). A stream of burning fuel was visible from inside the passenger cabin, but this was not communicated to the crew.

  23. Re:Airbus doesn't have the best record on this on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The reverse argument could be made. I live close to East Midlands airport, where there was a notable incident involving a Boeing 737. The investigation concluded that the aircraft had suffered an engine failure at 28,000', but the crew shut down the wrong engine. Worse still, they did not realise the error until on finals, when it was too late to do anything about it.

    Had a computer system been charged with responsibility for this, maybe the accident wouldn't have happened.

  24. Re:Not deep enough. on An Underground Radio to Save Lives · · Score: 1

    It says right there in the summary that the thing is just a prototype, surely it's possible to communicate over greater distances using a more powerful transmitter.

  25. Re:I'd like it if my spam filter could "mod up"... on Are Spam Blockers Too Strict? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can do it in spamassassin. For example, just add ok_languages ja zh to its local.cf