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  1. Re:idiots on Nikon Responds to Encryption Claims · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You don't use apple itunes to record music you've composed and played. By using a Nikon camera, Nikon doesn't own or license your pictures in any way, shape, or form, so they shouldn't try and hold a monopoly over your data. That's why "Apple good, Nikon bad."

  2. Re:fragmented fs on Gentoo 2005.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    dispatch-conf has one feature i've yet to see in any other conf manager or editor. Saved, revisioned histories. That alone is worth it's use..

  3. Re:Amazon Honor System on Recommendations for Website Payment Systems? · · Score: 1

    Amazon is far and away the easiest way to take donations, and you don't have to muck around with paypal..

  4. Re:Cool on Mozilla Firefox 1.02 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is no desktop-- only XUL!

  5. Re:Boeing technology on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 1

    Well, car manufacturers can leverage services like OnStar (If you want the security of onstar, you have to buy our vehicles!), but airplanes cost tens of millions of dollars; a service that, at most, nets $30 per passenger who uses it, per flight (neglecting the actual cost of service to the airline) just doesn't factor in to a buying decision.

  6. Re:I got an ... _angle_ on Solving the /etc Situation? · · Score: 1

    plus decent revisioning.

  7. Re:I got an ... _angle_ on Solving the /etc Situation? · · Score: 1

    Gentoo does this with dispatch-conf and RCS.. automatically merges if minimal, and stores all incremental changes.

  8. Re:Boeing technology on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 1

    You can get FC tickets for far cheaper than that. You'd be surprised what fares you can get if you search for them.

  9. Re:Boeing technology on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why? Boeing will fit their addons to a bombardier business jet if you pay them to. Airplanes are just too darn expensive for boeing to be able to use internet access as leverage.

  10. Re:NICE!! on Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You think your mobile will work over the north atlantic? and what are your data roaming charges going to be in munich/montreal/melbourne?

  11. Re:Easiest and Best way on Battlestar Galactica Available for Download · · Score: 1

    Or get real enterprise player. Corporate version of realplayer, more compatible than real alternative and no crap.

  12. Re:This rules on Battlestar Galactica Available for Download · · Score: 1

    wget supports the RTS protocol?

  13. Re:Seriously, Macs just work. on Make a PC Look Like a Firewire or USB Drive? · · Score: 1

    mounting a win32 disk on a mac is no problem, OSX natively reads FAT32 and NTFS.

    (the NTFS support is flakey, though.. occasionally folders containing gigs of data refuse to show up in OSX.)

  14. Re:The Big Question on Rasterman Responds To Seth And Havoc · · Score: 4, Informative

    even better, vidcaps

    rasterman's page is slashdotted, but mirrordot to the rescue..

  15. Re:Well on Rasterman Responds To Seth And Havoc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A lot of people don't like enlightenment, because it's "fluffy". What's wrong with a WM that's functional *and* beautiful?

    It's one thing to have a GUI that shows up all my win32 using friends, but when the mac geeks are taken aback at my windowing environment, it's something else entirely.

  16. Re:It uses mbox (with indexes) on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    1) replication,
    2) easy backup,
    3) easy restore.

    Easy to write queries to back up accounts, domains, or servers at a time. Easy to migrate to a new server. ACID compliance. etc.

    When things get crazy, it's trivially easy to load balance, as well. The project has problems, but I like the direction it's going in. (As for the problems with 2.x, I've yet to migrate; like most administrators I'm rather cautious. Hence, I'm running DBMail 1.x [and apache 1.x, and tried-but-true versions of various other software packages. I belive it's called "The Debian Approach" ;) ] )

  17. Re:Maybe a commercial NAS box? on Turnkey Linux RAID Solutions? · · Score: 1

    do you need to run the setup utility? I would wager it's like the "instant setup" programs that come with NAT routers. If you want to click-through and have it work, then you need windows, but if you don't mind spending 10 minutes configuring it manually, then you can use any OS with a browser.

  18. Re:Am I just out of the loop... on First Launch of new heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket · · Score: 1

    from the bbc:

    "US company Boeing recently launched its biggest-lift rocket, the Delta 4-Heavy, which has the capability to put 13 tonnes of payload into a geostationary transfer orbit.

    However, the Boeing vehicle *is not currently being offered to the commercial satellite sector and is being reserved for US military work*"

  19. Re:It uses mbox (with indexes) on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code · · Score: 1
    It's open source now, ain't it? ;)

    If someone really wants maildir support, they can add it, or have it added.

    Now, if they would just add a connector that allows the storage of mail in an SQL database...

  20. Re:nuts for webmail on Novell Releasing Hula and 200,000+ Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    SM locks my webserver up if any user with >2000 inbox messages tries to log in. inevitably it hits a PHP timeout. It's not an I/O problem, mail messages are stored in SQL and retrieval is lightning fast in standalone clients. Something about the imap parser is a huge performance drag.

    Luckily there are very few of those kind of users on my system, and they're all savvy enough to shell in and use mutt.

  21. Re:Sigh on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 1

    always salt your hash!

    if you keep the salt relatively obscure it increases the difficulty of using a pass that matches the hash enormously (as your login algo salts the password then hashes it, yielding a different digest than hashing the passwd directly)

  22. Re:Am I just out of the loop... on First Launch of new heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket · · Score: 1

    But the D-IV heavy isn't commercial-certified, it can only be used for military applications.

  23. Re:MP3 of the call on Microsoft's Martin Taylor Responds · · Score: 1

    Don't use Vorbis for speech, that's what ogg speex is for..

  24. Re:As everybody should be able to figure out... on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, you were at one of the commonly known spam and scam site @ suprnova.com, suprnova.net, or supernova.org. The original, always free suprnova.org is what shut down.

  25. Re:Telephones just now, eh? on Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech · · Score: 1

    2. Saskatchewan's infrastructure is entirely because of sasktel; no private corporation would have been able to build out like they did without hitting multiple bankrupcies. Not that its a bad thing, that's what the government is for.

    3. We always said eh growing up in calgary, and I know all my friends, west and east, do as well. What's wrong with that, eh?