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  1. Re:+5 informative for the .torrent on Chief of eBay's Indian Site Arrested, Released · · Score: 1

    Google sucks, none found, so you have to sell your soul to MS

  2. Re:how do you stop users from d/l SP2? on IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2 · · Score: 1
    asking the user to NOT d/l doesn't help much
    Then perhaps you dont ask the right way.
    Use the Pharaoh's curse or voodoo symbols at the end of e-mail.
  3. Re:The same as any large organisation? on IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2 · · Score: 1

    Ditto
    Every company i know having more than 20 win-users, has already the SUS installed and every user gets the windows updates when admin approves them.
    The article says that IBM does the same thing.Where is the news ?
    Perhaps after so many times that IBM had convert all their desktops to Linux that at least 20 of them are still running Windows ?

  4. Re:Eliminating the "Good" option. on Hackers As Factory Workers? · · Score: 1

    what if i pick good and cheap and put them in a Beowulf cluster ?

  5. Re:Hm, where have I heard of this before? on Web-Style Widgets For Desktop UI · · Score: 1
    I guess many will have corrected you by now
    But first correct the time in the two clocks, or is just a collage ?
  6. Re:Microsoft magic numbers on Windows XP SP2 Still Rough Around the Edges · · Score: 1
    the biggest problem is that thay fail allready at step 1
    I dont think that this is a big problem. For example

    1. Manage MS-Bob project
    2. Fail (big time flop)
    3. ???
    4. Marry BG
    5. Profit!
  7. Re:Fastest meme progression to world domination ev on Microsoft Will Try Out Blog Service In Japan · · Score: 1

    Nop,
    more like "they are 1 million people blogging... in Japan"
    or
    1 million people find blogs usefull ... in Japan
    and last
    MS finds business opportunity ... in Japan

  8. s-procs are not for data access on Stored Procedures - Good or Bad? · · Score: 1

    Use s-procs for maintaining the data integrity only !!

    1) Centralized code

    if you want to support all the RDBMS you mention then it's obvious that the code is not centralized using s-procs. You have to maintain 3 different versions of s-procs (Oracle,MSSQL,DB2)
    Second you code, in some languages oriented in set logic, problems that are mainly procedural. The result is very poor IMHO in both speed and maintainability. If you use Oracle and PL/SQL the problem is not obvious, but if you plan to use MSSQL, T-SQL is the worst language i am aware (to the point i dont consider it as a language at all)

    2) Compiled SQL is faster

    Execution plan of Ad-hoc queries is also cached

    3) Enhanced security

    It must be really lazy the admin that demands to access the database using s-procs only. All RDBMS offer finer methods to secure the data than this.

    and last
    Since your application is "highly data-centric" using s-procs for data access is actually an SQL sterilization
    No matter how clever you may code your s-procs nothing beats in speed and flexibility the adhoc (dynamic) queries, so the power that SQL has, is never delivered to you or to the end-user.

  9. Lookout ? on Microsoft Challenges Google · · Score: 1

    Do you mean Lookout, that MS recently bought (available here),
    Is based on the open source lucent.net

  10. Re:That would be a wise move on How Microsoft Could Embrace Linux · · Score: 1

    You forgeting something, WordPerfect had a very large share in the market, while Linux is not the dominant OS in the desktop market.
    Second MS is marching to the Longhorn release and such a move only distraction can offer inside MS and to its customers
    And last i fail to see what 0ff1ce bloatware can offer to a linux user

  11. Not accurate on Plans for International Space Station Cut Back · · Score: 2, Interesting
    This article states that
    Bill Gerstenmeier, space station director at NASA, said that if the shuttle started flying again in the spring, as planned, construction would resume in earnest on the half-built station, with the Japanese and European modules going up as early as 2007. Crews could expand from three to six members as early as 2009, he said, depending on construction at the station and positioning a second, three-person Soyuz rescue craft there.
    NASA may retire but that will make
    some room in the United States' Destiny science module for experiments would be used for a support system to regenerate water and air. Mr. Gerstenmeier said some displaced capacity would move to room in partners' modules where the United States has rights.
  12. Re:No idea on NBC Aims For Stability Through Redundancy In Athens · · Score: 1

    McPlop,

    leeching off of Brussel's subventions
    consider this more than an Aristotelian-Tax than a subvention

    whereas you could pull 50 out of the butt of wee Jock "poo-pong" McPlop
    probably been there since EURO-2004

  13. Re:Evaluation applies to any VM language on Ars Technica Tours Mono · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is nothing special in general about .NET that doesn't apply equally to Java


    Except those
    A. Polymorphic instruction set
    In JVM most instructions have the types of their arguments hardcoded (faster interpretation but harder to create a compiler to emit the correct one)
    In CLR has polymorphic instruction set, only the result type is hardcoded (compilers have much easier job but JITer has more work to do)

    B. Extensible convention for emitted members using attributes
    C. Assembly packaging vs JAR (zip file) packaging (can also contain native code or preJITed code)
    D. In JVM you are unable to encode
    1) enumerations (all)
    2) structures (records in Delphi, struct in C)
    3) unions (C and Delphi)
    4) variant records (only C)
    5) overflow sensitive arithmetic on integer data types (all)
    6) reference parameters (var in Delphi)
    7) function pointers (all)
    8) extern functions with calling convention (all)
    9) variable length arguments (array of in Delphi, C ...)
    10) tail calls (only Scheme IIRC)
    11) Unsafe code (eg C, Delphi pointer/memory manipulation)

    so the compiler writer that targets JVM must emulate all the above (using Java actually) resulting functional crippling or degraded efficiency

    E. JVM has an 64K limit in branching, making compiler writing more difficult than CLR

  14. Re:blech! on Ars Technica Tours Mono · · Score: 1
    FYI MS is against of using the regisrty for .net apps
    Use XCOPY or FTP.

    Because common language runtime applications are self-describing and require no registry entries, you can use XCOPY or FTP to simply copy the application to an appropriate directory. The application can then be run from that directory.
  15. Just a projection on Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200 Years · · Score: 1

    What the author did not mention is that software implementations are always just a projection of a solution using current technologies.

    As long technology advances, the most efficient implementation (in software and hardware) will be drastically different than the previous one.

    If we take the time-machine and a current software (ie Linux-KDE or Eclipse-IDE) and go to 1980 and release it as a brand new OS or IDE do you think that will be succeeded ?
    I strongly doubt

  16. Re:It's part of the API - From MSDN on 'Stealth' Worm Hinders Sandbox Analysis · · Score: 1
    ? Why you need source for this ? Just change the instructions to
    XOR EAX,EAX
    RET
  17. Re:Open Source Collaboration on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 0, Redundant

    FYI this bug is two years old (opened at 2002-09-09).
    IMHO Mozilla team must do a break and check/fix all security bugs in Bugzilla, before "someone" else notice them.

  18. Longstanding bug in Visual C++ compiler on Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying · · Score: 1
  19. Looks like an ancient VM on Reduce C/C++ Compile Time With distcc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How is that better than JVM or even better CLI ?
    It is an attempt to solve a problem already solved (in a much more elegant and portable format) using outdated techniques.

    Just mho

  20. Re:Macedonia ? on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    bombing macedonian villages with napalm
    Go to those that teach you history and tell them that napalm was discovered at 1942, so they can correct it in your books

    Try to understand that, and accept it!
    Try to understand that besides that failing history-theft attempt we have nothing against FYROM and as you well know Greece is a great supporter of FYROM in EU

  21. Re:US is not the most arrogant nation in the world on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    I dont believe that will be the case if US-Georgia and Russian-Georgia had common borders.

  22. Re:Macedonia ? on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    Microsoft decided to use Macedonia in the localized version of WinXP
    As part of this deal ?

    Alexandar's father, Filip II conquerd the greeks
    Where did you read this?
    Filip II was speaking greek, believed in the greek gods, had greek education and had conquerd Athens and Spartians, not the greeks !

  23. Re:Macedonia ? on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    Open a new bug :
    Selecting Macedonia is not bringing Greek characters as expected, but Slav

  24. Re:Macedonia ? on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    FYROM has appropirated the Name and culture of Macedonia, and the rest of the world live in bliss not knowing history.

    I think you mistaken, all world believes that FYROM has nothing to do with the name Macedonia (which is a Greek territory) except FYROM itself.
    The site that the article links, is spreading FYROM's propaganda, but noone listens except "Vande"

  25. Re:This may surprise some people, but... on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    I doubt that you hear different answer, since if he is living in Macedonia must be Greek !