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  1. Re:free distro for how long? on Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available · · Score: 1

    It's not traded anymore. They filed for bankruptcy, remember?

  2. Re:OK, so which is it? on OSDL Pays For Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense · · Score: 1

    OSDL is an organization, but also try to keep in mind what the ODSLabs are.

  3. Re:The Smurfs: Innocent Fun or Communist Propagand on Jail Time for Movie Swappers · · Score: 1
    Nemesis.
    Belgian government.
    Peyo, not Hanna Barbara.

    Overall, a very substandard troll. You aren't half as smart as you're trying to look.

  4. Re:Another go at the pump machine? on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 1

    Discussing the what in Matrix Revolutions?

  5. Re:Okay... on JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity · · Score: 1
    Every developer will decide for themselves but it is pretty clear to me that a number of Geronimo parts were indeeed inspired by some JBoss code. I completely understand Marc Fleury's attitude. If Geronimo was borrowing code from my projects without proper authorization, I know I would be pissed off. Heck, if Geronimo was borrowing code from any project non-compatible with the ASF license, I would be pissed of (as a potential user who believes in and respects the various Open Source licenses). If that was the case, I would seriously doubt the integrity of Geronimo.

    Actually, as it stands, I now slightly distrusts Geronimo. At least until they fix this code inspiration problem with either a rewrite or some note crediting the JBoss guys for some of their design ideas.

  6. Re:Even the variable names are the same on JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good try, but no, really. First of all, CELLPADDING only appears in the jBoss part of the diff, not in Geronimo. Secondly, that's how you are supposed to specify the padding for cells in an HTML table. So, if Geronimo had decided to use an HTML table in their javadoc with cell padding, they would have had to use CELLPADDING. But all that is irrelevant since they didn't.

  7. Re:Webservices and XSD on Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk · · Score: 1

    Any mission critical app would use dual authentication for conducting business over the web. X509 certificates delivered by trusted CAs come to mind.

  8. Re:Thank Jebus, I am not crazy on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 1

    What support media/format was it? DivX?
    Or did you notice the dots at the movie theatre?

  9. Re:Candle Truck? Speaker bracelet?!?! on What's Wacky with Google? · · Score: 1

    I personally do it once in a while. For example, when I try to find lyrics, proverbs or famous quotes.

  10. Re:In related news... on Final Matrix Set for Synchronous Release · · Score: 2, Informative
    It says:
    The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning -- for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

    Note that this is a loosy binary-to-ascii translations because I translated the token 10010110 as ' -- ' instead of an actual long horizontal dash.
    Also, I actually only translated a little past the first sentence, and then the last few words. I googled the rest out.
    It turns out that this is an excerpt from Chapter Three of the Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
  11. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware · · Score: 1

    It's redundant because it is the freaking central point of the article. Thank you, Mr Obvious.

  12. Re:RC5 and 1.1.0 is the same on OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Therefore, if you have downloaded RC5, there is no need to download 1.1.
    That is not exactly true because there was actually 3 rc5 release attempts, the latest one even being called rc5b.
    So your RC5 being the same as the final version really depends on which RC5 you actually downloaded.
  13. Re:No on IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    SCO actions are only decided based upon money. They will settle if they see that is a better for them financially. They will go on otherwise.

  14. Re:What a crock of shit on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I am probably going to be considered pedantic with this, but usually people refer to begin and commit. Sometimes, they use rollback too. It's not enter() and exit(). And it's not please() and letsGo() either.
    That being said, the other gentlemen in this thread are talking about Two-Phase Commit. Yes, I do understand that Prevayler doesn't even have one-phase-commit to provide things such as Isolation, but that's beside the topic discussed in this thread. So please, let's both stop referring to it. Even if one-phase-commit can be implemented over RMI. But if you want to really simplify this issue to the extreme, you need to tell us how Prevayler handles rollbacks. After that, you could maybe explain to us (and to the RMI engineers at Sun) how to implement the Two-Phase-Commit protocol over RMI with a data store like Prevaylers that is not XA-compliant.
    Thank you for playing(*).

    (*) I told you I was going to be pedantic.

  15. Re:Please, enough of the hyperbole bullshit on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Please do not compare this to hsqldb. The hsqldb project at least offers some drivers for remote connections to the persistent store.

  16. Re:What a crock of shit on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 1

    RMI doesn't come with transactional support. JRMP doesn't have it either and IIOP support in the JDK doesn't ship with an OTS or JTA implementation. What the hell is wrong with you?

  17. Re:Persistance does not make a DB on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    There is obviously a lot of heated arguments here with a surprising lack of scientific objectivity or hand-on knowledge, two things that we usually came to expect from the Slashdot crowd.

    Maybe, it is because many posters violently disagree with certain marketing tactics. God knows they might be forced to tolerate many of them in their professional life. Maybe they just don't want it in their hobby life?

  18. Re:3000 times faster than Mysql? on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, ninejaguar, you could at least have the decency to log in if you want to participate in this press^Wdiscussion. Don't insult our intelligence further. Please.

  19. Re:Nice press release on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it sounds like ninejaguar (the guy who submitted this story) has a vested interest in Prevayler.
    Hey, even his nickname is suspicious.

  20. Re:you gotta love the European Parliament... on European Parliament Clashes Over Software Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are obviously not a programmer.

  21. True WYSIWYG HTML editor on Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    XML developers and Web designers are now able to work on some XML-to-HTML transformer that matches closely what the average office user is spending his time creating with the WYISWYG Writer program. This could be a nice alternative to Frontpage, for example.
    Of course, OpenOffice 1.1 already comes with a nice HTML tool, but that doesn't stop anyone from trying to do better.

  22. Re:w3c on HTTP Developer's Handbook · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it is the last book he bought from SAMS, it was actually a pretty good one.

  23. Re:Uh on HP Introduces Transmeta Thin Clients · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ...many major analyst forecasts which see TMTA hitting 2.50 in the next year.
    Well, with this announcement, this might even happen today:
    TMTA $2.39 +0.48 +25.13% 12,305,832
  24. 50 MPG is 4.7 L/100KM on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 1

    The Google calculator just keeps amazing me.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=50+mpg+in+liter+per +100+kilometer

  25. Re:Why not just pay? on Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe Chinese/Palestinian/North Korean coders will give us free choice back by developping a similar browser that would laugh in the face of US patents.