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  1. Re:Addons not compatible, if history is any indica on Linux & Mac UT2004 Demos · · Score: 1

    >UTPure [ and CSHP ]

    All you had to do is download the UTPure, install it on your system, and it worked. It didn't like to run out of your cache using Linux or a Macs. It was documeted on their forum.

  2. Simple on Mono and dotGnu: What's the Point? · · Score: 1

    One of my rules is to avoid using tool, items, etc that come from one vendor offers. If I could only get Java from Sun, I would not using it. But since IBM and Blackdown both offer it. This way I know that if something would happen to Sun, the tools I use would still have a development team behind them.

    So until Mono becomes "production" stable, or someone else offers a .Net frameworks beside Microsoft, I won't touch .Net. And since Mono is open source, it has double the power :). I know Mono can be picked up by another team if the current team quits. Companies when they go out of business rarely release their work, so your SOL.

  3. Re:One thing against it... on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True, however there are people like me. When ever friend complains about popups and virus, I install something like Fire[bird|fox] or Phoenix. His problems are gone. Now when his sister computer does the same, he suggests what I did for him. And so on, and so on.

    Word of mouth is slower, but in the long run is more powerfull.

  4. "virtually impossible" or "virtual machine" on Xbox 2 - The Price of Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    What about a VM to runs the old XBox games? With the fast chip, you might be able to achieve the same speed.

  5. Re:Actual Performance Difference on Windows XP 64-Bit Customer Preview Program · · Score: 1

    I think the DEC Alpha version was a hacked version of NT. I think they got it to work by masked off the top 32bits.

    It's been sometime, so I don't remember if this was correct. I have an old 533Mhz 21164SX sitting in my basement collecting dust right now.

  6. Going to BSD is still not out of their sights on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1

    Remember that some of the code the SCO has tried to pass off as theirs was from the BSD branch. So if SCO ( in a parallel universe ) would manage to win, and that BSD code is ruled property of SCO, then what are the chances FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD have even more SCO code in it.

    Linux is the front lines right now, if it falls FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and even Mac OSX could be next.

  7. Re:Apple and rack mount system on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whoops, didn't check out Part 1. I had those Cube cases in my mind. I figured Xserve was a variation of the OS, however I should have known UNIX is UNIX and not something like Windows XP Home vs Windows XP Professional.

    Very nice. Reminds me of a Cobalt rack.

  8. Apple and rack mount system on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 2 · · Score: 0, Interesting
    Does Apple make any rack mounted cases?

    I'm one of these admins where "server" means rack mounted, U rated (1U, 2U, 4U etc), non-gui'd required system located at a co-location. However, if I ran a company that was all Mac desktops then I'd want Mac servers as well, but can't picture 20+ tower cases littering the floor. I'd much perfer to mount them all in a 60U rack.

    Picture of a rack, in case you don't know what I'm talking about.

    I know you can put them on side-way on a shelf, but that the shelf takes up an extra 1U to 2U and case it about 6U. Rack property is very vital to some.

    So does Apple have rack mounted system ... and do they look all pretty ( blue LEDs and all :) )

  9. Re:Not quite parallel on Forbes Sympathizes with Poor, Abused Fax.com · · Score: 1

    and Gordon Gekko is the king of planet earth.

  10. Re:Quit knocking Gentoo on Another Xandros 2.0 Deluxe Review · · Score: 1

    BTW: I dont' think he was knocking Gentoo.

  11. Re:Quit knocking Gentoo on Another Xandros 2.0 Deluxe Review · · Score: 1, Informative

    Getting Gentoo up and running is harder than most distributions since you have to do the work yourself and not depend on some install program. However, if you can follow directions and have basic computer knowledge, it's not that hard. Just takes time :)

    Once up, Gentoo is easy to maintain. There is ample documentation and forum support. You just have to get used to tools such as "emerge", "rc-update", "env-update", "etc-update", "modules-update", etc.

  12. Re:Bum rap on 64 Bit Athlon Notebooks Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    Not sure. I have an eMachine I use for a staging server, $400, which has work near perfect. The only problem I've had was after 1 year the power supply fan stop working. This machine takes abuse. It runs apache and mysql, plus has to handle my perl scripts which pegs the processor normally for 2 days straight. Most of the time it's hitting swap, since ( up to seven days ago ) it only had 128M of RAM. However it keeps chugging along. For a cheap server (non-HA) it's pretty good.

    They arn't the coolest looking machines, but their bang for a buck is hard to beat.

  13. Best and Worst on The Best and Worst Technologies of 2003? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Best: Super Model Cloning Kit

    Worst: GE Bathtub Toaster ( fresh hot toast while you bathe )

  14. Re:KDE is based on Qt on UserLinux May Go Without KDE · · Score: 1

    Nope, you owe $11.18. :)

  15. KDE is based on Qt on UserLinux May Go Without KDE · · Score: 1

    "Score: 5, Interesting" on a untrue statement. Very sad moderation.

    Buying stock in a company does not make that company "part" of the purchaser. I can not find anywhere on the Trolltech page the statement "a division of the Canopy Group."

    The Canopy Group does not own a controlling share of Trolltech. They are not partners. They just own a small share of Trolltech stock. All companies own stock in other companies.

  16. In similar news ... on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 1

    Sony has decided to change it name to Cyberdyne and is planning to release a new distributed computing API in the next few months.

  17. Where does "Unix" start and end? on On The Death Of Unix · · Score: 1

    Kernel, shell, applications?

    I've seen post like "use Unix, then Linux, and tell me the difference" So does something like Cygwin make Windows XP Unix? The "duck" test would indicate that Windows XP with Cygwin is a Unix operating system. I have a hard time believing it.

    According to Microsoft, NT is POSIX compatible ( POSIX.1, POSIX.5, POSIX.9). Does that make it Unix?

    The Linux kernel is pretty much Linux, not Unix. The environment is GNU, which is Not Unix. So what makes Linux Unix?

  18. Re:Is there.. on Kernel 2.4.23 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Your assumptions here seem to be more like guesses.

    No it's right on the money. Unless you are waiting for some specific feature, a business with mission critical application/services will not upgrade to a newly released OS.

    The Apache Software Foundation found this out when they released 2.0. After six month, very little sites were running Apache 2.0. It wasn't because it was bad product, it was simply because 1.3.x worked pefectly for them.

    Why upgrade when your site is running perfectly? When our site is down, we have to refund the customers money. That was about $10,000 a day. So is it worth upgrading productions site, when your current site is working perfectly, at a risk of $10,000 a day? I'd wait until 2.6.12+ or so before I'd even think it.

    Now 2.6 on a development site ( mirror of production) is another issue. That's where 2.6 starts it life in our company.

    Heck, Solaris 10 is about to come out, who's even upgraded to Solaris 8?

  19. Microsoft to purchase on Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines · · Score: 2, Funny

    find / -name \* -exec grep -i -n $QUERY {} /dev/null \;

  20. Re:What is going to run on these computers? on Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unreal Tournament 2104

  21. Government? on The End of the Oil Age · · Score: 1

    What does government have to do with it?

    If the consumer trend is towards "green" vehicles, then the car manufactours will start to dump more money into these type of vehicle. Right now it's SUVs. People buy SUV because they're big, so the car manufactours are going to be pushing bigger, more powerful, less efficient vehicles. If the trend was towards "green" vehicles, then manufactours would be pushing for more efficient vehicles as the selling point.

    So the most of the resposibility of getting rid of the oil age falls on the consumers, not the government. It's easy to blame governments when the responsibility is ours.

  22. Hey Worm Developers on Yet Another Critical Windows Flaw · · Score: 1

    You want to creative, be unique? Create a worm that patches people systems with the lastest patches!

  23. Cygwin on Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows · · Score: 1

    I have to use Windows for some applications, that don't work with Wine. At first, I couldn't stand being in Windows. My biggest problem is having to find a icon of the file in a huge pile of icons, and sometime I had no idea which was the right file because they didn't list the extension.

    At this point I wanted my command line back since I knew where the file was, and the name of it. Windows command window thing sucks, bigtime. I luckly have installed Cygwin to fix them problem. In fact, I've installed XFree86 w/WindowMaker in Windows.

    If you're a *NIX trapped in Window, check out http://www.cygwin.com/

    perl, gcc, vim, etc come with the install.

  24. Apple Corp? on Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    I know Apple and Apple Corp have an agreement that stops Apple from getting into the music business. Didn't Apple Corp sue Apple recently? If Apple moves into the Window world, could Apple Corp sue them again?

  25. Re:Oh NO! A tracking pixel! on Do Not Call Site Has AT&T Stats Tracker? · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, just look at it IMG tag!!!! This is bad!!

    <img BORDER="0" NAME="DCSIMG" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1"SRC="http://g6589dcs.nyc2.aens.net/DCS00 0003_6D4Q/njs.gif?
    dcsuri=/nojavascript&name=supu n&ip=127.0.0 .1
    &likes=long%20walks,ice&cream,supermodels&
    dislikes=spiders,spiders,spiders&
    breath=bad&cl ean_underwear=false&nose=picking" >