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  1. Re:Labels and Filters on Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ? · · Score: 1

    I agree with regards to labels. However, note that IMAP servers like Cyrus actually only store hard links if you filter something into multiple folders. I do this quite often (things get filtered into multiple folders), and find that this way it works a lot like labels. Of course, unread flags don't get propagated. But it's not bad.

  2. Re:Is there even a coherent thought here? on Skype Security and Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. I think they only add their commentary and decide which ones to approve.

  3. Re:Is there even a coherent thought here? on Skype Security and Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    If you'd read the article, you'd see that this 'summary' isn't a very good one.

  4. Re:Best Practice on Perl Best Practices · · Score: 1

    I wrote a log parser in perl that just accepted log input via STDIN, incremented a few variables depending on what it read, and then outputted those variables to a file (used for graphing). Well, during a huge traffic spike, that perl script was eating 90+% CPU (because the other 10% was being used by the daemon in question). I rewrote that in C and it started using less than 2%.

    If it were all about execution speed, no one would use perl.

  5. wtf? on Sun's Bold New Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    A Dell PE6850 (Quad-CPU capable box, also capable of holding quite a bit of storage) versus a 1U sun server? At least compare something similar. They look like nice servers, but this advertising is a bit deceiving. I suppose it's because the Sun can have 2xDual core opterons. I guess Dell needs to jump on the dual core bandwagon.

  6. Re:Does anyone know why on A Review of the iPod nano · · Score: 1

    No HDD. Flash.

  7. Re:I don't gamble on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    And bingo, dog tracks and the lottery ;). Add West Virginia to your slots list. I guess I was only counting places with table games. I forgot about all of the slots states :-). There are a lot of strange exceptions everywhere. Reservations, obviously (we have a bunch of them here in Arizona, minutes away from Phoenix and Tucson). But there's also places like Black Hawk and Central City in Colorado. I don't think they're reservations. They are just old mining towns which already had gambling. They were grandfathered in as places that were legal to gamble in in Colorado. Both of these places though, Colorado and Arizona, only seem to allow card games as far as table games go. No craps. Colorado might have roulette, but Arizona doesn't.

  8. Re:I don't gamble on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't forget "boats" in some states (Mississippi, Indiana, maybe others)

  9. I don't trust online gambling on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    When I gamble, I at least want the odds to be what I expect (still in favor of the house, of course). It's the same reason I don't play slots. A blackjack table is a blackjack table. They don't have control over what cards they're going to pull. The only thing they really have control over is the rules of that particular game and how many decks they're using. Same goes for craps and all of the other table games. I like true randomness. Gambling that's run by a computer is as random, or not random as they want it to be. This is, of course, why slots can give such huge payouts all at once compared with table games.

    That is one of my reasons. My other main reason is the environment. I like the casino environment. Gambling at home is like drinking alone, it's not nearly as fun.

  10. Re:Dude, ACPI is your friend on Spotlight's Impact on PowerBook Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking. Since when is a) procfs 'standard' and b) linux's procfs anywhere close to standard?

  11. Re:RTFA! on Search Engines Break AU Online Gambling Ban? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand what he was saying.. Go back and read it again. He wasn't complaining about their spelling.

  12. Re:Suing eHarmony? on Epicrealm Uses Vague Patents to sue Web Sites · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend is way into WoW. I wish the opposite of what you're wishing ;)

  13. Re:DJBDNS -- rocks on Ten Percent of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    The thing is, it doesn't need to. It's just DNS. It should be simple and not like BIND where things are (imho) unnecessarily complicated. djbdns is a great example of 'set it and forget it'. Not as good of an example as, say, a Ronco Rotisserie, but it's up there.

  14. Re:DJBDNS -- rocks on Ten Percent of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable · · Score: 2, Informative

    I use djbdns for the dynamic DNS/DNS hosting provider mentioned in my sig. It's worked out amazingly well, and it's been deployed that way for a few years now. There's a few reasons I really like it:

    1) The rsync method of replication is very well suited for keeping multiple DNS servers synced with the exact same records.

    2) I never have to worry about it or touch it

    3) The CPU and memory usage are much lower than when I was doing this with BIND. In fact, it's pretty much negligible with a few hundred queries per second.

  15. Drag and drop example. on DHTML Utopia · · Score: 1

    For an example of drag and drop in use, check out Panic's website

  16. Re:Secure on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    I asked a friend..

    me: wtf IS a boffin?
    him: you don't know what a boffin is dawg?
    me: nope
    him: you kinda suck :(
    him: it's what dumb people call clever people to make up for their own dumbness
    him: pretty much a lame insult to clever people

  17. Re:OMG,itz s0 gnu! on E-mail Is For Old People · · Score: 3, Informative

    *raises his hand* .. talk and ytalk were very useful too ..

  18. Re:Excuse Me on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 1

    When it comes to making money, sure. He seems to know how to do it.

  19. Re:Soft updates on FreeBSD Status Report for 2005 Q2 · · Score: 1

    The only thing a fsck will do for you with softupdates is free up some space that didn't get properly free'd before a crash. You can completely skip the fsck if you want though and everything will still work fine, you'll just have some space that's unaccounted for.

  20. Re:Ummm, wherever they want on Full-Motion Ads Come to Videogames · · Score: 1

    The question is: what DON'T we know about you? ;-) We all know all about you from our gaming servers..

  21. Re:It's the users, stupid! on Canada Introduces DMCA-Style Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Not voting out of protest? Not the sharpest tools in the shed I see.

  22. Re:Nail, meet hammer. on Steve Jobs In Praise of Dropping Out · · Score: 1

    It worked for me. Sometimes other projects and random work that you've done will work on your resume (an impressive open source project, for example.) Getting the first job or two can be tough for anyone, but after that, it's just as easy to get jobs as it is for anyone else having your work experience.

  23. Re:ACLU Target For Conservatives on ACLU to Challenge Utah Porn-Blocking Law · · Score: 1

    There's no need to guarantee it. There's no ISP monopoly. There are and will be ISPs to cater to these people's needs. If there were an ISP monopoly, we have other laws for that. This law is both in some ways redundant and overall useless.

  24. Re:OK, now..... on ACLU to Challenge Utah Porn-Blocking Law · · Score: 1

    The problem with this law is that there is no point for it to exist. If this were in such high demand, there would be (and I'm sure there are) isps in the area, as well as large ones, that cater to these people. This is something that should be left to capitalism and not legislation. Once you put it into a law, it's a constitutional violation.

  25. Re:That's quite strange on Nokia Develops a New Browser on Apple WebKit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They probably mistyped and meant to say WebCore. That would be my guess.