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  1. Use the fish on Organizing Data Across a Heterogeneous Net? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From the kio_fish homepage:
    "kio_fish is a kioslave for KDE 2/3 that lets you view and manipulate your remote files using just a simple shell account and some standard unix commands on the remote machine. You get full filesystem access without setting up a server - no NFS, Samba, ... needed."

    It works through SSH, so everthing is encrypted.

    I use this with the konqueror file browser, but all KDE apps can transparently access files on remote hosts using this amazing utility, which required no special setup on either end, at least on my systems.

    Solved all my data sharing needs - and andromeda solved the rest :)

  2. Re:Well.. what I DO know is this.. on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    You have a valid point, but there's more to getting software up and running than the lines of code themselves. Here's where the 'you use what you know' stuff comes in. If you're proficient in setting up and working within a servlet environment, you're not likely to recommend using a .net/C# solution - not because java and C# are so different, but because the routine of working with the two and their own idiosyncrasies will be very different.

  3. Problem with VMWare and this patch on Preemptible Linux Kernel: Interviews and Info · · Score: 1

    Using a kernel with this patch to run vmware, I experience long halts in both systems (linux and windows98/vmware). They both freeze for several seconds each, waiting for something. This happens a couple of times every minute. Anybody know what's up?

  4. Crappy code on Dot-commers Back to the Dorm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can just barely imagine the piles of crappy code these people have been churning out while working dotcom. Fast business and time-to-market was the keyword, so one can't really blame them I guess, but just thinking about these mountains of absolutely useless crap that powered the sites makes me ill.

    Back to school, hopefully they'll learn something this time.

    (yes, my company has worked with a couple of "new economy" startups, so I know what I'm talking about).

  5. VA logo graphics on VA Linux to Sell Proprietary Version of Sourceforge · · Score: 4, Funny
    Is VA trying to draw its own logo with its stock graph?

    The V is getting a little to big, time to move on people.

    It does promise good times ahead though!

  6. Re:WinMX - limewire on Napster To Abandon MP3 For .NAP · · Score: 1

    try another jdk

  7. Re:Reviewing AO, And Games In General on Anarchy Online - The Perils Of Pushing Products · · Score: 1
    So, CitizenC, why hasn't Gamespy reviewed AO yet? Lowtax has a point here, hasn't he?

    "See, game sites don't want to risk offending game companies because their site's content is directly dependent on reproducing things that these companies say or release to them. This causes webmasters to roll over and pucker up at the slightest provocation, worried about making enemies with a company that could cut off all their exclusive information and content."

  8. The dissuation fee, people! on Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name · · Score: 2
    Please, give Kai-Uwe some hints to what he should say to the lawyer who demands 2500 euros in dissuation fee from him. Quote: "I have just received a dissuasion from an Adobe lawyer that the name "KIllustrator" would violate Adobe's trademark and I should pay 2500 euro.". And in a later mail: "But the problem is, that the K[Illustrator] home page is (was) published under my university account, so they sue my university ...". Conclusion so far: "I just called the lawyer and he said he wants the money ...".

    This Free software developer could sure use some hints as to the proper course of action - apart from hiring an expensive lawyer of his own.

  9. Beware of departure from original statement on Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage · · Score: 5
    Quoted from the original Slashdot Back Online article (before it was modified): "And when our qualified personel arrived, we discovered that she wasn't actuually as qualified as we had hoped. Then she quit, thus terminating 3 local star systems."

    Where does this mysterious woman fit into the story above?

  10. Speaker for the Dead on Net Cemetery · · Score: 1

    Orson Scott Card, one of my favorite authors, writes about an order called the Speakers for the Dead, people who investigate the lives of dead people and tell the truth about them. Instead of archiving the sites, archiving reviews of the sites the way CNet does seems fitting. You have of course read the book, but if not.

  11. Without even being made? on Computers That Solve Problems Without Being On · · Score: 2
    If if doesn't have to be turned on, does it even have to be made in the first place?

    Just by meditating deeply enough, I should get Quake running on this mother any minute now!