Slashdot Mirror


User: petermgreen

petermgreen's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
10,783
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 10,783

  1. Re:CIFS is the way to go on Testing Cheaper Printer Ink · · Score: 1

    i saw one at a computer market printing and it looked ok

    but i also saw one that looked in an awfull state with air everywhere in the tubes etc.

    theese systems are probablly most practical with printers that don't use disposable heads. but on those printers you have far more to lose if you do f*ck up the head. is it worth it?

  2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    your post sounds like even more BS than his (btw stop being a fucking coward and get an account). where did you get this crazy idea that its possible to "replay" ssl transactions?

  3. MOD PARENT DOWN on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    if you use ssl that doesn't matter the whole POINT of ssl is it treats the network as basically untrusted that includes the wireless part.

    to do a mitm on ssl you need a root cert thats installed in the users browser which means you either need a comprimise the users system or comprimise a root ca (which won't be easy),

  4. Re:Debian should have died long ago on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (r0a) Quick Tour · · Score: 1

    though to be fair the reccomended upgrade process seems to take a dislike to those who use an alternative mta.

    see my post at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151857&cid=127 52557 for more detail on the fun upgrade i had on a box with sendmail.

    i've heared reports of similar issues with postfix dunno exactly where right now though

  5. Re:Debian should have died long ago on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (r0a) Quick Tour · · Score: 1

    ubuntu shows that debian unstable is a fantastic package source for a huge volume of software.

    the issue i find with debian though is that they are far too uptight about bugs in non-core software and they even consider removing a package from the release preferable to having a version with a bug that meets thier definition of release critical.

    ubuntu otoh seperates packages into those they care about and "universe" packages which are availible if you wan't them but they don't care too much about them.

  6. Re:No KDE? on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (r0a) Quick Tour · · Score: 1

    out of interest why are you downloading the full cd set?

    are you just a collector who wan'ts a full set or is there some other reason for wanting all of them?

  7. Re:No KDE? on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (r0a) Quick Tour · · Score: 1

    source is 15
    ia64 is 15
    i386 is 14
    amd64 (unofficial) doesn't seem to have been built yet (according to the announcement when built it should appear at URL:http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/s arge-amd64/)
    other architectures i haven't checked myself but i belive they are all 13 or 14 (depending on mow much is missing and how big binaries for those architectures are etc)

  8. Re:No KDE? on Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (r0a) Quick Tour · · Score: 1
  9. Re:From a prior discussion... on Meaningful MD5 Collisions · · Score: 1

    not all that related at least not YET

    p2p networks vary hugely in the quality of the hash used. i belive some use crc32 which is known broken.

    others use things like md5/sha1 which until recently have been considered virtually unbreakable.

    theese attacks are against sha1 and md5 but they do not give the capability to make a collision attack against a block of an existing torrent or similar they could only be used in a bait and switch manner if that.

    so not hugely relavent for now possiblly very relevent if the breakage gets worse.

  10. Re:Stacking fans is a bad idea on PC Case Made Completely of Fans · · Score: 1

    iirc at least the P4 has overheat protection (tested by toms hardware by removing the heatsink from a running cpu) so ir should survive an incident like that.

  11. Re:Gentlemen don't read others gentlemen's mail... on 63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email · · Score: 1

    I know my managers have acccess to my phone logs
    just logs of what calls you made or actual recordings of the content?

  12. Re:Is it useful in every case? on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1

    btw on *nix you can link a file into multiple dirs provided they are on the same filesystem.

  13. Re:MODUP! on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: 1

    make sure you deal with your /etc/apt/sources.list if you don't wan't to end up following the new testin (etch)

  14. reformatted version sorry on 'Lower Rights' IE 7.0 Coming · · Score: 1

    Let me guess: you're an American?

    i'm english actually ;)

    .com, .org and .net are supposed to exist for international sites.

    if a site wants to appeal to an international audiance they are going to want a url that everyone can actually type! that means basic latin letters, numeric digits and a few other charactors that are availible on almost every computer keyboard. nothing more.

    maybe the fix is to introduce some kind of language tlds for say sites named in chineese that aren't specific to china.

    There is a top level domain .us but when did you last see anyone using it?
    seen it a few times but it isn't used a great deal.

  15. Re:the real problem with IDN on 'Lower Rights' IE 7.0 Coming · · Score: 1

    Let me guess: you're an American?
    english actually ;) .com, .org and .net are supposed to exist for international sites.
    if a site wants to appeal to an international audiance they are going to want a url that everyone can actually type! that means basic latin letters, numeric digits and a few other charactors that are availible on almost every computer system. nothing more.

    maybe the fix is to introduce some kind of language tlds for say sites named in chineese that aren't specific to china.

    There is a top level domain .us but when did you last see anyone using it?
    seen it a few times but it isn't used a great deal.

  16. the real problem with IDN on 'Lower Rights' IE 7.0 Coming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is money grabbing registries.

    until those who run the major domain registries can come up with sensible rules for IDN (which imo means no international stuff in .com/.org/.net and only stuff appropriate to the language in question in the cctlds) then IDN is just going to be a paradise for troublemakers

    of course the regsitries don't care because all they care about is selling as many domains as possible which the current don't care policy promotes.

    if i were running a dns server i'd be very very inclined to set it up to simply block requests to IDN urls.

  17. Re:why? on A RAW repository, The Internet Archive and OpenRAW · · Score: 4, Informative

    in this case (cameras) raw reffers to the fact its the raw unprocessed data from the CCD

    this has to be processed to convert it to a form that we would recognise as an image file. This can happen either on the camera or on a PC.

    However This conversion process may well not be fully reversable (due to rounding errors) and bloats the data considerablly (CCDs generally make a red green OR blue value at each location image files generally have red green AND blue at each location so turning CCD output into an image file always involves interpolation) so from an archivists point of view its best to keep the raw data unfortunately that raw data is often in a closed format.

  18. its not so much digital thats the issue... on A RAW repository, The Internet Archive and OpenRAW · · Score: 2, Insightful

    they could just use an unecumbered format like png

    BUT the advantage or "raw" is its the closest you can get to what actually came out of the cameras CCD. because of the way CCDs work this will be about a third the size of the resulting image (assuming they are uncompressed or compressed using a lossless algorithm that gets roughtly the same compression on both).

  19. Re:Not SCUBA on Breathe Under Water Without Oxygen Tanks · · Score: 1

    i'm sure the appollo missions used pure oxygen and they had the astronauts in it for quite long periods

    maybe that was at least than atnospheric pressure though.

  20. Re:Aptitude is the recommended method on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: 1

    as per my earlier post at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151857&cid=127 52557 i HAD to use apt-get upgrade because both aptitude dist-upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade misbehaved.

    apt-get is really kinda ignorant of the whole releases thing it just sees new packages availible and trys to install them.

    what exactly did running apt-get upgrade break? that sounds like a bug in some package.

    p.s. i do think its stupid that they make the default sources.list use stable/testing/unstable rather than woody/sarge/etch/sid

  21. Re:Mail to debian-announce; news on www.debian.org on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: 1

    well on one box i just upgraded from woody-sarge aptitude dist-upgrade wanted to remove sendmail :/ (and i tried upgrading sendmail first aptitude still wanted to remove it)

    apt-get dist-upgrade wanted to remove sendmail and apache and some other stuff :(

    in the end i ended up using apt-get upgrade then upgrading some stuff manually then trying both forms of dist-upgrade again and at that point apt-get dist-upgrade gave me a sane upgrade (aptitude still didn't)

    then after that just a couple of packages that apt-get dist-upgrade had still decided not to upgrade and i was done

    lukilly i'm kinda used to fighting with apt-get from trying to keep knoppix hdinstalls up to date ;)

  22. Re:DVD Image on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: 1

    sounds like a dodgy mirror

    if you tell bittorrent to download on top of the partial copy you have already it should work out what parts are intact and download the rest for you.

    alternatively you may wan't to hold off getting the full dvd images until a certain issue with them is fixed see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005 /06/msg00003.html

    p.s. the comment posting delay is getting worse. yesterday it was 15 minuites now it appears to be 30 is this some anti-crapflooding measure or something?

  23. hrmm on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: 1

    i'm sure sarge full cd sets only started fairly recently (less than a year ago iirc) because the installer was in heavy development until then.

    dunno about what happened regarding cd sets before woody release though.

  24. Re:read the release notes on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: 1

    well the reccomendation is in the release notes still and personally if i was upgrading a remote box i'd be following thier instructions to the letter.

    a local unimportant box may allow for a more gung-ho attitude.

  25. Re:Bill gates alert! on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    jigdo allows the load to be spread over more mirrors (since it can use any debian mirror not just those that have the cd images) but its still downloading from thier mirrors.

    bittorrent otoh gives most of the load to the downloaders.