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  1. Re:Why is Slashdot so slow? on Andover.Net and VA Linux Join Together · · Score: 1
    /. is more than *just news* ! /. provides you "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." And a unique way of trowing around your $0.02 wherever you want....
    (all in the big karma pool :) )

    Does Arse Technica provide you this? Or do you have enough with that silly UBB forum thingy?

    btw: /. is not *that* slow on our T3 :))

  2. Re:Consolidation on Andover.Net and VA Linux Join Together · · Score: 2
    Does anyone actually know what the deal is between sourceforge.net and server51.com (freshmeat.net)? Will they exist next to eachother, or on top of eachother?

    Kinda scary, don't you agree? One omnipotent ruler in OSS-land...

  3. Re:Shortest Self Duplicating C program on Obfuscated C Code Contest Begins · · Score: 1

    #include
    main(){char*c="\\\"#include<stdio.h>%cmain(){cha r*c=%c%c%c%.102s%cn%c;printf(c+2,c[102],c[ 1],*c,*c,c,*c,c[1]);exit(0);}\n";printf(c+2,c[102] ,c[1],*c,*c,c,*c,c[1]);exit(0);}

    -----------------------------
    no comment

  4. Re:The ideal search engine on Altavista - Open Sourced UPDATED · · Score: 2
    I believe a good solutoin for this problem is the "cached" version Google keeps in his own database... i always try to access the real link first.... but the backup is on much occasions the only solution....

    My $0.02

  5. Re:OPEN SOURCE (SPECIAL EDITION) OT on Phantom Menace Pre-Orders Available · · Score: 1
    Sorry for OT, but I don't get it:

    Ok, I know ESR, but who the f*ck is Natalie Portman (except being the actress) to deserve this big /. attention?

  6. 30 days freeze is good on FreeBSD 4.0 Code Freeze · · Score: 1
    In my experience with UN*X flavor operating systems I find the (Free)BSD one to be more stable and more corporate ready than Linux.
    So I 'm very happy that the current FreeBSD team takes time before releasing a new major version. On FreeBSD you don't re-compile your kernel every few weeks....

    If you're company needs to choose between Windows-Linux: choose Linux, between Linux-FreeBSD: choose FreeBSD, if you have money to spend (on Administrators): Solaris.

    My $0.02

  7. Re:Solaris vs Linux on Free Solaris 8 · · Score: 1
    I am sick of its NFS problems

    I used knfsd (Linux kernel nfs) on our SPARCstations, and had no problem whatsoever using it as my main NFS server.

    All latest patches needed to be installed though...

  8. Solaris vs Linux on Free Solaris 8 · · Score: 1
    I recently evaluated Solaris 2.7 and RedHat S/Linux 6.1 on our SPARCstation 5 models... I must say I was amazed by the speed improvement Linux brought to the machines. Also the configuration (NIS/NSF/SMB/DNS) is far more clear/easy than Solaris. The only thing where Sun has a big advantage over Linux is the docs.sun.com website & support library.

    Sorry for Sun: they lose for me.

  9. funny note on Linux Web Browsers Reviewed · · Score: 1
    Note to Judge Jackson: the end consumer can easily remove Netscape from Linux and install any other browser. We can send you a doctored video if you need proof....

    billg: the moment I find a way to telnet in as root, I start coding on IE4 for Linux

    Lynx is still my favorite though....on Linux

  10. Web Host Guild (WHG) on On The Subject of Web Hosting · · Score: 2
    Sumo Inc. founded the Web Host Guild (WHG) on July 4, 1998 with the goal of setting an industry standard that would benefit all hosting companies and protects consumers as well. The WHG is comprised of seven Board of Director members who preside over the Guild and are charged with inducting new Guild members into the WHG. The Board of Directors consists of 5 leading web hosting companies and NetMechanic, a server monitoring company. Jonathan Caputo, C.E.O. of Sumo Inc., serves as Chairman of the Board.

    Our goal with the Web Host Guild is to make web host certification a part of doing business on the Internet. Our mission statement is to protect consumers from unscrupulous hosts, and to help identify the honest, legitimate host companies that exist. We have always been focused on aiding the Internet community, and it is with great pride and pleasure that we present the Internet with the world's first and only web host association, the WHG. It is our hope that the Web Host Guild will become one of the most-used resources on the web for both web hosts and consumers.

    See their members: click here (the one I use was approved recently :-))

  11. Re:who is the best in hosting? on On The Subject of Web Hosting · · Score: 1
    I have used many provider before. (I learned the hard way), but the one I'm with now is the fastest and most reliable yet.... www.communitech.net

    They offer perl, php3, mysql, shopping cart, secure server, pop, ftp, majordomo, telnet and 350 mb webspace. (+frontpage for dummies)

    And the fee you pay is for life.... I'm paying now 2/3 of their current rate actually.
    Ok, it's still pricy, but on company level it's a small cost to make.....

    BTW: I use mydomain.com for aditional domains (mx records) and granitecanyon.com for secondary dns. My uptime is 99.998%

    my $0.02

  12. Re:CEO? What's that? on Gates Steps Down As CEO, Ballmer In · · Score: 1
    yeah, but what if we sh*t on Ballmer in the future and leave Bill alone as the simple M$ employee he now is....

    Wouldn't that really piss him off ? :-)

  13. Re:Love him or hate him on Gates Steps Down As CEO, Ballmer In · · Score: 1
    Maybe you where looking for these names ?

    Tim Berners-Lee = co-inventor of the web (CERN)
    Marc Andreessen = designer of the Mosaic browser -> Netscape -> AOL - doh

  14. no excuses on @Home Responds to the UDP Notice · · Score: 1
    Yes, blame your users.....they deserve the death penalty ! - doh

    I feel @home is still to blame, 'cause they have the obligation to inform their clients about this kind of proxy behaviour. It's strange we always have to throw a rock before a ISP wants to take proper action.....

    They got the message I think, but isn't it quite late

  15. join the club - leave the club on Mike Shaver Leaving Netscape · · Score: 1
    I "rpm -U"'ed M12 several days ago, and I wasn't to surprised with the outcome... Mozilla is still a long way from being a usable gecko brower... Some other people left for better horizons earlier...jwz...

    AOL: Can we still dream the Netscape dream in the future?

  16. Re:I don't get it on Metrowerks Putting Linux on Hold · · Score: 1
    I must disagree with you one that one. A very nice IDE for Linux is the only way to get the rest of the world to consider Linux. I think application suites as koffice, staroffice and dev toolkits as kdevelop, jbuilder foundation, etc... are the only reason why a desktop should change to *NIX. (corporate view)

    my $0.02

  17. They are screwing us again... on Retraction of "China Banning W2K" · · Score: 1
    Aaarch,

    http://www.google.com/search?q=red+flag+linux+home page&num=10

    Who do you think is reference number one?

  18. Re:Wasn't "Red Flag" a red flag? on Retraction of "China Banning W2K" · · Score: 1
    Red Flag Linux - On August 11, the Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) reported the formal launch of the new Red Flag Linux OS. Red Flag Linux, a locally developed Chinese-language OS, is based on Linux freeware, and is claimed to be the only Chinese OS that supports large character sets. Red Flag Linux can support numerous applications, including controlware, "workstream management" software, accounting and management programs, and Chinese-language word processing on an array of different platforms.

    Red Flag Linux was developed jointly by the Software Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Peking University Founder Group, and Compaq Computer Corp.

    See more at: http://prcitr.work.upi.com/html/Issue_33/story4_i3 3.html and http://www.currents.net/newst oday/99/09/01/news4.html

  19. Netscape browser Archive on Netscape 1994 Time Capsule · · Score: 1
    A must-have (yeah, burn it :-): http://sillydog.webhanger.com/narchive/

    Archives almost all older version of Netscape & includes latest version up to Mozzila M12!

  20. Re:DOS on Mac OS9 Flood Attack · · Score: 1
    According to this professor it's a iWhack conspiracy against the connected world as we now it in this millenium :-)

    (website excerpt)
    This page presents evidence of a conspiracy to shut down Internet Connections. Zero-hour is probably New Years Eve, EST.

  21. Re:FireWire?! on Dvorak on "Winners and Duds of the Millennium" · · Score: 1

    I dare you the following: I have a Sony VAIO C1X with the famous FireWire (i.Link / whatever). Does anyone actually find a purpose for it - besides it being to to show off your cool new camera?

  22. Re:Lots of talk.... on Dvorak on "Winners and Duds of the Millennium" · · Score: 2
    You forgot one: Lots of distributions. If we look what distributions rose from the ground this year, we see that almost all companies want a piece of the Linux pie.

    My question: Do you run Debian, RedHat, Slackware or Suse (and others), or do we still run Linux? If M$ wants a piece of the pie in the future: do we still accept it as Linux?

    Answer: too many distributions?

  23. Re:From deep within Intel Corporation on Compaq: Alpha is Better Than IA-64 · · Score: 1
    They are quite fuzzy there.

    Actually I expect it to be kind of a Celeron Pentium II situation.

  24. Re:From deep within Intel Corporation on Compaq: Alpha is Better Than IA-64 · · Score: 2
    FYI (codenames):

    Intel
    Merced: first IA-64 / Itanium (2000)
    Willamette: 0.18-micron cut-down version of Itanium (2000/1)
    McKinley: 1GHz IA-64 / 2MB on-chip cache (2001)
    Madison: 0.13-micron IA-64 high-end workstation/appl. server (2002)
    Deerfield: better price/performance
    Northwood: 3GHz barrier broken (2003)

    AMD:
    SledgeHammer: 64bit K8 ??

  25. Re:OpenPlay? on Apple Posts Darwin / Open Source News · · Score: 1

    Try this one: download now (excuses to Apple for avoiding their license)