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  1. Re:I'm sorry on Legal Victory for P2P in France · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    **** Warning : Not Funny ****

  2. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 1

    Archives are, by nature, read only.

    If you want Window95 you know where to find it.

  3. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 1

    The unlimited part is where venti comes in.
    It uses blocks to coalesce repeated data. In field use has reported rather slow growth of Venti arenas for daily use.

    Also one chooses the Venti arena size. By doing so one can choose arena sizes that match your off-disk storage i.e. dvd/cd rom writeable chunks.

    In this way you have a range of snapshots per disk, which you can then mount in your namespace as required.

  4. Re:Firefox:A tripartite golden braid on A History of Firefox · · Score: 1, Funny

    Baranovich:Gant:You Must Think In Russian ::

    this is /., here Russia Thinks of YOU !!

  5. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    plan9 does this

    and you get a day by day (or however much you fancy) snapshot so you can roll back your files to any snapshot in time you have recorded, on a process by process basis. I.E. you can have two different days open at the same time in different processes.

    And, to add compliment to health, it doesn't use up extra space but uses Venti

    Venti is also available for Unix-likes via plan9port

    while I'm here, plan9 is secure BY DESIGN. No super user, networked authentication, networked file storage, diskless terminals etc. et bloody cetera.

  6. Re:Hands on source code on Open Source vs. the Database Vendors · · Score: 1

    Something I have found important is that there are some who would actually look at the source code of a database, work on it rather than develop new applications based on it.

  7. Re:Obvious on Open Source vs. the Database Vendors · · Score: 2

    nope

    $0 is nice but I bought my first copy of Slackware long before I could download it, I even had to copy it to (I think 22) floppies from cdrom so I could install it.

    And even after I have downloaded them, I've paid for FreeBSD, plan9 and Inferno.

    Free as in Freedom is more important than you give it credit for.

    Just one business case is that one can mitigate risk by having multiple OS vendors to choose from. I know that if my chosen OS goes kaput or gets litigated out of existence then I won't go with it. And it doesn't cost me a fortune to try out the alternatives.

  8. Re:Good on NIST Standards for New Biometric ID Card Published · · Score: 1

    Good boy, keep doing what they tell you and you'll be okay.

  9. Re:How can we take this seriously... on GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users? · · Score: 1

    No, these people will NEVER use The GIMP, not Linux.

    They really, really don't care what OS they are using and most don't even know what an OS is.

    People come into our facility to use Photoshop, they pay by the hour and they don't want to use that time to learn that Gimp can't do the things they are used to. If I could sit them down in front of Photoshop 7 running on an Amiga they'd be happy.

  10. Re:Good on NIST Standards for New Biometric ID Card Published · · Score: 1

    Not one pence.
    The price of goods is what people will pay, not what they cost to sell.
    This is called the Elasticity of Demand.

  11. Re:stop the jpegs! on The Future of Digital Camera Technology · · Score: 1
  12. Going to .... on VMware to Make Server Product Free (as in beer) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm going to the moon.

  13. Re:Lots of use! (But I want 3 screens!) on State of Multi-Monitor Gaming? · · Score: 1
  14. Re:man, have they gotten beat down on Activision's GUN Misfires With Native Americans · · Score: 1

    You should try academic learning some time, it might be good for you.

  15. Re:Windows Only? on WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000 · · Score: 1

    "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week ..."

    Did he say "we would dearly love to release our Source Code, but we can't because ..."

    MS are convicted criminals. In legal speak you can't say "they are of good character" ergo, anything they tell you must be taken as a potential lie.

    That Windows Source has undisclosed bugs and exploits is not news so they can use that information to their advantage, not anyone elses.

  16. Re:A "Do we report it" Story on WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000 · · Score: 1

    You only have to look at the history of the world and where the govts. of Europe came from.

    My govt. is the ashes of the 1066 invasion of England by France, definitely a crime. Our Royal Family are some of the world's richest people. They didn't amass that fortune through hard work, sweat and toil. Their ancestors killed people for it. Plain and simple.

    Crime pays, it even pays you!

  17. Re:Russians eh? on WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000 · · Score: 1

    for as long as they are funny

    f007

  18. Re:Bad Deal on WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you buy an exploit for $4000, chances are you already have a target.

    And, you've probably bought one before and made more than the $4000 you are about to spend.

    Perhaps they got the trade secrets / passwords they were after in a few hours, not the month it took to become Zero Day, lol, now there's a misnomer !

  19. Re:Treat IE 7 as IE 6? on IE7 Bug Reports Flooding In · · Score: 1

    IE7 will never be Acid2 compliant so you will *always* have to code round it

    so now you will have to test against 4, 5, 6 AND 7

  20. Re:More annoying than the bugs.. on IE7 Bug Reports Flooding In · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > take a look at the "demo" they bring you to when you first install it

    where can I download the OpenBSD version ?

  21. JonoF's Duke Nukem 3D Port (JFDuke3D) on Duke Nukem Forever in Production · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is the home of my port of 3D Realms Entertainment's Duke Nukem 3D to Windows using my port of Ken Silverman's Build game engine. It is work in progress so that means it might crash and burn and be unstable.

    Notices

    9 October 2005 - New release

    http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d

  22. Re:I'll buy it! on Duke Nukem Forever in Production · · Score: 1

    and pipe bombs

    we want "step though the teleport and BOOM bye"

  23. Re:The concept is very cool, and very cute on The Optimus Mini Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Yeah, i know what you mean re team based.

    But I like the challenge of pre-set enemies and their AI

    CoD is a series of set pieces with no saves. Atm I'm assaulting a beach head with a couple of concrete machine gun nests, two M42 machine gunners in trenches, snipers and loads of infantry running at us. The enemies respawn. It is pretty solid. But ideal for multi players.

    Oh well. back to the blood & bullets

  24. Re:So its still vaporware then on Duke Nukem Forever in Production · · Score: 1

    that reminds me of a story ....

    I switched a socket off and from another room my friends kid came outmoaning that I'd turned his xbox off (I didn't know!).

    He was moaning that he'd have to "play that bit of the game again".

    Let that sink in : he was complaining he'd have to play the game !!

  25. Re:Anticipation... Anticipayaytion... on Duke Nukem Forever in Production · · Score: 1

    you almost had it there,

    you should have said :

    "It will make Team Fortress 2 seem like your sister's Barbie doll with the head ripped off!"