Unless he owns a mac and learns to program with NodeBox. Instant gratification, jeez, I wish I was 12 again, if only to be able to use this stuff.

This is a joke, right? I tried to run a X server over an ISDN phoneline 15 years ago and it was unusably slow. That was the time a found out a little progam existed that was called vnc. VNC wasn't fast, but workable.

Hmm, I don't know. The scene shows vast numbers of citizen getting shot by a group of 3 or 4 people. When the exit the building containing all the civilians they continue to slaughter what seem to me police anti-terrorist squads or military special forces units. I don't know any terrorist incident, where

• terrorists operated in units of 3 or 4 shooting civilians outoors

• made so many victims

• Killed special forces in vast numbers

The Pakistani Terrorists that shot semi-random people (apparantly they tried to shoot mostly westerners) acted simultaneously, but solitary. They didn't shoot any special forces or government officials for that matter. The beslan killers in Southern Russia made hostages first, keeping special forces at arms length. They executed a few hostages, but hey only started shooting hostages in droves when the special forces started doing the exact same thing. This happened in the confinement of a building. The NordOst shootout in Moscow was also a hostage scene inside a building and developed along the same scenario. Of course, bombing is also a completely different scenario, where you have a good chance of making a fair number of victims. Probably that doesn't add up to very exciting video games.

Making a fair number of victims by shooting random people in a non-confined environment is actually very hard, let alone shooting special forces outdoors.

so live it up! The world may be a grim place, but not THAT grim (unless you enjoy slaughtering people in vast numbers in bright daylight, of course).

Too Elaborate. Just plug an ethernet cable in the same switch with both connectors: partytime.

I don't get it. Buying a X serve doesn't undo the GPL for the GPL'ed stuff that Apple uses (like PHP), does it? It just means some stuff is proprietary (like the OSX kernel) running with a lot of GPL stuff on top of it.

Theoretically this would be true for books also. In reality I'm very glad that people who design book layouts think otherwise. It's partly because of the awful graphic quality of most web contributions that you don't want to read book length texts online.

I'm pretty sure that Woody (3.0) already had anon access disabled by default. Last Debian version I had that had anon access enabled by default was potato (2.2), which also had an open relay mail server by default. Those were the days...

I didn't know the Viet Cong was operating in Iraq.

I've an 1984 Apple //c in my basement. I fired it up last month. Needless to say it was instant on ( without ProDos, though). On a sidenote : Did you know there still is a reference to ProDos compatibility in the netatalk (AppleTalk protocol for Unix) documentation? A true blast from the past.

talking samba PDC here of course, they just mixed up admin and root. No windows 200x server administrator dares to contribute to slashdot. We're just discussing Windows 200x server because we need to have access to other people's stupid servers.

Ehmm, Looking through a pair of binoculars actually decreases the sense of depth.

Remember the 'woz' machine in the Apple //c, kids?

If you store all harddisk data on your co-located server encrypted and use the Intrusion Detection feature present on most servers to instantly erase any unencrypted data from memory, you're pretty safe I guess.