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  1. How do you combind... on Zona Research Does Programming Language Poll · · Score: 1
    How do you combind C and C++ in one category? On their extreem ends, C++ being written with OO and templates and C not, you get two very different languages, though you can write C++ in C style. But then again, you are just writting C.

    But then again, combinding php 2 and php 4 is a very arguable situation.

  2. Re:Cookies are not all on Cookies, Ad Banners, and Privacy · · Score: 1
    No offence, but you just might be wrong. I have no cookies and I am getting ads about the eastern seaboard?

    And it was port 7 as the post below mentions.

  3. Cookies are not all on Cookies, Ad Banners, and Privacy · · Score: 1

    I know it happens since I see it at times. Ever notice how you seem to get banners about things going on in your zone of the world but not in others? They, doubleclick, track you down even to the point where they try to access a port on your machine, for me it was port 8, and using the reply info (time to opne the connection) they can guess within a couple of states where you are.

    How did I find this out? Because I could, I setup a firewall to block everything bellow port 1024, and noticed a barage on my port 8 one day. I resolved the ip's and found it to be *.doubleclick.net. After a while, I noticed the traffic to be less from accros the us and instead from the tri state area. Yes, I am in NY.

    So even if you turn off your cookies, there are demographics on you stilll

  4. Re:And what if... on Commercial use of Apache and SSL · · Score: 1

    What if you have the same development kits?

  5. And what if... on Commercial use of Apache and SSL · · Score: 1

    I have yet to look at the licence, so I'm going on an assumption...

    Regardless of the OS, just buy a copy of redhat, keep the license and run apache_ssl. You have the license through redhat for RSA. Unless RSA expects that you run it using a certain license, this should be kosher.

  6. Re:inefficient on If Linux Wasn't Open Source · · Score: 1

    You can suffer from too long of a command for that.. grep -i * on more than (I think) 255 files will cause either your shell or grep to complain, more likely the shell....

  7. Re:Favourite passtime.. on If Linux Wasn't Open Source · · Score: 1

    p.s. this didn't include the fortune files obviously.. so don't feel accomplished finding it too much ;>

  8. Favourite passtime.. on If Linux Wasn't Open Source · · Score: 1

    People wouldn't engage in what is one of my favourite passtimes, looking for profanities and the like in the sources i.e..

    (sorry.. freebsd system in my case...)

    > find . -name "*" -exec grep -i fuck {} \;
    struct rx_cache * you_fucked_up = 0;
    check_cache (you_fucked_up);
    check_cache (you_fucked_up);
    We will NOT put a fucking timestamp in the header here. Every time you
    abort(); /* This way doesn't require any declaration for ANSI to fuck up */
    abort(); /* This way doesn't require any declaration for ANSI to fuck up */
    abort(); /* This way doesn't require any declaration for ANSI to fuck up */
    abort(); /* This way doesn't require any declaration for ANSI to fuck up */
    /* We will NOT put a fucking timestamp in the header here. Every
    could fuck things up. */
    # case the program is fucked, or we guess the wrong signal thread.

  9. The sadder issue. on AMD Planning 1GHz CPUs · · Score: 1
    So instead of 3 or 4 machines in a cluster type situation, now we only need one. A sad things to think about....

    What about all the people who need something low power? It will drive prices down for other chips, but who needs a 1ghz cpu for home?

    For all of those saying that it allows programmers to do more, do you know how much sloppy programming will arise? Visual basic will start to rule the land. People will start using bubble sorts not seeing the effects as quickly on large sets, such as n^2's. The uninformed people. People will start programming in ways that won't scale.

    Perl is a great solution, but we see have migrated from c to perl and the backlash of running slower cgi's or high memory requiring mod_perl.

    And no.. the gigahertz processors will bring about a great thing for the scientific and multimedia world. I recognize that quickly enoguh.

  10. Re:Contract on Scully to leave X-Files as well · · Score: 1

    Point well taken. I guess if she's leaving the business it might be worth acting as such.. but hey, if she's with the show tha long, she must love her job as an actress more than who she's working for...

  11. Re:Contract on Scully to leave X-Files as well · · Score: 1

    It sorta doesn't work. What if she does her work poorly? They'll want her to leave...

  12. A mental ability? on Keyboards - Dvorak or Qwerty? · · Score: 1
    If you believe you will be better on dvorak.. wheter its because you think that you are slow on a qwerty keyboard or that dvorak is better, you will naturally do better. If there is a hint of doubt, your mind won't let you be better (in most cases).

    That can explain why there are a lot of life stories about improvements.

  13. Legistlation... on Henley.com, Reznor.com. Is Your Name Next? · · Score: 1
    Simply what's needed is some concerete rules, regardless of who is in charge, Internic or a type of 'name government group'. The problem with 'on our own discression' without some sort of laws or rules that can clear up what is kosher and what is not. What could be written since it happens so much is 'first come, first serve'... .unfortunately, there isn't anything concerete.

    Makes you wonder if Internic isn't really afraid of the bigger companies when judging these things....

    -sporty
    rolling cows gather no moss

  14. Ironic.. on Why Most Software Sucks · · Score: 1
    It's ironic in that sense, since a lot of freely done projects, OSS or not, are of better quality.

    In java for instance, there was never a table/spreadsheet widget. I wanted to design my own, but got agravated since I'm doing a table widget project than my original one. After searching around, a single person run company, who gives out the java class for free, had a very nice one. Since I could just download the class (lib), I could compile it in. He worked on it in his own free time and maintains it. The class was free for non comercial projects.

    Apache,FreeBSD,snarf, BSD/OS, Perl, Lynx. All once started from independent, free form designed projects (Yes..BSD/OS was once BSD 4.something). They made their own schedules.

    Can't release it today? Maybe tomorrow. Once it's done I'll announce it. If I'm a day late of my own personal schedule, no biggie.

  15. Re:Legos = Open Source Software on Genetic Algorithm Generated Lego Bridge · · Score: 1

    I haven't missed one at all. I mention Unix, people think it's a program. It may not be nessesary, but it exists.

  16. Re:Legos = Open Source Software on Genetic Algorithm Generated Lego Bridge · · Score: 1

    No, you were talking about Unix. =P At last check, *BSD, Linux and Solaris can do this too. But then again...

  17. Re:This isn't opensource, it's fetchmail! on Trends in an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    Yes, but all projects don't do that you fail to realize. It's not a quality of OSS. It's a quality of evolution. Some things die out, some don't. OS/2 and NT for example. OS/2 is no longer developed for client's anymore. Yet NT was spawned and look at the world.

  18. Re:This isn't opensource, it's fetchmail! on Trends in an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    Um, then everything is an offspring of a CPU. You are taking things a bit out of proportions. Just like archie died. It didn't spawn download.com and freshmeat.net. THe idea was there, the project, gone. Though I do agree that some projects do have children, like ssh, lsh and the likes, http spun off https..

  19. Re:This isn't opensource, it's fetchmail! on Trends in an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    Only at living.... only at living.

  20. Re:Surface-travellers, not population, is what cou on The Cell Phone-PDA Revolution · · Score: 1

    p.s. we all live on the surface and with a frequency of one antenna per even quarter mile, there's still limits.

  21. Re:Surface-travellers, not population, is what cou on The Cell Phone-PDA Revolution · · Score: 1
    How many people actually permanently live IN Disneyworld? Not many, I suppose. But there are thousands of visitors, so these kind of areas are prime locations for mobile 'phone transmitters.

    This is nice and good and all, but the problem isn't always so static. NYC is one of the biggest cities of the world. At times, though rare, we can't get through on our cells and normal phones due to full switchboards. So you see, the problem is dynamic due to the slowly growing population and small ratio for person per wireless service.

  22. This isn't opensource, it's fetchmail! on Trends in an Open Source Project · · Score: 1
    This is like saying, well.. tens of thousands of people ask about apples, but them, talk about them.

    The fruit industry is going great! C'mmon, this only says that fetchmail is a great success. Far be it from anyone to think that the NCSA web server wasn't successful, but it has fell to demise. It's a project that failed to survive, even in the dawn of opensource times.

    I blatantly say this: this is a severe misuse of statistics to say something that is near topic, but not generalizable..

    -sporty

  23. Population on The Cell Phone-PDA Revolution · · Score: 1
    Am I the only one that also thinks that the population density of some areas make it quite difficult to do this? Think of it. Chilicothe, IL, someone is going to hate me for mispelling that, will probably never use more than a couple of T1's collectively and may never have the revenue to have more than 1 ISP in the town if possible.

    In NYC, it's kinda tough. PCS and digital phones made things wonderful (sorta) by expanding the number of connections per frequency. In Europe and the likes, the population doesn't get as much as say, brooklyn with 2.3 million people all on top of each other. (ORGY!)

    -sporty
    MOO!

  24. No heartfelt losses. on Publishers Lose Database Copyright Appeal · · Score: 1
    It works almost like stock photography. You can use it to your hearts desire, but you cannot claim that the photograph is truely yours.

    I see this as a big win for writters and publishers. It forces formal agreements to be made on the ownership of text.

  25. Doesn't anyone understand? Light just hurts. on The Rise of Technology / The Fall of Trees? · · Score: 1

    There are two types of light. Additive and subtractive.

    Additive is when you mix colours and the colours add to each other making a new
    colour, and if you add all, you make white. You see this if you mix coloured sp
    otlights. This is how monitors and tv's work. Mix all three to get an intense
    white light.

    Then there's substractive. It's the light that bounces off of things. When lig
    ht bounces off a wall, you get all of the rest of the colours that don't get abs
    orbed. The absorbed colour is what you see. Counter intuitive, yes. It works,
    yes. Did I invent this, yes..well.. no. My cat did.

    Anyway, anyone can stare at the sun all day or a piece of white paper. Well, of
    course not. Think of your monitor as the sun. Bright when it's not filtered t
    o say, black or green or your background. Remember DOS and it's black backgroun
    d and grayish text? That's the problem. People don't realize that the bright w
    hite formed by additive light is already hard to look at. It's like looking for
    sun spots with your naked eye. IT HURTS. A lot.

    So that's why I keep my backgrounds dim, contrast down or just plain black when
    I can. People don't relize, it's easier when the fonts are bigger, the backgrou
    nd is black and text is light gray. Try it with netscape and slashdot sometday.
    It'll look ugly as sin, but its easier to read! Too bad people aren't intrins
    ically smart and design their pages on black backgrounds, but black is aevil, eh
    ?

    So why bother try this? Ever notice how e-books CAN use current technology, but
    not only doesn't it do it for the cost of using LCD, but for the comfort? LCD
    uses subtractive light, it's green with blacked out cells and a backlight. The
    text doesn't radiate. So you see, the marketers are even smarter than they look
    . Texts are always easier to read printed out. It uses that subtractive light
    technology. If my palm pilot had a bigger display, i'd read off of it, but scro
    lling drives me nuts.

    Toodles!
    sporty 'freebsd' o'one

    ---
    Rolling cows gather now moss.