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  1. Re:Self refering? on Linux TV · · Score: 1

    OK Please point me to a page about embedded BSD. I have also recently come to prefer the BSD license. I would be happy to be wrong on this one but don't think that I am.

  2. Re:How will they market it? on Linux TV · · Score: 2

    If you look around at some of the embedded Linux pages out there it becomes clear that Linux is fast becoming the standard for things like this and they are doing it because it is free both beer and speech. They like the cost. They also like having the right to make it do exactly what they want it to do. If you read up on it a bit it quickly becomes clear that dispite what many posters here will say that Linux just makes sense for these types of things.

  3. Re:why suprised? They HAVE TO RELEASE CODE on NSA Linux In Depth · · Score: 2

    No no they don't. Have to release the code that is. You only have to release the code if you release binaries. So the NSA could take the Kernel code do whatever they want with it and not give it to anyone and they would be within the GPL. But if they distribute anything they have to distribute the source also. If you read the GPL you will notice that no where does it say you have to share only that if you share you have to share the source also.

  4. Re:They might as well use Linux on NSA Linux In Depth · · Score: 2

    It would seem that while their spooks want to be all hush hush that their computer security guys simply understand their job. Full disclosure is a *very* important concept to real security professionals. This would in truth fit very well.

  5. Re:./ already on Do it Yourself 1U Half-Width Server · · Score: 2

    I have tried to find and start foo I even did a
    apt-get install foo
    and it could not find the package. Where is foo and how do you get it and what does it do?
    :)

  6. Re:If I took away your net connection SquadBoy on Interrogate New Media Professor Clay Shirky · · Score: 1

    And then by your reasoning the net has true free speech. Sure maybe your views won't be seen by many people on /. due to moderation but to use the newspaper analogy that would just mean that the New York Times won't publish you but you could still get published by some other paper. And in fact my point that the net is more free than meatspace still stands because /. *will* publish you maybe on the net version of section d page 33 but still published and you can go to another fourm and perhaps have yourself published on the net version of page 1. For you to be right your argument would have to be that every paper in the country would have to put everything anyone sends it on page one. BTW this is a very interesting thread for me thanks for the debate.

  7. Re:If I took away your net connection SquadBoy on Interrogate New Media Professor Clay Shirky · · Score: 1

    So you think that because the newpaper won't publish my anti-m$ rant that I don't have free speech. Or because I won't talk to idiots on the train that I'm taking away their free speech?

  8. But will it have on Gameboy Advance US Launch Details · · Score: 1

    Tuxracer?

  9. Re:The snake game sucks... on Gameboy Advance US Launch Details · · Score: 5

    Might I suggest a book. Very usefull time killer. :)

  10. Re:If I took away your net connection SquadBoy on Interrogate New Media Professor Clay Shirky · · Score: 1

    Wrong example but the answer is still no. If my ISP where to take away my connection they would not be letting me use their lines, servers and routers to speak. But I would still be able to speak. That would be like calling it censorship because the newspaper refuses to publish a rant that I write. Or for a better analogy like a newspaper publishing my rant buried several sections back. If you think about it on /. you *can* publish which is better than most newspapers will do for you so if /. is guilty of censorship so is the New York Times. The better analogy would be the idiot on the train who notices my copy of "Building Internet Firewalls" and decides to talk to me about how neat W2K is. If I tell this person to fuck off and move to another seat I have not taken away his right to have or express his opnion. I have just made the choice not to listen to him. This is not censorship and is just what the mod system does. Is it abused? Yup sometimes. I for one try to correct that. But it is not censorship and if anything the situation is *much* better than anything you will find outside of the internet.

  11. Re:"Free speech" on Interrogate New Media Professor Clay Shirky · · Score: 1

    You have the right to post stupid stuff and to read stupid stuff. Just browse at -1 sometime. The mod system is simply people giving their opnion about what is good and what is not. It does not in any way affect your right to say or read it.

  12. Re:Even the Sun shines on a Dog's Ass once in a wh on Rep. Gets It - Boucher Re-Examines Fair Use · · Score: 2

    I don't think so. It would seem that on this one issue Senator Hatch is also right. I know that at lest part of the reason for this is that Hatch is a musician and understands these issues as a result of that. Might be something similar going on with this guy.

  13. Re:Woah! on Anonymous Speech Litigation · · Score: 2

    I think that if they thought they could ever get the "AOL suckz" stuff removed they would go for it. But since they understand that that is not going to happen they do the right thing because they will lose if they have to be responsible for the anon or for that matter the non-anon users.

  14. It sounds like on Are Expensive RDBM Systems Worth The Money? · · Score: 2

    you are building a website. You might take a look at http://www.onlamp.com. Has some good info. Granted it leans towards MySQL but it does explain why so many websites use MySQL. Having said that if you need *really* big databases Oracle does rock hard.

  15. Re:Maxtor on Sharp Officially Producing Linux PDA · · Score: 2

    First of all you will note that I said "Linux" I spoke not of BSD don't know enough to know if the Linux emulation layer would work for this or not. The link I gave in my first post gives you everything you need to run it as a server and here. is the information for setting up the client. Note if you look at the installation instructions they have Caldera, RH (which I would think Mandrake is close enough for) and other. Have fun.

  16. Re:Maxtor on Sharp Officially Producing Linux PDA · · Score: 1

    It might be hard to make Linux work with Active Directory but not NDS . Novell and Caldera support it very well thank you very much. NDS rocks!

  17. Re:Flag me as flamebait, I don't give a fuck. on The Largest Unpiloted Legged Robot Yet · · Score: 1

    If you look at the link this is to www.discover.com. If a site that big and advertised is running on a partial T1 they needed a whake up call in any case. Also yes it is pretty much true that the site linked to in this case *is* making money off of ads. And oh yes they would be more than happy to sue /. over mirroring their stuff. You should pick your stories better for posting this stuff.

  18. Re:Windows ODBC Driver for MySQL Server on Microsoft Access As A Client For Free Databases? · · Score: 1

    That remark was not directed at you. Although I can see how you might have thought it was. It was directed at the person who sent the story in. Sorry

  19. Re:Windows ODBC Driver for MySQL Server on Microsoft Access As A Client For Free Databases? · · Score: 5

    You might also take a look at this page.
    http://www.iserver.com/support/virtual/mysql/odbc/
    Amazing what a Google search can turn up is it not. Just a hint Most of us will *never* think of anything so unusual that it is not already on the web. Do a search first and then ask questions.

  20. Re:Houdini vs. Games on Linux in 3D · · Score: 2

    That would be correct. I happen to work for a href="http://www.ptc.com'> these people and if you check out the supported video cards they are all rather high end and trust me to do what it needs to do it needs every ounce of that power. Wireframes and flat shading can use up a lot of video card very quickly.

  21. Looks like on The Ultimate Destination of Banner Ads · · Score: 2

    I need to add the two that got throught to my Junkbuster blockfile. :) Only one really they where both from the same spot.

  22. Re:Strip it down, fer chrissakes on Update to the Mozilla Roadmap · · Score: 1

    It is just a matter of config options. Readup on how to use a .mozconfig file. This one should give you the general idea.

    # sh
    # Mozilla config file
    ac_add_options --disable-tests
    ac_add_options --enable-optimize
    ac_add_options --disable-debug
    ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs
    ad_add_options --disable-dtd-debug

    and so on do a search it really is quite easy. You can of course also just choose not to install anything you don't want with the binary installer.

  23. Re:Strip it down, fer chrissakes on Update to the Mozilla Roadmap · · Score: 5

    So compile it without. Fairly easy to do. Takes 3 and half weeks but not hard at all to do so.

  24. Re:Away team, Set phasers on 'Pain'... on Marine Corps Testing Maser for Anti-Personnel Use · · Score: 1

    The issue that the first poster was talking about was the torture of humans. I fail to see the irony here.
    Oh...... You mean you consider MBA's to be human?!? Oh I get it now. I don't agree with you but I can see how you might come to this point of view. Me I only have problems if they torture people. :)

  25. Is this on Gnutella "Virus" Roams · · Score: 2

    the same as this one ?