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  1. Naysayers on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, I thought I'd get this comment in before all the anti-war people got on. GOOD JOB GUYS!!!!

  2. Re:netbsd ... on Chock Full o' NetBSD! · · Score: 1

    And you can do the same for Redhat Linux 9 to any machine and it will work too. Nice try. Being open source, both BSD and Linux suffer from the too many choices syndrome. Does that /etc work on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD? I am ignorantly asking, if you'll forgive me.

    When we look at SuSE vs Redhat vs Debian, etc., we must remind ourselves the myriad of BSDs out on the market as well. I'm still trying to connect exactly what aspects of /etc would be platform specific and would break on other platforms. Maybe if it contained microcode updates for a specific processor; but, hey, you did say "(almost)", so I would assume this still qualifies.

    Anyway, the whole Linux vs BSD thing doesn't work, just like Emacs vs VI. Just wanted to point out a few things... (I like VI BTW)

  3. Re:Archive.org not on the list? on World's Largest Databases Ranked · · Score: 1

    Insertion: $ touch filename Deletion: $ rm filename Transactions can be emulated in a user-space library.

  4. Re:Archive.org not on the list? on World's Largest Databases Ranked · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All the more proving that you don't need a stupid database for everything. Actually, they should put conventional static filesystems as part of the comparison. Because you know what, some IT people get hooked on trying to dumping everything under the Sun in Oracle. This request is especially relevant for journaling/transaction based filesystems and possibly the future Longhorn thingy where it's got SQL capabilities.

  5. Re:Archive.org not on the list? on World's Largest Databases Ranked · · Score: 1

    And what is that difference? Please enlighten us. Regexp grep over a text file with comma-delimited tables can replicate many a SQL commands.

  6. Re:Keen? on Peter Jackson Hints At The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    /. called. Theys dun gives a crup!

  7. Framebuffer on Linux Kernel 2.6.0-test10 Released · · Score: 1

    is still broken. Please fix it, so i can see the pretty graphical boots that are floating around now a days. [IBM T30 Laptop ATI Mobility M7 with boot options: vga=0x316 video=radeon:0x177:ypan]

  8. Re:fragile GA, and what this is and isn't on Genetic Algorithms and Compiler Optimizations · · Score: 1

    It justs goes to show that the scientific method is still very important even with genetic engineering methods. One cannot rely on experiments happening in a single environment, rather they must run the GA to breed circuits in several labs around the world and diversify internal environments. Possibly, a local GA could try to breed optimal circuits and then a global GA would take the results of all the labs' local GAs and re-GA it to balance the system.

  9. Re:Er, wha? (AKA DMBS??? ) on Rekall Now Available Under GPL · · Score: 1

    ReKall has its nieche

    Yep! It starts up in less than 5 minutes!

  10. Re:Bon Appetite! on OSDL Pays For Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense · · Score: 0

    Go fish!

  11. Re:Do you need a lawyer? on OSDL Pays For Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense · · Score: 2, Informative

    In America, the questions might be stupid, but you better bet your bottom the answers are real good. That's why you need a lawyer.

  12. Re:Redhat on OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS? From where, a warez site?

    Another misinformed /. peon. Read 'em and weep:

    ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/p ub /redhat/linux/enterprise/

    This is a mirror. Go get some fresh air.

    Anyone stupid enough to deploy that in a new installation deserves whatever they get..

    Anyone stupid enough to install servers that relies on a vendor to spoon-feed patches to you deserves whatever they get. Besides, these distros are quite manageable with the likes of yum and apt-get. There are non-Redhat folks updating for these OSes. freshrpms.net, dag.wieers.com, blah blah blah.

    Try again.

  13. Re:Redhat on OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    I'll be brief: you can still download it.

    Goodbye.

  14. Re:What about Cox? on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 1

    For a good reason, he lives in the U.K. and SCO doesn't want to mess with non-residents. It's not something they have time for! They're too busy coming up with their bogus strategy for world domination.

  15. Re:A good number of reasons on Linux Users More Likely To Pay For Games? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And there are Linux users that actually care about copyrights and piracy. In so much, they use Open Source or Linux as the method of overcoming the problems of piracy instead of using draconian politics and corporate cronyism.

  16. Re:Patent Jungle? on The Best of What's New From Popular Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder how many innovations were made by ordinary people slaving and sweating everyday to figure out how to do something better? I wonder how many spent more money just during the "concept" phase to get things rolling than many of us could every make?

    There's a balance to the issue with Patents, as with nearly anything. Having no patents on anything is just more of the Internet generation sucking in everything for free... it's a really intense vacuum.

  17. Re:Ready, but.... on IBM and Its Thoughts on Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Do you have tpb installed? It uses NVRAM and if the polling happens too much, sometimes the kernel craps out on you.

    Maybe up the POLLTIME variable in your /etc/tpbrc file (locate tpbrc) and see if that helps. An extreme fix would be to pkill tpb as root.

    Hope that helps!

  18. Re:Killer app on IBM and Its Thoughts on Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    A lot of our customers love those public folders - particularly for scheduling things.

    smbmount combined with konqueror can do wonders. All public folders is a network file folder with the overhead of the DAV protocol and the embeddedness of Outlook. You could also pull the same thing off with Apache and mod_dav using embedded Parts in Konqueror. In fact, browsing should be left to the Explorer/Konqueror/Finder component of the O.S. and not in the Scheduling component.

    an easy development tool for X.

    QT Designer? Glade? Kommander? It ain't VB, but it's pretty simple stuff. I know there was a BASIC project going for awhile. But, I think it's dead...

  19. Stupid on Disposable Cell Phones Arrive · · Score: 2

    Just sell temporary SIM cards at 7-11 and let people figure out how to get a used cell phone for $20 bucks. That's how we do it in Taiwan. Locking into contracts for two years is for weenies. Who cares about changing your phone number every two months!

  20. Re:The end of Red Hat? on Novell/SUSE Prime for Aquisition? · · Score: 1

    Answer: "Is this good or bad for Red Hat? (Good, Aberdeen Group analyst Bill Claybrook decided, as it makes Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT - news) the largest Linux distributor in the world but also the only major independent one left)."

  21. Uhhh on Tangible Interfaces for Computers · · Score: 1

    I thought my keyboard was already pretty tangible, but I just came out of watching Revolutions ... so, my brain hurts now. Maybe I'm still trying to connect what the "pinching" had to do with anything in that movie. Maybe nothing's real! It's all an intangible mess of connectors to something unknown, unreal.

    Blah! Hogwash!

  22. Re:CET times on Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight · · Score: 1

    So, what? Another "standard" time zone? Call me ignoramus, but I think every should center on *my* time zone, okay? I'm in China for pete's sake, they don't call it "Middle" "Country" for nothin'!

  23. Caloric Intake on Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    With all of the police pursuits in California, can mandatory GPS and disabling devices in all vehicles be far away?

    With all the caloric intake of people at McDonalds in California, can a mass coronary failure across the entire state be far away?

  24. Re:I only have one question on Open Sourcing a Vertical Market Application? · · Score: 1

    Think about this:

    * You are Burger King
    * FoodCo is a bun maker
    * BK buys buns from FoodCo
    * FoodCo is a vertical market
    * BK could reduce costs by expanding into that vertical market by either purchasing FoodCo right out or by producing buns themselves

    Vertical usually talks about suppliers, distributors, etc. etc. Like Gateway going into doing those Gateway Stores was a move vertically for Gateway...

    Hope this helps.

  25. Re:Fedora vs. RedHat, and RHCE on Fedora Core 1 Released · · Score: 1

    if they'll need some special "student edition" of their Enterprise Linux product?

    How many times do I need to repeat this mantra until people get it here?

    "You can still download Enterprise Linux."
    "You can still download Enterprise Linux."
    "You can still download Enterprise Linux."
    "You can still download Enterprise Linux."
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