User: PenGun

Why

On: Securing Pricelessness

If your society was based on anything other than winning, you would have less thieves.

PenGun
Do What Now ??? ... Standards and Practices !

Re:Mode this Flamebait

On: Europeans To Monitor American Voters

Not a history buff I see.

Stable democracy

On: Europeans To Monitor American Voters

Canada fits that description the US ... I dunno ...

Re:no help here.

On: Home Defense, Geek Style?

For linux there is mvc, motion and zoneminder all on freshmeat. The rest is left as an exercise to the readers of this bad karma ... oohhhhh bad karma person.

Re:BSD Documentation is the best to learn from.

On: Best Training in Linux Administration?

SysV is evil. BSD boot stratagy is quite sane and that's why you should just get Slak and wing it.

Good luck, you'll need it, and a desire, a need if you will, to RTFM will help a lot. As Riki-Tiki-Tavi said "run and find out".

PenGun
Do What Now ??? .... Standards and Practices !

Re:I need to tell them!!

On: SETI Finds Interesting Signal

What is "How To Serve Man" ?

Copy Protection

On: MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers

All the linux players will use

http://freshmeat.net/redir/libdvdread/17926/url_tg z/libdvdread-0.9.4.tar.gz http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/l ibdvdcss-1.2.8.tar.bz2

So go get em'

PenGun do What Now ???

Re:Asia

On: Munich to Go Ahead with Linux After All

We pretty dumb too mon. But not quite as dumb .... eh'.

PenGun
"Do What Now ???"

Re:CGI.pm

On: Why You Should Use XHTML

Mod this perl troll up.

I'm a fine one to talk but perl against xml, xhtml \(*^*)/ css is da bomb!

PenGun

Re:That Certainly Puts My Mind at Ease

On: Democratic Convention Computer Security Threat?

Microsoft will do their best ... the problem is that's been shown to making money not software.

"Go back inside! Oh you guys are fighting. We're fighting! Right."

Re:What For

On: Gnome 2.6 Usability Review

Yup file navigation with a designated executable for each tree.
This is cramped 'cause the /. filters don't like the code.
From WMakers WMRootMenu which defines em'

(
Vids,
(
AquaTeen,
OPEN_MENU,
"-noext /rip/vid/AquaTeen WITH rxvt -e nice -19 gmplayer -fs"
),
(
"Cartoon Planet",
OPEN_MENU,
"-noext /rip/vid/CartoonPlanet WITH rxvt -e nice -19 gmplayer -fs"
),
(
"Space Ghost",
OPEN_MENU,
"-noext /rip/vid/SpaceGhost WITH rxvt -e nice -19 gmplayer -fs"
),
(
"SG",
OPEN_MENU,
"-noext /rip/vid/SG WITH rxvt -e nice -19 gmplayer -fs"
),
(
"Real Ghost",
OPEN_MENU,
"-noext /rip/vid/RealGhost WITH /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay"
),
(
MusicVids,
OPEN_MENU,
"-noext /rip/vid/MusicVids WITH rxvt -e nice -19 gmplayer -fs"
),
(
Bikes,
OPEN_MENU,
"-noext /windose/vid/Bikes WITH rxvt -e nice -19 gmplayer -fs"
),
(
Dl,
OPEN_MENU,
"-noext /rip/dl WITH rxvt -e nice -19 gmplayer -fs"
),
(
"VCD",
EXEC,
"rxvt -e gmplayer vcd://1"
),
(
"Vid Off",
SHEXEC,
"killall -9 mplayer;killall -9 /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay"
)
),

I know of nothing that simple in Gnome or KDE.
I can also fire up vids, tunes, whatever in the Midnught Commander (run it in rxvt) just by highlighting and hitting enter.
PenGun
Do What Now ???

What For

On: Gnome 2.6 Usability Review

I dunno I've tried em' both, KDE and GNOME. Every time I install a new slak I try one or the other.

I always toast em' after a few days and just use my ancient WMaker configs. They are slow and I don't need my hand held. Rxvt comes up instantly and with a -e switch it starts any X program. WMaker's menu system makes 'roll-yer-own' menus pretty simple.

I play a video by right clicking on the desktop, left clicking on Vids/AquaTeen/ATHF-Unremarkable-Voyage-44 .... it don't get no simpler.

I think way to much effort goes into this stuff myself.

PenGun
Do What Now ???

Re:I don't know

On: Apache Maven 1.0 Released

Do What Now ???

Re:It's all about the CAS timings

On: Dual Channel Memory Shootout

Banwidth intelligently managed can only reduce latency by prefetching. Not that useful in a game for instance.

Bandwith is how much data you can move / time. A T1 is 192 K/s for instance.

Latency is how long you have to wait for a response from a device, memory in this case. This is why the 939 pin Athy64s have less latency than a 940 pin Opteron. Registered memory which the Opteron requires has the same bandwith but as it is error correcting has more latency.

PenGun
Do What Now ???

Re:It's all about the CAS timings

On: Dual Channel Memory Shootout

No ... bandwidth and latency are two different things. Ask any cable modem user that tried to run a game server. Bandwidth was never the problem, but cable modems have inherently high latency due to the cable, it's filters and the network topology.

PenGun
Do What Now ???

Re:slack 10

On: First Impressions of Slackware 10

Security patches appear when needed ... So:

Download slak patch

upgradepkg the-package.tgz

You done.

PenGun
Do What Now ???

Re:Easy solution

On: MSN, Word Vulnerable To Shell: URI Exploit

Win 98 _is_ a shell. S' jus dos dood. An advanced, heh, window manager in a dos 7 shell. PenGun

Why E

On: E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'?

We have just completed an election in Canada. Our results were available about 2 - 4 hours after the polls closed.
We count the whole thing by hand, It works well and is very secure.

You just have to have an effective heirachy that counts from individual polls and feeds the results up the chain.

I'm a linux sysadmin, yeah big deal ;), but I see no reason to bring computers into an election count.

PenGun