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Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 6

Doing alright. My last journal entry here was August 2008. I'm still over on Multiply for the most part now. But there's less discussion about computer related stuff there. I cross-posted this anyway. So how are things here at the "dot"?

GNU is Not Unix

Journal Journal: BASH SCRIPTING: My Crude Function 'resleep' 6

How many times have you used the 'sleep' command interactively only to realize that the amount of time you initially specified wasn't enough and you wanted to reset it? Or how many times have you had something sleeping for quite a while but you wanted to know where it was in the sleep countdown? Never? Good you can ignore this. I've found myself in these situations quite a few times when recording a TV show or ripping a live stream from the web. So I wrote the 'resleep' functions (which

Comment Re:The worst thing about this? (Score 1) 388

If it's aliens, it might be interesting, but given that all aliens are hostile, it's also likely to be the last thing you'll ever read. I suspect that the Niburu are starting to play their games since 2012 is just around the corner and Planet X is nearly here. Expect increasing storms, floods, blizzards, earth quakes, volcanic eruptions, heavier menstruation, and zits over the next couple of years... Then it will be "The End" (tm) (C) Apple Inc. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Security

Submission + - HOWTO Peer-to-Peer VPN Windows XP

pc1oad1etter writes: I want to set up a secure VPN between two Windows XP boxes, but I want to see better security than what PPTP provides. I want this to be a direct connection between the two computers, with no hardware appliance managing the VPN and no third server setting up the connection. A couple of options have emerged: Now for some questions:
  • What other options are there?
  • Is it possible to put PPTP over SSH or SSL and make it more secure? (Would having TCP over TCP be a problem here?)
  • What pitfalls should I watch out for with TheGreenBow or OpenVPN?
User Journal

Journal SPAM: Interpretation Of Dreams 5

I often have the similar dream which is I am chased by someone or something that is superior to me. Then at some point I can get away with their chase after I was able to fly.

I was struck by the mook that was being displayed in a bookshelf at the entrance of some supermarket. The title of the book was 'The Interpretation Of Dreams' In a cover seven dreams are interpretted as follows.

Software

Submission + - Open source apps vendor drops attribution goes GPL

Anonymous Coward writes: "Open source applications vendor, Alfresco, has dropped its MPL+Attribution license and elected to go 100% GPL. While infrastructure companies like Red Hat and MySQL have long pursued such a license strategy, Alfresco becomes the first commercial open source vendor to completely GPL its enterprise content management application. The company's license model is very similar to Red Hat's RHEL/Fedora model. The move comes after months of sometimes rancorous debate as to whether MPL+Attribution constitutes an approved OSI license or not. It remains to be seen how Alfresco competitors like Microsoft Sharepoint and Documentum will respond to an innovative, enterprise-class ECM system...that just so happens to be free."

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