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  1. Re:CSS Support on Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation · · Score: 1

    Opera is in the big three? I checked a few browser statistics pages, and they say that KHTML is more common than Opera. KHTML based browsers(Konqueror and Safari) both pass Acid2.

  2. Is this a bug? on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    As seen with Webkit.

    Server: Apache
    Location: mhtml:http://secunia.com/ie_redir_test_2
    Keep-Alive: timeout=5
    Connection: Keep-Alive
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    Content-Type: text/html


    Webkit cannot open this address, and the script breaks. Nothing appears in the results field.

  3. Re:Read: on A $200-Million Floating Nuclear Plant? · · Score: 2, Funny

    This has been going on for a while. Where do you think Godzilla came from?

  4. Re:Company behind it on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 1

    route add -net 72.51.27.0/24 reject

  5. taste of their own medicine on BellSouth Will Charge Providers For Performance · · Score: 1

    What subnets does BellSouth own? I want to limit their use of my bandwidth unless they pay ME to use MY bandwidth to serve their customers. I create the content and I send it to their users. I will not pay them so that I can better server their customers. Rather, I will change my server such that BellSouth users are given a nice little message about their ISP, and have their bandwidth use capped. I hope others will join.

    An alternative is to only place advertisements on pages requested by BellSouth users instead of capping their bandwidth. Use the advertising to pay off the ISP, and annoy users. Make sure to feature a prominent notice that they are only getting ads because they use BellSouth and BellSouth is attempting to extort the owner of the site.

    This probably means nothing with my website since I don't need to install a hit counter to know that I am probably the most frequent visitor, but maybe some other people would have more of an impact.

  6. Re:Should be standard on all laptops and desktops on Windows Wireless Networking Flaw Identified · · Score: 4, Informative
    This isn't really good advice in my opinion; if your computer's security is ready for the 21st century it won't be a problem at all. The only reasons this may be a vulnerability you should care about are:
    • You are not running a firewall
    • Your firewall doesn't block access to unsecured services
    • Your firewall makes exceptions solely based on IP subnets
    The no firewall design is great if your computer is on a secured wired network that uses IPv4 networking. However, secured networks should be defined as having:
    • No unsecured wireless access points
    • No WEP secured wireless access points
    • No internet-accessable computers
    • No internet-exposed computers that may contract any form of malware
    • A system that ensures that computers may only be used by the intended user
    • No possibility of a disgruntled workers or pranksters
    This effectively means that you should treat your local area network as you treat your internet connection unless you are only working on your personal home network consisting only of computers behind a network address translator, and exposing no services to the internet. With the coming of IPv6 network address translation should become less popular, and this method of securing your computers will become even more dangerous.
    Run a properly configured firewall on all your computers. Do not use services that do not require authentication or base their authentication off of IP subnets.
  7. Re:Interesting but not exactly new news on NetBSD's Crypto-Graphic Disk · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is also a secure note storage area in your keychain, and you can create new keychains(which can be locked when you aren't using them). The OS has the tools in it for creating it's own secure note storage areas already without creating disk images that take up unnecessary space.

  8. Re:Bullet fired straight up on The Mythbusters Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I count 12. Once at 12AM, once between each number and the next until 11AM, and then 12PM. Maybe you had thought 13.

  9. Re:They will fail on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    I run sort of a mini-ISP with all the services running on my router, so...
    What IP address ranges does this provider own?
    How do I limit the rate of packet flow to a particular subnet?

    I can't be left out on this new prioritizing stuff. I want Google and Sourceforge to have better pings than other sites like the Bell South one, and Bell South users can load my site slower unless their ISP pays up...

  10. Re:Almost Old News on Why the Rokr Phone Is An Important Failure · · Score: 1

    I got Symbian OggPlay for my Nokia 3650. I currently have over 200 songs in mono, 0-quality, 16000Hz Ogg Vorbis, and lots of other stuff on there. Higher quality sound won't sound any better when played on the phone, and I doubt that this Rokr thing will do any better on sound quality, because it is, after all, just a cell phone. Symbian OggPlay looks much nicer than that iTunes picture I saw.

  11. Re:IM Client - Mac OS X on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1

    It was updated, yes, but there are some issues that are popping up with the new client. Some people are having contacts disappear/stay offline, and avoid the "Pushpin" theme, because it will cause Adium to hang. Hopefully there will be a prompt bugfix release.

  12. Re:sneakernet on Recordable Media a Bigger Threat Than Filesharing? · · Score: 1

    But bandwidth *is* free. If you are the person who owns the cabling, it costs you nothing for data to travel across it. Users are charged for the price of maintaining and upgrading the hardware, and feeding the owners.

  13. Re:It's slick. on Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page · · Score: 1

    This is very slick. I like the minimalist approach they took with this slick page over the cluttered layout of this page. Maybe not working on Safari is a "feature."

  14. Re:Damn Microsoft! on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    I was watching a movie, on the Mac, and it was like "beep beep beep beep beep beep" and then, like, my movies were encoded with DRM. And I was like... It devoured my movies. They were really good movies.

  15. Re:KDE looks more and more like a poor Win imitati on Preview of KDE 3.5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Shift+Delete seems to be the standard "Delete without moving to trash" key combo.

  16. Re:Two Words: on Fun and Informative Way to Introduce Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Enemy Territory does not come from enemy-territory.com. Get it from splashdamage.com.

  17. Re:Internet Explorer? on Google Offers Hybrid Satellite and Map View · · Score: 1

    Any time a browser crashes, it is the browser developers' fault. There should be no way to inflict harm upon the viewer's compter through the use of a malformed file.

  18. Re:Resource Hog!? on Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta · · Score: 1

    I just removed this from my sister's PC today. It was blocking the Google toolbar(!) and it was causing new windows to close the existing window when opened. For example: you click a link in a popular forum program, such as phpBB, that opens external links in a new window, but opening the new window closes the old window, and erases the back button history since it is a new window.

  19. Re:Intel Graphics on Intel Developer Macs Outperform G5s · · Score: 1

    450 times better, and still barely good enough to run solitare.

  20. Re:Sounds familiar... on In Japan, Old People Talk to Robots · · Score: 1

    Not as good as when the English version of this thing comes out. "Who does all of our base belong too?" "All your base are belong to us."

  21. Re:Iconic stature on Gates v. Jobs, continued... · · Score: 1

    I don't like Windows Media Player OR iTunes. Besides only running on non-Linux computers, both of them have "features" in them that I, and at least a few other people, can't stand. Both will change your file associations. Both will try to organize your music in a manner that you did not intend it to when you sorted it into folders(you did sort it, right?). Both are made by people who want to sell you stuff. Both are designed to not work with the compitition. iTunes installs QuickTime(slowtime), and that hijacks your browser when you try to download .mid files, makes your computer run slower, tells you to go pro, and crashes a lot of older computers, but it looks nice. Windows Media Player doesn't look nice, and it only saves into Windows Media Player only formats.

    You should all run Linux for the obvious reasons, so why is this media player question even being asked? It is obviously MPlayer(Xine can't play some Windows Audio files correctly).

    What do you mean by "They will start making Itunes break everytime there is a MS Update run."? Everything breaks when the update runs. Just a few days ago that update program crashed Windows just because it wanted me to reboot to finish installing an update.
  22. Re:Skynet anyone on U.S. Military To Create Its Own Internet · · Score: 1

    Why why why?! The US government can't build a secure network, and why would it be useful? Why would you, the leader of a country, want the United States, a country with a history of misdirected violence, to build a network in your country that would allow them to attack you easier?

  23. Re:Cui bono? on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1

    I suspect that it has failed because they started trying to make a dime. It was going the way of MusicMatch: less features in every release of the free version, nothing new in every release if the $$$ version. It also started crashing and playing a maximum of three songs on my PC before I got some Quintisential player that I had never heard of before.

  24. What? on How Do You Handle Home Media? · · Score: 1

    What? TV, stereo? Get a TV tuner card. If you can, get a second .*D-R.M(preferably DV) drive, a second monitor, and surround sound. Much better than a TV, a stereo, and a Tivo combined!

  25. Re:The catch is.. on Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts · · Score: 1

    For some reason, I just loath web interfaces. It doesn't matter how well designed it is; I just hate them. I would prefer to have them more integrated into the browser, like a full page Java applet or something. Web mail was the only reason I didn't get GMail--well, that and that I could get way more space for free with my DSL line, and a free domain name.
    Lots of people don't ever turn their computers of, and lots of those people have always on internet connections. Why don't these people take advantage of dynamic DNS and free mail server software? If they aren't using some failure of an ISP that only provides half of the internet that is.