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  1. Changes in httpd.conf on Mac OS X 10.2.4 Is Out · · Score: 4, Informative

    The update replaced Apache's httpd.conf and saved the old version as httpd.conf.applesaved. The problem is that the new httpd.conf has the PHP module commented out, and apparently the PHP module is not included. Anyone else having this problem or my installation that is broken?

  2. Re:Place your bets now.... on Peephole Displays · · Score: 1

    The simple way: download VLC for Mac OS X. It's small, it's fast and hassle free.

    If you want to use QuickTime you have two options. You could download the codec from DivX, which I do not recommend, or you could download 3ivx, a nicer codec which does a very good job at playing divx encoded files. Be warned, depending on the way audio is encoded in the video file you may have to use other tools to have a proper playback

  3. Re:X windows virtual screens on Peephole Displays · · Score: 1

    Rearden metal was patented.

  4. Re:Something to Think About on Microsoft Opens Code Just Slightly More · · Score: 1

    Here is how: you compile the source code you have received, and use the binaries you have generated by yourself.

  5. Re:Why Google is So Important on Google Responds to SearchKing's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    That means that, essentially, our existance depends on being among Google's top 4 results for certain keywords. Then maybe, only maybe, you should base the existance of your company in something else of which you have more control.

  6. Re:"beta tested at every Macworld keynote in 2002" on All-New PowerBooks, Web Browser Featured at Macworld · · Score: 1

    Oh please get a life. Microsoft is doing quite a lot of testing of late, as you can see in product lines such as Windows .NET Server. But you just had to bash Microsoft, right?

  7. Re:iTunes-iPod ... so ... *iPhoto*-??? on Apple To Introduce Video iPod? · · Score: 1

    Indeed you are right. My mistake.

  8. Re:iTunes-iPod ... so ... *iPhoto*-??? on Apple To Introduce Video iPod? · · Score: 1

    Like almost every Sony digital camera. iLink is just another name for firewire.

  9. Re:Good idea on Class Action Filed Against Bonzi Software · · Score: 1

    I envy you. I would love to install it. Yet, taken from the link you posted:

    Note: The current BannerBlind install package contains an error that causes BannerBlind to not register properly. Please keep watching this site for announcement of new update.

  10. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA on Java Development with Ant · · Score: 1

    Why, really? Guess what, in the rest of the world we also develop Ant with Java!

  11. Re:Microsoft better be concerned on Microsoft Responds to Leaked Memo · · Score: 1

    Have you used Borland's Java Builder Enterprise?? My God, it is LIGHT YEARS ahead of ANYTHING else, especially coming from the Microsoft camp. Let me guess, real programmers only use VB right? Pathetic.

  12. Re:Berman-Shake a fist. on PA ISP to Restrict P2P Uploads · · Score: 1

    Corrupt governments screw the whole equation.

    Airlines, anyone?

  13. Re:Gotten much better on Is Mac OS X Slow? · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Try mounting a network share (SMB or AppleShare), and then unplugging your computer from the network before umounting the share. Finder becomes unresponsive. Everything slows to a crawl. The only solution is to reboot. Restarting Finder does not work. Even logging out and in is useless.

    I have a Powerbook, and I move among different networks frecuently. It is a hassle, believe me.

  14. Re:The 5 Linux fonts on Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds · · Score: 1
    Why is this, or RTFM, the universal answer when someone asks a question about how to do something in Linux?

    Perphaps because the parent posts were not questions, but trolls, don't you think so? I don't see a question in the "five font" statement above.

  15. Re:Well, for starters... on PPC Linux vs. Mac OS X Server: Linux Edges Out · · Score: 1
    X11 is window-based, so you can throw arbitrary windows at arbitrary displays to your heart's content

    Which you can also do very well with Metaframe. Have you tried?

    whereas Windows Terminal Services are a session-based system (i.e. log-in-and-run-your-app-and-log-out).

    Which is very nice indeed. It is a matter of security, and security is never an unwanted feature.

    And then there's cost :P

    You are absolutely right. It has a cost. It is quite expensive, to be honest. However it does not mean that it does not cut the cheese. Technically it gets the work done, if you are willing to spend the money.

    Again, YMMV.

  16. Re:Hear, hear... on PPC Linux vs. Mac OS X Server: Linux Edges Out · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Terminal Services doesn't cut the cheese

    What part of the cheese is uncut?

    Really, I mean, at work we make heavy use of Terminal Services (combined with Citrix Metaframe). It is a nice solution. It lets the work to be done pretty well. The cheese is being cut right now.

    Is your milleage varying? Did you have a bad implementation, perhaps?

  17. Re:only 100 sites on Google Complies with Law, Excludes 'controversial' Sites · · Score: 1

    There is no global absolute ethics. Ethics is a set of moral rules.

    I see. Out understanding of those concepts is different. For me, ethics is a set of rational rules that individuals establish in order to get along (e.g. the rules on which the declaration of human rights is based upon). On the other side, morals is a set of commonly accepted rules created by a group in a natural, evolutive way, which are fine tuned in time.

    Since no two groups of individuals are the same, morals will also never be the same. However ethics are, for they represent an agreement between different groups.

    Would it be right to let those people state their opinions, even risking a 4th Reich?

    That is something they have to decide for themselves. So far they have chosen not to.

    Is free speech one of the prime ethical requirement?

    I believe so. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that " Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. "

    It is about ethics, not morals.

  18. Re:only 100 sites on Google Complies with Law, Excludes 'controversial' Sites · · Score: 1
    The laws are quite useless in the internet age. But nobody asks them removed because it would look like as the person asking would be in favour of such information.

    No, they are not. Do not make the mistake of forgetting your own history, for you will be condemned to repeat it. Germany did a very good job at teaching the world what it is capable of if the postwar rules are allowed to be ignored. Do not think otherwise.

    It may sound too radical for you, but neither of us fought in that war, and neither of us would like to do it. So please, take a look at the reasons and motives of the ones that did, and understand the consecuences of that which you are asking for.

  19. Re:only 100 sites on Google Complies with Law, Excludes 'controversial' Sites · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, there is the moral wrong, as in something you dislike and think of as harmful to you and your lifestyle, and there is the ethical wrong, which is not a matter of mere taste, and is rooted on concepts which are considered universal, and sometimes absoulte.

    An american saying that a german is wrong for eating, let us say, mayonnaise and fries, is only talking about a matter of personal choice. However an american saying that a nazi is wrong for killing innocent gypsies is is not speaking of a personal preference, but of a universal truth: it is ethically wrong to kill.

  20. Re:there is no clear winner on Mac OS X to Get Journaling FS · · Score: 1
    Software installation, packaging, and maintenance on OS X is a mess compared to Linux.

    As in "I drag the application to the hard disk and it just works?." Right. Truly a mess compared to Linux.

  21. Re:You have the right to remain silent. on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1

    True. They don't have the right. They have the moral obligation to do so.

  22. Re:64-bit? on IBM to Release 64-Bit, 1.8GHz Processor in 2003 · · Score: 1

    Yours are the words I have been looking for a long time. It is sad to see so many people feel threatened by the rise of a new OS, specially when this very people where the past advocates of a UNIX alternative.

    Quite a pitty, indeed.

  23. Re:#8 = Internet Explorer. on SANS/FBI Release Top 20 Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    The very first version of Windows 95 did not have IE installed. It was later available as a separate package

    So there

  24. Re:So.... can my wife finally use linux? on Red Hat 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Not true. I'll give you a very simple example: I recently installed Mandrake 9. Aside from some major problems with the drivers for my (quite very much) standar LAN card, I still have not managed to:

    • Play an encripted DVD
    • Set the Soundblaster Audigy output to my taste (the mixer sucks big time), and ALSA/OSS stuff is irrelevant for me, yet I must configure it by hand
    • The wireless USB adapter will not work, no matter what (experimental, of course) driver I try to install

    Tell me, is it my imagination, or Linux is trully tougher?

  25. Re:is the new iMail any good? on Review: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar · · Score: 1

    Mail is nice, but I have problems when I receive a message that contains attachments (like MIDI files) that Quicktime wants to play.

    Mail crashed repeatedly when encountering this kind of messages. I was forced to download the attachments from a Web interface instead.