User: Colin Smith

Preventing the slashdot effect.

On: Mapping the Internet

Site's dead. /.ed no doubt.

What if /. actually cached/proxied/copied these slashdotable sites rather than just linking to them? Hmm?

The traffic stays within /., everyone gets to read the page and there isn't a trail of dead servers left in the /. wake.

I want know when the 128bit will appear.

On: Intel Shipping Merced Engineering Samples

Anybody know if there are 128bit chips on the way?

Is anybody really still using 32bit systems?

On: Intel Shipping Merced Engineering Samples

Wow, get with the program.

Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, PPC are all shipping 64bit and are cheap to boot, are you really that far behind the times?

Hell, Cobalt have dirt cheap 64bit systems shipping in volume right now.

What... You're waiting for Intel to say 64bit is good?

Re:Ruined poll - utter bullshit anyway.

On: Win2k delay claimed to be helping spread of Linux

Any sampling method which allows the population to select itself is utter bullshit anyway. No such thing as a valid result from one of these.

Is artificial life possible?

On: Virtual Immune Systems Headed for Market

Given that human beings started as a bunch of random chemical reactions in the sludge, what're the chances of artificial life being created in a similar way?
Say hypothetically theres a script which generates thousands of files of random bytes of random length which are then run as if they were executables, anything which actually runs is "mated" with other files to produce offspring. Could it be possible to create artificial life in this way?

http://www.mcg.mot.com/linux/

On: Caldera pulls Motorola onto Linux Bandwagon

The MCG Linux home page.

The site has it's own DOS.

On: Microsoft /asks/ "Crack this machine"

The reason the aren't counting Denial Of Service is that the site has it's own built in Denial Of Service for all Netscape and IE4- users.
God, what a bunch of twats.

GUI competition is great.

On: Some KDE news

This is great stuff. There is more GUI competition within Linux than the rest of the computing world put together. I think we'll see great things from both KDE and Gnome.

COSM - Generic distributed computing architecture.

On: The Truth About SETI@Home

A generic architecture for distributed computing projects.

SETI searching, RC5 cracking, CGI Movie rendering... Whatever.

Have you SEEN the speed of some of the SGIs?

On: The Truth About SETI@Home

1.5 hours per work unit!!!!!

Hey, your name is Gerald Holmes aint it?

On: Ask Slashdot: Building a Large Email Service

I love these guys...

http://www.freeyellow.com/members7/geraldholmes/

The largest ISP in the UK uses Linux servers.

On: Ask Slashdot: Building a Large Email Service

They use Linux boxes with a exim as their SMTP system and a proprietary POP daemon, 9 pop hosts.

1.5 million users (so far), I don't know the number concurrent. They have very recently been quoted on the stock market.

Sorry... A Marketing Engineer?

On: TurboLinux Claims to be Number One OS in Japan

So, what does a marketing engineer do then?

Hey, just walk away, it's easy.

On: The High Tech Sweatshop

Used to work like that, no more. There is plenty of work available.

I don't get paid for 24/7, so I don't do it. It's good business to stick to your contract, they don't thank you for the extra.
Living in Europe with the Working time directive is quite handy, maybe the US needs something similar.

QUICK! QUICK!! WHERE'S THE KILLFILE??!??

On: BSD: "The Net's stealth operating system"

Slashdot needs a killfile of some sort.

ARRGGHH DEATH!! DEATH TO THE LINUX VS BSD THREAD!!

On: BSD: "The Net's stealth operating system"

ARRGGHH NOT AGAIN!!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!!

The X prize will be first!

On: NASA's X-37

Projects like the X prize will do more for space travel than NASA.

http://www.xprize.org/

So we might see something useful soon?

On: NASA's X-37

Nah... This is NASA we're talking about here.

They'll spend 2 billion on it and then mothball everything.

Re:Use PNG

On: GD Graphics Library withdrawn

You sure? No PNG reported with IE4

IE4 reports:
HTTP_ACCEPT = image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, */*

NS4 reports:
HTTP_ACCEPT = image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*

Sorry, NT just isn't in the same league.

On: Microsoft Janus

I'm a systems administrator for a Large enterprise with lots of time running AIX, Linux and NT systems.

NT average (of 15 boxes) uptime is 11 days.
Max uptime 45 days, min 2 days

AIX average (10 boxes) uptime is 321 days
Max uptime 437 days, min 97 days

Linux average ( just 6 boxes) uptime 63 days
Max uptime 85 days, min 14 days

Note: I'm not the administrator of the NT systems, maybe they are crap administrators. I'm just reporting their statistics. The 1st (official) Linux box was installed 93 days ago.

Lord of the rings - What are they thinking?

On: Spoonful of Quickies

What on earth are they thinking?
They'll massacre it, I mean christ, they were trying to get Sean Connery for Gandalf!

Merging?

On: IBM Merging with Sequent

Sequent "merging" with IBM is like a rain drop "merging" with the ocean.

Re:Are these things PPC based?

On: RS/6000 Linux Box

I admin RS6K boxes, yes, they are fast and stable and no, I don't like AIX either.

Re:Voting is supposed to be a pain

On: Voting over the net?

Oooh Oooh, can I have the racing car?

And what exactly have MS innovated?

On: Ask Slashdot: What Quicktime Format for X-Platform?

Sure, new algorithms require research time, money equipment etc, especially in the audio/video field because you have to figure out how the eye/brain/ear handle signal processing.

It's not too surprising that the OS field is a little slow here. What excuse does MS have? Sorry... They've just released a better MP3.