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  1. My stateful ipv6 fiewall rules on Obsession With Firewalls Could Hinder IPv6 · · Score: 1
    This lets me route all of my million billion zillion ip addresses in my /48 with no NAT and no inbound stuff allowed at all unless initiated from the inside.

    block in on pppoe0 all
    pass out quick on pppoe0 proto tcp/udp from xxxx:xxx:xxx::/48 to any keep state
    pass out quick on pppoe0 proto ipv6-icmp from xxxx:xxx:xxx::/48 to any keep state
    Whew... That was really hard to set up.
  2. Re:Impossible Numbers on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1

    "If it's $3.25 per mile over the course of 100,000 miles, then it's cheaper over the course of 300,000 miles, because the cost of purchasing (or creating, not sure if this was purely monetary or energy cost) it will be spread out over those 300,000 miles."

    This would be great, were it not for the line "the article claims that the Prius costs $3.25 per mile over its expected lifespan of 100,000" contained in the summary.
    So nobody will be driving it for 300,000 miles, because it only lasts 100,000. And for the duration of these 100,000 miles, it will cost $3.25 per mile to run. This gives, maths fans:
    3.25 x 100,000
    = 325,000

    Well at least it does according to the summary... didn't read the article... was probably rubbish.

  3. Not 330 pages per minute on New IBM Ultra Fast Printer · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From the IBM website.


    "Print at up to 330 linear feet (100.6 m) per minute (1,440 2-up duplex letter impressions or 1,354 2-up A4 duplex impressions)"


    So doesn't that work out at 2,880 pages per minute?

  4. Re:head spinning on New IBM Ultra Fast Printer · · Score: 5, Informative
    yep... 330 pages per minute would be a bit crap if you'd paid a million quid for a printer.


    but from the article... "Print at up to 330 linear feet (100.6 m) per minute (1,440 2-up duplex letter impressions or 1,354 2-up A4 duplex impressions)"


    so it actually prints at 330 feet per minute... which works out at about 1440 pages per minute. which is a bit better.

  5. Re:World record? on Pentium 4 Overclocked to 7.1GHz, Sets World Record · · Score: 1

    i suppose it could be a world record for calculating pi... even including supercomputers.

    dunno if there's an algorithm for calculating pi that lends itself to the parallel processing approach used in supercomputers. i could check. but i'm lazy.

  6. Re:Reminds me of .. on Laser Powered Virtual Display · · Score: 1

    what about total eclipses? or some sort of special sun-viewing telescope?

  7. Why place solar panels on the car? on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    Why is there a need to have all the solar panels and electrolising equipment carted around with the car? Why not just cover the top of your garage in solar panels and then you can fill up with hydrogen when you get home? More surface area for solar panels... more storage space for fuel if you're temporarily making more than you need... permenant water supply... you can fall back on mains electric if it isn't sunny or you need to make a bit more.
    Surely you should try and make this kind of thing work first? Seems like trying to run before you can walk.
    Otherwise... good stuff...

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    cHris

  8. Re:If you are in washington DC on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    in barnsley, the current line of thinking is to leave the car empty, take out the parcel shelf and leave the glove box open. so that people can see there's nothing in there.

    if you leave it unlocked. somebody will probably sleep in it.

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    cHris

  9. Re:Short Sighted? on An Introduction to IPv6 · · Score: 1

    "...size of an address in IPv6 is 128 bits, which is four times larger than an address in IPv4. A 32-bit address space..."

    (2^128) / (2^32) is not four.
    It's 79228162514264337593543950336.

    cHris.

  10. Re:No on Big Brother In Your Front Seat · · Score: 1

    like the bloke who fell asleep and drove his range rover onto a train line. now his insurance company is having to pay up something like 20 million in compensation and are facing bankruptcy.

    this is why you have insurance.

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    cHris

  11. Re:Scary headline on IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option."

    You want me to post as if i was a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic? And you're making jokes about typos?

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    cHris

  12. Re:What's their problem with this? on Seagate Says Ex-Employee Can't Work For Competitor · · Score: 1

    recall the whole reverse engineered and re-implemented in clean rooms thing with the ibm pc bios thing...

    please forgive grammar. drunk. sorry. i'm hoping someone will realise what i'm talking about and explain it to the non-drunk masses.

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    cHris

  13. Re:Umm.. on Online MD5 Cracking Service · · Score: 1
    because you never know...
    as an example... there was once an error in a setuid program on sco unix, called doctor.
    don't know what the program was supposed to do, but you ran it with a script... i.e "doctor /path/to/script"
    however... if you ran it with "doctor /etc/shadow"
    you would get an error message along the lines of
    error in line 1 of script:
    root:a4s5d87f76as567d:
    anyway... the point being... there might be absolutely nothing wrong with your security... apart from a 7 character password combined with a flaw in an obscure program that allows the reading of a section of an arbitrary file...
    you never know.
  14. Re:If you need a serious charger, get one ... on (Real) Intelligent NiMH Chargers? · · Score: 1

    i use the pro peak supernova...
    http://www.ripmax.com/ProductFrames/ O-SUNG-RP250S. html

    doesn't do all of the stuff that triton thing does.. like lithium cells... but it does up to 25 nicad or nimh cells and and 2v-12v pb.
    and it costs a bit less.

  15. Re:No weapon Re:Weapon Capability on NASA Abandons SimCIty Microwave Power Concept · · Score: 5, Funny

    "..big aerial called a rectenna"

    am i the only one who thought of cartman standing in a field?

  16. Re:No it probably wouldn't be expensive... on Next-Gen Xbox To Lack Backwards Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    what?

  17. Re:At first i thought this post was stupid on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    "This evening, I learned that one meter equals 39.3700787 inches"

    the upshot of all this is, of course... that the poster of the article still doesn't know how long a metre is...

    somebody ought to just tattoo "1 Inch == 25.4mm" on his forehead.

  18. No it probably wouldn't be expensive... on Next-Gen Xbox To Lack Backwards Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    given that this is exactly how the PS2's backward compatability works, it's definately possible.

    the PS2 has the main emotion engine cpu thing for all the fancy ps2 stuff... and also has another processor that is usually used for controlling the i/o and stuff... just so happens that this is the same processor as used in the original playstation. how convenient...
    both cpu's use mips cores though... so i'm not sure how difficult it would have been to just emulate the ps1 on the ps2's main cpu... but this was probably just the easiest way of doing it.

  19. TV Tuners Useless - at least in UK. on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External · · Score: 1

    Unless you only want to be able to watch 5 channels... 2 of them rubbish. You're much better off just getting a video capture card and plugging your satellite or cable box into that.

    I spose you could get a DVB card for the free to air channels, but that still isn't very many... even most of the freeview channels are videoguard encrypted, it's just that the subsrcription card is free.

  20. Re:Already illegal in the UK on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i was wondering when someone was going to point this out... there are special police units that go around looking for this kind of thing... (nicknamed the "frying sqaud") - and if you're caught... you can get fined and possibly jail time... and your car taken away.
    check the bbc for details...
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2312521.stm

  21. Re:You're right on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    gasoline is only $2 a gallon if you live in america... else it's about 4 a gallon.

  22. 256bit WEP ... still crap... i blame d-link on CNN Notices that WiFi is Insecure · · Score: 1

    I really think it's the wireless manufacturers fault for just making everything such hard work.
    I've got a d-link wireless router and pci card, which support 256bit WEP... but you have to use the d-link software to configure the card... if you're using windows own config util, then you can only use 128bit. not a problem, you might think, however, the d-link configuration util only works if you're logged in as the administrator. so it's useless. great. i looked into trying to get it to start as service under the local system account... but in then end, just gave up and used 128bit.
    i'd try and contact tech support about it, but they'd just tell me it's a feature.

  23. Re:The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch on The Controversy of a Potential Hafnium Bomb · · Score: 2, Funny

    First shalt though take out the Holy pin...
    Then shalt thow count to three, no more no less
    Three shall be the number thow shalt count and the number of the counting shall be three
    Four shalt though not count, neither count thow 2 excepting that thow then proceed to three
    Five is right out.
    Once the number 3, being the third number be reached
    Then lobist thow thy holy hand grenade of Antillock
    Towards thy foe,
    Who being naughty in my sight
    Shall snuff it

    Amen, Amen

    --
    disclaimer. copied and pasted. probably wrong.

  24. Re:Liability on Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police · · Score: 1

    of course you can pysically hurt people through computers. this very worm took out the computers that controlled a hospitals CT/MRI scanners...
    i'd be really unhappy if i'd just been rushed to hospital with a brain aneurysm only to be told... "sorry, we can't scan your brain right now... we're just waiting for windows to finish installing, but the little green progress bar says there's only an estimated 45 mins remaining; so it shouldn't be too long now"
    in this case, however, there probably is something to be said about the stupidity of people who use unpatched, networked, windows machines in potentially safety critical environments. got to be verging on criminal negligence.... if not criminal stupidity.

  25. Re:Liability on Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police · · Score: 1

    ummm... you've kind of missed the point.
    the technology exists to make cars that can run over nails. just as the technology exists to make an operating system that is resistant to attacks. technology exists that will stop you from getting shot or stabbed in the chest. technology exists that will stop an icbm from hitting the country you live in.
    whether "windows *is* designed to access the internet..." is true or not doesn't matter... they've clearly failed in this attempt at design, but the outcome is the same as if they hadn't bothered. microsoft makes no warranty for windows being free of remote exploits. just as tyre manufacturers make no warranty for their tyres being able to run over nails.
    just because there is a (potentially simple) way of preventing someone doing something nasty to you, your failure to implement this method does not make you liable for their actions when they do it.
    in an ideal world, it wouldn't matter that windows is full of holes... because nobody would be going round trying to cause other people hassle just for the fun of it. but hey.
    ooh look... windows has just downloaded another critial update. great.