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  1. Re:I guess... on IBM's Newest Mainframe Is All Linux · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

  2. Re:Swat it? on The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Maybe they made it dimensionally transcendental.

  3. Re:Hostnames on Interview with Red Hat VP Michael Tiemann · · Score: 1

    On a REAL corporate network (thousands of users), you can name your systems after the users. UserIDs are unique, so there are no problems. I know some large government networks that use this very scheme.
    You're right about server names, though I've never seen these named in a way that would make any sense to an attacker.

  4. Re:*yawn* on XM to Launch Satellite Radio Handheld? · · Score: 1

    Does that mean the built-in lithium battery and included antenna shown in the product specs can't be used with the device?

  5. Re:VI is everywhere. on JOE Hits 3.0 · · Score: 1

    On FreeBSD, you can use ee (the easy editor).
    I use that and vi, depending on my mood. If I was any good, I'd learn to use ed. The only problem with ed is the flashbacks to using edlin under DOS.

  6. Re:If I'm doing it for free... on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 1

    If you're designing it for YOU, why does it have to be released as open source (or even released at all)? The act of releasing it as open source implies that it also for other people.

  7. Re:Cool on NetBSD Quarterly Status Report · · Score: 1

    I know that. I thought the part about it being a highly portable LINUX system, and the Linux Torvalds announcement were funny.

  8. Re:FreeBSD vs Linux - check it out! on NetBSD Quarterly Status Report · · Score: 1

    Actually, Wasabi supports NetBSD.

  9. Re:Cool on NetBSD Quarterly Status Report · · Score: 4, Funny
  10. Re:Well.. on Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years · · Score: 1

    It's nice to have friends!!

  11. Re:Final Godzilla plot summary [*SPOILER*] on Godzilla To Retire (for now) · · Score: 1

    Godzilla is forced to explode himself into seperate fighting body-parts!

    That sounds like the old Captain Marvel!! Somebody needs to sue!!

  12. Re:Panther/Darwin contributions? on FreeBSD 4.9 Released · · Score: 1

    Since you were involved in working on this, can you shed some light on why the kernel wasn't put under the GPL? From the description of the project, it looks like the BSD userland was being replaced with everthing from GNU. What was stopping those involved with trying to change the license?

  13. Re:Panther/Darwin contributions? on FreeBSD 4.9 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think that there may be some interest in doing this.

  14. Re:Most used older utility in our shop: on Searching for the Oldest Running Application · · Score: 1

    It does nothing, but does it very well!!

  15. Re:This book is great on Professional PHP4 · · Score: 1

    I guess I'm spoiled by ASP.Net:

    A quick search on MD5 in the help yielded this:

    Function getMD5hash(data() As Byte) As Byte()
    ' This is one implementation of the abstract class MD5.
    Dim md5 As New System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.MD5CryptoServiceP rovider()

    Dim result As Byte() = md5.ComputeHash(data)

    Return result
    End Function

    There are also objects for regular expressions which are available for use. I agree, though that the older .asp stuff was a pain.

  16. Re:Pft, overanalysis on Why The Dinosaurs Won't Die · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I haven't done any COBOL development for the last 4 or 5 years, but I did a quick search and found the following 2 links. xml4cobol.com and xmlbooster.com. These are both commercial products. You might be able to link to a parser written in C, but I'm not sure if you'd want to go through the trouble. If you're a masochist, you could always write it yourself in COBOL. This would give you an opportunity to learn all of the string handling features that are available in the language. Of course it would probably also drive you insane by the time you finished!!

  17. Re:Pft, overanalysis on Why The Dinosaurs Won't Die · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not true. It's been a few years, but when I was using COBOL/CICS, I remember that we could use getmain/freemain to allocate/deallocate storage. COBOL II also had pointer datatypes.
    You could also declare arrays using OCCURS DEPENDING ON. This would let you dynamically
    set the size of an array. This also was usefull with variable length records being read
    from files. Of course, if you needed to do something really tricky, it was very simple to
    call a subroutine written in BAL (assembly), C, or any other language that was available.

  18. Re:Tracking -RELEASE with cvsup on FreeBSD 4.6.2 Released · · Score: 1

    You could cd /usr/ports/net/cvsupit and type make install. This will run a script that will set up a cvsupfile for you, and place it in /etc/cvsupfile. This is a very painless way to set up your file, and it gives you many options to choose from.

  19. Re:Wait! on 9-Track Open Reel Tape Production Ends This Year · · Score: 1

    ASCII? All of my good pr0n is in EBCDIC!!