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  1. lol on Time for a Linux Bug-Fixing Cycle · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    sed -e 's/security/bugs/g' -e 's/Windows/Linux/g' -e 's/innovation/imitation/g'

  2. Re:Windows Bites on More Headaches from Vista Security · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I got off the train when I did. I've learned so much more about computers since switching to BSDi/BSD/plan9 I can't begin to be greatful enough to Bill G. for that =)

  3. Re:Windows Bites on More Headaches from Vista Security · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know this now.

    I got the pattern from Windows System Journal magazine.

    The other details are a bit hazy now =)

  4. Re:Man, C-DILLA is going to be a beast too... on More Headaches from Vista Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    If I'd meant Service Pack 4 I would have said it

    http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/re commended/NT4OptPk/

  5. Re:Windows Bites on More Headaches from Vista Security · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not "a good thing" when they change how database connection pooling works.

    It used to be recommended practice to stick the db connection in the session object at session.start.

    Option Pack 4 changed this behaviour. But it didn't show up until the websites you had already deployed started to get "un-reproducable" errors. The unpooled connections hung around for 30 mins after the last request for that session. Once the site got enough traffic it started killing the application. Could be 6 months, could be a year. Took a while to work that one out, much to the annoyance of my customers, and at my expense "you wrote it, it must be a bug in your code, bug fixes are covered in our agreement". Getting off the MSDN treadmill was glorious.

  6. Windows Bites on More Headaches from Vista Security · · Score: 1

    Film at 11!

    I mean, come on, it's hardly news that *EVERY* Windows breaks random stuff.

    I rememeber the pain I went through after installing NT Option Pack 4, all sorts of stuff changed in operation. It was sorting that mess out that made me drop my "Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider" ambition.

  7. it's been here for 15 years on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1

    The twentieth century called, said would you like its idea now

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

  8. the kernel ? on Computer Security, The Next 50 Years · · Score: 1

    There is more than one OS.

  9. Re:growing older on Comparing PC Game Physics · · Score: 1

    I knew after I typed it, there would be a counter example =)

    Descent wins

  10. Re:How accurate is the Register Article? on El Reg Says Google Choking on Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    I've been reading El Reg since they were on 64k.

    I have one of their "Integrity, yeah we've heard of it" t-shirts.

    They used to have a "Click here to buy a story on our site" link.

    And they've ALWAYS had "Biting the hand that feeds IT" as the tagline.

  11. get a better db =) on El Reg Says Google Choking on Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    Delete from internet.world
    where page_text ilike '% beastiality%'
    or page_text ilike '% lose weight%'
    or page_text ilike '% refinance%'
    or page_text ilike '% ebay%'
    or page_text ilike '% make money fast%'
    or page_text ilike '% enlarge your%'
    or page_text ilike '% teens%';
    commit;

  12. Re:Look at Oblivion. on Comparing PC Game Physics · · Score: 1

    Surely BOTH would be better ?

    The people that implement list 1 are generally not the people that implement list 2.

  13. Re:growing older on Comparing PC Game Physics · · Score: 1

    Quake was the first 3d game

  14. Re:Convenience - INCENTIVE NEEDED on EU Proposing Mandatory Battery Recycling · · Score: 1

    punishment rarely works, it makes the victim aggressive

    reward works great

  15. Re:Enterprise on How Has Open Source Helped You Commercially? · · Score: 2, Informative

    ok my next try, a slight improvement but certainly annoying to type :

    sql = sprintf(SELECT " col1, col2, col3, " FROM " tab1 " LEFT " " JOIN " tab2 ON tab1.pk=tab2.pk " WHERE " col1=%d and col2 in (" SELECT " " DISTINCT " fkey " FROM " tab3 " WHERE " col4=3);", 1);

    Why you can't rely on the SQL logging mechanism I really don't know.
    Postgresql will emit all of the sql executed and label is with ERROR if it didn't execute. I doubt another RDBMS can't do the same.

  16. Re:Enterprise on How Has Open Source Helped You Commercially? · · Score: 2, Funny


    Yeah, I can see why you'd think that approach was much less error prone !

    sql = sprintf("%s col1, col2, col3, %s tab1 %s %s tab2 ON tab1.pk=tab2.pk %s col1=%d and col2 in (%s %s fkey %s tab3 %s col4=3);", SELECT, FROM, LEFT, JOIN, WHERE, 1, SELECT, DISTINCT, FROM, WHERE);

    res = PQexec(sql);

    > if you do it the wrong way you get unreadable code

    come on then, show me an improvement

  17. Re:Nope. on Kernel Trap Interview with Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    But that still leaves me the puzzle as to why Theo kicked up all that fuss and when they stuff he was fussing about was removed and only the technical remained, his mind had also changed.

    So either the technical benefits have gone or Theo is choosing a less optimal solution based on personal reasons.

    surely not !

  18. Re:Nope. on Kernel Trap Interview with Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    That's a similar but not same compiler suite from Inferno
    http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/

    The Fourth Edition is available as Free Software under a mixture of Free Software licences (GPL, LGPL, Lucent Public or MIT-template, depending on the component).

    Not plan9.

    I guess they would be usable. I don't follow OpenBSD discussions but I wonder why they are no longer considered suitable for OpenBSD.

  19. Re:Nope. on Kernel Trap Interview with Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    this part

    "The new license is utterly unacceptable for use in a BSD project." - Theo de Raadt

  20. Re:Nope. on Kernel Trap Interview with Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    and ?

  21. Re:Looking for a small, fast, correct compiler... on Kernel Trap Interview with Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    Theo means "just like the plan9 compilers", but he doesn't like the license Lucent offer for them.

  22. Re:So petulant and arrogant. on Kernel Trap Interview with Theo de Raadt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why do you think abusing women is "deserved" ?

  23. Re:The Perfect Setup Articles on Building A Web-And Mail Server With CentOS 4.3 · · Score: 1

    > Anyone installing a compiler on a production web server should be shot.

    whereas hosting your firewall, dns, database, webserver, ftp & email on the same box is just fine and dandy

  24. Re:I wonder on The First Quad SLI Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Get more experience then

  25. Soldering ? on Gadgets for the Lazy · · Score: 1

    Bugle playing and electronics, I gotta get me some of that !