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  1. How about this.... on Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? · · Score: 1
    If you cant make a living doing that job.. GET ANOTHER JOB.

  2. Re:How does the metadata get into the database? on 'Storage' to Replace Traditional Filesystems? · · Score: 1
    Technical manuals have a long and proud history of being in weird, bright colours.

    So in the geek world, ordered by colour isnt necessaraly all that bad.

  3. Re:irc on Touch Typing for a Developer? · · Score: 1

    In all that time of typing, have you never come accross a keyboard with a shift key?

  4. Re:So software gets delayed.... on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    95 diddnt have any USB support. Your thinking about the 98 demo.

  5. Re:Why should we pay CA? on AMTP as an Alternative to SMTP · · Score: 1
    Because domains dont mean anything.

    Just for fun, do a whois freewebemail.com. Compare that to the output of whois designerlove.com...

    The listed registrar of freewebemail is compleatly bogus. The address and phone number are invalid.

    The whole point of certficates is that someone does analysis on who is buying them. The CA dosent care who you are, only that you are who you say you are. Domain registrars on the other hand, dont give a flying fuck who you say you are, as long as your CC goes through.

  6. Mail servers make policy decisions all the time on AMTP as an Alternative to SMTP · · Score: 1
    RBL's durring the SMTP phase, content filtering durring the SMTP phase, receive and filter with spamassassin. Mail servers inspect messeges and decide what to do with them based on content all the time.

  7. Re:It on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 1
    The reason why it shouldnt be allowed on foot paths is that that would totaly defeat the purpose of foot paths.

    Footpaths exist for a varity of reasons, from pure entertainment of walking / hiking to encourging a healthy lifestile to allowing for the appreciation of nature.

    A segway would destroy any entertainment value of walking / hiking. It promotes sedation, not activity. And if the path is good enough to allow for a segway to travel on it, then your conquring nature, not appreciatin it.

  8. Re:Engineering loves cubicles on Cubicle Etiquette? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Some people are paying $11 for them:

    I know how to google.

  9. Re:Stupid on AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking · · Score: 1
    Unfair competition only comes into place if you have a monopoly and thus can by force alone crush competition.

    Cisco is big, but cisco is not the only company in that industry. Cisco can sell whatever it wants at whatever price it wants to anyone it wants. Or not at all.

  10. Re:Red Hat ES license Issue on Red Hat Enterprise 3 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 1
    Redhat Enterprise == Support Contract

  11. Re:Feature list on Red Hat Enterprise 3 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 1
    Just look at the file names:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 140869632 Jul 20 22:03 taroon-i386-as-disc1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 666238976 Jul 20 21:58 taroon-i386-disc2.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 568131584 Jul 20 22:03 taroon-i386-disc3.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 327122944 Jul 20 22:05 taroon-i386-ws-disc1.iso Different install, and the workstation version haas about 160mb more avialable packages. Makes sense to me.

  12. Re:Stability will be fixed on Benchmarking Linux Filesystems In New 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Speed problems can be solved by throwning hardware at the problem. Faster disks, more ram, more servers. A filesystem not desigined with stability in mind wont be stable regardless of the hardware.

    Stability should be at the top of the list when desigining a filesystem. If its a quetsion of stability or speed, stability should win.

  13. Re:Not what an employee told me on Novell To Cease NetWare Development? · · Score: 1
    Ive been heraring people saying that for years, and the simple fact is that any linux filesystem ACLs dont work.

    Redhat even had FS ACLs and userland tools in one of there betas and removed it because they couldnt get it right.

    Id love to see someone who actualy got this up and running.

  14. Re:Quickly degenerating into the really bizarre .. on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    Not at all. First rule of litigation is to sue everyone. And there pizza delevery guys. And "unnamed plaintifs" as well.

  15. FEC and "forward looking statements" on Meet Martin Taylor Of Microsoft's Open Source Test Lab · · Score: 1

    Question for all you non-lawyers out there:
    If Microsoft publishes a study that shows a MS product beating out, say a Redhat one, and that makes someone purchase shares of MSFT over RHAD, and then time proves the RH stuff better, MSFT plunges and RHAD goes through the roof, could the FEC fine or otherwise punish them? Not that they _would_, but is that type of scenerio regulated agianst?

  16. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea on Novell Vice Chairman on Ximian, SCO · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Stallman is a lot of things. But when it comes time to be throwing quotes from powerfull people around when discissing the future of the computer world, his name should be at the bottom of the list.

    Java might be a threat to his free software utopia that exists (only in) his mind, but in the real world its not a problem.

  17. Re:not to compete with M$? on Novell Vice Chairman on Ximian, SCO · · Score: 1

    NDS can be exposed with LDAP. There is a PAM LDAP module.. What wouldnt work here? Im actualy asking, as I might have to do the same thing in the future.

  18. Re:Debating the merits is good! on India Chooses All-Electronic Voting · · Score: 1
    The underlying theroy is that _people_ are not electing the US president or the EU Council(ers?), the states/member nations are.

    The problem is that the popular interpertation of the US Presidential Election is that it is an election by the people. And its not. Merrits of the system asside, there is a serious divergence in what the US PE is being sold as - and though to be - compared to what it is.

  19. Re:Debating the merits is good! on India Chooses All-Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, there is little downside to what India is planning. There not going to implement internet voting or retina scans or anything wiz-bang crazy. Just electronic counting machines.
    (Im assuming your a 'merkin since your jumping to the US' defence).. It has been prooven that the punch card system in use all over your great country dosent work. Not only do the mechanics of US elections not work, but the theroy of US presidental elections - the electorial colage - would be laughable if it diddnt effect the rest of the world so much.

  20. Re:Yeah? well what about on Last 2.5.x Linux Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    At least the version numbers are increase with time. Sun's version numbers on another hand....

  21. Re:It's expensive being policeman to the world on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    Your damm right its expensive to be the worlds policeman. The UN pays the nations who deploy peacekeepers into the field on a less-then, but not to bad, cost recovery basis.

    This would be far easier to do if all of the member nations paid there dues.

    If the worlds policemen were deployed more often then there would be less of a need for the worlds shoot-first-and-never-ask-questions SWAT team. To do anything.

    Its a good thing that care of Jon Stewart the US is sending IRAQ that FTD 'Sory we invaded you country based on forged documents' flower basket. It takes a big country to admit when there flat out wrong.

  22. JWZ to the rescue on Open Source Linux Based POS Systems? · · Score: 4, Informative

    JWZ's proof of concept pos. Note that he gave up, but IIRC thats because he couldnt find drunk-goon proof hardware.

  23. Re:In two weeks no one will care. on Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code? · · Score: 1
    What is happening is SCO is suing IBM for copying the code and transfering it to the public domain. The maximum fine could be in around $1billion dollars. SCO's current market cap is around $110million. And thats about 4 times what it was worth in December.

    So if IBM felt like it - Im sure they have or could easily get the $110m - they could just buy SCO outright. Hostile takeover and all. Im not a broker or anything but yes, Im sure if that happened the stock price would rise. But by only moving legal paper around its value has increased 400% in 6 months, over what was a stable price for a year. So its overvalued and will only go so much higher.

    And if not just IBM, then IBM and Sun and HP and RedHat and anyone else who still has to pay UNIX(TM) royalties would get together, buy it out and just put it all in the public domain.

  24. Re:*Minimal * Red Hat 7.2, with patches on Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1
    If your compiling everything from source, then it compleatly defeats the purpose of using an OS / distribution with "built in" binary package management.

    Only installing what you need is always a good idea, but if your looking for long term stability then versions not yet available in binary format is the exact opposite of what you want to do.

  25. Re:Hell of a dance floor on Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Aircraft carriers, when they dont have the air wing aboard, have next to no offensive weponry. Which is why both naval aviatiors have a shoot first and ask questions later policy on unfriendlys who stray within 200mi of there boat, and why carries have upwards of a dozen ships in there screening force.