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  1. Re:They want to buy them for students in MA on MIT Unveils Prototype for $100 Linux Laptop · · Score: 2, Informative
  2. Re:Cool. on Early AJAX Office Applications · · Score: 1

    lol, someone stole my site !

  3. Re:Cool. on Early AJAX Office Applications · · Score: 0, Troll

    you high ID people are so funny

  4. Re:Windows vs Linux on Unreliable Linux Dumped from Crest Electronics · · Score: 1

    The BSDs don't have the fragmentation that Linux has.

    FreeBSD 4.x
    FreeBSD 5.x
    NetBSD
    DragonFlyBSD
    OpenBSD

    which one should I choose for SAP ?

    http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200007/SAP_meets_BSD.h tml

    To avoid giving you the wrong impression, FreeBSD is in no way supported by SAP, and (unfortunately) probably never will be! Installing SAP R/3 for Linux under FreeBSD is highly UNOFFICIAL and a proof of concept only! Even SAP R/3 for Linux is only supported on certain HW-configurations and under RH6.1 EE.

    But it works nevertheless :-)

  5. Re:Ask the UNIX folk... on No Defense Against Windows Rootkits? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Unix folk - Ritchie, Pike et al ditched Unix and root years ago and made a new system plan9 (though Ritchie was, by his own admission, more a famous name than an architect in plan9 - though he did do the compiler)

    Spending years being not-free as in beer, plan9 languished during the Linux FOSS years until belatedly being opened up for version 3

    Then Lucent lost loads of $$ in the dot-com crash and wound down Bell Labs (such as taking out every other light bulb) and the staff retired or left (mostly to Google)

    as Rob Pike said "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." - circa 1991

  6. Re:Hurrah! on How Chinese Evade Government's Web Controls · · Score: 1

    1nd3p3nd3nc3

  7. don't talk rubbish on Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent · · Score: 1

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/

    What your licence provides
    The BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows it to run a wide range of popular public services for everyone, free of adverts and independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests. 95.6% of the UK population used the BBC every month in 2004/5.

    The BBC provides 8 interactive TV channels, 10 radio networks, over 50 local TV and radio services and bbc.co.uk. These provide local and national news, documentaries, arts, drama, entertainment, live music and children's programmes. The BBC also runs social action, education and minority language programmes. Its considerable investment in British programmes supports production and craft skills throughout the UK.

    BBC World Service is funded by Government grant and not your TV licence. Profits from separate BBC commercial services help to keep the licence fee low.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/running/

    The BBC is run in the interests of its viewers and listeners. Twelve Governors act as trustees of the public interest and regulate the BBC. They are appointed by the Queen on advice from ministers.

    Day-to-day BBC operations are run by 16 divisions. The main BBC Executive Board is made up of 9 directors and is chaired by the Director-General. A Creative Board, Journalism Board and Commercial Board report to the Executive Board. The Executive Board answers to the Board of Governors.

    BBC Governors differ from directors of public companies, whose primary responsibilities are to shareholders and not consumers. BBC Governors represent the public interest, notably the interests of viewers and listeners.

    The Governors safeguard the BBC's independence, set its objectives and monitor its performance. They are accountable to BBC licence payers and Parliament, and publish an Annual Report assessing its performance against objectives.

  8. aw come on, you can do better than that on Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Atlantis dolphins release YOU!

  9. Re:Why even bother with word processors? on KOffice Developers Reply to Yates · · Score: 1

    You are confusing suitability with capability.

    The GP is saying that because TeX is Turing complete its capabilities, by definition, exceed the "the vast majority of document typesetting needs".

  10. Re:Striptease on Mobile Phone as Home Computer? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    There's a few reasons why voice control probably won't obselete keyboards.

    • Speaking to control your computer is quite tiring, I know, I've tried it.
    • Try concentrating in a 10m square room with 5 people all using voice control.
    • Try playing counterstrike saying 'turn left 3 degrees while panning up 4 degrees and duck then fire'
    • say this : for (int i=0; i bar(&q); }

  11. I know what you mean on Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    one of my extensions used to check for update every time a new window was installed, thinkg was the update web site has disappeared so it was waiting to time out. I managed to stop this behaviour using /etc/hosts. Perhaps your extensions are doing simlar things. Time to tcpdump!

  12. Re:amateurs on Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch · · Score: 1

    If the choice is Linux or Windows I think I'll go back to catering.

    Calling my wife a whore gets you more bang for buck than calling her an amateur !

  13. http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com/ on FBI Agents Put New Focus on Deviant Porn · · Score: 1


    does this count as deviant ?

    [WARNING, not for the faint of stomach]

    more fun to be had at at http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com/

  14. Re:Exploit on Buffer Overflow Found in PSP Firmware v2.0 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    your agument is the same for cabir

    Does this sound familiar ? :

    Cabir replicates over bluetooth connections and arrives to phone messaging inbox as caribe.sis file what contains the worm. When user clicks the caribe.sis and chooses to install the Caribe.sis file the worm activates and starts looking for new devices to infect over bluetooth.

    To get cabir you need

    1. Have Bluetooth switched on
    2. Have an active connection
    3. Accept this file
    4. Press OK to install

  15. Re:That explains a lot on Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think it was Dave Presotto that said :

    "Linux, by amateurs, for amateurs."

  16. Re:Which would be fine, unless on The Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    that story sounds unfortunate, though I'm not familiar with it, got any more info ?

  17. easy on The Digital Dark Age · · Score: 4, Informative

    perhaps the same way I would read a wax cylinder today

    visit a specialist

    a good place to start would be here :

    http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wtmcyli nder.html

  18. think again on Practical Exploits of Broken MD5 Algorithm · · Score: 1

    would you mind telling me what the CRC field is for in the gzip format then ?

  19. Re:hmm, information wants to be free on When More Information Isn't a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    you missed my point

    If there are 200 places for operations at each hospital, lets say one has a 50% success and the other 60%

    That means whichever *I* choose makes no difference to the number of successful operations, ergo society's net benefit is the same.

    From *my* perspective I should choose the one with the best success rate (all other things being equal).

    Schools :

    There are so many places to fill, equal to the number of children. There is no net benefit to society whichever school *my* child goes to.

  20. hmm, information wants to be free on When More Information Isn't a Good Thing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Choosing which hospital has the best success rate for my operation is in the same ball court.

    How about choosing which school has the best results for certain subjects.

    If the number of applicants is the same for these examples then society doesn't benefit whichever I choose [discounting the relative merits of my self / children to society], so by his argument I shouldn't need that information.

    Finding the lowest price for a product could be considered detrimental to society [less sales tax / corporaqtion tax paid or some such].

    Choosing to buy one's fuel based on price is bad for the exchequer too, it is the highest taxed item in my country. Perhaps We should be prevented from knowing where to get the cheapest fuels too.

    ad nauseum.

  21. Re:M$ Antihash on Practical Exploits of Broken MD5 Algorithm · · Score: 2, Funny

    and your point is ?

    you'll be telling me Huffman encoding is dangerous next !

  22. Welcome to 2001 on Google Putting Crowd Wisdom to Work · · Score: 1

    You should read "Content is not King" by Andrew Odlyzko who was as AT&T at the time (2001).

    pdf : http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/history.commun ications2.pdf

    html : http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko /

  23. ME TOO! on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I read the light version, I guess the devs forgot all about it

    MOD PARENT UP tnx

  24. Re:The digital generation on Authors Guild Sues Google Over Print Program · · Score: 2, Informative

    Funny old world, Marx *wrote* his book in our government library.

  25. what are these google adds ... on Pre-Selling Domain Names? · · Score: 1

    of which you speak?