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  1. hmmm on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd be interested to see past reports, and see what they got right. I know they having really been batting a thousand as of late.

  2. Re:Memory Leaks on PHP Automated Administrivia? · · Score: 1

    yes you still need . I used the php-cli package and write stuff in it all the time. I've replaced PERL and BASH with PHP.

  3. slightly OT on The GNOME Journal, January Edition · · Score: 1

    Anyone know where to get good gnome themes? Freshmeat doesn't have a whole lot.

  4. Re:MPlayer on Scheduled Recording of Streamed Audio? · · Score: 1

    nah no cron. He needs this and this.

  5. Re:Dell Latitude on External PCI Box for Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I wonder who was the first person to say "You don't measure RAM in Megs!".

  6. Re:Looks like Fizzog called it on eBay Shuts Down Ultima Online Charity Auctions · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually he relisted everything.

    Here our aim discussion.

    AIM IM with carnivorousjoe
    8:51 AM
    me: just read the news about the ebay takedown, bummer, I was behind ya. maybe try to sell "peices of paper that describe how much money is going to the red cross"? if people can sell things telling you where to go click links surely you can do that...
    Joe: Im back up though!
    me: you are?
    8:55 AM
    Joe: oh yes, lots of auctions online
    Joe: it was a nervous drive last night to redo them all
    Joe: im mentally beat but stable now
    me: is ebay going to leave them alone?
    Joe: I totally relisted
    Joe: let me find one
    Joe: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dllViewItem&item= 8159452741
    me: cool
    Joe: no charity and no links
    me: i can't beleive they pulled them
    Joe: but enough to get the recognition
    Joe: yup!
    Joe: I believe in them - im glad they got me set up people do this to rip others off
    Joe: so i want to be legit anyway it needs to be
    me: mind if I post our discussion or parts of in in a /. comment?
    Joe: im in communiq with red cross
    Joe: go ahead
    Joe: but red cross is thankfully figuring out what to do about this Virutal Stuff, and I hope they call back today with what I need to fill out

  7. Re:Heh, choice quote, taken out of context, I'm su on Interview with Debian Project Leader · · Score: 1

    I didn't think the old one was all that hard. Quite similar to OpenBSD's dead-simple 2 minute install.

  8. Re:Back Pack on A Pizza Box for Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    That's funny cuz I drove to Vancouver BC about 8 years ago, and that was the only time I've had a car vandalised.

  9. Re:Taxes? on UO Players Donate Virtual Gold for Tsunami Victims · · Score: 1

    Maybe they don't have credit cards maybe it's their parents paying the subscibtion and there's a lot of kids donating their "gold"?
    Don't knock it. It's a good thing. Odd, I'll grant you that, but good.

  10. Re:These are the programmers I miss. on Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story · · Score: 1

    you somehow managed to back up my point twice in that statement. ;-)

  11. Re:These are the programmers I miss. on Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story · · Score: 1

    You're also a true techie if you spell "you're" as "your". :-)

  12. Re:If Linux is ok.. on Low Cost VPN Solutions? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If linux is ok and yo uhave some spare boxes sitting around, then go download the Mandrake Multi-Network Firewall. I toyed around with it a couple years ago and got it working. I used OpenBSD now, but the MNF was really easy to configure. It also has packet sniffers to detect hack attempts built in (portsentry AND snort IIRC).

  13. Re:After all... on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    I thought they looked kind of neat until I saw the $1000 tag for the motherboard...uhhhhm no. Hopefully freescale, will get the cost of these things down. I had been looking at Pegsos for awhile they look to be related (same thing?).

  14. Re:After all... on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 2, Funny

    they are? Where can you find one?

  15. Re:Dupe from June on Modern Maniac Mansion · · Score: 2, Informative

    your url is busted, try this one.

  16. Re:Wow, on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    HAHA, I just had a vision of an iPod-like commercial of a guy dancing around to a SIDplayer (like midi) rendition of U2's "vertigo".

    picture it, it's funny. Maybe the black shadow man, would just stand there for a mintue and then walk away.

  17. Re:Let Me Get This Straight... on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    I didn't. got a link? or can you describe it? What was wrong with it?

  18. Re:After all... on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually I think the business plan goes something like this...

    1>notice people making joysticks with built-in games that play commodore games
    2>buy commodore name to sue those companies
    3>...
    4>profit!

    Once that plan is complete maybe they will buy Amiga.

  19. Re:needs some VMS stuff on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    Well it's sort of a paradox. It's news for ners, and it doesn't get muchnerdier than OpenVMS, yet the number one browser to /. is IE. Odd ain't it? ;-)

  20. Re:Next time look at the man-pages on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    What OS is that on? Here's my man page for chflags.

    arch set the archived flag
    opaque set the opaque flag (owner or superuser only)
    nodump set the nodump flag (owner or superuser only)
    sappnd set the system append-only flag (superuser only)
    schg set the system immutable flag (superuser only)
    uappnd set the user append-only flag (owner or superuser only)
    uchg set the user immutable flag (owner or superuser only)

    also, that doesn't address the real issue of a versioned filesystem.

  21. Re:needs some VMS stuff on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    no no no, you are missing the point. You can do those permissions on ANY file.

  22. Re:needs some VMS stuff on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    YOu aren't missing something. The backup itself happens HOURS after a potential screw up. In that instance the copy on the tape is bad. Versioning is the key here people!!! :-)

  23. Re:needs some VMS stuff on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    no, not journaled, versioned. Very very different. Journaled keeps a log of what the disk was doing so that that particular state can be restored in the event of a crash. That's how the a system running ext3 (or any of the others) don't have to fsck if you hit the power button. Versioned creates seperate version of individual files. So no, those options are NOT guaranteed by sane options, because those options don't exist in most filesystems.

  24. Re:needs some VMS stuff on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    You don't use VMS much do you? ;-) (of course does anyone?). The delete attrribute is much more than that. Can you in unix give *any* user read/write and preevent them from deleting it? VMS has a versioned filesystem where every file has a version. If someone rewrites the file with zero's, big deal, the file exists and therefore, so does it's previous version.

  25. Re:needs some VMS stuff on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    Nope, no nullification done. ;-) I wish I knew that this comment would have so much interest ahead of time otherwise I might have been more specific. My bad. Go read this.