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  1. Slashdot's demographics on ICANN Elections · · Score: 2
    We are concentrating only on the election for the North American region, since the majority of Slashdot's readership is from this region.
    Hu? How do you know that? IP logging?

    What about India (less modernised, but 5 times bigger than the States)?
    What about Europe (as much equiped and bigger)?

    And could we know the full statistics about Slashdot users? 35% North America, 25% Europe, 35% Asia, 5% other?

  2. 2 errors, can not compile on English Language And Its Effect On Programming? · · Score: 1
    prompt:~/> javac BonjourMonde.java
    javac BonjourMonde.java
    BonjourMonde.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected
    inclure java.outil.Date;
    ^
    BonjourMonde.java:3: 'class' or 'interface' expected
    classe publique BonjourMonde {
    ^
    2 errors
    prompt:~/> merde
    merde: Command not found.
    joe:~> ta gueule
    ta: can't open gueule
    joe:~> 'culé!
    Unmatched '.
    joe:~> va voir ta mère en short sur la lune
    CORRECT>v voir ta mère en short usr lp lune (y|n|e|a)? no
    va: Command not found.
    joe:~> ^D
  3. Java a la francaise, with hilit19 on English Language And Its Effect On Programming? · · Score: 1
    inclure java.outil.Date;

    classe publique BonjourMonde {

    publique, statique et vide principal (Chaines[] args) {
    Date maintenant = nouvelle() Date;
    jusque(entier e=0;e<args.longueur;e++) { Système.sortie.imprimerln("Bonjour " + args[e] + "! Il est " + maintenant);
    }
    } }
  4. We are not buying CDs from them anymore on States Sue Record Companies For Price Fixing · · Score: 1
    Who cares? We are not buying CDs from them anymore.
    Or are we?

    Sign the riaaboycott petition!

  5. You don't even need a console on Linux on a Wrist Watch? · · Score: 1
    You don't even need a console to read the date: just write a driver for your printer, wire the printer to your watch, and blindly type date > /dev/printer.

    Of course, you'll have to carry your printer along with you, but that's so cool. Then, as an alternative, simply putting a bracelet on you existing printer might just do the trick if your printer as a Print Test Page button with the time and date on it. Or maybe you could also carry your printer in a bag back. You'll be free to get the time and date anywhere you go within 15 feet of the power plug in the wall!

  6. Re:Pinball emu? on Emus And Do-It-Yourself Arcade Construction · · Score: 1

    Nope. I'm simply using a RIM.

  7. Re:Pinball emu? on Emus And Do-It-Yourself Arcade Construction · · Score: 1
    You should try to play a pinball game on my PC. Somewhere in all those cables that I have removed end replugged a dozen times, there is a mysterious shortcut or a ground connection.
    Sometimes if you so much as open the cd drawer or insert a floppy, the bios crashes. At other times, you could play your favorite drum song on the case. Just plaibn weird.

    If you are interested I can sell it to you ;-)

  8. Re:Suggested readings... on Checking Out Library Censorship · · Score: 1
    Let's first remove pr0n sites/pictures from the discussion as such tings have indeed no place in culture/books.

    Off course, I am sure one could argue that pr0n movies have an art and culture of their own, but that's another story, and not one for teenagers. So to me, it's ok to remove that from the libraries shelves or routing tables.

    However, I see very few other examples where books or magazines should be fitered or banned from a library. Even Mein Kampf should be allowed. If you're afraid teenagers might be mistaken by some ideological or chemistry books and start bumbing the White House, then drop a note or glue a sticker on those books with some other advisory readings, or organize some seminars about the Marx/Lenin/Mussolini/Hitl*r/Kadafi/DeGaulle/Mahatm a/Jesus ideologies.

    Feel free to play the Devil's advocates and find one book that should be banned from a library. As a librarian, you might know very interesting and pertinent examples and I would be happy if you could share them with us.
    IMO, even the Jehova's Witnesses' Book of Creation should be found in a library, at leats in the section Humor & Science-Fiction...

  9. Suggested readings... on Checking Out Library Censorship · · Score: 3
    ...requirement that communities be able to provide input about blocking other "inappropriate" Web sites that mention bomb-making, drugs or other topics.
    I am sure that if I go to my local library, I will find books that mention such topics. What do they want to do next, filter books and force their culture on us?
    In Europe, they calls those politicians fascist.
    In the States, how are they called again? Somehow, puritan comes to mind...
  10. "ASP" runs into naming problem in Germany on Samba Runs Into Naming Problems In Germany · · Score: 1
    The same website is running this other story about some german technical writer who has patented the letters ASP and now is asking various companies to refrain from using them. He is objecting the use of ASP for both Active Server Pages and Application Service Provider. Yeah, slightly ridiculous.

    You will need GPLTrans to translate it.

  11. Re:what are the remedies in an international case? on EU To Take Legal Action Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If the fine was on profit, but your company doesn't make any because your costs are too high, then you wouldn't have to pay a single Eurocent eventhough you got some revenues: (cost > revenues ) => no profit => no fine to pay. So this would be a ridiculous law reinforcement thread.
    Now if the fine is on your revenues, you will have to take 10% away from what you cash in from your customers, then pay your providers and maintenance costs, then pay your landowner, then pay your hardware lease, then pay your employees and contractors, etc... Eventually you will compute your benefits, if there is still some money left of course. Those 10%, when taken at the source, could bankrupt you!

  12. Re:Why does Slashdot Run Every Microsoft Story ? on EU To Take Legal Action Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If they switch from Windows to Linux,
    then I might stay.

  13. Re:what are the remedies in an international case? on EU To Take Legal Action Against Microsoft · · Score: 1
    IMO the fines are nearly irrelevant.
    Well, just try to conduct a sane business with 10% off your revenues, not your benefits...
  14. Hate and Money on EU To Take Legal Action Against Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Why is it always Sun who complain?
    Hate and Money.
    I would do it myself if I had the lawyers and the money to pay them. I have certainly enough rage to do it. Microsoft has stolen and raped too many hours of my life. They have mutilated so many programmer's minds with their mis-featured languages. They have annihilated hope and innovation and so many smaller companies. I will never forgive them.
  15. Just wondering... on EU To Take Legal Action Against Microsoft · · Score: 1
    ...I have Microsoft qualifications, and perceive myself as being technically literate. I am an experienced VB programmer...
    Strange how your formating ASP and VB tags didn't go through the HTML parser.

    Sorry, ' couldn't help it. Flamebait -1.

  16. Proud to be an European on EU To Take Legal Action Against Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Right now, I am heartfully proud to be an European.

    What you Chinese-Japanese-Aussie-Swiss-Russian-Hebrews-Brez ilian-Touaregs are waiting for?

  17. Posting code on Slashdot on "If You Can Put It On A T-Shirt, It's Speech" · · Score: 1
    The problem is that when you post code on Slashdot via the Post Comment interface, you will inevitably have problems if the code contains the < character. This confuses the HTML parser and renderer.

    What you need to do before posting is to replace every occurance of < with &lt;.
    So that you can print out things like:

    for(i=0; i<j; i++) {...}
    instead of
    for(i=0; i
  18. Re:Sick of RIAA and Napster on RIAA Responds to Napster - Raises Serious Questions · · Score: 1
    This is a strange argument. I personnally don't mind paying an entrance fee in a museum to see someone else's work. Nor would I complain about giving $10 to enter a private party and dance on someone else's music.

    Worst of all, what about General Lee defending the southern states that had built their fortune and economy on the hard work of a whole race? He could be blamed for that, like you're blaming Napster, but I am sure a lot of southeners would have plenty of excuses for him. Of course, you can always say anything you want with examples like that, so I am not really making my point here. But your point was strange.

  19. From PDF to Html on RIAA Responds to Napster - Raises Serious Questions · · Score: 2

    I usually use this free service hosted by BCL Computers to turn PDF file into HTML files. The result is simply amazing.

  20. GET ME OFF THIS LIST !!! on USPS To Offer Free E-Mail · · Score: 1

    unsubscribe delirium.tremens@mail.com

  21. Re:IBM F50 and F80 on PPC Linux Distro Comparisons · · Score: 1
    The two reasons why we did that:
    • Sheer curiosity.
    • Blackdown's JDK 1.2.2 for PowerPC was available before IBM's JDK on AIX.
  22. IBM F50 and F80 on PPC Linux Distro Comparisons · · Score: 1
    I am also quite pleased with YellowDogLinux, but on slightly different platform than yours.

    As you might know the big IBM RS6000 servers run on a PowerPC chipset, and YellowDog is the only distribution that I could successfully install on our F50. There are still some problems like Linux only using 512 Megs of RAM instead of the 2 GIGs and one CPU being used instead of the 4 CPUs that we have, but otherwise it's ok. I still need to try the brand new patch that is said to solve parts of those problems, though. If this turns to be ok, then the only minor issue would be the driver for the video card, that currenlty only offers 800x600x256, but it is not so important.

    I can tell you that running Linux on those huge beast is definitely c00l ! And you should just see those amazed faces when you restart the RS6000 and your colleagues come by to curiously watch how an AIX 4.x server boots and the first thing they see is a cute penguin in the top left part of the screen. And then comes the really sweet stuff: having to choose to login under KDE or Gnome! Ah! No more CDE! What a pleasure! And how great it is to use a couple of CPU cycles of the beast just to [g]rip some CDs or run a Napster clone. YellowDog was also very attentive to small details and while the LCD screen doesn't show anything after AIX has finished booting, under YellowDogLinux you can read this little tag:

    Linux PowerPC 2.2.12

    Ain't that cool? Well, I can tell you that in a rack of undescriptive boxes, that small inscription does not pass unnoticed.

    That being said, did anyone succeed in installing YellowDog on the new IBM babe, the F80? We might get one soon here and I was wondering if I could run YDL Champion Server 1.2 on it. Any success stories?

  23. MGM vs Vachez on WIPO Rules Against Sting · · Score: 1
    There was a recent case in a small city in France, called Alpe-d-Huez, where a shop owner lost a battle against MGM.com. Somehow this story was reported on various news sites around the world, proof that the ruling was shocking. The trial was about the shopkeeper's use of the initials M, G and M for the name of his shop and the use of two lions in its logo. MGM has gone to court, challenging Monsieur Vachez's 1982 registration of the name MGM and the lion logo. Vachez claims that the initials are meant to represent the first names of himself, his father and his wife, who were all born under the sign of Leo (thus, the lion logo).

    But he lost. I should be surprised, but I am not.

  24. Slashdot.org cluster on FreeBSD 4.1 Released · · Score: 2
    I seem to remember that some of Slashdot servers are running FreeBSD. Since Slashdot (community) is generally Linux centric, I wonder what technical superiority does FreeBSD have over Linux. No flame, just curious.

    Then, if this post is no longer valid, I still would like to know why FreeBSD was used in the past. Thanks, --

  25. Interbase strength... on Interbase Open Source Release · · Score: 1
    Since you're good at Interbase, maybe you can help the fast decision makers amongst us.

    I used to say go for MySQL if you need speed and do not expect too much concurrency, but go for ProgreSQL if you need transactions and complex SQL queries.

    So according to you, what would be the main criteria for a quick decison regarding Interbase?