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  1. Re:Wrong! on Re-Tooling Your Skills for the Future? · · Score: 1
    1. I am a sysadmin
    2. I am in Switzerland
    3. The sun is shining
    4. here, the admins get more than the developers, maybe is it because we also do loads of integration-based tasks (besides the Pikett - sleeping with a pager)
    5. now, I guess your "WRONG" is not relevant, you may have asked me to explicit the context, which of course is specific : big company, protectionist country, big constraints...
      Of course, because of these elements, one could also advise the story-poster to try and move overseas to enhance his professional experience :)
  2. Re:Impressive! (Was: as soon as this evening...) on Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump · · Score: 1

    Hey, it was funny... ironic, sarcastic but funny :)
    Now, if you put some deb references to the security.debian.org repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list you should be okay, of course !
    I actually saw that the Debian security guys are quite responsive and they desserve the daily apt-get !
    Remember this old old old Apache bug ?
    My server had been patch 3 days before the cert published their warning !

  3. as soon as this evening... on Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump · · Score: 2

    apt-get update...
    well, I have not installed these sniffing proggies, so it should be okay.
    Now it could be worse :
    If you suspect your binaries to be trjanized, you'd want to sniff your own machine but if (and it is the case) the sniffer is trojanized, then it could possible hide such "activities"...
    I actually read the article and it however seems that it was not the case here...
    phew :-)

  4. Read Dilbert on Re-Tooling Your Skills for the Future? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually it sounds like a joke but you shouldlook for buzzwords :
    Learn Java, XML, or try to convert yourself to System Administration... You can also get some Oracle DBA certification or, if you don't mind the philosophico-political issues, get an MSCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)...
    Well, the choice is yours but look for whatever sounds the most expensive *and* the biggest : Programming a desktop computer is not as promising as administering a cluster of Sun E10k...
    Bon courage :)

  5. Re:How about gameplay? on Dragon's Lair on X-box · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ?
    did you mean "action-button" ?

    BTW, in these times, <DOH!> only meant "please insert a DOH-LAR" while with this game this'll rather mean "why the Hell did I spent all these DOH-LAR on this game ? if I resign before getting through, it will have costed me more than the Arcade version, around twenty years ago" ;)

  6. Re:Battery life ? on Zaurus 5600 Announced · · Score: 1
    Not being able to fill its 64 seems strange

    Well in my cas I don't quite multitask, so, by not opening tons of apps at once, I just have enough room for whatever I do, including Java programming or (Hancom)Word processing...
    Eventually gaming too : I just love the tkcMahJongg :-)
  7. Battery life ? on Zaurus 5600 Announced · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I own an SL_5500 which gives me satisfaction, except when it comes to its batetry life : 2 hours with full backlight, maybe 3 with half...
    Will Sharp finally sell an extra-capacity battery for the Z ?
    I think this'd be much more appreciable than a puny 96MB (I can't fill its 64, anyway) on a 400MHz Xscale.

  8. Re:Looks fairly similiar to the Zaurus SL-5500 on Secure PDAs · · Score: 1
    you ever get drunk and try to use graffiti?

    Yes, accidentally : I was testing my Zaurus Wine management program!
  9. Re:Cool. on Microsoft Hypes XP Tablets · · Score: 1
    After three hands his hands were incapable of writing. Typing is simply faster.

    Sorry, I don't get it ?!
  10. Acorn on When Good Interfaces Go Crufty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Some years ago, I ordered from Acorn the "RiscOS developper reference manuals".
    It is not only an exhaustive reference but also comes with a style guide.
    I guess this style guide would be invaluable for non-RiscOS developper, especially after browsing through the interface all of shame...
    So, why don't these development suites (visual studio, etc) come with such a book ?

  11. 2cent joke on Leonid Meteor Shower 2002 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After the Red Star Leonid Brejnev fall, now it's the turn of the rest of the sky...

  12. Heard that before... on Operating Systems Are Irrelevant · · Score: 2
    Ah! Here it is...

    "Current software is shameful. Giant operating systems linger from the 1970's. Applications are team-produced with built-in obsolescence. User interfaces feature puzzle-solving.

    With the huge RAM of modern computers, an operating system is no longer necessary, if it ever was. colorForth includes multi-tasking, and drivers for essential devices. But that is hardly an operating system in the style of Windows or Linux.

    Megabytes of software may be required for historical compatibility, but sometimes we need a fresh start. ColorForth provides the necessary capability with kilobytes of code. At boot, it copies disk into RAM. Then compiles the macros that emulate the stack machine that Forth expects. As applications are requested, they are compiled."
  13. Wait a second, you too... on Mozilla: The Good And The Bad · · Score: 1

    According to the way you typed this command, The Register should be a "copy" of Slashdot ?

    Unless you meant :

    ln -s register slashdot ...

  14. 6 bug more !? on Mozilla: The Good And The Bad · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, 21669 to go :-)

  15. Personally on Internet Access via Cell Phone HOWTO · · Score: 1

    I IR-connect my Sharp Zaurus to my cell phone.
    I didn't know one would need an howto for this ?!

  16. Re:UN is a tool of the rabid arab terrorists on UN Secretary-General Asks for Help · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or Swiss ! :-)

  17. Re:"La Fracture Num�rique" on UN Secretary-General Asks for Help · · Score: 2

    In this case, the tutors would be elected by the UNO and would have to report.
    Of course, their finances would also be monitored.

  18. Re:Never cancel a debt. on UN Secretary-General Asks for Help · · Score: 1

    OK, turn it another way :
    Say to these countries that their debt will be suspended if they accept the tutorship of a foreigner.
    Because I would not give anything for free : I'd invest in trust.
    If it works, which means : if the country proves itself to be able to send representatives as tutors in other countries, then the debt will be cancelled.
    If not, well, then the trial period has not expired.

  19. "La Fracture Num�rique" on UN Secretary-General Asks for Help · · Score: 5, Insightful
    we hear loads of things about it nowadays but I sincerely guess that before supposing we could just computize them, we'd better begin to :
    1. decently remunerate their cultures
    2. cancel the third world debt and begin some real funding, instead of relying on the exponential reimbursements. We could, for example, ask some small but healthy countries to tutor some countries, not financially speaking but by publicly councelling every and each of their foreign-economy issues.
    3. re-consider the very concept of third world debt

    I know this sounds as a troll and most people expect me to bash the Bush (actually if a small country was chosen by the UNO to monitor every Iraqi transaction, I then guess that some planned invasion would -all of a sudden- become less urgent) but I really think that to the point that you may downvote this electronical impulse of mine to oblivion, this won't change my advice.
  20. Re:uh!? ;-) on Adding a Hard Drive... To Your DVD Player? · · Score: 1

    What's a Wall-Mart ?
    Is this a place where you can buy meat and a Pavillion ?

  21. Re:macrovision on Adding a Hard Drive... To Your DVD Player? · · Score: 1

    I know this is not quite what you were arguing against but let's speak about region-lock :
    I bought my DVD unit *before* y2k : it was then RPC-1 and set to region 0 (unlocked).
    Now, if this unit dies, most of my legitimate non-locally-zoned dvd won't be "legally" playable on my next unit.
    So, I guess there is something obviously wrong going there, OK ?
    I mean : once it is okay because they want to promote their shit, next it is all-of-a-sudden forbidden.
    In some way, as the probablity that my drive dies is increasing every minute, I could indeed say there are going to force me to buy a new DVD player (especially if they continue sellign these crappy region-0-forbiding dvds).

  22. Re:uh!? ;-) on Adding a Hard Drive... To Your DVD Player? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your advice : I already have 2 harddiscs : a 60GB (system+data) and a 120GB (data, backups + dedicated Cubase D2d partition).
    The other IDE slots are taken by the DVD player and the CD burner.
    Now, I don't need anything more than what I currently have, it took me long enough to get all this in the same box :-)

  23. My 2 cents on EU Crosshair Still Points at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I guess at the end they'll eventually open their APIs in order to get complete legal acceptance.
    But this will only demonstrate how their docs and apps are deeply managed by the system... making these unavoidable at that time...

  24. Re:uh!? ;-) on Adding a Hard Drive... To Your DVD Player? · · Score: 1
    This was actually a desperate attempt to be marked funny ;-)

    Now, well, on my P4, the 6PCI slots are used this way :
    1. yamaha SW1000XG sound card
    2. STAudio DSP2000mkII sound card
    3. DSP2kII port extension
    4. SCSI card
    5. Network card
    6. USB ports extension


    So, I guess I'm actually lacking some slots and I don't especially want to free some because my sound cards are actually getting better and better with the age (the yamaha got its 4th yearly best sound card medail).
  25. uh!? ;-) on Adding a Hard Drive... To Your DVD Player? · · Score: -1, Troll

    My DVD player is my computer, all of its pci slots and all of its IDE port are occupied.
    I then wonder how I could still add an harddrive to it ?
    An external SCSI, maybe ?