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  1. Neither on Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should choose neither! There is no Red Hat Advanced Server! They have taken all of their enterprise server capabilities from our product! We have sued the Red Hat Infadels out of existence! You will all be running SCO Unix soon!

    -- SCO Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  2. Re:Universal Service Fund on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC · · Score: 1

    More cable. That's the biggest reason. With neighbors sometimes MILES apart, they have to run LOTS of extra cable per customer, not like in the city where you closest neighbor is usually only a small number of feet away.

  3. Re:What is the future of ReiserFS... on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gentoo -- and no, I'm not, Gentoo gives you the choice of vanilla sources, gentoo sources, xfs sources, etc.

  4. Vaporware == Jailtime? on Hype Vaporware, Go To Jail? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Guess Gates and Co. should have life sentences by now. Heck, *I* should be in jail right now. ;)

  5. Re:YES!!! on PHP Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Hey, HC it beats the hell out of the rest of the crap on TV most days of the week. ;)

  6. Re:YES!!! on PHP Cookbook · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... does anyone really know the original intent of perl? I guess that's like trying to find the oringal intent for ducK tape (and no, don't say to seal off ventilation ducts, coz that's what they'd have you believe.)?

    Duck tape was invented during WWII by Johnson+Johnson for the purpose keeping water out of ammunition cases -- it was relatively waterproof, hence the reason people in the military started calling it "duck tape."

    You should try watching the History Channel more often. ;)

  7. Re:Why ReiserFS? on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 1

    I've had far better stability on ReiserFS than I have had on XFS. But YMMV.

  8. Re:What is the future of ReiserFS... on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 1

    However, for RAID users, I can not see any reason to use ReiserFS instead of XFS, and definitely not EXT3 unless upgrading the file system.

    I can. ReiserFS is included in current stable-series kernels, while XFS is not, hence XFS users have to rely on a non-standard, patched kernel.

  9. Re:Let's face it on What Is The Future of PNG? · · Score: 1

    ANSI.sys and ANSI graphics are FAR older than the early 90s.

    and anyways, the answer: ansi.com and fansi console -- the Eudora and Pegasus of the early 90s (80s?) by your analogy.

  10. Re:Good business planning on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 2, Informative
    More than just the support revenue angle, Hans has made money off of reiserfs by directly selling the code. From the reiserfs/README file:

    Source code files that contain the phrase "licensing governed by reiserfs/README" are "governed files" throughout this file. Governed files are licensed under the GPL. The portions of them owned by Hans Reiser, or authorized to be licensed by him, have been in the past, and likely will be in the future, licensed to other parties under other licenses.

    Among his customers have been DARPA and BigStorage, which are noted sponsors right on the front page. I think I remember reading that BigStorage is using ReiserFS for some sort SAN.

  11. Re:So He Paid Nothing? on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey if the RIAA wants MY life savings, they can have it! Here! Reaches in pocket, pulls out a quater, two dimes, a nickel and 2 pennies. 52 cents! My entire life savings! I spent the rest on overpriced CDs.

  12. Re:Celebrate Freedom! July is"Turn Yourself In"mon on 43 Million Americans Use P2P Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, my senior year of high school I attended the local public school, Redford Union H.S. Only that was the year they decided too many people were skipping classes, so they locked all of the doors leading to the outside except for one. (Which was probably illegal due to fire regulations, but I digress).

    So the students renamed it RUSHA (pronounced as 'Russia') -- Redford Union Senior High Academy. Heh. Mad props to anyone from RU High? who attended that year and recognizes this little piece! ;)

  13. Re:Celebrate Freedom! July is"Turn Yourself In"mon on 43 Million Americans Use P2P Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I can see it now ... P2P concentration camps. 42 million people enslaved to search the Internet and P2P networks for illegally-posted ??AA-owned material. Thousands of course will be taken to the "showers" first.

  14. Uses? on Force Field. No, Really · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can think of so many uses for this.

    Like keeping PHBs out of the server room? ;)

  15. Re:Let's face it on What Is The Future of PNG? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know. I even see ANSI graphics now and then. ;)

  16. Re:SW is not Dead! (Yet) on Shortwave Radio and The PC · · Score: 0

    In some countries like Africa...

    Oh, my! When did the various countries on the continent of Africa unite to become one country! Why did no one tell me? I saw no mention of this on CNN, FOX News, anything.

  17. Re:Possible apps... on Shortwave Radio and The PC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. Weather alerts - Global reach, software controllable as well. Should be ideal to get local alerts. Specially suited for /ers who spend hours in front of their PCs blissfully unaware of the weather!

    Two things:

    a. kweather.
    b. One word: *window* (you know, that big glass thing in the wall that let's you look outside ;)

    2. Terror alerts - need we say more?

    Yeah, because as we all know terrorists are gonna wait until the condition is orange or red before they strike! ;)

    3. Service Pack alerts! the best of the lot. We could have daily bulletins, sponsored programs by virus writers, chat shows with hackers etc.

    Ummm, don't already do this? Or am I missing out on something here?

  18. Re:How about the internet over short wave? on Shortwave Radio and The PC · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amateur radio support (aka AX.25) is already present in the Linux kernel and has been for some time.

  19. Re:Celebrate Freedom! July is"Turn Yourself In"mon on 43 Million Americans Use P2P Software · · Score: 1

    Ummm...let's see 2mil*21=42mil. Most prisons in the U.S.A. are overpopulated (i.e., beyond capacity) That's 21 times the *existing* prison population, and *far* beyond the prison system capacity.

    They couldn't POSSIBLY imprison all 42 million. The capacity doesn't exist.

  20. Re:Soundex??? on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 1

    Of course, you'll have privacy advocates up in arms. OTOH, you already have to have photo ID to purchase a plane ticket anyway, so it's not like they can't already track which flights you've taken.

    I dunno, I'd be a bit on the fence if the system actually worked as advertised, but I'm still not confident such a system would.

    Who guarantees the integrity of the database? How do we know it contains valid data? How do we ensure against someone tampering with the data? There's a thousand questions.

  21. Re:Soundex??? on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 1

    SoundEx was first *applied* to the 1880 census, it doesn't date quite that far back. It was originally created for and by people who were doing genealogy work.

    (FWIW, I'm a founding member of national genealogical society -- see my link above.)

  22. Re:IE isn't the only one not vuln on Java/Script Alert: Cross-Platform Browser Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    I can confirm that Konqueror appears to be immune as well. (Not surprising since both are based on khtml)

  23. Re:Soundex is good for some things on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 1

    As I said, it's useful as an aid in simple searches. ;)

  24. Re:Soundex??? on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 4, Funny

    But to me, finding terrorists by checking their names against no-fly lists sounds just about as useful as checking IP packets for an Evil bit, doesn't it?

    Are you trying to tell me that the RFC 3514 patch I wrote for the Linux kernel back in April is useless?!

  25. Re:Soundex??? on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 1

    That's a bit insulting to first-years, don't you think?

    Heh. Yeah, probably.

    Perhaps it was written by people with no education..

    Well, you have to have some education to be able to write code, even if its self-education. Legends about Linus Torvalds or James Gosling aside, nobody's born with the ability to code.