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  1. Re:Freedom of the press? on Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again · · Score: 1

    If indymedia did offer to co-operate with the police, or the police didn't seek thier co-operation first before getting a warrant then this was heavy handed and the police are in the wrong. If the reverse is the case and indymedia just refused to help the police then the police have done exactly what they are supposed to do. Get a warrant!

    Indymedia couldn't cooperate with the police, as
    1) They don't keep IP logs
    2) this machine was a mirror
    3) The police knew this.

    Its not illegal to NOT keep IP logs ( yet ), but it does seem not doing so means your server can be pulled at anytime.

  2. Re:Freedom of the press? on Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the article you'd have seen that the personal details were removed by an Indymedia moderator as soon as they were aware of them.

    Indymedia UK privacy policy does not condone publishing personal details

    http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/privacy.html#Personal_Information

    Indymedias policy of not logging IP addresses is well known to the Police.

    Its difficult to see what reason they could have for pulling this machine, other than low level harrasssment.

  3. Re:Can't decide on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    Survival means every man for himself.
    Statistically more people survive if they think only of themselves.
    Do not attempt to rescue friends, relatives, loved ones.

  4. Re:Obfuscation 101 on Stealing Data With Obfuscated Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    Best Use of Light and Spheres:

            Anders Gavare
            Gibraltargatan 82-156
            SE-412 79 Gothenburg
            Sweden

            http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md1gavan/

    Judges' Comments:

            To build:

            make gavare

            To run: ./gavare > ioccc_ray.ppm

            For users of systems that distinguish between text and binary mode
            (you know who you are), add a library call that specifies binary mode
            for stdout as the first statement of main(),
            or use freopen("ioccc_ray.ppm", "wb", stdout) and do not use redirection.

            A freely distributable command-line version of Microsoft Visual C
            exhibits an optimizer bug when compiling this entry. Disable /Og for
            best results.

            The judges were able to figure out how to control position
            (in all 3 coordinates), size, and color (to some extent) of the balls.

    Selected Author's Comments:

            It is possible to write some kinds of programs in C without using reserved
            words. For very short and trivial programs, it usually isn't very hard to
            write a variant using no reserved words, but with this program I want to
            show that also non-trivial programs can be written this way. This IOCCC
            entry contains no reserved words (I don't count 'main' as a reserved word,
            although the compiler gives it special meaning) and no preprocessor
            directives.

            The program is a small ray-tracer. The first line of the source code may
            be modified if you want the resulting image to be of some other resolution
            than the predefined. The 'A' value is an anti-alias factor. Setting it to
            1 disables the anti-aliasing feature (this makes the output look bad), but
            setting it too high makes the trace take a lot more time to complete.

            The ppm image can then be viewed using an image viewer of your own choice.
            (Running the ray-tracer may take several minutes, even on fast machines,
            so be patient.)

            I am very much aware about the fact that I'm breaking the guidelines. For
            example, the word 'int' is a reserved word and therefore all variable
            declarations are implicit. There will no doubt be _lots_ of warnings,
            no matter which compiler is used. Still, the source code should be word-
            length-independent and endianess-independent.

            Another reason for writing code without using reserved words is that many
            text editors will make all reserved words turn BOLD when printed on
            paper. Since I care for the global environment, we shouldn't waste any
            more laser toner, or ink, than necessary. Everyone should write C code
            with no reserved words, and our world will be a better place.

  5. well hear this... on Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hear there are no versions of the Linux kernel that run under windows.

    From http://www.colinux.org/ Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP...

  6. Re:All we need now on Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth · · Score: 1

    I think the novel you mean is Imperial Earth

  7. Re:Hey everybody!! on TechNet Users Revolt Over Vista SP1 Unavailability · · Score: 2, Funny

    He means this Windows Vista SP1 instead

  8. Wireless Drivers on Torvalds On Desktop Linux's Slow Uptake · · Score: 1
    He does.. FTA

    "Broadcom is an example of this. They are - they have actually been fairly good when it comes to high-end gigabit network devices, wired network devices, but only when it comes to wireless networks and other more consumer devices, they've been completely unable or unwilling to help us at all."
  9. Re:recommendation for CMS w/o database server? on Joomla's Project Director Talks 1.1 · · Score: 1

    checkout Vanilla Blog It uses the php plain-text database system, using the Txt-DB-API program. That means the blog is totally portable and needs no additional database server (unlike most other popular blogging systems).

  10. Re:My Top Ten on Sysadmin Toolbox Top Ten · · Score: 1

    aland@springnight:~> history | sed -e 's/ \{1,\}/,/g' | cut -d',' -f3 | sort | uniq  -c  | sort -g  | tail -n 10
         19 host
         26 grep
         39 gpg
         41 less
         53 ssh
         80 exit
         98 sudo
        122 cd
        139 ls
        154 screen

  11. Easy ... Use TLS IMAPs SMTP-AUTH/TLS and POPS on How To Enable Mom w/ Encrypted E-Mail? · · Score: 1

    use an SMTP server that uses TLS get all you friends to use the servers that support SMTP TLS use SMTP-AUTH with TLS for sending mail use POPS and IMAPS for reading your mail

  12. I though it said on Cyborg Cells Sense Humidity · · Score: 1

    Cyborg sells sense of humility..

  13. Re:Lock it all up == no free hotspots on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    Community Wireless doesn't mean sharing with all, but with your community.. There are many ways to do this.. 802.1x.. http://nocat.net/ is another And that is waht community wireless groups do.. the build systems of authentication for their communities to access their networks. Simple really

  14. Re:Now the question is... on Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE · · Score: 5, Informative
    Firefox supports NTLM authentication on windows also, so you can transparently authenticate. In the location bar type
    about:config
    and look for
    network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies
    network .automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
    see http://adam.theficus.com/archives/2004/09/firefox_ tutoria.html
  15. BZ flag .. game play wins out. on BZFlag goes Platinum · · Score: 1
    Its a great game, with loads of well designed maps, and server variations that stimulate a fantastic range of gameplay.

    You can play on a single shot, no jumps, no rebounds minimal map one to one against an opponent for an ultra skilled game, to magnificent free for all, frag fests with 10 shot (or more) speeded up maps.

    The careful positioning of a few blocks make for killer rebounds, and ace sniper points, and great team action in "capture the flag" mode.

    Download it and now and find out for yourselves

  16. Re:But do they do Windows on Microsoft Pays $536M to Novell · · Score: 1

    Konqueror and paths like
    smb://server/share/customer_notes.txt
    works perfectly for me every time.. if there is a password it prompts me for one

  17. Re:Limited time on 'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK Public Domain · · Score: 1

    you mean intellect