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  1. Re:In all my years. on The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I've had a RAID0 array fail catastrophically.

    Well that's not exactly a surprise.

  2. Re:But you can't dance to it on The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    View source on the page. The links to the MP3s of the sounds are in the open.

  3. Re:Misleading summary on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yep, I remembered and laughed so hard I had to put the images next to each other:

    http://tipotheday.com/2008/09/08/microsofts-foot-in-mouth-london-stock-exchange/

  4. Re:Eh... on IPhone 3G Jailbreak Released, Paves Way For Open Source Apps · · Score: 2, Informative

    But... there is! :)

    http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

  5. Re:Eh... on IPhone 3G Jailbreak Released, Paves Way For Open Source Apps · · Score: 1

    Sure, an SSH client from the App store would be convenient. And what do you mean you can't jailbreak iPhone 3G -- that's what came out yesterday!

    http://gizmodo.com/5025415/iphone-3g-jailbroken

  6. Re:Eh... on IPhone 3G Jailbreak Released, Paves Way For Open Source Apps · · Score: 1

    There sure is a free SSH client! But you must jailbreak.

    Install: openssh, terminal, and bsd-subsystem.

    Thats the whole reason I'll be jailbreaking mine. The built in console is rather clever too, with a pie-style context menu that makes it easy to do things like control-c etc.

  7. Re:F5 IRule on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    what are other free AV systems (other than Clam)?

    I like http://www.avast.com/ quite a bit.

  8. Re:Choises are always good.... on Ubuntu Eee Goes Gold · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a new feature of the linux kernel, called Zealous Autoconfig. It is documented here.

    In all seriousness, is there a chance that there is an access point, router, or gateway somewhere that has inadvertently been activated as a DHCP server? Can you bring another laptop in to see if it behaves the same way?

  9. Re:Webmail on Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail · · Score: 1

    You can turn on the extended keyboard shortcuts. Here's a reference sheet:

    http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6594

  10. Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! on Fedora 9 a Bit Behind the Curve On Installation · · Score: 1

    It's possible to slipstream drivers into a Windows Install disk.

    Not without an existing Windows install.
  11. Re:The real story on Mozilla Opens Thunderbird Email Subsidiary · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think that's a lot of conjecture (but aren't all slashdot comments?), but keep in mind that Google recently added IMAP functionality to its Gmail service. This has been paramount to getting lots of organizations, including my own, to switch to Google Apps for email.

    And that's hardly hostile towards Thunderbird, the sister of their preferred browser.

  12. Re:Self-destruct - standard feature on USA 193 Shootdown Set For Feb 21, 03:30 UTC · · Score: 1

    Self destruct would probably be triggered by altitude, rather than manually. At least in my imagination, there would be some sort of "dead man's switch".

  13. Re:9% cpopy speed-up noticable? on PC World Tests Final Version of Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    with a 10K RPM WD Sata Raptor drive and 3.5 gigs of ram.

    Splurged on the drive and couldn't go for 4GB of RAM?
  14. Re:Ouch. Is RoundCube stable yet? on SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned · · Score: 1

    Check out the Claros InTouch suite @ http://claros.org/

    Their stuff runs on Java with Tomcat, but is reasonably good. The mobile client is decent (Claros Mini). If you dig Tomcat, that is ;)

  15. Re:Bad Summary? on Will The Next Generation of Spacecraft Land In the Water? · · Score: 1

    I was puzzled in the same way. Perhaps it gets to be lighter if outfitted for nautical landing, and that simply wasn't made clear. [/didn't rtfa]

  16. Re:For Serious? on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 1

    Bingo, I think that's more realistic. Pretty easy to `grep -v` a list of addresses and remove those with gmail.com and googlemail.com.

  17. For Serious? on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All one has to do is glance at a mail log to see that no, in fact, spammers are not giving up. This one does not require reading tfa.

  18. Re:I prefer them for an office environment. on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    I second the light issue, but most motherboards these days support SATA hot swap.

  19. Re: Hardware RNG on Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    Yes, I read it. It's still a PRNG though, and it's still the same way Linux and Windows do it. I'm not being contrary.

  20. Re:Hardware RNG on Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator · · Score: 2, Informative

    Brilliant idea! Let's call one of them /dev/urandom and the other one /dev/random.
    /dev/urandom is the PRNG while /dev/random is the true RNG. In other worse, exactly the same as on Windows, save for device names.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urandom
  21. Re:Wha? on Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL · · Score: 3, Interesting

    * with apologies to Jon Lovett That's John Lovitz to you!
  22. Re:World of Warcraft on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 1

    Even when the repositories are slammed as well? I'd think in that case the bittorrent method might be faster ;)

    Especially with lots of seeders. I was able to grab i386 and amd64 isos at nearly 1MB/s simultaneously. That's a heck of a lot better than the repos treat me.

  23. Re:World of Warcraft on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 1

    I've had installs where they worked fine, and installs where they didn't. s/installs/upgrades
  24. Re:World of Warcraft on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 1

    I agree with you to a point - but upgrades are kind of a sketchy subject. I've had installs where they worked fine, and installs where they didn't. Sometimes it's convenient to do a full, clean install and start fresh. It helps eliminate variables if you're having issues.

  25. Re:World of Warcraft on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good example. Another is the Ubuntu release that came out yesterday -- all the mirrors were crushed, while this was Bittorrent's time to shine.