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  1. Re:How effective? on FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert · · Score: 1

    Eh, you can't just do it that way, because plenty of non-interactive systems use HTTP (for data via XML, for example) that would break given such data, and wouldn't be applicable either.

    It also doesn't help in the case of HTTPS, or other (similar) protocols. It's best handled at the application level.

  2. Re:authenticity on FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert · · Score: 1

    That's not difficult. Whomever sends the message just needs to include a timestamp in the message itself.

  3. Re:How effective? on FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert · · Score: 1

    Well, they COULD. This would require some cooperation on part of the server operators, however.

  4. Re:How effective? on FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they've figured out some way. It's not like they could just observe people during the test, and monitor social media and such...

  5. Was there someone else witness to it? One of the nasty effects of Alcohol is that it makes you think MORE of yourself, while retarding your motor skills. You think you're doing fine, meanwhile any observers would note otherwise.

  6. Re:Microsoft Virtual PC on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Well, I hate to break it to you - but you're wrong. It uses my GPU just fine.

  7. Re:Even with a major earthquake on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 1

    So, your saying the shit you're trying to get at in the first place is inert as well? You don't want natural gasses and such in the water. That's the problem, not what you put in.

  8. Re:I haven't burned a CD in years... on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's Sony. Are you really surprised? They seem to have some kind of fetish for making their own proprietary "solutions" when better open solutions are already available. Hardly a new phenomena.

  9. Re:I haven't burned a CD in years... on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've yet to see any of those do anything but set a flag the OS can (and will, if infection is your concern) ignore.

  10. Re:US Army Survival Guide ROCKS on Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It · · Score: 1

    I do find it hilarious* they have a whole app for this publicly available ebook.

    * By hilarious, I mean it makes me want to hurt people and/or burn things (how appropriate!)

  11. Re:not about Altavista on Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It · · Score: 1

    Because, back when the web was New, AtlaVista was one of the few search engines around and it was pretty bad at it's job.

    This is a play on the whole "so easy even a caveman could do it!" thing.

  12. Re:apt-cache search and grep on Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It · · Score: 1

    Yes, but from a high cranial blood pressure ruining your retina :P

  13. Re:Anti-Iran sentiment on Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies · · Score: 2

    er... oops?

    Still. If read aloud (physically or in your head) you should hear the same (or very similar) sound. This should not be very difficult to puzzle out.

    I remember working through less easy issues in a first-year Spanish class, so there really is no excuse for being such a bitch about it.

    We're not writing term papers or treaties, here.

  14. Re:Anti-Iran sentiment on Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies · · Score: 1

    Yea, a missing or extraneous punctuation mark makes that so hard. It's not like he dropped any letters or words...

    If this was paper, youd (see what I did there?) be screwed if printing was even slightly off or damaged.

  15. Re:Anti-Iran sentiment on Iranian Police Tracking Dissidents Using Tech From Western Companies · · Score: 1

    Or right. In which case one side is the US and the other is Russia.

    What does this have to do with the Middle East again?

  16. Re:Microsoft Virtual PC on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Well, the current Virtualbox releases seem to have all that fixed. 3D and 2D graphical acceleration works well enough, snapshots are just as trivial*, USB just works... but the encryption - I've not heard of that before!

    (though that's easily remedied by encrypting the underling filesystem and/or storage device)

    *- had an issue once, where the XML "forgot" that I had deleted a snapshot and wouldn't boot without the (missing) disk file. Took some head scratching to fix that. I think that issue's been squashed though.

  17. Re:Nope on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean the kernel needs to be patched - the kernel modules (and build scripts) for the vmware-tools need the patching. Stuff moved in 2.6.32, and even if you fix the build environment the code won't compile "out of the box" because of other changes.

    My whole comment was snark at VMware being so proactive - 2.6.32 has been out for how long now, and they still haven't updated their crap to work cleanly with it.

    It's moot anyway, open-vm-tools works just fine for everything i've seen. The only issue there is that upstream doesn't provide any form of init script, so you have to write one (or maul a packaged copy into working).

  18. Re:Nope on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Various things were moved when 2.6.32 rolled out. That breaks the vmware-tools build script. Fix that, and you'll find that the code won't compile because things are defined when they were not before (eg the compiler whines that a function is defined already). Please explain to me how this is not specific to the kernel?

    I also fail to see how manually updating C code and build scripts because dependency source had file reloactions and function changes is something I'm expected at a sysadmin level to deal with. It's one thing to spin shell scripting, it's another to play in kernel / kernel-module code.

  19. Re:Virtualbox was always my favorite on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Someone else clued me in. I've never heard of that product until today. Thanks, though.

    Work with me here - imagining that didn't exist, what does Virtualbox do more than vmware? I'm ignoring the licensing. I far prefer Virtualbox because of that, so if you can enlighten me I'll happily drop vmware.

    Quick note:I use virtualbox for all my personal stuff, because I don't personally do anything beyond "desktop" visualization. I think I can be excused for not knowing that I had a choice, here.

  20. Re:Microsoft Virtual PC on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Pro tip #2:

    Preferring A over B because you didn't know that B goes with C to do what A does, does not a "fanboi" make.

    What that DOES make is someone who didn't catch the marketing for better or for worse.

  21. Re:Microsoft Virtual PC on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Pro tip: look at the name of the user you're replying to before bitching them out. That wasn't me.

    This link you provided - was this Sun's? Or something Oracle has been hiding? I have not seen this before.

    I'd apologize for not being omniscient, but doing that would be stupid.

  22. Re:Microsoft Virtual PC on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Not sure when, but when I signed up about 4-5 months back 10 was the number they gave me.

  23. Re:Nope on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    ... meanwhile the vmware tools still won't build on anything newer than Linux 2.6.32 without happy-fun-patching-time. Or just using open-vm-tools, if you can't get them to build at all - it does require some elbow-grease but it does work.

  24. Re:Virtualbox was always my favorite on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    So, which features are these that Virtualbox provides and are in the most expensive package for vmware? I was under the impression that everything virtualbox does vmware does for free as well, and the cost only comes in should you want the infrastructure stuff... which is completely absent from virtualbox.

  25. Re:Microsoft Virtual PC on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bonus points as with a google "domain" - all I do is point my MX records at google and I get gmail on the backend.

    You can only have 10 users for free, but you essentially have an unlimited number of 'groups' - and when you set those groups so that "anyone on the internet can post" they turn into forwarders.

    Meaning you have 10 discrete accounts on the domain, but more aliases than you'll ever need.