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  1. Re:Dippin' Dots on Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 2, Informative

    A guy had one of these booths in Hood River, OR for the Apple Festival. The texture is very interesting... much different from ice cream, but it's A LOT of fun to eat. :)

  2. Re:How would this affect linux? on Oracle's Hostile Takeover Bid For PeopleSoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    According to this article, PeopleSoft is already to jump on the Linux bandwagon...

    As far as the cussing associated with PeopleSoft, I am very sympathetic. :) But, as someone who has worked with both PeopleSoft and Oracle's ERP suite, I can safely say that there is plenty of swearing going on thanks to Oracle.

    The implementation makes all the difference... Both can be great application, or huge headaches depending on how they are done.

  3. $400K a year in software support? on California + Oracle = $95 Million Fiasco · · Score: 1

    In one case, the audit found that Logicon's $3.6 million estimate of how much the state spent in one year on software maintenance was overstated by $3.2 million.

    What kind of auditor is this?

    Let's suppose that a CA Deptartment of IT employee makes $80,000 a year (after you add in all the state benefits). You would have 5 people supporting the entire state's IT systems.

    The auditor must think that when the database goes down, you just have to restart windows...

  4. Kids on Apple Cuts Off Under-18 Darwin Developer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm 15 and have been an avid Mac evangelist since 1993, when I got my first Mac.

    So this kid has been "an avid Mac evangelist" since he was 6!? I'm getting so tired of hearing young people complain how the get no respect and then tout themselves as having 9 years of experience because they've owned a computer that long.

    I'm young myself - 23 years old - but I know that I have to put my time in the industry and pay my dues. I don't have 15 years IT experience becuase I had a Commodore 64 when I was 8. I don't have 8 years UNIX experience because I plyed with MUDs in highschool.

    Sure, this kid helped out, and he should be proud of what he's done. But this is business, and Apple needs to be able to protect itself legally. Hell, this kid isn't even old enough to pull the french fries out of the McDonald's grease!

  5. Re:How to remove Ximian Gnome ? on RedHat 7.3 beta (skipjack) is out · · Score: 1

    I think that this is the easiest way, it will remove all of the custom Ximian packages (which are probably the cause of the conflicts):

    rpm -e --nodeps `rpm -qa |grep ximian`

  6. Re:Yamhill on Intel's Answer to AMD's Hammer - Yamhill · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yamhill is more than that:

    o It is a river in the Willamette Valley
    o It is a county in Oregon

    Like most Northwestern names, it has Native American roots.

    Prescott, the other code name, was an historical figure in Portland. There is a Prescott Street in North Portland and his picture hangs in the Downtown Central Libarary.

  7. Not a good way to solve the problem on Export-level Encryption Proves Insufficient · · Score: 1

    Using brute force on an encrypted file system isn't a very good solution the the problem. It would be a lot easier to gain access by changing the user passwords with a boot disk. see http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Microsoft claims that you need to reinstall win2k if you forget or lose your password. That's simply not true. If you can physically turn on or off the computer, most security messures go out the window. The same is true with Linux, except with Linux, the method isn't so cloak and dagger.

  8. Re:I hate to say it on Ximian Adds Subscription · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and after a year: 1.) You'll be waiting to shell out another couple hundred bucks for the next Windows update. 2.) You'll be scratching you're head trying to figure out what patches need to be put on to avoid the worm du jour. 3.) You'll still only have HALF a licence versus a current, secure, and stable distribution. Geeks can get it for free. Normal users can (and will, looking at the proliferation of Windows) pay for good software.