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  1. Re:Flat PANEL not Flat SCREEN on Flat Screen Monitors Sales to Reign This Year · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Trinitrons techincally aren't flat. The external curvature of the screen might be zero, but Sony introduces a slight internal curvature to minimize edge distortions. See the FD Trinitron Technology Tour website for details.

  2. Re:my $0.02 on High-Performance Web Server How-To · · Score: 3, Informative
    RedHat is a pain to strip down to a bare minimum web server, I prefer OpenBSD [openbsd.org]. Sleek and elegant like the early days of Linux distros.

    OpenBSD doesn't have support for multiple processors, which are a necessity for database servers and dynamic web servers. I'd say FreeBSD is the way to go.

  3. Re: Oh, come ON... on Microsoft Settlement Compliance Criticized · · Score: 1
    You are full of shit. You can't blame everything on Microsoft even if your one-eyed view of the world wants it to be
    I'm not blaming Microsoft for anything. I am just observing that they do not pay federal income taxes due to some obscure loophole. It's not one-sided; it's fact.
  4. Re: Oh, come ON... on Microsoft Settlement Compliance Criticized · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft does not pay income taxes, and has not paid income taxes for the last several years. They also pushed through the legislation that legalized some of the accounting practices of Enron and Worldcom.

  5. Win2k? on Indian Government Chooses Linux for Academia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If they're so into GNU/Linux and OSS, then why is their webserver running Windows 2000? Here's the Netcraft site: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.mit. gov.in

  6. Re:Why not just buy a laptop? on Smaller Than The Mini PC, The P4/2400 Micro PC · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It doesn't have any of the ego-raisingt blinkenlights or LED status panel that a proper server has either. There's something to be said for hundred pound computers hulking in the background or under desks, IMHO. :)

  7. Re:Why not just buy a laptop? on Smaller Than The Mini PC, The P4/2400 Micro PC · · Score: 1

    This thing is not designed for serving in mind. It only has one slow 2.5" hard drive, meaning you can't even do software RAID. It has no expansion cards, and no serial/LAN management options. SiS video is not very reliable in my experience, either.

  8. Re:Ashcroft v. ${Everyone} on Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The interesting thing is that Ashcroft actually spoke out for copyrights when he was a senator. Here's one of things he had to say:

    Product manufacturers should remain free to design and produce the best available products, without the threat of incurring liability for their design decisions. Technology and engineersnot lawyersshould dictate product design. This provision reflected the working assumption that this bill is aimed fundamentally at so-called 'black boxes' and not at legitimate products that have substantial non-infringing uses. . . making it crystal clear that nothing in this legislation should be interpreted to limit manufacturers of legitimate products with substantial non-infringing uses.

    Citation: EFF

    He seems to have done a 180 since he became AG.

  9. Re:Question on CERT: Sendmail Distribution Contained Trojan Horse · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I've done that, and it seems to have gone away. We weren't up for long enough for anyone to connect to the trojan'd server, apparently.

  10. Mirrors on Sodium + Private Lake = Fun · · Score: 2

    I've got mirrors up at Earlham College and UW-Madison. No movies, but pictures are in.

  11. Re:good on Security as a Profit Center? · · Score: 1
    Anyway rh 8 sucked for web development and I had to downgrade back to w2k to run perl, mysql and apache. (rh 8 used perl 5.8, apache 2, a crippled mysql, and no cgi support for perl!).
    Take a look at Freshmeat and RPMFind. They should have everything you need available in source or pre-compiled RPM form.
  12. Question on CERT: Sendmail Distribution Contained Trojan Horse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is doing a

    # netstat -a | grep 6667

    all that is necessary to see if one has a the open port, or is there more to it than that?

  13. Mirror on Multi-Touch Keyboard Technology · · Score: 1

    Yet another page /.'d. I have mirrors up here and here. I have converted to PDF format to keep the number of files I have to deal with at a minimum.

  14. Desktop usability on A Look at IRIX 6.5.17 · · Score: 1

    The writer of the article mentioned desktop usability. The desktop that was displayed looked like TWM, and I can understand the concerns. But it's a Unix for cryin' out loud! If you don't like something there are at least half a dozen replacements for it. I'm sure XFce would compile on it, which is my favorite. If not, take a look at Window Manager for X for all the X window manager known to Unix.

  15. Mirror on Hard Drives Evaluated for Noise, Heat and Performance · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since things seem to be getting bogged down on Hardware Analysis's end, here are two mirrors:

    1. Earlham College

    2. UW-Madison

    These are in PDF format, which I converted from the printable HTML provided on the website. It is missing one eye-candy picture of a hard-drive's interior.

  16. Re:Mirror? on Linux Kernel 3.0? · · Score: 1

    I've got mirrors up at my Earlham website and at my UW-Madison website.

  17. Re:Interference? on PCI Shortwave Receiver · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind having a shortwave card in my computer. I'm at college, so theoretically I have an "always-on" connection, but Earlham College only has a single T1 for 1200 students, so streaming anything isn't worth it.

  18. Re:Uplift saga on More on JSF Laser System · · Score: 2, Informative
    Anyone remember the Uplift Saga by David Brin? In the first book, can't recall the name, they were flying a spaceship through the upper parts of the sun, and they were using a laser to dissipate heat. So....was David Brin talking out of his ass, or is there really a way to put the heat generated into the beam?

    I know lasers are often used to lower the temperature of small numbers of atoms in order to observe quantum effects, among other things. This is not the same as dissiptating heat, mind you. Heat is a measure of radiation, whereas temperature is a measure of molecular motion. I would imagine that Brin got his vocabulary mixed up.

  19. Re:I can't find my favorite! on 37 Operating Systems, 1 PC · · Score: 1

    I'm positive it's Emacs makes a computer slow.

    Long live vi!

  20. Re:ZDNet has an article as well on Microsoft's Vision Of Future Workplaces · · Score: 1
    By using all three screens, users can read e-mail, annotate documents and place bets at online gaming sites at the same time. Researchers will try to determine whether productivity and problem solving change in multimonitor environments.
    I've got almost the exact same thing with virtual desktop, and tabbed browsing and shells. Sure, it's a mouse-click away, but with multiple screen you have to turn your head. I'm also not shelling out $700 for three mediocore monitors; I can spend $280 on a nice 19" Sony Trinitron monitor and spend the left overs on more RAM.
  21. Re:network mouse on Microsoft's Vision Of Future Workplaces · · Score: 1
    And if we can grab data from the blinking lights on a modem, just think of what we can with an ethernet pointing device.
    Not much, seeing as how most Ethernet devices I've seen have only two lights: one for cable-detect/power, and another for activity.
  22. Re:d#? on Microsoft's Vision Of Future Workplaces · · Score: 1
    well lets see...d for display....# for their new company focus I guess.
    What's that, hash? Now everything makes much more sense....
  23. Re:Unpronouncable on FSF Issues GNU/Linux Name FAQ · · Score: 1

    Since the other link doesn't seem to be working, try this one from my website.

  24. Mirror on A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications · · Score: 1

    Since it seems like OWAPS is being Slashdotted, I have set up a mirror here.

  25. Re:We're not really catching up on New Linux Worm Found in the Wild · · Score: 1
    10% of what market you genius? The sector that matters here is machines with direct connection to the Internet. In that sector, Linux outnumbers Windows boxes by a strong (about 3.5 to 1 according to latest Netcraft stats giving Linux/Apache around 60% market share). Me thinks an "Introduction to Elementary Statistics" is in order my friend.
    I'm assuming you mean Unix/Apache, because Netcraft doesn't list OSs in their survey. The last datum I heard for Linux was around 15% of the server market, with Windoze taking up 30%-35%, and Unix the rest.