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  1. Re:Only for selects... on Why Not MySQL? · · Score: 2
    In Mysql you have an application level lock on arbitrary string. Which is something with higher granularity then transactions. And faster for the matter. It also allows you to use the database for application level locks when no SQL is actually being done.

    So from your statement I guess you suffer from the well known acute lack of ability to read syndrome. Go read the fsck^H^H^Hine manual and than make statements about something you do not understand.

  2. Re:Fully legal on Employers Logging Keystrokes-What Can You Do? · · Score: 5

    A very important note: In the US.

    But invalid in Germany. There, you cannot even perform exact recording of dialed numbers on the company PBX. The employer if recording them is obliged to erase the last n (forgot how much) digits. And recording email by the employer is absolutely out of the question.

  3. Re:***ZDNet doubling its slashdot effect!*** on Bob Young Blasts Recent Anti-Open Source Article · · Score: 2
    Stop bitching.

    The fact that you do not have a junkbuster properly configured is YOUR PROBLEM. So if you are giving ZD Net money it is once again YOUR PROBLEM.

    I do not give them money. Most other slashdotters do not give it either ;-)

  4. Re:Full text on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks · · Score: 3
    Erm... we need a new /. moderator category: "illegal"

    Yes we do. With a +2 rating.

  5. Re:Give me a break... on Mitnick Ordered Off Lecture Circuit · · Score: 2
    specially in an industry that claims that there is a severe lack of skilled workers

    So what's his frigging problem? Who said that he must work in US? There are other countries in the world as well...

  6. Re:Transfer direction on UK ADSL packages Announced By British Telecom · · Score: 2

    In the UK this is not YET an option.

  7. Re:The thing that's weird on eBay E-Meter Auctions Yanked · · Score: 2

    They have already been going after anti-CoS sites. Your only chance of having an anti-CoS site nowdays is if and only if it is in a country that forbids CoS itself - Germany or France (someone quote other countries please).

    Considering in the second case that this also means complying with language purity laws this means only Germany.

    Otherwise you are permanently under litigation threat.

  8. Re:Just don't do anything secure with it! on Get QNX For Free · · Score: 2

    You forgot to be more precise: R00tH4t. Most of the bugs reported on bugtraq do not affect distros with some QA like Debian or Suse.

  9. Re:Weather? on AirFiber Laser Networks: 622mbps · · Score: 2

    Yes it does. So it does with radio, satelite, etc. And this is the reason you back them up with something less speedy but more reliable. Like old good 64K ISDN for example. Unless you want to try your luck of course ;-)

  10. This is all getting out of hand. on Red Hat 'Piranha' Security Risk - And Fix · · Score: 4

    So what do we have now?

    Instead of kicking Rhat's but for slack in Quality Control we sing praises to open source. This is getting fscking out of hand. Slashdot has to get some bias control after all.

  11. Re:The problem with Rambus compared to SDRAM... on Will Rambus Go Bust? · · Score: 2

    Hence, going for the compiler you optimize in the wrong place.

    You should optimize the cache controller not the compiler. Instead of keeping all accessed pages you should start keeping pages where access has started.

    And I would not be amazed if the 64 bit Intel CPU's have such a cache controller. Intel has proved that it can plan very far ahead so far...

  12. Re:Obligatory Scientology ref. on Battlefield Earth · · Score: 2

    If this is true it will not be shown in Germany and France. In other words for once French and German law to do actually something decent.

  13. Re:I don't like the RIAA but I hope they get Napst on The Napster DMCA Defense · · Score: 2

    So do I.

    Just not this time OK?

    If Napster will use DMCA successfully in its defence DMCA will go down in flames. And this is a valid reason to put champagne on ice!!!

  14. Re:Let's be honest on Meeting With Netpliance · · Score: 3

    You are right about the hack.

    You are wrong about the price. Even at 700 it will still sell, though in small numbers.

    The current price tag on a standalone LCD is between approx 900 (Viewsonic) and 1167$ (IBM). Add the thinnest mainboard possible and you get a price tag higher than the price of a cheap laptop.

  15. Re:Open the possibilities! on Meeting With Netpliance · · Score: 5

    I will immediately by the set as a cheap X term for my home if:

    1. It has the rumored non-loss-leader price (around 300$).

    2. It has no stupid ISP contracts. Yeah right, what the fsck will this ISP offer me here across the pond.

    3. It is extensible and has full specs and no M$ fee hanging on it.

    4. And if they sell it in Europe of course.

    The market is very hungry for decent cheap thin clients. At the same time the cheapest offerings for now are above 1000 which just makes you go and buy a laptop or a PC.

    So why don't these people get a clue and start selling a separate hacker/thin-client pack.

    Because thin clients have their place more in home than in the office. I do not want to hear any fscking fan and hard disk noise in my room. There is an equipment rack for that purpose...

  16. Re:YES YES YES on New Star Trek Series Rumours · · Score: 2
    U.S.S. Politically Correct to get permanent shore leave

    Unfortunately your hopes for the comeback of witty Stratrek classic humour or even the usually correct but still funny New generation are all wrong.

    The times have changed. Scotty is dead. So is Jan Luc. You will have to leave on a bland and politically correct diet. Unless the series are filmed in a country that is politically incorrect for sake of being funny at least from time to time.

  17. Re:Why Less L2 Cache? on Celeron 2 Overclocking · · Score: 3
    Celery 2 has 256k of Cache, but 128k is permanently disabled because Intel wants to make sure that the Celeron perfoms worse than the P!!!.

    Correct , but this is not enough to explain the performance difference. There is something else as well:

    • On the New Celery itself: There is some other crippling factor different from cache. Just cutting the cache down twice does not explain the slowdown compared to Coppermine.
    • On the posted benchmarks: If these folks have got the data right, most likely the celeries they have used have entered thermal dose mode. One of the most important reasons for the Celeron overclocking success is the fact that the thermal control on them actually works so they start throttling when overheated. And looking at the bench data that is what happened. Actual data for bench speed vs clock speed will most likely prove this.
  18. Re:Go Angelina! on Angelina Jolie Is Lara Croft · · Score: 1
    f anyone has the 'tude to fill Lara's shoes, it is Jolie.

    Are you sure you meant shoes??? Or some lingerie items ;-)

  19. Re:Doh! on IRCnet Servers Strike To Protest DDoS Attacks · · Score: 2

    The real idea is to call the users on GMD for splitting from the happy idiots crowd.

    And in my humble opinion GMD is right. IRC has lost most of its meaning nowdays. The chance of meeting intelligent life there is as high as finding intelligent life on anothe planet in the Solar System. So I personally appload any ISP that has stopped offering IRC as a service.

    It has a place only on internal networks nowdays.Sad, but true.

  20. Re:Raising a ruckus... on UPDATED: Outcast: Censorship Under The Digital Union Jack? · · Score: 2

    Sorry, parsing your post returns -EYOULOSE

    Demon did not get sued. Demon bailed out of the case before it got sued and thus there is no internet libel precedent in the UK law yet. And UK law operates on precedents.So Demon did a good thing (TM).

  21. Re:I don't remember... on 1.4-1.6 GHz Alphas · · Score: 2

    Yes they do.

    The current debian build system donated by Alpha-Processor is.

    Check www.alpha-processor.com. Look for UP2000

  22. Re:Linux over OS/390? on The Practical Value Of Mainframe Linux · · Score: 2

    So?

    What is your point?

    Who said that these cannot be ported. And they are not a problem to be ported even if remaining closed source due to licencing.

    The problem with Linux 390 is elsewhere. If you
    have not noted linux:

    1. Does not yet support SNA well, which means it will not integrate with lots of old apps for now.
    2. The current port has no network adapter sharing across VMs which means that a network adapter is blown for every VM which is bad.

    So it has some way to go yet - someone has to clean up an SNA stack and someone has to get the virtual network support properly done. And these can prove to be problematic contrarily to porting JCL control programs.

  23. Re:Linux is Limiting on thin clients? on Wyse Ditches Linux For WinCE · · Score: 2

    No matter how stripped, linux retains its unix heritage. So you have to write properly. When dealing with small specialized systems this can become a major constraint sometimes. Or a major resource overhead. Depends on the application.

  24. Re:Yahoo's Terms of Service on Game Companies Sue Yahoo! · · Score: 2

    One word Shrinkwrap.

  25. Re:Can we please have Lawsuit category? on Game Companies Sue Yahoo! · · Score: 2

    Why some idiot who moded this down? This is actually a very good suggestion.