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  1. Re:Java 2. on Email And Cell Phone In One From RIM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, it's also Virtual Machine Standard, which could be interpreted as OS standard in this context.

    Sun should create better names to distinguish between Java as a language and Java as a platform.

  2. Re:Pay for Quality Content on End of the Free Internet · · Score: 1

    Good comment!

    I'm suprised so many people use junkbuster or similar and are proud of it too!

    For advertisement finances websites (or other services), you pay indirectly via the banners.

    Because of an advertisement on the site, you could be more willing to buy a product. Because of that the producer pays to the owners of the site.
    Advertisements make a product more expensive (for example, about 1/3 of the cost of parfume is commonly for advertisements, though I don't think that money ever goes to slashdot :-) ). You pay indirectly via buying products.

  3. Re:Protect Open Source licenses? If not, Die. on A Look Inside the BSA · · Score: 1

    If GNU or any other organisation would be to the BSA, they would enforce GPL to and chase after companies that violate GPL.

  4. Re:Updateable ResultSets in JDBC Driver on PostgreSQL v7.2 Final Release · · Score: 1

    Maybe you already do that, but (with another JDBC driver that doesn't support that) I use PreparedStatements as a substititute for that

    I create a the PreparedStatements for all my updates on the start of my application, which consist of something like "UPDATE WHERE =?"

  5. Re:So... on Java Native Compilation Examined · · Score: 1

    Come out of your cave!

    Java is everywhere serverside, there are a lot of companies, websites that use java as jsp or servlets e.d.

    On the client-side there are quite a few java-applications too, besides Limewire there are a few IDE's like JBuilder, EClipse and Forte (where the first too are quite fast for ide's too), also, a lot of websites use applets.

    With Java-webstart, more java-applications will be introduced, since it'll make client-jvm installation a breeze.

  6. Re:better give 5 minutes of your time... on Red Hat Network for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Without wasting a lot of words on that, RedHat isn't and probably will not ever be such a big monopoly.

    Thinking this way, you couldn't buy anything because the producers could be come a big&evil monopolistic company.

  7. Re:Additional reading on Regarding the WWII Meeting of Bohr & Heisenberg · · Score: 1

    You're now referring to air strikes. Germany first bombed industrial and military targets in Great Brittain, but Hitler decided after a while to bomb civilian areas.

  8. Problem of the vender on Security Issues with Windows 2000 Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    I think this problem is smaller than it seems.

    The vender probably has a fix quickly, although it are special computers, they're still i386 compatible (sort of) so the vender won't have to port.

  9. Re:Why not KHTML? on Gecko May Replace IE In AOL/CompuServe · · Score: 1

    It's not part of it, but javascript in Konqueror is quite buggy. On some sites relatively standard javascript doesn't work and (even worse) sometimes the browser crashes because of it.

    Also, it renders quite html quite obscure, often first the paste is loaded and then CSS applied to the page, but this maybe just a setting.

  10. Re:Wow.. on Progeny Debian Is No More · · Score: 1

    It's not going away, Progeny is being 'integrated' into Debian.
    Personally, I have installed Progeny too, but I have modified the /apt/sources later to point to woody.

  11. Re:.NET on J# · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not saying this isn't true, but this is all already possible with Java.

    Differences are only that for the JavaVM there are much less languages available (besides Java itself Python and maybe some other language), where for the CLR you already have (besides C# and VB) Cobol and Haskell and even more languages.
    Also, Microsoft seems to market .NET better, of course five years ago Sun was slightly to early with their Java platform (but they needed that time anyway to manture Java).

  12. Re:THE CIA IS OBVIOUSLY BEHIND THIS on Bert Is Evil · · Score: 2, Funny
  13. Re:Start looking for a new search engine on Why Google Rocks And An IPO · · Score: 1

    The paradox is that the company would not be profitable then anymore or get bankrupted, and that's the last thing investers would want to happen.

    I think Google introduced a new way of searching the web that make all older ways obsolete, this 'way' (search-algorithm, no banner-ads, simple but effictive) won't disappear.

  14. Re:Another company that will bottom out.. Here's w on Why Google Rocks And An IPO · · Score: 1

    They *are* already making money, or they would not get or go (err) IPO, (fortunately) the time is over that company's that aren't profitable can do that.

    Aparently google has found a way to make money without annoying ads or a too-busy looking website.

  15. Re:Gartner smells like Ziff Davis on Gartner Claims Less Linux Than IDC · · Score: 1

    Just because of the IBM-clones.

  16. Re:Gartner smells like Ziff Davis on Gartner Claims Less Linux Than IDC · · Score: 1

    I think that is exactly a problem, Consumers actually *wanted* text-based DOS (GUI's are childish) and they got. After that they *wanted* no real full stable 32bit OS but demanded an simple DOS/Windows combination and they got it.
    Apple isn't much better, but they at least droped compatibilty to the max for an real (not real-time :-) ) stable 32 -bit unix-based OS.

    While this is not a MS-only thing, this sounds actually

  17. Re:Shipped 'were' only includes pre-installed? on Gartner Claims Less Linux Than IDC · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was also wondering.
    In my company we have one Compaq NT-server as file/domain-server (unfortunately ran by some extrernal admin-company that refused to administor a machine remote), and one (and over some time two) linux machine installed on desktop-machines serving as mail/firewall/proxy/intranet-server.

    The first NT-server is essential but the linux-machines just as well.

  18. Re:Responsibility... on University IT Departments and Viruses? · · Score: 1

    If that was really true, it would be yet another example how sick USA-law (or lack thereof) is .

    I read recently that a man was to get $7,000,000,000 to get from a sigarete company, so maybe you right anyway.

  19. Re:Except that NOTHING RUNS under NT. on University IT Departments and Viruses? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about university's computers for student in the university. Students shouldn't install programs themself there.
    It's possible to install programs/plugins under an useraccount with Unix, and with Windows 2000 that's somehow possible too.

    Of course for the computers that students own themself on the campus, it doesn't matter what they do.

  20. Re:Mcafee/Network Associates on University IT Departments and Viruses? · · Score: 1

    Actually not :-)
    I didn't want to waste internet bandwith, for virus-paranoia.

  21. Re:Mcafee/Network Associates on University IT Departments and Viruses? · · Score: 1

    I was browsing the reply's for this post! I'm surprised it is posted so late.

    MacAffee (and most other REAL virusscanner) are cross-platform, silent and automatically updateble.

    On my work I've installed MacAffee on the (Linux-)virusscanner in combination with Amavis (http:/www.amavis.org I thought) that intercepts all infected mail messages and updates itself automatically (via cron of course) every month.

  22. Re:Boot all PCs from sealed-shut bootable CDROMs. on University IT Departments and Viruses? · · Score: 1

    Of course nowadays you could also just set all files accept for the user files to read-only in bot NT and Linux/Unix.
    There are very little of not any now (since fixes are available very soon) voor worm/virii that use a security hole to get root/administrator acces to infect.

    A university deparment that uses Windows 9x on their computer shouldn't bother installing any anti-virus software

  23. Re:Above the law? on The Return of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    This is a completely false logic which I see too often.

    Why were computers diffucult to run BEFORE Windows 3.1? Because they were ran by MS-DOS. From what company did MS-DOS come?

    They're were already wonderful graphical systems, but nobady cared to use them because MS had the nice primitive, driver-less, abstraction-less, GUI-less OS.

  24. Re:GPL Inc. on Open Source Is Bad [updated] · · Score: 1

    What if someone adds GPL code to a dual licenced program? Can it legally be included in the other-licenced program?

    For example, when someone makes a bug fix for the GPL QT.

  25. Re:This could be a problem on Cracking OSX · · Score: 1

    Even more, the old Mac OS isn't even an server OS.