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  1. Re:Ain't freedom a bitch... on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Excellent point, open and free but only in the way he sees freedom... We are talking about the man who is insisting to call Linux, GNU/Linux and likes to flame people for speaking up their minds, with different world visions...

  2. Re:Thank the Mozilla Foundation on Google Sees Biggest Search Traffic Drop Since 2009 As Yahoo Gains Ground · · Score: 1

    It was fortunate for me then; I have uninstalled Mozilla some time back due to both problems during the installation of Adblock plus and serious performance issues, especially on Google services that I use extensively... I realized that only thing that is not irreplaceable in Mozilla (aside from buggy sync of bookmarks) was GreaseMonkey, which was not vital...

  3. Re:Then don't sign the contract on Behind Apple's Sapphire Screen Debacle · · Score: 1

    It is general practice in OEM/ODM manufacturing that the buyer decides methods of production, especially QA and even logistics, maybe even HR... It is the sole responsibility of manufacturer to decide the situation is viable or not. They can either choose to go with the deal or not. It is their (claimed only in this case) expertise in the first place which attracts buyer to their facility. If they are not able to see or tell the problems in the business model on table it is their fault not to make corrections before the problems' occurrence.

  4. Re:Who're you bullshitting? on A Brilliant Mind: SUSE's Kernel Guru Speaks · · Score: 1

    Unlike you I will express my views not behind the AC, you fucking moron... There are several reasons, most discussed in /. in detail, so one is expected to know at least some like losing control of clear text configuration details and losing access to clear text log files.

  5. Re:Ubuntu quite buggy distro? on A Brilliant Mind: SUSE's Kernel Guru Speaks · · Score: 2

    If it is not in beta, users are not expected to file performance reports. Even in beta, this is optional.

  6. Re:Goddamn it! on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 2
    Unfortunately that was the case in my time. I should know that, as I was on the list of Cisco Certified SalesPro and SupoortPro trainers, with permission to establish a lab for certification of said *Pro people. I am sure whatever certifications you have are of far more better quality, this is the basis of Cisco training program.

    Cisco certification is better than MS and Check Point is better than Cisco AFAIK, with a serious margin of error, based on territory and certification authority. Again this is my (unfortunately true and based on facts) view. Your take naturally can be different, but BS is one of the most effective tools of trade in commercial certification. That is why we still have universities...

  7. Re:Goddamn it! on World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old · · Score: 2

    This is unfortunately true for most certification programs. In Cisco SupportPro training (1996 I guess) I remember some of my classmates' points was better in the exam performed before training than the certification exam. That was because, in the first exam they used a simple criteria that "which answer is most costly and Cisco friendly", but in the actual exam they tried to use the training material they were given...

  8. Re:Fascinating on Why the Time Is Always Set To 9:41 In Apple Ads · · Score: 1

    We all knew it was becoming an organized religion...

  9. News for nerds!?! on Photon Pair Coupled in Glass Fiber · · Score: 2

    For some reason I was not compelled to pay 30+ USD for a seemingly very important paper, describing the future scientific base of (quasi ?) secure communications.

  10. Re:News for noobs? on Largest Sunspot In a Quarter Century Spews Flares · · Score: 1
    When I saw

    A degradation of the HF radio-communication

    part, I was puzzled. If that was a reference to a network close to Sun, they should not use HF on satellites. Then I read the whole sentence and felt sorry for the need of explanation...

  11. Re:How about we hackers? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1

    In early 90's it was necessary to recompile Ultrix Kernel when you have added a new SCSI on the external bus. It was an improvement to the competition that must not be named, as you could do the compilation on premises without paying a licence fee tor the C compiler... If you do not like the heritage we have in Unix, you can switch to the popular OS that is based on VMS...

  12. Re:How about we hackers? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As I've said on many occasions, I've had race conditions completely stop boot scripts in their tracks before (pre-upstart RHEL). Any talk of a binary log is a red herring, plain and simple.

    Saying, on many occasions, that you cannot manage and modify your startup scripts by hand for boot problem prevention, hardly qualify you as an adviser on system management issues.

  13. Re:Not a narcisisst on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 1

    This is interesting, thank you for that. However in my opinion, it is better to have a simple design in high power systems.Those converters seem to be very complex...

  14. Re:WWII proably didn't help much either on How English Beat German As the Language of Science · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes otherwise Soviets would be first to send a satellite into the orbit and a human to the space. Also USA would be in need of Soviet rockets to send their astronauts to the ISS as of now... Ah, wait, I was trying to see what is happening in an alternate reality and suddenly a paradox occurred I guess.Sorry guys...

  15. Re:Not a narcisisst on Ask Slashdot: Best Books On the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but as the frequency rises, path taken by the current shifts to the surface. You can search for the skin effect.

  16. Re:Just fucking leave it alone! on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    For firewalls or any (well most) of application proxies interrupt per second capacity is more important than data thru-put. So not about terabytes that can be handled but about CPU performance I would be worried with OpenBSD in a firewall. However it might be a good indicator to balance load across devices if an OpenBSD box is overloaded, instead of trying to increase the performance of a single box. But no harm from trying a little. And for my home system, definitely OpenBSD... I am thinking about where I would backup my data during installation over Linux partitions at the moment....

  17. Re:Is this a troll about systemd or is this real n on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    As far as I can understand they are fscking serious.... OK guys, so long and thanks for all the fish. Any variant of BSD (OK, except the shit Apple is selling) for my cup of tea...

  18. Re:Traffic is up? on The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' · · Score: 1

    They are basically providing meta-data (even meta-meta-data). Aside from RIAA and clueless judges, I was assuming most people are seeing their service as legit as it gets.

  19. Re:Traffic is up? on The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My reason not to give my ID, (even if it means paying for a service which can be taken free by showing an ID Pardus anyone???) is simply that I do not know when the database they use to store my ID will be either hacked by a script kiddie or raided by a foreign government. My domestic government already has full access to my person and data, there is no need to increase my accessibility (!)....

  20. Re:Remote management on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Ultrix used to mark bad sectors on the fly, as far as I could remember, if the disk was not a SCSI...

  21. Re: microsofties here is your chance to party on Project Zero Exploits 'Unexploitable' Glibc Bug · · Score: 1

    I felt very old, seeing the -almost- standard assembler practices called old school. When I was young, most CPUs had lots of undocumented instructions, usually due to overuse of Karnaugh. Given the basic electronic structures are still the same, I have a strong suspicion, that position still holds true...

  22. Transistors was there but memory was not? WTF on Researchers Print Electronic Memory On Paper · · Score: 2

    This should be a new component in electronics, right? "Memory" as a component! I should not stop reading periodicals after the school.Or maybe somebody should star reading such, before copy pasting crap...

  23. Re:From TFA on Domain Registry of America Suspended By ICANN · · Score: 1
    First of all IANAL,
    2nd of all, I will state Turkish practice, which was shaped on European (Swiss and German in this case) law. keeping those in mind:

    In a commercial relation/contract, there are certain obligations, where illegal activity of one party becomes a joint responsibility of other, like obligations toward employees and most importantly consumers' rights issues. So the stronger partners in a contract (ICAAN for example) usually put in protective measures against illegal (or just shady) activities of the other party to the contract. This usually in the form of (you must report your activities related to such legal obligations/regulations. Failing to do so, or upon discovery of any misconduct related to such regulations, we can and will reflect possible penalties and liabilities to your account and we will have right to immediate optional termination)... (My translation might be sucking a little)
    If such a clause exist in a contract, you can claim in the court that you acted to the best of your ability to prevent any such misconduct by other party, even if you had not acted upon these conditions (if you can prove you were unaware of such misconduct...).

  24. Re:Better yet... on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 1

    Eclipse is a very good IDE as far as IDEs go. If you do not like integrated environments, pico is the best editor I have ever used, extremely simple and very un-talented, but it is fast and reliable, easy to learn and use. Lack of options is a blessing if you are -like me- a sloppy typist and could generate random CTRL sequences etc. as they are not translated into esoteric commands (like that happens in EMACS for example).

  25. Re:Too Big to Be Indicted... on NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law · · Score: 1

    this is sounding like a punishment duty I unfortunately did not think about during my previous incarnation as an operations manager :) shame on me I guess. "hey, you are going to explain memory upgrade requirement for SAP on MS (I know I know, long story) platform from 16 GB to 64 GB to accounting!"