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  1. Re:why do we care on Defunct Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit · · Score: 1

    I was going to ask the same question. Why would this not burn up as it hit and passed through the atmosphere just like anything else would. If a rock would burn up on reentry, why not a hunk of metal?

  2. Re:Windows & Make Available Offline on Laptop/Server Data Synchronization? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Works well for me too. Sure, every now and then you get a mishap or a mistaken overwrite, but that's what [client and server] backups are for, right?

    I use it with my wife for our financial data. She syncs, makes changes, then next time I connect I can choose to use the server version or my version. Since there is no version control, you have to communicate. Then again, with the way version control works, if you end up merging a lot, perhaps too many people are working on the same problem anyhow.

    In the end it works well.

  3. Re:Balance on Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus · · Score: 1

    Yes, and people who buy a particular car are more savvy for buying that brand. I don't buy it any more than saying that people whom still use VAX are not as intelligent.

    That said, someone *should* write a virus for VAX/VMX, I'm pretty sure it would get too far with all that yelling!

    ERASE ALL FILES
    SPREAD TO NEXT MACHINE
    ERASE ALL FILES
    SPREAD TO NEXT MACHINE

  4. Re:Hopefully no memory leaks like FireFox on Gecko-based K-Meleon 0.9 browser Released · · Score: 1

    Okay, I hunted around this damn system and changed the name of most plugins from *.dll to *.dll.no and it apparently doesn't load them anymore.

    Where is the plugin repository kept? I mean, why are the dll's in every directory all over the place and FF is still able to find them all?

  5. Re:Hopefully no memory leaks like FireFox on Gecko-based K-Meleon 0.9 browser Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm horrible at Windows DEV! :)

  6. Re:Hopefully no memory leaks like FireFox on Gecko-based K-Meleon 0.9 browser Released · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, good point. You know, I was thinking the same thing. Any clue how to get a list of the plugins like Java and Quicktime so I can remove them?

    I'm trying to remember when it started. I can't pin it to the 1.0 release of FF, or just length since last reinstall.

    I tend to reinstall WindowsXP about once every 6-8 months. I use Linux and other *nix's for everything I do, I just prefer Windows as a client OS (Trillian for instance), and my wireless FUCKING BROADCOM (search engine snare) card isn't supported under anything but Windows (Dell 1400).

  7. Re:Hopefully no memory leaks like FireFox on Gecko-based K-Meleon 0.9 browser Released · · Score: 1

    FireFox is the only application that does it. Mozilla does it as well. This was a known problem in Mozilla 1.6, and it was fixed back then. It appears that it's similar.

    Perhaps you aren't reloading the same pages I am and you are not hitting the same bugs I am. I'm suspectinng it's a problem with JS reloads again.

    I wouldn't doubt if Linux runs differently, it's a different OS and likely a different mind-set/developers.

    As for apps crashing all the time on XP, it rarely happens to me. The only time something crashes on XP for me is if I wrote the program :) or if it's a poorly written program.

    Blanket statements regarding an OS are unhelpful to everyone.

  8. Hopefully no memory leaks like FireFox on Gecko-based K-Meleon 0.9 browser Released · · Score: 1

    My FireFox, when refreshing things like Horde (webmail) and My.Yahoo! will consistently take upwards of 400M of memory. FireFox 1.0 crashes a lot on me because of memory issues. If I restart it at nite, open 4 tabs (My.Yahoo!, Horde/webmail, /., and Engadget), but morning I'll have taken between 200-400M of memory and 1/5 of the time it will have crashed.

    This is on WindowsXPsp2 so your mileage may vary. I can't seem to get any help from the Mozilla FireFox team. Are there others out there like me?

    Off to try K-Melon! IE sucks!!!!!!!

  9. SPAM! on Gmail Messages Are Vulnerable To Interception · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chances are, since most email these days are spam, an attacker is going to have to go through a lot of spam before finding something interesting.

  10. Out of date on TheOpenCD 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Isn't stuff like this out of date by the time it's released?

  11. Works Great! on Experiences w/ Software RAID 5 Under Linux? · · Score: 1

    I have 4 IDE Maxtor 200G drives on two Promise controllers and it's really very stable. I've done this for about the last 4 years for a home network share, with very very good luck.

    After setting it all up, I encourage you to attempt to pull a cord from a drive, and boot, and make sure you know how to recover. Nothing can compare to the knowledge of knowing what to do in a serious failure.

    My raid5: /dev/md0 576877984 506579124 40995112 93% /data

    knitterb@machine%> cat /proc/mdstat
    Personalities : [raid5]
    read_ahead 1024 sectors
    md0 : active raid5 hdk1[3] hdi1[2] hdg1[1] hde1[0]
    586075008 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]

    unused devices:
    0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 88pf+0w
    knitterb@machineb%>

    Good luck! :)

  12. I don't suck! on Geeks Playing Poker? · · Score: 1

    I like to beleive that I play with people who are just seriously poor at playing poker...nay...they SUCK! :)

  13. Re:IIS vs J2EE Servers on Java 1.5 vs C# · · Score: 1

    The out-of-process state server is a *single* machine/process that can't be replicated or clustered. Furthermore, in order to make it fast (in memory cach) you would need to do sticky sessions on your load balancer.

  14. IIS vs J2EE Servers on Java 1.5 vs C# · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not so much the language that is a question of contest, but the platform they run on. I've done Java programming since 1.1.8, and have deployed on Tomcat, Resin and Weblogic.

    Recently I switched to C# (new job) and I have to tell you, the language is pretty neat with some of the tricks you can do. Nothing ground breaking though.

    What's really missing is the platform for release, and release management. Where are WARs and EARs for .Net? What the fuck is up with IIS (oh yeah, it's crap)?? Where is any sort of replicated server side session management (no, long ass hidden fields are *not* sessions - and a M$SQLServer *only* solution doesn't count).

    The constructs and tricks of a language can be debated as long as you want. You will probably find something nice in every language. But when you have to [operationally] deploy any application, great or not, on some cheap as shit, crap ass, hard to manage, non-repeatable platform such as IIS, that's when the real rubber hits the road with Java.

    J2EE deployment platforms are light years ahead of .Net's deployment platform (singular). Man I miss working with J2EE platforms and loathe IIS...even though it is my job to keep all this stuff running on IIS! :(

  15. Adjustment for short fuse on Scientists Define Murphy's Law · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a short fuse, so:

    ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))

    should be rewritten as:

    ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A^2 x 1/(1-sin(F/10))

    !!

  16. Re:Search for Linux on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no results were found containing "windows"

  17. Re:I don't get it, really I don't on phpstack - A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server in PHP · · Score: 1

    Like Perl, PHP too can be run standalone.

  18. Re:Wow! on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 1

    Just call Sony tech support and ask them to call you back! :-)