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  1. Re:Hey, would FreeBSD make a good DSL web server? on Bringing xMach To Life · · Score: 1

    Look at netcraft.com's statistics. xBSD just about owns the entire 'max uptime' and 'number of servers' catagories.

    Apparently someone likes xBSD enough to use it as their servers.

    I, personally, prefer linux as I'm used to that. Solaris would be my second choice.

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  2. xMach's the spot on Bringing xMach To Life · · Score: 1

    amazing how these open source places keep churning out software to publish when no one wants to work on them and they're not 'commercially viable' according to certain software companies.

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  3. This is going to be the way it works on Salon Sans Ads, For A Price · · Score: 1

    The 'free' as in tv type free with ads or the 'pay-per-view' type with no ads.

    I like this in that it's also the way things should be. Choice. That's what makes the 'net a great place. Don't like it? Don't pay for it. Don't bitch about the ads then either. Want to get rid of the ads? It'll cost you.

    That sounds like an open market at work. The 'net is evolving, this is yet another branch in the evolution. Let's see if this pans out.

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  4. Re:Why? on Patents For Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    I see that. Maybe they should team up with the 'pay you a gazillion dollars for prior art' sites and see if there could be a one-source database of such.

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  5. Why? on Patents For Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    Keep the copyright and leave the IP alone to be distributed amongst the people. What is the value of open source if you cannot use it?

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  6. Re:Geek girls?! on GNUstep On LinuxFocus · · Score: 1

    There are things other than computers and technical stuff in life? Where? How? Why didn't anyone tell me?

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  7. Re:Since when is GNUStep a windowmanager? on GNUstep On LinuxFocus · · Score: 1

    But Window Maker is the 'official window manager' of GNUStep. I do not know if it uses the libraries, but GNUStep is keeping that a primary window manager for it's environment.

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  8. Since when is GNUStep a windowmanager? on GNUstep On LinuxFocus · · Score: 1

    It's the building blocks for windowmaker, but it's not a window manager itself.

    It is good to see that the 'other environments' are getting press, though. Especially with the community. I'm a bit tired of hearing about KDE and Gnome as I use AfterStep. Yes, I use KDE and Gnome applications, but I prefer the AfterStep window manager.

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  9. Could you imagine on AOL Censor Tells Most If Not All · · Score: 3

    How utterly dredful 99% of the content a person has to go through. People think their problems are the worst there ever were, people think they are the only ones with THIS problem. Well, anyone with this job has got to see the exact same problems with the names changed a hundred times a day.

    Hey, that's a good job for someone who is really depressed. If they figure out that their problems are not unique and that they are not the only ones with that problem, they may realize that others are also overcoming it daily.

    Then again, it may not be for those who internalize other's problems. A really good empath would be insane after about an hour.

    Oh well, AOL has been looking over all the messages and traffic into and out of their domain. This is supposed to be news?

    DanH
    Cav Pilot's Reference Page

  10. It's English on H2G2: Back At Last, With Moderation · · Score: 1

    They only pretend to have rights. See what happens when the people are disarmed? Now, who is going to stand up to the overseers?

    Only the Government has rights, according to everything I've seen there and Australia.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  11. Not no, but HELL NO on Forced Into Spamming By Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    Hasn't his company heard about the laws in individual states that prohibit this? Who is held responsible for the Spam? The company, sure, but if/when they hear that he designed and built such a beast? You think he has a chance to avoid being named as an individual as well as a corporate entity? I don't think so.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  12. Re:I'm a pilot on Broadband From On High But Not In Orbit · · Score: 1

    I thought about this. I don't care how much you want to build flight time or pad your log book, this would be a good deal for someone who was extremely dedicated or almost dead and likes reading cereal boxes for days at a time.

    Would be a good deal for a young pilot, but I'd bet they don't fly 3,001 hours as they will find someone else at three thousand.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  13. I'm a pilot on Broadband From On High But Not In Orbit · · Score: 2

    and this looks like the most god-awful BORING thing on Earth. Sounds like Guard Rail flights. Eight hours of mind numbing boredom.

    I would like to see the turn over rate of their pilots. Bet it's higher than the dot coms at the height of the stock market boom.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  14. Maybe if I run out of thorozine on Dune TV Mini-Series Released On DVD · · Score: 1

    I'll buy it. Would be cheaper in the long run

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  15. Dune on Dune TV Mini-Series Released On DVD · · Score: 1

    Probably could have been a hell of a movie if you had someone do it right and create an 8 hour movie-a-thon.

    No trailers? 2.0 stereo? Yeech. As the review says, there's better remixes of '60s TV series.

    I'll pass, thanks though.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  16. Typical media on Is The Net Revolution Breaking Faith? · · Score: 1

    They hype something they don't understand without the slightest inkling of what is going on and couldn't care less about researching it. It sounds good, it makes for a good story, but they don't bother to find out what actually can be done or what can actually be useful. Just out to hype sound bytes and fill columns with horsehockey about what THEY think 'the common person' wants to hear or push their political agenda. Remember, most of the media is against the 'net because that makes them lose their stranglehold on information and their ability to be the only way people get information gets diluted.

    How can the media possibly push their agenda if people could read about BOTH sides of a particular issue. Therefore they HAVE to show how miserable it is after overhyping it to get people to jump onto the bandwagon and sink it (is that mixing metaphores?)

    Now that the market is normalizing, the media is showing the gloom and doom to show how unreliable any other source of information is. If they cannot make a buck on it and it's a direct competitor, it must be governmental controlled and if that doesn't work immediately there is always predict it's demise so people do not start relying on it.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  17. Before or after MS Office port? on Chili!Soft ASP Port to FreeBSD? · · Score: 1

    At least Office would have some takers. ASP seems to be almost ignored by the *NIX community for good reason.

    Keep PHP and better that, don't waste time on ASP

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  18. What do you mean 'Cannot happen'? on B.C. Officially Proposes Video Game Regulations · · Score: 1

    Yes, I saw that 'oh it could.' The federal gov't has been trying to get a toehold on the 'net since it's start. If you are not ready for every single way it could POSSIBLY be regulated, you've missed the boat.

    "For the children" "safer" "loophole" remember those words as they're favorites amongst people who want to regulate things to death. Think firearms and start looking at the parallels. Starts out with 'reasonable 'net control' then moves up to the level that Joe Average cannot do anything without the government's explicit approval.

    Remember, when you have to submit your post to a governmental agency for a 5 day background check before you can post to /. that you heard it here first.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  19. The real question is on Two Telescopes Linked To Find Planets · · Score: 1

    Are the scientists going to have to use those blue and red glasses to see the outcome of the pics? and how do you program that? Or is it like the stereovision thing? DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  20. Use the DeCSS as wallpaper on Slashback: 2600, X-Many Bytes, Results · · Score: 2

    Now it's small enough to use as text wallpaper on your site the same colour as the background. HEY, every person who comes to your site will have DeCSS in their cache.

    Now THAT'S distribution. But, would it be the person who went to your site problem? or only yours? I'd like to see MPAA sue everyone who visits -oh say- /. and watch them try to find out the visitor's list.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  21. Re:Metric to Imperial on Tux in Space · · Score: 1

    We also call the language we speak over here in 'The Colonies' English. I guess we're not too precise in our language :)

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  22. Metric to English Conversions on Tux in Space · · Score: 1

    I'm curious if it had been opensourced, would 'someone' have picked up on the conversion fault with the Mars lander?

    Guess we will find out.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  23. Global Warming on Drilling For Oil With Megawatt Lasers · · Score: 1

    Won't this add to global warming? At least as much as cow farts and sulphur dioxide?
    (couldn't resist)

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  24. I wonder... on Firm Evidence for Greenhouse Effect · · Score: 2

    How people can determine that it's people causing this? Were people around during the Ice Ages? Did pollution cause the ice to melt? I'd bet that was considered 'global warming' when the ice became water.

    Yet, now that people have a political axe to grind, they start hollering that the only reason it could POSSIBLY be is pollution etc.

    Cows put off more methane than the entirety of the human race. This is one of the primary ingredients of 'greenhouse gases' yet no one wants to admit that at least part of this is perfectly natural.

    Oh, that's right, they cannot use the warming to their political gain if it's been around for millions of years. I forgot. Got to have something to hold against those who think differently than they. After all, it's inclusion, but only for those who conform to the left wing beliefs.

    Give me a break, yes people and pollution may very well assist in the warming, but I'm tired of hearing that it's The President's duty to singlehandedly reverse a process that has been going on for millions of years.

    DanH
    Cavalry Pilot's Reference Page

  25. Re:Certainly on Mason 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    $495 for single CPU machine??? I don't think so. PHP all the way.

    DanH