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  1. johncompanies FreeBSD or Linux on Virtual Server Hosting? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Virtual servers (running on nice enterprise dells) with FreeBSD or some form of Linux (i'm biased I know)
    johncompanies

    Read about them here in the response to there ad on Kuro5hin
    AD

    Yes I know the first link redirects through kuro5hin that way they get any cash rev.

  2. Same effect here on Carpal Tunnel- Laptops Better than Ergo Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    I use a normal keyboard at work.
    A kinesis advantage at the home office.
    and an old dell inspiron 4000 on the couch and cafe

    and the winner is the damn dell. I think it has something to due with no moving my wrists when using the laptop. The kinesis does come in a close second, probably for the same reason.

  3. OK not enough coffee yet on Window Managers For Small Screens? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I should not post till I have had at least a pot.

  4. since he seems to still be using OSX on Window Managers For Small Screens? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    He is really asking for a Finder replacement. I personally use PathFinder. It gives easy access to

    mounted volumes

    running applications

    stadard locations

    a bunch of stuff I have not figured out it is payware though. .

  5. (Free||Open)BSD and a mod of the Soekris scripts on Linux Source Distribution for Firewalls? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The Soekrisset of embedded boards for this purpose have bred a number of project that produce build setups for wired and wireless routers.
    Three points:

    they come with scripts and docs

    they produce bare (no dev tools) images to use on compact flash cards

    The dev machine is separate
    I use a modified version of an OpenBSD on an old watchguard box.

    See Soekris on OpenBSD and Soekris on FreeBSD

  6. Why ruby to generate java code. on Code Generation in Action · · Score: 1

    I wrote a generator that took a sql file and generated a light java database persistance layer. My reasons for doing this, in Ruby and not Java ,boiled down to the horror of manipulating Strings in java vs. the ease of it in Ruby.

    The other advantage using one language to generate another is that there is less confusion about what code is part of what. In my case I had ruby in the generator and java and MS sql in the text blocks that were being generated so it was easy tell thing apart.

  7. sager notebooks on Building a Custom Laptop to Your Specifications? · · Score: 5, Informative

    alienware sales sager notebooks at a 90% markup. A lot of other peolpe sell them. powernotebooks for example . Just google them.

  8. Re:Trolltech and Canopy/SCO on What to Expect From Qt 4 · · Score: 1

    So is Novell and they are releasing products that run on Linux and they have been saying that their fight with SCO is not over yet.

  9. Tron on Movie Landmarks for CGI Effects? · · Score: 1

    Disny bought a cray and thought lets do something. hees plot good pictures(for the time)

  10. Re:What's the maximum RAM for your machine? on Beige G3 Resurrection Project · · Score: 1, Funny

    Try running quark and photoshop at the same time.

  11. Re:Meep! on Experiences w/ Computer Service Contracting Entities? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    quack

  12. Re:VNC is not out of the question. on Citrix-Like Server for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Actually Olivitii (sp) was paying for the lab when VNC was written.

  13. Re:Why does it have to be FreeBSD? on miniBSD - reducing FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    5.1 not 5.0 which was released a while ago.

  14. Re:It's called the ports tree. Tsarkon Reports on Linux JVMs Running Under BSD? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok no need to be pissy. Of the native ones (I only use the linux ones to bootstrap compile the native)

    I have been using jdk131 for production app dev and web serving for about 2.5 years w/ no problems. The recent inclusion of the hotspot realy inproved performance in 1.3.

    I have started to use jdk14 on freebsd5-current for testing and it seems fine. I would not deploy with it yet it is a beta it still fails 20 out 2700 tests. It is worth noting that both the native and linux jdk14 really like running on freebsd5 and are not as happy on 4.X

  15. It's called the ports tree. on Linux JVMs Running Under BSD? · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-blackdown-jdk 12/
    http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-blackdow n-jdk 13/
    http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-blackdow n-jdk 14/
    http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-ibm-jdk1 3/
    http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-ibm-jdk14 /
    http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-sun-jdk12/
    http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-sun-jdk13/
    http://www.freshports.org/java/linux-sun-jdk14/

    or you could just use the native ones
    http://www.freshports.org/java/jdk12/
    http: //www.freshports.org/java/jdk13/
    http://www.fresh ports.org/java/jdk14/

    That said I used it to run a small enhydra/xmlc java web app. In my last job and I performed well and with the recent (last six months) inclusion of the hotspot stuff it's much faster.

  16. Re:Emusic on Where Do You Find Your Foreign Music? · · Score: 1

    Nope not a shill.

    Your right though, the only place I've ever seen it mentioned is on /. .

  17. Emusic on Where Do You Find Your Foreign Music? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The never mentioned legal music download site. $10 a month all you can eat legal mp3's.

    The non-western stuff is mainly indian and african but there is a lot of good stuff in there.

    http://www.emusic.com

    I ,honestly, am just a very happy customer.

  18. Re:Competetive comparison on Lindows Releases Inexpensive Subnotebook · · Score: 1

    The new 12 inch Powerbook G4 is really a ibook 12 inch with a G4 + metal case. That is what they are comparing it to.

  19. Re:The only thing keeping me back (warning: woes) on FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 Now Ready · · Score: 1

    Why in dogs name are you still using Token-ring. For 25-30 bucks at any computer supplus store could get enough stuff to convert to 10baseT atleast. There is a reason that there are no drivers for Token-ring no one uses it any more. The shear flexiblity of setup wins over token instantly.

  20. Metal nibbler on What's in Your Toolbox? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AKA sheet metal nibbler. The case has an extra flange just where the full length isa card is suppost to go. No problem. Plus no more ragged edges from when you hacked it out with your leatherman.

    http://www.jdr.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=NIBB LE R

  21. Re:Tools --screws on What's in Your Toolbox? · · Score: 1

    You can buy stainless steel screws at most real hardware stores. My local one "Olympia Supply" has about 85 feet by 4 feet of rack space of every kind of screw or fitting. You can tell its a good hardware store when they have more 'woodruff' keys that you weigh. I still don't know what a 'woodruff' key is after shopping there for 8 years but they have a ton of them.

    That said when ever I need a screw or nut of some kind I just buy a box of them.

  22. Jedit on Recommended Text Editors for Win32? · · Score: 4, Informative

    At work we have standardized on Jedit http://www.jedit.org . Good syntax coloring. Lots of plugins: cvs , regex testing , and ton of others. A good macro language.

  23. Re:ATTbi... on AT&T Caps Bandwidth On Former @Home Users · · Score: 1

    you need to send the name of the machine like this

    interface "ep0" {
    send host-name "andare.fugue.com";

    or
    interface "ep0" {
    send host-name "andare";

  24. asp2php on Switching Painlessly from IIS to Apache? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is an app called asp2php that claims to convert 90% of asp/vbscript to php including the DB stuff. It can be found at

    http://asp2php.naken.cc/

    I have not used it but it does seem to be updated.

  25. My cable company installed one on Cable Modem Amplifiers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My cable(ATT@HOME) company installed one for the very reason you discribe. I was getting prgressively lower bandwidth and then irratic connections at peak usage time. So they put an amp in. Basically it's a nine volt wall wort power supply connected to a little booster in the cable box outside. They did this for free to return my servces to normal. YMMV

    BTW for normal analog cable Radio shack does sell a cable amp for abut 20$US