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  1. Re:Overhead price? on Tomcat 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I run tomcat+postgres+kde+eclipse on a 128MB machine, and it just about uses up all the memory.

    Deduce what you will from that.

  2. Re:JSP sites and Tomcat on Tomcat 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    That was what a the whole sun-MS lawsuit was about.

    MS modified the VM to make it run a lot better, but Sun were control freaks and didn't like that and refused to make the changes themselves..

    In summary imagine two huge control freaks clashing...

  3. Re:The story.. on A Glimpse Into 3D future: DirectX Next Preview · · Score: 1

    gosh - the beta was buggy?!

    The reviewer was being a dick

  4. Re:It would be nice on A Glimpse Into 3D future: DirectX Next Preview · · Score: 1

    Can I kill you then? Since that wouldn't matter that much in the big scheme of things.

  5. Re:How is this better? on Personal SUV of the Sky · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's not what worries me. It's the maximum flight distance of 1,700 nm. That's uh 2 micrometers?

  6. Re:How is this better? on Personal SUV of the Sky · · Score: 1

    And when you get sued because the plane crashed?

  7. Re:How is this better? on Personal SUV of the Sky · · Score: 1

    1500 hours / 30 hours a week = 1 year

    Hardly life's work. (Assuming you won the money in a lottery of course...)

  8. Re:Not at all. on Yahoo! Develops Anti-Spam Architecture · · Score: 1

    so they just fix their hacked box, and change the private key, updating the main servers.

    No permanent damage can be done, if they use well known algorithms and do it right.

  9. Re:Not necessarily on Yahoo! Develops Anti-Spam Architecture · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They add this module, and get a reduction in spam.

    Seems like a big business case to me - last I heard business didn't like spam. (.. except the spam business I suppose)

  10. configure.in parsing on Debugging Configure · · Score: 1

    Would it be possible to have a program that read configure.in files directly, worked out what they were testing for etc, and just returned the right values?
    Basically caching the results, but also moving the code for checking for the conditions to the users machine rather than pregenerated on the developers machine.

    When I run configure it often says stuff like "check...(cached)" but configure still runs slow as molasses - so I'm not sure what exactly it is doing..

  11. Re:PGP-sign everything on New rsync Released to Fix Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just took them from linux kernel mailing lists..

    sure they could be wrong, but you'd think the real author would notice someone posting technical messages in his name....

  12. Re:MS White Paper on FAT Contains Non-Sue Clause on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    stupid question... would it be possible for MS to revoke that license?

  13. Re:My favorite lie on The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing? · · Score: 1

    Since the statements value is always either false or undecidable, the statement can never be "not false".

    (undecidable in a formal logic sense)

  14. Re:Right on Sun Drops Bid To Join Eclipse · · Score: 1

    I remember this being pointed in the original article of sun considering it - that it would be admission that swing has failed.

  15. Re:Darwin on Daring Console Heist Nets Broken Machines · · Score: 0

    I think warehouses should do this more often - get defective goods stolen.
    It might stop people buying stolen goods - and if not, it will at least give the rest of us a good laugh and some measure of revenge.

    (And yes, revenge - if someone else buys stolen goods, they don't know where it come from - it could have been stolen from your house)

  16. Re:Sad, but no surprise on Sun Drops Bid To Join Eclipse · · Score: 1

    So uh what widget set would it use?
    eclipse uses swt, and I assume netbeans uses swing.

  17. Re:This is an outrage! on Japanese P2P Users Arrested, Creator Targeted · · Score: 2, Funny

    where do I find tentacle rape mech video clips ? Sounds interesting

  18. Re:idjits working in English units RANT on Why Mars May Be Difficult · · Score: 1

    After searching for 10 mins on google, I can't find anything to back up my claims, but....

    I thought what had happened was that the (imperial) contractors had converted their answers to metric, and passed that to the other team. The other team assumed the answers were in imperial, and converted _again_.

    Or something.

    (so I agree with you btw)

  19. Re:idjits working in English units on Why Mars May Be Difficult · · Score: 1

    Uh, the problem was that the contractors did it in metric, and not imperial.

    Besides England uses metric not imperial these days.

  20. Re:Build one for them.... on Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it's like.. if you helped someone change the spark plug on their bike, then a few weeks later the chain broke, they'll blame you since you touched it and it was working fine before.

  21. Re:This is terrible on Maine to Launch Internet Sex-Offender Registry · · Score: 1

    It's like here (uk) - ex-princess diana died and a little while later Mother Teresa died. But Mother Teresa got hardly any press at all.

  22. License on GUI Designer For Eclipse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hi,
    Could someone who understands the license of eclipse tell me what exactly the problem is in getting eclipse SWT to use QT?

  23. Re:Incident response times on New IE Holes Discovered · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So how do you get around if there is a problem in say the kernel? Or your bios?

  24. Re:It's nice but... on DVD Authoring In Linux · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this would be too specialist to merge with k3b?

  25. Re:Why is it still called X-Windows? on New X Roadmap from Jim Gettys · · Score: 1

    Suddenly I feel like Alice