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  1. Re:works well on Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a windows program for the windows reader that lets you turn off all kinds of goodies, (like the plugins that make it slower than xpdf and that annoying advertisement). Now all we need is a linux version of that tool.

  2. Re:PGP: A Dangerous Program for a Dangerous Time on Preview of New Block Cipher · · Score: 2, Informative
    I was quite angry that this article existed untill i hit this:

    Your son will probably try to install some hacker software. He may attempt to conceal the presence of the software in some way, but you can usually find any new programs by reading through the programs listed under "Install/Remove Programs" in your control panel. Popular hacker software includes "Comet Cursor", "Bonzi Buddy" and "Flash".


    and realized it was meant to be funny. I hope.
  3. Re:Why hit snooze then? on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    Where you would write a script to do it for you... see the problem?

    Best method of waking you up in the moring is paying someone to dump a cup of cold water on you.

  4. Re:OT: www.oliverthered.f2s.com on WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix! · · Score: 1

    attributes always have a value now.

    like checked="checked"
    instead of checked

    I would much rather see it as a bool instead, checked="1"

  5. Re:fp! on Dutch A.G. Supports Scientology v. Spaink Verdict · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only next to the Rio Grande. But if you ever venture farther than 100m into the country, you might notice the smell fades.

    PS, anyone who has been there would agree with me that the river smells awful.

  6. Re:oops, forgot on Growth of Wi-Fi Opens New Path for Thieves · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the link. This has been a major concern for me.

  7. oops, forgot on Growth of Wi-Fi Opens New Path for Thieves · · Score: 1

    forgot to mention that in Win2k and XP (not sure anything older does it) these shares are enabled at boot. You can disable them, but they reenable on boot (infact windows tells you this when you disable them).

  8. Re:We should have gotten this out by now on Growth of Wi-Fi Opens New Path for Thieves · · Score: 1

    no windows DOES have sharing by default.

    The administrator must have a password set, but... ever try connecting to \\hostname\c$

    That there is the administrative share for drive C. supply an administrative account and password, any you have complete access to the drive. substitute drive letters as needed. IP addresses work instead of hostnames as well.

    If you are on Unix... you need smbfs/cifs kernel support.

    mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME //hostname/c$ /mountpoint

    will get you in, after you give the password for the supplied username. If you don't have cifs or the server is older than win2k, use smbfs instead.

  9. Re:Why not ISPs on Over a Million Zombie PCs · · Score: 1

    Which is one of the end goals of TCPA (as I understand it).

    A better method might be:
    Redirect them all to a webpage full of info and tools to clean up and stay clean (and INFORMATION, not just do this, do that). Allow all traffic not going to port 80 (or the https port, brain cramp) through.

  10. Re:Anyone know... on Over a Million Zombie PCs · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's just harder to tell you are rooted because they arn't doing stupid shit with your box. Usually. (I have been rooted a couple times)

  11. Re:Anyone know... on Over a Million Zombie PCs · · Score: 1

    What is this EDS/NMCI stuff I have been seeing? Could you throw me a link? (searching for 3-4 letter acronyms on google is a pain).

  12. Even though we can already test... on Alzheimer's Plaques Imaged in Living Brains · · Score: 1

    We can already test for this disease by reading the chromosones.

    We can tell from the moment of your birth whether or not you will end up with it (provided you live long enough for it to take hold).

    The thing that exites me about this is that we may be able to study how it builds up, maybe understand the disease more (the biggest step toward curing a disease is to understand it).

  13. Re:Seagte Barracuda Hard Drives on Building a Silent, Air-Cooled System · · Score: 1

    Well, it works outside of slashdot. Thanks!

    Too bad it is simply removed when i try to add it to my sig.

  14. Re:nintendo on Nintendo's Next Console Revolution Will Have WiFi · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Except how they decided not to include some form of internet access (xbox live, ps2 network adapter, ect) and the small size of the pads, and the strange decision to use that particular size disk, i would agree.

    Those mistakes mean:

    No online play (obviously)
    Discomfort for large handed players
    No possible DVD support.

  15. Re:Seagte Barracuda Hard Drives on Building a Silent, Air-Cooled System · · Score: 1

    Duct tape. :)

  16. Re:Seagte Barracuda Hard Drives on Building a Silent, Air-Cooled System · · Score: 1

    OT, but whats the html tag for the space character that isn't removed from the browser? (ie i want the -- Chinese Proverb part of my sig to be indented 10 spaces)

  17. Re:Seagte Barracuda Hard Drives on Building a Silent, Air-Cooled System · · Score: 1

    I took apart an ancient (but still perfectly functional, but small) seagate apart recently. The things are built like tanks, and extremely precicely it seems as well.

    Good quality drives.

  18. Re:yep on Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    OK, genius. Let's all revert to speaking greek or something then, because obviously English is WRONG.

  19. Re:The best way to improve Gnome... on Bounties for Gnome Optimization · · Score: 1

    Fluxbox.

    It runs KDE programs, i _think_ it runs Gnome applications as well. It's simple, powerful, SMALL, and FAST.

    And, it plays nicely if you put it on with KDE and/or gnome at the same time. You don't like it? Take it off without hurting what you already had on.

  20. Re:Phishing EBay on eBay Scrambles to Fix Phishing Bug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lots of people use the same password for everything. If i were to net a bunch of Ebay account passwords, i could stand a decent chance of getting into the paypal accounts of at least a few of them.

  21. Re:Let us rejoice! on Opensource Apple Lossless Decoder Released · · Score: 1

    Certainly never sounds like it.

  22. Re:Is Dark Matter just hidden matter? on Powerful Galaxies Found in Infrared · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't the low wavelength (xray gamma ect) have shifted down into visible in that case?

  23. Re:How come? on Powerful Galaxies Found in Infrared · · Score: 1

    Well, just like how some material could filter out "green" light and let anything else through, maybe infrared is within the notch that this lets it pass through. But yes, light is light. Actually, light is EM radiation, and so is infrared.

  24. Re:It's kind of wierd to think on Powerful Galaxies Found in Infrared · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget that everything we percieve from space happened a LOOONG time ago. There may very well be life out there, but what we see is part of it's past.

    They may even be transmitting, may have been for a looong time. By the time we recieve the transmission, they (or us) may become extinct.

  25. Something i have always wondered on Powerful Galaxies Found in Infrared · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If all the stars and celestial bodies (galaxies, ect.) are all different distances from us, and are all moving in relation to each other...

    How do we know where they really are? If any EM radiation takes time to get here... Our night sky view is a view of something that has never happened, is not happening now, and will not happen (at least the particular configuration we see). The same thing goes for our radio telescopes, thermal, x-ray, ect.

    That galaxy they found could not even exist now, or it may actually be 180 degrees relative to where we see it now.

    Am i just crazy? Or do we have NO hope of actually figuring out where things are unless we figure out how to use quantum mechanics somehow to do it?