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  1. Re:1995 Wants it's Non Free PR Back. on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    FYI, sysinternals publish a very nice TCPVIEW.EXE program that does the same thing on Windows. Of course, it's nowhere near as powerful as netstat (the version that ships with Linux' net-tools, of course, not the crappy ripoff that comes with windows) but that's always the case with GUI tools.

  2. Re:Mono-mono-culture on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    It's very cunning really. The CLR environment is so incredibly limited that in order to do anything useful or interesting, you have to rely on calling on code outside of the CLR; so any interesting/nontrivial .NET app ends up being wedded to MICROS~1's implementation, anyway.

  3. Re:Things to learn from Windows and OSX. on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why? Are non-Ubuntu users unable to run GTK applications?

  4. Re:Athlon 64 Architecture has mileage in it yet on AMD's Plan To Recover From Its Perfect Storm · · Score: 1

    I hear that in pure 64-bit operation things are much closer anyway, and that's obviously the way of the future. I keep reading this online, but no one ever posts a link to any figures! It is very interesting if it is true, do you have any? :)
  5. Re:Linux is fading away on The Completely Fair Scheduler · · Score: 1

    What's the vertical axis represent?

  6. Re:Automatix? Ugh on Seven Essential Tips For Using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn · · Score: 1

    Not win32codecs. It's a collection of libraries that decode various media formats--distributed without the permission of the copyright holders.

  7. Re:Not really FUD on MySQL Stored Procedure Programming · · Score: 1

    It sounds like Fedora's packages of postgresql are fucked up. Autovacuum is enabled by default in 8.1.

    Although, personally I think that disabling TCP/IP by default is a good thing.

  8. Re:Automatix? Ugh on Seven Essential Tips For Using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yay copyright infringement!

  9. Re:Cross Platform UI/Widgets Are Jarring On OS X on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Trust me, the X11-based port feels hideous as well, although version 2 is a huge improvement over version 1.

  10. Re:OS X CPU Hog on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0 · · Score: 1

    You can find out with a debugger...

  11. Re:Not really FUD on MySQL Stored Procedure Programming · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have to say that you haven't checked out PostgreSQL for far too long. None of your criticisms apply to any vaguely modern version of it.

  12. Re:Good luck finding me IRS on When Tax Day Comes to Azeroth · · Score: 1

    Hm. Wouldn't they only have to pay on the profit they made if/when they sold them?

  13. Re:ARCcOS DRM? on Sony Fixes Problems With New DVDs · · Score: 1

    Clearly not, since the corrupted audio CDs, and now these corrupted DVDs has made not one iota of difference to the amount of music and video that is copied without a license.

  14. Re:Single points of failure on Blackberry Network is Down · · Score: 1
    Perhaps I just don't recognise the terms you are using. AFAIK, IMAP supports all of this.

    IMAP lets a client retrieve all or some of a message's headers, flags, body text (including each MIME part), etc.

    As for 'message push', once the MTA delivers the message, the IMAP server will immediatly notify the client that a new message has arrived. Here's an example transcript of an IMAP session that took place after I authenticated. Lines in bold are sent by the client, everything else is from the server:

    * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as sam
    ab SELECT INBOX
    * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Label1 Junk $Label5 $Label4 $Label2 $Label3)
    * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Label1 Junk $Label5 $Label4 $Label2 $Label3 \*)] Flags permitted.
    * 27 EXISTS
    * 0 RECENT
    * OK [UNSEEN 24] First unseen.
    * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1129721302] UIDs valid
    * OK [UIDNEXT 13164] Predicted next UID
    ab OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
    aa IDLE
    + idling
    Now I'll send myself an email. Immediatly the server sends:

    * 28 EXISTS
    * 1 RECENT Finally, I'm not aware of any reason why IMAP clients can't run on wireless devices? :)
  15. Single points of failure on Blackberry Network is Down · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how the ENTIRE network can be down. Hasn't anyone learned from the design of email?

    But then again I can't see what Blackberry gives you that you can't get with an IMAP server anyway.

  16. Re:SMIL? on Microsoft / Adobe Competition Heating Up · · Score: 1

    It can be freely implemented by anyone; therefor both Adobe and MICROS~1 will do everything in their power to prevent it from becoming a viable platform.

  17. Re:Web developer speaking here on Microsoft / Adobe Competition Heating Up · · Score: 1

    Haha, now try to serve that XHTML with the correct content-type header.

  18. Re:ARCcOS DRM? on Sony Fixes Problems With New DVDs · · Score: 1

    Make sure you write to Sony to tell them that!

    BTW, I wouldn't worry too much about the PS3. I think it's not unethical to buy them (and their games) second hand.

  19. ARCcOS DRM? on Sony Fixes Problems With New DVDs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Hm, what's this then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS says,

    The system deliberately creates a number of sectors on the DVD with corrupted data that cause DVD copying software to produce errors. Ah, so this is the corrupted audio CD debacle all over again. Thanks Sony, for making products deliberatly designed to malfunction. Truly Defective By Design.
  20. Re:No encryption by default on Vista For Forensic Investigators · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you really think it's beyond Microsoft to program in a covert channel that transmits sensitive data back to them or another party?

  21. Quality on Vista For Forensic Investigators · · Score: 1

    10/10, would read again. ;)

  22. Re:Let's extend this to wifi... on UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    In a sane world, nothing. Alice created a publicly-accessible network that did not require any form of authentication at any network level.

    Unfortunately this happened in the UK, where such quaint ideas such as discression, common sense, and the rule of law are things of a bygone era.

  23. Hear hear on UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    Well put. Discussing things in terms of analogies will always be inaccurate.

  24. Re:Open AP? on UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your car's number plate does not imply that the car is for public use. Broadcasting a signal that declares that a wireless network with a given SSID is available does somewhat.

  25. Re:Because so many customers who call up are wrong on Customers Treated as Culprits in Support Calls? · · Score: 1

    When you sign on to your ISP's service there should be a question, "how much do you know about computers/networking?" and if the customer answers "a little bit" then they get automatically escalated to second line tech support in the future. :)