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  1. Re:What exactly is a Java application server? on JBoss Founder Interview · · Score: 2, Informative

    IBM has WebSphere Application Server (WAS) that is the core to most of their web products. It is a servlet manager with a DB API all combined with a modified version of Apache

    Just a small correction: even though WAS provides its own version of apache, it also provides a plug-in to be used with the original apache

    Most of the servlet engines out there (like Tomcat, JRun and WebSphere) offer the option to integrate with an external web server, mainly because they don't perform as well as the "regular" web servers on static pages.

  2. Re:Tomcat on JBoss Founder Interview · · Score: 2, Informative

    He doesn't compete with Tomcat, it actually even uses it.

    Tomcat is not a J2EE application server, it's basically a jsp/servlet engine.

    An appserver has many more features, like JNDI, transaction, connection pooling, EJB, etc...

  3. Re:Not a good analogy on Bruce Campbell Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Maybe. It's been a long time since I watched them (they're actually in my TOREDO list :)
    ED1 was a very-low budget film (I think Sam Reimi was still a student at the time), but was a great one. Maybe ED2 could be considered as a sequel and remake (with better budget) at the same time. It's very similar to the El Mariachi/Desperado saga (which coincidently has a 3rd movie in production too, Once upon a time in Mexico :)

  4. Not a good analogy on Bruce Campbell Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, when asked Bruce says "Tell me the plot of nightmare on elm street part 4" or "Friday the 13th part 4".

    I can't tell you the plot from those movies, because they were basicly the same (or even Halloween IV). But I can tell you the plot from New Nightmare (the 7th movie), Jason goes to Hell (the 9th) or Halloween H20 (the 7th too), because they were diferent. Similarly, I don't remember the differences between the ED1 and ED2 (they were basically the same), but I do remember Army of Darkness (a.k.a ID3).

    And there are many other examples, like the Lethal Weapon, Superman and Rocky series.

  5. Options on Google Letting Users Rank Search Results · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if the system works fine (i.e., without abuse), it would be nice if the user still have the option to use it or the not (as the current system works very well).

    Better yet, they could have a slashdot-like user customization mechanism (i.e., where the user can set the threshold and moderate/vote a search result in many ways).

    Anyway, I wish them luck too (Google rules :)

  6. Re:I'm kinda sick of Franchise Racer by now... on Tuxracer 1.0 Retail Version Finished · · Score: 1

    You know where were heading, don't you? Mary-Kate and Ashley mall racing, that's where.

    It could be worse. Imagine a Clippy Racer for the X-Box...

  7. Murphy's law of programming on Linux 2.4.16 Released · · Score: 1

    This hopefully fixes the error that 2.4.15 had of corrupting filesystems on unmount.

    And hopefully it does not introduce another serious one...

  8. The real question is... on MST3K "Manos" Arrives on DVD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know that movie is considered bad, but is it worse than Battlefield Earth?

  9. Fucking QuickTime Pro 5 on New Star Wars Episode II Trailer Out · · Score: 1

    That medium version is so small that Ewan McGregor was looking like Kiefer Sutherland (when he played the Young Guns series)...

  10. My recommendation on Firewire and Linux? · · Score: 1

    Are there any recommendations for PCI Firewire cards for Linux?

    I use the SIIG's 1394 DV-Cam Kit. It's pretty cheap (I paid around US$30 at Fry's), and it comes with both card and the cable.
    I don't know how fast it would be for mass storage though, but it works fine for my DV camera.

  11. Re:24 on The Tick Premieres Tonight on FOX · · Score: 1

    I never said I was offended, I actually admired them for doing that (differently from the ass-holes who changed the Spiderman trailler to remove the buildings from it). And of course I watched (and recorded it), but showing it explicitly or not doesn't matter, what matters is the action by itself.

  12. 24 on The Tick Premieres Tonight on FOX · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I know I will probably be moderated down by being off-topic, but why didn't (or don't, as it is still time :) slashdot post anything about 24?
    Not only it's been spected to be the greatest serie of this season, but they also had the guts to show a 747 being exploded for terrorism reasons (I'm surprised I din't see any criticism about that yet).
    Don't take me wrong: I don't have anything about posting a story about The Tick (much the opposite, I'm expecting it to be a great show too), I just think 24 deserved a review/post too.

    PS: BTW, 24 will be aired again tomorrow night

  13. diff version on Slashback: Scramjet, Golden Ears, Preciousness · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For those who think that EULA-like paragraph is too boring/long:

    < were harmed by the data negligently published. The parents shall be given
    < presumption in all cases
    ---
    > were harmed by the data negligently published. The parents/plantiffs shall be
    > given presumption, if the case involves graphic images,

  14. What bothers me is not the frequency of releases.. on Linux 2.4.13 · · Score: 1

    ...but its criteria:

    2.4.12 was released just 2 days after 2.4.11 to fix a bug that happens in a particular situation that happily nobody uses .

    Then 2.4.12 had a bug that broke the parport module, which unhappilly affects almost everyone who compiles a kernel, and a release to fix that bug took almost 2 weeks!

    IANAQAE (I am not a QA expert), but that doesn't sound good to me...

  15. Linus interview on osnews.com on Linux 2.4.13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Q.(The kernel) 2.4.13 just came out a few days after the 2.4.12 release, which was a broken one. Aren't you worried about the kernel reputation?

    Linus:I couldn't care less.

    Q.But that's the second time that happens in 2 weeks (2.4.12 was released just 2 days after 2.4.11). Are you sure there is not a problem with the 2.4 branch?

    Linus:See my answer to the previous question.

  16. Re:I don't understand on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe there are faster editors (although emacs AFAIK is not slow) or editors more user-friendly (if that's your problem, use xemacs) but I bet none of them are as powerful and flexible as emacs is.

    You can do virtually everything on emacs: read email, surf the web, run a shell, play games, etc. (not that you will use all of those features, but you could). You can also write your own (using e-lisp). Even "simple" text editing rocks (with macros, registers, multiple buffers and other features).
    Not to mention that its keybinds are used in many other application (like bash and mozilla)...

  17. Re:No matter what you use daily, you still need vi on VIM 6.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    That's true, but then you just need to memorize 4 commands:

    :i,:d, :wq and :q! (the most important one:)

    Someday I will write a 'palm-sized survival guide to vi'...

  18. Changelog on Linux Kernel 2.4.10 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From the
    changelog file:

    final:
    - Andrew Grover: ACPI update
    - Al Viro: block devices..
    - Andrea Arcangeli: fix list manipulation bogosity
    - Trond Myklebust: 64-bit file locking fixes
    - Brad Hards: USB CDC ethernet
    - Chris Mason: reiserfs speedup
    - Robert Love: re-merge AMD 761 GART support that was lost in -ac merge
    - Adam Richter: check pci_module_init() return value

    pre15:
    - Jan Harkes: make Coda work with arbitrary host filesystems, not
    just filesystems that use generic_file_read/write
    - Al Viro: block device cleanups
    - Hugh Dickins: swap device lock fixes - fix swap readahead race
    - me, Andrea: more reference bit cleanups

    pre14:
    - Richard Gooch: devfs update
    - Andrea Arcangeli: clean up/fix ramdisk handling now that it's in page cache
    - Al Viro: follow up the above with initrd cleanups
    - Keith Owens: get rid of drivers/scsi/53c700-mem.c file
    - Trond Myklebust: RPC over TCP race fix
    - Greg KH: USB update (ohci understands USB_ZERO_PACKET)
    - me: clean up reference bit handling, fix silly GFP_ATOMIC allocation bug

    pre13:
    - Manfred Spraul: /proc/pid/maps cleanup (and bugfix for non-x86)
    - Al Viro: "block device fs" - cleanup of page cache handling
    - Hugh Dickins: VM/shmem cleanups and swap search speedup
    - David Miller: sparc updates, soc driver typo fix, net updates
    - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates (dl2k, yellowfin and tulip)
    - Neil Brown: knfsd cleanups and fixues
    - Ben LaHaise: zap_page_range merge from -ac

    pre12:
    - Alan Cox: much more merging
    - Pete Zaitcev: ymfpci race fixes
    - Andrea Arkangeli: VM race fix and OOM tweak.
    - Arjan Van de Ven: merge RH kernel fixes
    - Andi Kleen: use more readable 'likely()/unlikely()' instead of __builtin_expect()
    - Keith Owens: fix 64-bit ELF types
    - Gerd Knorr: mark more broken PCI bridges, update btaudio driver
    - Paul Mackerras: powermac driver update
    - me: clean up PTRACE_DETACH to use common infrastructure

    pre11:
    - Neil Brown: md cleanups/fixes
    - Andrew Morton: console locking merge
    - Andrea Arkangeli: major VM merge

    pre10:
    - Alan Cox: continued merging
    - Mingming Cao: make msgrcv/shmat check the queue/segment ID's properly
    - Greg KH: USB serial init failure fix, Xircom serial converter driver
    - Neil Brown: nsfd/raid/md/lockd cleanups
    - Ingo Molnar: multipath RAID personality, raid xor update
    - Hugh Dickins/Marcelo Tosatti: swapin read-ahead race fix
    - Vojtech Pavlik: fix up some of the infrastructure for x86-64
    - Robert Love: AMD 761 AGP GART support
    - Jens Axboe: fix SCSI-generic queue handling race
    - me: be sane about page reference bits

    pre9:
    - Greg KH: start migration to new "min()/max()"
    - Roman Zippel: move affs over to "min()/max()".
    - Vojtech Pavlik: VIA update (make sure not to IRQ-unmask a vt82c576)
    - Jan Kara: quota bug-fix (don't decrement quota for non-counted inode)
    - Anton Altaparmakov: more NTFS updates
    - Al Viro: make nosuid/noexec/nodev be per-mount flags, not per-filesystem
    - Alan Cox: merge input/joystick layer differences, driver and alpha merge
    - Keith Owens: scsi Makefile cleanup
    - Trond Myklebust: fix oopsable race in locking code
    - Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA update

    pre8:
    - Christoph Hellwig: clean up personality handling a bit
    - Robert Love: update sysctl/vm documentation
    - make the three-argument (that everybody hates) "min()" be "min_t()",
    and introduce a type-anal "min()" that complains about arguments of
    different types.

    pre7:
    - Alan Cox: big driver/mips sync
    - Andries Brouwer, Christoph Hellwig: more gendisk fixups
    - Tobias Ringstrom: tulip driver workaround for DC21143 erratum

    pre6:
    - Jens Axboe: remove trivially dead io_request_lock usage
    - Andrea Arcangeli: softirq cleanup and ARM fixes. Slab cleanups
    - Christoph Hellwig: gendisk handling helper functions/cleanups
    - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs dead code pruning
    - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update to 1.1.18
    - firestream network driver: patch reverted on authors request
    - NIIBE Yutaka: SH architecture update
    - Paul Mackerras: PPC cleanups, PPC8xx update.
    - me: reverse broken bootdata allocation patch that went into pre5

    pre5:
    - Merge with Alan
    - Trond Myklebust: NFS fixes - kmap and root inode special case
    - Al Viro: more superblock cleanups, inode leak in rd.c, minix
    directories in page cache
    - Paul Mackerras: clean up rubbish from sl82c105.c
    - Neil Brown: md/raid cleanups, NFS filehandles
    - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update (usb-2.0 support, visor fix, Clie fix,
    pl2303 driver update)
    - David Miller: sparc and net update
    - Eric Biederman: simplify and correct bootdata allocation - don't
    overwrite ramdisks
    - Tim Waugh: support multiple SuperIO devices, parport doc updates

    pre4:
    - Hugh Dickins: swapoff cleanups and speedups
    - Matthew Dharm: USB storage update
    - Keith Owens: Makefile fixes
    - Tom Rini: MPC8xx build fix
    - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs update
    - Jakub Jelinek: ELF loader fix for ET_DYN
    - Andrew Morton: reparent_to_init() for kernel threads
    - Christoph Hellwig: VxFS and SysV updates, vfs_permission fix

    pre3:
    - Johannes Erdfelt, Oliver Neukum: USB printer driver race fix
    - John Byrne: fix stupid i386-SMP irq stack layout bug
    - Andreas Bombe, me: yenta IO window fix
    - Neil Brown: raid1 buffer state fix
    - David Miller, Paul Mackerras: fix up sparc and ppc respectively for kmap/kbd_rate
    - Matija Nalis: umsdos fixes, and make it possible to boot up with umsdos
    - Francois Romieu: fix bugs in dscc4 driver
    - Andy Grover: new PCI config space access functions (eventually for ACPI)
    - Albert Cranford: fix incorrect e2fsprog data from ver_linux script
    - Dave Jones: re-sync x86 setup code, fix macsonic kmalloc use
    - Johannes Erdfelt: remove obsolete plusb USB driver
    - Andries Brouwer: fix USB compact flash version info, add blksize ioctls

    pre2:
    - Al Viro: block device cleanups
    - Marcelo Tosatti: make bounce buffer allocations more robust (it's ok
    for them to do IO, just not cause recursive bounce IO. So allow them)
    - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update (1.1.17)
    - Paul Mackerras: PPC update (big re-org)
    - Petko Manolov: USB pegasus driver fixes
    - David Miller: networking and sparc updates
    - Trond Myklebust: Export atomic_dec_and_lock
    - OGAWA Hirofumi: find and fix umsdos "filldir" users that were broken
    by the 64-bit-cleanups. Fix msdos warnings.
    - Al Viro: superblock handling cleanups and race fixes
    - Johannes Erdfelt++: USB updates

    pre1:
    - Jeff Hartmann: DRM AGP/alpha cleanups
    - Ben LaHaise: highmem user pagecopy/clear optimization
    - Vojtech Pavlik: VIA IDE driver update
    - Herbert Xu: make cramfs work with HIGHMEM pages
    - David Fennell: awe32 ram size detection improvement
    - Istvan Varadi: umsdos EMD filename bug fix
    - Keith Owens: make min/max work for pointers too
    - Jan Kara: quota initialization fix
    - Brad Hards: Kaweth USB driver update (enable, and fix endianness)
    - Ralf Baechle: MIPS updates
    - David Gibson: airport driver update
    - Rogier Wolff: firestream ATM driver multi-phy support
    - Daniel Phillips: swap read page referenced set - avoid swap thrashing

  19. A small correction on Apache Tomcat 4.0 Final Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The project is called Jakarta, not Jakarata:

    Read more at The Apache Group's Jakarata site.

  20. Re:Unless I'm mistaken... on Broadcast 2000 Removed From Public Access · · Score: 1

    Kino is a good option too, but it does not have as much features as bcast (it's more directed to DV editing than general video).

    Curiously, I never got bcast to work, but I had no problems with kino :)

  21. In "related" news... on Quicktime In Linux · · Score: 1


    ... Micro$oft announced it would not support netscape plugins anymore, including Quicktime.

    Maybe it's just a sad coincidence, but who knows...

  22. Re:QT Good. ASF Support = Better. on Quicktime In Linux · · Score: 1

    Also, do Trolltech a favour and don't call QuickTime QT :)

  23. Re:QT Good. ASF Support = Better. on Quicktime In Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's totally dead yet, as (unfortunately) a lot of movie trailers are still being released in Quicktime format at their site...

  24. Not exactly... on Final Fantasy At 2.5FPS · · Score: -1, Redundant

    0.4 FPS (Frames per second) means it would take 2.5 seconds to render a frame.
    2.5 FPS would mean 4/10 of seconds to render a frame.
    Looks like someone missed the quake classes :)

  25. Re:The true question is... on Quake 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    Actually, after III comes IV, not IIII.