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  1. Re:OpenZaurus is better on Zaurus SL-5600/SL-5500 Comparison Whitepaper · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I found that Open Zaurus:
    1) Crashed more often
    2) Email application was more primitive
    3) The backup didn't work at all
    4) The application to install packages looked nicer but screwed up for more often.

    I went back to using the normal ROM's for this reason.

    Maybe someday...

  2. Re:Its Stable on MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you get all of the cache variable set correctly?
    This is what I have for Slashdot:

    query_cache_size = 100M

    To be honest that number is overkill even for us. I find that tuning the Innodb pool size for more memory has better gain for memory used. Slashdot's is 1548 megs at the moment.

  3. Re:Its Stable on MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready · · Score: 1

    Once MySQL became GPL'ed we dropped the support ourselves. Its way out of date at this point and really not supported.

  4. Its Stable on MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready · · Score: 5, Informative

    We have been using 4.x for Slashdot for some time now. Its quite stable and the new query cache seems to be working for around 13% of our queries, which has been a great boon for us.

  5. Testing comments on Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't mind me, just testing comments.

  6. Re:Inaccurate story on Microsoft and the SPAM Game · · Score: 1

    Look at the headers again, you will notice that the from headers are fraudulent in that while I can set up my servers to disallow connections from Microsoft servers, this would bypass that by having the actual server that connects to my server come from mh.microsoft.m0.net. Its a technicality that will buy you something in court (or at least my local friendly large ISP contact tells me, and they make a practice of going after these types).

    Reality is though I can still go into my mail agent and have it remove all email from email.microsoft.com since the from line was set to that even though the actul receive path is from their bulk mailer.

    And yes I will agree that this is splitting hairs.

    Shame it only got a score of 1 in spam assassin :(

  7. Re:Maybe allow subscribers to moderate stories? on Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future · · Score: 1

    Go into your preference and change the dimensions (its an option).

  8. Re:Geeks in Space on Are Video Blogs Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    For a while the group who was doing it was scattered around the country so they really were not in the same place at the same time to do it.

    Right now it is just a matter of priorities (aka getting it setup).

  9. Re:Still a couple of things on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 1

    Number 2 is the thing I would really like to see. I know that in theory it is possible but I want to see it mainstream and I want to see it supported on generic intel hardware.

  10. Re:The problems of GNOME on Has GNOME Become LAME? · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind though that it has only been recently that g++ wasn't a buggy/half implemented nightmare. At the time that the gtk was first being written g++ really wasn't worth using.

  11. Re:Sorry to ignore most of the article but.. on J2ME and .Net CFF Mobile Games · · Score: 1

    Watching my partner screw up her palm often enough has me believing that my Zaurus would be a bit too much for her. Getting it to sync was a pain in the ass (and I ended up just writing software to do it in the end). I found that its email client is lacking and when I first got it I would end up resetting it a couple of times a week (the SD rom fixed that though).

    Great toy for me, but it has a long way to go before I could recommend them to most people.

  12. Re:Yes on Using DSL Modems for Point to Point Connections? · · Score: 1

    Short haul modems could be used but I never saw any that were faster then 9600 baud :)

  13. Yes on Using DSL Modems for Point to Point Connections? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have done this before. The best I could ever get it to work was for 22K feet. The thing you need is two DSL modems that can speak together. Most of what is being sold today expects an expensive backend CO unit and a cheaper frontend modem.
    I suspect that if you want to do this cheaply you would be best off finding an ISP that experimented with "rolling its own" around 1998-99.

  14. Re:[OT] Moderation bug on Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack · · Score: 1

    The way this is done was changed recently (like say on Wednesday). Before the +1 was added directly to the score.

    What happens now is that the comment is logged with a value of "yes" for karma_bonus. A user can adjust the value for what this bonus means (by default it is +1). When you look on you own page you see the raw score, which is 1.

    We have been getting rid of the +1/-1 and such type bonuses and going to a system where the user can decide what they want to apply.

    Hope this clears it up.

  15. Re:Expensive on Blogging With Camera Phones · · Score: 2

    I had not seen an unlimited plan for data yet. That is pretty cool though if it costs only that much.

  16. Expensive on Blogging With Camera Phones · · Score: 2

    Have you ever looked at the per-meg charge for cell phones? This would become very expensive, very quickly.

  17. Bitnet on AOL Patents IM · · Score: 3

    I doubt that any of their work predates Bitnet or for that matter possibly "PHONE" on decnet. I remember passing messages back and forth on Bitnet long before Compuserve existed.

    Of course.... if I remember correctly compuserve first ran on DEC 10's running.... TOPS? Long time ago. They certainly were not the first though.

  18. Fluff on The New IT Crisis · · Score: 2

    I thought that the entire article was fluff. He points out a problem, says things must change, but doesn't give us an answer, doesn't offer a solution, and just prooved that if someone yells fire people will flock around the building to watch.

    Vendor applications rarely work without issue and most companies want to find a way to link every system to every system. They then pay large sums of money out to have someone integrate the applications for them. In the process they create something which is very hard to manage.

    Saying that the bubble is over doesn't mean anything in IT. Your competition is still alive and you still need to be doing that one extra thing that makes you the better buy. If anything this means at the moment that you need to be pushing more not less.

  19. Re:Why Sourceforge sucks ! on Tim Perdue on GForge & Building SourceForge · · Score: 1

    My problem with Bugzilla is that I have always found it to be a real pain in the ass to install. Which is why I have never bothered to use it.

  20. Re:What you don't understand on Mozilla 1.2.1 Released · · Score: 2

    Pizza and Sushi are probably the case actually.

  21. Re:Anyone know on Salon, Nearly No Money and Ultramercials · · Score: 2

    Damn, dude got more then I did. I was hoping at least to get a seven layer burrito.

  22. Re:A few questions regarding the move on Slashdot is Moving · · Score: 2

    Basic rundown:
    Several days ago we started replicating to the west coast.
    Several days ago the servers were setup and tested for the last two days with a copy of the main DB

    Tonight:
    1) Set site to be static.
    2) Shut down daemons
    3) Let West coast slaves catch up with east coast master
    4) Shut down East coast master
    5) Take a snapshot of database
    6) Tell West coast master to no longer take data from east coast.
    7) Re rsync master file server to make sure it is the same as slave
    8) Turn on new west coast site
    9) Go see what is on Tivo

  23. Re:What's the big deal? on Suit Up Or Ship Out? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the buff guy from UPS who spends his time loading and unloading trucks has a much better chance at picking up chicks compared to the fat assed programmer.

  24. Re:from the post on Dealing with the RIAA? · · Score: 2

    Its on the list, but the search engine has never ranked very high in the list of features.

  25. Re:from the post on Dealing with the RIAA? · · Score: 2

    Search has been doing three or more characters for over a month now.

    And yeah, it was lame.