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  1. Best deal I've seen... on LCD Price Fixing? · · Score: 1

    ...is $299 for a 17" model (with 1280x1024 pixels!) from a Dell refurbed reseller called ElectricDeal.

  2. just don't cook it on Antibody Food Spices · · Score: 1

    Polymerized amino acids have an uncanny ability to lose their activity when they are heated. They also start denaturing well before boiling. Same with peptidoglycans. I don't know about you, but I like my food hot.

  3. sendmail upgrade howto on FreeBSD Users: Time To Patch Sendmail Again · · Score: 1

    First start with the tutorial here

    There is only one change needed: after getting sendmail built and installed, and my sendmail.cf set up from the bsd-4.4 default cm file with M4, local delivery wouldn't work, and gave this error:

    stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/libexec/mail.local) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL

    You fix this problem with:

    chown root /usr/libexec/mail.local
    chmod u+s /usr/libexec/mail.local

  4. Re: think 64 bit on FreeBSD From Scratch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The big emphasis on source-only distributions is likely being spurred on by 64 bit processors due out from IBM/Apple, AMD, and Intel later this year. In theory, you update your compiler to the 64-bit optimzed one, and build your system from there. My guess is that once the opterons and hammers become more common, we'll start seeing binary distros for them, but that could be a while. Having popular source-only distributions will dramatically assist adoption of 64 bit goodness.

  5. There is more than nucleic acids... on Life Made to Order · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...involved in the creation of a living thing. An astonishing array of proteins, complex sugars, and lipids are all necessary for even a unicellular organisms to be viable. These aren't as easily assembled as nucleic acids, but they are just as requisite. The public focus inevitably tends toward DNA and RNA, especially by marketers such as Craig Venter, and especially when the story is being told to a non-scientific readership. The real story in biology is always more complex than the headlines would have us believe. Why can't these people make a real contribution to the world of medicine and figure out how SARS works.

  6. the unified database interface is already in PEAR on Introduction to PHP5 · · Score: 1
  7. why this is interesting? think high availability on OpenBSD Packet Filter Ported To NetBSD, FreeBSD · · Score: 5, Insightful



    I'm going to take up the challenge here of explaining why this is interesting. Since November of 2002, OpenBSD's pf has had support for load balancing. RedHat's $2499 Premium Edition of their Enterprise distro features Piranha load balancing which was derived from the Linux High Availability project.

    So what the OpenBSD pf project is giving you is enterprise-class high availability and load-balance clustering for a tiny fraction of the price. With a handful of cheap dotcom-throw-away x86 servers, a small company or mildly well-capitalized individual can personally build a multi-datacenter-fault-tolerant clustering setup that will rival Fortune 500 uptime ratings.

    In other words, the pf project's list of accomplishments is starting to read like a ToDo list for RedHat's Enterprise Linux development team.

  8. Arguments such this one... on Sun 'Calls JBoss bluff' on J2EE compliance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...just give me more reasons to like PHP.

  9. what will drive adoption among developers? on Ask Nicholas Petreley About Linux Usage Statistics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Several obvious possibilities come to mind:

    1. lower cost alternatives to proprietary tools
    2. momentum from Perl, Python and PHP being developed first on *nix
    3. inherent advantages such as stability and source code availability
    4. capability to fine tune services such as email, web, etc.

    With all these advantages, what do you identify to be the driving, unifying principle behind desktop Linux adoption by developers?

  10. two apropos infoworld stories in one morning on Dismal Apple Forecasts Are Wrong · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First it was Petreley on Linux marketshare, then it is Yager on why to take Apple seriously. Infoworld should let CmdrTaco or Hemos do a guest column, assuming they've got enough editorial power to overcome all those typos. :)

  11. phpwebnotes on Community-Driven Documentation for Free Software? · · Score: 1

    The PHP documentation-comment system is affiliated with a project called PHPWebNotes. Recently I was in a similar situation to the one described in this slashdot post and I looked through about thirty or so different documentation projects in freshmeat.net and hotscripts.com.
    I thought phpwebnotes was the best of the bunch, but your mileage may vary.

  12. Please don't insult my intelligence... on The Universe May Be Shaped Like a Doughnut · · Score: 0

    ...the shape is called a torus.

  13. "virgin" httpd set up easier with ApacheToolbox on Virgin Apache is Hard to Find · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The strangness that various distros impart to apache is why I usually start with Apache Toolbox. This uses wget to automatically download any missing source, and currently supports 60+ third party modules in addition to the 36 apache modules which are included in standard source distribution. For redhatters, this even halts appropriately for RPMs that cause problems. Works on slowaris, and pretty much any BSD/*NIX with gcc. I'm not a member of this project or anything, just a fan: it just works.

  14. OK bochs is slow now, but... on Replacement for "Microsoft's" Virtual PC? · · Score: 1

    ...will it be to slow when compiled with the optimized gcc that is built for the 64bit PPC970 chip that Apple will be shipping later this year?
    2003 is destined to be one of the most interesting years in the history of computing.

  15. Re:OS X 10.2.4 after the 3/3 update on ISS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail · · Score: 1

    % sendmail -d
    Version 8.12.7
    Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
    NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINFO NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SCANF
    USERDB XDEBUG

  16. Re:OS X 10.2.4 before the 3/3 update on ISS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail · · Score: 1

    % sendmail -d
    Version 8.12.6
    Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
    NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINFO NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SCANF
    USERDB XDEBUG

  17. to activate the Safari debug menu, do this: on Safari Beta Leaked, With Tabs · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. Quit Safari.
    2. Open a terminal and type:
    defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
    3. Relaunch Safari.

  18. Not to nitpick but... on Safari Beta Leaked, With Tabs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...can the new Safari beta be able to bookmark a set of tabs all at once? Chimera/Navigator does this, so that in the morning I can load about ten top news pages (including slashdot of course) all at once which saves a LOT of time. I'll be sticking with Chimera until Safari gets multi-tab-bookmarks.

  19. Microsoft Widows indeed on From DRM to Rights Management Services · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you call computer users whose digital rights have all died because of their choice of platform/license agreement? Microsoft Widows.

  20. Omaha Nebraska on Which US States are e-Commerce Friendly? · · Score: 1

    Lots of fat pipes here and cost of living is great.

  21. I'll bet this means that Apple is moving to 64bit on VMware: Another Netscape? · · Score: 1

    ...sooner rather than later. Would make sense that Microsoft would remove emulation proactively by buying out Connectix, since if Apple moves toward a 64bit chip that also had x86 instruction set on it (AMD?) consumers might well migrate towards a "godbox" that ran all Windows and MacOS software. M$ would need to do this to further leverage their installed userbase.

  22. Re: what drivers? on WiFi Woes With .11g · · Score: 1

    Are you using Nick Sayer's hack on AppleAirPort2.kext or some other 802.11g driver?

  23. tutorial on "Make Seamless" GIMP filter on Free Repository for Tile Graphics? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you want to make background tiles from other non-background tile images, read through the short Make seamless tutorial.

  24. the acronym itself on How to Build, Install, Secure & Optimize PHP · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How does a recursive acronym help anything? PHP stands for: "Pre-Hypertext Processor" as well as "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" I don't see that the recursion adds anything helpful here.

  25. Re:not really a new icon? on Apple's X11 Beta Updated · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, it turned out to be a safari misbehaviour, in which the graphics weren't drawing properly.