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  1. Re:Those results are skewed because of Akamai on Hardening Apache · · Score: 1

    Please don't use 'Monkey Boy' as an insult! It is a very good word.

  2. Re:Not so much actually on 20,000 Zombie PCs -- $3000 · · Score: 1

    Ever thought of something like:

    'apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade || echo "Upgrade failed on `hostname`." |mail -s "Failed upgrade" admins@email.net'

    I just came up w/ that off the top of my head, but should work (minor tweaking may be needed). Probably could make a really nice automated updater w/ a really simple script. Also you should set up a firewall to limit where services can be accessed from (like set it up so SSH can only log in from inside the LAN).

  3. Re:Rhetorical question: on 20,000 Zombie PCs -- $3000 · · Score: 1

    So its going to have a built in exploit to find out how it can gain root? Also theres the problem of running it, since generally .sh files aren't automatically opened in bash/sh (at least in KDE, not sure about GNOME), and binaries still have the problem of not always running (unless its compiled statically, but even then that will make it much bigger and but still will only hit 1 platform).

    All in all it would make it much harder for the luser to open an e-mail attachment and execute a virus/trojan.

  4. Re:Eye candy is nice... on X.org Making Fast Progress · · Score: 1

    Those are just SOME things it does, other things are it removes the need to redraw a window when it is uncovered by another window.

    Also this should be easy to disable (like all things in Linux)

  5. Re:Great Progress... on X.org Making Fast Progress · · Score: 1

    I think this won't mess up XDMCP and SSHed stuff, since it will still be your local X server doing the work. Also the video card's GPU's cycles should be where the work is done :-).

  6. Re:What BMI will say on BMI Reports All-Time Profit High Despite Piracy · · Score: 1

    I recently bought 3 CDs, even though I had about all the songs on them already.

    I would of never bought the CDs if I hadn't already known I liked the artists and songs.

  7. Re:My mind is racing!!!! on Intel Shrinks Transistor Size By 30% · · Score: 1

    My old Nomad II has a built in radio... That would fit in my shirt pocket (the problem is finding a shirt with pockets, I'm really just limited to the Tux work shirt for that).

  8. Re: 10Gbit to the Home by 2010 on 10Gbit to the Home by 2010 · · Score: 1

    If you want to relive the experience, you can just get a cheap router, and have 3 computers on the lan behind it... have 4 bit torrent connections running on 2 of them, and try and do anything on the third. I believe my connection was a bit worse than 56k :-(.

  9. Re:It won't eventuate on GmailFS - The Google File System · · Score: 1

    $ cat /dev/random >/dev/Yahoo! & cat /dev/random >/dev/HotMail

    Hm... PERFECT!

  10. Re:SECURE and RELIABLE on Windows XP To Get Longhorn Technologies · · Score: 1

    Secure and reliable means of making a profit?

  11. Re:If most of the updates will be available for cu on Windows XP To Get Longhorn Technologies · · Score: 1

    5 minutes before you put the install CD in?

  12. Re:Still better than Unix. on XP2 Spotted In The Wild · · Score: 1

    Intresting... I'm running Fedora Core 2 and all home directories are set so only the owner has any access and no one else has any at all (including the 2 created under Fedora Core 1).

  13. Re:I installed it last night on XP2 Spotted In The Wild · · Score: 1

    Though at least the "WARNING YOU DON'T HAVE ARE GOD DAMN FIREWALL ON!!!!!!" will come back every boot even if u do disable it

  14. Re:Scary stuff. on XP2 Spotted In The Wild · · Score: 1

    Though Admins tend to get REALLY pissy if you run software on the computers that they don't explicitly approve of being on there.

  15. Re:Actually, no... on XP2 Spotted In The Wild · · Score: 1

    C) Linux version isn't dependant on CPU supporting NX (like Fedora comes w/ it out of the box)

  16. Re:coincidence on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions · · Score: 1

    Thank you for making my day! Thats the funniest thing I've heard in a while!

  17. Re:coincidence on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions · · Score: 1

    According to the article, they did know it was disputed, but apparently didn't about know that law... intresting!

  18. Re:Maybe....but I'm not buying it on Antarctic Craters Reveal Asteroid Strike · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lets find everyone named Shinji and kill him... FAST!

    I would rather the Angels win than he the world revolving around him...

  19. Re:Kool! on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    You know you can change the look... right? Newbies may NOT know how to change the look (maybe you need the windows look a bit longer...)

  20. Re:not true... on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just set up a system with 500 mhz, 128 MB ram... runs KDE great!

  21. Re:New Features (site is slashdotted) on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    "[CQR@localhost CQR]$ k
    Display all 298 possibilities? (y or n)
    [CQR@localhost CQR]$ g
    Display all 316 possibilities? (y or n)"

    Looks like "g" has more than "k"... intresting...

  22. Re:great... on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Actually everything you mentioned would be in the KHTML part...

  23. Re:it happend on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    They figured out step 2!?!?!??!

    Wow this is even bigger news!!!

  24. Re:"Niche guys"? on End Of The Line For Alpha · · Score: 1

    I think by "Intel" he meant the Intel architecture (x86). And x86_64 isn't really all that big (yet), so it would easy to consider it a 'niche' market.

  25. Re:Not that new. on Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    At every boot up you would have to copy those files to RAM... that wouldn't be all that fast. Also if you modify any of them (install anything, etc) you would then have to somehow sync it back (either copying the entire thing back, or using something like RSYNC, which shouldn't really be that bad).