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  1. And the question you've all been waiting for... on Ranking The Domain Name Registrars · · Score: 4

    I know what you really want to know: What did DOMAINNAMEBUYERSGUIDE.com choose for their registrar?

    The answer: names4ever.com.

    OTOH, I'm not sure I'd trust someone who did their page in frontpage to tell me what domain name registrar to use.

  2. Re:7.1 already!!! on Mandrake 7.1 Beta Ready For Download · · Score: 2

    Well, windows is at 2000, so logically they are the best, right?

    Version numbering has nothing to do with anything.

  3. Re:Power Outage on Neal Stephenson on Digital Village · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing by your use of the first person that you are in some way affiliated with the site where the audio is availible.

    Do you have any comments on why it is only availible in realaudio format?

  4. Re:HoTMaiL, Yahoo!, etc. And Sendmail issues on Legitimate Business Spam · · Score: 1

    High probably does not mean certainty, true. But you said in your original message that chances are any given message will NOT be touched by sendmail, which is what I was calling you on.

  5. Why RealAudio?? on Neal Stephenson on Digital Village · · Score: 1

    Can someone please tell me why this is only availible in realaudio? MP3 is just as good for streaming, and availible in non-proprietary decoders.

    I'm trying to _REDUCE_ my proprietary software usage. Sites that provide only realaudio downloads don't help any.

  6. Re:HoTMaiL, Yahoo!, etc. And Sendmail issues on Legitimate Business Spam · · Score: 1

    You are partially correct. Although mail is sent end-to-end, there is still a very high probablility that either your ISP or the recipient's ISP uses sendmail.

    As for me, I know that all my incoming and outgoing mail uses sendmail, because that's what fetchmail and pine talk to.

  7. Do I need ghostview for this postscript? on Postscript: Who Owns The Hellmouth Posts? · · Score: 2

    OK, who else here saw this headline and thought they were making a postscript version of the book availible?

  8. Linux? on Microsoft Pits Pocket PC Against Palm · · Score: 2

    So, does anyone know what kind of processors these babies have? Is it supported by GCC? Well, then, how about Linux on one of these?

  9. Re:Why I'd like to sue Jeeves on AskJeeves Interview · · Score: 1

    There is a 'remove frames' button people can push to see your site without Ask Jeeves on top. Frankly, I doubt that anyone will get confused as to who owns what site. I would just calm down a little and realize that Ask Jeeves is merely loading your site into a frameset.

  10. Re:Allright on The World's Largest Game Of Tetris · · Score: 2

    Actually, this was not encoded with the Sorenson codec, so you can play it using xanim. No need to go to windows.

  11. Re:mandatory quake post on The World's Largest Game Of Tetris · · Score: 1

    You could play quake on this today, using text-mode quake. ;)

  12. ? on IBM To Release OS/2 Warp 4 With 'Convenience Packs' · · Score: 1

    Except that they're not charging for bug fixes (those are the "fix packs", which are free), they are charging for new features. Which microsoft does, I might add.

  13. Re:cure for obesity?? on Feeding Through Nutrient Patches · · Score: 1

    Better to be over-exerted and alive than rested and shot.

  14. Re:AMERICA on Are There MP3/CD Player Combinations? · · Score: 2

    Actually, the RIAA has some 500 members, so they are not all internationals. Nonetheless, the big boys are the ones that actually control the RIAA.

  15. Re:Do you think... on TrustedBSD Announced · · Score: 2

    POSIX is POSIX. You only need to "port" things that are non-portable (huh?) and not supported by any standard. Things like how one changes the firewall rules are obviously going to be different for every implementation, but if all you want to do is play Quake or fiddle with the tape drive, then POSIX does the job.

  16. Re:Random brainstorming on Best Live Streaming MP3 Solution? · · Score: 1

    For that matter, you could do this with a small (mabye 20 lines) C program and UNIX pipelines; Just pipe the soundcard into SOX, then into the encoder, then into SOX a second time, then into the C program, which spews the header and whatever it is currently recieving from the pipeline onto the network.

  17. Re:Anxiously waiting ? on Netscape 6 · · Score: 1

    The reason that it is so much smaller is that it does not include all the debugging stuff that Mozilla comes with. So you have no console window, and lots of other debugging stuff that has been stripped out. But you should get equivalent functionality.

  18. Re:We all have been asking this i'm sure... on Are There MP3/CD Player Combinations? · · Score: 1

    Because, although the respective industries started in America, they are really international by now. Note once more that Sony (a japanese company) is a member of both.

  19. Re:We all have been asking this i'm sure... on Are There MP3/CD Player Combinations? · · Score: 2

    Although sony is a member of the MPAA, it's not the MPAA that is concerned about MP3s. The MPAA is concerned about DeCSS. You're thinking of the RIAA, a different group of corporate bastards. I can see how you'd get confused though, as Sony is a member of both.

    MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
    RIAA = Recording Industry Association of America

  20. Re:Slightly OT: 2600 Accessible? on MPAA Files Another Injunction Against 2600 · · Score: 2

    It appears that since this article was posted, both of 2600's nameservers are down. Does anyone have the IP of the web server in their DNS cache?

  21. Re:Backup experiences on Unix Backup And Recovery · · Score: 1

    Yup, the linux dump/restore programs used to be unmaintained. :\

    But now, there is a new maintainer and a sourceforge site.

  22. Re:Backup experiences on Unix Backup And Recovery · · Score: 2

    Well, I can address your issues WRT my own backup setup, which is Amanda w/ Dump.

    Amanda has the pitfall you mentionned of only wanting to write to tapes. It uses lots of tape IOCTL's. But the next version is going to have a TAPER API, that will allow it to write to anything from a serial port to a RAID-0 array raw device.

    Also, as to "getting down and dirty with the filesystem", this is exactly what dump does. Pretty much every unix has some type of dump/restore program, which reads the raw device of the disk. Linux is no exception. Dump has higher performance than tar, and backs up the same things the kernel sees - sparse files, hard links, the whole bit.

  23. Re:Review of the Pre-beta on Netscape 6 · · Score: 1

    Mozilla can run as a plugin for IE; Assuming you're on Win32, this does what you want.

  24. Re:In the interest of full disclosure... on Geek Pride Hits Boston This Weekend · · Score: 2

    Erhm, re-read the article. It says that it's sponsored by andover and VA.

  25. Re:Good news. on SCO Reorganizes, Issues Profit Warning · · Score: 1
    Any OS can Beowulf cluster.

    Then I will be most astounded when you set up a beowulf of Windows 95 boxen.