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  1. Fight back with Apache on No XP-Smarttags in Europe · · Score: 3

    Could we / should we to add an Apache feature that automatically adds the meta-tag to turn off smart tags to each page served, unless the user specifically requests smart tags.

    This could be a selling point. "Make sure you're web pages aren't cross-linked to a competitors".

    Hell. if it's a popular enough feature M$ might have to copy this "innovation" :-)

  2. Re:A better way to do this? on German Crypto Mobile Announced · · Score: 1

    if a node is missing, it will hop around, looking to get back ont he chain, or, to get back to phone A)

    Does this sound like a viable phone model?


    Sounds dodgy to me. Every time you lose part of the route you're probably going to take a noticeable amount of time to reestablish it. If your phone or any other on the route is in a fast moving vehicle this is going to make the conversation break up completely.

  3. Simulation on Experimenting w/ High Performance Computing and Multicasting? · · Score: 1

    OK. I'll pretend to take the question seriously for a while. About 6 years ago when I was working on military simulations, multicast was a hot topic in the DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation) community.

    If you're lucky a Google search on DIS and multicast might come up with something interesting.

  4. Where's the evidence? on Jane's Intelligence Review Needs Your Help With Cyberterrorism · · Score: 2

    The article starts with the assertion that CyberWarfare is an accepted fact. The evidence for this seems to consist of a few web pages being replaced with propaganda and a physical attack by the LTTE on telecommunications facilities. Neither of these count for much as CyberWarfare. Changing web pages does not cause significant disruption and bombing telecommunication facilities has been a feature of warfare since before the internet.

    Cyberwarfare/cyberterrorism is usually taken to mean causing disruption of communications or physical damage using electronic means. This article presents no evidence of either. There is a risk, but don't get carried away in the hype.

  5. Get the right people, permanent or contract on Ask Slashdot: Employees or Contractors? · · Score: 1
    As a contractor (in the UK) I would say that it really doesn't matter whether you use permanent or contract staff. What matters is that the process is managed competently and the management take responsibility for making sure that they recruit the right people and manage them properly.


    If you provide the right pay, an interesting project and a good working environment you should be able to recruit good staff. Don't worry about whether they're permanent or contract, concentrate on what they bring to the party.

  6. Re:But is it a good investment? on Red Hat IPO Update · · Score: 1
    Investing in what you know and/or believe in is a good start but it's not the whole story. The key question is do they have a good track record of turning good ideas/products into a strong brand and generating stock growth?


    Check out The Motley Fool for the whole story

  7. Re:Linux Unix and all the rest on C't NT vs Linux benchmarks : Linux wins · · Score: 1
    "There is to take three programs that each do part of the job and chain them together to do the whole thing"


    That should have read "There is no way to take three programs that each do part of the job and chain them together to do the whole thing

  8. Re:Linux Unix and all the rest on C't NT vs Linux benchmarks : Linux wins · · Score: 2
    Hmmm. Better than all the rest? I don't think it's necesarily better than all the rest.


    Compared to most other operating systems it has pros and cons. Compared to windows however it's significantly better in a number of key respects. The much decried text interface is the key here.


    First Windows integrates the windowing system into the basic operating system. If your windowing system is FUBAR you can't do anything except reboot. Text based operating systems OTOH allow you to log in and use the text based utilities to find and fix the problem. It's possible to stop and restart the windowing system without rebooting the whole machine.


    Secondly the use of plain text gives you great flexibility. The utilities supplied with most Unix like systems, including Linux, generate and process plain text. If you want to find all files containing a particular string and change that string you have a utility that finds and lists files according to certain criteria, e.g. filename ending in .txt. The output from this can be fed to another utility that checks whether those files contain the string you want to change and a third utility that actually makes the change. In windows on the other hand everything just creates another window. There is to take three programs that each do part of the job and chain them together to do the whole thing.


    Generally Windows makes the easy jobs easier (provided you want to do them the Microsoft Way (TM)). Unix and Linux make the hard jobs easier.