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  1. Re:So what you're saying is.... on Australian Journalist Arrested, Released After Detailing Facebook Flaws · · Score: 2

    It will be a tough fight. I see that their queen has fled to a former colony and is now probably negotiating with the head of the Green Gnome tribe to help her regain her throne.

  2. The Dead Code? on WarGames Sequel Now Filming · · Score: 1

    Whassat, the terrorists use FreeBSD? Everybody knows terrorists use linux: http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/20/linux-a -european-threat-to-our-computers-by-tristan.aspx.

  3. Re:Nouns maybe? on The Math Behind PageRank · · Score: 1

    So if I want to look for dwarf throwing I'll have to wade through all dwarf related pages because throwing is not relevant for the pagerank?

  4. Re:Sender ID, SPF, DomainKeys on Microsoft Releases Patent on SenderID · · Score: 1

    Could be that Google has created their own txt entry for yahoo.com in the dns servers that their mail servers use.

    I see a lot of spam which appears to be from @yahoo.com users but coming from a gazillion different mail servers ( and no, I actually don't see the mails, I just see the reports on a number of mail servers).

  5. Re:Not just fat people on FDA Approves New Drug for Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Yeah right, you just got big bones! :-)

  6. Re:Eww yuck! on The Shallow Roots of the Human Family Tree · · Score: 1

    And I read a posting from this guy on /. who was five steps from Kevin Bacon. That makes me six steps from Kevin Bacon. Wheee, I'm cool!

  7. Re:Nearby on Three Neptune-sized Planets Found Nearby · · Score: 1

    Putting my mother in law on one of those planets would still mean she was uncomfortably nearby

  8. Re:Phone number on VOIP Cell Phones Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    The mobile operators are happier to take a small cut from your wifi connected mobile that is connecting to their infrastructure over the internet, than to not take a cut from your wifi connected mobile connecting to your own asterisk or to Skype.

    And I guess that a lot people will be willing to pay for not having to figure out Skype/Asterisk/whatever on their mobile and telling friends, relatives and business associates which number to call at what times.

  9. Re:Is this Good or Bad on Linux Grows 27.1% in China · · Score: 1

    Yeah, linux is all SCO code. I read that in the news somewhere...

  10. Re:Im confused on D-Link Firmware Abuses Open NTP Servers · · Score: 1

    This guy gets pissed because he hosts an ntp server meant for a few thousand servers on Danish networks but is being used by millions of little home routers all over the world, abusing the policy stated where D-Link picked up the server name!

  11. Confused... on Pixar Eaten by Mickey Mouse · · Score: 1

    So, who will we call Mickeysoft now?
    Apple or Microsoft?

  12. Re:not quite avaliable yet... on Levi Making iPod Compatible Jeans Now · · Score: 1

    Northern autumn, I guess, is refering to northern hemisphere autumn. The article is on an australian server; the aussies might be used to specifying northern/southern summer/winter/spring/autumn?

  13. Googles purpose on Google to Buy Opera? · · Score: 1

    Their purpose is obvious.
    Just like they want to provide browser based email, desktop, whatever, they now go for the next thing:
    The browser based browser!

  14. VPN connections on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used to be responsible for a number of Shiva LANRover dialin boxes.
    When Shiva started to sell their VPN boxes, a guy from Shiva came and presented them to me, my boss and a few others.
    The most important feature about the Shiva VPN boxes was that they where the only one in the market that could actually talk to boxes from other vendors...

  15. Re:As many Unix tools, Ethereal is egoist ! on Ethereal Packet Sniffing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ethereal is primarily meant as an interactive tool, I guess, which makes it not perfect for your purpose.
    A few other options for you:
    1) Simplest option with focus on http: Put in squid as a transparent proxy. No need to setup anything on the client, just put the squid server in front of your gateway and tell it to route port 80 through squid. Lots of tools exists to analyze squid log files. My preference is awstats, because it suits my needs.
    2) Use tcpdump, writing to a file. You can use -C to specify filesize if you expect high volume. Then you can use another tcpdump, ethereal or whatever tool to analyze your dump files. Remember "-s 0" to save the full packet.
    For instance "tcpdump -s 0 -C 1000 -w tcpdump.dmp &" saves the dump in 1G files. Then you can use "tail -f -c +0 tcpdump.dmp | tcpdump -r - port 80" to follow http traffic online. You'll of course have to monitor when the new rollover happens and restart with the newest filename. This can be easily scripted.

  16. Double-clicking elevator buttons on NYC Crosswalk Buttons are Inoperative · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean I don't need to double-click the elevator button???

    I hate inconsistent user interfaces between different devices!

  17. Is using ptr a problem? on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 1

    AOL has a ptr:mx.aol.com. Does that mean that I can just set the ptr record for my mail server to mx.aol.com and contin^H^H^H^H^H^Hstart spamming, posing as an aol user?

  18. The worst threat is local on A Comparison of 802.11g Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    All of the combined routers/ap's provide the basic firewalling between the internet and the home network. You still need a software firewall on each pc.

    The worst threat in this setup are other people using your ap to get to the internet, using your bandwidth and making you liable for their abuse. None of the small devices can stop that without some sort of authentication server beside it.

    Either accept that risk or put a wireless nic in a dedicated pc and use that as firewall and ap with ipsec to the clients.

  19. Being open about the security breach... on Debian Project Servers Compromised · · Score: 0

    is probably a violation of the DMCA!

  20. Re:Cheswick lates talk on Firewalls and Internet Security, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1

    I was there as well, bought a copy of the new book and told Cheswick about how often I had lent the old book to sysadmins who wanted to learn about security.
    He wrote a dedication in my new book: "Do not lend this book!"

  21. Re:From Google.com on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    There may not be a googol physical objects but there is somewhere between 10^144 and 10^174 relations between particles. I am sure someone some day will want to calculate on that.

  22. No way! on Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We definitely do not want blonde rocket scientists!

  23. European Parliament thinks you need a tinfoil hat! on Call for Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie References · · Score: 1

    Following a few of the "loonie" links, I stumbled upon a call for a global ban:
    30. Calls in particular for an international convention for a global ban on all research and development, whether military or civilian, which seeks to apply knowledge of the chemical, electrical, sound vibration or other functioning of the human brain to the development of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings, including a ban on any actual or possible deployment of such systems;
    Go see for your self: A4-0005/99

  24. Amish people on Automakers and Crash Data Recorders · · Score: 1

    So I guess that's why not many Amish people gets caught while driving drugs across the borders.
    It's because of the wooden wheels.
    And you don't see many Amish conterfeiters being caught. Obviously that's because they handpaint their counterfeit money instead of just printing it out like the rest of us^H^Hthe criminals.

  25. US Gov too busy on Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S. · · Score: 1

    They are probably all too busy tapping us foreigners, so they don't have the time to tap themselves.
    Besides, when you've heard one yankee, you've heard them all.