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  1. A double-plus-good solution on New Computer Program Determines "Hitability" · · Score: 1
    Input any of the myriad Merzbow albums. Enjoy a cocktail while the Rewarder-Of-Homogenity-Machine screams in abject terror.

    The divide between popular and good music happened a long time ago. The connoisseur has nothing to fear from this machine. The legions of MTV viewers will have to settle for a shiney-thing that looks strikingly similar to the last shiney-thing.

  2. Re:Glad I use Gentoo on Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The mirrors contained the trojan as well.

    Besides, this is an exploit of trust, no operating system is any more vulnerable than any other. Binary distributions would only contain the libpcap backdoor to ignore tcp port 1963, the actual trojan appears in the configure script.

    How many times have you downloaded sources and blindly ran ./configure && make? This is certainly a case for running builds in a systrace jail.

    For the record, this fits the modus operandi of trojans found in irssi, fragroute, dsniff, BitchX, OpenSSH, and sendmail.

  3. "The Practice Of Programming" on What is Well-Commented Code? · · Score: 1
    From Kernighan & Pike's seminal The Practice Of Programming:

    Comments are meant to help the reader of a program. They do not help by saying things the code already plainly says, or by contradicting the code, or by distracting the reader with elaborate typographical displays. The best comments aid the understanding of a program by briefly pointing out salient details or by providing a larger-scale view of the proceedings.

  4. Re:It's not the routers fault on The 2.4.x Kernel, ECN And Problem Websites · · Score: 1

    > Rest assured, it's not enabled by default.

    Not being a Linux 2.4 user, I did not know this, but the blurb alludes to this fact.

    > And it's a great idea. I wouldn't knock it, lest you understand it

    I understand it, have read the RFC multiple times, and have implemented pieces of the standard. Still, I stand behind my original statement that it is a crummy standard. It breaks compatibility with other devices and implements network congestion avoidance at the transport layer.

    I am not a member of "legions of Windows users", or a troll. Many Linux users have this lemming mindset that anything implemented by the kernel development team must be the correct way of doing things, and everyone else is wrong. They are the "stupid trolls", as someone so eloquently stated.

  5. Re:My Personal Selections on Ask Slashdot: What Music do you Code By? · · Score: 1

    Arcturus - "La Masquerade Infernale" (Evil genius music)
    Anathema - "Judgement"
    Brighter Death Now - "Pain In Progress"
    Dead Can Dance - everything
    Fear Factory - "Demanufacture"
    Front Line Assembly - "Tactical Neural Implant"
    Godflesh - everything
    Hypocrisy - "The Final Chapter"
    Samael - "Ceremony Of Opposites"
    Scorn - "Evanescence"
    Velvet Acid Christ - "Calling Ov The Dead"

    Everything here

  6. Re:Sorta related... on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost IP-based Traffic Shaping? · · Score: 3

    Check out the IPChains HOWTO. You can implement TOS scheduling in your chain.

  7. Re:bootrom project(s) on Ask Slashdot: Linux Diskless Clients? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:bootrom project(s) on Ask Slashdot: Linux Diskless Clients? · · Score: 1

    http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/matt/projects/wopr/diskle ss.html