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  1. Re:Another name for Java Desktop 3 is .... on Solaris 10 Installation and Desktop Walkthrough · · Score: 1

    Mine has a RedHat.. hmmm

    Maybe I don't use Gnome at all.

    I'm so confused.

  2. Another name for Java Desktop 3 is .... on Solaris 10 Installation and Desktop Walkthrough · · Score: 1, Troll

    Gnome.

  3. K5 Article on Broadband to Kill Off DVD? · · Score: 1
    There is an article on kuro5hin.org that talks about how much you would pay to legally download an episode of a T.V. show.

    There are some interesting posts. Check it out here.

  4. Re:Encryption might be good. on Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD · · Score: 1

    Yeah. It would be easier to encrypt a loopback volume, but that would involve writing a new volume whenver data changed, right?

    Sounds like a job for FUSE.

    I think it would be easier just to have a live cd used for putting OS data, and a USB pen drive for personal data. That way you could have /home mounted from that drive no matter what live distro you were using.

  5. Encryption might be good. on Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a great idea.. but it says "The files are saved on the CD as normal files, not encrypted or compressed."

    That's great for Windows compatability, but I'd prefer my files to be encrypted, even on a livecd.

  6. Re:Liability on First Symbian OS virus to replicate over MMS · · Score: 1

    I was getting e-mail from a virus, to my 10 digits at vtext dot com and Verizon said that they stop allowing me to recieve text messages, or I can pay for the ones sent by a virus.

    AFAIK, they were running postfix, and I know they could easily setup ClamAV and amavisd to scan the messages.

    I did trace down which one of my friends was infected, but I'm supprised that no virus has tried to spam vtex.com, or any other SMS e-mail gateway.

  7. Re:aarrghhh! on EU Software Patent Directive Adopted · · Score: 1

    That was my reaction too. :-/

  8. Re:ashamed on Judge Finds For Apple in ThinkSecret Case · · Score: 1

    They enforce contracts with who? Did Apple have any contracts with the posters?

    Apple can sue whoever they want, if they had an NDA or similar contract with that person.

    If I have an NDA with company X, and I tell three people (A, B, C) and those people post this information on their news/opinions website, why do those people have to give up their sources.

    IMHO, the definition of "journalism" needs to be expanded to include these types of sites.

  9. Beg your managers to donate. on CentOs 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    If anyone else is trying to convert people at work, please see if it is possible to take some (even a fraction) of the money you save by using CentOS over RHEL and donate it to the project.

    It's not as easy as it sounds, but doesn't stop me from trying.

  10. Re:Other distros based on RHEL 4 on CentOs 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Mod up. This is informative.

    It also is kind of sad, that there have to be a few projects to complete the same goal.

    Piebox seems to be almost the same as CentOS. Why do we need this many? Are there really that many different ideas and viewpoints in trying to make a near exact copy of something?

  11. Re:How similar is it? on CentOs 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    They do include yum and createrepo packages. AFAIK those are the only added packages.

    This allows you to patch the systems, and even have a local repository without giving Red Hat an arm, a leg and your right lung.

  12. Fine Print: First 300 only ... on Yahoo Turns 10; Free Ice Cream for America · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fine Print:

    Limit one coupon per customer, where supplies last, or for the first 300 coupons presented for redemption at each store.

    FYI ...

  13. Frist album online... new album streaming. on Ask mc chris · · Score: 1

    The first album is on his site, free in mp3. The new album streams for free in a flash applet. w00t. :-)

  14. Re:Rootkit? on Take A Look At Solaris 10 · · Score: 1

    This is interesting. Mod up. :-)

  15. Re:The Interview on Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's funny. Mod up. Flamebait my ass.

  16. Account Suspended on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 1

    It now says that the account is suspended. Suspended because of bandwith usage, or because of the illegal activity? I wonder if you declare that you are engaging in illegal activity, they just assume that you are and shut you down.

  17. Re:I Don't Understand The Need For Centos on Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Red Hat's support isn't even "enterprise" in the same way Sun Microsystem's support is.

    I would rather use CentOS and have a community of tecnical people who actually use and built the OS at my disposal.

  18. Re:Really on Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage · · Score: 0

    This is informative moderators. :-) Mod it up.

  19. Re:Really on Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage · · Score: 1

    CentOS is a free "community build" from RHEL's source RPMs.

    Every piece of software that requires RHEL 3.0 for support will be able to run on this platform.

    It is the same as RHEL from a consumer standpoint except for the support, which from my experiences has not been very good.

    Imagine you have a cluster of systems that need to run engineering appplications. You can pay RH X dollars per system, or just have support on your head/management nodes and run CentOS or WBEL on the less important nodes.

  20. Holy Crap! on iPod Shuffle RAID · · Score: 1

    This is so fucking lame. No, really.

    I'm not kidding, stop posting this stuff.

  21. Re:Sametime on IBM Desktop Linux Pledge, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that FUD can come from a person posting the problems he has observed. ;-P

    It could have to do with an older version of the server. We do use a pretty recent version of a client.

  22. Re:Sametime on IBM Desktop Linux Pledge, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    I downloaded ICT. It looks like you join an online community, and not a local Sametime server.

    Similar functionality, but not the same thing. It also doesn't honor my http_proxy variable and won't finish looking for updates.

    So this isn't a Sametime solution, which is what we pay IBM for. It looks interesting, just not what lots of corporations use.

  23. Re:Sametime on IBM Desktop Linux Pledge, One Year Later · · Score: 1
    There are several linux Sametime clients available, ranging from Java to the Gaim meanwhile plugin. So that is not a problem (I run a different internal client which I find is superior to the Windows client).

    As far as a "solution" for Sametime, most of these don't come close. Sametime meetings don't even work properly without IE on Windows, I can't imagine how they are going to get the same functionality in Linux.

    Meanwhile is okay, but only if you use a previously stored list from the server. When I want to add contacts I have to use LDAP DNs, instead of typing a name and clicking search.

    If they don't even have a releasable (or even mentionable) NATIVE client for Linux then I doubt they can meet their deadline.

  24. Re:Hot-Swappable on Sun Opens OpenSolaris.Org · · Score: 1

    I'm just assuming that most people posting here mean GNU/Linux on x86/x86_64 based processors.

    I have never seen a hot swappable CPU on that type of hardware. What we are using to replace our E-3500 and V880 Sun Hardware are HP ProLiant 740/760 series system. The 760 has hot swapable memory, and ProLiant 580 systems have online spare memory.

    Maybe I'm crazy, but another issue is just having good enough code so that when a CPU/Controller/Card dies, it doesn't bring the entire system down. The people who have said that it is just in hardware might not be taking into consideration how bad for an OS it could be when a CPU dies.

  25. Re:Why back Sun? Why back Solaris? on Gentoo Announces OpenSolaris Port · · Score: 1

    Faster isn't really what I am looking for most of the time. I guess that I am looking for identical.

    We need mostly identical installs, especially in the same class of server (DB, Web, et cetera).

    I also don't need to be there durring the installation phase. Kickstart has allowed us to script installation.

    I'm not sure how long it takes on your average 4-8 way system, because I don't have hardware like that to install it on right now.