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  1. What doctors dont tell you on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    They probably did not thell you... what you can read over here : http://www.wddty.co.uk/ Don't read the book Lynne Mc Taggart wrote, because your family may fall over you once you decide to skip your kids vaccinations.

  2. Dream On on A Skype Equivalent Without "Big Brother"? · · Score: 1

    Here in The Netherlands (a "free" country) we have seen Intelligence Agencies getting into organisations which were political opponents of the government. Being part of the leaders of political parties. Did any of those parties do anything wrong other then just being on the wrong side?

    Unless secret services are being controlled, they operate on their boundaries or just outside. But the problem is : who can control a secret organisation?

  3. Re:Silly on MySQL to Counter Oracle's Purchase of InnoDB · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Us as technicians may perform this discussion. Parent has a point.

    Now, reality comes in. Get your end users to fill in the forms. Is that done properly ? As far as programs are concerned, they can do that, but, it is not their integrity we need a database for.

    Real-life integrity can only be obtained by estimating the integrity of the weakest part of the chain user-application-db. I suppose it's not the database that is critical in most cases. It leaves you to choose any db you think is reasonable for the job. But remember: garbage in, garbage out.

  4. The obvious answer : Marketing on What Does Open Source Need for Mainstream Desktop? · · Score: 1
    If you can sell the blue screen with the best marketing campaing, the tux will need even better marketing. All we have is a bunch of nerd who can program. But can they sell?

    Here's a track record:

    • firefox gets my reward for the best marketed application of 2005
    • ubuntu gets my reward for the best marketed distribution of 2005.

    We're just starting to learn this how to talk someone really wants thi instead of were it only better then maybe someone would come to want it.

  5. Re:No sweat. on Unilever Ditches Global IT Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    The comments above are not full of self-confidence. If you don;t believe it will help, just stop giving them your -hard-wroked-for-$$$ anyway.

    It will help. It's their biggest fear. They will pretend to not take it seriously, but they do. It's their strategy.

  6. Re:I hope Steve Jobs reads this article on Ogg Vorbis Share Reaches 12.3% on P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Well there is a plugin somewhere, my girlfriend has it going okay...anyone ?

  7. Re:There's got to be a better way on Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released · · Score: 1

    Now I dont know the specs of a 500Mhz sparc. But talking about days of emerge ?

    Why not try a binary build? There should me mirrors serving around built packages. Never tried myself.
    I;m afraid you might really need that, just because:

    The shitty thing is that, once you have it going:
    * there's a nice package xxYYz waiting to be emerged
    * you need a lot of resources to keep gnome/kde going fast
    * all apps you have open too
    * In order to really use the potential of this box you;ll use emerge on a daily basis, so once you run emerge, ** the box stalls **

    That's why i got rid of a pentium-1 200Mhz server. Too slow to emerge sync at all.

    So I recommend, maybe for you the better way is the binary built packages way.

  8. Re:Censored pictures... on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    Everything you did read, was not censored.

    That's I can do for you....

  9. big sister and brother on Network Monitoring and Alerting? · · Score: 1

    Big brother
    http://www.bb4.org/

    and big sister

    http://bigsister.graeff.com/
    Big Sister does for you:

    * monitor networked systems
    * provide a simple view on the current network status
    * notify you when your systems are becoming critical
    * generate a history of status changes
    * log and display a variety of system performance data

    I worked for a company thats been using big brother for years. great but the config syntax sucks. Big sister is easier i believe but im not sure.

  10. Java indeed on Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled · · Score: 2

    The java-nised NeoOfficeJ is the project you're talking about. It runs in darwin and works. The official openoffice requires xdarwin and runs as good as your X.

  11. The ancient solution on Neither Rain, Nor Snow, Nor Dark of Night... · · Score: 1

    We all know they did not build pyramids to put dead bodies in. All the knowledge of the past is hidden in monuments. They've gone through more years and more floodings than most 'scientist' tell you.

  12. A second box on Moving from Linux to Windows Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I've been in a similar situation, but I just did not reinstall my system. Nobody had the gust to come and take it. So I just iginired the rule.

    After a year my manager started wining that I still did not have that windows box. I said okay, but, it must be a second box. I need the linux box and no dual-boot here.

    And it came. After that, productivity decreased to 1,1% because I had 2 desktops to administer, the mail came in on the windows and the work was on the other. But I had a good time playing mp3 till the whole business was shut down during the crash.

  13. Re:open source governments on EU Parliament to Vote on New Patent Rules · · Score: 1

    I wonder about that too. I suppose at least the Germans will stop this whole thing.

  14. a KDE and a GNOME theme called joint-strike on Red Hat Explains Stance on KDE/Gnome Desktop Changes · · Score: 1

    Could it be possible to create a theme for each
    desktop with the settings for a joint-strike theme?

    Guess the whole redhat effort contains more than this, but it might be part of it. Maybe upstream developers will include it?

  15. indeed more taps in NL on Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S. · · Score: 1

    I can confirm Basje's claims. The Ducth
    tap more phones than the US in absolute numbers, with only 15 mln people. "Bits Of Freedom' have
    more specific numbers at http://www.bof.nl/aftappen.html (in Dutch).

    It was even on the reputable Radio 1 last week, btw.

    Barry from Amsterdam

  16. stop GM on Cool Scientists Create Glowing Mice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Its about time to stop the bigmoney and their toys. They'll do anything to sell the world
    and not keep anything left to live.
    Thanx! Barry

  17. TFT screens indeed on Anti-Glare Computer Screens That Work in Sunlight? · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Had that same thing, red eyes, hurt. Switching to a TFT screen help a lot. Cost money? Nope.
    Calculate the cost of some sick days, a missed
    project deadline...

  18. Met him but dont agree on RMS Accused Of Attempting Glibc Hostile Takeover · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Couple of months ago I met the guy (at a linux expo in Amsterdam) and actually I would rather trust him than the posting Crossfire.

    He even left us the choice of using whatever names for whatever systems. But he did show us the difference between freedom and openness. Then it occured to me that the guy is actually looking for happiness and peace, and needs freedom to accomplish this. Now we finally have many systems going (with more and more threats showing up) we do have choice. There is freedom.

    Now then, let us return to happiness and not fight a war, oaky!

  19. Re:What the hell are you doing? on Red Hat's Michael Tiemann On gcc, ReiserFS & More · · Score: 1
    Reiserfs is experimental. Is it really?

    Ask Alan, it is. Ask SuSE, it's almost default.Not an experiment. Aks me, and I am experimenting...

  20. Re:The joys of a desktop-free desktop on KDE 2.0 Beta 2 "Kleopatra" Now Available · · Score: 1

    So, just go ahead and do your thing. No one
    forces you to K, do khey?

  21. it's all life. No need to check. on Life on the Moons of Jupiter? · · Score: 1

    Ever since the common 'holy' spirit has begun to fade, people forgot the whole universe is life in itself.
    Earth is alive. Sun is life. Moon too. Different tho.

    Ever tried to send a spaceship to mars to check out the hood?
    Every ancient Roman could have told you it is the planet
    of war and death, which is part of life as well.

    It's all life. Isn't it nice ;-)
    So, let's cut these stupid programs which bring forth nothing but wasted breath.

  22. Re:Stop the whole crap, even good intentions on Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved · · Score: 1

    > It's the new trend to speak out against
    > genetically enhanced agriculture in Europe, even > if you don't have any reasons.
    > I think you ...
    > or
    > he really wants to see Space Mountain.

    Great you can read my mind, do you learn that in school ?

  23. Re:Stop the whole crap, even good intentions on Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved · · Score: 1

    > Why ?

    --
    Well Mawbid, let me give you 5 examples.

    1. Unsafe food never proves within 10 years. Which means people die before it is forbidden and the it is too late. Remember BSE? Well you americans don't hear too much about that I believe.

    2. Natural changes are irrevertible. Dead is dead,
    and newcomers won't go away.

    3. Natural impact remains unknown. Some beetle had problems living next to a bio-corn field. How come?

    4. Biotech is same business. Monsanto our great friend makes double profit selling gen-corn capable to resist roundup. Never trust these guys, they are (a.o) responsible for some millions of cancer deaths.

    5. The last reason why biotech is the worst of the century is that it will be common knowledge far in the next centure, when we may have cleaned the chemical pollution but get stuck with the -living- biotech.


  24. Re:Making the same mistake, twice on Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved · · Score: 1

    Gosh how can you be so naive. It is always when the naturals resist the screwers too far, then the screwers make a plan to divide the naturals.
    They 'make believe' it is a nice option at all because we killed the bird. Then the techies amongst the naturals believe the crap, and say ok becuase this time it is with our best intentions.

    Not again, please?

  25. Stop the whole crap, even good intentions on Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved · · Score: 1

    So we do interfere too much. The best thing we can do is shut up and stay home. Do nothing.

    Now you guys probably think it is a sad thing the bird quit. Would you take the risk of wiping 1000 more species just to try to have 1 back. Why not take our loss and say NO MORE. You now say it was stupid, let's do it again.

    Biotech is the worst thing occured to us this century. We must do all to stop genetic foods (I never hear /. about that one), and stop cloning/ experimenting of all animals/ humans.