User: madmag

Can we avoid Intel?

On: Intel tells Harvard, 'Cover that Mac!'

Intel is as bad as Microsoft or perhaps worse when it comes to monopolistic practices.

But here we are punishing just Microsoft and accepting Intel.

Can we avoid Intel? Personally, my lab is completely Intel and Microsoft free.

I do own x86 based computers but they have the processor from AMD.

By the way, the boxes running Slashdot powered by Intel?

Also I dont understand why VA Linux dont make any non-intel boxes?

Their sales person just confirmed to me that they do not have any non-Intel CPU products at this time.

I dont think I will be looking forward to VA clustercity for the time being. I might get Alphas.

Re:Thank God for AOL

On: Netscape Co-Founder Wants IE To Stay With Windows

Where can I buy that watch?

Re:Sheesh

On: Boot Log Messages On A Pre-Production Processor

huh?
How?
My Athelon 700 does only 696.32 bogomips according to /proc/cpuinfo

Re:Question

On: BeOpen Interview with Hans Reiser of ReiserFS

backup your data.
reformat the partition with reiserfs
mkreiserfs /dev/deviceid

and restore the data.

Apache::AdBlocker

On: Mozilla Junkbuster-like Feature Removed

you should try www.modperl.com port 80
as your proxy server to block ads.

Re:Abstraction of Presentation and Business logic

On: What Are Good Web Coding Practices?

I find the Text::Template module rather useful from small to medium web based apps.

This easily allows separation of content from logic and allows function calls or if really neccesary in-line programming too.

If programming in perl check it out.

Re:Boy this is a sore spot for me

On: What Are Good Web Coding Practices?

unrelated.

We are talking about good practices and you are mentioning ASP. That itself is an oxymoron.

Linux on Athlon

On: Pentium 3 Vs. Athlon - Which Is Right For You?

My Linux box is running on Athlon 700 for the past 3 months.

Havent rebooted yet. (never did a kernel upgrade until now)
Its fast.

hello Patrick (Slash vs RedHat)

On: Ask Patrick Volkerding, Slackware Founder

Hello.
I tried slack five years ago, after I migrated to Switzerland.

I tried for weeks, couldnt get the thing to get installed properly. Took help from some experts for the installation and have had been happy since :)

I was trying on the new computer that I bought with loaned money. The old computer that I ahd was running windows 3.1. the new one I had bought off the Media Markt. was running Windows NT 3.5 (Thank GOD I never had the misforture to use Windows 9x).
Actually I didnt know anything about Linux. Infact I was a business stutent when I finished from my college.
My teachers tought me that monopoly is bad, duopoly is bad and leopoly is bad and that competetion is good.

Coming to Switzerland it made me more and more angry about each monopoly (either created by the market or by culture etc example "SwissCom" and "Migros").

When Microsoft started to play the dirty game of bringing their "BROWSER" against Netscape's "SUPERIOR" browser back at that time, it made me think.

• am I doing the right thinkg
• are all rules for the rest of the things in life but not for computers (??)
• Are we getting screwed
• Shall I acept this barging over another company just because they want to keep control of the market?

Ofcoarse not.

I am so pleased to say to both you and to Microsoft: Thank you.

In particular, I would like to thank Microsoft Internet Explorer : One product that showed me light and turned me away from Microsoft for EVER-!!

Re:Oops...

On: Can Linux Beat Microsoft in Education?

ill host it.
send me the file.
atifATdeveloperDOTch

Using Wildcards

On: Wildcard DNS, Session Management And Prior Art

I think that wildcards in web applications are not something new.

Take a look at http://cv.developer.ch
I use this possbility for the above project to make users cv available.

User aghaffar gets aghaffar.cv.developer.ch, user madmag gets madmag.cv.developer.ch

I dont know why somepeople try to make fool out of themselves by patenting obvious things.

You can read my article on LinuxFocus (January Issue) that talks about these techniques.

DVD hype to divert your attention from MS

On: A New DeCSS

I think that this DVD case is sponsored by Micro$oft.
Its their way to divert our attention to something else and leave them alone for a while

:) j

Re:HP Omnibook 4150: works for me

On: Review of the Sony Vaio PCG-X9

Ill second that.

I too have an Omnibook 4150.

I think its a fine machine.

I dont like its weight though. I think its a bit heavy.
I would also love to have a carry handle as in iBook.

Re:Don't Buy from Sony

On: Review of the Sony Vaio PCG-X9

This VAIO book was looking good, untill this post which higlights the facts about SONY.

Although I dont need another laptop(I have one from work), I was looking forward to get one of these new SONY ones.

I have just emailed my hardware provider to send me a Powerbook G3 instead.