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  1. Others on Nagios System and Network Monitoring · · Score: 3, Informative

    zabbix
    jffnms
    opennms

    etc.

    I found nagios rather clunky compared to some of the others.

  2. Encryption on Why Desktop Email Still Trumps Webmail · · Score: 1

    On the other hand do I want sensitive data stored on someone else's server? You don't have to trust them. But then, I'd put money on it that you send all your emails plain text.

  3. I don't want an Exchange competitor on Why Desktop Email Still Trumps Webmail · · Score: 1

    What a sucky design that would be.

    A client which integrates a directory, calendaring, todo, email and nntp with SyncML using open and standardised protocols sure. But we can do all that already with existing server systems.

  4. Re:No help for smaller businesses. on Dealing With Venom on the Web · · Score: 1

    Knowing who the culprit is offers you nothing unless you have the financial resources to do something about it. You mean like bus fare?

  5. Re:Maybe its just me.. on F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD · · Score: 1

    That's a shiv I would love to see paypal get. You really think that the banks are better than paypal?

  6. Of course it is on F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD · · Score: 1

    They want you to have that warm fuzzy feeling knowing that everything is alright with the world as they siphon the money from your accounts.

  7. Re:Novell is the Judas Goat. on openSUSE Hobbled By Microsoft Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Judas was a goat?

    Anyway. They are very helpfully pointing out the patents which Microsoft says apply to Linux...

  8. Re:No help for smaller businesses. on Dealing With Venom on the Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yet they have been a thorn in my side for two years now and there is nothing I can do about it. There's no such thing as anonymity on the internet... Anyone can be found.
  9. But on Google Faces Plagiarism Questions Over Chinese Software · · Score: 1

    You released it under the GPL... Didn't you read the license? If you want recognition, which yes is a valid requirement, shouldn't you use a license which demands attribution?

  10. Faster than jumping out of a plane on Zero-60 in 3.1 Seconds, Batteries Included · · Score: 1

    Cool, that's close to 2G acceleration.

    18m/s^2

  11. Not bad at all. on Zero-60 in 3.1 Seconds, Batteries Included · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How would a bike version do? Existing litre bikes can manage around 2.5 seconds... Or is gravity the limiting factor here, I have hellish problems keeping my front wheel on the ground.

  12. Re:Doubtful on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh my... Aren't you a model employee.

    Of course, you're still not promotion material until you've missed all your kids birthdays as well.

  13. It's a security feature on IPv6 Tested in Space · · Score: 1

    By using an obscure and unused protocol they are able to confuse most hackers.

  14. Oh come ON! on Linux Fund Loses MasterCard Funding Source · · Score: 5, Funny

    Though I probably wouldn't do that if Balmer or Gates was behind me in line You only live once!

  15. UK efficiency stats for cars on Japanese Mileage Maniacs · · Score: 1
  16. Re:It Depends, Really on Paul Graham Claims "Microsoft is Dead" · · Score: 1

    I don't think that this is an intrinsic property of the software business Not the software business per se, but the OS/document exchange business. It's down to the network effect.

  17. The middle class is the business class on China Systematically Developing New Technologies · · Score: 1

    I think the US definition is overly broad. The middle class are employers. They get other people to work for them. That's what gives them the time.

  18. Re:You can't impose liberty. You grow it. on China Systematically Developing New Technologies · · Score: 1

    So you're saying if a society doesn't have a sufficiently large middle class, that they must accept totalitarianism instead I'm not saying it's inevitable but basically it's the middle class which drive freedom. In Cambodia, the middle class were the first victims of Pol Pot. He executed them in order to prevent counter revolution. Without a large middle class, the rich will tend to dominate the poor.

    Money provides freedom. The reality is that without money you are essentially a serf, in thrall to employers simply to survive. The middle class are more free than the lower classes because they can afford to go to university, be educated, to travel, to change jobs, to take time.

  19. Re:Typical mistake on China Systematically Developing New Technologies · · Score: 1

    some research needs to be doen by the state because private enterprise will nto fund it. This is just dogma without basis in fact. Some of the most innovative and inventive universities are private.
  20. You can't impose liberty. You grow it. on China Systematically Developing New Technologies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    human rights, democratic ideals, freedom of speech, free press, no censorship, political pluralism, open competition of ideas and on and on and on. These things will all come with a middle class who demand them. You have to build that middle class up first. This is what a lot of people don't get. It's the middle class, who are financially independent, not the working class who demand change. Funnily enough, it's money which allows freedom to flourish.

  21. Typical mistake on China Systematically Developing New Technologies · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They'll spend a fortune developing research resources when they could have just announced a prize for a winner and allowed business to get on with it.

    Still. Just goes to show you can't tell politicians, they need to be controlling things. Same the world over.

  22. Re:What about maintenance and fixes? on Microsoft Mulling Portable Data Centers · · Score: 1

    And yes, the company I work for is Sun, and yes, we're selling Windows-based systems now. Shocking, isn't it? Not really, it's simply economics. Oh, and the beginning of the end for the company. In 5 years, Sun will be just another Intel box shifter.

  23. Easter egg run in Glasgow on An Easter (Egg) Holiday? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you live in Glasgow, have a motorbike or even just want to watch or marshall, there will be something around 10,000 bikes riding through the city from about 12:00pm this Sunday, 8th of April.

    http://glasgoweggrun.mag-uk.org/

    An Easter egg is the required participation fee.

  24. Re:Off. The. Grid. on Solar Power-Cell Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Imagine the checks they will have to pay out now that people can set up their roof as a money farm for 1/10 the cost! If the supply of electricity increases, the price will drop and the amount they have to pay out will drop. We may find some of the more expensive to run power stations being mothballed.

  25. Re:Inflating/devaluing on Study Finds Cost Major Factor In Outsourcing Positions · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, inflation is holding steady around ~2-or-3ish% (2.42% for February, I saw; 3.24% last year). Yes. Of course it is.