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  1. Re:Not the actual Apache *software*... on Zen and the Art of Apache Maintenance · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as you didn't read it, I guess...

  2. Re:Season finale on Ultrawideband May Stall Before It Starts · · Score: 1

    Where's the "+/-1 WTF?" when you need it?

  3. Re:So, basically... on IE7 Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Yes, since we all know for 100% SURE that UserID is porportional to overall knowledge.

    Off that alone, I don't think I have anything else to say to you.

    No, on second thought...

    A "hack" isn't always a "bad thing". Quit thinking it is.

    As this guy said, it's a complete MUST for a Fortune 500. Ie, when the admins of a Fortune 500 look at firefox, if it doesn't have GP support, it's going to be passed over because it can't be supported.
    Oh, that's right, we can always login script it. I'm not saying that it doesn't work, but there's a difference between writing up a file on login and a program reading read-only registry keys. I quoted the "work" as, imo, it is not a complete and correct method of GP implimentation.

    I'm not talking a "small network of 2 servers and 5 desktops". I'm talking a decent sized shop where they have a domain (worth using, that is).

    Oh, and excuse me for saying "parent" while meaning "grandparent".

  4. Re:beowulf on WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix! · · Score: 1

    Oh dear no. The retail version.

    iirc the seeds reached in excess of 1.5k, usually up until the morning when about 700 happy people hit the stop button and started playing.

    Note that it maintained this size for a good week, at least.

  5. Re:So, basically... on IE7 Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Windows domain login credentials, I do believe.

    Nice attempt at a troll, but, no.

    Group Policy is a 100% must for a windows envrioment, and current FF does NOT natively support it. It will through a customized login script, among many other hacks to get it to "work", but it's still not a true native method of support group policy.

    Trolls beware, parent have a very, very good point. Several of them.

  6. Re:Caveat on IE Vulnerable to Cross-Browser Spyware Attack · · Score: 1

    To coin a popular phrase lately...

    WHOOSH!

    Hear that? That was the joke doing mach 4 over your head.

    Unless, of course, you got the joke and was still offended...which makes you....k I'll shut up now.

  7. Re:Quad Mac on Apple's Dev. Tools Hint @ Dual-core G5 & Quad Mac · · Score: 1

    This guy beat you to it.

    Sorry.

  8. Re:BS! BS! BS!!! God, get up-to-date people on U.S. Justice Dept. Chooses Corel over Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I see something rather whack with what you've said here. Namely how the first two add up to 99%, and the last one adds up to 100%.

    I somehow doubt that 100% of the "Lawnet" members use either Word or Wordperfect, and nothing else.

  9. Re:Lemme get this straight... on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 1

    You've got a point, just because it's "law" doesn't mean that it's going to be followed.

    "Come back when the Attorney General of Utah starts instructing state law enforcement agencies to star bringing in the polygamists."

    It's a fox news article, so I doubt it'll be taken with any seriousness, but here you go.

    I live in Utah. I can honestly say that I can go driving for miles on end and not find a single polygamist family for a very long time. In refrence to that fox news article, when it aired on television, it showed polygamists building massive complexes out in the mountains, not in the cities or anywhere close to that. Realize that polygamists are a severe minority in Utah, polygamists are NOT endorsed in any fashion by the Mormon church, rather they are excommunicated from the church fairly quickly.

    Yes, we have a history of polygamy. No, it is in no way offically endorsed by the state of Utah or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints, nor is it legal or common anywhere.

    I will agree with you, though, concerning the "splinter groups". But, I doubt that these splinter groups, minorities in the extreme, are indicative of the entire state.

  10. Re:Lemme get this straight... on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm NOT modding you down, JUST so that I can reply to you... why exactly, I'm not sure...

    Polygamy is illegal in the state of Utah, those who pratice it are violating law and are getting in crap for doing so. Please stop trolling and pretending, as we follow the laws of the land, regardless.

    Mormons have not praticed polygamy for a very long time. Stop saying that we do, please.

  11. Re:And in other news... on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Informative? What are you smoking?

    Can you say "Hello Simpsons quote"?

  12. Re:You should always... on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1

    I really don't know what to say.... other than "wtf"... and that's kinda redundant ;)

  13. Re:Absolute power corrupts. on Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down · · Score: 1
  14. Why I don't like the idea of using SHA-{256,512} on More on Newly Broken SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    Here's a slight story for you. Certain gaming company 'X', in their online gaming services, uses SHA-1. However, how they implimented it, basically sucked. The person that found this posted it on a couple newsgroups, wanting to just just how heavily borked it was.

    He didn't get around to verifying the results, however it cames back that one could see anything 12 bytes or less from the hash given. (Company X did a couple things that made this pointless, involving taking what was input, and then adding to it in order for it to form at least 22 bytes).

    As the guy that explained this to me said, "See where this is going?"

    The longer the hash, the more information you have to reverse. Meaning, hey, you can get more of the plaintext out of it, if you know what you're doing (and likewise, if the dev is incompetent).

    On top of that, you know, a hash size that much larger is a LOT of more data to store.

  15. Re:This isn't really a problem on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 1

    With DeepFreeze, you have good luck changing a file past a reboot. The software catches everything from a low-level format to a file delete, and is the single most paranoid piece of software I have yet to stumble across. Example.

    I Installed the demo locally, and got curious as to where it kept the files. I found the folder, opened it up in explorer, and a few seconds later the machine killed itself. Why? explorer modified a file in it's directory (desktop.ini). It checks for it's own file integrity, it looks at RAM modifications done to it, it does it ALL - if a program other than itself tries to mess with it's RAM - instant reboot.

    In a nutshell: wipe the system, reboot, it's back. No imaging involved. You try to even LOOK at it, reboot. It's the closest thing to invulnerable I've found, not to mention the fastest. $30/pop and it only gets cheaper.

    I use the demo personally for my machine whenever I go to a LAN party of sorts. That way, I let everyone mess with my computer, install viruses, whatever, and I really don't care. Faronics really KNOW what they're doing, they do it well, and they do it for almost nothing in terms of cash.

  16. Re:I like the RFID idea on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    Oh great so now I can't get out of homework.
    That's all I needed to read, in order to understand just what the rest of your post would be.

    Let's just say that there's a reason you posted as AC, as it's clear that you don't want the karma hit.

  17. Where's my OGG support? on Motorola Announces E1060 Phone With iTunes Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really? I want my OGG support! Plus, sticking it in a product like this might get some more users of it, and make it just a little more used (another nail in the MP3 coffin).

  18. Re:Truth: The State of Desktop Linux on GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 Screenshot Demo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh really?

    Besides, I thought that personal tastes are just that. Personal.

  19. Re:HULK SMASH MORON! on BBC Bill Gates Interview Part 2: Security · · Score: 1

    1) Required bash.org quote
    2) Running various adware/spyware programs... firewall, anti-virus... you sound like a classic Dell user to me. I can safely and honestly say that in the 6 years of running Windows 2000/XP, without a firewall, antivirus, spyware/adware scanner, and with IE actually not locked down at all, over the period of 6 years, I obtained exactly 0 viruses, 0 adware/spyware programs, oh and 0 reasons to install a firewall besides my NAT router. I kid you not. Go ahead and hit me with the "but there's stuff running that you don't know about", I don't care, really. I know what my system is running. I know what I need to in order to effectively manage a windows computer.
    3) The next gentoo release will be soon, and it will be 2005.0, however you are correct that 2004.3-r1 is the latest. However, saying that you downloaded 4.3 is simply screwed up, as that's the version numbering scheme used previously. A version that didn't exist, too.
    4) External hard drive. Local friend. Compression. There's ways, you just have to think outside your box there. (One BIG STARING YOU RIGHT IN THE FACE YET YOU'RE A LITTLE BLIND TO SEE IT: TEH INTERWEB!)
    5) At the recommendation of a friend, I've found the *perfect* OS for you. Windows 3.1.

    "I could try and say how many years I have working with computers and various OS's, or pehaps how I work in the industry on an enterprise level, or how many degrees I have in the field... but we all know two things, that I can say whatever and you won't belive it and vice versa and that you are a certainly a jerk."
    Well. That explains the current state of a lot of the industry.

    Holy crap, I know why trolls do it now. It's rather entertaining.

  20. Re:HULK SMASH MORON! on BBC Bill Gates Interview Part 2: Security · · Score: 1

    If anything, I'd say his is a troll, and mine is flamebait. :)

  21. Re:HULK SMASH MORON! on BBC Bill Gates Interview Part 2: Security · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea.

    Learn how to use your OS before you ditch it.

    It's a two-way street. Really.

    First off, if your IE has the ability to do such things, you're a moron for letting it. Yes yes other /.'ers whine moan complain about bugs, but guess what? They happen. To the "best" of us. Double standards suck.

    Second, under the assumption that you actually knew what you were doing, let's say that you were hit with a really nasty bit of spyware/adware that owned your system as you have outlined. You claim that you're running 10-12 pieces of anti-virus software to remove spyware. First off, you're an ignorant moron, second you have no concept of backing up, less you wouldn't be "losing" all of your data.

    Yet the points STILL keep coming. "I have downloaded the latest versions of...GENTOO 4.3". Here's a hint, you're several releases behind. That's by far not the latest. So don't bother.

    Oh, and if you're getting those isolinux errors that you describe, you've already answered your own question...your computer hardware is owned, isolinux tries to work, but fails, because your computer is a piece of crap.

    Linux is not for you. Windows is not for you. Come back and whine when you have some room to speak about computing sucking all and being insecure. For now, it's clear that you're just a moron :)


    (Now there's a piece of flaimbait if I've ever written one...but hey, it felt good, all right?)

  22. Wow, they mean it. on DOOM: The Boardgame · · Score: 4, Funny

    66 Plastic Miniatures, including:
    6 Archvile figures
    6 Demon figures
    6 Hell Knight figures
    6 Mancubus figures
    6 Custom Dice

    Wow, they really took that to heart, didn't they?

  23. Re:Next NeXTSTEP? on Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP 3.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ehhh.....maybe not.

  24. WAIT A MOMENT on Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm · · Score: 4, Funny

    WAIT A MOMENT.

    You've got a woman, and you're locking her out?

    I mean, I try, and try, and try, and for some reason I can't even get one to step in my house.

    And you're locking her OUT....I am so confused....

  25. Re:Just so you know.. on WiFi Hotspots to Cost Wireless Carriers $12B · · Score: 1

    I need to shoot whoever modded you INFORMATIVE. Really.

    It's like the Americans and warning labels analogy. Take off the warning labels, let the problem solve itself.

    People who modded you informative....well, let's just say that they bear a special place in my heart :)