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  1. Don't like the new gcc? on Converting Existing Systems From One Distro To Another? · · Score: 1

    Then install the rpms of the compiler that you do like. Not tough. It's not as bad as when they shipped the new glibc before it was ready back in 5.0.

  2. The Ballot is available WWAAAAY ahead of time on Statistics, Elections, Frustration · · Score: 1

    The Ballot is available WWAAAAY ahead of time, so no one can cry foul, that the ballot is messed up. They should have checked things over first, then complained *before* the 7th.

  3. No thanks on Meeting Fellow Slashdot Readers In Your Area? · · Score: 2

    SlashdotterA: FIRST SEAT! SlashdotterB: I'll take 1 pepparoni with RedHat please. SlashdotterC: DEBIAN RULES! SlashdotterA: Man, a beowulf cluster of pizzas would be awesome! SlashdotterB: Microsoft Pizza (tm) sucks. ...etc...

  4. Same for me: M18 + Win2k on Netscape 6 And Win2K Web Viewing Problems? · · Score: 1

    I'm running M18 and Win2k, and I got the same thing for abcnews.com.... The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try the following: If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. Open the abcnews.go.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want. Click the Back button to try another link. HTTP 404 - File not found Internet Information Services Technical Information (for support personnel) More information: Microsoft Support

  5. Fiber Channel card -- usage reports available on Linux, Fibre Channel and SAN? · · Score: 3

    I'm in the same situation, but my options are wide open (I haven't decided on any products yet). I have been researching Global File System (GFS) http://www.globalfilesystem.com.

    At that web site they have a section where you can see the current status of all the Fiber Channel controllers and drivers for Linux, including other people's experience with different FiberChannel cards.
    Namely, you can find it here: http://www.sistina.com/gfs/howtos/fibrechannel_how to/node6.html.
    Hope that helps.

  6. One more reason to... on Quova Inc. Completes Trace of 4 billion IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    One more reason to buy your PPP account with a good Russian ISP. Then, browse the net from your r00ted .edu boxes. Long distance? Not with your [red|yellow|blue|plad] box.

  7. Other things to think about on Benchmarks for NICs? · · Score: 1

    Ethernet Bonding? If your switch supports Fast Ether Channel, you can combine up to 8 NIC's into one "logical link" (1 MAC address) for 800mbps. Cheap gigabit. Two options for this is to use the bonding driver--or Intel's driver for it's PRO/100 and pro/1000 cards. Fun stuff.

  8. Re:Gore and Bush's actual positions on Help Bush and Gore Answer Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    I'm sure 10 other people have corrected you already, but... I quote: "Is in discrepancy with the bible - has put 145 to death under his rule as Gov. of Texas, yet bible claims thou shalt not kill."

    Wow. Do you often wear your ignorance so proudly? Here's a 10 second rebuttal of your funny argument: 1. "Thou shalt not murder" != "Capital Punishment".
    2. The "bible" is actually a library. There are many books. They are categorized into Old testament and new testament. Besides that, it has 7 dispensations (sorry if that word is too big for you; try a dictionary). The portion you quoted ("Thou shalt not murder") was from the old testament. It is talking about MURDER. Lookup murder in the dictionary, then look up kill. The old testament clearly supports KILLing people, for many reasons. Like when the whole town stones (i.e. "kills") someone that is convicted of MURDERing. So the OT clearly supports KILLing, not MURDERing.

    However, the only way you could even get a chance at arguing this is if you quoted the new testament, where Jesus gave new commandments about sin. He said, not only should you not murder someone, you shouldn't even be angry at him! Also lusting == adultry, etc. But you would have to look hard and try to find a quote in the bible (and take it out of context) where it says something about it being wrong for a country to enforce capital punishments.

  9. serial ports and terminals on Cheaper Video Cards Compared · · Score: 1

    I don't know what all this talk about "video" is. If you want special effects, go see one of those moving picture thingies.

    My serial port is a very high powered video card that drives my Wyse terminal on linux.

  10. Re:Why don't they strip down PostgreSQL instead ? on MYSQL & Row Level Locking · · Score: 1

    You are so out of date it's not even funny. When was the last time you ran pgsql, on your 8086?

  11. Floppy RAID-5 on Alternatives To The Floppy Disk? · · Score: 1

    We need to use Floppy RAID-5. Send the file to three floppies striped with distributed parity.

    # insmod RAID5
    # mount -t RAID5ext2 /mnt/floppy
    # cp $file /mnt/floppy
    ......RAID5ext2: please insert disk _2_
    ......RAID5ext2: please insert disk _3_
    ......Done

    Of course, there would be a lot of ways to implement this.

  12. I like Corba on Why Not Use CORBA For Script Language Bindings? · · Score: 1

    I like corba. I think it's a great idea, but I thought Gnome (or was it KDE?) was already using Corba. (Maybe they are using corba for something else and I'm confused.). Anyway

  13. Have you tried... on Linux Drivers for Cirque *Cat Touchpads? · · Score: 1

    The Linux Hardware Database? You might create a new entry for it when you find more information: http://lhd.datapower.com/ To find more information: google.com? freshmeat.net? sourceforge.net? Also, search usenet (sorry, can't think of any good groups off the top of my head). Hope that helps a little.

  14. Re:hehe on Electronics As Plastics · · Score: 1

    "I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer." --Homer Simpson Beer is not sweet. It does not even smell sweet. Honey is sweet. Bear smells more like sweat. IMHO.

  15. We prefer... on How Do Companies Pay for "On-Call" Support? · · Score: 1

    We prefer to build a contract that allows for per incident, rather than cost-average on a weekly basis. Per incident gets closer to your costs and closer to the customers usage. If you charge per week instead of per incident, then inevitably either you are charging them too much (for when there are few calls in the week) or you are losing too much (when there are too many calls per week). IMHO.

  16. WWII - Would you have dropped the bomb? on Ask the Presidential Candidates · · Score: 1

    If you were in president Truman's shoes during World War II, would you have dropped the bombs on Japan? Why or why not?

  17. man nmbd. (Commonly known as WINS) on Subnets and Network Browsing? · · Score: 1

    I have two words for you:
    man nmbd

    Yes, all you need is a WINS server to have netbios resolution without broadcasts. Yes, Samba (available on most major unix platforms, including Linux) has a WINS server. Try samba.org. Here's how it works: Netbios system (such as Win98) boots up and notifies WINS server (specified in TCP/IP settings) of it's name and IP address. Next time some computer requests that name (or IP address for reverse-lookups) it asks the WINS server (via UNI-case packet), and the WINS server tells it. This happens everytime you \\compname\resource.

    I hope that helps, without me being too much of a meanie.

  18. What!? No Linus Torvalds? on Ask the Presidential Candidates · · Score: 1

    I thought Linus would have been on the list of Presidential candidates? I mean, shouldn't the leader of the free source world also be the leader of the free world?

  19. Linus Torvalds Dies. on 20 Ways The World Could End · · Score: 1

    It would be the end of the world as we know it if Linus Torvalds died.

  20. Obviously, Yes on Should The Government Go Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Yes, the government should go open source. For everything that isn't life-threateningly-important that is. Subway systems? No. Air traffic control? No. School software? Yes. HSFIS (head start child management software), yes. 95% of software paid for by the government. Yes. That other 5%? Well, I'd prefer to leave the DOD code alone, and other sensative sectors.

  21. Results results results on Samba Code Fork Announced · · Score: 1

    I just want to see results. It's too bad that the best of TNG and the best of HEAD never got merged back into one tree. I would have prefered it that way. As it stands, TNG is the best PDC code, and HEAD is the best \\server\file code (in other words, just plain file serving). Since I'm not willing to go with the instability of TNG, I'm forced to run an NT PDC server (just to do WinNT and Win2k logons), but all the drives are mapped to the Samba server (2.0.7, or HEAD code). It's yucky.

    I hope soon we can see some results from this. Such as some stable TNG code. Or maybe some feature-ful HEAD code. But it's not my position to whine--I haven't written any Samba code, so I'm part of the problem instead of the solution.
    If only I had time to code...

  22. This will look great on my horse and buggy! on Timex Sinclair ZX81 Back On the Market · · Score: 2

    This will look great on my horse and buggy! Now if only I could find that "fire" invention that everyone was talking about...

  23. Onstream DI30 and ADR50 are good on Affordable Backup Hardware for Today's Systems? · · Score: 1

    I've used the Onstream 30GB with Linux and it's great. Cheap too, $200 and $33/tape. It's IDE, so if you haven't invested in a SCSI card there's no need to. The ADR50 is probably good too, like you said.

    One of our sales guys was looking for a low end backup solution (for the sub $3000 server systems we sell) and settled on the Onstream DI30. But we typically use HP DAT24 drives which are about 1k. Hope that helps.

  24. Should I file a bug for "Great Product"? on Red Hat Linux 7 Infested With Bugs · · Score: 3

    With as large of a user base as RedHat has (and increasing), there are bound to be hundreds of horrible stories. But for each horror story, how many more success stories go on that are untold?

    Just because the number of bug reports goes up doesn't mean that quality of product has gone down. If a product gets 1 bug report and has 1 user, does that show its quality? No.

    But with the RH7.0 release, how many hundreds of thousands tried the product? And we're looking at maybe 255 bugs? Probably less than 50 of which are genuine bugs.

    It's easy to hear those who are having problems because they shout the loudest. It's the people who it works for that aren't heard. All the success stories are silent. I'm one of the success stories. I've installed RH7.0 on 4 servers now. (one 486, a P133, one P-3 850, and a big phat $15k dual zeon 550). My installs have been flawless; better than any distro previous (including 6.2). If everyone shouted their successes as loudly as the minority shouts their failures, then RedHat would be overwhelmed with positives (and deaf).

    I give a standing ovation for the RH 7.0 release.

  25. IPMeter on Bandwidth Accounting With Unix? · · Score: 2

    http://www.ipmeter.com IP Meter. I haven't used it, but looks good.