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  1. Re:Maybe he's being too simple. on The Humane Interface · · Score: 1

    Read Tog on Interfaces. Gives an interesting insight in to why you may find command lines perfectly usable whereas the majority of people would prefer something more Humane in the Raskin sense.

  2. One day to set up on World's Fastest Macintosh Cluster · · Score: 1

    Thats pretty neat. Would a Linux cluster on no name x386 harware be cheaper (in terms of hardware). Would it take longer to set up for users of a similar ilk. Would this time cancel out any benefit in the cheaper hardware?

  3. Re:What I find alarming... on Microsoft Admits To Backdoor In IIS [updated] · · Score: 1

    I've been scratching my head since Tuesday. I've not got a clue. Coz its so big I'm guessing it may be pretty well known, but something that has to use a redundant processor...

    Any more clues? What size image (if the question make sense for your language) is the result of compiling all this code.

  4. Re:And the russians up there? on Home Improvement · · Score: 2

    There was me thinking that chauvanism was being condescending towards women, but fortunately I took a second to check with m-w to find the first definition is:

    excessive or blind patriotism compare JINGOISM.

    That'll learn me.

  5. Re:Does illustrate the advantage of Open Source on Microsoft Admits To Backdoor In IIS [updated] · · Score: 1

    Anyone who thinks their Java is safe should try running some class files through JAD. You'd be surprised how complete a decompilation is usually available.

  6. Re:What I find alarming... on Microsoft Admits To Backdoor In IIS [updated] · · Score: 1

    25 million lines of code, what were you working on? NT 3.5 only had about 5 million and that was already pretty bloated.

  7. Re:Not Surprising on Linux Grabs World Record For TPC-H Benchmark · · Score: 1

    Oracle has had statistics based opimization since release 7. Its been the default since release 8. This is only for Solaris - I'd guess the feature set of 8 got ported to Linux but I could be wrong

  8. Re:Give it some time on Dual Athlon Motherboards Creep Closer · · Score: 2

    The product might turn out to be buggy, but dissing the whole of Taiwan in one sweeping statement is horribly predjudiced

  9. Re:There's a balance point... on Rambus Found Guilty of Fraud · · Score: 1

    How about the USPTO becomes liable for half of any damages awarded due to granting patents that a court later overturns

  10. My Customer's prioritized list on Go Extreme, Programmatically Speaking · · Score: 1

    Where is Billy Connelly when you need him...

    We want it all, and we want it yesterday, and we'll change our mind tomorrow...

    Or Dilbert

    If we combine these three requirements into one, can we have them all

  11. Re:Quite limited really on Kernel Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    That old open source saw

    If you interested in some results that no one appears to have produced, go do them yourself. Don't criticise someone who has scratched their itch.

  12. Re:ha! on AtheOS Interview · · Score: 1

    Well lets be conservative and say that a /. effect peaks out at 10Mb/s for a minute. Now if his OS can compress that down to the 2Mb/s pipe he has, within the constraints of http I think he's on to an immediate winner. Not being able to do this merely puts him in the same league as any other OS under the sun.

  13. Re:The basic elements of a valid contract... on Rambus Loses; Vows to Appeal · · Score: 1

    Heh, I was only mucking about, precisely because I'm sitting around business analysts at the moment adding two 'e's on to any noun going. I guess they do it because the added effort of trying to find the right word doesn't really add much value to the job they are doing, but it doesn't stop me taking the piss.

    One day I may learn to take things seriously

  14. Every story has an equal and opposite story on The Worst Of Times · · Score: 1

    We get the stuff about the photographs of pre-revolutionary Russia, one of the most interesting stories seen in a long time on /. Then we get this drivel.

  15. Re:What is UNIX? on Is Mac OS X real UNIX®? · · Score: 1

    When I upgraded my Spectrum from 16K to 48K it cost me £100 (thats pounds sterling) for that 32K.

  16. Re:UNIX is just a label on Is Mac OS X real UNIX®? · · Score: 1

    Just like I can write to the CORBA 1.0 standard and it will run on any CORBA system, except that it doesn't work beacause the standard wasn't tight enough.

  17. Re:Looooong page on Digital Display Encryption Details Leaked · · Score: 1

    A zip file, on a pro unix site, are you out of your tiny little karma-whoring mind?

  18. Re:The basic elements of a valid contract... on Rambus Loses; Vows to Appeal · · Score: 1

    The offer must be accepted by the offeree

    You've been hanging around business analysts too long.
    Analyst 1: What shall we call that thing at the other end of the relationship?
    Analyst 2: Hmm, just stick a couple of 'e's on the end, nobody will notice.

    Who does a king rule over? Kingees, Who's in prison, gaolees, who supports Heart of Midlothian? Jamborees

  19. Impedence Mismatch on Why Aren't You Using An OODMS? · · Score: 1

    Its an impedence mismatch to development, however who is to say that Objects are as good on disk represenation of data as they are in memory?

    For object databases I've only tried Versant and it had a java interface that looked like C. It gave this tantalizing view of how productive OODBMS could be but kept it just out of reach

    Please note that productive doesn't equal performant. Object databases score when you have many complex inter-object relationships, and you're not sure which relationships you are going traverse at run time. They suck for things like reporting - where you access the same data in many different ways - suddenly what was a single query in RDBMS world becomes a set of linking methods and indexing objects. More flexible but more time.

  20. Re:Disappointed w/ Linus on Linus Responds To Mundie · · Score: 1

    "The answer is always somewhere in the middle."

    Removing the endpoints of a line doesn't really lose very much

  21. Re:Difference between DTDs and XML schemas? on XML Schema a W3C Recommendation · · Score: 1

    Though that parser just got a whole lot more complicated because it now has to understand XML schema, rather than well-formedness and DTDs.

  22. Re:Things I love/hate about lisp on Using Lisp to beat your Competition. · · Score: 1

    The only comment in this thread that is more redundant than yours is this one.

  23. Re:What IS Lisp based off? on Using Lisp to beat your Competition. · · Score: 1

    If nobody else finished the assignment its hardly surprising that yours was the quickest implementation

  24. Re:I think this is good. on The Not-So-Free Web · · Score: 1

    There are only two exceptions to Sturgeon's Law : Sturgeon's Law and crap

    Oops I just recursed up my own arse

  25. US process on Report From The 2600 Appeal Hearing · · Score: 2

    Can someone give a brief outline of the process that this case will go through. I'm guessing that oral arguments are for determining whether there is a case to argue. So what happens next. How does there being apparently three parties involved affect matters. If people don't get the results they desire what will the appeals route be (if 2600 win its would seem almost inevitable that the MPAA will appeal, maybe the gov too)