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  1. Re:Microsoft - Make Linux into Windows 7 on Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying · · Score: 1

    Also, if they would switch, I suspect they would use a BSD, not GPL.

  2. Re:Microsoft - Make Linux into Windows 7 on Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying · · Score: 1

    That's a bit silly, Microsoft doesn't need to pour that much money in WINE, they can legally use there own dll's.

  3. Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless. on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    "I won't because I DON'T FUCKING HAVE TO!"

    unless it breaks and you'll have no clue how to fix it.

    I've seen windows brake to often in ways which did not have any simple solution and some didn't even
    have a hard solution.

    In Linux/Unix where everything is just a file, where rsync backups can keep a history of file changes...
    it hardly breaks and if it does it's as simple to solve and it was to setup.

    Which isn't to hard if you have some knowledge how it works.

    Windows backups are mostly all or nothing, which is just insane.

    You lost 1 very important e-mail in Exchange, restore it for me from a backup please.

    Unless you paid thousands for your backup solution or keep pst's, you won't be able to.

    I use Maildirs thank you very much.

  4. Re:There's no advantage to propietary on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    Can you get a receipt form a stripped you just showed some money down here panties ?

  5. Re:What is a barista smile? on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1

    In europe we don't have that going on normally, waitresses don't need to tips to get by, they get payed properly. Tips are just extra's.

    So that might be a reason we didn't know about that.

  6. Re:I hope they implement this as plugins on Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition · · Score: 1

    That's what profiles are for. :-)

  7. Re:Nice troll but I'll bite... on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should just use:

    http://www.pfsense.org/

    It doesn't have IPv6 yet, but that's still months/years away.

  8. Re:I wouldn't be surprised.. on MacBook Air First To Be Compromised In Hacking Contest · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting the mobile users with S60-phones (http://www.s60.com/), it's a fork from the same webkit-core as Safari uses for it's browser-engine.

    Ofcourse we don't know if the problem is in the engine or the interface. It could still be Safari specific.

  9. Re:Dell is actually starting to not suck. on MacBook Air First To Be Compromised In Hacking Contest · · Score: 1

    And they sell it in 'Tuxedo Black'. Is it just me or is that a Tux reference ? ;-)

  10. Re:Nice troll but I'll bite... on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    yes, yes.

    I recommend: OpenBSD or Debian/Linux

  11. Re:Nice troll but I'll bite... on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    A commission (what else ?) layed down how the IPv6-protocol should work and it turns out, it's incompatible with IPv4.

    For a IPv4-only host to connect to a IPv6-only host, you'll need a host in between that creates a new connection to the IPv6-only host in name of the IPv4-only host.

    So if you install something like squid or a much simpeler proxy-server, you can have your IPv4-only host connect to squid and ask it to get the content from the IPv6-only host.

    This is an example of how you would be able to visit websites on IPv6-hosts.

    The host with the proxy could be that router which now has an IPv4 address (and probably handles NAT/firewall), which should get an IPv6-address at a later point.

    There are more ways to handle it, but this is probably the simplest example I could give.

  12. Re:Nice troll but I'll bite... on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    The easiest way to handle antique OSs is by using a proxy, like a webproxy.

  13. Re:XP? on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    How do you ? Checksums ofcourse.

    He uses the abacus for calculating the checksum.

  14. Re:Nice troll but I'll bite... on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    In 2 years all servers on the internet should have a IPv6-address, Windows 2000 doesn't have any proper IPv6-support (XP has almost everything except for a GUI).

  15. Re:It's nice to share. on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    There have been many reports of (Microsoft) games, when handcrafted to not check for DX10 to work just fine on DX9

  16. Re:Fighting Microsoft at OSI. on Bruce Perens Aims For OSI Executive · · Score: 1

    I do think Apple are starting to learn about give & take. See: http://webkit.org/

  17. Re:why won't javascript die already? on Web 2.0, Meet JavaScript 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Yes you can, it's the database. :-)

  18. Re:paranoia yes ..... on Inside The Twisted Mind of Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    I have the same problem, I do think from what I've seen of my current bank they aren't so good, I'm switching. As a user of the system you can see so much more, so I'll reevaluate after that.

  19. Re:How much for only half an Internet? on ISP Dispute Causing Connectivity Issues for Customers · · Score: 1

    However you slice or dice it, the SLA usually just handles with connectivity, it doesn't say to what.

  20. Re:One thing always missing from such stories... on Debian Cluster Replaces Supercomputer For Weather Forecasting · · Score: 1

    It didn't say performance improved by a factor of 20, the article (and summary) say the operation cost went down by a factor of 20.

  21. Re:How do they actually supercompute? on Debian Cluster Replaces Supercomputer For Weather Forecasting · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it's a single system image, but it could be: http://www.openssi.org/

  22. Re:Thats why theres amateur radio on Are Wikileaks Servers In a Nuclear Bunker? · · Score: 1

    As the parent said: 'at the first outside router'

  23. Re:DNS is obviously a failure.... on Number of Rogue DNS Servers on the Rise · · Score: 1

    I know your kidding, but I just wanted to point out...

    There are not enough IPv4-addresses to host all the websites, most use HTTP-Host-headers-fields (more then one site per IP-address).

    So it would not be dot-quads, but IPv6-addresses if we would want to keep all sites online, I wish you luck.

  24. Re:Speaking of caches... on W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic · · Score: 1

    The best way to get developers to do something is to build in a 180 seconds delay, before sending the response back to the HTTP-client.

    Saves a lot of bandwidth too, because a lot of clients (or users) wouldn't even wait that long ?

  25. Re:long live postgres on PostgreSQL 8.3 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem with the whole LAMP-acronym is, we have a lot more to choose from. What do you think of: LLPP (Linux, lighttpd, Perl, PostgreSQL) or something like that.