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  1. Re:Accurate, considering the caveats on PC Mag Slams Cheap Wal-Mart Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    lilo handles it just fine

  2. Re:not the only timezone problem on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    it should be the other way around
    /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime should be a symlink to /etc/localtime

  3. checksum offload on The Many Paths To Data Corruption · · Score: 1

    doesn't checksum offload means that that functionality gets
    offloaded to another device like say an expensive NIC ? and thus removes that overhead from the CPU

  4. huh on AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs · · Score: 1

    well well i never tought i would live to see this day
    hell actually froze over today

  5. Re:Extrapolation of probability using two variable on Scientists Offer 'Overwhelming' Evidence Terran Life Began in Space · · Score: 1
    well i like your replies since they bulk with clear thought and well ... knowledge on the subject
    but i would like you to give me evidence of and i quote

    primitive self-replicating molecule

    obviously i'm not as knowledgeable on this subject as you are but i do have had my fair share of
    carbon chemistry and i don't recall to ever hear about self-replicating molecules, please explain
    i do think however you're absolutely right on most points and i wholeheartedly agree on the fact
    that it just seems some scientists are very eager to assume they're spawns of alien organisms
  6. Re:Secure wget! on Hardening Linux · · Score: 1

    The simplest way, then, to prevent script kiddies from compromising your system is not only allow access to wget through sudo! Simply chmod it.
    why would you want to only allow usage through sudo in my system certain accounts don't need to enter passwords when using sudo it's much easier that way altho i admit it decreases security a lot but can't you just only allow a certain group access to wget,nc,telnet,uname like i do
  7. Re:Backstop that lock... on The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon · · Score: 1

    don't forget the bazooka !

  8. Re:Well known? on A CIO's View of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    too bad googlefight.com seems to be broken :(

  9. Re:Menus at the top! on Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment · · Score: 1

    please explain what the hell are you complaining about? please stop using the word infinite

  10. Re:BECAUSE THERE IS NO FREE ALTERNATIVE on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    i feel the same way

  11. Re:I have my desktop theme set to white on black on Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy? · · Score: 1

    wth are you talking about?

  12. Re:The communism is not dead on OpenBSD Foundation Announced · · Score: 1

    true there is no such thing as a good/perfect system. hybrids are the way to go

  13. Re:CIS TOOL 1.x MULTIPLATFORM SECURITY TEST BSD FO on OpenBSD Foundation Announced · · Score: 1

    how can a specific OS test be compared with tests for other OS'es
    they have created multiple tests for various platforms but that's not the point
    on your pic, i see PART 1 Service Packs and hotfixes, again this is something windows specific after that
    we go on and see registry permissions and file and registry auditing again this is mostly windows only
    the rest do seem to be platform independant ... file perms, etc
    but still you'll have to substract at least 12000 points from that score to be somewhat viable in comparison

    but let's not get over our heads, most server based os'es can be hardened a lot whether it's NT based or Unix based.
    and i must thank you for the 12 simple steps link since i'm about to reinstall and secure my sister's xp machine
    the point with me is and yes i've surfed technet a lot ... group policy does seem a lot more complicated to me than Unix's albeit simple user-group-world file permissions

    another important thing you're forgetting is that you ABSOLUTELY seem to thrust cisecurity.org
    this is a bad idea since you're putting your faith into this one particular security group
    to a lot of slashdotters this practice is viewed as stupid and that site is nothing other than yet another overzealous, we are the holy grail of security, security group with a public site
    those sites are everywhere on the net

  14. Re:Oh ye, it's the performance, duh on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 0

    huh i have more problems of that sort on windows don't know if it's the same but if a file get's accessed more than once by a program in windows it throws me a can't open file error over and over, i've seen this issue on *Unixes as well but it's rather rare on regular files maybe the problem lies with your specific dvd player because i have no issues of that sort with MPlayer

  15. Re:The other side of the coin on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    i hate the command /?

    it sucks and a lot of times is pretty inaccurate and/or hard to understand same goes for linux's man-pages
    i mean in my eyes xcopy is broken since and yes i've read xcopy /? it does'nt do what xcopy /? advertises
    it can do, i mean how to do you copy a whole dir and it's contents ... i've tried it, i supplied the right switches/argument (i think)
    and then it did something like this: created the directory, copied the first file and hanged!for i in /usr/bin/*; do whatis `basename "$i"`; done >> list
    i want to do the same in windows with FOR but i can't seem to understand FOR /? decently i just want a list of cmd /? of all the commands in CWD

  16. Re:"Democracy" is frequently used inappropriately on Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro · · Score: 1

    yeah offcorse but that's not a purely liberal partisan practice, if the democrats would be in power
    the republicans would wave that word on poles as well since it's a beloved political buzzword like global warming/climat change, terrorists, war on X, ...

  17. Re:I'd be more excited... on Farscape (Kinda) Returns · · Score: 1

    farscape movie ? are you talking about the peacekeeper miniseries
    and seriously i loved those, if you wanna complain about bad quality in the farscape universe
    then talk about the game not the miniseries

    i'm absolutely delighted about this news, i just hope they don't fuck it up
    since at the moment farscape is my favorite sci-fi with firefly, stargate sg1, space above and beyond, b5 and st: next generation following next.

  18. Re:"Democracy" is frequently used inappropriately on Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro · · Score: 1
    maybe it's my ignorance of the English language but what do you mean with the following quote

    The abuse most commonly occurs when leftists criticize actions by regimes like the Bush Administration.
    are you stating the bush administration only started to abuse their power when the liberals were watching their
    actions closely?
  19. barroom hero on Bionic Hand Makes it to Market · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    one of the guys in the picture gallery is a dropkick murphy's fan so here it goes the lyrics of one of my favorite
    dropkick murphy's song

    Face down in the gutter won't admit defeat
    though his clothes are soiled and black,
    he's a big strong man with a child's mind,
    Don't you take his booze away! (hey!)

    He's been at it for years drinking balls and beers
    hes a hero to most he meets
    but inside he cries black swollen eyes this man he sheds no tears
    Now his wife & kids sing a different tune
    as they worry about their daddy dying
    but this arrogant fool breaks every rule
    it'll be nothing but pride that kills him

    Chorus 2X

    Could he listen no he won't
    that's all she wrote
    he'll be dead before the daylight shines
    cause the thoughts and prayers of a million strong
    might keep this fool from dying

    He's a legend in the bar with every scar
    fights a thousand bigger men,
    now he fights and looses got all the bruises
    will someone please step in?
    This Irish fools got a great big heart
    he keeps climbing back into the ring
    In the low down circles where he holds his court
    this man he once was king

    Chorus2X

    this one goes out to the Boston punks and skins... vary from CD

    This one goes out to everyone at six fifty six Adams street...how you doing? fellas

    Verse 2

    Chorus2X
  20. Re:Ummmm... on Web Radio Negotiations Carry Poison Pill · · Score: 2, Funny

    you got tired of lost too, didn't you ?

  21. Re:Another plug for the metric system on MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit · · Score: 1

    unlike the metric unit, grams, which is strictly-speakly a measurement of mass-only (as in free of gravitational acceleration)?
    it's both and if it isn't strictly speaking it's still used as both a unit of mass as weight
    we tend to say - hey fat ass, you weight over 100 kilograms
  22. where is the list of ooxml supporters on OOXML Denied INCITS V1 Approval · · Score: 1

    title says it all

    i'm fucking pissed as to i clicked the link of possible ooxml supporters microsoft got to cooperate
    the only thing i can see on the sea is a stupid graph which only shows ooxml beeing relatively more pushed than
    before, but still where is the list of ooxml supporters, this summary is extremely misleading

  23. Re:FX also means alot of things.... on Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe · · Score: 1

    following your logic SuSE linux should be called
    SELX, seriously it makes more sense calling firefox ff since it's the unity of the word
    fire and fox, just like halflife is abbreviated as HL, ok bad example
    but still stop being so zealous about final fantasy. the world consists of so many things abbreviations are destined to be used for multiple things
    just get over it !

  24. Re:I'm forced to use IE 8+ hours a day on Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe · · Score: 1

    what about portable apps, if you have access to a cdrom or usb key it could come in handy i think
    here it is http://portableapps.com/apps

  25. Re:Easy solution on One Laptop Per Child and Intel Join Forces · · Score: 1