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  1. Re:We've been running Linux for quite a while now on Pitfalls and Options For Business-Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    This can also be done with roaming profiles on windows. Just a heads up. Windows loses on cost though..

  2. Re:Hard to believe on Google to Launch Mac Version of Google Desktop UPDATED · · Score: 1
    Buh? It's not bad design. You want software that performs well, acts as a database, on your machine, and you expect it not to be tied to the platform in any way? You expect it to be secure in relation to the os, run as well?


    eclipse, oracle, word, mozilla, firefox.. if you expect a major piece of softwae not to require some sorta tie back into what you are doing, you are insane.

  3. Re:script? on TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds · · Score: 1

    This effectively makes the build process plus the kernel source the kernel. Just like the kernel loading and running can fail, no discs found, or sound card found, so can the build process creating a kernel that will find the disc or sound card.

  4. Re:script? on TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds · · Score: 1
    Comparing the process of loading into memory, compiling and running, which is EXACTLY what this is doing just as perl is unfair?


    I didn't say the kernel is perl. I said that it turned the process into that of a script language, just like perl is. Anyway, it's not unpossible to make your drivers loadable/unloadable. linux already supports this and so does freebsd.


    Still no gain.

  5. script? on TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds · · Score: 3, Insightful
    So they effectively make the kernel a script instead of a compiled unit, where it needs to be loaded, compiled into memory, and then used.


    Perl5 does the same thing. read, compile, run..


    So what are the uses for this?

  6. master theorem on Greatest Equations Ever · · Score: 1

    How can you deny the goodness of the master theorem?

  7. Nothing to do with linux on Windows vs. Linux Security, Once More · · Score: 1

    The failure of windows and success of linux has nothign to do with linux's unique design. It is a mimic of unix to some degree, which does things in layers and all that goodness. The same can be said about OpenBSD, HP-UX, OSX and a few others.

  8. Re:Methane source? on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 1

    beans beans the musical fruit?

  9. Re:All MS needs to do to compete is imitate on The Browser Wars Are Back? · · Score: 1

    Switch from Safari on the mac to IE on windows?

  10. Re:Anyone else read? on UK Record Industry Sues 'Major Filesharers' · · Score: 1

    Lack of humour senses tingling. Other user comments not read yet. Joke not gotten. Code red!

  11. Oh the punnery.. on Kerry Film Free To Download · · Score: 4, Funny

    A democrat film on eDonkey. I am slayed. :)

  12. Anyone else read? on UK Record Industry Sues 'Major Filesharers' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did anyone else read that as the "British Phonographic Institute". Oh wait...

  13. mini me? on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 1

    Did mini-me hump the laser and hit a button or something? Or maybe it was the shark...

  14. Re:I can't remember... on Adobe Releasing New Photo Format · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How' bout just thinking for yourself and not worrying if things should be black or white?

  15. Dead key? on AOL Moves Beyond Single Passwords for Log-Ons · · Score: 1
    What happens if your fob/rsa token, dies. They do expire, but sometimes, they die due to "reasons". Either faulty, or too much static etc etc..


    That could be a hurdle to get over.

  16. Re:run away! on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    Tnx. Looked like it though. I see i opend up a can of worms by mixing up the two. :)

  17. run away! on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: -1, Troll
    From the link to the pdf...


    Tijdelijk niet beschikbaar!

    Deze site http://www.dse.nl/~geertjan/Publikatie/The-roots-o f-any-polynomial-equation.pdf is tijdelijk niet beschikbaar vanwege te veel data-verkeer.


    I know that german can sound like a harsh language, but damned if I ever go to that link again. Scared the crap out of me.
  18. Re:Ease of use and elegence with GUI toolkits on Miguel de Icaza Debates Avalon with an Avalon Designer · · Score: 1
    Almost the same. Except one is in OOP fashion, which lends it self to ease in widget manglement. Structs and what not are fine, but tend to be harder to weild, in my opinion. :)


    Even perl's implementation of oop lends itself to nicer toolkit integration. For c, you have to cast the pointer and start doing funky stuff to imitate it with structs holding functions. :)

  19. Re:Ease of use and elegence with GUI toolkits on Miguel de Icaza Debates Avalon with an Avalon Designer · · Score: 1
    1. HTML can be used as a layout language, though it should not under new specs. You can put two things next to each other and in relation to each other by putting them in cells.


    2. Of course it has statements. (table) starts a table, (/table). If you feel like mincing words, call it markup. It's all the same. A token that denotes some sorta meaning.

  20. Re:Ease of use and elegence with GUI toolkits on Miguel de Icaza Debates Avalon with an Avalon Designer · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Amen! The idea that a widget is an object, that can listen for events, such as being clicked, or scrolled or something, is what OOP is all about. Something can have attributes and do something.


    More-so, the "most difficult" layout manager is actually the simpler. GridBag. Even if I assign the constraints and add widgets in haphazard order, so long as i set the x and y right, they go in the right place. It is almost like html in how it works, except html requires ordering of the statements.


    So please, tell me.. why is swing difficult? It's overwhelming because people don't do graphical stuff from the getgo, just like tk and what not. The difference is, swing just makes sense. Now it's not to say others DON'T make sense. perl/tk makes a lot of sense too, but the oop in perl is weak, so it's easier to make tpyos and screw things up once in a blue moon... especially sans strict.

  21. Re:This will be useless on The Linux Incompatibility List · · Score: 1
    Er? It is certainly not useless. At least if you see something on the list, it's already not usable.


    If you are thinking of buying a device, and you see it's on the list, you are least likely to buy it.


    If you have hardware already and it's on the list, you know linux won't work.

  22. Re:promise on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1
    j2ee includes a larger api base. j2me is a smaller one. j2ee is more of a spec that gets implemented than anything else. j2me, I won't speak for as i only do the other 2 javas. And btw, the j2ee vm is the same exact one as the j2se vm. The only difference is the apis you use, due to the availability of the implemented j2ee standard. To make a j2se installation j2ee, just include the j2ee jars ;P


    Oh, and java is quite portable. I develop a java app using j2ee via resin on my mac laptop, work on it at work using j2ee via jboss on a windows machine and depoy it to a unix box in the end. And if you wanna bother talk about swing applicaitons, anyone can write one. It takes someone smart to do it well. It takes an idiot to whine about it all day and find out that it's not hard to write one that works well. Not as fast as say, mvc, but works just like gtk "works".


    java is a language, javascript is a language with a licensed trade mark which are different. I'm surprised you haven't learned this by now. Jscript and ecma script have nothign to do with anything. jboss is a j2ee server, just like apache is an httpd server and wsftpd is an ftp server.


    Not always. Everything doesn't work "easily" off of c. Some use some form of assembler. Only reason you see more c support for simpler devices like calculators, is because c is easy to implement. a jvm isn't as easy.

  23. Re:To be gramatically consistent... on Crossplatform iTunes Sharing and Trading · · Score: 1

    No, java(tm)Tunes

  24. Re:Administrators! on Microsoft Funded Study Cinches 10yr Deal · · Score: 1

    What if you want to be head of an achedemic department? THen you have to be an administrative teacher...

  25. Re:Execute.me on Latest SP2 News · · Score: 1

    In a unix system, you don't "run" the gif. Withi windows, it brings up the association handler and what not no? In unix, you execute an explicit open.