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  1. Re:quarter million lines of code? on GnuCash - A Call For Help · · Score: 1

    GnuCash has a lot of its parts written in Scheme, I didn't check exactly what or which, some core parts are implemented in C, many other parts are implemented in Scheme.

  2. Re:It's SIP service, silly on Michael Robertson Unveils SIPphone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You should prefer to setup a SIP proxy on the gateway rather than implementing a SIP ALG module.

    SIP (as any VoIP protocol) is a complicated protocol with many options and many modes of operations.

    Parsing it is somewhat ugly especially if you do it in kernel code where any small mistake will kill the gateway completely (as opposed to killing the SIP proxy only).

  3. Re:Hmm.. on Skydiving Across the English Channel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In skydiving you acclerate pretty fast but there is a target speed that you can hardly pass, it depends on your position, if you go belly down you go slower than if you have your head down (or up).

    Slowdown is pretty sharp too, but it is still not an instant stop, so the shock is there but it normally doesn't tears the limbs.

  4. Re:I used to follow mozilla on Mozilla 1.4b Loosed · · Score: 1

    Just start typing ahead with a / and it will search text too.

    The type ahead feature is great, it enables me to surf with the keyboard only. I just need to find out the keys to get to the url bar to type another url.

  5. Re:why FTP? on Tom Lord's Decentralized Revision Control System · · Score: 1

    Rsync works over ssh only if you order it to do so with rsync -e ssh

    Rsync has its own protocol that can be used to contact an rsync server, but this is a setup that isn't widely used.

    rsync over ssh requires a login to the remote machine which is likely not to be available for a distributed cvs.

  6. Re:Illegal Activities? on The America Online Protocol Revealed · · Score: 1

    You probably should look up the meaning of a smiley at the end of a claim, this was intended to come out as a joke on complaints on USians. But whatever I guess there are humor impaired peoples everywhere...

  7. Re:Illegal Activities? on The America Online Protocol Revealed · · Score: 1

    Apparently the grandparent post is a USian, try a double ROT13 encryption on any cyrillic, hebrew or arabic script and it will work like a charm.

    Those USians can't see beyond their nose :-)

  8. Re:Change the GPL on Under The Surface Of The BSA Anti-Piracy Campaign · · Score: 1

    That would make it a non DFSG-free license, Debian requires that the license will have no discriminatory terms, not even against such bastards.

  9. Re:email/phone support is responsible on Tech Support: Sucking Even More · · Score: 1

    For the record, I've worked as a tech support at a local ISP for the usual low pay, with the usual clueless users and the usual annoyance from being unable to get to do some real development job. The support I did was both for internet and a local stock-exchange information service.

    The reason that face-to-face tech support is better is that usually this means a time off for the worker, he gets to drive a company car somewhere, he has some time off with no customers on his head demanding help but unable to follow simple instructions and most of all he can just do with the computer whatever is needed to make the software work, it is faster much less frustrating to do it yourself than to wait for the user to hunt down the characters on the keyboard.

  10. Re:C++ Frustrations on Next Generation C++ In The Works · · Score: 1

    MathML is already in Mozilla, and it works pretty good from the bits that I've seen, unfortunately, Mozilla is probably not a popular browser.

  11. Re:LyX on Improving GUIs In Open Source? · · Score: 1

    After reading the other comments, I have this to add.

    LyX is a a document-processor, you can equate it with Word, though it would be degrading for LyX. The fine part for the GUI design part is that parts of it are in MVC frame, that is there is a complete seperation between the applications and (parts) of the GUI.

    The parts not done yet are the major parts but this is being worked on. The dialogs are already in MVC form or in the last stages to be moved there.

    The plus for this is that you can change the GUI easily without touching the application itself. This means that you can do whatever you want without upsetting anyone and if you do it well and improve on the current GUI (not so hard to do IMNSHO), it will get accepted into future versions.

  12. LyX on Improving GUIs In Open Source? · · Score: 2

    The LyX project could do with some GUI design help, currently it is done by some rough guidelines of what is wanted, but some more top-down design and how things can be improved would be beneficial.

    Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers on the project so I'm bound to be biased.

  13. Re:Bully for AOL on AOL vs. Open Source AIM Clones · · Score: 1

    The analogy just doesn't fit, I'm paying a fixed sum every month just to have a phone line that I can use. And I pay for every call depending on it's length.

    I'm sure AOL won't mind switching from the ad based revenue model to a telcom revenue model for the IM access. But as usual you probably want it all free, free from ads and free from paying.

  14. Re:What's Wrong with PayPal? on Scott McCloud on Comics and The Internet · · Score: 1

    Well, They do support Israel, but they only do Visa. I needed their service for some transfers and found to my dismay that they do not accept my MasterCard, and will hardly admit to not accepting MasterCard.

    So much for their international support, besides they incur an extra fee on international transfers, something like 2% extra.

  15. Re:Could Someone "Become You"? on Hong Kong Smart Identity Cards In 2003 · · Score: 1

    If Hong Kong has biometric information stored on their smart cards, then more than likely someone could not "become you" since, as most of you know, biometric data is specific to one person.

    What about a bit-by-bit copy of the card, no cryptography will protect from that. After all digital data is usually not so hard to copy bitwise.