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  1. Re:Good morning, Mr. Gore. on Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net · · Score: 1
    So you could say that Mr. Gore was the fertility clinic of the Internet, yes?

    Is it example of engrish? - http://www.engrish.com/
    Is it possible for a man to be a clinic?

    From Merrim-Webster - clinic is:

    1 : a class of medical instruction in which patients are examined and discussed
    2 : a group meeting devoted to the analysis and solution of concrete problems or to the acquiring of specific skills or knowledge
    3 a : a facility (as of a hospital) for diagnosis and treatment of outpatients b : a group practice in which several physicians work cooperatively

  2. Re:Metric System Better? Hardly! on Why Users Blame Spatial Nautilus · · Score: 1
    "I can see for kilometers and kilometers and kilometers...."

    Army and Air Force use it:
    "I can see for clicks and clicks and clicks.."
    ;))

  3. Wrong paradigm on Why Users Blame Spatial Nautilus · · Score: 1
    The article tries to relate real life experience to spatiality. It does not really work.

    My experience is if I open drawer I focus on it and I don't care usually on other drawers status. I need just one drawer to work with usually. If I move things between two drawers It's more convenient to have two drawers opened at the same time ( does anybody remember Norton Commander? Oh, there is Midnight Commander, which emulates it. There are two panels to work with.)
    So my paradigm is opening ONE window and closing it when i done with it. Another thing - I do not seat on couch when I open a drawer, I come to it and it's right in front of me. So any window I open should be in front of me until I say it otherwise.

    May be the article was wrong about mimicking drawers. It looks like they thought about something like plane cockpit - you are in pilot seat and all the gauges and keys are in the same place all the time. Fine. what if you want to take a look at couple more things? There are no more place to put them there (anyway usual cockpit is too much cluttered for my taste).

    Having say that I usually do not have much use for file managers anyway. Basically it's convenient only to browse directories which content is unknown to you. No file browser can get as convenient as shell window with all Unix commands available. How do you do 'diff -u A B' in file manager? or 'tail -f C'?

    PS what is the easy way to turn off Nautilus in Gnome? If I kill it Gnome bastardly respawns it.

  4. Re:Software paid via public funding should not be on Government-Funded GPL Software · · Score: 1
    If it was totally free, then someone could instantly take it and GPL a slightly changed version. So you still would get a GPL one. But I think this is because they would like anyone who uses it to add to it. It's to make sure public property stays public.

    That's why software should be under BSD license. You may do whatever you want with software. You just can't change the license on it.

  5. Re:Software paid via public funding should not be on Government-Funded GPL Software · · Score: 3, Insightful
    And the GPL is what makes sure that it will stay in the public domain. Releasing software without the GPL will let anyone convert, with minor modifications, a software from public domain to proprietary. Where in the Constitution is it written that tax money should be used to give profit to corporations?

    That's bullshit.
    Let's consider some non-GPL software like FreeBSD. Nokia and Juniper use FreeBSD in their routers. Have FreeBSD became proprietary? No. Are Nokia and Juniper's FreeBSD versions proprietary - yes. They are different OSes because of proprietary software included. Just consider them as branches.

    BTW tax money were used to write software to use by government. If the same software might benefit somebody else it is even better. And I say it is good corporations make money from whatever software they use because emploeyes and stockholders also people.

    And question for you - do you believe that GPLed software can't be used to give profits to corporations? So those Linux crowds who swear by Linux companies are wrong? ;)))

  6. Re:probably on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1
    In either case, someone could easily take a look at an existing zone and add a few A records. But creating a new bind zonefile from scratch is filled with intricacies, subtleties, and just plain weirdnesses that no sane person should have to know.

    So why don't you copy new zone from another and replace appropriate names?

  7. Re:probably on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 2, Informative
    So why not use tinyDNS...which is both simple AND powerful, AND fast, AND secure.


    You may use it at home.. That's it. I would not call powerful DNS server which does not have idea about zone-transfer requests, inverse queries, non-Internet-class queries (queries list from DJB's page).


    As for qmail - it's pretty inconvenient to patch it every time I need any new functionality. Qmail is pretty simple and doing complex things is quite frustrating with it.

  8. Re:ACLU Needs Money? Facist Government? Break Time on How The Government Spies On Your Internet Use · · Score: 1
    Before you spout off about "Marxism" would you care to define it? Marx was all about giving the government the freedom and ability to do whatever needed to be done in the interest of protecting and equalizing the citizens.

    No, if you ever read Marx he criticized whatever he found wrong in nineteen century capitalist society. He did not give out any recipes for future societies. That was done by Lenin and Mao.

  9. Re:What's the point on How The Government Spies On Your Internet Use · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What's the point of an 'internet wiretap' when anything important to law enforcement is probably encrypted with a key long enough to take years to crack?
    Am I the only person who has 4096-bit RSA?

    Do you have your private keys on hardrive? Are you sure nobody has a copy of it?

  10. Re:Just watch out for Mr. Ozawa... on Original Godzilla In U.S. Theaters · · Score: 1
    I might trust Japanese corporations more, once you have a job, you have it for life.

    And if your boss is a jerk - you have him for life. Him, because in Japan almost all management is male.

  11. Re:Linux Stack vs. *BSD stacks on NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record · · Score: 1
    Alan Cox asked Berkeley to re-license under the GPL, and was turned down.

    Did he asked? Or it's just a legend? Any links?

  12. Re:Why use PCs? on How Many Google Machines, Really? · · Score: 1
    Why not go for something from a company like SGI or IBM where you can get very large NUMA systems?

    Let's try some arithmetics here: 1000 boxes with 2GB memory each cost about 2 million dollars approximately. How much would IBM or SGI system with 2000 GB cost?

    Well, I have no idea but have suspition it could cost ten times more.

  13. Re:Nobody has 88 systems in a rack on How Many Google Machines, Really? · · Score: 1
    ...due to simple arithmetic: if a std 42U rack was full of 1U, dual proc systems (42) that's 84, not 88 cpus AND CERTAINLY not 88 DPs (196 cpus).

    There is NO std 42U rack. 42U is a least common denominator. In AboveNet facility in San Jose my company had 22 2U servers per rack + space for Portmaster and power management boxes. Exodus and Qwest have I think smaller racks but still you may put 42 1U servers plus switches there. Those racks have some spare space to allow cable management etc. No wonder Google could stack 44 boxes. By the way you are forgetting they have non-standard boxes - they might be thinner.

  14. Re:The problem with HDTV right now... on CableCARDs and HDTV · · Score: 1
    If someone gave me a set for free I might consider watching HD

    You may consider buying HDTV card for your computer and watch it on your monitor. And you may be able to record shows on hard drive.
    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?thre adid=207262

  15. Re:God of the gaps on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1
    I would piss into his open mouth while he begged for water.

    Ahh, you are too generous!

  16. Re:oh, and one more thing... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    I another news pastor of All Saints Segregationist Church shot with shotgun 7 children age 5 to 13 claiming they have been mocked him.

    God-loving people of Syco, South Alabama cheered at the violent killing news saying that it was done in a Good Book Spirit.

    The authorities maintain that it is not a case of isolated facts and warn that more death may follow due to lack of attention on the part of the adults.

  17. Re:Anonymous Coward's Guide to Updating Debian on Painlessly Update FreeBSD · · Score: 1
    Recompiling everything to do an update is stupid. Try "updating" KDE in FreeBSD on a 366 Mhz Celeron.

    I agree. port_upgrade -PP works better.

  18. Re:And the advantage Linux has over BSD... on Painlessly Update FreeBSD · · Score: 1
    Faster, you say? I'd say numbers contradict your impression.

    Those numbers are microbenchmarks. They may show something but do not relate to real life performance.

    You can say a lot of good stuff about *BSD, but it currently does not match the quality and quantity of great minds work that is being put into the linux kernel.

    You may say whatever you want, but it just sounds as zealotry.

  19. Re:OpenBSD SMP on TCP Vulnerability Published · · Score: 1
    Yes, the "classic" computers had one processor (hence the term Central PU)


    Well, they were also supposed to have Rightside PU, Leftside PU and in more advanced configurations Front and Back PUs. Topside and Bottomside PUs was considered but were found impractical as interfering with cooling.

  20. Re:60hz on Signor Marconi's Magic Box · · Score: 1
    let's not forget that Tesla was also responsible for selecting 60hz as the standard frequency for Westinghouse's AC system, a frequency still in use in the vast majority of Western electricity today.

    Well, if you mean to the West from Europe, then yes in US it's 60Hz. In the Europe itself 50Hz is a standart.

  21. Re:Historical paralells... on Signor Marconi's Magic Box · · Score: 1
    I also recall that the Russian fighter that shot down that KAL flight that wandered into their airspace back in the mid-80's didn't have a voice radio, rather the radio it did have was used to light up a panel that showed what the commanders wanted the pilot to do.

    That's wrong. Maybe they didn't have scrambled voice radio, so did rely on panel for secure communications.

    Actually there were reports of recorded pilot's conversations made by Japanese. Here: http://avia.russian.ee/air/747/kale_3.html

  22. Re:in case of slashdotting on Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule · · Score: 1
    I remember trying to access cnn.com on 9/11. It was down for many, many hours.

    Maybe your part of Internet was down... I remember I could access it. They used feature in Netscape server - under severe load it scales down or switch off graphics, so text content was accessible.

  23. Re:in case of slashdotting on Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    Man - aren't you something?
    That article was on CNN.
    You should know - CNN is impossible to slashdot.
    CNN servers were working on 9/11 taking millions and millions of hits and survived. Slashdot users would go unnoticed..

  24. Re:14 people in two incidents on Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    Russia sent the first man into space.

    That was not Russia - it was Soviet Union.

    Americans didn't.
    Russians still send humans into space. Americans don't.


    You sound as if NASA was shut down and no space flights are planned.

    And you really believe that NASA sent people to the moon?Then you might as well believe in Alien Abductions, Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy.


    I see - Wookie Defence in action.

    Russians are the true Space pioneers. They boldly went where no American has gone before ;)


    That was 40 years ago, right?

    Give them a chance. NASA should swallow the bitter pill.


    Well, just because they said they could do something you believe they will do it. How about Santa Clause? They have him as well.

    Whatever will happen in Russia is unpredictable.
    They already have got their reusable spacecraft - Buran. And it's rusting in a junkyard because they did not have no money no will to use it.

  25. Re:I guess that'll show em. on Interview with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. yeah, since a recent update I can no longer run a.out binaries from the 2.x era...

    What's the problem?

    If you want to run a.out binaries you need to run:

    kldload aout

    If problem in 2.x binaries - install compatibility libraries.