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Fortunately, Geena Davis looks a lot like Scully, but more sexy (and her show is more funny than X-Files) .

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• Everyone can open its own web site
• • People can force users to see web ads to read messages
• Great deal. Web discussion boards provides inconsistency and redundancy. How many web sites discusses the same thing ? How many questions are asked on a web site though they were already answered on another web site ?
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  Usenet solved this a long time ago.
  What killed Usenet is the load of uuencoded warez and spam. Everyone has to filter messages to find real ones. Lousy. But we can't fight stupidity. Give people mail access, they will send spam. Give people Napster, they will share copyrighted songs. Give people a CD writer, they will burn commercial software. Give people the web, they will DOS it or try root exploits. Give people usenet, they will kill it. And there's no way back.
  

I have a Psion 5 MX for a while, and what I love with Epoc is the presence of native Java and Perl interpreters. And they work very well. When I worked as a programming teacher, I checked algorithms in the train on the Psion. Really nice.
Another great thing : Opera. I've never seen IE on Windows CE devices, but Opera for Epoc renders very well.
Last great thing with Epoc : you can find a lot of freeware. More than on Palm (a lot of shareware) and much more than Pocket PC (almost no freeware at all) .

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A stock OpenBSD installation is compiled for 386. Did you recompile the kernel and the whole source code with pentium3 optimizations ?

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"the human ear can't hear sounds below 2.5 bels"
That's totally false. Humans can hear below 1 bel (except babies, older people, and people with ear diseases) . It's approximately twice the level of human breath.

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Once again, Microsoft wants to do services that only work with Microsoft software. POP is simple and efficient. If they wanted to increase security, they could just have upgraded to APOP or Imap. Almost all clients support these protocols.
But they are somewhat shooting themselves in the foot. Not every Windows users wants (or is able) to upgrade Outlook. I guess their hotline will get a lot of calls, and they may go back to some standard protocol then.

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I just installed JFS to benchmark it. It seems to be a bit buggy : sometimes the keyboard blo



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How can OSDN earn money ? Web banners ? Ad banners on Slashdot and Freshmeat are all for other OSDN services (valinux, sourceforge, thinkgeek or free software) .
And OSDN needs a lot of bandwidth. I guess all that bandwidth isn't provided for free.
On the other hand, when I walk through alleys of server farms, I always see a lot of VA Linux racks. They are easy to distinguish with their blue leds. So I thought that VA Linux was selling a lot of hardware. And selling hardware bring money. SGI is also selling VA Linux hardware (they just add their sticker) .
I can't understand their decision. They just can't *loose* money. VA Linux hardware is expensive compared to the same hardware built by your own. And it's selling. And well, according to what I saw in racks.
Compaq drops Alpha processors, Mandrake runs out of money, Netscape focuses on a stupid web portal, VA Linux stops hardware... That's bad. Really bad times for the world of Unix and free software.

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Myth III looks beautiful. But I've never had fun with these games. I had much fun on Atari playing Dungeon Master, Bombjack, Maupiti Island, Double Dragon, Shinobi, Wings of death, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, IK+, Ultima 3, R-Type, etc, etc.

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Many people are using OpenBSD for firewalls and masquerading gateways. When the removal of ipf was announced, half the people said "ok, I'll have to stick with 2.9 forever :(", and the other half said "ok, I'm gonna drop OpenBSD for NetBSD or FreeBSD".
It was very bad for the popularity of OpenBSD.
The new packet filter is excellent news, and I just can say "good luck" to the team.
OpenBSD 3.0 will be released in 6 months. The challenge is : will they be able to complete pf for that date ?

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While Active Directory and NDS are widely used in the Microsoft and Novell worlds, LDAP has never been very popular in the Unix world. Most people even never heard about it.
LDAP is a standard protocol to access very modular hierarchical databases (called "directories" but anything can be stored in a LDAP directory, not only addresses) . It's way more flexible than SQL. You can redefine your own types and constraints (schema), all objects are extensible, all instances can belong to several classes, and anything that can fit in a tree can fit in a LDAP directory.
The first steps into LDAP aren't trivial. The syntax of LDIF files is a bit difficult to learn, but it's worth learning it.
There's an excellent open source LDAP server called OpenLDAP. It has support for LDAP version 3, SSL, IPv6, and everything you need to use LDAP. I've successfully installed it on large production servers. It's stable, and fast (if add your own indexes) .
Just like IPv6, LDAP for Unix is here for a long time (thanks, iPlanet), but it needs better integration with common software. If LDAP was implemented in all daemons and client software, it would ease a lot network administration. You can then configure all servers from a single workstation, in a coherent, unified database.
And for programmers, adding LDAP support is not a hell. Have a look at some OpenLDAP samples. I implemented LDAP support in Pure FTPd in less than one hour with no previous knowledge of the OpenLDAP API. The src/log_ldap.c is a simple getpwnam() wrapper and it can be reused by any program that use this library call to read /etc/passwd. It's a GPL package, so feel free to merge it to any piece of free software.
Also, Unix lacks good visual XML and LDAP editors. The recently announced Ganimede looks promizing, though. But if you are starting to learn LDAP, also give a try to GQ (sorry, I can't remember the URL, check it on Freshmeat) . It's a simple GTK tool to browse and edit LDAP directories and schemas.