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  1. Re:Not BASIC on Software Suggestions for Elementary School Workstations? · · Score: 1

    I remember trying to do OOP as a kid. If you are thinking python for it's OOP, I wouldn't try until junior high. 'sides, ruby is better ;)

  2. ebook plugin required or not? on New PHP Magazine Launched · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Our goal is to bring a complete reference point to a PHP community that is growing in ranks and ability, dealing with subjects that go beyond the traditional tutorials that have been available until now. What's more, because it's published in PDF, it's available worldwide at a very reasonable cost (or, at least, we think so!)"



    Hm. If this is via the pdf ebook security thing, i couldn't find a mac plugin for adobe's pdf reader 5. I think they mistakenly alienated all the non-adobe acrobat readers or those who the plugin isn't avail.
  3. Re:A Word on Mozilla on Mozilla: The Good And The Bad · · Score: 2

    Ok, I know, troll.. but what the hell.

    At home, I'm running XFree /w pan (which uses gnomelibs), Mozilla, AIM and Yahoo comfortably on 256 megs of ram on a 433mhz machine.

    At work, I was on a celery 233mhz with 128 megs of ram. Ran fine. And I have to restart my browser a lot due to playing with my hosts settings for several projects. No, it's not a browser issue, it's an infrastucture thing, don't ask.

    Sorry dude, but your machines sound either underpowered or misconfiugred.

  4. Re:Realtime OS... on Realtime OS Jaluna · · Score: 2

    Windows 3.1 and timeslicing ;)

  5. Re:Check the Adaptec line on Sharing a SCSI Drive Between Two Boxes Using Linux? · · Score: 2

    if you could throw a tuba, i'd be impressed. guy was probably dodging one.

    -s

  6. Re:OpenBSD's Security is Overrated on OpenBSD 3.2 Readies For Release, pf Matures · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Which you realize, is more secure. OSX is similar in this respect. sshd, ftpd, all the services.. off by default. even sharing.. until you enable it.

    If you start randomly turning on services on obsd w/o knowing what you are doing, who's fault is it for being insecure after the install?

  7. Re:Seems like a silly move... on Yahoo Moving to PHP · · Score: 1

    Well, it wasn't hardware, since all 30 web boxen were dying. The code dying on an assignment, like 10 of 15 is downright bad. I'd appreciate it my script interpreter not to do that.

  8. Re:Seems like a silly move... on Yahoo Moving to PHP · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ug, as a prior php developer, who worked on enterprise level apps, i'd pray for them. PHP has it's unique problems once you have a large code base. You are more likely to require two modules in php that won't play well toegether or get errors in php itself. Php didn't like gnome-xml and ssl together at one point for example. I've had includes just die randomly when the include_once tree got too large. It'd die on a variable assignment.. strange shit.

  9. Re:Depends on How Many CPUs for Microsoft's SQL Server? · · Score: 2

    Don't forget, doing parallel processing by multiple machines has its advantages. Such as not needing to share the busses, for memory, net access, etc etc..

    Yes, the disk would be needed to be shared for writing, while snapshoting your data to other db's would overcome this. :)

    MTOWTDI powers, activate!

  10. Re:The RIAA is doing better than I thought on Gartner Survey: Consumers Don't Want Crippled CDs · · Score: 2

    Heh, how about ;) ;P

  11. Re:The RIAA is doing better than I thought on Gartner Survey: Consumers Don't Want Crippled CDs · · Score: 2

    Nah, too small a number for lemmings. I'm gonna think roosters. .. maybe camels?

    -s

  12. Re:The RIAA is doing better than I thought on Gartner Survey: Consumers Don't Want Crippled CDs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    3 types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics :)

    Unless you have a graph or some history showing the increased popularity of the inability to copy cd's AND have solid proof it's the RIAA... I'll attribute the other 23% to other factors as well as the riaa.

    -s

  13. Re:DMCA on Panasonic Combined DVD-R & PVR Device · · Score: 2

    Or, if the device companies are forced to use DRM of some sorts, mod chips will skyrocket.. or easy hacks that allow easy viewing. Look at region control and how many dvd players have simple ways of switching it that are straight forward and "hidden".

  14. Re:Who is he for real? on Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed · · Score: 1

    How can we make friends with someone who trades animals who would spit in your eye? Unacceptable :)

  15. Re: Who is John Galt? on Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed · · Score: 1

    Not if I was joking ;)

  16. Re:Don't give them bank details on Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed · · Score: 5, Funny

    l11128 John Galt Boulevard

    Forgive me for asking.. but that name sounds familiar. Who is John Galt?

  17. Re:Misleading title on Hilary Rosen Defeated at Oxford Union · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...training before she goes in front of the lawmakers with her big guns.

    her big guns.. I'm not gonna touch her "big guns" with a 5 foot poll ;)

  18. Re:Misleading title on Hilary Rosen Defeated at Oxford Union · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad it wasn't done mortal kombat style.

    "Fatality"

  19. Despite all my rage I'm still just a RAT in a cage on Microsoft Vandalizes NYC · · Score: 1

    yes. i know. rat in a cage. mental fart.

  20. Despite all my rage I'm still just a bat in a cage on Microsoft Vandalizes NYC · · Score: 2

    At least they didn't try to use the Smashing Pumpkins song, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings".

    Maybe they would have wanted that :)

  21. Re:Passengers only? on Cellphones On Airplanes · · Score: 2

    Only in NYC ;) Yeah, it's illegal here, though people still do it.

  22. Re:The ultimate forger's tool. on Anoto-based Pens From Logitech · · Score: 2, Funny

    What if one comes flying out of the sky at your head? Or you make one randomly appear or find one?

    Voila! Viola!

  23. Re:Big mistake on Xandros 1.0 · · Score: 2

    Then wouldn't a double-user license or something like that let them test? It's not a great amount of purchases for either Xandros or anyone buying into them.

    Besides, what about Gnome and KDE. Their acceptance has been quite slow.

  24. Re:I would draw an opposite conclusion on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 2

    Down, no. But when your DNS server hits a root server to try a DNS request and it doesn't respond quick enough, you get timeouts. I was having that problem all day yesterday when trying to resolve google and ther sites.

    More importantly, your servers prolly get hit enough that results would be cached.

  25. Re:This doesn't exclude the Web from courtesy on ADA Doesn't Apply to Web · · Score: 2

    ASP programming, or any dynamic programming, is absolutely the most efficient way to run a site. Database calls have to be extremely high to show any slowdown in the page generation.

    Not really. Your statement seems to assume that a DB can handle an infinite amount of calls as long as they are efficient. Having worked from paces with great data resources (db/fs) to terrible ones, loads can be high, where incurring a set of calls would significantly slow down a site.

    Also, creating a business description of each image becomes quite a second task.