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  1. Gstreamer on The Matrix: Revolutions Theatrical Trailer · · Score: 1

    GStreamer is supposed to play Quicktime but I downloaded it a fooled around for a couple hours and no luck. Has anyone made it work? (I got mplayer working)

  2. Re:From the release notes on Samba 3.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I hope the new command is called "smbnet".
    Just "net" seems a bit presumptuous.
    After all this "net" refers to you local LAN
    and there is after all the interNET.

  3. Bottled water has no floride on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    I heard that kids who drink mostly bottled water
    (a fairly recent phenomenon) has more cavities.
    Still I'm not crazy about the metaphor.

  4. 28 countries on MSN Cuts Unmonitored Chatrooms Around the Globe · · Score: 1
    Article sez:
    Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday it would shut down its Internet chat rooms in 28 countries, saying the forums had become a haven for peddlers of junk e-mail and sex predators.
    Er, what country is a chatroom in. They are in the Internet country.
  5. random junk on Paul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding · · Score: 1

    The .cc domain is Verisign controlled and does
    the sitefinder-type thing...
    http://RandomJunk8347458475.cc

    Also, as Verisign so helpfully pointed out in their
    letter the other day many TLDs wildcard. ICANN should *ask* them to stop too.

    Bind has their option to prevent wildcarding from certain domains. Maybe they
    could ship it pre configured block all wildcarding domains. Or can you simply
    say block all wildcarding no matter what the TLD.

    Since BIND is prevalent it could take an end run around the existing .com and .net root servers. It could set up a parallel DNS!

  6. Re:Year 2039: Grandpa, what's a 404 error? on Paul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding · · Score: 2, Informative

    Arg, why does everyone says this removes 404's. You need a webserver to return a 404. Before wildcarding you didn't hit a websserver so no 404. And you can still get a 404 by hitting a page that doesn't exist on a webserver that does.

  7. MapQuest MapBlast on Google Adds Location Targeted Searching · · Score: 1

    I see Google uses MapQuest.
    For a second I thought of MapBlast!
    Which is now owned by the evil empire (MSFT).
    Its getting harder and harder to avoid their
    tentacles these days.

  8. Replacing CRC in CIPE on Linux Crypto Packages Demolished · · Score: 1

    How easy would it be to replace CRC-32 with
    something else in CIPE?
    Without looking at the code, I assume it does:

    UINT2 word = Crc(buffer);

    So could this just be changed to:

    UINT2 word = Md5(buffer) & 0xffff;

  9. CIPE is nice... on Linux Crypto Packages Demolished · · Score: 1

    ... to use.
    I hope the flaws are fixed.

  10. Language on Intel Warns Asia Over Linux Plan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, they really should stop speaking Chinese there too. Don't they know that the rest of the world speaks English.

  11. "space bar" on Where is the Any Key? · · Score: 1

    I heard the story where somebody luser thought
    the "space bar" was a drinking establishment in outer space.

    ---

    I might point out that the explanation recursively uses the word "any". It would be better if they said: "it doesn't matter which key you press" or something like that.

  12. Re:Entrepreneurs on PHP Usage in the Enterprise · · Score: 1

    I hope you aren't click on links in spam!
    This just encourages them.

  13. Re:PowerPC Linux users had compiled boot 'scripts' on Booting Linux Faster · · Score: 1
    Instead of:
    /bin/cat /dev/null > /var/run/utmp
    I would do:
    echo -n > /var/run/utmp
  14. Stock up on Red Hat Posts Its Best Quarter Yet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    up 9 percent
    Not much of a surprise, I guess.

  15. Re:Trillian is OK. on Yahoo Shutting Out Third-Party IM Clients? · · Score: 1

    And Trillian 2.0 Pro now (finally) support Jabber!!!

  16. Re:Where's Open Source when you need it? on Yahoo Shutting Out Third-Party IM Clients? · · Score: 4, Informative
    > Maybe Jabber isn't widely used because the free clients suck

    Wha... Miranda is great and GPLed

  17. Re:Um.... on College Freshman Builds Fusion Reactor · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see he's smart enough to know when to use duct tape.

  18. Re:Why not on SBC Refuses To Name File-Sharing Users · · Score: 1

    This is a Microsoft trick.
    They charge for access to some code (CIFS?) the settlement
    required them to release.

  19. License the user on Russ Cooper's Internet Penalties Plan · · Score: 1

    Another dumb idea... License the user
    Both ideas have some dumb, expensive slow-moving govt body out there... WRONG.

  20. Re:Make the OS pay on Russ Cooper's Internet Penalties Plan · · Score: 1

    No this is no good either... what about Linux and other free (tm) OSes. It's not fair to expect a Linux distributor to pay a huge fine when a comploinetn inlcude in their distro has a bug. Jeeze. They're only barely breaking even as it is!

  21. Re:Ermm.. can anyone say "Microsoft" on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Does OpenSSH run on Windows?
    If so this would be a Windows vulnerability too.

  22. uptime detection on Nmap Gets Version Detection · · Score: 1

    I always wondered how netcraft and nmap could
    determine how many days a server has been up.
    Does Apache give out this info?

  23. Govt says every biz needs privacy policy on Is Your Banking Information Accidentally On Ebay? · · Score: 1

    Since I am a consultant I have a GST number.
    I recently got some GST mail saying that every business in Canada needs to come up with a privacy policy. It said (something like): Privacy, its good for business.

  24. Lessions from SwissAir crash on Electronics & Planes Don't Mix? · · Score: 1
    For starters make the entertainment and avionics systems separate. SwissAir Crash

    As a next step, consider removing the entertainment crap.

  25. The Grid... on Grid Processing · · Score: 1

    ... As of August 14 seems like a terrific idea for electric power. Let's copy that fine idea of dependency on the perfect working for a system several states away.