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  1. Re:Office is still expensive on South African Gov't Declared An Open Source Zone · · Score: 1

    Thats called outsourcing...

    They pay an external company (ie. Sun) to employ open-source coders for them!

    IMHO Sun is being quite innovative by behaving like this!

  2. two years later on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 1
    business model XP (tm) comes:
    • People using more that 100 cycles a day have to sign up for premium membership.
    • Normal users get a ad popup every 10 cycles.
    • ...
  3. Re:We need a standard on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 1
    They could offer to let you run their client for $1 per X/UnitsOfCalculation and cut you a check each month.
    Yeah right.. and when they've done their calculations and collected their money they'll go bankrupt without ever sending out any checks.

    like.. history is a while loop that never ends.
  4. Re:Scenario on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 3, Interesting

    mayby they can also split the data into small chunks that aren't worth it alone. (like in a packet switched network)

    one would somehow have to sniff their whole network and access to just one machine wouldn't be enough anymore.

    this whole asking the saleguy thing remembers me of us going to our local computer dealer in win3.11-times for the fun of 'format c:'. They found ways to stop us pretty fast ;)

  5. Re:Existing packages on Fink 0.5.0a Released for Jaguar · · Score: 1
    you have to somehow set its hold flag. from the dpkg manpage:
    hold A package marked to be on hold is not handled by dpkg, unless forced to do that with option --force-hold.
    I remember it having something to do with an option to apt-get called insert or something but I can't seem to find it again...
  6. Re:Question on Fink 0.5.0a Released for Jaguar · · Score: 1
    Why is it that Apple didn't include their own version of these tools?
    you couldn't expect them to add gtetrinet to their os anyway :)
  7. useful... on Getting Started In Linux · · Score: 1

    like switching to vim after years of saving docs with alt-d-s in notepad?

  8. it says... on Amazon Bots Cause Grief For Associate Web Sites · · Score: 2

    we ignore /robots.txt and we'll circumvent every actions you take to not let us crawl your cgi-bins

    kneel down and I'll spank you, associates...?

  9. Re:The Alexa archiver -- you can stop that one. on Amazon Bots Cause Grief For Associate Web Sites · · Score: 5, Informative
    The problem seems to be the amzn_assoc crawler that alexia uses on amazons behalf to find out about broken links.

    the bot was scanning through some kind of cgi script thus generating thousands of requests.

    At issue is not only the frequency of page retrievals, but also the duration of the crawl. For example, on Nov 26th, amzn_assoc visited one of my sites 13,406 times over a period of 17 hours, consuming approximately 200 Mbytes of bandwidth via calls to MrRat's CGI script.
  10. could be on Amazon Bots Cause Grief For Associate Web Sites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    .. something about not accepting any cookies? cookie filtering is just great ;)