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  1. My experience on Advice for Surviving a Buyout? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I worked for a small privately owned ISP which was bought out by a larger local ISP. There wasn't any transfering of shares to worry about, but we received stock options at the new company and our pay remained the same. After 60 days we all had to option of staying or going and most of us stayed. A year later a nation-wide telecommunications startup bought us and again, pay remained the same although we got screwed on stock options. This telecommunications company let us sit and waste away while they were trying to figure out why they bought an ISP concidering they had no clue how to run one and 8 months later the layoffs started. The layoffs never stopped. They continued until the day that the doors on our office were closed and the telecommunications company pulled out of the state completely. I got out before I was laid off as did my girlfriend, but I had friends who are _still_ unemployed and that layoff was almost 2 years ago.

    I sincerely hope your experence is better.

  2. Re:consider running an opcode cache on PHP 4.3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I would wager to say that PHP doesn't come with an opcode cache because Zend would like to charge for theirs.

  3. Re:Why I prefer PHP to Perl on PHP 4.3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    ./configure --help
    <snip>
    --with-db2[=DIR] Include Berkeley DB2 support
    --with-db3[=DIR] Include Berkeley DB3 support
    </snip>
    There is Berkeley DB Support.

  4. Re:Nice on PHP 4.3.0 Released · · Score: 2

    Thankfully you can still use a non-bundled GD with the GIF support patch.

  5. Re:$15 Cheaper at Amazon on Real World Linux Security, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    This site is great for comparing book prices. It even figures shipping for total cost.

  6. Re:You can stop payment on a cashier's check? on MacAddict Tracks Down eBay Scam Artist · · Score: 1

    It was a counterfeit cashier's check.

  7. Re:Unlikely! on Halloween VII · · Score: 1

    You could try SuSE, I have never had that problem with it, and have upgraded at least one of my boxes all the way from 5.3 to 7.3 hitting every version in the middle... Although I rarely reccomend SuSE anymore.

  8. Re:Sun OpenBoot sucks on Forth Application Techniques · · Score: 1

    I bought a perfectly fine Compaq PCI SCSI Controller with a Symbios chipset off Ebay for about $20, it boots my Ultra5 just fine.

  9. Re:Bah on Intel Pushes Pentium 4 Past 3 GHz · · Score: 1
  10. Re:2 to 3 years off? on 15" OLED Display Prototype · · Score: 1

    I have used LCDs many times, laptops and desktop, and I just can not tolerate the pixels, everything always looks blocky. They are great for space saving though, it certainly would take up less space than my 21" CRT.

  11. Re:goldmine for software publishers on Reuters: 80% of Chinese Computers Virus Infected · · Score: 1

    I do run linux on most of my computers... however I really don't need a virus scanner on a linux box, it's my gaming machine i am worried about. :)

  12. Re:goldmine for software publishers on Reuters: 80% of Chinese Computers Virus Infected · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've never had a problem receiving virus updates on my pirated scanners... on my pirated OS...

  13. Re:BSD on Overview of the BSDs · · Score: 1

    My linux firewall only has downtime when i boot onto a new kernel...

  14. Re:What's the top speed on More Switching Stories · · Score: 1

    Sun Fire 15k is 106-way 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC III....

  15. Re:The Atari what?... on Interview With Atari Jaguar creator John Mathieson · · Score: 1

    Sega Nomad... I have one of these... plays standard Genesis games.

  16. Re:Heh on Attack of the Really Big Clones · · Score: 2, Informative
    Gross in Millions
    1. $601 Titanic 1997
    2. $461 Star Wars 1977
    3. $435 E.T. 1982
    4. $431 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 1999
    5. $404 Spider-Man 2002
    6. $357 Jurassic Park 1993
    7. $330 Forrest Gump 1994
    8. $318 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001
    9. $313 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
    10. $313 The Lion King 1994
    11. $309 Return of the Jedi 1983
    12. $306 Independence Day 1996
    13. $301 Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 2002
    14. $293 The Sixth Sense 1999
    15. $290 The Empire Strikes Back 1980
    Looks like "the empire" and "jedi" aren't there either...
  17. Re:Not a troll, just a question ... on AMD's Athlon XP 2700+ · · Score: 1

    Compiling Mozilla...

  18. Re:I'm confused. on Adios, Caldera; Hello, SCO Group · · Score: 1

    I would hardly call OpenServer a fine product. I worked for a company which had a server base of a few OpenServer 5.0.5 machines and I was brough in to help migrate them to Linux. We started with some older hardware for the Linux boxes and Linux on the older hardware was smoking SCO OpenServer on newer hardware. I'm talking about a Quad Pro 200 running SuSE 7.3 wiping the floor with a Quad Xeon 500 running SCO OpenServer. Performance aside, the symlink hell that is OpenServer is a complete nightmare.

  19. Re:Why? on How To Clone A Mammoth · · Score: 1

    I had also read that the 'purr' mechanism in small cats is responsible for the 'roar' effect in larger cats. Of course everyone has an opinion on everything and what I was reading could have been the opinion of a moron. :)

  20. Re:Yay.. more hardware upgrades :) on New AMD Athlon 2600 Processor Released · · Score: 1

    I've been pretty fortunate if I want to upgrade (so far)... I bought a 1.2GHz Thunderbird Athlon in January 2001 with a Gigabyte motherboard and they have consistently released a new bios every time AMD releases a new athlon to maintain support... They have a bios for the XP 2200 now... we'll see if they get the 2600 support and I might have to upgrade...

  21. Re:Why? on How To Clone A Mammoth · · Score: 1

    I beleive cats "purr" in the same manner that humans speak. They have a "voicebox" which vibrates to create the sound. At least thats what I read in a book back in elementary school.

  22. Re:new to linux..... on Best Computer Books For The Smart · · Score: 1

    A Practical Guide to Linux by Mark G. Sobell

  23. Re:I don't think so on Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat · · Score: 2, Funny

    In my experiece with managers it alomost seems like the logic is "It must be great, look at how much money they charge for it!".

  24. Re:grsecurity on Additional Security in the Linux Kernel? · · Score: 1

    Thats not true (about the JVM), you have to use the chpax utility to modify the properties of the ELF executable and the JVM works again.

    That's how I fixed it on my Grsecurity system.

  25. Re:This guy is a freak on I'm Just Here for the Food · · Score: 1

    I saw that episode, he was just explaining that a lobster is an arachnid. Just like any common spider, mite, shrimp, crab, crawfish, etc...