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  1. stricmp vs. strcasecmp: Who got there first? by Mr+Z · · Score: 1 · on Network Measurement Tool Detects Reset Packets

    That comment about stricmp is interesting. I assume it's bridging the difference between strcasecmp and stricmp. strcasecmp has been around for quite a long time and predates Linux. It's part of SuS.

    (The reference above is the oldest I could find with a quick Google search.)

  2. Re:Not Quite Universal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop?

    The way I look at it, a few years ago, you couldn't install Adobe Photoshop on a Unix based platform, because the code did not exist. The codebase was huge, and it was only written for Windows and Apples proprietary OS offering.

    What are you smoking? Back in the 1990's, you could get Photoshop for IRIX and Solaris. With 2.5, the IRIX/Solaris releases were only 1 year after the first Windows release. With 3.0, they were only 2 months after the Windows release. In fact, originally, it was only written for the Mac; the Windows port came more than 4 years later. (What does it say that they could roll 2 X11-based Unix releases in 1/4 the time of the Windows port?)

    There is a Adobe Photoshop codebase that works on Unix based platforms.

    Sort of. There's Photoshop that works on Mac OS X; that's basically unlike any other Unix system in the world. For any other Unix, the UI and device support, for example, would have to be completely redone. Having Photoshop on the Mac is good because it shows that Photoshop itself can be ported to new systems, but the fact that the Mac is "Unix" doesn't really help you get to Linux.

    When you ask for a copy for your Linux desktop, the reason the answer is no is because even though we've invested the effort and could give you what you want, for business reasons we choose not to do so at this time.

    In 1999, "Adobe Unix tech support had been inundated with calls about new versions of these apps. for Solaris for a long time" ... "Adobe [...] issue[d] a statement that [...] all development for these 2 apps. on
    Unix is stopped with no plans for future releases". So if they do have business reasons for not having a Linux release (and I'm sure they do), it's not for lack of demand. (Maybe it's because they couldn't keep up with the pace of Linux GUI-toolkit development. Maybe it's because people would buy Linux Photoshop, but wouldn't be able to buy any other Adobe products, and there's no business case for porting *all* Adobe products. Who knows.)

    For the record, I'm not a Photoshop person, but if there was a good release of Illustrator for Linux (and with no "product activation" crap), I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I've been using Inkscape for years (and upgrading immediately when there's a new release), but I'd take a 10-year-old version of Illustrator over it any day.
  3. Re:Scott never gives up by retiarius · · Score: 1 · on Sun's Scott McNealy's Days are Numbered?

    E$ is shorthand for the infamous server ecache problem,
    which cost sun dozens of millions to nail down.

              http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/200 2-April/001431.html

    wherein sun didn't read the fine print on the specs for some alpha-particle-susceptible
    memory from IBM...

  4. Re:The Man has rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry

    Hmmm - looks like he is the MIT Alexander Mayer: someone with that alumni email was at Affymetrix,(A biotech firm), per http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~garfinkl/particip ants.txt
    (A physics conference in 2000)
    and
    http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/fm05-sessions/fm0 5_G41B.html
    (A 12/05 physics conference, with a clearly related presentation: "On the Cause of Geodetic Satellite Accelerations and Other Correlated Unmodeled Phenomena")

    And may to be the person posting this:
    http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/2 001-March/002577.html,
    unless there were two people at Affymetrix with that name.

  5. Database Adminstrator? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry

    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bi bcode=2005AGUFM.G41B0363M&db_key=PHY&data_type=HTM L&format=&high=43e8a348db18655

    Affymetrix?

    http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/2 001-March/002577.html

    Anyone we know? Database Administrator you say?

  6. Re:Destroying harddrives by Frodo+Crockett · · Score: 1 · on How to Build a Hard Drive Wind Chime For Spring

    Well, you could use BCWipe.

    You could also use everyone's favorite blocked I/O command, dd.

  7. Re:Where's PuTTY? by iantri · · Score: 1 · on Terminal Emulators Reviewed

    You aren't the only one with this problem. Appearantly, it was fixed in 0.54 (well, somewhat). Try downloading the latest version.

  8. You can, too, recover tar archives!! (see: tarx) by Helen+O'Boyle · · Score: 2, Informative · on Recoverable File Archiving with Free Software?
    { The poster is looking for alternatives to tar, because he has concerns about tarball content recovery. }

    It's been possible to do that for well over a decade, using various utilities such as tarx. I've successfully recovered files after a damaged point in a tarball many times. (Sigh, I used to use an old AT&T UNIX with a #$*@# broken tar, which occasionally created corrupt tarballs).

    See this post on the Sun Managers list circa 1993, and the venerable comp.sources.unix collection, volume 24, for the sources.

  9. Re:Vapor ports on Sun's! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Previewing the Next Solaris OS

    Wrong

    Mod parent down, his statement is incorrect.

  10. Re:The only one that matters by Mr+Z · · Score: 1 · on Linux File System Shootout

    Actually, I think 'intr' and 'soft' have been mount options for, oh, say a decade or more?

    Personally, I think a -o hard,intr mount is probably the right choice for most network mounts, and a -o soft mount is a polite option for remote, readonly filesystems shared by a larger crowd. (Almost nobody does that anymore. I believe wuarchive used to offer a read-only public NFS mount around 10 years ago.)

    --Joe
  11. Re:Sun Doesn't appeal to me by Bateman · · Score: 2, Informative · on Sun's Last Stand

    Look at the DNS... all of them come through Sun

    So?
    I like having a GOOD central point of information. There are also newsgroups and mailing lists for solaris, I particularly love the sunmanagers mailing list, I wish I knew of a similiar list for linux.

  12. Re:More than 1.1 billion CDs are thrown out each y by shepd · · Score: 1 · on Sony First To Market With Blue-Laser DVD Recorder

    >A burned CD has a lifespan of about 10 years. After that (and often before that) it will lose data, become unreadable, etc.

    They say that, but I have CDs burned at the start of '97 that are perfectly fine right now. If they've survived 6 years without a single error, I don't see why they won't keep working.

    There are some that don't last, but that's a quality issue, and it certainly isn't intended to be standard.

    >It's much smarter to copy all important data on a second hard drive - You can move all you data in one go when you upgrade.

    After 10 years, I can assure you, any of the lower grade hard drives will have horrible stiction problems.

  13. Re:Getting depressed about software glitches is cr by slashdot_commentator · · Score: 1 · on Dealing with Failures and Setbacks in the Workplace?

    ...and totally not worth it.
    Except it puts the bread on her table and the roof over her head. And for some people, one's ego and pride in their work is worth it, as well.

    Just go take a break, or do something else for a day or two to clear your mind.
    Something she has to do, because its currently not working, and sometimes a fresh look is the difference between sucess and failure.

    If some fascist management type is breathing down your neck, tell him to go away.
    In some cultures, it can mean the same as resigning (Your Asshole May Vary). In some places, it would not be a healthy thing to improperly phrase such a request, in this economy.

    Getting angry and upset over a computer is very childish. Don't even go there.
    Getting angry and upset is human, not childish. She needs to get help to fix her problem. There's her coworkers, Sun Support, and Sun Mananger's mailing list.