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  1. Re:Ouch... on Corel CEO Charged with Securities Violations · · Score: 1

    insider trading is mwhen you have inside knowledge of something and you use it to your advantage.
    i.e. he knew corel was going to post a loss so he sold shares.
    thats a securities violation - in a public company you cannot use information that the general public doesnt have to your own advantage.

  2. Re:Another wasted hour (A little OT) on MTV's Hacker Portrayal · · Score: 1

    hmm...the default ps that ships with redhat has now been changed..it used to be a BSD style ps (no -) now it doesnt have that restriction and takes a SysV style command. ps auvwwf is a helluva lot less clearer than ps -ef.

  3. Re:Is it really that unreliable? on Xig Ad Campaign Slamming Xfree? · · Score: 1

    Xconfigurator with redhat is even easier and has autodetect.

  4. Re:Article text on Xig Ad Campaign Slamming Xfree? · · Score: 1

    was that the retractable cup holder that sez compact disc on the front ?

  5. Re:Energy Ant! on One for the Kids · · Score: 1

    actually Chain Reaction was far better and addressed the topic.

  6. Re:Something doesn't sound right... on Spacecraft Launching Maglevs · · Score: 1

    nah. i climbed it and it wasnt too bad. you dont need oxygen tanks to get on top and the weather is actually cool and pleasant.

  7. Re:Unisys witch hunt on Implementing a Load-Balanced Webserver? · · Score: 2

    not if you use GIFs not encoded with the LZW algorithm. of course theyre bigger. but not all browsers support PNG. and JPG is still an option.

  8. Re:Singh's Fermat book on The Code Book · · Score: 1

    0/0 is IMHO indeterminate. therefore you get 2=1(?) where (?) can be 2. so, 2=2. yep.

  9. Re:From a proud Cobalt owner... on Gateway to Sell Cobalt Systems · · Score: 1

    has cobalt provided you the source ? just curious.

  10. Re:Not business class.. on Gateway to Sell Cobalt Systems · · Score: 1

    go really slowly. it doesnt freeze because the connections are dropped if there are insufficient processess to fork and allow data transfer. AFAIK a 386/486 should be able to handle and saturate T1 lines.

  11. Re:X Server for WinNT: MI/X on Caffeine Good For Long-Term Memory · · Score: 1

    it is now. it used to be free -- no longer tho. some old copies are still floating around - download while you can.

  12. please moderate to -1, redundant. on One for the Kids · · Score: 0

    just wanted to correct the spelling and /. doesnt have a delete function. damn...got posted twice accidentally.

  13. duh. on One for the Kids · · Score: 1

    Is this a rant or a newsletter ?
    The "couple of kids" at Waco were armed not only with semi-automatic rifles but also with full auto mods to their weapons and grenades..i may not support the notion of what the government did was correct, but i'd stop from stating they were a coupla kids.
    And since when was routing script kiddie sniffing and cracking ok ? The government doesnt do that, either.

  14. damn.. on Steve Jobs Interview with Time Magazine · · Score: 0

    i'd love to work for this guy - he's probably the ultimate salesman ever invented. It's a wonder he's managed to screw up practically everything he touched (screwed xerox's parc with its GUI which lead to MacCrapOS, messed up and had to close down NeXT, got booted outta apple) with that sort of personality.

  15. Re:Cluebat on Implementing a Load-Balanced Webserver? · · Score: 1

    or looked on freshmeat.net..there were at least 3 packages which do this out there. One of em was the LinuxHA project (of course). BTW, i do some redundancy w/o using this stuff using rsync over ssh and a backup "mirror" server. rsync -avu -e ssh /home remoteserver.xx.yy:/mirror/ >syncem.out cron runs as follows : 50 2 * * * /root/syncem i.e. at 2:50 am everyday both are in sync. This is not load balancing of course but a simple mirroring method with redundancy. just for everyones info.

  16. Re:I'm not impressed. on Ikonos 1-Meter Resolution Earth Images from Space · · Score: 1

    err...umm..hate to tell you this but :
    Radar images are use pretty often to image the bottom of the ocean or to track ocean currents. SAR (synthetic aperture radar) data can be used to identify and resolve subs below the water surface too..provided theyre not too deep. So yes, the radar below the water thing has been around a while..pick up a copy of IEE mags and you'll see DERA work going on in that with impressive results. And SAR can punch thru clouds. SR-71 photo equipment could "distinguish a golf ball on a putting green" from a quote i read.

  17. Re:3D support in Linux? on ATI Introduces a Parallel Processing Video Card · · Score: 1

    try linux3d.org

  18. i do this a lot. on Linux-Based Thin X-Terminals? · · Score: 1

    use slackware 3.6/4.0 or debian hamm on a 486 box. it will do great as a thin x terminal..

  19. Re:New Poll on MTV Profiles "Hackers" · · Score: 1

    nah. code naked.

  20. Re:Why Mozilla 5.0 will die. (At least on the Mac) on Whither Netscape 5.0? · · Score: 1

    one word : QT4. Now explain to me exactly why apple changed the interface w/o even a whimper.

  21. Re:Inferior on Managing Geeks · · Score: 1

    dont forget those jerks actually *pay* us to write code.

  22. Re:Nerds!!!! on Managing Geeks · · Score: 1

    and youre haning out on /. ? damn.

  23. Re:What is "distribution" when it comes to web app on A Bold Essay From Tim O'Reilly · · Score: 1

    you wont have that .. ever. why ? because if its widely used there is no way for it to support hundreds of thousands of people..you need mirrors or need to run it from localhost or a company intranet. it has to be distributed and that means you have to give source with it. massively parallel distributed systems can support large quantities of users...nothing else works.

  24. Re:Big Brother on Both Students and Teachers Use Technology to Cheat · · Score: 1

    if you got into his account - you must have the code. please post it up somewhere-this thing sounds interesting to say the least.

  25. Re:I used to use watch calculator! on Both Students and Teachers Use Technology to Cheat · · Score: 1

    nope. in my engineering maths courses calculators were mandatory - the graphic programmable ones...you couldnt solve any problem on the exam without em. Just try doing a 100 node iterative microwave mesh using a pencil and paper..it takes forever. On a graphing calculator with programming capability you can iterate the mesh in as little as 1-2 minutes. On a 386 it took 20 seconds but computers werent allowed in of course..