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  1. simple on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: -1, Troll


    Windows' usability is a dead end.

  2. if only .... on White List URL Browser Selector? · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    people had chosen plan9

    Realising that mime types were *not* the answer esp. based on the file extension, the plumber does exactly what you ask but for *all* applications

    It regex matches the text sent to it and acts accordingly.

    I do almost what you ask but for the internal browser "mothra" and to firefox via ssh.

    Mothra is getting old and can't even handle frames and tables so it is necessary to have a 4.x browser available for web access.

  3. Re:Can Spam Act as defense on Spammers Sue Spamee · · Score: 1

    You're implying that because the Nazis called themselves "National Socialist" that they actually were socialist?

    No I'm not

  4. consumers are only in the US ? on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 2, Insightful


    As currency fluctuates there will *always* be winners and losers in this scheme.

    One year it's cheaper to import ink from the US at their price, the next cheaper for USians to import EU ink.

    What next? Region encoded GM rice ?

  5. Re:Legal Aid on Spammers Sue Spamee · · Score: 1

    hmm, that last bit might not be right but the first part is.

  6. Re:Can Spam Act as defense on Spammers Sue Spamee · · Score: 1

    Fight for something better: www.socialistalternative.org

    Socialism doesn't start with concentration camps, that's where it ends.

  7. Re:Legal Aid on Spammers Sue Spamee · · Score: 1

    UK legal aid doesn't apply to defamation cases, only criminal prosecutions when you are the defendent.

  8. Re:Magical upgrade needed on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It might not be that important to you but you forgot

    step 1.

    send oracle $3000 per 5 users per database

  9. Re:Obvious reason on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1

    no, only the data on the storage cards is available, not the in memory buffer

  10. Re:Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1

    this does not limit my ability to do what I want in any way.

    sounds like you're imagiantion is doing that for you

  11. Re:no, not really.. on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1


    my olympus c-5060 (like all of their afaik) look like USB mass storage devices when connected via USB. No drivers required (beyond supporting USB mass storage devices which almost all OSes do already).

    I have a script that moves all of the images off and puts them on my web server in their own folder, makes thumbnails etc. all in one go, just plug in the camera and go make a cuppa, all done.

    pretty much the same as extracting the CF card and doing the same with a reader but the c-5060 takes a CF and SD card simultaneously and makes it si I can't forget to put the cards back in (a *very* likely occurence =)

  12. Re:Obvious reason on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1


    Olympus digital cameras when hooked up via USB show up as external storage devices

    My c-5060 also has a neat little remote control for activating the shutter

    with a bit of inginuety you could rig this up for un-attended time lapse

  13. Re:Finally on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1


    When one of my customer buys something I need to know that the record of that purchase has been written to disk.

    It's not fun fielding calls from our customers wanting to know where there advertising credits have gone.

    WAL (Write Ahead Logging) is really a pre-requisite for anything where cash is involved and is part of Postgresql.

    WAL is now available in the mysql InnoDB table type which has only been included by default in binaries since 4.0 and has to be enabled manually if you build from source.

  14. Re:This is how it starts on EU Approves Anti-Collision Automobile Radar · · Score: 2, Funny

    in Korea, only old people know how to drive cars

  15. Let's hear it for Judge Death on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1

    won't be long now .....

    "All crime is committed by the living, therefore life itself is a crime."

    Sidney De'Ath

  16. Re:Finally on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Prior to its switch to MySQL in 2000, Yahoo! Finance managed its database needs through homegrown flat files and Berkeley DB databases. But those solutions proved to be inflexible and not scalable enough for their needs.

    from this one can imagine that the needs of finance.yahoo is returning rows based on a few joins

    fair play to mysql, it does return rows quickly

  17. Re:Cool on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1


    I only found it myself a couple of weeks ago when I had to research the subject.

    I'm sat here waiting to take delivery of a new server to try it out on =)

  18. Re:Gotchas on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1


    some of those mysql look really nasty

    the postgres ones look fairly innocuous, esp. for recent versions

  19. Re:Magical upgrade needed on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Do you know of any database (free or commercial) that supports such a feature (auto)magically?

    yes : this one

    see http://slony.info/ as the other poster mentioned

  20. Re:Finally on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    it just seems that lots of slashdotters have irrational belief that mysql is just fundamentally inferior in some strange way. That's something I don't understand.

    You have evaluated them both in production environments where data integrity is paramount and developer time is expensive ?

  21. Re:This could be abused on Google Cans Comment Spam · · Score: 1

    What if I wanted to be a jackass and put that in all of my links on my site? ?

    you are already a jackass, no rel required

  22. Re:new solution? on Google Cans Comment Spam · · Score: 1

    no, because then your forums don't get indexed and that is not the same as google not using the links in your user supplied comments in the forum to contribute to the calculation of PageRank for the external linked pages.

    I thought that was fairly obvious

  23. Re:not again (the partisanship) on Linux Getting Harder To Crack · · Score: 1

    However, we'll always be using brand-spankin' new software, not the old stuff

    wrong

    Guess who will still be using Apache 2?

    people use it now ?

  24. Re:Not even remotely scientific on Linux Getting Harder To Crack · · Score: 1

    fyi you can write "T" as tee

  25. Re:In Case it get's /.ed on Linux Getting Harder To Crack · · Score: 1


    Perhaps he meant "internet facing machines"

    If one is a serious player, why have your database server internet facing ?