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  1. Organization on GMail Getting RSS Aggregation Feature? · · Score: 1

    Webmail provides a single, central location for all your email. It looks the same if you connect from home, it looks the same if you connect from work, it looks the same if you connect from your friends house.

    With pop3, I have one pile of of messages at home, a second pile at work. The messages are out of sync. You can leave the downloaded messages on the server, but there is no way to keep your Sent messages in sync. If I organize my mail folders at home, I need to duplicate this effort at work.

    This situation might get resolved with IMAP, but IMAP has it's own problems.

  2. Re:Please remove these ... on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    And if you or anyone else know of other Storage devices with similar features, let me know!

  3. Re:What Working Group?? on WHATWG calls for 'Last' Comments on Web Forms · · Score: 1

    Thanks for getting it! :)

  4. Re:What Working Group?? on WHATWG calls for 'Last' Comments on Web Forms · · Score: 1

    They work on who getting to third base.

  5. Re:Please remove these ... on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's some marketing stuff here, but I can't find any technical guides:

    http://www.netapp.com/products/software/snapshot.h tml

    Basically, the Netapp takes a snapshot of your directories on a regular schedule (hourly, nightly, weekly, whereever). If you want to recover an old version of the file, it's as simple as a 'cp .snapshot/hourly.0/foobar.sh .'

    Also, when you rm a file, the Netapp can put the removed file in a $PWD/.gone directory in case you removed it by accident, and removes the file later (1 day later, 7 days later, whatever you need).

    Great features.

  6. Re:2037... on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1



    Well, you'll look like a 20-30 year old, but you'll have the senile mind of a 59+ year old.

    By the time you've reached 200 years old, you'll have forgotten just about everything that has happened to you earlier in life.

  7. Re:Derrrrrr.... on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now as an added bonus, look in your /bin directory and tell us which scripts have suid turned on. Now look for the suid bit on every file in your filesystem.

    It won't be very easy to find the programs without a 'find' command.

    Note that the only difference between a regular file and an suid-bit file is a teeny one-bit change-- there's an 's' instead of an 'x' or '-'. It's hard to see, and many people don't know it is when they see it.

    Is that the sort of 'needle in a haystack' obsfucation that introduces all sorts of security issues.

  8. Consolidation != competition on GameStop buys EB · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hopefully this will allow both chains to better compete with Wal-Mart and Best Buy for our gaming dollars."

    This may suprise you, but when chain stores consolidate, it rarely leads to more and good competition.

    Frequently, the reverse happens. The big chains simplify their inventory, reduce service, and only do the absolute minimum to compete with the likes of Wal Mart.

    Unfortunately, the consumers won't always shop elsewhere. There isn't always a convenient choice.

  9. Please remove these ... on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Personally, I have had it with scripts which do dumb things as root, such as:
    bar='' ### Mysteriously null! !@#!@%
    FOO=/$bar
    rm -rf $FOO
    Or even something similar like this 'The engineer doesn't understand permissions' script:
    chmod -R 777 /
    Could you please remove those?

    Thank god for applications like Netapp, which keep a readily availble copy of most directories in '$PWD/.snapshot . This has saved my ass a dozen times...
  10. Head Like a Hole remix for Windows on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 2, Funny

    From http://www.nineinchnails.net/lyricshalo3-2.html


    Sec-ur-it-y HOLE!
    Blue scren your soul!
    I'd rather crash
    then give you control

  11. Re:Oh, the possibilities... on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    "If you can't get laid
    at SCA,
    you can't get laid at all!"

  12. Re:The facts & figures on America's Not So Up to Speed · · Score: 1

    Their cities are just as suburban and sprawling as those of their American brethren.

    I have been to Canada, and there is nothing which compares to the sprawl of the San Fernando Valley or Houston.

    They have suburbs, sure, but even the suburbs are limited in their growth, and they usually have a definable urban core.

    I'm not saying that all American cities are sprawl, and the cities that I love (Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, etc) have an central core.

  13. Windows add/remove programs... on Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Woot!

    In Windows Add/Remove Programs, I now only see one version of Firefox-- 'Firefox 1.0.3'.

    This will please many people.

  14. Re:The facts & figures on America's Not So Up to Speed · · Score: 0, Troll

    Canada, the US, and Korea are all about equally urbanized.

    US, 2000 census: 79.2% urban population
    Canada 2001: 79.6% (statistics canada)
    Korea, 2000: 77% urban


    I don't think those can be compared exactly. The US Census Bureau and the Korean equivilant may have very different definitions of "Urban".

    Many American "cities" are very large suburban sprawl. Korean urban areas are very different.

    I have a hard time calling Houston a "city". There may be an urban core in there somewhere, but Houston is mostly a big suburban sprawl.

  15. Re:Country size matters on America's Not So Up to Speed · · Score: 1

    You're just dealing with much, much smaller populations here

    What's your point?

    Population size does not matter. If a country has a larger or smaller population, you use more or less wireless APs.

  16. Re:Duh on Genre-Defining Games? · · Score: 1

    Space:TIE Fighter

    X-wing begat TIE Fighter.

    Wing Commander was released in 1990, 2-4 years before X-Wing.

  17. Zork, you insensitive yougins! on Genre-Defining Games? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most of you are probably two young to remember, but before these fancy-schmanzy E-G-A video cards and Mice, we had (mostly) text games. AND WE LIKED IT!

    Zork was one of the first, and one of the best. It established some classic puns (See my .sig), and influenced the humor in many games.

    Now, go find that Grue.

  18. Re:Smells like a dupe on Fedora Core 4 Test 2 Available · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The other article is also by Zonk ...

    what's up Zonk?

  19. Re:Why are you complaining now? on XP Service Pack 2 Breaks FireWire · · Score: 1

    I agree that you shouldn't install new service packs right away, but it has been 6 months, which is enough time to test and prepare for the upgrade.

  20. Re:Could someone clarify? Registry hack or patch? on XP Service Pack 2 Breaks FireWire · · Score: 1

    Apparently I cannot read. My eyes tend to glaze over when reading these patch notices.

    Thank you.

  21. Could someone clarify? Registry hack or patch? on XP Service Pack 2 Breaks FireWire · · Score: 4, Informative

    Could someone clarify?

    I thought the problem with Firewire was resolved with a patch. But the resolution also mentions a Registry hack.

    However, the Download page does not mention any registry hack.

    Is this problem fixed by the patch, or by a registry hack? Either? Both? Neither?

  22. Why are you complaining now? on XP Service Pack 2 Breaks FireWire · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Service Pack 2 has been out for what, 6 months?

    And you just noticed that Firewire was broken?

    Why are some people just starting to complain NOW, months after SP2 has been released?

    For the record, I haven't had any noticable problems with SP2. It works fine for me.

    Some of our developers had problems, but that's because they weren't smart enough to to deal with the integrated firewall. They were complaining when *spyware* was attempting to establish an outside connection.

    Also for the record, I'm not the windows admin.

  23. Re:Not I on Survey Shows Admins Avoiding SP2 · · Score: 1

    I have an honest question...

    I regularly pass 200MB files over my 100Mb network in less then 10 minutes.

    Is that really slow enough to affect deployment?

  24. Re:Just imagine... on IBM to Hire Firefox Developers · · Score: 1

    Well, when Firefox dominates the scene, it'll be "Purple Reign".

  25. Re:Just imagine... on IBM to Hire Firefox Developers · · Score: 5, Funny

    But, but... those On Demand commercials are BLUE!

    Firefox is RED!

    Blue! Red!

    It will never work!