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  1. Re:I've worked with the Tamino kit... on Do XML-based Databases Live Up to the Hype? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!
    XML may make sense when you're force to temporarily 'shim' two things together, but it puts the 'k' in kluge.

  2. Re:No, Really? on IBM Using iPod to boot Linux on PCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some sort of keyboard/display arrangement, and emacs on the ipod.
    But what sort of music would be suitable for the RMS ad campaign? The Residents?
    They have eyes, you know. ;)

  3. Re:Real Estate Bubble - Stock Bubble on The DotCom Crash Revisited · · Score: 1

    In the long term, we're all dead. Anxiety is passe.

  4. Re:Microsloth on Hindsight: Reversible Computing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think you can say their choice of path separator character was an
    a:\rguably
    b:\ad
    c:\all

  5. If on The DotCom Crash Revisited · · Score: 3, Funny

    your financial tree falls in the forest,
    and you're too broke to hear it
    did the money really exist?

  6. Re:Why? on Novell To Ship Xen in Next Version of Suse · · Score: 1

    Dude, your interrogative reeks of the ecological fallacy
    Frag deine frage.

  7. Re:Perl doesn't kill readability... on Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Since you showed up on the /. radar, Paul on Paul Graham Explains How to Start a Startup · · Score: 1
    Hmmm...
    (Disclaimer: I really like Python)

    C++ via Boost::Python

    Emacs via PyMacs

    PostgreSQL via Pl/Python

    ...embarrassment of web tools...
    I don't know about list hits on Gmane and usenet, but my SWAG says comp.lang.python is about twice as lively as comp.lang.c++.moderated.
    I think that newsgroup postings, projects on sourceforge, and jobs on monster could probably give a less qualitative response...
    Now, this asymptote you approach: are you by chance (or design) targeting Parrot for the Arc?

  9. Since you showed up on the /. radar, Paul on Paul Graham Explains How to Start a Startup · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Are you going to the LINKS meeting to pitch Arc?
    One wonders, with the hint of a tease, whether you'll get it done before Perl6 or C++0x...

  10. Re:Democrats vs. Republicans on Wisconsin Governor Proposing Tax On Downloads · · Score: 1

    I'd say both love power, and hate that which sets itself between them and power.
    Conversely, watch them cuddle up to the 'hated' constituency when pragmatic.

  11. Re:Democrats vs. Republicans on Wisconsin Governor Proposing Tax On Downloads · · Score: 1

    Request you elaborate on how you differentiate between the Demmicans and the Republocrats.
    I seem to have become confused, but it's all awash in ambiguity.
    The Republocrats, IIUC, are a small group of rich people picking the public pocket (PPP) using the 'Security' blanket.
    The Demmicans, conversely, are a small group of rich people PPP under the aegis of 'Progress', or some socialist pap currently choking the life out of (non-Muslim) Europe.
    The question is, can you mix integrity and politics?

  12. Re:Pardon my ignorance..... on Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Groove is an excellent (as of a demo I saw a couple of years ago) integration of pretty much all your collaboration tools.
    Think /. and MS Office, throw in IM, and server storage, and make it work well on crap hardware.
    It's the kind of turn-key integration that will take quite a while longer to realize using FOSS.
    Truly, the pieces are all there, but getting them all to work as smoothly is non-trivial.

  13. Mandatory Soundgarden link on Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  14. Re:Link to Randal's Articles on Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom · · Score: 1

    No, Martha was a marketing ploy.
    Considerably more tasteful than Michael Jackass.
    Sounds as if Mr. Scwhartz committed the unforgivable sin of irritating a shark.

  15. Re:Minimo on desktops? on MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile · · Score: 1


    Verily, wondered I: what could be done, foreasmuch as to render the King James Version less legible?
    Foresooth, thy sig hath shown me the way. :)
    </offtopic>

  16. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Torvalds Switches to a Mac · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Windows XP, Nervous Pack 2, certainly has made things more easy.
    I really enjoy the struggle to use the superior 11g management interface provided by the hardware vendor.
    The thorough explanation of how to use the firewall was only exceeded by the clear discussion of administrator vs. limited accounts, and the reasonable management thereof.
    The side effects on my legacy drivers are a joy. I dig the way my HP wireless printer causes my shutdown to hang, because Doze can't seem to kill the driver process. Not necessarily Redmond's fault, but WTF do I do?
    I won't mention the annoying thought-bubbles flatulently escaping the system tray, except to throw out a WTF in the case where, as Admin, it offers to de-clutter my desktop, then throws an error for being unable to delete the unused icons.
    </mild sarcasm>
    Summary:
    In its attempts to grow a reasonably secure operating system, Redmond really needs to offer the user some Dummy-esque tutorials, and communicate

    the pertinent system blocks

    use-cases for them
    In fairness, with some digging, I did bookmark something security-related on the Microsoft site, but a) I haven't had time yet to delve into it, and b) With the firewall (maybe) randomly borking my 11g connection, I'd prefer a tutorial to be installed with the next Nervous pack.
    Keeping this vaguely on topic, the declining usability of Windows is a strong encouragement to pursue additional perspective, and my Gentoo partition (admittedly as challenging to nail down--what do I emerge to run an .avi through alsa?) get's sexier by the sync...

  17. Re:Consistency and good comments on Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective · · Score: 1


    Dude: the deadline!
    Are you here to ship code, or are you living in some rose-colored academic glass house?
    </tongue in cheek>

  18. No, wait on Is Google Breaking Their Own Rules? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Congress is the only one around here who gets to pass laws in the hypocritical fashion, e.g. labor laws.
    You're not trying to imply Google is leveraging itself into the government, are you? That's ++L++R territory!

  19. Re:It's being used on Debris is Shuttle's Biggest Threat · · Score: 1

    The really interesting technology to watch is that space elevator.

  20. Re:Rollermouse or Horse... on RollerMouse Aims to Replace the Traditional Mouse · · Score: 2, Funny

    cage match

  21. Oh come on! on New Dr. Who Episode Leaked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who believes these 'leaks' anymore?
    Or is 'leak' just a fig leaf to cover over the fact that good advertising may conflict with some of the copyrights and legalese?

  22. Re:foam glue on Debris is Shuttle's Biggest Threat · · Score: 1

    Evidence?
    No, but, having spent some time in the Navy, my 'gut feeling' when it comes to bringing non-trivial hardware out of mothballs is: good luck.
    Now, granted, the Russian technology has the sweetly under-engineered simplicity of Lisp going for it, so the timeframe for getting ye olde roquet ready for launch may be shorter. But you've also got to worry that a lot of critical parts were thugged to buy vodka, too.

  23. Re:Linux IS taking off. on OSS Unix: Dividing & Conquering Itself · · Score: 1

    Right, but it would still be cool to show that Linux usage growth outpaces market growth.
    For example, I have too many requirements (mostly in the driver department) that force me to boot XP, for all the blessed simplicity of emacs and ion on the gentoo partition are certainly preferable.

  24. Re:Little known fact on Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it was really small, a micro-soft kill, if you will...

  25. Re:foam glue on Debris is Shuttle's Biggest Threat · · Score: 1
    russian proton out of mothballs
    That's like dragging a dos-based version of Lotus1-2-3 source code out of the archive and doing 'enough' to it to compile and run.
    Are you sure?