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  1. Re:"M$" on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 1

    Ok. Well, that's just bizarre.

  2. Re:"M$" on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 1

    That's wrong. Go look at it: http://slashdot.org/metamod.pl

  3. Re:(of course, I may have mis-read you) on The Imminent Demise of SORBS · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was going to tell you that you CAN tell it just to use the RBL functionality as a part of the scoring for SpamAssassin. You might want to go look at spamd.conf and change it to stop rejecting emails and just tack in an extra header.

  4. Re:Why so few contenders? on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    Yes, I can just imagine the kickass cinematic - "forget the word processor, give me a longer intro movie!"

    Perhaps Blizzard should re-do that Office 2010 The Movie that Microsoft released.

  5. Re:What timing on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    On both sides of the fence, too.

  6. Re:rsync on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    What's a boxen?

  7. Re:rsync should do the trick on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I prefer to use DeltaCopy - it's free and includes a Windows compile of rsyncd compiled as a Windows service.

  8. Re:Robocopy? on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    If you would only know about rsync....

    What? That doesn't even make sense.

    Anyway, rsync is good and all (hell, I use it because it has to be the best cross-platform synchronisation tool I've ever seen) but if you're on Windows, there's absolutely no reason not to use the tools you've got (or can get easily) rather than mucking around with rsyncd.conf and cygwin.

  9. Re:Robocopy? on Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? · · Score: 1

    There is. Try "robocopy C:\a C:\b *.* > nul"

    It's just like the Linux syntax to trash the stdout of a program, except Microsoft can't spell "null"

  10. Re:Good! on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    Quit whining until you've seen Nokia's latest innovation in phone charging.

    A 1.5MM thick round DC plug! Yay!

    Breathe in its general direction and it breaks. Plug it in 20 times and it starts suffering metal fatigue.

  11. Re:FSF threatens corporate $$$? Cue the Ad Hominem on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 1

    I like how that page lists two Microsoft licenses (including Mono's) as "Free Software" licenses. It does say GPL incompatible though.

  12. Re:"M$" on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 1

    And even that is largely driven by the efforts of the Development Tools guys (uncertain what division that is)

  13. Re:"M$" on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. Go have a look at it - meta mod is just "here's 10 comments. Wanna mod them up or down?"

  14. Re:"M$" on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, meta-mod doesn't work like that any more. It just picks random posts and goes "mod this up for the hell of it, or mod this down?"

    It's basically just an extra set of mod points with no accountability now.

  15. Re:Sorbs ok by me on The Imminent Demise of SORBS · · Score: 1

    And it stays blocked until the ISP yells "fuck it" and implements Ma... Michelle Sullivan's rejected draft RFC for reverse DNS.

  16. Re:full disclosure on The Imminent Demise of SORBS · · Score: 3, Informative

    SourceForge isn't the sister company, SourceForge is Slashdot's owner. The PARENT company.

    But I think it's only listed because Sorbs has a project on sourceforge.net, in which case Sourceforge "sponsors" eleventy bajillion people and companies anyway.

  17. Re:THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I HAVE HEARD ALL YEAR! on The Imminent Demise of SORBS · · Score: 1

    Um, that's a REJECTED RFC no less.

  18. Re:Sorry pal on The Imminent Demise of SORBS · · Score: 1

    That would also demonstrate a lack of clue - forced regular password changes harm security and piss people off.

    And yet, asshole IT policy writers still insist on it. Constantly.

    One of the biggest dreams of any user where I work is to be able to have that little "password never expires" box ticked. Most people's password is just the same word with an incrementing number after it, or on a post-it note.

  19. Re:(of course, I may have mis-read you) on The Imminent Demise of SORBS · · Score: 1

    Please don't tell me you're describing MDaemon.

  20. Re:Anti-Internet Freedom Agreement on EFF and PK Reluctantly Drop Lawsuit For ACTA Info · · Score: 1

    Wont work. That law only applies to EU documentation, not member state documentation. You would not be able to use it to gain access to a treaty which, say, the UK has signed.

    Also, most countries who have the document have been directed by the US government to treat the document as a matter of national security (this is the excuse given by the NZ government to an OIA request for a copy), which for some reason is excluded from every Official Information Act in existence.

  21. Re:Justifying piracy on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 1

    Metamoderation (take a look at the new version sometime) or Overrated (which doesn't show in the score text).

  22. Re:Justifying piracy on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, wrong. Each song is worth like $2 with statutory damages of HOLY FUCK BANKRUPTCY.

    I can't say I agree with the size of the damages, but that's no excuse to completely misrepresent the issue.

  23. Re:We use Nod32 on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 1

    There are benefits of AVG?

  24. Re:Don't subsidise the hardware - subsidise the bo on Kindle Pricing, Business Models and Source Code · · Score: 1

    Especially when you consider that unlike the Music industry (and to a lesser extent the Movie industry) as books get older they do drop in price at retail. So they are passing on the margin increase resulting from the recouping of initial outlay.

  25. Re:OMG! Call the DOJ! Call the EU! on Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you've never used IIS7 then. I wouldn't say it's far ahead of Apache, but it is finally on the same level.