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  1. I'd rather pay license than face ads on Would an Ad-Sponsored OS/Desktop Work for OSS? · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone with positive cashflow or available balance on credit card would disagree.

  2. Re:Finally, useful units! on Slashback: Zoning, Linking, Fooling · · Score: 1
    • new minute = .9 minutes
    As if. I'm rushed as it is!...on the other hand, it would mean 10% less (actual) time between posts on slashdot...
  3. Re:Deep Linking solution on Slashback: Zoning, Linking, Fooling · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    • I have seen people protect linked javascript code that way
    I assume you're referring to .js files (in kind, not necessarily with the exact extension). But that won't protect the .js files unless you also have a way of preventing my browser from cacheing the page on client machines. If you know of a way to do this (for every browser, including LWP, wget, etc) let me know.

  4. Re:What's left to do? on The Perl Foundation Grants Are Running Out · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    A troll straight from the MadLibs of trolling.

    • Enter Open Source tool name: Perl
    • Enter early version number:2.0
    • Enter alternitive tool name: Python
    This could easily be a troll for, say, KDE.
    • Enter Open Source project: KDE
    • Enter early version number:1.0
    • Enter alternitive project: Gnome
    And you'd have:
    • I have been a KDE guru since version 1.0, and I can honestly say that the features added since that time have not made my life any easier. KDE has reached a very mature stage in product development - a stage that is rare amongst feature-happy open source coders. At this stage, it is no longer worthwhile to pay people to continue developing the language. The only necessities are bug and security fixes, which can easily be handled by one person working part-time.
    • I am not by any means saying that KDE is dead - indeed, it will be many years before Gnome is able to offer the versatility and brevity that KDE has provided me with for ages. But the developers need to get off the gravy train and head for greener pastures. The time to leave is now; there is no work left to do.

      Just my 2c.

      b.

  5. Re:Hard crash installing cygwin from RedHat on Cygwin's XFree86 4.2.0 on Windows XP · · Score: 1

    would you also like the minidump from Windows related to the crash? How about the setup.log.full for the installed cygwin?

  6. Re:nope - read the box on Xbox Runs Its First Legal Homebrew App · · Score: 1

    or here, since the link you gave is closed already

  7. Apache? on Apple Blacklists "Rumor Promoting" Publications · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why is this story under "Apache?"

  8. Re:Hard crash installing cygwin from RedHat on Cygwin's XFree86 4.2.0 on Windows XP · · Score: 1
    When I return to my office tomorrow the first thing I'll do is turn off auto-reboot on BSOD, repeat the steps and generate as detailed a report as I can. Is there a standard set of log files you want or a reporting tool I should use to gather info?

  9. Hard crash installing cygwin from RedHat on Cygwin's XFree86 4.2.0 on Windows XP · · Score: 1
    The other day (within a week or so ago) I used the cygwin installer to load just about everything on my XP Professional system at work (XP makes a great platform for putty :). All went well until I tried to start X: the machine did not BSOD (or whatever XP does); it performed a hard reset without any intermediary step. In other words: startx resulted in an immediate POST.

    Granted, I did not roll my own, check the sources, read the FAQs, hit the lists, or hold my breath. I just used the default installer blindly.

  10. Re:Intuitive interfaces on Is There Such a Thing as "Too User Friendly"? · · Score: 1
    Or, the suck interface is the only one that doesn't.

    For those who think the nipple is not intuitive you haven't seen a (non-narcoticed drugged) newborn with a breastfeeding mother. I have. Immediately after birth our firstborn son was placed on his mother's tummy. He nudged toward the nipple without prompting and when he reached it he began sucking right away.

    However, his technique was imperfect and he needed training how not to torture mommy and how to get the most from each pull. That's refinement.

  11. Re:It's about time... on Isn't it Time for Metric Time? · · Score: 1
    Thanks for one of the most informative posts I've read in a long time. Question: is the bai3 ke4 (thanks also for the tonal marks) still in use officially or informally?

  12. Accurate timestamps on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 1
    I worked on a project related to medical data entry by care providers. Time was a crucial matter and for patient health and legal reasons the "date_written" field was paramount. So, of course the system architects decided that this critical timestamp would be based on the care provider's personal PDA. No central server as time keeper, no synch'ing with NIST computers, just the PDA's clock.

    Lives and careers depended on the timestamp (indirectly, of course). As you might imagine the times and dates on these PDAs are all over the, er, calendar. Up until the time I joined the project this had not been an front-burner issue, but I was brought in with the team to create a live XML-RPC interface to other systems and vendors/partners.

    First thing we did was insist that the date_written timestamp would be set not at the PDA level (*shudder*) but at the point where the record entered the central SQL server. Life was good.

    That is, it was good until one of the servers in the cluster lost its synch with NIST computers. Yes, this was a Windows 2000 server. *Sigh*.

  13. Re:This has to be inefficient on Power Plants On Rails for California · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Even my 2 year-old-son knows that these engines are called "Diesel Electrics" (well, he calls them 'dieselectrics', but you get the idea). Those diesel engines are running an electrical generator that provides electrical power to motor the train.

  14. My question on Power Plants On Rails for California · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why does Sierra Railroad have such excess capacity that it can provide 48 diesel engines for the power grid?

  15. Re:Self Imposed Scapegoat? on 2600 Drops DeCSS Appeal · · Score: 2
    • then why didn't the MPAA go after CNN
    Let's see...the MPAA respresents the movie insdustry, specifically its members, which include:
    • Universal City Studios, Inc
    • Paramount Pictures Corporation
    • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
    • TriStar Pictures, Inc
    • Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc
    • Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P.
    • Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    • Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
    and CNN is a Time-Warner property...

  16. Re:Yuck. on MP3 for Gameboy · · Score: 1
    • You can't call velveeta food.
    But you can get rich with SPAM.
  17. Re:Quit being a self-righteous crybaby on Around the World In 14 Days · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That I am your philosophical enemy brings me great joy and satisfaction.

  18. Re:I give him a silver star on Around the World In 14 Days · · Score: 0

    I agree with your scepticism. When he's gone around the equator that will be a much bigger feat (esp. politically!) but the significance will be lost on the general public.

  19. Re:MySQL on Managing and Using MySQL: Second Edition · · Score: 0

    But, you have a good point, even though the joke was lost on you...

  20. Re:MySQL on Managing and Using MySQL: Second Edition · · Score: 1
    Holy Oblivion, BatMan! That was a pun! A joke! A ruse! A play on a slight spelling error that had ironic (or symbonic) undertones!

    Take a step back from the debate and think context...

  21. Re:of course they are on All Sourceforge.net Being Blocked by SmartFilter · · Score: 1

    -1 Moderation Suggestion Troll

  22. Re:MySQL on Managing and Using MySQL: Second Edition · · Score: 2, Funny
    (albeit there are some "cleaver" work arounds)

    These would also be known as hacks, right?

  23. Re:Hmm on Anonymous Will Award $200,000 for Xbox Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Regarding your sig: do you really believe that the phrase "one nation, under God", accurately describes the country you're pledging your allegiance to? Or is the pledge for you simply an expression of an ideal state that we may all aspire to, even if it has yet to be established?

    Do you believe subscribing to a lesser ideal will help the the state of our Republic?

    When I gave my wedding vows I did not hesitate to pledge my allegience to an imperfect person (as an imperfect person). Nor did I consider that we were imperfect. Rather, I was honoring the covenant of marriage.

    When St. Paul called the wayward church in Corinth "the church of God which is at Corinth" was he forgetting that they were divided, litigious, adulterous, gluttonous, etc.? No, but he spoke concerning something higher than their condition: he spoke concerning their position.

    Regardless if we live like it or not, whether we believe it or not, we are a nation under God's sovereignty. Saying we are a nation under God is not a reflection of our condition, but of our position.

  24. Re:Freon? on Microsoft Freon · · Score: 1
    They're playing off the word "Free". In real-speak, not DoubleSpeak, it should be called "SlaveOn," "StuckOn," "AutomatOn."

    Microsoft not only dreams but is attempting to implement its vision of complete domination of the home, internet, and enterprise. What a reach! What an arrogance!

    Thankfully, it won't work. Right?

  25. Re:Client side on SSH-Based Solutions - Looking for Industry Proof? · · Score: 1
    Slashdot provides a clear seperator between text and the sig--if you enable it (or is it if you don't disable it?).

    And this "meaningless piece of legislation" is

    1. not legislation, but a court opinion.
      • That so many people accept judicial activism as "legislative process" is bothersome
    2. not meaningless.
      • You may not agree with it, you may not care, but it has definite meaning.
    3. Thanks for your reasonable tone in your response.