It all depends on what you're using the IP address range for. If you're blocking a range, it could just cut off the control streams for the botnets. The bots themselves are still on the network on other IP Ranges.

At that point, the botnet herders would just have to devise another control method for their bots. IRC providers block the IP Range? Switch to twitter. Twitter blocks the range? Switch to Facebook. There are plenty of indirect ways you could control a botnet-- if one method gets blocked, devise another approach...

I think, though, what the GP was trying to get at is that the Linux Journal is kind of a "mainstream" Linux publication. Articles about Linux-powered sump pumps are great examples of "look what we can port it to", but overall they do nothing to encourage widespread Linux adoption by average users.

Sounds to me that's natures way of saying, "Stop that shit!"

Generally, Windows wants to boot from the FIRST partition of the FIRST drive. There are tricks you can use to get around this-- GRUB has methods of remapping devices and partitions so Windows "thinks" it's on the right drive. But, generally, you install Windows first, to first partition of our first drive, and then install the other OSes afterward. If you have to install Windows again, generally other OS install discs come with some kind of "rescue mode" where you can re-install your bootloader. For instance, you could use an Ubuntu CD, and with a few steps, restore the bootloader you had from the menu.lst file that grub created when you first installed Ubuntu.

But, as an aside, it's been my experience that having to reinstall Windows frequently is becoming more and more of a myth. I've had my Windows XP install running now just fine since I built my machine (over 2 years now), and the Vista install I have on another desktop has been chugging along for about a year and a half. Both machines are dual-booting with some other form of Linux or BSD...

Here on my prepaid phone (Net10), it costs $0.05 to even READ a text message, and minutes are used on incoming calls. That sucks for wrong numbers, telemarketers, and SMS spam...

Profanity.

It doesn't matter what language you actually program in, but your productivity and efficiency is greatly impacted by how well versed in profanity you are, especially after getting your compiler errors, and not understanding them.

...Well I know this is totally off-topic at this point, but I'd go for the Camaro, personally. I had the same experience with the leg-room, and I could, albeit uncomfortably, fit people in the back of the thing, still.

Personally, from a reliability stand point, I think they're about even, though. Fortunately, Mustangs and Camaros, IMHO, aren't "Sports Cars", where you need to take them to a dealer for service all the time. You can change the oil yourself, and do most repairs, and not worry about fouling things up. At least, that's how it's been on every pre-2002 Camaro or Mustang I have worked with...

I have to throw in my 2 cents, being 1.95m tall (6'5") and right at 240lbs. I'm considered "Average" build, I guess you could say. A few years back, I had trouble fitting in a giant Ford F-250 crew cab. There was NO way I was fitting in the back seat, and when it became my turn to drive, I couldn't make the seat lower enough so that my head wouldn't hit the ceiling.

I owned a 1991 Honda Civic hatch back. Not bad, but not that great, either. I had to lean the seat back so far that it basically eliminated a spot for someone to sit behind me.

...This has been the story of my life. Right now I drive an '02 Cadillac Deville. It fits perfectly; in fact, I have leg room to spare, and still can fit someone behind me in that car. I've driven many models of light pickup trucks and compact cars (Kia, Honda, Chevrolet, Toyota, Nissan, and Pontiac), and I have pretty much had to grin and bear "scrunching up" my legs to fit under the steering wheel. Heck, even a lot of Ford Mustang models give me trouble, as do "mid-sized" cars like the Ford Taurus or Lexus ES300.

Personally, I'm waiting for the time to come for larger cars to start getting greater fuel efficiency. If I could have a car like a Chevy Impala or a Cadillac Deville that got 35+ miles to the gallon, I'd totally be there.

do Linux any favors with the half-assed customized version of Xandros they chose, anyways. At least, not on the 900A. It was crippled, and after the first update, you didn't have any disk space left with a 4GB SSD!

ASUS would have made a more palatable choice had they chosen an OS configuration that was actually usable, as well as being more customizable than the almost broken OS they installed on there.

hell I sat in the back smoking while I worked.

Dude if my computer came back smelling like smoke, I'd be asking for a refund, as well as a replacement of every component that smelled like smoke.

Not that I would need to take any of my machines to a repair shop, but if I did, I'd take it to Geek Squad before I would take it into a place that reeked of smoke in the back room.

Totally willing to be modded off-topic here-- my karma can stand the hit.

I watched the episode on the Tesla. I think the only bad impression I did get from it was the mileage on the battery. Sure, they were driving the car hard, but the life span didn't seem up to par.

Since the car is based off of the Lotus Elise, people will buy it because it looks (and, in fact is,) sporty. As such, they're going to drive it with a bit of a lead foot, with hard take-offs, and perhaps even a bit more speed than an average driver on the roads. When you factor those two things in, I doubt you'll get the 200 mile range that they advertise-- probably more like 100, or less. In the Top Gear review, they got 55 miles under hard driving conditions, and then had to switch to their secondary car, which subsequently overheated and then had some major subsystem failure....

There are plenty of options out there for his particular circumstance, like AviMark:

http://www.avimark.net/

You can scale that up, and it runs on commodity hardware. Honestly, he's lucky that he got that setup to run so long... You could take a software package like what I just mentioned and put it on darn near anything that you want to run it on, older or newer. How many people in ANY field expect something like that to last 15 years?