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  1. Re:Dear IT Workers on Security-Fix Sendmail 8.12.9 Released · · Score: 1

    qmail is open source. The source is open for all to see. It's not Free Software.

    Then again, being both Free and Open doesn't seem to help Sendmail in being bugfree. So much for all bugs are shallow...

  2. Re:Good for Germany. on Germany Places Command & Conquer on Restricted List · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that a quote from Jon Stewart? He also had the line about Rep. Armey didn't want to use the Army, Rep. Delay didn't want any delay (when dealing with Iraq)...

  3. So Berman gonna quit then? on Rick Berman: Enterprise May Not Suck Next Year · · Score: 1

    Only way they could improve was if they removed the stupid temporal war subplot. Then again, I see they already got the Borg involved...

  4. Re:Templates and Linked Lists.. on C++ Templates: The Complete Guide · · Score: 1

    Because you better understand how a linked list works before you use them. You can't really appreciate std::vector or std::map before you really understand the data structures...

    I can't even tell you how many 'programmers' I know, who don't know the difference between the different datastructures, and therefore choose the wrong container when coding.

  5. Will this stabilize Linux? on HP To Sell And Support Red Hat Linux · · Score: 1

    One of the big advantages of OSes like Solaris and HP-UX is that they are very backward compatible. Write an application for HP-UX 11.00 or Solaris 2.6, and it will still be working for HP-UX 11.23 or Solaris 9. Write something for RedHat Linux 5.2, and it probably won't run on RedHat Linux 8 without a recompile.

    I have a friend who works in the Support group at HP, and he said it was a huge problem. Customers would upgrade their RedHat from 7.3 to 8.0 and application would stop working. Why? Because unlike HP-UX, Linux people don't seem to be that interested in backward compatibility (which is why companies like Nvidia has to provide one precompiled module for each possible kernel version).

    And lets not even get started on compatibility between distributions.

    Personally, I think it would be best if the Linux distributors came up with a reference distribution. Every other distribution would have to be compatible with this distribution. This would really make it easier to support and develop for Linux. Yes, I know about the Linux Standard base, but it's not the exact same thing.

    I would nominate Debian GNU/Linux to be the reference distributions, for several reasons.
    1. it's not commercial, so it wouldn't be accused to be bias toward RedHat or Suse or whoever.
    2. it's very stable, in the sense that it doesn't change every six months with updated libraries, compilers etc (only bug fixes)

  6. Re:Joke all you want on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't I have to know about the document for me to read the document? My understanding of freenet is that, since everything is encrypted, unless you know what you are looking for, you won't be able to retrieve it (no search function). Coupled with 'unpopular' documents being removed from the network, then whistleblowing on freenet is next to useless.

  7. compared to Nokia Communicator? on Sony Ericsson P800 Reviewed (Again) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How does Sony-Ericson P800 compares to Nokia 9210i (Communicator)? Granted, the Nokia phone is somewhat older, but I was thinking about the PDA features they both have.

  8. Re:Snail-Mail Spam? on Forty Percent of All Email is Spam · · Score: 1

    USPS probably makes money on them, since AOL actually pays to get them delivered.

  9. Doubt VMWare will be gone on VMware: Another Netscape? · · Score: 1

    One of the advantages of VMWare is that you can run an unstable OS (Windows) on a relatively stable platform (Linux). If the guest OS dies, just restart vmware.

    Windows isn't stable enough to be a host OS, and with more and more features being included in the base OS (next version will have a SQL server, and now, a built in virtual PC), it won't become more stable anytime soon.

  10. Re:It's a Good Thing This Guy Wasn't... on War Hero Thwarted Nazi Heavy Water Production · · Score: 2, Informative

    And close to 98% of the US population were against getting involved with Hitler too... Or are we forgetting the whole America First movement?

  11. Re:Difference between MS and ANSI? on Mike and Phani's Essential C++ Techniques · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by declare? GCC-2.96 was a bad C++ compiler. C++ headers weren't in the std namespace (or you could access them without including the namespace).

    I believe VS 6 was more standard compliant than GCC-2.9x series (GCC 3.x series are even more compliant, but then so is VS .NET)

  12. Re:Or...Safari on Opera 7.0 Security Holes ... Fixed · · Score: 1

    Is Safari available on Linux?

  13. Re:Integrated "PDA" on Lust After The Sony Clie NZ90 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sony-Ericcson's T68i is also available from AT&T (I have one). It has the camera module, and some basic PDA features (like reminder, notes, calendar). But as far as I know, none of the first and second generation Nokia camera phones are available here in the US (nor the more PDA like phones).

    Also, I think my brother mentioned a third generation camera phone from Sony Ericsson.

    Both the T68i and I suspect, T62u are fairly old phones.

  14. Re:Integrated "PDA" on Lust After The Sony Clie NZ90 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Both Ericsson and Nokia have new phones that integrates lots of PDA features. Of course, most of those phones aren't available in the US.

  15. Re:Here's some immortal code... on Immortal Code · · Score: 1

    No longer valid. It should be

    int main()
    {
    if (printf("Hello World") < 0))
    return 1;
    else
    return 0;
    }

  16. Re:This should be obvious on TWIRL: Are 1024-bit RSA Keys Unsafe? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you have sensitive information, you want to encrypt it based on what you think will be difficult to crack years from now, not just today.

    99% of encryption can be broken given enough time. You really only have to worry about the information in question being encrypted as long as it is considered sensitive.

    For instance, I tell my friend "Mee my at the bar tomorrow at 9 pm". I only have to make sure that the message is secure until tomorrow at 9 pm. If it takes longer to break the message, the content of the message is no longer valid.

    It's a waste of time to try to make the message more secure.

  17. Re:Don't use the MPlayer GUI on JWZ Reviews Video on Linux · · Score: 1
    Seriously? What's so hard about remembering a few options to do what you want? I don't know all the options, just the ones I need.

    If you have to look up the manual to do basic operations of the application (in this case, play, rewind, fforward, fullscreen), then I would say there are some serious issues with the usability of the application.

    It has nothing to do with memorizing some keystrokes.

  18. Re:Openview on Linux in Enterprise Environments · · Score: 1

    OpenView isn't really one product, but rather a suite of products. NNM (Network Node Manager) was probably first developed on HP-UX, and ported to Solaris and Windows. Although considering the size of Sun in the enterprise, I wouldn't be surprised if Solaris and HP-UX version got written at the same time.

    It's actually good news, because the last few years, HP has started releasing Windows only OpenView components.

  19. Re:Never gotten a single spam... on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When I left on Jan 4th, it was about -18 C (or about 5 F) in Oslo:-)

  20. Re:SMS: intrusive and an invitation to spammers on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 1

    Whenever I go to visit my friends in Norway, I use SMS over calling someone up.

    First of all, you don't know what the person is doing at the moment. Sending a short message like "whatcha doing?", or "busy?" is more convenient than dialing up, waiting for mailbox, speak one word, then hang up. Also, it's better, because if the person was in a meeting or something and forgot to turn of the ring, you wouldn't disturb them with a phonecall.

    Or the other day, I needed to know the address of someone, and it was a lot more convenient to send a SMS than all him up and get a voicemail, and wait for him to call back.

    Hard to explain if you never really used SMS regularly.

  21. Re:Is that because the network sucks... on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 1

    that's why they invented predictive text messaging, so you didn't have to mash the 6 button three times for each 'o'.

    Well, in newer phones, at least (my two year old Nokia 82xx has it)

  22. Re:Why remove code? on Palm Kills Off Graffiti · · Score: 1

    In this instance, it might be because they want to stop having to continue paying royalties.

  23. Re:They changed that on AFL-CIO Proposed Reforms for the H1B Program · · Score: 2

    Actually, my understanding is that they changed the Green Card process. One, the Green Card process can be transferred between companies after you get your Labor certificate (which usually take a year), and two, you can stay and work in the US as long as you received your Labor before your H1B ran out until your Green Card application is done.

  24. Re:Wow! The Babel effect in action. on Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nynorsk · · Score: 1

    There wasn't any Senate during the Norway/Denmark union. It was a Monarchy, with the danish king as the Monarch.

    Also, the Norwegian system has a Parlament, Government and Courts. No Senate.

    The split happened because most people in the cities were more 'cosmopolitan' and incorporated the ruling languages (over a couple of hundred years), while the people stuck in the rural areas kept their dialects.

    When Norway split with Denmark, there was a strong national feeling, and people where trying to find the 'real' norwegian. Nynorsk came out of those tries. Problem was, most of the educated class already knew Norwegian (bokmål), and didn't see a reason to switch. Basically, Norwegian (bokmål) was already there, and people didn't want to switch for the sake of switching.

  25. Re:Boycotts work on Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nynorsk · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Norwegian Linux distribution for school is still not released, though. They were planning to release it this year, but now it has been pushed back to second quarter of 2003 (if I remember correctly). I think http://www.digi.no/ had some more information about it.