User: kybred

Re:Hidden sectors

On: Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance?

I'd mod you up if I had points. The only way to make drive totally unrecoverable is to 'slag' it (turn it into molten slag).

pk

Re:joe kicks ass

On: Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective

Don't you mean

<ctrl>-[

That generates the same ascii code as the escape key (0x1b).

Re:Fine print...

On: Microsoft Will Pay If Its Bugs Damage Your Data

Please send in your request along with $4.99 for shipping/handling...

... and a self-addressed stamped envelope.

kybred

Re:"if (0 != variable)" is for wimps

On: Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler?

Talking about putting the constants on the left, I've seen code like this:

if (MAX_LEN < x)
{
...
}

That drives me crazy!

kybred

Re:Corporate Greed at it's best.

On: Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide

Agreed. The smaller towns are just collateral damage.

Snail mail campaign

On: ChoicePoint Data Stolen By Imposters

Any lawyers out there want to draft a template letter that folks could send to ChoicePoint. The letter would be a demand that they remove all your personal info they have, since they have not shown that they can keep it secure.

Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

kybred

Re:"Sensible DRM" Sensible to Who?

On: Cracking iTunes' DRM with JHymn

I love reading posts from Apple fanboys who fail to see the problem with a DRM standard that locks playback to portable devices that our produced by the same company that distributes the music.

That's funny, my iTMS purchased music plays fine on the non-Apple CD player in my car.

kybred

Re:Yay perl!

On: XLiveCD: Cygwin and X For Windows On A Live CD

P.S. I can't believe there is not a quick and free way to run perl scripts on Windows.

You mean like ActivePerl?

kybred

Re:So will it be Mozilla's fault...

On: Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities

Great idea. Now minor problem, how do you make sure your software and OS designers are 100% competent, never have a bad day, never arrive with a hangover, never have a bitter argument with spouse/partner.

... are never pressured by an approaching deadline ...

KyBred

Re:Probably not fusion . . .

On: Cold Fusion Back From The Dead

They say that the energy produced is as much as 250 times what goes in.

The article says

yielding sometimes as much as 250 percent of the energy put in.

Or 2.5 times what goes in.

KyBred

Re:Much Ado Over ...

On: Wired on Defeating the Olympics Censorship

Case in point NBC keep showing arial shots of a curiously complete Parthenon, its actually a copy down in Georgia but they don't mention that.

Actually, it's in Nashville, Tennessee, which bills itself as the Athens of the South.

Camino and Safari on Mac OS X

On: Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability

Camino (v0.8) gives the same as Mozilla. Expected since it's based on Mozilla.

Safari just gives a blank window and downloads the .xul file.

Why dentists?

On: Canadian Music Industry Drills Dentists

Why are they picking on dentists? Somebody at SOCAN have a bad root canal?

Re:what I want

On: Ars Reviews AirPort Express

Yeah, and it probably buffers a couple of seconds worth to help prevent dropouts due to network congestion.

Re:Is it over?

On: Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case

How about Winux?