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  1. Re:Gforge is very specialized. on FSF Migrating From Savannah to Gforge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why have the transactions in the PHP layer?

    Compatibility vs. Speed. I don't like the fact Gforge is highly optimized for Postgres only. And in the Faq that they refuse to accept MySql patches. Thats pretty arrogant, but it's their project.

    I like abstraction layers like ADODB or php PEAR. Either allows you to migrate from say MySql to Oracle or Postgres to DB2 with 1 or 2 PHP code chages. Moving the data is a different story, but it can be done.

    -Electrawn

  2. Gforge is very specialized. on FSF Migrating From Savannah to Gforge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Gforge may be great for high traffic sites like Savanaah, but for low traffic 1-10 project sites I use Xoops+MyXoopsForge or Novell Forge. I think Savanahh made a good choice here, but they are stuck once they port. Novell Forge is the other choice.

    GForge uses some highly optimized transaction stuff and database functions inside postgres that probably should be in the PHP layer.

    Reminds me to port MyXoopsForge to postnuke to take advantage of ADODB! Compatibility or speed?

    -Electrawn

  3. Perfect, Bug free software. on Tracking the Blackout Bug · · Score: 1

    Apollo landed on 40,000 lines of beautiful, bug free code. Yes, Mission critical can be done perfectly, it just takes half the GDP of the USA to do.

    Also brings up the joke if they can land a guy on the moon in 40,000 lines...What the heck is going on with Windows 95 that it needs 16 million?

    Couldn't find a HTML link fast, Word doc:
    Word reference

  4. Re:If not $0.00 on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 1

    You missed the point, and I'll respond to an AC anyway.

    Actually, its just an easy little suggestion of an act of civil disobedience. Someone will look at those numbers, and if they see a high amount of $6.66, hopefully alert some of those political types that the citizenry disapproves.

    $6.66 is perfect since it is well recognized as a "bad" number.

    Since it's a nonzero number, it may get you off the red flag and just into the yellow flag area. (Assuming they expect XX amount of taxes per income level.)

    Just something for folks to do to voice displeasure in a collective manor. I'll be entering it on my IL return.

  5. If not $0.00 on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 2, Funny

    $6.66 should get the message across loud and clear.

  6. Sure... on Invulnerable, Waterproof PDA · · Score: 3, Funny

    That can be done. The problem is the battery has to be a nuclear reactor.

  7. GUI is a buzzword on HA-OSCAR 1.0 Beta release - unleashing HA Beowulf · · Score: 1

    GUI is a buzzword the pointy haired types can easily understand and make sentences with.

    E:"Our new router blocks 99% of our spam! Saves us millions!"

    B:"But does it have a GUI?"

    E:"No, it..."

    B:"All our TCO spec products must have GUIs!"

    *blink*

    http://www.buzzwhack.com/buzzcomp/indgk.htm

  8. Buzzword count on HA-OSCAR 1.0 Beta release - unleashing HA Beowulf · · Score: 4, Funny

    High amount of corporate buzzwords detected: self-healing, mission-critical, GUI, beowulf...

    Oh, this project actually does those things? Quaint!

    Just running the vaporware bullshit o-meter here...

  9. Journalism! on AMD Papers Over Free Wi-Fi Network Builders · · Score: 1

    It made my day that someone who is serious about reporting:

    1) Checked their sources.
    2) Checked again!
    3) Checked against other sources.
    4) Checked again!

    Hence the difference betwen reporting and posting. Maybe Slashdot Editors would be better with a title of "Poster," "Leaker" or "Blogger."

    Journalism adage: The first story off the wire is never correct.

  10. Don't tinker with a good thing! on MySQL & Open Source Code Quality · · Score: 1

    Do Not Move Gemstone from Oracle! You have severe stability problems with play.net at times and I bet its unrelated to Oracle. I don't know about the games but the web site is tied to Oracle by the function calls.

    Netcraft says your site is using MS 2000. There is your problem. Move to an OpenBSD solution first on the frontend and I'd keep Oracle at the backend.

    Remember the saying goes: "No one got fired for buying IBM." Also the same for Oracle. But...

    I'd choose a PostgresSQL solution. Toss it in a sandbox and use it for the forums per-se and see how it goes.

    My advice costs a premium and basic membership. (wink)

    GS4 Player and /. reader.

  11. Trading! on Canadians [Will] Pay Levy on MP3 Players - Updated · · Score: 1

    1 ipod and a 50 blank spindle for 100 Paxil and 100 Methotrexate!

    I'm only half kidding, sadly.

  12. Uniden Phones are true 5.8Ghz up and Down on VoIP + 802.11 = Bad News For Phone Companies · · Score: 1

    Uniden Phones, such as this one, are 5.8 up and 5.8 down.
    I can't guarentee the Panasonic 5.8 is 5.8 up and down, however, the 2.4 Panasonic I own does not interfere with my home network.

  13. Idea. on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 1

    I think it fits near the SpongeBob theme song.

  14. Re:Been there, done that... on Microsoft Identifies, Patches Another Critical RPC Hole · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot the infamous NT4-SP2, which broke more than it fixed.

    Must be related to the star trek movies some how, I see a pattern here..

  15. Read Your TOS. on O'Reilly Article on Spam Defense · · Score: 3, Informative

    5. Acceptable Use Policy; Prohibited Uses of the Service.

    b. Prohibited Uses of the Service: Use of the Comcast Equipment or the Service for transmission or storage of any information, data or material in violation of any federal, state or local law or regulation is prohibited. In addition, unless you are subject to a Service plan that expressly permits otherwise, the Service is to be used, and you expressly agree to use it, solely in a private residence, living quarters in a hotel, hospital, dormitory, sorority or fraternity house, or boarding house, or the residential portion of a premises which is used for both business and residential purposes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Service is for personal and non-commercial use only and you agree not to use the Service for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, "web hosting" or other similar applications, for any business enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or wide area network.

    I'll keep my toungue in cheek for any other comments.

  16. Re:Deregulation from a consumer perspective.... on More on Media Consolidation/Deregulation · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dish Network allows you to purchase individual channels for $5 each. You can get their Top 50 package w/ locals for $30 (One receiver) and then add Soap Channel (In the top 150) for $5.

    Easy enough.

  17. Re:I believe on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    And we should see the "shock and awe" moved into "shocked and 'ah shit!'" part of the campaign real soon.

  18. I've got answers. on Old-school Nerdy Comics · · Score: 1



    Just imagine what these kids would be doin now: Sporting Verizon and Sprint cell phones, using Palm handhelds and HP/Compaq computers and hooked up with Linksys and Microsoft products.

    Radio Shack is still the cool place to go.

    On a different note, ask the guy at your local Radio Shack for a discontinued/devalued list, the manager there will be more than happy to get that stuff off his inventory and you can sometimes pick up a cell phone, router or other neat part for 97 cents or a penny.

    While I am a Radio Shack employee, my comments are my own.

  19. Main Engines have nothing to do with landing on Updated Information On Columbia Shuttle Tragedy · · Score: 0, Redundant
    " but STS-107 was *delayed* for 6 months (original launch date 19 Jul 2003) because of cracks in the propellant feed lines to the 3 main engines. A defect that could have caused catastrophic failure. Did the fix work or not?"


    Considering that on landing the main engines inside the shuttle are nothing but dead weight, I think we can easily rule out that propellent feed lines to the main engines were not the cause of the accident. The OMS engines, however, are a totally different story. a loss of 3 or 4 tiles on the front of the OMS engines would pierce the aluminum frame, melt and cause sudden decompression and explosion.

    My bets on this are that some tiles fell off and caused a weak spot and implosion occured at 200,000 ft.

    -electrawn
  20. Don't sweat it on Kazaa Lite: spyware-free version · · Score: 1

    No, you are correct. Slashdot posters need to properly credit their sources. Also, the editors need to take journalism 101. Also, the moderation system is broken.

    So what else is new?

  21. Quick Solution on Spriggan Released On DVD · · Score: 1


    Click on Slashdot preferences and under topic check next to anime and all the other topics you don't give a damn about rather than fucking posting a useless rant.

    Thank you.

  22. Yah! on Tattered Cover v. Thornton Reversed · · Score: 1

    Good old Blues Brothers method of doing things. Watch out for cops with SCMODs.

  23. Does anyone remember Judge Bork? on Tattered Cover v. Thornton Reversed · · Score: 1


    The Video Privacy Protection Act was passed because some naughty people in congress looked up Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video tape records. I guess we need a similar act for books now.

    Oh yah....A link to the whole story.

  24. Re:Versign: They're Bastards! on Slashback: Deception, Fusion, Membership · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right now they are evaluating your expired domain and have put it on the expired domains list so some stupid korean will buy it before it is released back into the domain pool. Essentually, you are screwed. If you want it back, renew with verisign, or sue.

    I speak from experience.

  25. Re:From what I can tell... on Google's Pageranking Explained · · Score: 1

    Also, from what I can tell, Moderators need to read the article before moderating...

    So once again, with a slight tweak to get past the zealot filter:

    lin/ax produces Poop, .Net produces SH-IT (So Huge - It's Torture!)

    Grr.