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  1. Lower culture shock on Open Source on Windows - Boon or Bane for Linux? · · Score: 1

    If windows users are used to KDE, they wil find it less of a culture shock when they turn to Linux.

  2. Allow acces between certain times on Metered HTTP Proxy? · · Score: 1
    A recent slashdot article similar to this is avaliable at http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/24/16 13251&tid=215&tid=126&tid=4

    Write two firewall configuration files. One allows access to the MACs of the teenagers ( the liberal file); the other blocks them (the restrictive file). Run 2 cron jobs to swap these (by renaming them so one is not regognised). At a certain time every day one cron swaps in the liberal script; later the other cron swaps in the restrictive one. You may also have restart the firewall to make it accept the new file.

  3. Needed reinstallation on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 1

    I recently installed XP SP2 on my best XP box. During the installation it crashed, requiring reinstallation of windows. I booted off knoppix to recover the .pst file that Outlook uses to store email (this is overwritten during reinstallation). The second time, the installation went fine.

  4. Get off the Stage! on Advice for a Novice Replacing Laptop Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Why is this in /. . Get a book i=on hardware (A+ course book, Upgrading and reparing laptops etc.

  5. Re:sue? on Securing Personal Data in Small Companies? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Under the Data Protection Act (UK) all buisnesses storing personal data must be registered with the Data Comissioner, and take reasonable steps to make that data secure. If they don't they are open to prosecution.

  6. Re:Credit Card Sized CD on What's in Your Billfold? · · Score: 1

    You should have one with LNX-BBC on it(preferably a FSF membership card) .

  7. Re:Hmmm. on What Should 10-Year-Olds Know About IT? · · Score: 1

    When i was ten I began learning how to program (In Visual Basic). I knew about variables, arrays, operations, procedures and such things. I knew nothing about low level stuff (stack, heap, API's, memory allocation).
    Children actually find flow diagrams extremly easy to understand.

  8. Re:Buy Dr. Suess books... on Children's Books for Geek Parents? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, I believe that these books contain many pictures of a Red Hat.

  9. Re:Recommendations on Children's Books for Geek Parents? · · Score: 1

    I would also reccomend anything by SCO's lawyers.

  10. It's not the font's on Linux Desktop Distros with Quality Fonts? · · Score: 1

    The fonts are not the issue:

    I asked a friend why he disliked Linux:
    1) No Start button.
    2) Too much "power" (ie, shells).
    3)Bad fonts.
    4) The only system he had seen was a badly configuired "Whitebox" box.

  11. Re:Essentials on Essential Software for Thumbdrives? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which: hex editor, ramdrive app,process and services viewers, gimmicky little password finders/revealers, various other programs, a directory, and little tool for changing the resolution through command line.

  12. Look at the lists on Essential Software for Thumbdrives? · · Score: 1

    All the tools from major LiveCD distros eg. tinyLinux, Toms Boot disk etc.

  13. Re:are you TEH PIRATE?? on Can DVDs Kill DVD Players? · · Score: 1

    If you pirated a film, you could have stolen all your physical stuff. MPAA now owns everything you previously owned.

  14. Re:Social Engineering on Caller ID Falsification Service · · Score: 1

    Yes, any good security policy. But that's the entire point of social engineering. The person you call knows that they need to call you back, but you seem like such a nice person, and they instinctivly just want to help you.

  15. Re:Social Engineering on Caller ID Falsification Service · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I remember reading about caller spoofing and social engineering somewhere in the Art Of Deception. Someone changed a phone router, and dialed into a radio show pretending to be the FBI.
    Now it seems people don't need to change the routers.

  16. Re:finding cheats easy too on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 1

    What happens when the students put their entire collection of essays on the internet, anonamosly? That must be quite embarassing for you.

  17. Re:Not the first plagurism prevention on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 1

    Berkeley has an online system to find plagurism. It highlights matching strings. I read the research paper "Winnowing: Local Algorithms for document fingerprinting". Unfortunatly it only compares 2 documents, but I suppose you could write a script to automise comparisons. The only new feature in this is comparing a document to a database of fingerprints.

  18. Re:Late story on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions · · Score: 1

    I read this story 3 days ago in "News Letter", a Northern Irish newsletter, when i was on holiday.

  19. Re:Lemmiwinks! on BSA Asks Kids to Name Copyright Weasel · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Good incentive. If you don't "pirate" our bloated software, we will have mor money to make cute weasel pictures.
    What happenes when alll the kids buy "pirated" weasel posters? Mass lawsuits?

  20. Re:Dia is NOT a visio replacement. on Software for Making Company Diagrams? · · Score: 1

    I don't think Dia supports postscript. It works with XML and bitmaps.

  21. Re:Probably not very powerful on How Powerful is the Turn-Off Power of Spam? · · Score: 1

    Nobody is really going to beleive that the spam came from one of the presidential campaigns.

  22. Re:well ... on How Powerful is the Turn-Off Power of Spam? · · Score: 1

    I agree. However, ihave somehow managed to get zero items of spam on one of my mail accounts, without using any spam filter!

  23. Re:Scientology on Using Copyright To Suppress Political Speech · · Score: 1

    A little off topic, but ... I believe the Church of Scientology did a similar thing. It obtained injunctions to stop the publication of materials critical of it, claiming that it owned the copyright.