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  1. support to expensive on After a Lull, Sun Server Business Grows Under Oracle · · Score: 2

    If they would have other support options then 24/7 premier support we would at least consider to continue buying Sun.
    For our HPC we only need something like next-business hardware-only.

  2. Re:Bombula on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you compare the number of Soviet recon aircraft the US has shot down vs the number the US has lost

    And how many soviet recon aircraft flew over US territory? (This is a serious question, I never heard about such incidents.)

  3. Re:Won't even notice? on German Linux Community Boycotting LinuxTag · · Score: 2, Funny

    Assuming the Krauts have TV ads)? We don't even have this newfangled thing you call TV.

  4. Re:Safe to work on Data Centers Breathe Easier With Less Oxygen · · Score: 1

    I just checked and oxygen is said to be about 14% and a warning is sounded if it drops to 12%.

  5. Re:Safe to work on Data Centers Breathe Easier With Less Oxygen · · Score: 1

    We have such a serverroom here. To get admission, you need a health check-up and you are only allowed max. 1 hour.
    I don't know the oxygen percentage, but if it is like at 6000ft. it should be safe for much longer (as others already pointed out)

  6. Re:'Detailed Panorama'? on Detailed Panorama of Mars Released · · Score: 1

    I just viewed OMG normal color in firefox. And zoomed in. It is large. Wow, you can see every grain of dust.

  7. Re:recumbent good for looking at clouds. on High Tech Tour de France · · Score: 1

    This is usually the first objection people have. After 4 years and 25.000km mostly in a city I don't think this is a big city.
    Granted your head is lower, but it is about the same height as of the driver of a car. So this is not that low.
    Also riding a normal bike before I already learned to think for the car drivers.

  8. recumbent good for looking at clouds. on High Tech Tour de France · · Score: 1

    The recumbent position is better for looking at clouds (as in a sailplane).

    I'm riding a recumbent every day to work and I have no problem with situational awareness.
    Only very close potholes can't be seen very well.
    But the position is much more back friendly.

  9. Re:SUSE to GNOME? on Novell, RedHat and Sun Commit to a Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    It's all about giving their costumers what they ask for, and some customers prefer GNOME.

    I always used GNOME on SuSE, sometime Ximians Version but lately the Version which comes with the Distro (8.1 and 9.0) And do you know - it worked for me. (tm)

  10. Re:Holy shit, has anyone tried the spreadsheet on EU Publishes Open Source Migration Guidelines · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Problem seems to be that it doesn't transfer the values from the summary sheet to the other. So in sheet 'Migration' they still use the 4000 user value, so training costs are a bit higher.

  11. Re:Stop traffic now on Computerized Navigation Systems to the Rescue · · Score: 1

    If people could get into their cars, say where they want to go, and have the car tell them they could get out of the car and onto the subway and get there on time, people would be much more likely to do it.

    Here in Berlin if people would use a PDA with internet access they could lookup the whole connection including walking times from start address to goal address by using the website of the lokal bus and subway operator.

    As it is, it is too hard to predict mass transit times and how pleasent the trip is going to be

    It is as hard to predict how pleasant your trip by car is going to be. Will somebody call you an ashole? Will you be involveded in an accident?

  12. Berlin's system on Computerized Navigation Systems to the Rescue · · Score: 1

    is likely to be the most advanced ? As somebody living in Berlin and biking 40km a day the only incarnation I've seen so far is a display saying one main street is closed for over a year now.

    This could have been done with a much cheaper roadsign. Nobody I know ever talked about this nor have I ever read about this system in a newspaper so it has probably not much impact.

  13. KDE had all of the new features three releases ago on Gnome 2.4 Release(d) · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you really want to lure all the trolls into the on true thread, you should use a subject like this. ;-)

    Murple

  14. Re:Well, this is good, but I'm hoping for more. on Python 2.3 Final Released · · Score: 1
    Some way to use Perl libraries would really kick ass too...

    Google for pyperl.

  15. Re:hmmmmm.. comes from LinuxTAG! on Opengroupware · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, this does not come from LinuxTag. This comes from the SKYRiX Groupware Server by the MDLink company. It was just announced on the LinuxTag convention. I hope it stands to the promises, as a good GPL/LGPL groupware would be a good thing. Murple

  16. Re:But Perl has CPAN on Text Processing in Python · · Score: 1

    While something like CPAN is really missing for python, I know some perl users, who have no idea how to install something from CPAN. (I don't have either, but I don't use perl.)

    And remember: Python comes whith batteries included (ok, sattelite dish is missing)

  17. Re:what next? on GPS Used To Monitor Continental Drift · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if they relocate people to the north, will it stop the process?

  18. Re:Speaking of "broken".... on MSS Initiative Makes Progress · · Score: 1

    Couldn't view it in Acrobat in Mozilla either.
    Did not try Acrobat Reader standalone yet.

  19. Microsoft Linux distibution article on Linux Advocates Riot on MS Front Steps · · Score: 1

    have a look at
    http://lwn.net/daily :-)