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  1. Don't play Big 6/Big 8! on Are There Too Many Standards? · · Score: 1

    Big 6/8 are sucker bets. If you must play them, ask the dealer for a place bet on 6/8 and you'll get better odds. Ceasar's isn't known for their craps odds, anyway. Just play don't pass and take out all the odds you can get (or pass, which is a little more traditional and the odds are almost as good).

  2. Re:Qmail also supposts mbox on What Mailbox Format Do You Use And Why? · · Score: 2
    That's okay. UW supports several other formats other than mbox, too (including mh and several others where performance doesn't actually suck), but the poster apparently hasn't read any documentation.

    maildir format does not scale well to large mailboxes on large servers because it has no sort of overview cache information. Mark Crispin (author of UW imapd) correctly deduced that MH format sucked for the same reason that qmail format sucks, and refused to implement it. Without a way to do overview information, getting headers to do the message list is excessively slow.

  3. Re:is it going to be on Linux Trademark Domain Crackdown · · Score: 1
    It already is Linux®, and has been for several years. Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds, although it isn't his fault. (If you didn't know, some random tried to register the trademark and start charging money. The only way to defend Linux® as a name is to reserve it, and apparently to protect it as well.)

    This is probably an unfortunate but necessary step. I'm curious to know what the nominal fee is.

  4. So much for privacy. on Microsoft Plays Linux Games at Work · · Score: 1
    Well, folks, there's a lesson to be learned here. If you buy a Loki product, be very careful who you call for tech support. Apparently Loki doesn't council its employees to keep things quiet. This is as bad as Amazon's purchase circles: no opt-out, just one day you find out that everyone knows someone at Microsoft is running Linux playing CTP.

    I bought CTP, and I'm pretty sure that no one at Loki has any business telling people anything about me, beyond "we sold a copy from Fry's in Sunnyvale on July whateverth".

    I hope someone asked permission, but it doesn't look that way.

    Tech support departments need to be very careful what they divulge. Apparently, some aren't.

  5. Re:Exchange => Pain on Ask Slashdot: Building a Large Email Service · · Score: 1
    Er, that link didn't quite work, wtf?

    Anyway, that should be Cyrus, or more specifically, the Cyrus imapd.

  6. Exchange => Pain on Ask Slashdot: Building a Large Email Service · · Score: 3
    I've never heard about anyone really happy with Exchange. Except maybe Microsoft, but I'm pretty sure they drug the water.

    Check out Cyrus, from Carnegie Mellon, which is gratis (but not free).

    Or maybe you'd like to spend some money. Then there are lots of companies, like Mirapoint, who I work for.

  7. Re:Bay Area Bigots on Red Hat West Coast Division? · · Score: 1
    Anyone who thinks that location is irrelavant has never been to the Bay Area. You can't throw a rock without hitting ten programmers.

    Most of the talent is here. Most of the existing companies are here. The venture capital lives here and doesn't want to move.

    Anyone who claims location is irrelavant has never tried to carry on a real discussion via email. There's a reason conferences exist: having people all in the same room helps a lot.