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  1. I can act as an expert........ on Gooja's Got Old Stuff Online Now · · Score: 4

    People criticising the fact that newsgroup discussions are archived, don't think about the importance of the data it contains. Nearly everytime i have a fall-out, problem, ... in my job I can find the answer onto dejanews. maybe I have the luck my job is computer related, but I think you can find solutions for many other domains too.

  2. Re:Canada on Enforcing Non-Competes That You Didn't Sign? · · Score: 1

    I think the same appllies to all countries in the European Union. At least in Belgium, ... this smells like a human right!

  3. optics on Two Telescopes Linked To Find Planets · · Score: 2

    I'm not a genious in optics, but I don,t understand how 2 parallel telescopes see smaller objects than 1 telescope.

  4. Re:Analyze, Design then Code on The Fastest Web Language On The 'Net? · · Score: 1

    If you want speed....You can pretty much eliminate any interpreted language (e.g. Tcl) and web script (e.g. PHP, ASP, ColdFusion).

    Note that the version after Coldfusion 5 (Coldfusion NEO) will actually deliver compiled java code. The c-engine is completely being rewritten in java at the moment.

  5. Re:C'mon Taco... on First Ever Webcam to Come Offline · · Score: 1

    I don't think so, .. it should have been in those days. It was about the time that i first discovered that there were pictures on the web. I used to use a shell account (lynx) ;-)

  6. why not mysql? on Are Expensive RDBM Systems Worth The Money? · · Score: 1

    MySQL is fast, very fast, but the application becomes slower:
    No subqueries.
    MySQL has a speed advantage, but that is because they didn't choose for data integrity options, in favor of speed. (think about lack of roll back buffers). Instead of using one complex query mysql users have to write serialised less complex queries and pass data on the application level. This drops the speed advantage on MySQL.
    No stored procedures.
    Again MySQL can't perform operations in a block, and queries have to be sent in a serialised manner
    No triggers or foreign key constraints.
    Data integrity has to be provided on application level. Just figure 15 developers .. it becomes a decentralised data integrity model.
    Only table-level locking.
    Row level locking has to be simulated on the application level.

    BUT they're working on it....

  7. Re:Oracle have anything like LIMIT in MySQL? on Are Expensive RDBM Systems Worth The Money? · · Score: 1

    In oracle set rownum 50000 in your where clause

  8. Re:I would use one on Privacy, From Outside The Paranoid Fold · · Score: 1

    I think if people can be so cruel to to that, they actually also can remove the implant from a child. In my opinion such an implant can easily be detected by touching the skin just like the contraceptive implants in the upperarm nowadays.

  9. the browsers find function? on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1

    '2001-03-16 01:22:15'
    I just wanted to make a guess, but to put some comment: how will the closest match be found with a browsers find function?? Who can make the one line regexp parser for this????? ;-)

  10. Re:How'd they find them ? on Napster Users Being Arrested In Belgium · · Score: 1

    On Belgian radio news I heard they traced people downloading music tracks. I cannot actually believe this. Using this method, they had to offer an mp3 share themselves and provocation is an illegal investigation method in Belgium (not like in the States, a cop can't provocate a crime). So, they probably downloaded themselves mp3's shared from those people, looked in their netstat to the IP-address connecting to, having success if it was an IP from a Belgium provided. ISP's in Belgium need to keep their Radius logs. So they actually know which user connected with which IP to the net on a given time. This info can be requested by police instances, not by that record company. So, that record company doesn't hold any names of users at home, the police does. The record company only holds a list of IP-addresses

  11. wrong vision on Sun To MS: You Don't Get It · · Score: 1

    It's not that because of all the java hype and cross platform sharability that we developers have to think we will be forced to develop in java the next few years.
    Consider for instance Coldfusion language CFML. Nowadays Coldfusion Server runs on a C++ engine, but the version after Coldfusion 5.0 will run on a JRUN platform. Nothing will change to it's CFML language, but the underlying architecture will be Java.
    --- just a thought

  12. vice president in charge on Juno And Privacy · · Score: 2

    What really strikes is that Juno has brought in Yuri Rozenman, formerly of Applied Biosystems and with 13 years of experience in the bioinformatics field, to head up the project as vice president in charge of the Virtual Supercomputer Network. (source: here). The link between Applied Biosystems and informatics is the automation and analasys of genetical sequences
    - this gives me the creeps - can you imagine ... collecting data on all those people

  13. Crunchers home on New Boxes For Captain Crunch · · Score: 1

    This link gives general information and stories about cap'n crunch.

  14. Research should be opensourced ;-) on Researchers Find Off Protein For Immune System · · Score: 3

    For years, scientists thought that they knew everything there was to know about how CD45 functions. Here's a bit of what Dr. Penninger had to say about the discovery (Nature)
    "People weren't interested in it any more, because everyone thought they knew what it was doing. We only found this because we wanted to revisit an old finding." "This, I found scientifically exciting. There we were thinking we had figured out this thing and then we had a completely new function which we had missed for the last 10 years. This was definitely a Eureka moment."

  15. use which one? on AOL IM Rival Pulls The Plug · · Score: 2

    Well, while the titans are fighting, we users can just have a look at the advantages of using one or other IM. Why should we or not use their products?
    Actually I use both Microsoft IM and ICQ.

    I use MS IM because:
    I work at different offices on different nt through port 80, that is in most cases open to workstations and firewall configs, so IM connects preserve internet browsing to their employees. In most cases I am unabled to use ICQ.
    You can check your hotmail account (that I use for the same reason as MS IM) without actually browsing to the webpage.
    My contactlist is kept serverside. (or is this a disadvantage?)

    I use ICQ because:
    I can send messages to people not online, they'll receive it when they come online
    There is a version for my linuxbox
    I don't get adds

  16. radiation? on The Ultimate PC Case - Continued · · Score: 2

    Whilst some of these mods (like fans apertures) are an essential item, some are not (windows etc) and both can lead to radiation of interference from within the box and also violate the CE testing for EMC. The fix for fans is to cover the big aperture with a gauze or metal grid having holes not larger than 6mm square or round. The same can be done for the window but would spoil the visual effect. I don't know of a screening material that would be invisible. This radiation isn't trivial - I lose all colour on ITV when my case cover is off!

  17. Re:Closed Source? on Microsoft, Unisys & Dell To Make New Voting System · · Score: 1

    Who do you trust modt? the government or microsoft?

  18. Re:why don't they use an existing system? on Microsoft, Unisys & Dell To Make New Voting System · · Score: 1

    In Belgium they got problems with whole lists of candidates that disapear from the electronic list. + the use a floppy disk!!! (with a backup floppy) to transport the votes from each election unit to a central place. Can you imagine what can happen to those disks?

  19. lucky on New "mp3PRO" From Fraunhofer, But What About LAME? · · Score: 1

    At least the guys at http://www.mp3pro.com/ (that by the way have nothing to do with Fraunhover) will get hits on their site. :-)

  20. Re:LAME will survive on New "mp3PRO" From Fraunhofer, But What About LAME? · · Score: 2

    Bandwith IS important. I know about a music studio that is putting on the infrastructure to record a bass guitarist from Canada, a lead guitar from Italy and a drumset from Spain. Think about it as distributed computing, but then distributed music channels.

  21. Re:What about NAT? on Dreamcast (Finally) Goes Broadband · · Score: 1

    Connectionless doesn't mean that your network address translating can't find out the origin and destination for the packets. NAT is just the forwarder, it can also forward UDP packets. It can only become a problem when you want to put firewalling rules on that traffic. But if you put a simple rule that for your Dreamcast all packets should freely move theres no game per game configuration needed. Except your paranoiac your dreamcast gets hacked ;-)

  22. Re:DC broadband isnt even needed yet... on Dreamcast (Finally) Goes Broadband · · Score: 2

    Here in Europe cable access is a lot cheaper than keeping your phoneline busy for hours. For my cable access I papy a fix amount per month, my phoneline is payed per second I use it. SO the adaptor will be a good investment.

  23. Re:case from august on Toysmart Database To Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    3rd time good time (what do you expect with those strange links from broadvision contentsystem?)
    http://boston.internet.com/news/article/0,,2001_44 0651,00.html

  24. Re:case from august on Toysmart Database To Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    sorry, The proper link is:
    proper link

  25. case from august on Toysmart Database To Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    This case was already delayed by a judge, a while ago in August. The reason why was that she couldn't do anything until a buyer showed up.
    resource:
    http://boston.internet.com/news/article/0,,2001_44 0651,00.html