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  1. Re:Go Vegan on Using Infrared Cameras To Find Tastiness of Beef · · Score: 1

    Babies can't control their poops, so why should I?

  2. Re:encryption alone on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that new versions of sshd allowed you to restrict what commands are allowed; that sounds like it would make scponly obsolete.

    I've used chroot'ed scponly to only allow sftp (and scp) to servers - it's not that tricky, but you end up copying the binaries into each home directory. Works a treat.

  3. Re:encryption alone on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Have a look at http://sublimation.org/scponly/wiki/index.php/Main_Page for providing sftp sessions in a restricted shell.

  4. Re:Hmmm on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    Outer space is only there because it's scared to be on the same planet as Chuck Norris

  5. Re:Worried about the cost of your actions? on Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That word doesn't mean what you think it means. What's the past tense of 'loose'?

  6. Re:What makes a monopoly? on Microsoft Backs Down On Making IE8 Default At Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Again - it's not having monopoly wielding power that's illegal, it's abusing it that's wrong. AFAIK Apple haven't abused any of their monopolies (although I don't think Apple really have a monopoly in any of their markets - there's decent alternatives to everything they sell). By the way, I'm not an Apple fan myself, I've never bought anything Apple as I think their stuff is overpriced.

  7. Re:What makes a monopoly? on Microsoft Backs Down On Making IE8 Default At Upgrade · · Score: 2, Informative

    What Microsoft is doing wrong is abusing a monopoly in one market to gain dominance in another market. That is what is illegal. Just having a monopoly isn't illegal - it's the abuse of it that is wrong. Apple aren't abusing their monopoly on iPods to gain a market.

  8. Re:Justifying piracy on Slashdot on Judge May Take "Fair Use" Away From Jury · · Score: 1

    So... reading this post without paying for it when the author intended for you to pay for it... is OK?

  9. Re:Contracts on Reporters Find US Gov't Data In Ghana Market · · Score: 1

    I'm calling bullshit on that - where's your citation?

  10. Re:Primates on Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For · · Score: 1

    As having 6 fingers on each hand is somewhat rare in the general population, it would have to give a significant advantage (i.e. lots more surviving children) for it to supplant the more usual 5-fingered variety.

    Also, it may be that having 6 fingers doesn't hurt the individual, but could cause dramatic problems with their offspring. By the way, do people inherit 6 fingers, or is it more due to unusual womb conditions?

  11. Re:Non-issue on BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Sky broadband provide a "MAX" package that allows unlimited bandwidth at speeds of up to 16Mbit - costs £10 a month if you have other products with them.

  12. Re:Build yourself on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    When I've set it up, I've had to write grub to the secondary boot sector manually, but I don't normally set the boot partition to be RAID1 as it's tricky to get grub to boot from a RAID - I load the modules in the initrd.

  13. Re:Build yourself on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    You load grub on both boot sectors, so grub will be loaded from the boot sector of drive 1 when drive 0 isn't available.

  14. Re:RAID 1 on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    Quick question, why aren't you replacing the broken disk if the machine is important enough to warrant a 3-way RAID1?

  15. Re:if he's ok with DOS, just buy a new machine on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    Never use RAID5!

    He'd be much better off with full mirroring (RAID1) done with software RAID so that he can just use standard drives and connections. Using software RAID means that can you survive a motherboard failure by simply dropping in a new one that can talk to the drives and away you go. Otherwise, you'd be tied to the chipset used for the RAID.

    Also, RAID5 requires at least 3 disks, so you're actually increasing the chance of hardware failure compared to a 2 disk RAID1 (plus RAID5 sucks when a drive fails and puts additional stress on the remaining drives during a lengthy rebuild process).

  16. Re:Build yourself on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    You can setup grub to boot a fallback partition if the primary partition isn't available - no problem at all in software. Software raid gets round the problem of having to find a compatible raid controller if the controller fails - that can be a problem if the machine is 10 years old and you're running some old bus technology.

    The only downside of software raid is that the machine stops if a drive fails and it's not hot-pluggable, but a quick power cycle should solve that problem (provided you set up grub properly on both disks).

  17. Re:Sting theory isn't science, cold fusion is. on 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success · · Score: 1

    I though fusion is the clean one, with fission creating radiation?

  18. Re:pist frost? rly? on Emulation Explosion On the PS3 Via Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or you can try Xubuntu for the ppc - they now simultaneously release for the ppc architecture.

  19. Re:Note the spin... on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 1

    What's Lord of the Rings got to do with this?

    Oh, wait - you said "toking".

  20. Re:interesting times on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 1

    You're right - these rules should apply to all the companies found abusing monopolies.

    Oh, wait a minute, that's just Microsoft, isn't it?

  21. Re:Ok then... on Researchers Hack Biometric Faces · · Score: 1

    Somone working in a shop could ask to see photo id for age verification purposes and surreptitiously copy the photo. How about a hidden camera in a public place - take random shots and if you get a suitable picture, follow the target and steal their laptop.

  22. Re:No thanks. on Second Netbook Wave Begins · · Score: 1

    I'm reading/posting this on a HP 2133 mini-note (1280x768) and it ships with a 120GB disk - standard sata 2.5.

  23. Re:Solution: Public Key Auth on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about this myself recently and managed to find fwknop - http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
    It's an advanced version of port knocking that uses single packet authentication to get around the problem of replay attacks that plagues other port knockers.

  24. Re:Ignorance beyond words on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    What's the point of rhetorical questions?

  25. Re:Stop Complaining on BBC's Open Player Claims Not Followed Through · · Score: 1

    How does it make other media cheaper? Sky is funded by advertising and subscription - they don't get any license funds. If Sky show a BBC show, they have to pay for the privilege.

    Also, I'm not a fan of BBC news, they always seem biased to me.