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  1. Re:Box? on Hardening Linux · · Score: 1

    ... OpenBSD has zero services in the default install. I'm not sure about ubuntu, or debain, but I'm pretty sure they dont even come with SSHd

  2. Re:Created with love on Advocating Linux / OSS to Management. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wish I had points to mod that up.

  3. Ofcourse ... on 'Til Tech Do Us Part · · Score: 1

    Yeah, *THATS* why I'm single...

  4. Re:Obligatory Youtube Video on NFL, MLB Accused of Bogus Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    Disney teaches Copyright

    dk- and obligatory ISR joke ..

    ... in Soviet Russia video copies you!!
  5. Re:Screw them! on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    to tell you the truth i am glad, that means one more NON MAC (or as i call em crap) in a school distric, some it people are way too blinded by macs, like the mac servers, cost about 4 times more then a Linux server, also cost more then a windows based server. I may also come from a diffrent angle at this, i use excel as my primary calcaluator, i have a ti89 titamiam, but i prefer to use excel becose i can trace back steps easyer if i do one miss calcualtion and it all flows out to the end saving me time, i have done as many as 100 cells for a calcation and that was when i was in high school, and i found that 2007 was easyer... so i dont blame em, i just want to upgrade to 2007,(was in the beta) Mac servers are a lot like Sparc boxes, just with a different OS. But it's essentially the same thing, it's a proprietary hardware and software. A Linux rack is just as good, but I've got no complaints about a Mac server, they're reliable, but I prefer to do things on Linux platforms as generally it's more efficient.

    You should, however, get Firefox with aspell to correct your spelling errors before posting.
  6. Re:Screw them! on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 3, Informative
  7. Re:I Choose Not to Participate on Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    Still wrong, notice the relative path for chown and no cd command being done?

    If the user was smart, they could get out of trouble by pointing out it was a root owned file that they couldn't have created.

    The sysadmin would be in the one in trouble. Ah, I failed to notice that. I just saw the obvious wget error and replied to that. I didn't bother to look further. Thanks for pointing that out.
  8. Re:Linksys reliability problems?! on Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name · · Score: 1

    Linksys is a great nationwide wireless ISP, but their reliability often suffers. For example, when I try to access the linksys network from my home, I get something like this:

    [grunt@turing ~]$ ping slashdot.org
    PING slashdot.org (66.35.250.151) 56(84) bytes of data.
    From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
    From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable

    Stupid linksys admins! the linksys device "probably" sends the ping as requested, but since no packet was returned (the slashdot icmp port drops the packets) the router never sees this response and sends your client a ICMP host unreach, just so your applications can deal with that in a timely manner, rather than just time out much later.

  9. Re:CCNP? on Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name · · Score: 1

    CCNP?

    Sovetskiy Soyuz Izvestnikh Respublikov?
    Sovetskiy Soyuz Interesnikh Respublikov?
    Sovetskiy Soyuz Internatsionalnikh Respublikov?

    I just can't find one that flows off the tongue like the original. :)

    (My apologies for the awful transliteration- I couldn't figure out how to get slashdot to accept Cyrillic characters.) great to see some russian on /. :-)
  10. Re:I Choose Not to Participate on Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 5, Informative

    rm -rf /usr/staff/eldavojohn
    mkdir /usr/staff/eldavojohn
    wget http://goatse.cx/hello.jpg > /usr/staff/eldavojohn/hello.jpg
    chown eldavojohn hello.jpg

    "Hello, Human Resources? There's something about one of your employees that you need to know about..."

    and they look at the file to see it's just the output of wget.
    you should try this:
    wget -O http://goatse.cx/hello.jpg > hello.jpg
  11. this is nothing special. on Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    just use a firewall that can duplicate the packets elsewhere and use that remote system to rebuild the traffic and apply filtering rules for viewing. it's nothing astronomically brilliant here. the remote system can then send back rules to assist the filtering further.

    from my point of view a firewall, router, bridge *should not* do this level of inspection on packets in transit, that's just going to really piss people off on an incredible level if this is done at the core of an ISP. the only exception would be to have a HUGE cluster of these, but then they'd all have to synchronise, that'd just get messy.

  12. Re:Fat friends with benefits on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 1

    I have to say, fat chicks do give the best head Only until they do what all fat chicks do and get lazy...
  13. Re:wow... on "DNS Forgery Pharming" Attack Against BIND 9 · · Score: 1

    Sure but OpenBSD had this patched in 1997... 10 years ago! Surely the ISC coders would have accepted the OpenBSD patches if it weren't for their politics.

    OpenBSD++
    ISC-- The patch would probably be in BSD licence. I don't know what licence the ISC use. Maybe I'll look sometime.
  14. Re:wow... on "DNS Forgery Pharming" Attack Against BIND 9 · · Score: 1



    OpenBSD's patched and native Bind9 is immune to this attack and has been for many years.

    But this article isn't about the OpenBSD stock, or about the DJB stock, it's about the -current version. Running BIND is like running sendmail... pretty stupid unless you *really* know what you're doing.
  15. Re:Finally on AMD Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) Tech Report · · Score: 1

    Until you put a CD in the drive. Locks up multiprocessor machines fairly effectively until it works out what to do with it.

    yeah, what the hell is that all about? happens with linux too - especially when there are errors.

    Maybe I've got a very reliable collection of CDs or linux 2.6 handles it fine.
  16. Re:thinly-veiled homosexual propaganda on Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion · · Score: 1

    Harry Potter is thinly-veiled homosexual propaganda, read all about it here http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/7/16/162353/730 As much as I hate the whole OMG PONIES that Harry Potter crap is, this link reads just like bible code crap.
  17. Finally on AMD Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) Tech Report · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Finally I can run four things at once on Windows without a block.

  18. Re:Not only mail fraud and conspiracy on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not only mail fraud and conspiracy - don't forget kidnapping (if the attachments were ever sentient) and probably murder (same)
    ... none of this would happen if it was still running on Sun.
  19. Re:um no on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 1

    But what if it is the single food (or rather, ingredients) that is the cause of people not getting off their asses? In the radio broadcast linked to by the article, the doctor was speaking about the levels of insulin being directly related to obesity AND the desire to exercise. He experimented on some massively obese children who had a brain disorder that didn't allow them to know when they were full. Their bodies, as a result, would release too much insulin to make the body change sugar into fat. When he lowered their insulin levels, not only did they lose weight, but they also began to exercise without any external impetus. High fructose corn syrup can have a similar effect to the disorder these children have. While sugar signals to the brain that we've eaten enough, and we're full, high fructose corn syrup doesn't. So we keep on eating, and the body releases more insulin. This makes us not only fatter, but also reduces our desire to exercise. This flies in the face of common sense which emphasizes that fat is the direct result of a lack of willpower, which is the view I held until recently. All that aside, remember there were no fatties in the POW camps.
  20. Re:um no on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 1

    No one will believe your crackpot idea that eating less and exercising more will make you lose weight, because it's not a product you can buy in a store. Don't you know that in today's post-modern world, if you want a solution for any problem, it comes in a cardboard box and is identified by a slick logo that you will recognize from a television advertisement?

    Jeez. Some people don't know anything.

    I totally agree with what you're saying. Perhaps some people need to get used to Gunners core workout secrets or something else that's frequently on the telly.

    People do want to buy into a life style, that's why Nike/apple have these special trainers for exercise. However, anyone who does a lot of running probably requires trainers to correct pronation problems (which 95% of people suffer, but only about 10% of trainers on the market can solve).
  21. Re:Exactly on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I'm tired of people telling me I can't have products with High Fructose Corn Syrup in it. Have you tried European Coke? I have. It sucks. Give me the one I grew up with and stop pretending people can't just get off their duff and exercise once in a while. European coke? Is that like Columbian pure?

    What you have to realise is that the food product is what is doing the damage here. If you're a Coke addict then you have to stop before something bad happens. It's not good. Your body should learn to live without being dependant on this stuff, try carrying some celery around, you might be surprised just how satisfying that crisp crunchy salad around your teeth.

    Remember it took a long time to get used to the unnatural taste of Coke, it will take just a fraction (10 days perhaps) to become accustomed to the regular taste of salad.
  22. Re:You missed the point on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 1

    "The question I've been interested in now for the last ten years is what is actually blocking that signal to the brain to tell our bodies to eat less and exercise more?"

    Your brain is blinded to the leptin signal that tells it to stop eating and start exercising. Your brain tells you that you're starving and tries to protect you by making you stop exercising and start eating. You get the perverse effect that your stomach is full and you still feel hungry.

    The net result is that many of the people (mainly female), who under-eat and over-exercise, are doing just as much harm to their health as letting themselves become obese.

    Fructose really is alcohol without the buzz. It poisons your liver. It tricks your brain.

    You can't say that an obese child lacks willpower. That's dumb. Lustig pointed out that when children were treated for leptin blindness, they spontaneously started exercising. The problem is too much fructose and too little fiber and that is largely the fault of the food industry.
    I think you hit the nail on the head with a 16,000 tonne ACME anvil. However, there is nothing the food industry can do there to make the consumer start making their own meals. If you take a look at food off the shelf you might see that almost all proprietary foods have lots of sugar to extend their shelf life. What the consumer has to realise is that spending 20 mins to prepare a healthy meal from fresh produce is what it actually takes to shift some weight and improve their quality of life.
  23. Re:um no on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 1

    I agree with you in that we should be doing more exercise and not eating too much, but if you take a look to the ingredients of almost any food, they all have added sugar. Meat has sugar, Bread has sugar, things that already have sugar have several kinds of sugar in large quantities.... That makes our food today pretty more energetic, so the same quantity of food delivers more energy to the body that is stored as fat. And you cannot spend unlimited hours doing exercise, so there's a problem with the amount of sugar in our food. I have to turn that around, its not the food that's the problem, its the quantity of the sugar in which the consumer consumes. My suggestion still remains that the food should be changed. One can consume much salad without any health problems. However, if this is salad from a fast food restaurant then it will be glazed with sugary sauce, just as much sugar as in the burgers I believe.

    Just walk a little further to a supermarket and buy a nice bag of crispy salad instead. And remember that most of the sugars in the proprietary foods are there to extend the shelf life, not particularly to provide more energy.
  24. um no on Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate articles like this. The reader should not be blaming a single food as a CAUSE for obesity. The cause is that the consumer should not be eating large quantities of anything. Personally if anything is to blame then its the consumer for not getting off their ass and actually preparing food, going for a bike ride, or doing some running. Simple exercise like washing up has now been replaced with a dish washer, we mow lawns with electric/petrol mowers, and we don't even write letters by hand either, soon voice recognition will replace keyboard work. When will the world learn that as physical creatures we depend on a good, fresh diet and plenty of exercise.

  25. also on Indiana Allows BP To Pollute Lake Michigan · · Score: 0, Troll

    in INDIA many companies pollute their local river. This should really be stopped, but generally its acceptable in some countries.