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  1. Another reason to PGP sign your mail.. on A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks · · Score: 5, Informative

    This would not be as much of an issue if everyone used PGP signatures on email. It will tell you if the message has been modified in transit.

    More info in the PGP faq

    Also, for an excellent GPLed implementation of OpenPGP, use GnuPG.

  2. Re:Free software? on OSI Launches Certification Program With Logo · · Score: 2

    Its been done. Its called "GNU".

  3. Re:Can some one explain for me. on The Hard Business of Selling Hard Drive Platters · · Score: 2

    Thanks for the details. You should write to the NYT Editor and let him know what a bogus article it is. They might even publish it in the op-ed section.

  4. Market-speak on Visual J# .NET Released · · Score: 2

    Visual J# .NET

    Wow, what are the marketing people at MS smoking these days? They've obviously moved onto hard stuff. Rember the says of MS Bob? Marketing is a gateway drug.

    Friends don't let friends join Marketing!

  5. Re:DSL vs Cable on Cable Firms Limit Users' Freedoms · · Score: 1

    Hi, I'm considering getting DSL, and wondering how you were able to find out about your provider? Is it more expensive than regular service? Your setup sounds quote ideal, but I don't know how to find out these details. Please reply and let me know.

  6. Will not happen anytime soon.. on Improv Animation as an Art Form? · · Score: 4, Informative

    A software renderer is just plain more flexible. When there's something you want to change in the rendering process, fix the code, recompile, distribute to the renderfarm. Done.

    When there's something you want to change in your hardware-based rendering, what are you going to do, re-fab the silicon and solder it in?

  7. Re:Why they want to do this on AOL Developing Cheap Switch for Audio Streaming · · Score: 1

    You should also check out the concept of IP Multicast. Supported by modern routers, it could significantly help streaming type of applications.

  8. How to BSOD Windows.. on Pet Bugs? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This program will crash Windows NT with a BSOD. This works on NT 4, Win2K, and WinXP from an *unprivelidged* account. There is no known fix available from MS.

    main () {
    for (;;) {
    printf ("Hung up\t\b\b\b\b\b\b") ;
    }
    }

    More information is available at:

    http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA /c srss-backspace-bug.html

    This is why I don't run windows.

  9. Re:14-51? on Wireless Network or Weird Al? · · Score: 1

    Yup.. I'm in Palo Alto, so I get San Jose + San Francisco stations..

  10. Re:14-51? on Wireless Network or Weird Al? · · Score: 2

    Anybody have more than four local UHF stations?

    Actually, yes.

    14 (Spanish), 20 (WB), 26 (Chinese/Japanese), 28 (Korean), 32 (?), 36 (Fox), 38 (QVC), 44 (UPN), 48 (Spanish), 54? (PBS), 58? (Christian), 60? (PAX) 64 (Spanish)

    However, I do have to agree, they will fit within 14-51.

  11. Re:But isn't using the GPL or free software risky? on Responses to ADTI Paper · · Score: 2

    If I am a large corporation and I adopt some proprietary software for my business and later someone finds that some code in that project was obtained without authorization and now the owner of that code is looking for blood and sees that I have quite a bit of it to give don't I put myself at risk?

    Same risk for proprietary software as GPLed.

  12. Re:Unblessed Kernel. Unblessed BIOS. on Game Developers Cracking Down on Cheating · · Score: 2

    So how does your cracked kernel decrypt the packet? Doesn't make any sense.

  13. Blessed Binaries. on Game Developers Cracking Down on Cheating · · Score: 2

    Check out the concept of blessed binaries sometime. They are cryptographically signed, making cheating quite a bit more difficult. Can't connect to the server if you can't decrypt their challenge.

  14. ask slashdot.. on 4GL to J2EE Conversion Tools? · · Score: 2

    this project has so far cost many dollars, and the board is unsure what to do with it.

    so the slashdot crowd must know! *sigh*

  15. Hardware compatible with Linux on PPC? on Apple Offers eMacs To All · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone have info about whether all of the hardware is supported for Linux on PPC?

    Thanks.

  16. Re:Bash Completion Project on Essential UNIX Tricks and Tools? · · Score: 2

    FYI, tcsh has completion built in.

    Here's a few of my interesting ones:


    complete kill 'c/-/S/' 'p/*/`ps -x | awk \{print\ \$1\}`/'

    complete scp 'c;*@;`awk \{print\ \$1\} < $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts | sed -e s/,.\*\$// | uniq`;:;'

    complete ssh 'c;*@;`awk \{print\ \$1\} < $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts | sed -e s/,.\*\$// | uniq`;' 'p;*;`awk \{print\ \$1\} < $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts | sed -e s/,.\*\$// | uniq`;'


    Only annoyance is that you can't do multiple completion sets simultaneously. Maybe I should write a patch for that.. hmm...

  17. learn your find on Essential UNIX Tricks and Tools? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    `find . -type f | xargs -i{} echo "cp {} {}.bak" | bash`

    This is fugly and a waste.

    find . -type f -exec cp "{}" "{}.bak" \;

  18. Pesticide math? on Organic Farming Examined · · Score: 2
    the input .. was reduced by ... and pesticide use by 97%



    How does that work? I thought organic farming used NO pesticides, not 3% of the pesticides. Can someone clarify?

  19. Re:interference.. on Building a Wireless Network for an Apartment Complex? · · Score: 3, Funny

    er.. um.. I meant X10. Bad Geek!

  20. interference.. on Building a Wireless Network for an Apartment Complex? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interference between the two WAPs is not really what you have to worry about. Put them on different channels on opposite ends of the chunk of 802.11b spectrum and its done.

    The real issue is interference from other devices. I hope no one has a 2.4GHz phone.. or a microwave.. or X11.. or one of the other dozens of devices on the (unregulated) 2.4GHz band. It can knock your 11Mbit down to 1.

  21. report your experiences to the USGS on 5.2 Earthquake Shakes Up SF Bay Area · · Score: 5, Informative


    http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/STORE/X4013 33 64/ciim_form.html

    Go there if you are in the area of the quake. Report what you felt. Don't make shit up, don't troll the USGS.

    I felt some moderate shaking. Biggest quake I've ever been in, but I just moved to Palo Alto from New York. Neat, but scary.

  22. No source RPMs for RC2? on Mozilla 1.0 RC2 is out · · Score: 2

    Mozilla 1.0 RC1 provided source RPMs for their RH 7.2 RPMs (see http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozill a1.0rc1/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/ ) .. But RC2 seems to be missing this. There are binary RPMs, but no source. I need the source to build for other RH versions/archs. (see http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozill a1.0rc2/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/ )

  23. Carmack's Slashdot account on Maverick Rocketeers Pursue Space Access · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those that don't know, John Carmack has a Slashdot account, and is known to post here occasionally. Check out his user page.

    -molo

  24. Re:On the subject of case mods on Bubble-Plexi Case Mod · · Score: 3, Informative
  25. moderation [OT] on Sharing Increases Music Purchases? · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is nuts. I get moderated as a troll, but the parent says:

    "I went off to Best Buy the next week and put the CD in my pocket while no one was looking"

    and

    "I think it's about time someone ran an honest, non-biased study about this"

    If thats not a troll, I don't know what is.