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  1. Re:Firewire! on What Can You Do with Old Memory? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, your slave computer would need software to make it act like a hard disk, and while I'm sure such a thing exists, I don't know where..

    Make a ramdisk under linux, share it using Samba/NFS, and connect the two computers together using gig ethernet.

  2. FFS! on Programming Until Retirement? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Get your carpal tunnel treated!

    You really don't want to damage your wrists. if you are a programmer.

  3. Re:MOD PARENT UP!!! on Cooking With Linux · · Score: 1

    Could you be more specific about how alsa was a pain in the ass? My setup was fairly painless...

  4. Re:hw/sw on Building a Video Editing Box? · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried it, but I would assume that it looks for a "magic number" in the video input, not unlike file does.

  5. Re:Unlikely on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to have a PCIe card that would be able to just do it all in hardware...good as a P4 may be for video encoding, I doubt it would be able to touch an ASIC.

  6. Re:Unlikely on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    Look at the amd and intel benchmarks for video. Intel always wins because their clockspeed is faster

    Actually, IIRC, it is because video encoding software can use intel SSE2 instructions to gain performance, not because of the higher clock speed.

    PPC has a better architecture, and the P4 has such an insanely long pipeline that if the branch predictor make a mistake then you take a big performance hit reloading all 30 stages.

  7. Re:Hidden iPod Shuffle features? on Inside the iPod, Past and Present · · Score: 1

    Probably test points for burning/debugging the firmware.

  8. Re:Linux Desktop Thoughts... on Linux, Inc. · · Score: 1

    OSX kicks any desktop environment's ass, that is to be expected.

    And remember, when you make something more useable (which to be honest I think current WMs already are) you have to take away something else.

    Easy, featureful, secure. Pick any 2.

  9. Re:Linux Desktop Thoughts... on Linux, Inc. · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of usable window managers/desktop environments for UNIX.

  10. Re:Soft Technology Offerings on Linux, Inc. · · Score: 1

    BSD probably wouldn't exist if not for linux (correct me if I'm wrong but it uses the linux kernel right?)

    Umm...no. BSD was first released in '77. About 15 *YEARS* before Linux.

  11. Re:IBM is NOT a 'Linux' company on Linux, Inc. · · Score: 1

    Ok then...what about the FSF? And the BSD folks who wrote the other set of base tools.

  12. Re:IBM is NOT a 'Linux' company on Linux, Inc. · · Score: 1

    Linus Torvalds would be enough...he has the copyrights.

    'course then BSD would just take over.

  13. Re:Perhaps all we need to do is rename p2p... on MGM v. Grokster Date Set · · Score: 1

    Just remember: It's not P2P, it's distributed client-server!

  14. Re:So... who was it? on International Obfuscated C Code Tattoo · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates was able to learn C? ;)

  15. Re:Something to think about... on Escape from the Universe · · Score: 1

    Because the number of Universes with intelligent life is extremely small compared to the number of universes that actually have no life at all

    I was under the impression that there were an infinte number of universes, so there would be an infinte number of both.

  16. Re:As much as we hate them on The Basics of EULAs · · Score: 1

    Perhaps having some recourse against the little fuckers in CS who feel the need to cheat all the time?

  17. Re:Yes on 'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    Quite a few would log in because they have a certificate signed by Verisign/Thawte/whoever saying that it is their bank.

  18. Re:Representatives of the People, Indeed on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1

    That then allows vote-buying

  19. Re:As much as we hate them on The Basics of EULAs · · Score: 1

    I didn't say I like them as they are, but they are necessary, at least in some form.

  20. Re:Yes on 'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    No, the social engineering attack only makes the man-in-the-middle attack more feasible. It means I (the attacker) now has a valid cert in the name of the bank.

    Setup a fake DNS, and I'm in.

  21. As much as we hate them on The Basics of EULAs · · Score: 1

    As much as we hate them, EULAs are necessary. EULAs also include things like your distribution rights, and (I assume) that you can't hack.

    'cos we all know how fucking annoying those hackers are ;)

    Doesn't matter...I've only come across one since I started playing CS:S...and I awped him...that reminds me: LENT, if you are out there, please report to your nearest execution center ;)

  22. Re:TFA says on Scientific American on Quantum Encryption · · Score: 1

    But how is it different to using a full-blown reciever, which re-encodes the data and re-transmits it?

  23. Re:Yes on 'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security · · Score: 2

    Because no-one has ever managed to get legit certificates in the name of a major company? Right?!

  24. Re:Email interception on 'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    Another possibility is to spoof the email's from address, set a local DNS record to redirect the password-reset locally, and just get the user to give a probable password.

  25. Re:Yes on 'Evil Twin' Threat to Wireless Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you check carefully, you'll find out that your password has been sniffed, your box 0wn3d, and you have actually been connecting to 127.0.0.1 ;)