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  1. Re:What is "WGA"? on WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall? · · Score: 1

    Despite of all the claims that everybody knows this, thats not true. I didn't

    I tried the usual google test too, the first matches were:
    Writers Guild of America, west
    Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable ...
    Writers Guild News - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE ...
    Western Growers Association ( Hmm... pot? yummy!)
    HM Treasury - Whole of Government Accounts Programme - Home
    The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

    Left me baffled..

  2. Re:I'm sorry, did I read that correctly? on Dan Geer's Monoculture Bomb Goes Off · · Score: 1

    > Seriously, the amount of time spent switching between any of these system is drastic. For a typical, small
    > database application, there is probably 20k-50k lines of stored procedures. All the different vendors have
    > their own SQL proceedures.

    All the "typical, small database applications" i have see in real life are with 0 (zero) lines of stored procedures, and their porting will usually require replacing those "insert...(xxx_seq.nextval)" oracle idiosyncracies, changes in blob handling etc. Which is still a pain in the ass. But stored procedures might not be really as widespread as people think.

  3. Re:Longevity? on A 4.1 GHz Dual Core at $130? · · Score: 1

    The Celeron 300A is infamous about its overclockability.

    I have been using (and still am ) Celeron 300A@450 Mhz as a production server over 3 years without a single crash.

  4. Re:What Is The Story here? on DoJ Following Porn Blocker Advances? · · Score: 0, Troll

    On a related topic, I'm still amazed that introducing a separation rule in public transport is considered a violation of free speech/human rights/whatever. Speaking for a local transport i use , just get on with it so we can fence off that part of the passengers. Please. Right now i have to share the bus with those negros and they are filthy i tell you...

  5. Why - The quest for Glory! on What Are Some of Your Favorite RPG Quests? · · Score: 1

    Am i the only one old enough to remember and heartily recommend you
    "The quest for Glory - So you want to be a hero?" ?

    Also check out the other 4 too. Outstanding!

  6. Re:Per Square Foot on How Much Do You Value Your Office Space? · · Score: 1

    That kinda depends where you live. In lots of places its Euro * m^2 / month

  7. Re:They Paid For It on Is Verizon a Network Hog? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it's in the "LAND OF THE FREE" (TM), but i do know that the country i live in ( which happens to be a EU province) the telecoms CAN NOT lay their cables on private property claiming "eminent domain" or some other stuff without the owners written approval.

    This goes even further - landowners whose land got cabled during soviet times, can tell them to take their lines elsewhere.

    So far, this has worked quite well. Most landowners don't have anything against the cables in the ground ( some ask for a small (up to ~100$) one-time fee tho.)

    I guess it usually goes like this:
    TELCO: "Can i lay my copper in the ground here?"
    OWNER: "NO!"
    TELCO: "SO you're not interested in ADSL and phone connection?"
    OWNER: "Er... i a'm"
    TELCO: "So, can i lay my copper in the ground here?"
    OWNER: "Eee... okey"

  8. Re:I agree with Blizzard on Blizzard Responds To Gay Guild Debate · · Score: 1

    Looking for a safe stance on abortion? Me neither.
    I have a different stance on abortion: I'm against abortion, but for killing babies. --maddox

  9. Re:Checking malloc() is an obsolete practice on KDE Heap Overflow Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    I read ./ a lot and i rarely reply. Except when i see something that makes sense. Like THIS

  10. Re:Dude, FVWM on Torvalds Says 'Use KDE' · · Score: 1

    I use WindowMaker on Debian Etch with following GTK2 apps:
    acroread gaim gimp gqview leafpad mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird pgadmin3 scite

    None of them require gnome-settings-daemon or
    the notorious gconfd ( i hate that beast,
    it starts up at random moment, and never quits.
    Even when user has logged off and quit X a month ago.
    I made a cronjob to kill it :).

    For a few kde apps i use , these libs are enough: kdelibs4 kdelibs-data kdelibs-bin

  11. Re:But who do we sue? on New Golden Age for Outside-the-Box Startups? · · Score: 1

    How about depends:

    If it can be shown that all the owners knew (or should have known ) about Reynolds tobacco
    business and that its quite lethal to their clients, why not
    hold the owners responsible?

  12. Re:Welcome to 1990, Sony. on Sony Profits Low, Halts CRT Production · · Score: 1

    i just went out and bought 5 keytronic keyboards. the word is that keytronic stopped selling to europe altogether.

    even their keytronic-europe.com domain seems discontinued and squatted.

    so - does anyone has suggestions, whats second-best after keytronic?
    (no, don't suggest logitech - they KBs feel like swamp and the one i tried had a MISSING FUCKING INSERT KEY)
    (and if possible - i'll try to refrain from buying MS products too)

  13. Re:This should not exist on Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success · · Score: 1

    paper ballot DOES NOT take supermacy- it was planned but struck down by our beloved Alzheimer president.
    And ID card is not as bad as it seems, you can disable the electronic part of it AFAIK.

  14. Since i'm local on Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success · · Score: 1

    Fire away some questions, one per message please - and i'll try to answer them as my time permits.

    Basically, this voting system is far worse than your Diebold voting machines.
    Problems include:
    1) no way to verify the result for ordinary citizen.
    2) consider a well-written Windows voting virus : )
    3) vote coercion - there are rumours/ tales of
        big russian-speaking factorys (in NE of Estonia) collected ID-cards
        and PINs from all the workers at election day.
        If you did not hand over your ID-card, you got fired.

  15. Re:Privacy? on Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success · · Score: 4, Informative

    Find out it at http://www.vvk.ee/
    Its the official Vabariigi valimiskomision (National Electoral Commitee) page.
    There is even an english section.

  16. What is wrong with DSPAM? on DSPAM v3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Why is it not included in Debian?
    Spamassassin is.
    Bogofilter is.
    Popfile is.

    I thought it was the license, but seems that DSPAM is GPL.
    So, can anyone comment? I'm not installing it
    for my server if i can not apt-get it and have debian
    security support for it.

  17. Re:They're Dreaming on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mandatory joke

    Q: How do you call someone who speaks only one language?
    A: A citizen of USA.

    Btw, how many is a brazillion? : )

  18. Re:Nooooo...... on Campaign Financing Cyber Loophole · · Score: 1

    I'm from Europe. What is Vespa?

  19. Re:The massive power of creating digital realism on Weta Digital Grows Cluster · · Score: 1

    Cleary Meet the Feebles pales in comparison with "Braindead" and "Bad Taste"!

  20. Re:who comes up with this names? on Mandriva Linux 2006 Released · · Score: 1

    Honda Fitta - "Small on the outside but large on the ... "

  21. make yourself a few aliases on What's Your Command Line Judo? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Need to find that file named somethingfoosomeotherthing?
    alias ff='find . |grep -i '
    >ff foo

    ./somedir/somethingfoo
    ./somedir/something foo2
    ./somedir/somethingfoo3

    Need to find that pesky configuration file for printer?
    ~/bin/gr:
    grep -i -r $1

    ~/bin/fgre:
    grep -i -r -l $1

    >cd /etc/
    >fgr laserjet

    ./cups/ppd/hp.ppd:*ShortNickName: "HP LaserJet Series"

    Just interested which files to check?
    >fgre laserjet

    ./cups/ppd/hp.ppd

  22. TDI! on Hybrid Vehicle Conversion Services? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Buy a used small turbodiesel engine for it.

    1.9L diesel will have more than enough oomph (unless you're suffering from penis envy) and will move you around with insane mpg.

    Cheaper than hybrid. Cleaner than hybrid.

  23. I chose something else. on Blocking a Nation's IP Space · · Score: 1

    After doing some stats i actually decided to block USA instead. Most of my spam comes from there. Works actually very well.

    One thing to remember when blocking off huge chunks of IP - leave your root,postmaster,hostmaster and abuse emails unblocked. These almost don't get any spam whatsoever.

  24. Re:Hard work. on E-Mail Server Setup Advice? · · Score: 1

    Ah, i see - re-active scanning might take a lot of time.

    Load is usually specified as of output /usr/bin/uptime binary or as output of /usr/bin/top.

    Cat /proc/loadavg on linux box shows load too.

  25. Re:Hard work. on E-Mail Server Setup Advice? · · Score: 1

    What are you guys doing getting 1.8GHz machine into high load?

    I run a Celeron300A(OC to 450Mhz) with 192Mb of memory and regular IDE disk. We have about 150 e-mail accounts, all of them get filtered thru SpamAssassin and ClamAV, and the load is about 0.25!

    Debian Postfix-Amavis setup.

    Oh, that machine also handles some 10 orso low-traffic webpages, has UW-IMAP + squirrelmail + IMP.

    How in the hell can you get 1.8Ghz machine on his knees with 100 mail accounts?