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Of course SCSI and FireWire could be polluted with such CP crud.

-Todd

Oh, anyone else notice what a sad shit site Rabtech runs? Intense ignorance! If it wasn't so pathetic, it would be funny. Maybe it is a parody?

eBay can't stop private individuals from completing private transactions, regardless of how they came into contact with each other. What if I meet some guy on eBay, we become friends, and two years later he sells me a car. Are they gonna want a cut then?

However, if a seller cancels an auction shortly before the close, then sells the item to whomever was the top bidder, thus bypassing eBay's fees, I think eBay has a right to go after him.

-- russ

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You just described Windows 2000/NT:

All system information is stored in one place. All users info goes into one certain place under that users's profile. Everything works in a set, systemmatic way. Yes, this limits Windows' "hackability" sometimes, but that's a tradeoff I'm willing to make for the standards and support I get.

Linux is a great "fooling around" tool for me, but the complexities aren't worth any gains I may receive over Windows 2000 at this time, in terms of using it as my primary OS. That could change in the future.
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The fool says to himself "There is no God"

If you believe that you can prove without a doubt that there is no God, I (and the rest of the world) are all ears my friend.

On topic: By simply requesting unfiltered access, they will turn it on and viola! no more filtering for you. I don't see OPT-IN filtering as any sort of problem.

-- russ
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Are you kidding us? There isn't a browser out there that fully supports the HTML standards. Netscape is far worse than IE is in this regard. Methinks you are grasping at straws here...
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Actually, I have the beta version of Windows.NET and VisualStudio.NET, as well as the .NET SDK v2 in my hands right now, so what were you saying...?
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I find it odd that in today's world, I still can't get a default distro of Linux or any free *nix with a journaling filesystem preinstalled as the default, and with a fs driver considered to be STABLE or RELEASE. Yet, Windows NT has had a full journaling filesystem since NT 3.x....

Since NTFS is journaling, supports reparse points, extended meta data, and more, I look forward to the day when the NTFS fs driver for Linux is stable enough to boot from, then I can have one *stable* filesystem across all my disks.

I might add that a boot-time chkdsk on a rather large partition (chkdsk on NT == fsck on Linux) takes less than 30 seconds, many times even less. Contrast that to your average ext2 or FAT32 system, which can take many minutes to check.

-- russ

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First of all, DCOM, in its latest implementations, works quite well.

As for desktop and GUI apps, that is at least 50% of the battle, if not more.

You speak of a jigsaw, and that is the problem! I don't need to have to worry about what libraries are installed on my client's PCs, or what window manager or version of X they are running.... I just wanna write to a standard interface and have it all work together with a good object model. Windows 2000 and COM+ give me that. Linux has plenty of room to grow, but first people need to start admitting what is good about the way Windows works, and start adopting the aspects that make programming easier.
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Wow, its just like... COM. Linux isn't a good programming platform for me right now because it doesn't have a standard object model. Microsoft took this to a new level with COM/COM+, and is set to do it again with .NET

I look forward to seeing a real standard on Linux, and then perhaps I can consider it for my projects.

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