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  1. bugtraq %PWD% 'exploit' in NT on cDc Charges MS w/ Distributing Cracker Software · · Score: 1

    There was a BugTraq issue a few weeks ago about the lame search path that is used by Windows NT. It searches $HOME before *anything* else and so all you really need to do is put explorer.exe on the home drive and put a bo2k thread in it (well, you get the point). This can all be done easily within Word macros.

    Actually, it searches . first. It's just that . is the same as %HOME% when you first log in. Let's please be acacurate when pointing out how insecure NT is... :)

  2. Coming soon to a Bay near me.... on Red Hat West Coast Division? · · Score: 3

    this pretty much says it all:
    Office Manager
    San Francisco, CA
    Red Hat is seeking an Office Manager to assist in setting up a new office on the West Coast (Bay area).

    other jobs listed include "Editor-In-Chief", "Manager of E-Commerce", and "Manager of Marketing/Sales", plus some "Web engineer" type stuff. No development, though (yet).

  3. Re:How, exactly, does it handle colloquials? on Universal Translators? · · Score: 1

    (Russian phrase "Don't go catching any flying penises in your mouth.")

    I don't know, the literal translation isn't so far off ("Try not to suck anybody's cock on your way to the parking lot!" -- Clerks)

  4. Re:Where is the logic in this? on Reno Against Easing Crypto Export Laws · · Score: 1

    In reality it is just a huge FUD campaign against the whole Crypto technology.

    I still maintain that the FBI is simply running interference for the fact that the NSA found a backdoor in RSA years ago and can still read anything they want to.

  5. Re:assorted thoughts on Borland Linux Poll: Take Two · · Score: 1

    I want things on that CD that will do for me, a Linux developer, what MFC does for the Windows guys.

    there are APIs like that now. GTK and Qt are two good examples. If you really want to see a cool application framework, check out the BeOS API online. It's very very sweet.

  6. A bit more about how swap works on Ask Slashdot: Linux and Swap Optimization? · · Score: 1

    Why should you put any swap space in when you have 128M of RAM? Here's why -- the kernel can agressively swap out programs and use that space for disk cache, which becomes a huge performance boost when your program footprints start approaching your memory size. I have a headless machine that only runs a few services (news, mail, web, etc) with 80M of ram, and it often swaps when I have less than half that RAM taken up by currently running applications. Disk is cheap, burn a little and get a big performance boost.

  7. Downloading the trailer on Studios Prepare for Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Or you could simply view the HTML source,
    find the filename, and download it directly.

    HTML, the Original Open Source!

    ...Or something.