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  1. Where IRIX? on Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just wondered where IRIX is on that list.. As I can't see it

    Rus

  2. Re:I just installed FreeBSD on New Testing Version Of Linux 2.6 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Try Debian. A small install is around 96Mb and if you install a customer kernel should 200 Mb (Excluding source)

    Rus

  3. So... on MCI Accused of Long-Distance Call Accounting Fraud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We are going to have a long inquiery followed by a long drawn out process to get the money out of them if found guilty?

    Rus

  4. BSD License on Open Source/Proprietary - An Issue of Two Codebases? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the BSD License cover this. Basically AFAIK you can have your open source stuff out however any changes made can be kept closed source and sold as you see fit

    HTH

    Rgds

    Rus

  5. BSD on Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO · · Score: 1

    Of course you could just for BSD where the law-suits have already come and gone

    Rus

  6. Thought provoking on Lecture Hall Back-Channeling · · Score: 1

    As said elsewhere this is a good thing. It should help people think what is going on and ask questions. Better than whispering but not sure about the key presses of laptops. Now if there was a silent method of data entry that would be cool

    Rus

  7. Sonic Space Channel Fighter on Sega's Grand Plans, Development Changes · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they are doing this why don't they merge all of the teams and give us Sonic Space Channel Fighter. Now thats a game I would like to see

    Rus

  8. Existance on 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars Out There · · Score: 1

    Taking in the distances etc involved you have to wondered how may of these stars still exist as we are just seeing the echos. Then again how many have been created?

    Rus

  9. Blogged Bibile on Digitized Gutenberg Bible Available · · Score: 1

    I saw this and thought that a bible had been written by bloggers using MT. Time for caffine I think

    Rus

  10. Relability on Next Wave Of Hard Drive Tech: Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 1

    Does this increase relability at all and will we get back our 3 yeah warrenties?

    Rus

  11. Gym on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 1

    How about at lunch times walk to the local gym and do something there?

    Rus

  12. Re:Simple on Getting Software Added to Unix Distributions? · · Score: 1

    "2. get the werd out. If people know about your package, it could solve a problem somewhere that would get it installed."

    Well I know that some memeber of the Linux community can be a bit high strung but I would called the weird

    Rus

  13. Reputation + Packaging on Getting Software Added to Unix Distributions? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Half of it is about reputation and having a good following. The other thing that helps is to supply packages for each distro. i.e rpm for redhat, deb for debian. For others like FreeBSD which have the ports tree see if you can get your files commited

    HTh

    Rus

  14. Sad end... on Corel Ousted From Public Life? · · Score: 1

    I've always liked wordperfect as well as Corel Support for Linux. First company to bring a commerical wordprocessor to Linux IIRC. Was good but now times are moving on..

    Good luck corel whatever the future might hold

    Rus

  15. It was going ok. on When Good Spammers Go Bad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was impressed with the article until I got to the comment "I mean, what do I care about what Windows losers get scammed out of?". Now I like Linux much as the next geek but thats just going to aliante people.

    M$ might be a monopoly but at least they have bought some form of consistency

    Rus

  16. Re:If you want a release date.... on QA Under The Open Source Development Model · · Score: 1

    Well least there is no marketing dept so OSS projects don't get stupid names like scoop :)

    Rus

  17. Patents on Australian Gov't Moves To Block E-commerce Patent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its good to see a county actually opposing stupid patents. Now if australia would only apply the same sort of logic to its monopoly on telcos.

    Rus

  18. OS/2 Support on Apache HTTP Server 1.3.28 Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    You've got to admire them for supplying fixes for a Dead (if not almost) OS

    From the article

    "Fix the rotatelogs support program on Win32 and OS/2"

    Rus

  19. As I said on Exploit Available for Cisco IOS Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    here

    " I'm going to say an exploit by tommorow. End of the internet by Sat. All back to normal on Monday"

    Rus

  20. Collision Detection on Satellite Driven Farming Equipment · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This seems very cool and everything but I wonder how "automatic" these are and do they have any collision detection. I can't help but picture the tractor going along, hitting a kangeroo and then all hell break loose. Never underestimate the unexpected

    Rus

  21. Whales on Slashback: Benchmarks, Sobig, Blob · · Score: 1

    I have to ask how did the whale get in that shape in the first place? Attacked by humans or something more sinister

    Rus

  22. Re:Travelers on Cheap Dial-Up ISPs Gain Ground · · Score: 2, Informative

    YOu want someting like Gric. I suggest that you do a google for Gric providers. IF in the UK I've found JetSet Rome really good

    Rus

  23. Re:Yet... on Major Flaw Found In Cisco IOS Devices · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to say an exploit by tommorow. End of the internet by Sat. All back to normal on Monday

    Rus

  24. Re:It's days like this... on Major Flaw Found In Cisco IOS Devices · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remeber the day Bind 8.2.2-P5 had an exploit come live. 24 hours and 56 servers later I finally managed to get to bed. Only to have to upgrade it all again a few days later.

    fun

    Rus

  25. Alternative on Major Flaw Found In Cisco IOS Devices · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why I always suggest alternatives to Cisco such as IP over Avian and actual implementaion on Linux

    Rus