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  1. Eternal Loop on Switch On For Powered Data Networks · · Score: 1

    So if I have ethernet over my power lines, and power over my ethernet lines, I dont' need either right cord to have both? err.....

    ok, can't you see your PHB actually wondering that?

  2. Re:The Gloves Come Off... -- correction on Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL · · Score: 1

    Actually, none of the protesters carried the sco signs. The person who stated that didn't know what they were talking about. The only people who carried the sco signs were sco employees. They kept following us wherever we went.

    Nobody liked having the sco folk with the signs, we just showed enough restraint to not do anything stupid.

  3. Re:40,000 Lines...? on SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I was misquoted (yes, I'm that Jason Hall, the one who also made the page). The reporter is the same one who suffered the heat stroke, and had absolutely no clue about computers. It was hard enough trying to get her to understand what linux was, or even 'source code'. I did give a more accurate count of total lines, but that didn't get through apparently.

  4. Re:pro-linux sco employees on SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually most of their IT guys were standing outside of the building watching us. Many of them are actually members of the LUG...

  5. Re:LDS faith & SCO on The Power Behind the SCO Nuisance · · Score: 1

    Yes, the LDS church believes very strongly in the constitution, and the rights it provides. They believe strongly that *everybody* should have these rights.

    Yes, there are LDS people who own part of sco/canopy. Like was stated before, they are in Utah, which has a higher LDS population than anywhere else in the US. It goes to figure that yes, some of the owners would happen to also be LDS. That does not mean the church is trying to influence this case at all. The church itself doesn't own sco, and makes sure to keep it's hands clear of things like that. There is an actual church policy forbidding church leads (called general authorities) from sitting on corporate boards, specifically to keep things like that from happening.

    By the same token, the local linux users are protesting in front of sco tomorrow. Guess, what, most of us are also LDS. The church isn't saying anything about any side.

    If you want to know the churchs actual opinion, you should probably ask the church. I can tell you they are running quite a bit of linux now, and are moving more and more stuff towards open-sourced solutions every day.

  6. Re:"The Linux business"? on SCO's Real Motive... A Buyout? · · Score: 1

    Linux isn't a business. ... But Linux is a code. ... There is in fact a Linux industry but that industry dosen't reflect the whole of Linux. ... Linux but there has never been a single company responsable for the whole ball of wax. What it means is that the person is thinking only in terms of business as if everyone has a proffit motive for anything they say or do.

    This has been one of SCO's problems for a long time. They, and other companies, dont' understand the concept of a community. Basically the foundation of FOSS.

    The world is changing, and they can't quite grasp that. McBride and friends are going to go the way of the dinosaurs.

  7. Re:Doesn't it seem odd... Going in reverse order on DeCSS Arguments in CA Supreme Court Case · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's that the presidency before the current one already did everything possible to destroy the second ammendment, nothing left to do there really.

    And who says the ACLU doesn't have power, heck, I'm afraid to say *anything* about my personal beliefs, for fear of getting sued by them for infringing on somebody else's right to not hear my beliefs.

  8. Re:Why give them a soapbox? on SCO Group Lawsuit Q&A · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why? because we're the local people who are most affected by their lawsuit. Why? because they are based in our area. Why? because most of our members really dont' like this lawsuit, and would really like a chance to get some of their questions answered about it. If nothing else, the local community get's a chance to vent their feelings to SCO managers and representatives, and not just to fellow geeks who share the same opinion.

    I would hardly count it as letting SCO "spin" us as if we didnt' know anything. Instead, it's a chance for us to voice our concers, and get at least some response back from the source.

    Why? Why not?

  9. PHP? Hardly. on Introduction to PHP5 · · Score: 1

    Uhh, yeah, read into their tests. Even after pulling old Rasmus into yahoo, Mod_perl *still* outperformed PHP, even by just at little after all that.

    They chose PHP over mod_perl, because it was easier to hire cheap monkeys to bang away on the php pages. They didnt' want all the flexibility mod_perl offered, they needed to give a simple toolkit to bust out pages within their criteria. PHP was the best minimized solution for their needs.
    It wasn't the fastest, it wasnt' the most full-featured.

  10. Re:Uh, postgres? on MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, Innodb does FK's (as mentioned earlier). It also does row-locks/ Multi-versioning. It's had those features for quite a while now.

  11. Re:Not sure there's any scrambling involved... on Dawn of the Airborne Laser · · Score: 1

    Actually it's more along the lines of being able to move your defenses. Building stationary lasers would be much agin to the famous 'maginot line' in france. The US obviously has a lot of people who don't like them. One day Iraq, then next North Korea is complaining again. This way they can put more defense at the area they are most likely to see an attack from. All in all it's a lot better idea.

  12. hairspray wimps on Potato Bazookas · · Score: 1

    Ok, anybody who I know made potato guns in high school (yes to echo the already redundant statement). But how many of us stopped at the wussy little hairspray propellant? Seriously, I remember moving well beyond that. While most of the time we stayed with potato's (especially since I went to college in Idaho), the propellant system was moved to a propane system. Much easier to use to, just buy one of those cheap propane camping stoves (where the stove is on top of the tank, one burner, small propane tank), then buy some good black pvc.
    We'd buy about 10 inches of wide pvc, with a screw on end. This end piece was attached to the tank, so it could be easily removed. Only needed to drill one hole there, then we made another small hole for a camping lantern sparker in that large piece. Then we just got an adaptor for our large pipe, to a pipe about half it's size (potato width), which was the barrel. Made an easy muzzleloader.

  13. The interesting part: on Windows Security Holes Go Mostly Unexploited · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that this doesn't seem to be a hack on the system (that may exist too). The problem is in bad programming. This link (if it's still there) was the main problem, as it was the tool to post news/press releases, and had no authentication. Direct link and you could control what went on there. There might have been other weakness' but that's the one I heard of. Now the funny part is, just before the site went down, somebody caused it to redirect to the infamous goatse.cx, and as a friend noted. when goatse.cx goes up, the owning is complete

  14. Didnt' know GAAP was so new. on Red Hat In The Black for Q3 · · Score: 1

    "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, developed in the wake of recent accounting troubles at some companies"

    Gee, so are those different than the GAAP rules that I learned in college? or different than the rules, going by the same name, that have existed in the US for many years. (International accounting has different rules, as well as each country)

  15. Whose fault is it anyways? on Trident XP4 Reviewed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've been getting the same issues. Timeout going to a comments page, slow loads. But beyond that I also was getting random changes to the pages themselves, like getting the large square ad placed in each headline on the main page. That's *really* getting the ad across, wonder how much osdn charges for that? :)

    So, IMHO they are probably making template changes or something to slash, and keep restarting the services. That would cause the problem.

  16. Re:Rackspace on How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website? · · Score: 1

    You mean all their IP's?
    yeah, pretty much all of them are on some list or another.

  17. Re:Americans are 'tv-articulate' on Cathy Rogers Responds Without Crashing · · Score: 1

    I don't know I would take this as a compliment. Maybe I'm just blah older, but I blah that blah Americans today blah blah blah (where's that channel button?)

  18. Re:cool idea, unless on UT2003 LiveCD · · Score: 1

    well, if they have funky hardware, STBY (sucks to be you). But as for the audigy card. Look on opensource.creative.com (which links to their sf page). The drivers work great for me. I get excellent sound from my audigy under linux.

  19. Re:This is your reward for voting for Bush on RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website · · Score: 1

    Not just more money, 98% of the money coming from the entertainment industry as a whole goes to democrats. Remeber, they view the Republicans as enemy number 1

  20. Re:Happy Valley on Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films · · Score: 1

    hey sinuhe, long time no chat :D

    Actually, these films aren't shown near BYU at all, these films are ones that people have bought, but want to remove the parts they don't care to watch. Clean flicks is merely selling pre-edited ones, of course with the large notice that by buying from them, yes you are getting a modified version which fits a standard. If you would care to see the full version, there are lots' of other places you can get it. They are speicifically advertising that they are selling an add-on service, for a specific niche of clientele. They are not stealing profit in any way, nor advertising the movie as their own.

    "once again"?

    Don't forget, according to the big companies, it is NOT one thing to rip to mp3 mosic that you own, that is not allowed. And how is personally getting your movies in edited format not a challenge to the status quo?

  21. Re:Give consumers what they want! on Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films · · Score: 1

    That might be the case, if they actually sold the pg version. I know a lot of people around me that refuse to watch R rated movies. They would like to see some other movies if certain things weren't in there, but the studios won't sell them as such. So, why is it wrong to make a version that the don't have to watch the parts they don't want?

    Could O'Reilly sue you if you didn't read the .NET section of their new regular expression book, simply because you own't use it?
    Can the movie studio sue you for fast forwarding during a movie? Or pausing it? because your destroying the artists defined method of delivery?

  22. Re:Obvious solution on Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films · · Score: 1

    Because the studios claim that these people are infringing on their rights to release an edited version at a later date. How can they if somebody is already editing it for a friend, those shameless pirates, stealing a possible revenue source from the poor movie companies.

    The truth is, here in Utah these types of edits have been a niche market for a long time, and the movie studios have never bothered to cater to it. But it started getting attention when Titanic came out and a local compnay was taken to court for offering a service of cutting out the naked scene from the movie. Cameron claimed they had no right to steal that possible revenue source from him. Now, this little store is really supposed to be able to stand up to that? even when all they are doing is making two small cuts to sombodies own personal tape?

  23. Re:What is this country coming to? on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    The same law that prohibits the government from promoting any religion, prohibits the government from censoring any particular religion That's funny, considering many religions have been much more than censored. During the 1800's it was actually legal to kill anyone belonging to the LDS Church, besides having many other things done to them, I'd consider that a little above simple censorship.

  24. i.link on 1394 Trade Association Adopts FireWire Brand · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, will Sony dump there attempt at branding firewire as i.link and adopt the standard? or will they try and go against the grain and keep 'their name' ?

  25. Re:Element names work well for a small low-order n on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    We currently use the function system at work (web1, db3 and such). The only problem is that the sservers get recycled, functions changed and such. So now we have a db server that's really a web server, an application server that a db replication server, mail servers being web servers, and so on. None of the changes really needed a format or resetup.. just different services running, so the names stayed, but aren't that easy to follow.