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  1. Re:Not Very Pretty on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This one pretty enough for ya? :-D

  2. Re:Good. on Diebold Election Results Released By AZ Judge · · Score: 2, Informative

    OMFG. You are serious. The Jet database has long been considered deprecated by Microsoft.

  3. Re:Another way on 'Extreme Security' Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    I've tried this a couple of years ago, but there was some annoying leakage between profiles. I must say I've not encountered this. Could you be more specific about this 'leakage'?
  4. Re:Why bother on Alpine 1.00 Brings Pine Back · · Score: 1

    Gmail for one allows this with no hassles.

    2. Sync with your PDA/Phone/Mobile computing devic Then you're not really using a webmail client, right? You'd still be using some imap client. (Personally, I use pop3 and Thunderbird. Thunderbird's support for imap ain't so great).

    Filtering beyond what Gmail offers is again an edge case. I know many non-IT folks who use Thunderbird specifically for it's excellent mail filtering abilities.

    Considering the abilities conferred to Gmail's spam filtering through the massive aggregation of email they have available, and considering Gmail's excellent track record, I don't see what more would need to be done. \

    You're right. You're probably not going to get much better than Google's spam filter anyway.

  5. Re:Alpine? Pine? on Alpine 1.00 Brings Pine Back · · Score: 3, Funny

    You had DNS?!

    Lucky.

    We just had a really huge, sloppily-maintained copy of /etc/hosts on each systems.

  6. Another way on 'Extreme Security' Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    Another way to get the same effect would be use the multiple profiles feature of Firefox. Have one 'promiscuous' profile and one 'safe' profile.

  7. Re:Why bother on Alpine 1.00 Brings Pine Back · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I can think of some more:

    1. Offline access to your mail (not everyone has an 'always on connection'
    2. Sync with your PDA/Phone/Mobile computing device
    3. Good mail filtering (gmail's search and tags are okay, but they're not like real filtering)
    4. Extra spam protection above and beyond what gmail offers
    5. Better handling of attachments
    6. Pine/Alpine, unlike GUI clients, will work well on a console. (What do you do if X keeps crashing and you need to e-mail someone to get help?)
    7. Works over ssh/telnet


    Need I go on? Or should I just say everyone has different requirements like the parent did?
  8. Re:well, maybe I can get you a dream job on IT Security Interviews Exposed · · Score: 1

    morgan***dot***greywolf***at***gmail***dot***com

  9. Re:well, maybe I can get you a dream job on IT Security Interviews Exposed · · Score: 1

    Um, where on the east coast?

  10. Alpine? Pine? on Alpine 1.00 Brings Pine Back · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why, in my day, we just had mail. That was it. Just mail. No fancy HTML support, fonts or colors, no menus. Just commands. And we liked it that way!

    You kids and your newfangled elm, pine, alpine, whatever...now you kids get offa my lawn!

  11. Re:Hmmm on Comparing Browser JavaScript Performance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IE wouldn't be faster than that much faster than Firefox 2, and no faster than Firefox if we 'filtered out' this anomalous reading. Assuming the string operations took 1.5 seconds (a nice round number in between Firefox's and Opera's times), we could subtract 12.9 seconds from IE's overall time of 21.2 seconds and arrivate at 8.4 seconds, putting it neck-and-neck with FF3 and still less than 25% faster than FF2's performance. FF2 is slow, but he makes it sound like FF2 sucks badly and it's just not that bad.

    That being said, one can't be sure that IE7's string reading was 'anomalous' without significantly more data.

    Also, I wouldn't make that much of the difference between Vista 32 and Vista 64 or between a 3.0 Ghz and a 3.2 ghz Core 2 Duo. Browser performance is likely extremely similar on both systems for all browsers, with the possible exception of IE7's (I have a sneaking feeling the 'anomalous' reading is an issue particular to 32-bit Vista)

  12. Re:Good, maybe REAL artists will now have a chance on Radio May Have To Pay To Play · · Score: 1

    So this is how you remind me of what I really am? Well, I guess it's not like you to say "Sorry."

  13. Re:Why do the rest even bother? on Official 700MHz Bidder List · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's some small guys on that list that seem to bid on everything the FCC puts up for auction. For example, there's a retired mail carrier named Vincent D. McBride (who operates under the name McBride Spectrum Partners, LLC) who has bid at just about every FCC auction since sometime around 1996-1997. Others might be doing it for name recognition (just having your name on the bidding list gets you exposure) and others still might be doing it to gather evidence to prove that the FCC does, in fact, favor the big boys and might even be giving them a competitive advantage in the auctions (besides their own cash reserves).

  14. Re:Sony on Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Hopefully Sony doesn't get into this business. If you thought exploding laptop batteries were bad, wait until you get a Sony exploding nuclear reactor Too late. In related news, Sony has stepped up to the plate with it's own ultra-small nuclear reactor, tentatively called the Sony ChernobylMan(tm).

    In more Sony-related news, a large explosion accompanied by unusually high levels of radiation were reported near a Sony testing facility outside of Tokyo on Tuesday. No word yet on casualties.
  15. Re:I was a co-facilitator at one... on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 1

    In those days power supply to the motherboard was tricky, my co-host found out the hard way when she hooked one up backwards and it kinda went boom when she powered it up. Heheh. Yup! I've seen this happen firsthand. Smoke everywhere. Very amusing. Gotta put the black wires together.

    Hooking up hard drives backwards used to cause similar problems, too, though not nearly as spectacular. I still have the melted cable to prove it.

  16. Re:My interview process.... on IT Security Interviews Exposed · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can think of two redeeming features. Are they both somehow connected to Halle Berry?
  17. Re:My interview process.... on IT Security Interviews Exposed · · Score: 3, Informative

    My interview process.... (Score:0, Flamebait)
    by iknownuttin (1099999) Alter Relationship on Wednesday December 19, @01:51PM (#21754446) ...the interview process should not be about short technical questions and acronym definitions. It should entail an open discussion with significant give and take

    I tell the candidate that he has 60 seconds to break into the Pentagon while I hold a gun to his head and a really hot chick gives him a blow job. And it's give a take: he breaks into the Pentagon, and he gets a blow job. Win win! Obvious Swordfish reference, for those of you that missed it. *cough*mods*cough*
  18. Isn't that the problem, though? on IT Security Interviews Exposed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone trying to go through a comprehensive information security interview and wing it by reviewing the material will likely only succeed if the interviewer is inept. I find a lot of times, interviewers are inept. I've sat on both sides of the interview table and I can tell you that the decision makers rarely have much technical background, and technical people rarely have much insight into reading a person's level of fitness for the job from a personal skills or personality point of view. And it's rare that a decision-making manager is both a fantastic manager with keen personal insights and a technical person with up-to-date skills and experience.
  19. Re:1. I've used Postfix on NetBSD since 2000 or so on NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. Good for you. I'm talking about what comes installed by default, not what you can install yourself after the fact. And, yes, it matters, because people, even experienced, seasoned, veteran administrators are likely to use what's installed by default rather than install something extra manually. It's usually the path of least resistance.

    2. I'm sorry you don't like my posts. I tend to make a lot of jokes with heavy, sarcastic humor and it's one of those things that either people love or they hate. Most of my funny posts get moderated either up to +5, Funny, or down to -1, Troll or Flamebait. One man's humour is another man's troll. Go figure. *shrug* On my more serious posts, I say exactly what I think. You don't like it? Disagree with me? Okay, I don't care. I think it's more important to say you what you really think than it is to say something that's popular and/or likely to be modded up.

  20. Re:Wow, that's a lot of money! NOT. on 3.2 Billion Dollars Lost to Phishing in 2007 · · Score: 1

    How do you know if a bank has this insurance or not? And why is FDIC insurance a scam? (I'm asking because I've been following your articles on banking and such. Real eye-opening stuff, that.)

  21. Re:Switch statements are syntactic sugar on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Fall-through in Python (which has no syntactic sugary switch statement):


    # menu
    # A=FuncA
    # B=FuncB
    # and so on
    if option in ('a','A'):
            functionA()
    elif option in ('b','B'):
            functionB()
    elif option in ('c','C'):
            functionC()
    else:
            #fall-through
            print "Sorry, there is no option '%s'!" % option


  22. Re:Holy crap, they've removed Sendmail... on NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    'bout frickin' time!

    Look, the rest of the world has moved on to Postfix, which is much smaller and less bloated than sendmail, easier to configure, and, most importantly, a ton more secure.

    Why have the BSDs taken so long to realize this simple fact of life?

  23. Re:Holy Shit. on NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sad to hear about itojun. This is the first time i've heard of this news.
    Anyone know how he passed away? I heard he caught something from BSD, which, as Netcraft confirms, is dying.
  24. Re:Wow, that's a lot of money! NOT. on 3.2 Billion Dollars Lost to Phishing in 2007 · · Score: 1

    so if some twat at your bank gets tricked into divulging your personal information somehow, it's your fault right? No, it's theirs and becomes their loss, not yours.

  25. Re:Don't forget earlier stories about her. on Judge Rules TorrentSpy Destroyed Evidence · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And? In the first two cases, it's illegal for the police to withhold evidence or coerce witnesses into not testifying for the defense. In the last case, they didn't tamper with the files, they filed altered court documents and lied to cover up the fact that they stole the files via dumpster diving.