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  1. Re:Protip on When Does Signing Up Become 'Opting In?' · · Score: 1

    Confirmed... it works. That said the webmail frontend doesn't make it immediately apparent where it got sent to. You have to click "show details" on the header for every message you want to check.

  2. Re:Protip on When Does Signing Up Become 'Opting In?' · · Score: 1

    Yes, a real address through a real mail server, rather than one that just accepts anything and everything, even if it's just going to be immediately discarded after the authentication process.

    And just how do you plan on differentiating that? Here's a hint: "one that just accepts anything and everything" is also a real address through a real mail server.

  3. Re:UltraDefrag (fail) (x2?) on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    File is appended. File now extends (and needs the space). File is truncated, and it contracts. This isn't all that unusual a pattern to see when a file is written to.

  4. Re:We at PETA were only *mostly* crazy before on PETA To Launch Pornography Website · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least he got 'their' right...

  5. Re:Nice project on The Search For Apollo 10's "Snoopy" · · Score: 1

    Oops. I hang my head in shame.

  6. Re:#1 tool on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    I was talking about the server. PuTTY is a client (and a very good one I will agree)

  7. Re:Creepy? on Japan's Largest Defense Contractor Hacked · · Score: 1

    Probably a translation issue. I'm sure the word closer to the original meaning was 'unsettling'

  8. Re:fail on Japan's Largest Defense Contractor Hacked · · Score: 1

    Where it makes sense you can run your own fiber, but that can get real expensive real quick.

    Why would you do that? You can send the traffic through the internet just fine. You just have to use a secured VPN.

  9. Re:A soft perimeter is a good thing. on Japan's Largest Defense Contractor Hacked · · Score: 1

    That worked so well for all of us when those Chinese capacitors started exploding (and kept exploding) for fucking years...

  10. Re:A soft perimeter is a good thing. on Japan's Largest Defense Contractor Hacked · · Score: 1

    Yea, I'm sure that perspective isn't biased at all...

  11. Re:Defrag in general (fail) on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    That's funny, because I've had to use "e2fsck -D" before to reduce an obscenely slow pile of files to usability. To be fair, that there was such a huge pile of files to begin with was the fault of someone being a tool.

    That said, having to use it is quite rare.

  12. Re:UltraDefrag (fail) on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    Does it intelligently put files commonly accessed together together on the disk, leave space for frequently changing files to expand/contract, etc?

  13. Re:Not all of these tools are that useful... on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    MyDefrag beats them all. Does sorting and other optimizations, and calls the built-in Windows defragmentation API to do the actual work. Scriptable as well.

  14. Re:#1 tool on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing the cygwin bash shell with what cygwin.dll lets you do - compile linux stuff to run on windows mostly transparently.

  15. Re:#1 tool on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    Oh yea, all those other goodies you can install are totally useless. You'd never want SSH on windows, or (just about anything else available on Linux).

  16. Re:Not an issue. on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 1

    I'd bet Spock would be more receptive than you think. After all, all Obi Wan has to do is prove it by levitating something.

  17. Re:Not an issue. on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 2

    Spock vs Obi Wan would be an interesting matchup.

    Getting those two to hostilities would involve some serious mental gymnastics...

  18. Re:Metrosexualised on Ballmer Hints At 'Metro-ization' of Office · · Score: 1

    Metro this, Metro that. Am I the only one fucking tired of hearing about Metro?

    Thanks to Microsoft, the next person who says metro, in any form (including metrosexual or metropolis) is going to be filing an assault charge on me...

  19. Re:"The criticism died down"... oh really? on Ballmer Hints At 'Metro-ization' of Office · · Score: 1

    Yea, because we are all one person and we have a single mind to make up.

    Here's a world-view shaker: people have differing opinions.

  20. Re:They throttle everything on CRTC Tells Rogers To Stop Throttling Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    Er, if your ISP is using NAT they are doing it wrong. You should have a public IP.

    Now if your router is being stupid, that's hardly their fault... but then again this is not what you said.

  21. Re:Sorry but.... on ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) · · Score: 1, Troll

    You forgot the second sentence in my reply.

    Hint: The Boy Who Cried Wolf would be a very different story if there was actually a wolf 95% of the time he sounded the alarm...

  22. Re:Sorry but.... on ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, to be honest it is a well-serving reflex. I'm sure it has a very high hit-rate.

  23. Re:Not just for jobs on British Schoolkids To Be Taught Computer Coding · · Score: 1

    They don't care about how system work, they just want it to work.

    Which is a problem that can be fixed if done early, which is the kind of thing these types of classes are supposed to do.

    It's 2011. Not caring how systems work is unacceptable unless you are OK with being stuck with anything outside of "blue collar" or food services type stuff. Even some traditionally blue-collar work is now becoming more and more white-collar - auto mechanics (on modern vehicles) for example. And at these ages, you really don't know what the hell you're going to end up doing, so this kind of thinking should be hammered in. It's the kind of thing that you can have and never use and be OK, or not have and be in trouble.

  24. Re:Words, Not Communication on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 2

    To be fair, African Greys are the top of the top.

  25. Re:encrypted hard drive on New BIOS Exploiting Rootkit Discovered · · Score: 1

    Maybe not. Because truecrypt et al do not reside in BIOS, CMOS, or NVRAM. Even "drivelock" doesn't, it's in the disk firmware.