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  1. Re:Not seeing the allure on First Clip from Firefly Movie to be Shown at Comic-Con · · Score: 1

    Yes, NO TIME TRAVEL. Thank gawd. What a cheap hack to rustle up a story line, a definite sign of "jumping-the-shark" in my book. As soon as a show does 'ZYX gets sucked back in time' you know its over - just shoot the writers now.

  2. Re:Directory services? on Opengroupware · · Score: 1

    You've been able to do that for YEARS!!!!!!!

    It is called Kerberos V, the same way Windows 2000/XP does it. And it was supported on RedHat long before it was on windows.

    ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Kerberos200 3. pdf
    ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.p df

  3. Controlling a Linux desktop on Remote Control Of A Linux Desktop? · · Score: 3

    VNC is a cross platform remote control appplication, that provides servers to control Win32 desktops and run (but not control existing) Linux desktops. However, Hexonet, provides a free package to serve the running Linux desktop to a VNC client (either Linux or Windows). http://www.hexonet.de/software/rfb/ You want the x0rfbserver. Tridia (a company that repackages VNC) announce intentions to roll that into their package but I don't know if they have done it yet.

  4. Obsession on Are Expensive RDBM Systems Worth The Money? · · Score: 1

    What is the Open Source world's obsession with MySQL, and wanting to use it to back-end EVERYTHING? I use OS in a corporate enviroment and there are lots of packages I can't use because of this. This is a little bit of a rant, but if your going to develope RDBMS backed applications please take the time to learn a little about database systems, of which MySQL barely qualifies. Anyway, applications should use ODBC, or better, gnome-db, so that a user can use whatever RDBMS they have (PostgreSQL, Informix, Orable, MS-SQL). Also M$-SQL doesn't cost $10K~30K? When did that happen? Comparing Access or MySQL to Oracle, etc..., simply reveals phenominal ignorance.

  5. Re:Prove Me Wrong, PLEASE!! on Is The Classic RPG Making A Comeback? · · Score: 1

    I think your right about returing to the "heydey", when enough people played D&D to induce paranoia in the people who didn't. But with competition with video games I'm suprised even WOC bother's anymore unless RPG is much bigger in other regions of the USA, it seems pretty much dead where I am. Who needs a company at all, anyway, several gaming systems are available on the web, for free. www.worldforge.org, a computer RPG developement project, is based on a free "traditional" gaming system for instance.

  6. Re:Take back the internet! on VeriSign Usurps .com · · Score: 1

    Ok, all you need is a benefactor to start it. Every recent Linux distribution comes with nss_ldap that lets you resolve names via the open LDAP protocol. A couple of central OpenLDAP servers, people sign up as voluntary replicants, and we are on our way to being DNS free. The way nsswitch works is that if your box doesn't find the name in the LDAP hierarchy it will fall back on DNS. A truly painless transition.

  7. Re:D&D is EVIL!!! on Do-It-Yourself "Dungeons and Dragons" Film Review · · Score: 1

    DENOUNCED!! I am a Christian and the fact that fools like Pat Robertson and James Dobson don't get run out of town on a rail is a continuing frustation. Look at the whole Y2K thing, these guys have no credibility, at least not with anoyone who reads ANYTHING besides the crap they publish. And when (with Y2K) they were SO OBVIOUSLY wrong, did they come out an admit it, or apologize for makeing the faith and lots of people look stupid? Nope. They're little flyers still get stuffed in church bulletins all across America. Like I said, I am a Christian, I run a youth group, etc... but I'll be the first in line to hiss at these guys, and to admit that Protestent Christianity as a social whole has alot of growing up to do.

  8. Re:Some info on DeCSS Author Arrested · · Score: 1

    I want to apologize for bieng a "mighty American". My goverments sick snivling attitude toward large corporations or corporate lobby groups leaves me disgusted. This whole affair has gotten WAY out of hand. But part of this is the result of our truly pathetic educational system, which leaves the average citizen with no understaning, wither practically or theoretically, of what all this technology does or how it works. Again, my apologies.