Slashdot Mirror


User: Electrum

Electrum's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
761
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 761

  1. Re:Diebold. on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Unless you work for a phone company, getting to the comm lines of an ATM is a difficult thing.

    Many ATMs are plugged into an exposed standard phone jack. It would be trivial to install a tiny device between the ATM and the phone jack.

  2. Re:And yet the 419s keep coming. on VoIP Booming in Africa · · Score: 1

    Although this is funny as is (nigerian email scam), I don't get the 419 part. Explain?

    http://www.google.com/search?q=419

  3. Re:Illegal. on Fast User Switching on Windows XP with VNC? · · Score: 1

    Using VNC - or any other non-MS approved remote desktop control/sharing program - with Windows XP is a breach of your EULA.

    So? Unless you signed a contract when you purchased it, it is perfectly legal:

    http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html

  4. Umm... on Protecting Cities from Hijacked Planes · · Score: 1

    Why not simply lock the cockpit before flight?

  5. Re:MS Bank v1.1 on Dear Sir: Your Credit Card Number Has Been Owned · · Score: 1

    Don't forget this bash shell has its own embedded SQL parser/client.

    Actually, the source code to bash is three times as large as the source code to SQLite.

  6. Re:Nvidia is dying... on GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. ATi Radeon 9800 Pro · · Score: 1

    Driver stability has not been an issue since they started using numbers to identify Radeons.

    That must be why we spent half a day trying to make a DualHead Radeon VE 7000 work and ended up returning it because the drivers kept locking up the machine.

  7. Re:Nvidia is dying... on GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. ATi Radeon 9800 Pro · · Score: 1

    Must be user error.

    You're right. I made the error of buying ATI cards and installing their drivers.

  8. Re:Nvidia is dying... on GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. ATi Radeon 9800 Pro · · Score: 1

    Is anyone still buying Nvidia cards any more these days

    When ATI can start making drivers that don't lock up the machine, I'll consider buying their products. Of the last three ATI products I tried over the past two years, all three of them were unsuable due to driver issues.

  9. Re:Spam techniques on US Cell Phone Users Discover SMS Spam · · Score: 1

    You can opt-out from telco originated spam, which is very few a day.

    "very few a day"? You mean you send your customers multiple spams per day?

  10. Re:too harsh on $180 Million for Piracy Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Besides, from what I've heard, the pirates charge as much for redoing satellite cards as it would cost to legitimately pay for DirecTV.

    Wrong. You can't pay a flat fee for all movie channels or adult channels.

  11. Re:Remember Service Packs are cumulative on Microsoft Releases SP4 for Windows 2000 · · Score: 1

    Has the legal status of EULAs been clarified? 1) You don't sign them

    They're not enforcable: http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html

  12. Way overkill on Hardware Recommendations for a School Server? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For what you stated, a P2/233 would work just fine. You could get two IDE drives and a 3ware card and use RAID 1. Anything else is overkill.

    Of course, your best bet is to colocate the box or rent a dedicated server somewhere. That will get you the most bandwidth for your money.

  13. Re:LOL @ Nextel on Verizon Drops Opposition To Cell-Number Portability · · Score: 2

    You know, this is what sms was designed for. Short messsages that don't necessarily need a reply.

    Because it's so much quicker to type instead of talking...

  14. Re:Bad idea...(so what?) on Bid On eBay To Speed Up Your Commute · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any auction with a fixed time limit is inherently unfair... the optimal bidding strategy is not to bid until the very last minute so as not to increase the price.

    You obviously do not understand eBay's proxy bidding system.

  15. Re:I'm sorry on Happy Birthday, Dear DNS · · Score: 1

    yeah. I've found that djb's dnscache will stop responding to queries after a while (few days or so), and I have to HUP it. I dont like my chances of discovering a fix for the problem though.

    Can you provide any evidence of this?

  16. Re:I'm sorry on Happy Birthday, Dear DNS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well provided you keep yourself patched, then there isnt a problem is there.

    But why patch at all when you can use secure software in the first place?

  17. Re:Python on The Little Coder's Predicament · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Windows port is very good and allows access to Windows Widgets with a minimum of trouble.

    Pygame is even better. When I was a kid, I started programming because I wanted to make games. Pygame gives them everything they need to make games. I also recommend this book as an excellent introduction to Python.

  18. Re:Email virus scanning? on Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus · · Score: 1

    Could you please elaborate on the difference?

    With yours, you must assume that you know all of the file extensions that can contain executable code. At one point there was a virus that exploited sound files. How would yours protect against that?

  19. Re:Email virus scanning? on Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus · · Score: 1

    This does the same thing for Sendmail.

    No, it does not. Your program looks for certain file extensions. Russell Nelson's patch looks for Windows executables. There is a big difference.

  20. Re:Email virus scanning? on Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus · · Score: 1

    But many people don't know how to setup qmail, or give up trying after grinding their teeth.

    Then may be they should follow the directions.

  21. Re:Replacing RAV for QMail on Linux? on Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus · · Score: 1

    CNET reported the product will not be developed further, so I will need to find another solution for spam-stoppage and anti-virus protection at the server level for my Outlook-bound Windows users. I'm thinking SpamAssassin and procmail -- what do you recommend?

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=67136&cid=6165 388

  22. Email virus scanning? on Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Scanning email for specific viruses is overkill. This solution stops more viruses (read: all of them) with far fewer system resources:

    http://qmail.org/qmail-smtpd-viruscan-1.0.patch

  23. Re:Why they keep porno mags behind the counter on Inappropriate Spam Reaching Children? · · Score: 1

    A simple police investigation can determine whether the complaint is legitimate or not.

    And how are the police going to determine who sent the email?

  24. Re:Why they keep porno mags behind the counter on Inappropriate Spam Reaching Children? · · Score: 1

    But doesn't most spam point back to a website? The owners of that website have got to lead a paper trail somewhere. Surely there has got to be a way to make someone accountable for some of the crap that gets by out there.

    What if the owners of the website did not send the spam? You can't prove that they did. Oh, you want to sue them anyway? What if I start spamming for your website?

  25. Re:You have a cute girlfriend! on Apache Wins Webby · · Score: -1

    Better be careful, some trolls are probably masturbating to your cute girlfriend right now!

    That's my sister, but if you want to masturbate to some 15 year olds...

    In case anyone missed it, my comment was supposed to be sarcastic. Apache is certainly not a technical achievement.