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  1. Wrong county on A School District's Education in Free Software · · Score: 1
  2. Nice Imagery on Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux · · Score: 1
  3. Re:What about old Cygnus? on Oracle Linux Explored · · Score: 1

    I'm not in the know, but I was curious about the same thing. Red Hat acquired Cygnus in 1999, and Cygnus stopped operating independently in 2000. So that's been six years, not a couple. I looked at the 2006 annual report for Red Hat, and it doesn't really break down revenue that specifically. The two main revenue streams are 1) Subscription and 2) Training and Services. Subscription relates to the Enterprise Linux and was about $230M, and Training and Services relates to the certification programs, customer training, and other customer support contracts and such. I am guessing that Training and Services would include the gcc engineering and support that Cygnus did. Revenues for Training and Services were a little less than $50M. So even at its most optimistic, it would seem that Cygnus-related revenue would account for no more than 20% of total revenue.

    So that's my admittedly shallow analysis.

  4. Central PA on Outsourcing to Rural America · · Score: 1

    Central PA is most often used to describe the Harrisburg metropolitan area, which is actually more Southeast-Central (or Central-Southeast). The central PA area covers York, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancaster, and perhaps Perry and Adams counties. The term Central PA is less a geographical term than a population term as this area is the (relatively) populated area between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

  5. Misreading on Intel Flaunts Mac mini Knock-off · · Score: 1

    InadequateCamel,

    Looks like you are misreading emilymildew. The 9:45 post offers a suggestion to counter *others* who mention Macs being "outrageously expensive".

  6. And? on Open Source Expertise in Short Supply · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the problem here. But maybe that's because I meet their criteria.

  7. Re:Video Quality on 11,000 Words on the Star Wars Trilogy DVDs · · Score: 1

    Just watched it last night with my family. I noticed them too.

  8. upload a virus! on Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1
    Imagine you boarded an alien ship with a computer system you'd never seen before, built only for the technicians on the alien ship

    Quite obviously you would upload a virus to destroy their entire ship!

  9. telnetd on OS X on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1

    /usr/libexec/telnetd

  10. heh, verbing . . . on Real Security? · · Score: 1

    which routinely permits the verbing of nouns and adjectives

    This just made me chortle. "Verbing" used to describe the process of using nouns and adjectives as verbs. I've heard the phrase before, but I laugh each time. Thanks for using that word.
  11. Mac OS X *Has Included* Compilers on Red Hat's CEO Suggests Windows For Home Users · · Score: 1

    Apple has been shipping its OS X releases with compilers from the very beginning; no "special orders" required. See here or here for some useful information.

  12. t68i - one person's experience on Best Cell Phone Service for GPRS? · · Score: 1

    My experience with my T68i and AT&T service has been, for the most part, phenomenal. But maybe I'm just easy-to-please. I have just a few comments about thedave's points above:

    I have three different failure modes.
    I have never seen a phone failure. Sometimes I can't access my addressbook for a brief period of time after powering the phone on.

    No notification for failed calls
    Yes, I've noticed that calls that fail to connect do not result in a voice notification; I end up waiting for far too long until I realize that it just isn't going to connect.

    You cannot edit a keyed number
    I don't know what this means, which I guess means that I've never tried it.

    The phonebook is incredibly slow
    I've not experienced slowness, but rather not being able to use it at all for a brief time after powering the phone on.

    The joystick is fragile
    Never for me. And I always carry it in my pocket.

    I switched from T-Mobile last winter and have had no problems at all. I'm near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for what it's worth. Just wanted to note my experiences perhaps as a contrast to thedave.

  13. A Simple Desultory Philippic on Community Involvement for an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    Actually released on 1966's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme.

  14. Re:Source Code Escrow Helps Prevent This on Who Owns Source Code When a Company Folds? · · Score: 1

    Fort Knox Escrow was purchased by Iron Mountain. Appears that DSI Technology Escrow Services handles that stuff now.

  15. Facts are true, my anonymous friend . . . on Embarrassing Governments Into Adopting Open Source · · Score: 1

    Governor Joe Davis
    I think you mean Governor Gray Davis .

  16. Re:Nice Password on Nmap Featured in The Matrix Reloaded · · Score: 1

    Funny. I appreciated it.

  17. Re:April Fools? on USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID Array Under OS X · · Score: 1

    Always wear under wear
    Always wear underwear

    HIBT?

  18. Re:from the article on Screenshot History of Windows · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna guess he is talking about Johnson & Johnson.

  19. Re:My mom on Family Tech Support · · Score: 1
    she spends her days using OS/390

    She's so behind the times!

  20. Re:Just ignore them and they go away... on Dismal Apple Forecasts Are Wrong · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:elitism... on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1
    Of course, I am completely unable to come up with an explanation for why people watch baseball on TV.

    Because hitting a baseball travelling 60 feet 6 inches at 100 MPH with just a three and a half foot piece of ash is the hardest thing to do in sports.

  22. Re:Trail of Tears? on Trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC, & OpenOffice 1.0 · · Score: 1
    the world is not a nice place.

    And apparently you are doing your part to keep it so. Thanks.

  23. parenting is DIFFICULT on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 1
    but that kind of defeats the purpose of TEACHING doesnt it? At some point you have to take a step back and realize that eventually, he is going to come up against the results of his actions, and its going to suck for him. It will be painful, and it will be awful to watch

    My kindergartener brought home his first "report card" yesterday. I'm thinking a lot about these issues right now. Parenting is damn hard. Anyone who says otherwise isn't doing it right.


  24. TPS reports on Lifetime Careers in IT? · · Score: 1
    So is the commercial a reference to Office Space, or is there actually such a thing as a TPS report?

    Yes.

  25. Joe Longneck! on Updated Power Macs at Apple.com · · Score: 1
    Okay, now explain that to Joe Home computer user.

    I think you mean Joe Longneck.