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  1. uk hosting on Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? · · Score: 0

    I've had zero issues with http://bitfolk.com/, the hosting service is spectacular, the support is excellent and prompt. The network is located in THDO London. If you need further technical details, they're available here http://bitfolk.com/. Tell Andy that Ed sent ya :)

  2. Works for me on Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? · · Score: 0

    I have a file system structure called ~/details, within that I have directories for things, such as ebay, amazon etc. All login details are stored in files which are encrypted with gpg to myself and to my wife. Should I die, she knows already how to access the data. Other things can be encrypted to a key that you give your solicitors, they can read them when you die. Works for me, I'm already dead.

  3. Re:Which is It? on HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials · · Score: 2, Funny

    Michael Jackson beat you to it.

  4. silly question on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    vim of course

  5. Nutty on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I disbelieve this entirely. UNIX/Linux is well designed for multiple core CPUs. Just take the whole single program, single small job approach of a pipeline command and you have your multicore solution ready. Programs that can make use of tasks that are IO bound are frequently written with threading in mind. qmail/apache are both well written for mutliple core CPUs. I don't see what the article is trying to say. Its clearly wrong.

  6. Re:Just boycott the asses pleases on Some Of Australia's Tubes Are About To Be Filtered · · Score: 1

    Not sure what you're trying to do. But I suspect that simply SSL/TLS your traffic would be a good place to start. For the net, well, WiFi network? Use private leased lines? Its not cheap, but do-able. If you really want, get a radio license and your own frequency. Or, simply, pay about 8GBP or a few USD for a VPS in another country and use that as your caching proxy over SSH.

  7. Re:At least Reiser on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1

    The world will continue to spin without me. Unfortunately human nature tells us to avoid death. Which is sad, because death might be less painful than life very sad indeed.

  8. confused on Doctors Will Test Gene Editing On HIV Patients · · Score: 1

    why doesn't the patients own immune system fight the modified gene?

  9. Re:Linux on the desktop on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    its because ubuntu is made from kittens and windows is made from virus checkers and ad ware

  10. Re:Converter! on Call For Grant Proposals In Perl Development · · Score: 0, Redundant

    its just pining

  11. Re:Wishlist on Call For Grant Proposals In Perl Development · · Score: 1

    thats because its designed to be interpreted.

    perlcc does produce binary output though

  12. Re:Switching Power Supply Design, Abraham I. Press on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 1

    Those are all classics. My favs are here (with ISBN numbers) http://www.s5h.net/books.html

  13. Re:That's what he said! on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 2, Informative

    C is a means of actually controlling what your application is doing and knowing how it's doing that. With interpreters its not so easy to tune things. To a large extent the Java/Perl interpreters often bottle neck when dealing with extremely large hashes, some times the interpreters can do good things with memory managers, but then again, the APR has one of these to use also.

  14. Re:you need more than games on Silverlight On the Way To Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    thats been possible for about ten years using java. cross platform (more so than .net)

  15. Re:Ha Ha Ha on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    I put all my favourite vim tricks here: http://www.s5h.net/vim.html, I used it all day every day.

  16. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I think this is no different to the MS Word numbering. They skipped revision 5 and jumped straight to version 6. Now they're jumping 6 and going to 7. It's just typical bent logic like normal from MS.

  17. Re:In case it gets slashdotted on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    bit like ubuntu then?

  18. network isp services on Businesses Choosing "Community" Linux Distros · · Score: 1, Insightful

    At the ISP I worked for, we used a mixture of Debian, OpenBSD and Windows. This was mainly for network tools. Generally there's little point in the "enterprise" distros since anyone who chooses their hardware wisely shouldn't really need that.

  19. Why on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 1

    Why is this anything of a problem? Can't people use one of the free signing authorities out there?

  20. Re:vi/emacs/eclipse/whatever + svn? on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 1

    gvimdiff + svn diff makes a nice version tracking system. Everything we do gets peer reviewed so we're all in the habit of using something like the above combination, be it plain diff or svn of some sort.

  21. Re:All your creativity are belong to google.com on UK Mobile Operator O2 Leaks MMS Photos · · Score: 1

    > Aw, you gotta be kidding! You are not a sys admin,
    > I suppose? ftp is a fucked up protocol (passive
    > ftp? active ftp? gimme a break) that was a
    > nightmare to manage, specially if you had
    > firewalls.

    It's only a problem if you don't know how to configure it. Really active FTP was the only problem if you had a NAT network, otherwise there's no problems.

  22. ah hem on Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    browse with telnet people - or use something close to it, like lynx or w3m. personally using opera here, but now that i'm aware of this i think i'll clean my cookies before buying anything.

  23. Re:The Wireless Barrier on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 1

    > "...and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption?"
    >
    > Until Linux wireless is brain dead easy, the answer is NO.

    But that'd be bad for everyone. It's a bad idea to have anything that's brain dead, especially when it has a network address. That'd be like making driving a car brain dead easy. That's just plain stupid, because without knowing how to drive the vehicle one is likely to end up either not going anywhere, hitting something, or driving the vehicle unmaintained, in which case both the first and second points are likely to be valid answers too.

    Yes, it'd be nice if wireless networking just worked but wouldn't that also be really bad? For what it's worth there's plenty of distros out there that handle wireless networking in a plug-and-play manner.

  24. stability on Paul Vixie Responds To DNS Hole Skeptics · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ive never had to change tinydns installs for security reasons

  25. Re:When did we PROVE evolution to be true??? on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 0

    How can you support teaching ID in science classrooms? It's not science. Evolution is science. Science is not about arguments, it's about facts. If it's in a current events or critical thinking class then teaching ID might have merit, but there is no excuse for teaching non-scientific material in a science class. I doubt you think we should reconsider teaching other theories such as gravity, relativity, etc, so why reconsider evolution? Should we also teach a "intelligent falling" to students for those of us that don't believe in gravity?

    That's a very valid argument. I for one believe that there should be no religous teaching in school. Instead it should be a moral teaching, how to live a balanced life, without the need ot believe in something that can read thought. The only problem I see is that the society might end up with something like 1984 where the 'party' is what people should believe in. Still that's a very far fetched view.