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  1. Illumos on The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.illumos.org/ seems to be the closest thing to a community still left for the future of OpenSolaris.

  2. Re:Support Parrot on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 2

    Agree.

  3. Re:Do Microsoft products use .NET? on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 1

    And it's god awfull slow (to startup) and can't handle large data sets.

    I'm sure they are really proud of it.

  4. Re:Getting screwed in both directions on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why Facebook optimized PHP (with hiphop: http://wiki.github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/) last.

    It really was the least import part when optmizing.

  5. Re:Getting screwed in both directions on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but I've seen to many Java systems that needed a large server where just a few php-files and a bytecode cache on a small server would have done it with less server load, would be able to handle more users, would be easier to setup and a lot less code to manage.

    It maybe be because of those so called professional programmers and the way they program their applications.

    Then again, they don't know how to program in PHP either.

    I think each language/tool has it's place and the programmers working on the project need to know and understand the language/tools they are using.

  6. Re:New features consume resources, news at 7 on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    And nothing like them, just a few % CPU, nothing to worry about.

  7. Re:New features consume resources, news at 7 on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    My indexed IMAP-cache is 1.4 GB, yes when it was indexing/downloading the first it was slower, but it isn't right now.

  8. Re:Seemed faster to me on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    It is because of the new indexing and stuff that use with IMAP is actually faster. I'm happy with that.

  9. Re:Limited problems on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    Yes, I've seen that too. I expected it to download new messages from a folder, but when you change to it, it will not have collected the new messages, but TB will automatically check for that folder and finds some.

  10. Re:It's down to the cost of one disk? on The Recovery Disc Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    1. I don't think Microsoft would like it.
    2. Bandwidth at large amounts costs money too

  11. Re:Really two different halves on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 1

    OK, the other alternative is: replace the key with a new key when the keys are lost.

  12. Re:Forced Browser Choice on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 1

    No, this has always been the trend. The settlement didn't have a big impact as I see it.

  13. Re:companies on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is because of the deployment system and profile-settings for IE. Official Firefox doesn't have them. They are working on MSI's for Firefox 4 though. That's the first step.

  14. Re:fsck Silverlight on Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo · · Score: 1

    Obviously not, as this is the largest digital photo. That implies that there is nothing like it.

  15. Re:Really two different halves on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 1

    Nothing will be screwed, everything will keep running, you just need to disable the DNSSEC-validity-checks and you'll have DNS just like before DNSSEC was introduced.

  16. Re:Really two different halves on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 1

    If they keys are lost, you just disable the DNSSEC-extensions on all recursive nameservers and everything will work as it currently does. DNSSEC only adds a crypto-validity-check to DNS.

  17. Re:Really two different halves on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 1

    everything works are before if you turn on the DNSSEC-extensions on your nameserver. Just the validity checks will be off, so you would able to trust the DNS-infrastructure as much as you do now.

  18. Re:Really two different halves on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 1

    It all doesn't matter, if the current keys are lost, all that is needed is to generate a new key for the root.

    This whole system is only in place so root-key-upgrades can happen without nameserver-administrators needing to do manual changes.

  19. Re:Sun already did this on Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    And in the article it said: IBM stopped doing so.

  20. Re:Too late on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 1

    Something like this maybe ?:

    "100 Million Facebook Pages Leaked On Torrent Site

    A directory containing personal details about more than 100 million Facebook users has surfaced on an Internet file-sharing site. The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook's open access directory, which lists all users who haven't bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines."

    http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/28/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-torrent-site/
    http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/1350222/100-Million-Facebook-Pages-Leaked-On-Torrent-Site?art_pos=3

  21. Re:it doesn't make any sense because on Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of the GUI actually.

  22. Re:Too much configuration will make you go blind on Firefox Tab Candy Alpha · · Score: 1

    "If you pile several tabs into one lump and close that lump w/o thinking, you may realize that you just closed something that you needed--what was it? where is it? how do I get it back? "

    Why do you think Firefox has at the bottom of the history-menu a 'recently closed windows'. It's for this situation, it works really well. :-)

  23. Re:I prefer tabsbookmarks on Firefox Tab Candy Alpha · · Score: 1

    And have you considered Firefox Sync / Firefox Home for the iPhone. :-)

    So you can not only sync bookmarks, but also history and preferences, it's password-protected and encrypted and normally sent over https so you don't have to worry someone taking a look at your bookmarks.

    You don't have to use the Mozilla server, but you can also use your own.

  24. Re:it doesn't make any sense because on Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website · · Score: 1

    A common example:

    On Ubuntu visit this page:
    http://www.google.com/chrome

    click 'Download Google Chrome'
    click 'Accept and install'
    (a standard browser window popups telling you you are downloading a deb-file)
    click 'open in gdebi installer'
    click 'install package'
    it asks for a password
    the package is installed and it's available in the menu in the top left, under the 'internet' section
    done

    what is your point ?

  25. Re:Just works? on Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website · · Score: 1

    Have you tried creating a different Firefox-profile ? Maybe there is something wrong with that.