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  1. Sharepoint? on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 2

    or confluence, alfresco.. or most other CMSs.

  2. blogs.windows.com down on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Amusingly, it appears to have been running Wordpress.

  3. Re:Our morals and those of our customers? on UK Cosmetic Retailer Lush Targeted By Hackers · · Score: 1

    What if the culprit(s) turns out to be an employee?

  4. trend micro ossec on Trend Micro Chairman Says Open Source Is a Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Hence trend micro's most trusted software being open source?
    Http://ossec.net

  5. beer on How Did You Become a UNIX Administrator? · · Score: 1

    Got drunk in a server room one night.
    next day our file server was running on slackware.
    god knows how I did it.

  6. Re:AudioGalaxy on File Sharing: Decentralizing, Open-Source Fasttrack · · Score: 1

    try removing some of the files that you have shared/change your upload dir. Mine choked when I tried sharing ~500 files. I removed most and it worked again. clould be 'just one of those things'

  7. Re:Wow, impressive registration. on Sandia's 20-Million-Pixel, 130-Square-Foot Screen · · Score: 1

    In the pic that I am looking at (http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/images /jpg/VisLab.jpg)
    the lady is holding a light bulb. You can see the power cable. Also note shadows from the guys legs. I dont think that the projector on the ceiling is even switched on (too short a focal length).

    It would be great for playing road-runner type "I'll just go through this open doorway *BUMP* opps, it's just painted on a wall" gags.

  8. Top man. on So Long, Hitchhiker: Douglas Adams Dead At 49 · · Score: 1

    I will make sure my son reads his works.

  9. Re:RedHat is NOT LINUX!!! on The Linux I18N And Standard Base Merge · · Score: 1

    I agree stongly.
    Although I am but a newbie in linux I do have a few years of MS under my belt.
    Last night I installed d1x ( open source descent ) on to my laptop via an rpm file. In windows I would expect it to install to c:\program files\d1x\d1x. You know, keep a game file off the path and put it some where organised. The rpm dumped it in /usr/bin.
    Why? A quick look confirms that there are over 2100 files in /usr/bin and a lot of them are files that I would have assumed would live some where more elagant. I realy do fail to see the logic of adding unimportant apps to an already huge dir.
    ps I run Mandrake
    pps If there is a bloody obvious reason for all these non-related files living in the same place could somebody please tell me..

  10. Re:huh? on France Sues U.S. and UK Over Echelon · · Score: 1

    Allies?
    in WW2?
    Don't make me laugh.

  11. Re:HDML ? on Geoworks Demands Royalties For All WAP Apps · · Score: 2

    HDML can use ( and in mobile devices does use ) WAP as a transport. You may be interested in looking at WML as it is intended to replace HDML. WML was writen by the WAP consortium, If memory serves me correctly HDML was written by Unwired Planet. WML is based on HDML. You would be forgiven if when presented code in each language you could not tell the difference.
    a point of interest: unlike HTML, WML and HDML are complied on the fly by the server. UP provide a proxy (?) that translates HTML into HDML for the WAP server.


    D.

  12. Re:Bumblebees flying AND:Poor research on Open Source == Faster bug fixes · · Score: 1

    I think that you will find that the effective elasticity of air changes as you decrease the size of the wing. When you get down to the scale of a bumble bee wierd stuff happens. Ohter wierd stuff: spiders flying on a single line of silk, butterflys not flat spining.

    The Wright bros kind of found this out. They made a tiny wind tunnel to test areofoils. They predicted that a very thin foil would be most effective. For a 35 mph craft it most certainly is not.

    Most of the above info is taken liberaly from:'scientific american's great paper areoplane book.' a right riviting read.

  13. Re:God is dead - no monopoly on open debate on Cybernauts Awake! · · Score: 1

    It has always seemed to me that it is politicians who control religion, not the reverse.
    examples:

    Henry VIII
    Hitler
    Mohamed
    any of the Iotolas ( sp? )
    any of the rulers of Rome.

    This list does go back a bit, but then so does man's desire to subjugate his brother.
    True no human is faultless, and religion is a human construct around a faith.
    Politics is a human construct built around human weakness.
    In both cases Individuals may be good or bad, but politicts is inherently more likely to be corrupt.
    Hell, I'm begining to sound like an anarchist now.

  14. Re:God is dead on Cybernauts Awake! · · Score: 1

    I belive that statistics would dissagree with you. For example look at the upsurge in organised religion in China.

  15. Re:Cool thing? on Detecting Stealth Planes · · Score: 1

    and?

  16. Re:Waiting for RoachBot on SlugBot, the Slug-Powered Slug-Hunting Robot · · Score: 1

    There are also repair costs, And having to get out of bed at 2 in the morning to retrive a 'stuck' SlugBot is not going to apeal to many farmers.

  17. How Expensive? on SlugBot, the Slug-Powered Slug-Hunting Robot · · Score: 1

    Maby they should also come with a sign that says:

    STEAL ME

  18. Re:Defend with neutron bomb missiles on The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle · · Score: 1

    The latest Russian nukes 'wobble'.
    The west only 'officialy' found this out last week.
    hiting anything that wobbles unpredictably is damn near impossible. I recon this project is money down the drain. Personally I think that some kind of huge fuel/air device would stand the best chance of success. Hell, you wouldnt even have to ignite it.

  19. Re:Defend with neutron bomb missiles on The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember an American anti formation bomber missile called the Phoenix (?). Launched from the Delta Dagger it would fly in a straight line from X miles, then POP....
    The nuke in the missile would wipe out all aircraft for X miles, and give the Delta Daggers pilot's arse a hell of a sun tan.
    Anybody know if these things were deployed? If so why (if they have been ) were they withdrawn? (sounds like a dumb question, but what other choice is there?)

  20. Developed on MIPS eh? on Interview With Original NT OS/2 Developers · · Score: 1

    So, NT was developed primarily on MIPS to aid cross-platform portability?
    Or maybe they just tried running it on a 486/33 with 8 Meg of RAM