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  1. Felt in Indianapolis on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1

    I felt it here in Indianapolis.

    Latitude = 39.773895
    Longitude = -86.160965

  2. Not Too Surprising on Indiana University Dumps Google for ChaCha · · Score: 1

    Not too surprising to me being that ChaCha is based here in the Indianapolis area. I guess IU just likes to keep their searching local.

  3. Violent Crime Rates on What Came First, the Violence or the Videogame? · · Score: 1

    Let's all remember that violent crime rates are still lower than they were in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. My theory is that violent video games have nothing to do with violent crime.

    Source: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm

  4. Net Heads on Can a Gaming Cafe be Successful? · · Score: 1

    Come down to Indianapolis and check out Net Heads in the Broad Ripple area. They've been in business for years and seem to be doing well.

  5. Overhead on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    When I worked for the web hosting group of a regional ISP, I remember once hearing another support guy say, "I don't know. You're the MCSE!"

  6. Re:Blizzard's got some house-cleaning to do on No Same Sex Marriage In World of Warcraft? · · Score: 1

    As a gay man, I prefer to just say that the only thing gay people have in common is that we're not straight. Everything else is really just some kind of stereotype.

    We exist in every society, every culture, every lifestyle, every part of the world, and all timeperiods of human history.

  7. Free Speech on Forbes Goes After Bloggers · · Score: 1

    I guess free speech, sucks, eh?

  8. Sony Ericsson T637 on Practical Cell Phones to Complement Mac OS X? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have the Sony Ericsson T637 and am pretty happy with it. I currently use it with Cingular.

    I use iSync to synchronize calendar and contact information via Bluetooth. I have an old Sawtooth G4 PowerMac so I bought a Bluetooth USB adapter, which works just fine.

  9. Outsource It on Is HTML E-mail Still Evil? · · Score: 1

    My suggestion, if your company wants to send nice HTML-based newsletters to customers, is to sign up with many of the opt-in e-mail solution providers like ExactTarget, SilverPop, etc. They make tools for this stuff and have folks who handle all of the deliverability stuff who can consul you.

  10. Local administrator on Windows OSS Only For Administrators? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When setting up the new Active Directory domain here, I decided that I would rather avoid these problems all together by giving users administrative rights to their own workstations.

    You can accomplish this by adding the user's domain account to the local Administrators group on the workstation. You set this on the system itself, not at the domain level. Doing so does not give the end users administrative rights to any other system -- just their workstation. No domain-wide administrative rights what-so-ever.

    I felt doing this gave users the flexibility they needed to do their jobs, but was restrictive enough to keep users out of each others' systems, which was a concern of mine.

  11. What is this really about? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    I don't think the policy is about controlling the radio spectrum, as much as it is about controlling how one accesses the campus network.

    I empathize with the network administrators at the university for doing this.

  12. Re:A valid criticism on FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 available · · Score: 1

    This isn't really the fault of mergemaster as much as it is simply sdiff, which mergemaster calls to handle the the merging.

    I do know what you mean. It doesn't work very well when you're in the regular 80x24 mode on your console, but I usually just remember that the left version if the old copy, and the new version is on the right.

  13. Re:Forget MRTG on Managing Huge Networks with Open Source Tools? · · Score: 1

    Cacti is a very good tool, but it isn't a front-end to MRTG, but specifically just rrdtool.

    The nice thing about Cacti, compared to MRTG, is the Web interface; however, I admit that it is sometimes buggy and there is quite a learning curve to using it, if you ask me.

  14. Re:This Is Cool! on Indiana Launches Statewide Productivity System · · Score: 1

    I've never quite figured out how Democrats take the blame for spending when the Republicans are just as bad. The difference is where they choose to spend the money.

    If you want to blame someone for the property tax issue, blame the guy who sued the state. If he hadn't done that, we wouldn't have had this whole re-assessment.

    Indiana is in the shape it is now because of the people who live here and our non-progressive attitudes. Our politicians, in my opinion, are just a reflection of that.

    There's a good reason we're like the Alabama of the midwest.

  15. The Saint on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    This is funny. I just watched The Saint on HBO2 (or some channel like it) on my DVR.

  16. Stupid Name on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it me or does it seem that Microsoft lacked total creativity when coming up with this cheesey, Matrix rip-off of a name?

  17. Re:turned off on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're off base with your comments.

    Apple has released their changes when required, specifically KHTML, GCC, and others. They have also released their BSD codebase as Darwin, which is available at the following URL.

    http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/

    Feel free to look at all of the other code they have contributed. If you ask me, they're better than Microsoft simply because they participate. Microsoft doesn't do this, at all.

    Maybe you're just writing flamebait and I'm a big sucker? Oh well.

  18. I Was At H2K2 on A New HOPE on the Horizon · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was in attendance in 2002 at H2K2.

    I didn't attend a ton of panels. I picked out some of the interesting ones, to me, and thought most of them were worth my time.

    I wasn't terribly interested in all the politics, or Jello Biafra. I'd like to see more technical stuff, but I know that politics are part of what 2600 is all about.

    The entertainment was okay. The show put on by Cult of the Dead Cow was very boring. I hope they never do it again. On the other hand, I really liked some of the DJ's who composed all of their own music. Some of it was excellent.

    None-the-less, I plan to return to New York in July and hope this year's HOPE conference is even better than 2002's.

  19. Re:Need QuickTime for Linux ! on A Look Inside Virginia Tech's New Super Computer · · Score: 1

    I believe, according to the movie, the entire cluster does not run Linux, but on OS X.

  20. Re:It just works. on Depenguinator "Upgrades" Linux to BSD · · Score: 1

    In FreeBSD, if you've installed sysutils/portupgrade and have your make.conf configured correctly, all you do to upgrade all of your software is as follows.

    # cd /usr/ports
    # make update && portsdb -uU && portupgrade -a

    That'll upgrade everything. Of course, I'm not one for upgrading all packages at once. That can cause a lot of problems, especially on a production server. Best to only do this on your workstation, if at all.

  21. Re:trust on Mac OS X Security Criticisms Countered · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what "real" security means. I think most servers are as secure as the person managing the system.

    As someone who manages Windows and FreeBSD servers at work, and uses Mac OS X at home, I thing arguing over the security of an operating system is utterly pointless and moot, in my humble opinion. In the end, you still have to lock down the server, keep up with patches, and properly firewall the network.

  22. Re:I thought 5.x was the latest on FreeBSD 4.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm using 5.1 on one production system, which happens to be the server which monitors all of the network and servers.

    I decided to use 5.1 because it would be easier to upgrade in the future -- instead of trying to do a 4.9 to 5.x upgrade, which may be much more difficult to make given all of the changes; however, I could be wrong about it. I haven't tried it yet.

  23. Re:Panther/Darwin contributions? on FreeBSD 4.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure they've also contributed back to KHTML since they're using that for WebCore, which makes up the core rendering engine for the Safari Web browser.

  24. Eh? on An 'Open Letter to Apple' · · Score: 1

    I am using Panther at home and it resembles a feature which has been in Windows since Windows 95 was released? So what if it looks like a third-party product -- it wasn't their idea from the beginning anyway.

  25. What I Think on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 3, Informative

    I administrate a mail server with around 550 accounts on it. We got slammed by Sobig.F and eventually had to block it using header_checks in Postfix.

    This won't catch every virus-infected file attachment (like Word macro viruses), but the regex I put in place will block files with certain file extensions (e.g. pif, exe, etc.) What's nice is that the mail is rejected during the SMTP transaction and produces no residual mail traffic since the sending mail server is the worm's SMTP engine.

    So, for anyone using Postfix 2 who would like to stop most e-mail worms, using header_checks to scan MIME headers is a very effective way to protect your customers/users.