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  1. Re:I'd like to comply ... on IBM Doesn't Comply With SCO's Deadline · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought the Judge in the case of Bell Labs (Novell) vs BSD said that comments did not matter when it came to copyright terms dealing with code?

  2. Re:I hate to say... on IBM Doesn't Comply With SCO's Deadline · · Score: 4, Informative

    50 years, more like 100 years, it was called something different 100 years ago but still the same IBM. It made counting machines used for the census.

  3. Objective-C (Old version of Web Objects) on J2EE vs. .NET in Productivity Comparison? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An even better than both of those two crapper products and older. Faster to build and faster to depoly.

  4. Wrong on Intel TPC benchmarks show Linux as leader · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It is a 64 Ia64 I2 running Windows that does about 606K transactions per minute which is a winner, a 32 IBM Power4 running AIX and DB2 (most likely with large pages, 128MB page size) gets about 600K so does the 32 IA62 running Linux. So it looks like windows suck in terms of transactions per minute.

  5. Re:Mac OS X performance tools on Performance Inspector Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    That should have been Intel.

  6. Re:Mac OS X performance tools on Performance Inspector Open Source Project · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is called VTune by Inte.

  7. Mac OS X performance tools on Performance Inspector Open Source Project · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you want to use performance tools like the Performance Inspector on Mac OS X, get the CHUD tools from http://developer.apple.com/tools/performance/. They provide a GUI so you do not need to use the command line expect for amber, the instruction tracer.
    Shikari is a profiler that can use the CPU PMC(performance monitor counters), it can show you where your hot spot is in asm but gives line information if you compiled with -g.

  8. Seems two digit year… on Top Ten E3 Picks - From 1903? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    actually have caused problems; 3 years late but still.

  9. Re:How about OSX? on Microsoft To License SCO's Unix Code · · Score: 3, Informative

    So is Apple's Chief software, Avie is also one of the ones who write the Mach microkernel, in fact Avie was the main guy in writing the kernel.

  10. Re:In case you didn't know... on Microsoft To License SCO's Unix Code · · Score: 1

    Now Xenix is OpenServer, also it was SCO UNIX at one point at a time: http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html

  11. History on Microsoft To License SCO's Unix Code · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do people already forgot that an UNIX from M$ had happened called XENIX which became SCO OpenServer?

  12. Re:In other news on Students Use 802.11g To Save Cable Industry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like the Vorager Episode with Que's child.

  13. Re:Request For Comments on Ogg Now An RFC · · Score: 1

    It is not on the standard track but the RFC is only `Informational'.

  14. Re:gcc 3.3 fails on glibc 2.3.2 on GCC 3.3 Released · · Score: 1

    In the release notes for gcc 3.3, there is a note about accessing PR's.

  15. Re:gcc 3.3 fails on glibc 2.3.2 on GCC 3.3 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try this link instead: http://gcc.gnu.org/PR8610, it is smaller and easier to remember.

  16. Re:gcc 3.x compilers have serious C++ perfs issues on GCC 3.3 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    The changes that made C++ compiling slower were for correctness of the compiler so they are needed. I know 3.4 will be faster than 3.3 is(/was), and should be able to speed up even faster.

  17. Re:Sigh on GCC 3.3 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correctness is more important than compile time that is why it is being pushed back, most of the compile time regressions have to do with the inliner and its limits.

  18. Re:Sigh on GCC 3.3 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Linux, the kernel, depends on old gcc extensions that are slowly being removed from gcc, extensions that were not documented. Also c++ compile time is a hard thing to fix if you want a full c++ compiler in a short period of time. 3.3 is very stable compiler, even 3.4 in the cvs is a stable compiler. The gcc team are all volunteers so why do you not help them and fix some problems, and/or report some problems to us (I am slowing helping out now).

  19. Re:It has been announced by SCO on SCO To Show Copied Code · · Score: 1

    They cannot sue them again, the suite against the BSD's between then AT&T and BSDco was settled out of court (by that time Novell took over UNIX) and the code was removed and also they agreed to not sue BSD any more. SCO took over UNIX from Novell. The rest is history as we know it.

  20. Re:Microsoft is speeding up... on Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back · · Score: 1

    The GUI of Windows 95 looks like the GUI of the NeXT OS by NeXT (aka Apple now), which is what Mac OS X is derived from.

  21. Re:Why aren't we seeing UI innovation in Linux? on Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back · · Score: 1

    Sounds like OpenDoc from Apple, IBM, and Novell, which failed because of Novell not doing the Windows port fast enough. Apple had their version for Mac OS, remember the Web Browser before Safari by Apple. IBM had their port of OS/2 done also. Even Microsoft was on board for the Mac version with Office for OpenDoc on the way.

  22. Re:MS did this with Apple before on Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back · · Score: 1

    Actually it was settled out of court aka Apple won.

  23. Re:US Keyboard is the right layout. on Easy Character Accents in Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    If you do not have it set to UTF-8, then there is a problem with your browser since it is the standard for i8n (sp?).

  24. US Keyboard is the right layout. on Easy Character Accents in Mac OS X? · · Score: 5, Informative

    é (aka option-e e).
    Ã (aka option-` `).
    î (aka option-i i).
    use key caps (in utilities) for more information (hold down option).

    Note this was the same as mac OS 7-9.

  25. Re:Nit: "Public domain" on Microsoft's Athens PC · · Score: 1

    Apple made up till 7.0 (or was it 7.5) all their OS for free, then they made it free up till 7.6.1.