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  1. Alternative OSs on Talking with Timothy Miller · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These platforms, both free and non-free are valuable alternatives to the Microsoft monolith

    I hate this. I don't use an "alternative" OS any more than I drink an alternative to milk or live an "alternative" lifestyle.

    I know it's grammatically correct but it's the hidden implication that does my head in!

  2. iD-eal project for Carmack on Talking with Timothy Miller · · Score: 3, Interesting


    JC should stick some of his $ behind this project instead of making rockets.

  3. Re:Why back Sun? Why back Solaris? on Gentoo Announces OpenSolaris Port · · Score: 1

    That's all very well but I have no idea what point you are trying to make, or even if you are atempting to make one.

  4. Re:I think I speak for all Americans when I say on US ISP Terminates Iranian News Website · · Score: -1


    AND MORANS!

  5. Re:YES:Gentoo people on Gentoo Announces OpenSolaris Port · · Score: 1


    If you want better heat dissipation you should point your fan up not down. If you point it down the hot air's bouyancy in the cooler air will make it decellerate.

    That's my guess anyway =)

  6. Re:Why back Sun? Why back Solaris? on Gentoo Announces OpenSolaris Port · · Score: 1

    In that example you have a very crafted and complex server, running some of the latest features Open Source has materialized.

    Good job you said that, for a minute there, I thought you were *promoting* Gentoo.

  7. Re:penguinistas, get your machetes out on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I deserve to be killed for quoting a movie, that's pretty rational!

  8. penguinistas, get your machetes out on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 1

    " I've seen horrors...horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call
    me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that...But
    you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is
    necessary to those who do not know what horror means.
    Horror. Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and
    moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces...Seems a thousand centuries ago...We went into a camp to innoculate the children.
    We left the camp after we had innoculated the children for Polio, and this old
    man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went
    back there and they had come and hacked off every innoculated arm. There
    they were in a pile...A pile of little arms. And I remember...I...I...I cried...
    I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized...like I was shot...Like I was shot with a
    diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead...And I thought:
    My God...the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect,
    genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were
    stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not
    monsters...These were men...trained cadres...these men who fought with
    their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with
    love...but they had the strength...the strength...to do that. If I had ten
    divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You
    have to have men who are moral...and at the same time who are able to
    utilize their primordal instincts to kill without feeling...without passion...
    without judgement...without judgement. Because it's judgement that
    defeats us. "

  9. Re:x86 on A Look Into The Cell Architecture · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the point

    if something like 7zip isn't portable then it's 7zip's fault. Portability should be a design goal for most userland software.

  10. Re:You forgot one thing .... on Slackware 10.1 Beta And Pat's Health · · Score: 1


    Fair enough, I hadn't found that one.

    It's a poor analogy anyway, maintaining Slackware is never going to make one appear on the world's most powerful people list.

  11. Re:True, but... on Massachusetts Adopting 'Open Format' Software · · Score: 1

    hehe unfortunately I didn't click xtrans. it should have: been

    <oleobject mime="application/excel" encoding="base64">
    aGVsbG8gc2xhc2hkb3Q=
    </oleboj ect>

    I don't have a little .xls file to encode so I just made an example

  12. Re:Nerd, huh? on Ciphire, A Transparent, Easy PGP Alternative · · Score: 1

    xchat changed their key bindings to the windows versions for xchat2

    ^w closed the channel instead of deleting the word

    soon sorted that

    su
    pkg_delete xchat2

  13. Re:a better question on Ciphire, A Transparent, Easy PGP Alternative · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ever heard the expression "secure by default"

    encrypted email stands out from unencrypted email

    Iif the bulk of email was encrypted then it is harder to determined that which is encrypted for a reason and that which isn't. This adds value to the use of encryption.

    I don't really need to ssh between servers on my LAN or run my vnc sessions though an ssh tunnel or use scp when I could use Samba but I do, partly because it means I am using best practices so when I am in a situation where it is desirable I am familiar with the operation and am familar with the tools I will need and not be sat there saying "bugger, I forgot to select 'use secure connection'".

    I don't really need to lock my car every time I walk 10 yards from it to the cashpoint but I do because it is best practice.

  14. Re:A shame original bittorrent didn't use GPL on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 1


    duh, just press "i have donated" and it goes away

  15. Re:True, but... on Massachusetts Adopting 'Open Format' Software · · Score: 1

    parse this one :

    aGVsbG8gc2xhc2hkb3Q=

    part of a valid xml document

    XML does not guarantee any kind or portability

  16. You forgot one thing .... on Slackware 10.1 Beta And Pat's Health · · Score: 1

    perhaps you should consider the entire paragraph for Lord Acton's letter :

    "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to to govern. Every class is unfit to govern...Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

  17. Re:From a Harvard Student... -- patently false on Pharmacare, Harvard Try To Shut Down Security Hole · · Score: 1

    such security would be considered a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 here in the UK and risk criminal prosecution.

  18. Re:Raises questions? on Pharmacare, Harvard Try To Shut Down Security Hole · · Score: 1

    I prefer "can you fax us your signature"

  19. Re:I'm impressed on Pharmacare, Harvard Try To Shut Down Security Hole · · Score: 1

    I think it will lead to more secure software

    "less insecure", not "more secure"

  20. Re:Its a dupe on A Look Into The Cell Architecture · · Score: 1

    er, that would be duel you fuel

  21. Re:x86 on A Look Into The Cell Architecture · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One shouldn't use poor quality software like Linux and it's ilk as a benchmark for portability.

    try plan9 or NetBSD where CPU portbility is a design goal.

  22. Re:No kidding on A Look Into The Cell Architecture · · Score: 1

    They are notoriously good at adapting to a changing technological landscape

    Since when ?

    Windows for Alpha & PPC are defunct

    Where is 64bit Windows ?

    The only major technological changes I can remember the Windows line dealing with are the switches from to 8086 standard mode to 286 real mode and then 32bit 386-enhanced mode.

  23. Re:Why are we still married to clock speed? on Centrino Mobile Equals Desktop Pentium 4 in Speed · · Score: 1


    Sony spun off the Aiwa brand in order to produce goods with less investment required in the manufacturing process without diluting the Sony brand name and its reputation for high quality goods.

  24. Re:Tracking cookies... on Review of Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    It doesn't take much to avoid problems, it just takes regular light effort.

    My FreeBSD boxes & My OpenBSD boxes and my plan9 boxes have never had any spyware. And that takes zero regular effort.

  25. Re:Technically Savvy my ass! on Review of Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    what are these "virii" of which you speak ?