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Most satellites have a limited footprint/ . By this I mean they have a limited area in which the satellite dish is pointed (in general terms), so buying a service from from outside the footprint of that satellite means it won't work.

Oh yeah, that worked so well for those chinese students who stood in front of tanks. Publicly stood up for their cause, died for their cause, on international TV even. Their cause? No better off, but westerners felt sorry for them for a few weeks.

How to use the Google calculator... after a minute of looking around a bit.

cos1337

Haven't bothered to test extensively...

I think this might give you a good start, particularly the recipe for nitroglycerin.

<sarc> But of course those "stupid towelheads" in those "axis of evil" countries wouldn't already KNOW that this information is freely available. </sarc>

I fail to see what this will achieve.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=6.2L%2F100km+in+ mpg Google Calculator owns you.

Its more a historical summary than a precise review.

Apache was slammed in a ( soon to be infamous ) review done by Mindcraft back in 1999 ( some post-incident slashdot coverage here ) as being slower than IIS at serving static content ; though much faster at content generated on the fly via php/perl/python and the like. The tests were biased heavily in favour of IIS, but after the BS was filtered out and the report distilled down to the bare facts, it was admitted that IIS did indeed have the edge in serving some specific content types. After a bit of grumbling, a few side projects like the tux webserver & kernel httpd were born, then the best ideas and strengths of each were rolled out with apache 2.x, and it has never looked back.

Incidentally, its a perfect example of the strengths of opensource development: critiques even if intended as flamebait or non-constructive criticism might point out legitimate weaknesses -> community is galvanised into action -> weaknesses are repaired -> project is stronger -> profit!

spec.org should have fairly impartial albeit dry results, or you can dig up old apache articles on /. like this or this.

Google is also your friend, post Mindcraft articles and mailing-lists generated a lot of 'how do we speed up apache' type discussion.

"be heard" sounds a bit familiar, in fact it was part of the jingle of an australian youth IT show: "Radioactive.net.au, Don't just listen, be heard!". What I'd call an example of interactive radio. It teamed conventional radio, internet radio and IRC to create a community. Its the first radio station I've heard where a song was pulled off halfway through because nobody wanted to listen to it - thats interactive. Shame it had to come to an end, no commercial stations wanted a youth IT show (but they wanted the technology, funny that). This is only rebranding a radio station that nobody wanted to listen to in the beginning and trialing it in another project. No net loss, and they get to throw in a lot of buzz words too. In Australia (again), the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has not only been streaming its radio live (Radio National, Triple J and Radio Australia to name a few) but has its own internet radio station "Dig". They're not doing some work and trials with podcasting with Dig, RN and Triple J Those are real stations that people actually listen to (and get ratings), instead of a pathetic station that nobody listens to.

Better mark me with fragile stickers and put a BIG padlock on my door so that I don't wake up with my ass stuffed with drugs

Nice to see someone else notice.

How much do I hate ComScore/MarketScore, let me count the ways...

1/ I *think* they use OpenSSL without giving any credit as required by the license. Evidence: http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=comscore+open ssl&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&selm=bcqfh4%24mo9%241%40Fre eBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1

2/ They actively seek little apps to install their software with. Evidence: http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=comscore+spyw are&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&selm=x%25M3d.8204%24n16.579 6%40newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net&rnum=3

3/ They go out of their way to hide their identity from their "Panellists". Try and find a reference to Comscore on http://www.marketscore.com/

4/ They do not care about the security of the information of their panellists. Do some research on how they previously "Broke" SSL sessions and effectively proxied all "SSL Protected" information up to their proxy servers.

5/ They actively try to disguise thier immoral practices to gather information. Try to find any mention of "Marketscore" on this page which is the sales site to sell their services to Marketing companies. http://www.comscore.com/metrix/xpc.asp

6/ They got Ernst and Young (I hate that company too) to "Certify" them. Read the report. It is laughable. https://cert.webtrust.org/ViewSeal?id=383

7/ They ONLY stopped proxying SSL sessions about 3 days AFTER the New Zealand banks went public saying they were blocking their software. Other banks were doing it just less publically. How much would their customer base have been eroded if everyone who does internet banking stopped using their software. That is, I believe, why they changed.

8/ Now they just copy your data to servers. Not sure what. The SSL stuff is encrypted. Noone knows what they send but them.

9/ Their software silently updates without telling the user. That's nasty.

10/ They have only JUST added an "Add/Remove" control panel. Previously there were no visible clues that it was installed.

11/ They marketed themselves as an Internet Accelerator. They did this by using proxy technology. This is horribly slow from overseas.

The conspiracy theorists I know believe they are a front for the NSA. :-) Reston Virginia known for this sort of stuff?

I just know they are evil. :-)

Nice to see someone else notice.

How much do I hate ComScore/MarketScore, let me count the ways...

1/ I *think* they use OpenSSL without giving any credit as required by the license. Evidence: http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=comscore+open ssl&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&selm=bcqfh4%24mo9%241%40Fre eBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1

2/ They actively seek little apps to install their software with. Evidence: http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=comscore+spyw are&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&selm=x%25M3d.8204%24n16.579 6%40newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net&rnum=3

3/ They go out of their way to hide their identity from their "Panellists". Try and find a reference to Comscore on http://www.marketscore.com/

4/ They do not care about the security of the information of their panellists. Do some research on how they previously "Broke" SSL sessions and effectively proxied all "SSL Protected" information up to their proxy servers.

5/ They actively try to disguise thier immoral practices to gather information. Try to find any mention of "Marketscore" on this page which is the sales site to sell their services to Marketing companies. http://www.comscore.com/metrix/xpc.asp

6/ They got Ernst and Young (I hate that company too) to "Certify" them. Read the report. It is laughable. https://cert.webtrust.org/ViewSeal?id=383

7/ They ONLY stopped proxying SSL sessions about 3 days AFTER the New Zealand banks went public saying they were blocking their software. Other banks were doing it just less publically. How much would their customer base have been eroded if everyone who does internet banking stopped using their software. That is, I believe, why they changed.

8/ Now they just copy your data to servers. Not sure what. The SSL stuff is encrypted. Noone knows what they send but them.

9/ Their software silently updates without telling the user. That's nasty.

10/ They have only JUST added an "Add/Remove" control panel. Previously there were no visible clues that it was installed.

11/ They marketed themselves as an Internet Accelerator. They did this by using proxy technology. This is horribly slow from overseas.

The conspiracy theorists I know believe they are a front for the NSA. :-) Reston Virginia known for this sort of stuff?

I just know they are evil. :-)

I googled your name and clearly got quite a few results that were you. Obviously you're lying. That or posting under someone elses account.

BS!

If I saw 100 PC's and only four with locked drives, I'd steal the four and crack into them at a later "safer" place! People/Corporations wouldn't idly lock four out of 100 PC's just for the fun of it! They would most likely be the ones with critical/important data on it that may be used maliciously!

*If you know what you are doing and the rewards outway the risks* Do you steal a 1986 Ford XF Falcon (minimal security) or a BMW M3 Coupe (pics from google search

Anyone notice that their gmail storage space is increasing? currently it says "You are currently using 125 MB (11%) of your 1130 MB".

Is this to celebrate the 1 year aniversary of GMAIL? Perhaps they are increasing storage to 2GIG?
I have heard that Gmail is also set to come out of beta testing today as well...

along with Google Gulp http://www.google.com.au/googlegulp/ there is some very interesting stuff happening in the google camp today.

Anyone notice that their gmail storage space is increasing? currently it says "You are currently using 125 MB (11%) of your 1130 MB".

Is this to celebrate the 1 year aniversary of GMAIL? Perhaps they are increasing storage to 2GIG?
I have heard that Gmail is also set to come out of beta testing today as well...

along with Google Gulp http://www.google.com.au/googlegulp/ there is some very interesting stuff happening in the google camp today.

"Honestly, terrorists are NOT interested in cracking databases and DDOSing the Internet."

I'm glad /. is the pillar of truth on the internet.

Get a clue.

All news is manipulated! News is about theatrics and deception. Case in point is I tried to get an article up early March about how the slashdot effect is waning . Did it get accepted? No. I know this isn't the place for complaining about articles not being submitted but the point I think is the people who have monetary interests want to maintain the invincibility of this site because it's good for business. Telling people the ship is sinking isn't.

Ypu didn't try to hard with google
pommy: a disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.

Eventhough it is a bit out of date (We call all of the english Pom's)

POM = Prisoners of (her) Majesty. my $0.05

Good thing the 'real' CA's don't make mistakes.

It's a 2-step process: How likely is this cert to be real? (i.e. how diligent is the CA in making sure the entity is who they claim to be), and how trustworthy is the entity?
Personally I don't like the fact that my browser is pre-configred with a bunch of big commercial CAs. What business is it of someone else to decide who I should trust or not?

Me, I buy Canon inkjets. They've gone off in a completely opposite direction: Imagine a world where ink refill cartridges were little plastic containers that hold only ink, no 'chips', no replacing jets each time you run out of ink, no corporate attempt to dictate who you shall buy your ink and/or ink refills from. That's Canon Think Tank.

"especially if the person is female and attractive."

If she doesn't put out then what are you giving her a discount for? Attractive bimbos already get a free ride through lots of lifes hardships and I don't see why I should contribute to that undeserved free ride just because she happens to be a genetic celebrity

Have some pride in yourself man and don't turn yourself into a compliant buffoon everytime a nice pair of breasts enters your field of view.

...this time, aim it better.

>>b) linux performance in LAMP applications is
>>generally accepted to be better now, sorry but
>>it's true. Unless you take your statement to
>>mean that performance AND tranquility in which
>>case it's just a preference either way.
>
>Keep dreaming, FreeBSD beats the pants off Linux
>(1Mpps vs. 100kpps). And if you were not a Linux

In case you didn't know, they supposedly reached 1Mpps _forwarding_ in a highly specialised environment. The most significant thing was that fast forwarding was turned on, which basically takes the operating system out of the equation and does NIC-NIC forwarding on the bus. Of course, this breaks down if you want to do much useful with the packets.

But what's even funnier is that the FreeBSD guys have no idea what Linux can do. This guy is routing 2.1Mpps on a dual opteron with 4 NICs, 2 bound to each CPU. This shows that he could do over 1Mpps on a single opteron CPU with 2 NICs - more impressive than the FreeBSD result of 1Mpps with DUAL Xeons.

>user you would see the poem was a counter-troll
>to a troll about BSD dying. Linux has its merits,
>but BSD is my favorite for many reasons and as
>long as you Linux folk keep badmouthing BSD you
>will get a very bitter taste of your own medicine
>because it's based on undeniable facts. Read it
>and go weep with Tux, he could use some company

And what's funnier again, is that the routing performance document you cited is a *very* specialised workload that not a lot of people will use FreeBSD (or Linux) i386 PCs for.

The OP was talking about LAMP performance, which is to say, a typical database driven webserver. In which case, you might find this enlightening.

Go to Google Suggest and type the words "msn search" in the search box and nothing more...

Take a look at the bottom suggestion....

But language is to the better part defined by usage, so that's a common meaning for that phrase now. Just like some words have to disparate meanings depending on context that develop through language usage.

But for the record:

begging the question

" DV certainly IS compressed."

This is correct

I somehow have gotten the impression that the AUS Government is very computer hostile unless it is at the behest of large corporations or pressure groups, could anyone living in AUS give the low-down on some of the problems that plague internet users there?
Sort of right. See the goverment used to own this company called Telecom which provided telecommunications. No one else could, the goverment owned all of the phone lines in the country. Which worked ok.

The goverment finally let other carriers in and in 1992 Optus launched in Australia. In 1997 the goverment sold (I think) 25% of Telecom (now called Telstra) and in 1998 sold enough to give the goverment 51% control (A Brief History of Telstra).

Which is where we are now. Basically Telstra owns most of the lines (because they were paid for by the Australian people) and it costs a fair bit for anyone else to roll out an entire network. But Telstra obviously set the retail and wholesale prices of the lines. And strangely, sometimes, the wholesale prices are more than or equal to the retail. Optus gets around this via thier TV cable services, Alphalink rolled out wireless and iiNet are doing what article says.

There were claims that Telstra blocked the introduction of broadband for it's own benifit and that it has been unfairly competing against other carriers (but I don't think Fair Trade has upheld any of these claims).

In reality the goverement is pushing to sell the rest of Telstra and the Coalition have never quite got enough votes in the Senate to get it thru by themselves. For the last two sales they mad stupid ammendments to appease an independent who calls himself Brian Harradine, who's very into censoring everything, including the net. Thankfully he's going, but Family First managed to get one senator in (and I'm ashamed that it's in my state) and they are a party who... shock horror... want to ramp up net censorship further than what Harradine dreamed he could get.

So the simple answer is it's not that the goverment are actively computer hostile, it's just that thier short sighted plan of selling a monopoly means that they have to be mean to all of us.

I think I might have ranted a bit there, but you should get the general impression of what's happening down here. Oh... and do a search on google for Telstra suck if you need more of an idea... :)

Google beats MSN search by 1,090,000 naked boobies to 667,529 naked boobies.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=java+workflow/ Second link down seems to be exactly what you want - a comparison of Work Flow engines written in Java http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/workflow_i n_java/view/ Content from link attached inline :-)
# Enhydra Shark Shark is completely based on standards from WfMC and OMG using XPDL as its native workflow definition format. Storage of processes and activities is done using Enhydra DODS.
# Codehaus Werkflow Werkflow is a flexible, extensible process- and state-based workflow engine. It aims to satisfy a myriad of possible workflow scenarios, from enterprise-scale business processes to small-scale user-interaction processes. Using a pluggable and layered architecture, workflows with varying semantics can easily be accomodated.
# OpenSymphony OSWorkflow What makes OSWorkflow different is that it is extremely flexible.
# jBpm jBpm is a flexible, extensible workflow management system. Business processes , expressed in a simple and powerfull language and packaged in process archives, serve as input for the jBpm runtime server. jBpm combines easy development of workflow-applications with excellent enterprise application integration (EAI) capabilities. jBpm includes a web-application and a scheduler. jBpm is a scalable J2EE application.
# wfmOpen WfMOpen is a J2EE based implementation of a workflow facility (workflow engine) as proposed by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and the Object Management Group (OMG). Workflows are specified using WfMC's XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) with some extensions.
# OFBiz Workflow Engine The Open for Business Workflow Engine is based on the WfMC and OMG spec. OFBiz Workflow Engine uses XPDL as its process definition language.
# ObjectWeb Bonita Bonita is a flexible cooperative workflow system, compliant to WfMC specifications. A comprehensive set of integrated graphical tools for performing different kind of actions such as process conception, definition, instanciation, control of processes, and interaction with the users and external applications. 100% browser-based environment with Web Services integration that uses SOAP and XML Data binding technologies in order to encapsulate existing workflow business methods and publish them as a J2EE-based web services. A Third Generation Worflow engine based in the activity anticipation model.
# Bigbross Bossa The engine is very fast and lightweight, uses a very expressive Petri net notation to define workflows, does not requires a RDBMS and is very simple to use and to integrate with java applications. Actually, it was designed to be embedded.
# Taverna The Taverna project aims to provide a language and software tools to facilitate easy use of workflow and distributed compute technology within the eScience community. Taverna is both a workflow enactor and also an editing suite.
# JFolder JFolder (formerly PowerFolder) contains features critical to many applications - including web pages, workflow, security, persistence, email, file management, and data access.
# Open Business Engine Open Business Engine is an open source Java workflow engine which supports the Workflow Management Coalition's (WfMC) workflow specifications, including interface 1, also known as XPDL, interface 2/3 known as WAPI and interface 5 for auditing. OBE provides an environment for executing activities in a controlled, centralized environment. OBE supports both synchronous and asynchronous execution of workflows. The primary OBE implementation is based on J2EE.
# OpenWFE OpenWFE is an open source java workflow engine. It features 3 components, easily scalable : an engine, a worklist and a web interface. Its workflow definition language is inspired of Scheme, a Lisp dialect, though it is expressed in XML.
# Freefluo - Freefluo is a workflow orchestration tool for web serv

Funny, that. If you'd posted http://www.google.com.au/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&q= you'd have been modded insightful.

• '... With universities forced increasingly to find creative new ways of fundraising, Melbourne Uni took an unprecedented step. It set up a new company, Melbourne IT, to run the .com.au names operation and, in December 1999, floated the body on the stock market. The stock rocketed far above the listing price. ... [ABC 4 Corners, Domain Games, 05/06/2000, Stephen McDonell]

So when you say ....

• ... Melbourne IT are very much a corporate entity now. They have share holders, and have a large emphasis internally on sales (much to the dismay of the employee I know). This so called "weekend rule" could be applied to many many other corporates as well .... The notion that this situation was bred from some type of government "weekend rule" is ridiculous.

I have a bit of a hard time thinking the core of the organisation retains its *sheltered* workshop origins. Of course MelboureIt is not exactly a *squeaky clean organisation* as they make out to be. Those with long enough memories remember the share allocation irregularities that resulted in the Domain Games story by ABC 4 Corners investigation.

• ... Four Corners explores the Melbourne IT float and asks whether the university may have undersold its domain names monopoly, which had been essentially a public asset. Is it better that such an asset is in public or private hands? ... [ABC 4 Corners, Domain Games, 05/06/2000, Stephen McDonell]

Those interested can read from the ABC 4 Corners investigation and some other snippits from the Auditors General report.

• ... The report also examines whether "hot floats" like Melbourne IT are executed to the benefit of a well-heeled and well-connected clique, with the "mums and dads" left out of the picture, or whether the Government's vision of a shareholders' democracy holds true. .." [ABC 4 Corners, Domain Games, 05/06/2000, Stephen McDonell]

For the non-Australians, a investigative story by 4 Corners is equivalent to say UK BBC, Horizon or US PBS or CBS 60 Minutes expose. As a *public listed company* it is not something you look forward to. I may be wrong, maybe it is just plain incompetence.

The promise
I remember when Chandler was first mooted. Finally an open souce project that has a vision of how to store and communicate small bits of information. Traditionally these types of applications have been lumped together with *ugly* (but accurate) acronymn, PIM.

Free the data
This is an important step in applications. Historically data is trapped or obfusticated into applications. Once you enter the data in it you can only get at it by jumping through the fire breathing coding hoops. Ocassionally its open souce (mozilla mork) but commercial applications take this to a new level - (think MS Outlook Express).

Updated Agenda?
For the younger /.'s this is not the first crack Mitch has had at this market. In '88 Mitch Kapor (father of Lotus 123, Notes) Agenda was released into the PIM market to some success. The runs are on the board. Could Chandler be the answer?

• ... A major lesson learnt from the last two years, is that we took on too much, and had too high an ambition level for the near-term. This "great leap forward" strategy didn't pan out. Instead, we have primarily switched to a "dog food" strategy to quickly develop a first release that is minimally usable, on a day-to-day basis, for us within OSAF and for our info-intensive, techno-savvy early adopters. ...

Release early and often
Well after 0.4 release I dont see anything compelling. It has trouble working on Windows, it's monolithic and appears to be *weighed* down in specifications of how to do things rather than results. Chandler looks good on paper but in clumping email, calandering, PIM and other messaging it has lost for me its original appeal. I want it usable now. Even if it is a little bit at a time. For me like its name sake (Raymond) I'm still searching for a usable application.

Alternative
So there you have it I've trashed a computer industry veteran who has runs on the board but has failed to deliver. Whats an alternative. Well one example is a Gnome app called Tomboy. Its a simple mono, GTK based note taking applet that is searchable. It allows you to click on links according to mime types and load an application. It has spell checking (along with references to various IBM patents). But the single kicker that has moved Tomboy into my sights is the integration of Tomboy with Evolution (unix version that mirrors crappy Outlook in too may ways) and Beagle The Gnome desktop is now using Tomboy as the *PIM* input and building a plugin to Evolution (email, calander), Beagle (searching). So bit by bit it's making Chandler less attractive to me.

lessons
It helps to have access to an open souce platform. Release often and early. Build an application (especially a first version) to do one thing and do it well. Get a result. Dont bloat a product with features if it is not vital and work out how can you work with other applications. Tomboy may only have a short shelf life or morph into something else in as it develops but it works right now and does the job.

that should have a colon: http://www.google.com.au/

Oh, just one minor correction:

Not to say that FreeBSD is without weak points, of course (just like every OS, and the devs are surely working on those), but it routes much better than Linux.

s/better/faster

link,

Oh, but you can't actually do much useful with the packet if you want to keep up that speed advantage - just in one interface and out the other (fast fowarding).

Oh yeah, and don't even bother with SMP and lots of network interfaces.

At 128kbps, 4 minutes per song and 1,000,000 KB in a GB, you would be able to store 260 songs on a 1GB USB MP3 Player.

If your iPod is 40GB you will be able to store over 10,000 songs.

Now, both are portable and in both cases it is a piece of p1ss to plug your device into your computer and download/delete songs as you wish. I'm sure 260 songs (or over 17 hours (yes, I love google :) ) of play) should be enough for a PORTABLE music player (when you go on a short trip do you take your collection of 200 DVDs with you? No, you take just a few to get you through the trip).

And when you factor in the difference in price ($119 compared to $408, BOTH including delivery), I don't see why you would waste your money on an iPod.

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The world is full of stupid people.

At 128kbps, 4 minutes per song and 1,000,000 KB in a GB, you would be able to store 260 songs on a 1GB USB MP3 Player.

If your iPod is 40GB you will be able to store over 10,000 songs.

Now, both are portable and in both cases it is a piece of p1ss to plug your device into your computer and download/delete songs as you wish. I'm sure 260 songs (or over 17 hours (yes, I love google :) ) of play) should be enough for a PORTABLE music player (when you go on a short trip do you take your collection of 200 DVDs with you? No, you take just a few to get you through the trip).

And when you factor in the difference in price ($119 compared to $408, BOTH including delivery), I don't see why you would waste your money on an iPod.

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The world is full of stupid people.

At 128kbps, 4 minutes per song and 1,000,000 KB in a GB, you would be able to store 260 songs on a 1GB USB MP3 Player.

If your iPod is 40GB you will be able to store over 10,000 songs.

Now, both are portable and in both cases it is a piece of p1ss to plug your device into your computer and download/delete songs as you wish. I'm sure 260 songs (or over 17 hours (yes, I love google :) ) of play) should be enough for a PORTABLE music player (when you go on a short trip do you take your collection of 200 DVDs with you? No, you take just a few to get you through the trip).

And when you factor in the difference in price ($119 compared to $408, BOTH including delivery), I don't see why you would waste your money on an iPod.

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The world is full of stupid people.

The BETA groups now replaces the old way Google Groups works (worked?), and as most Usenet readers know, there's someone unhappy enough about it to spam their unhappiness to every group.
But someone posted a solution. Just use Google Groups from other English-speaking countries, such as:

http://groups.google.com.au/

!

Hey if you live there I know you... your my badass neighbour! anyway.

Google, for all your cosmetic needs

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=speed+of+light+i n+feet+per+second
the speed of light = 983 571 056 feet per second

$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
0.015*983571056
14753565.840
scale= 6
65000/983571056 .000066

That's 14 million feet in 15 milliseconds - or 66 microseconds propagation delay for 65K feet.

The fact that the API is similar is not what lead to the statement. There is actually a BSD copyright notice within Winsock.dll (it is still there in XP SP2). Plus it says it on page 5 of these notes under history.

Other parts of the operating system that had/have BSD code (off the top of my head) are BSD networking tools (such as ftp, finger, nslookup - grep for "The Regents of the University of California" copyright notice.), zlib library, the POSIX sub-system . From what I have recently heard, Microsoft started to phase out BSD licensed code a while ago. They re-wrote the Winsock library to be more compact and with IPv6 support. Could this be because of an issue with SCO?

I am suprised that there is no documented exhaustive search of BSD copyright references in Windows.

I found this Usenet post on Sollog and it's very interesting. It actually has links to time-stamped "predictions" on 911, etc.

Hmmm... clearly a troll, but hey... I'll explain... ;)

PSP stands for Portable Sans Power (the article should have given this away). This is a very clever acronym as it is also the noise you make after you've played Ridge Racer for 2 hours.

PSP also stands for precision spectral pyranometer, a pyranometer with an outer clear dome that can be replaced by colored domes that transmit specific bandwidths of the solar spectrum. [Ah... Google... how else could you find out trivia you never wanted to know?]

DS stands for Dream System, it's like a portable Dreamcast (which is why SEGA managed to produce a game which shows off it's capabilities before Nintendo could).

No, it didn't start with you. It was started a decade ago by retard BSD "developers"; you mindless BSD zealots just followed like the sheep you are.

Have a look at this classic thread, for example. I'll summarise:

Random: I heard Linux's network stack is faster than FreeBSD's?

BSD: Oh no, they were lying and they did show hard numbers but they are meaningless.

Linux: We claimed what we saw. We saw FreeBSD being beaten in this benchmark.

BSD: Oh hey what about that other benchmark where you guys cheated on? Ha ha ha.

Linux: No we didn't, we beat you fair and square on that one too.

BSD: SDFae BBBAAAAHHHH you called me a liar!! blaadfasdf rrrrarr I demand a public apology blaaah hey everyone look at me blaahh booooo!! Please everyone change the subject from BSD being beaten to my idiotic hissy fit.

Linux: Hmm, that would explain a lot.

Well the features are only hiding, click advanced search to see them come out and play, although if you want to pay someone, I'm sure there are several countries like australia (http://groups.google.com.au/) who are behind the times and have the old google groups.

If you don't like the new itnerface, just use it with a country code domain rather than .com. I've checked the UK, Canadian, French, German, and Australian versions, and all have the classic interface, rather than the new one.

example .

I searched for "previously aware of" in alt.fan.douglas-adams between 1 May 1981 and 2 Dec 1993.

"With Microsoft's deep pockets, can they effectively send a resounding message to spammers?"

With that load of money I'm sure they can buy a nice set of e-postcard(s) to send off =)

e-bitchslap comes to mind =)

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=insulting+ e-card&btnG=Google+Search