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  1. Re:The GPL harms yet another business on What if SCO is Right? · · Score: 1

    You make an interesting comment, and one I tend to agree with(though my knowledge is limited). I tend to favor the BSD-type license and not the GPL. Since you seem interested in this sort of thing my question:

    Are any of the GPL license software products created in public universities?

    And if any are how can they legally put it under the GPL?

    Thanks

  2. Re:Weird C Code on What I Hate About Your Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Dang it you spoiled it!

  3. Weird C Code on What I Hate About Your Programming Language · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    main() {
    int a[10];
    int b=3;
    a[b] = 10;
    printf("%d \n", b[a]);
    }
    What happens?(Doesn't compile? Doesn't run? etc)

    try to answer it before you tryr to compile.

    I am not a great C programmer but I was quite surprised.

  4. Re:A Comparison of FreeBSD and Linux on FreeBSD: The Complete Reference · · Score: 1

    I am by no means a FreeBSD expert, and would barely be considered average by many in here.

    I switched to FreeBSD because frankly I found it easier.

    I was dealing with RedHat and it's pump command, I don't remember the details but I had to upgrade it, I found the rpm but then I had to update the rpm installer, I but I could update the rpm installer but the rpm installer was too old.
    I am sure I missed something obvious but I was too green and frustrated to see.

    I also didn't care for the documentation for linux. It is hard to find the right documentation for your dist and version. The dists seem to modify just enough to confuse the new person. Googling was an exercise in frustration.

    FreeBSD seems to be better thought out, but that's probably my perception. To me FreeBSD seems to be a better server(more stable) than linux, linux a better workstation(better hardware/games some apps).

    Also, if you don't have cd burner(i didn't at the time) the install over the internet worked wonderfully for me.

    btw, I have no problems with linux I use it at work, i just prefer freebsd at home.

    Take it for what it's worth

  5. Re:College debt... on Are Student Loans Burying Graduates? · · Score: 1

    >Why? Because they have to pay for coachs that >make more in one year than I will in 15 years. >Here is the problem.

    You may be wrong here. The basketball team for the KU brings in more than enough to pay for it's coaches and such. In fact there is a good chance that college makes pretty darn good money off KU basketball.

  6. Re:Security Problem on Ask Fyodor Your Network Security Questions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Flood 127.134.232.121

    That always stops the 127.0.0.1 hacker

  7. Re:telco fibre gov't woes on Last-Mile Solution For A Rural Land Co-op? · · Score: 1

    >And You'll want to bury it reasonably deep, say 4-6 feet,

    Why? Seriously, Florida barely has a frost, so why bury it so deep? Just curious.

  8. Re:wireless may work anyway on Last-Mile Solution For A Rural Land Co-op? · · Score: 2, Funny

    >If you have any kind of hills

    It's Flordia! I think half the state is below sea level. :-)

  9. Re:RFC1912 - 2.1 on Are PTR Records Important? · · Score: 1

    I am no expert(not even close), but I thought one couldn't create the reverse config file, DNS wasn't designed to do that. I am thinking of a person running a dns server off a cable modem and such.

    Thank again, I could be wrong and misunderstood what I read.

  10. Re:RFC1912 - 2.1 on Are PTR Records Important? · · Score: 1

    I understand why you do this and completely agree.

    I would do they same, but I believe this causes problems for people with only 1 ip address.

  11. Re:On the subject of hats... on White Hat Hacker Breaks Silence · · Score: 1

    You make a good point and well taken.

    I used pedophile because no one will side with one.

    According to the parent post you need to be a 'bad guy' before you can catch one. There is some validity to the statement and it would help, because I wouldn't consider it necessary.

    offtopic: You seem bitter.

  12. No cheating on Xbox Live Pricing Revealed · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You mean online gaming where people aren't cheating like dogs...

    Actually looks promising for that reason alone.

  13. Re:On the subject of hats... on White Hat Hacker Breaks Silence · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Interesting read, and I don't completely disagree, but I do have a question.

    If one replaced "black hat" with "pedophile" in the above post, would the argument still hold water?

  14. Re:strange on MS Says Longhorn To Arrive 2005 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would disagree look at the years between NT 4.0 and NT 5.0.

    On that note back when I was working on NT 4.0 servers, I was reading some MS documentation circa 1997 that said NT 5.0 should be out early next year.

  15. Re:the old saying.. on Why Open Source Doesn't Interoperate · · Score: 1

    I thought it was:

    The nice thing about standards is that everyone can have their own.

  16. AI vs brute force on Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer · · Score: 1

    Story: My grandfather was an excellent checkers player, could beat everyone in the county. One day a championship checker player came to town and played my grandfather.

    They started playing, after my grandfather made one wrong move, the man said "you're beat", and he was. He played 'by numbers' according to my grandfather. My grandfather said he had no chance.

    Now who is the better checkers player. Obviously not my grandfather it was the other man.

    But if you changed the rules slighty where the man could no longer use 'numbers', my grandfather might have been able to win at this new version of checkers.

    My point is this, the man didn't show any intelligent by beating my grandfather other than having a good memory. And we all know computers have a great memory.

    On another note,
    I believe Bobby Fisher wanted to randomize the back row of pieces in chess, because people were not playing/thinking chess but rather memorizing moves.

  17. Re:To test a powerful computer, play an ancient ga on Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer · · Score: 1

    That's the thing, eventually the computer will be able to go through every combination, and be the best Go player in the world.

    Right the computer in the best tic-tac-toe, and checkers player in the world. Soon, it will be the best chess player in the world. One day maybe before I die, it will be the best Go player in the world.

    But all I want is a good computer bridge player.

  18. Re:NO to IPv? + YES to MAC on What's Your Timeline for IPv6 Migration? · · Score: 1

    Really, I always assumed them to be all be unique. But what you say makes sense though if they ever did get on the same network...

  19. Re:First the Toe... on E-mail Tax As Way Of Preventing Spam · · Score: 1

    I know that the poor didn't received government assistance also.

    The were no medical programs, welfare, unemployment.

  20. balance on New Ultra-Intrusive Pop-up Ads Introduced · · Score: 1

    Everyone would prefer there be no ads, but I see no way around them. Unless you pay for a subscription or buying something on their website.

    Eventually the companies which have use ads will figure out which type of ads do the best.
    Certain ads will drive customers away but might be more effective. Other ads will be less effective but won't drive people away. It's all about money for the most part and they will do what makes the most business sense.

    For the most part you should accept these ads like we do commercials on tv or if you deem them unacceptable leave, enough people leave they will find other type of advertising(of course it will probably be more annoying).

    It will balance itself out in time.

  21. Re:You're forgetting about something... on Phone Companies Bill Public for Nonexistent Equipment · · Score: 1

    Nice incest jab, saying father instead of father-in-law like I posted. Or were you just too blinded by your ego to realize it?

    Also, I promise that the packet your, less than intelligent flame, came on, passed though a router where some of the software on that router, was developed and written in the backwater hick state of Tennessee.

    Have a nice day.

  22. Re:You know I would agree buuuut. . . . on The Unix-Haters Handbook Online · · Score: 1

    You have a problem, a 300 MHz should have no problem running 2000 and acrobat.

    My 800 doesn't even flinch.

  23. Tone dial on Phone Companies Bill Public for Nonexistent Equipment · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know in Tennessee, there was/is a 1 or 2 dollar charge per month for having a touch tone instead of a rotary tone.
    My father-in-law resisted for years but finally gave in.

  24. Re:One answer on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1

    This is an old puzzle. The way I heard it was:

    The puzzle took astronaunts 2 days to solve, while it only took a kindergarten class 20 minutes.

    Of course that should be a hint as a kindergartener would be limited in knowledge scope.

  25. Re:Manhole covers on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1

    My first thought was it is easier to make a round hole than a square one or any other kind.

    Your idea does make good sense though, hope I don't interview against you ;)