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  1. Re:IA-64 vs AMD64 on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 1
    Interesting. Thank you.

    Obviously then, the itanium instruction set would be totally different from the x86_64 (AMD64). Why then did Intel copy AMD64 for their later 64-bit processors?

  2. Re:IA-64 vs AMD64 on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 1
    I stand corrected (I think ;-)

    If I understand you then, Itanium would be incompatible with both Intel/AMD 32-bit AND 64-bit software--an entirely different beast with no backwards (x86) compatability? You'd have to write/compile for it or it would not work?

    Ah! It's all too much for an AMD freak. I'll stick with x86_64 (as Linus calls it) and leave the rest to those that know. Backwards compatibility may suck but it sure helps the transition forward...

  3. Re:IA-64 vs AMD64 on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 1
    This story (among others) would indicate that IA64 is not so different from AMD64. Instruction-set-wise at any rate.

    A quick google of 'intel copied amd' reveals much...

  4. Re:Thanks for the Review. Any recomendations? on Deploying OpenLDAP · · Score: 4, Informative
    Samba-3 By Example has some useful information on implementing LDAP. Available in dead tree and .pdf format.

    Also, The Samba/LDAP How-To using Samba v. 3 by David Trask may be helpful to you as well.

    Finally, while I have not reviewed this one it sounds like what you are searching for: LDAP System Administration from O'Reilly.

    Happy authenticating!

  5. Re:IN CASE IT GETS /.ed on Deploying OpenLDAP · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Uh, are you expecting Slashdot to get /.'d?

    If we can't see the original post, we can't see your "mirror" either.

    A very cruel joke on us indeed...

  6. Yahoo Mail on How Do You Store and Reconcile Email Archives? · · Score: 1
    Try YahooPOPs:

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/yahoopops/

    There are other similar projects listed on Freshmeat & SourceForge that fill the same role. YahooPOPs happens to be the one I use.

  7. Re:Morons....err....Mormons... on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 1
    This is all so OT, but I guess that's what I get for replying...

    So you're saying the missing pages that were lost were not retranslated. That must mean they were written first in English and never translated in the first place? That's a valid enough theory but faith requires that you accept the explanation that they were lent out and copied from memory with the Lord's help.

    You really need to do some research on this topic if you want to discuss it rationally. It's common knowledge among the LDS that Joseph Smith allowed Martin Harris to "borrow" 116 pages of the translation of the Book of Mormon which consisted of the Book of Lehi. These pages were lost or stolen and they were NOT retranslated NOR recovered by some miracle of memory. They are simply NOT in the Book of Mormon. So please cease with the "copied from memory" theory. It is categorically false.

    Only Mormons can see the sacred texts, only Mormons can go into the church

    Please feel free to view our sacred texts any time you wish. They are all online:

    http://scriptures.lds.org/

    While you are at it, find a church in your area, visitors are welcome!

    http://lds.org/basicbeliefs/meetinghouse/

    Tell you what... why don't you provide some documentation or a fraction of evidence that proves [x, y, z]

    Prove? I can't "prove" anything to you. Even if I had the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated, it wouldn't prove a thing to you. It wouldn't prove to you that Joseph Smith was telling the truth about how he got them, or even that he ever had them--all it would "prove" to you is that some guy has gold plates...

    If you want academic evidences for the LDS faith, you might try:

    The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormom Studies

    Tons of rigourous, critical materials can be reviewed there. I doubt it will "prove" anything to you, but it might help you with some of your historical misconceptions/misinformation. You decide.

    Oh please! This isn't Mormon bashing. We are not attacking a single individual for their belief system. We are being critical of Mormonism... which is a cult.

    I think you misunderstood my comment regarding Mormon-Bashing by ACs. That was an observation from a general review of the posts whenever things related to Utah appear here, not necessarily specific to your remarks.

    At any rate, the pejorative "cult" that you chose is generally not indicative of respect towards anothers beliefs. I know the difference between bashing and persecution, do you? Your concluding remarks lead me to believe that it's okay in your view to "shoot wackos", which I suppose means anyone whose world-view is not akin to your own.

    This ain't religious prosecution [sic] when you shoot a nut job on your property that is obviously off their rocker!

    I'll leave your final remark here without comment, other then to say if this isn't the pure description of mobocracy then I don't know what is...

  8. Re:No Kids Allowed on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 1
    OT, but I have IT friends who would like to see mandatory licensing just to access the internet--you would have to prove your competency is reasonable in defending your broadband-connected computer from virus/trojan/spyware/worms. Sort of an internet drivers license. If your not competent to "drive" stay off the "road" so the rest of us don't have to suffer when your system becomes a zombie.

    I thought it was over the top but I understand completely their frustration.

  9. Re:Mormon Influence on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 1
    Brigham Young University has a mandatory filter on all web content accessed by the student body. There is no way to protest any site being blocked at BYU; it's just tough cookies. For a while, it was blocking even news.google.com.

    Big deal.

    If you want to attend this Church sponsored educational institution you will be required to abide by the Honor Code of the same.

    http://campuslife.byu.edu/honorcode/

    Clearly stated is the following:

    Computer pornography
    Students are expected to avoid involvement with pornography. They must also understand that use of the BYU owned and operated computing network to obtain or distribute pornographic material constitutes an inappropriate use of the computer network. See the BYU Computer Network Patron Policy which describes expectations and potential actions in regard to this matter.

    So BYU filters their net connections, again, big deal. If this offends your sensibilities, attend another university.

  10. Re:Morons....err....Mormons... on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 1
    There is also the pesky issue of some of the texts which were coppied by memory because the founder was a dumb ass and lent out the only copies never to be seen again, but it's O.K. because the copy by memory was inspired by God!

    Wrong.

    Those pages were NOT retranslated. But then that fact really wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to you, AC would it? You've already made up your mind. Why let facts get in the way?

    If you want to beat the LDS up over "pesky issue[s]" at least get the facts first (you know, through critical review of the historical records, etc.) Is that too much to ask?

    (On a side note, it is amazing how many stories coming out of Utah end up in Mormon-Bashings by the Anonymous Coward set.)

  11. Re:Translation: Of course its true. Get rid of it! on Utah Considers Forcing ISPs to Filter Content · · Score: 1
    And joseph smith was a crook and a liar. Everybody except for the wacky LDS get this.

    Brilliant...

    Once you begin Ad Hominem you've already lost the argument. Oh, but that's right, this is Slashdot... What was I thinking?

  12. Re:Market Adjustment on Pay-Per-View Downloads of TV Shows? · · Score: 1
    I want my...
    I want my...
    I want my MythTeeeVeee...

    http://www.mythtv.org/

    Sad admission, but I have only recently begun watching 24 and I am pretty much set on purchasing the first season on DVD or renting it (which I would guess would be exorbitantly costly? Dunno, I've never rented an entire series before). At this point, I would venture a guess that you are correct that the cost v. bandwidth of said DVD rentals is probably superior for the consumer (unless you're a "prirate" of which group I do not subscribe) at this point...

    My summation is that eventually (when, oh when?) media-moguls realize that if they will only offer the masses a subscription to on-demand viewing they will rake in more $$$ then they could begin to imagine, we will all win. Granted, they (those devils) will not be able to price it more then cable, etc. or you will still find yourself pirated, but can you imagine... Subscription + adverts (which we are all banally used to already) for on-demand? It's just money in the bank--with no headaches...

  13. Re:public schools on Bill Gates Proclaims US High Schools Obsolete · · Score: 1
    These comments on the abyssmal state of High School remind me of the Paul Graham essay, Why Nerds Are Unpopular . He explains (public school in genereal and) High School are an artifice--a daycare or prison to corral children while their parents are off working (among other points). Very interesting reading as I recall.

    Then there is his more recent article that was noted here on /. a little while back, What You'll Wish You'd Known . An approach to dealing with and actually succeeding in life even if High School might be basically useless to you.

    Funny, I didn't realize that both of these essays were by the same individual until I looked them up for the links. They fit together so well, it makes perfect sense.

  14. Re:For download? on Battlestar Galactica Available for Download · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you hate RealPlayer for the ads, get the "crap-free" BBC version. This blog entry has the details.

    Or just jump over to the BBC now and get it:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp_install.shtml

    Available for Linux, Mac, Solaris, and Windows. Enjoy ad-free RealPlayer today! ;-)

  15. CoLinux on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 1
    I think this is what you're looking for:

    http://www.colinux.org/

    Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software.
  16. Re:In related news on Underwater Robots for Everyone · · Score: 1

    Is it an obligatory (troll) to post facetious remarks regarding the LDS any time BYU is mentioned on Slashdot? Just curious because there seems to be a trend. Maybe we should consult Zogby for a poll...

  17. Calm yourself... on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure the RIAA said it was OK. Get over it. Besides, I sure if you gave the Hon. Senator Orrin Hatch a call he would help clarify the importance of the issue. You'd just have to get past the "Beastie who??" questions first...

  18. Ouch! on Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot? · · Score: 2, Informative
    OOooOOoooohhh! Now they tell me!

    I've been fighting with Win2k to boot again for the past 2 or 3 days now, ever since I did my (full install) upgrade to FC2. I finally wiped my poor drive of everything and now have Win2k only running on the box at the moment. So much for my FC2 (x86_64), Mandrake 10, SuSE 9.1 (x86_64), and Knoppix partitions. <sigh>

    In all fairness though, FC1 seemed to upgrade to FC2 quite well when I chose that option initially. I was just having a problem getting the nVidia drivers loaded afterwards so I thought, "Let's just nuke the FC1 partition and do a full install and see how that goes." Little did I know that even with my old grub.conf ready to go it would wreck my Win2K booting. Oh everything else booted just fine, but Win2K would just sit there. I tried all the usual Win2K fixes, booting to console from the Win2k CD, doing FIXMBR (it complained of a non-standard/messed up partition table) & FIXBOOT but that did not solve the issue (I guess it might have helped if I'd had an ERD for the box but I didn't... I will this time around!). Those "fixes" just got me to the "Error loading operating system" message at boot.

    Thank goodness for Knoppix 3.4!!! I was able to pull off all my user files from the NTFS partition with it. Oh yes, the NTFS partition was still there in all it's glory. But would it let me boot? NOOOOoooo....

    Ack! How I loathe Windows OS, but once I get the wife used to another accounting package maybe I can rid myself of it. Until then, I guess it is "mission critical" to my household? (Aye! What a frightening thought!) Well, I guess that begs the question then, is it the love of money or micro$oft that is the "root of all evil"? Maybe the two are synonomous? Hmmm...

    So here I am sitting with only one troublesome OS thinking to myself what should I dare install next... Maybe SuSE 9.1 again. SuSE seems to always "just work" for me...

    I wonder what changed? I mean it all booted under grub from FC1. This is a brand new machine--AMD64 w/ nForce3 chipset, would the BIOS really need upgrading? Ah well, I will grab an image of the NTFS partition this time around and avoid the heartache again if possible...

    :-|

  19. Re:knoppix 3.4 on Cebit 2004 Coverage · · Score: 1

    I am so ready for this release to be posted for download! I check knopper.net and the torrent tracker every day hoping to see it ready for the masses, but no luck thus far. Looks like it's on hold for the general public until Cebit is over. If anyone has information on when it will be available to the rest of us, please let us know.

  20. Re:Great on Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community Ready For Download · · Score: 1
    No distro war here, I just have to have my say on this topic just once since it comes up all the time...

    Oh please! Every time a Mandrake distro is released they get ripped for being less then perfect, a newbie distro, unstable (granted, your post does not suggest "newbie distro"). But they have come a very long way in a very short time. urpmi, etc. has to be one of the best RPM package management systems around. I daresay it's even friendlier then apt-get (which I also love) by letting you easily create your own repositories. This works great for updating systems that do not have access to broadband. Mirror the updates to CD-RW, take it on-site:

    urpmi.update
    urpmi --auto-select

    ...and you are done!

    The hardware detection is very well done. Mandrake 10 is the first (AFAIK) distro with kernel 2.4.x and Samba 3.x standard out of the box. Mandrake distros always include a much wider selection of packages then some other famous RPM based systems. You can tailor it for what you want. Call it bloat, I don't care, if you don't want to install everything you have the power...

    And what is with folks always complaining that it is less stable then RH? I read it but where is that coming from? Is it fact or just a mantra that has developed because someone said it back in 7.x days and it stuck? Has anyone tried RH/Fedora lately? (Back up... I'm not bashing Fedora. I run it as well, but out of the box Mandrake 10 has performed much better for me then my initial forays into Fedora went...)

    The Mandrake community, developers, and maintainers are responsive and helpful. The company has had a rough go for a while but they have a good thing going now and I hope they continue.

    I have three Mandrake servers that run constantly and flawlessly. Their uptimes would be forever if I didn't need to take them down for kernel upgrades once in a while.

    I test and use multiple distros constantly. Mandrake is a quality set-up and their new community model is a great idea to get wider QA prior to official release. At least they didn't pull a RH on us.

    FWIW, Knoppix is my (current) favorite distro and desktop--but Mandrake is my server distro. *shock* ("He must be some kind of freakin' idiot! Gentoo! Gentoo!")

    Well, don't take it to heart there Anonymous C., I like Mandrake but I know perfectly well that a single distro is never going to be all things to all people...

  21. Re:Lowe's or Home Depot might be next... on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1
    Linux GUI's eh? Linux is just a kernel and a kernel alone does not an OS make--contrary to the opinion that sco seems to hold. Alas, they want it all. But I digress...

    Lowe's or Home Depot could be running KDE or whatever on top of *BSD, not necessarily Linux.

    Besides, the suits against Autozone & Daimler-Chrysler are apparently claims that they used sco shared libraries without permission to move to Linux not against the premise that they are using Linux in the first place (contrary to frenzied mainstream media reporting at the moment)...

    But you are right, I'm sure sco has their greedy "great lidless eye" on on both. (Apologies to LotR)

  22. Re:One question. on USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap · · Score: 1

    But this is sco we are talking about. Darl's rhetoric about the unconstitutionality of the GPL amounts to little more then a rant legally (INAL). sco can still distribute specific binaries under the GPL so long as they continue to abide by the GPL for those particular products.

    I don't recall seeing rants against a license cause for revocation in the GPL.

    The only particular case in which I am aware of that sco actually broke the GPL is with regards to the kernel. AFAIK, they still comply with the GPL with regards to other applications.

    I know, it's total hypocrisy, but again, this is sco we are talking about. Hence you see the Samba team slamming sco for being completely hypocritical in continuing to distribute Samba under the GPL, but that's as far as they can go. If sco (or anyone else) abides by the license for a particular product their's nothing you can really do as a copyright holder under this license.

    Time for the kernel developers to hire their own team of lawyers. Now they totally have a case against sco.

  23. Re:One question. on USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap · · Score: 1

    He can make all the railing accusations he wishes against the GPL or any other license, or even the latest episode of 'Friends' for that matter--and still distribute GPL'd software products if he abides by the terms of the license for those individual products.

    There are aspects of the GPL and other FOSS licenses that people disagree with all the time but they still use/modify/distribute under them.

    Clearly sco has violated the GPL with regards to the Linux kernel (by distributing binary only version under a completely different license), but /.'ers certainly realize that the kernel alone does not an OS make.

    What would be particularly interesting is to see the kernel developers form a combined class action suit against sco for blatantly disregarding the license on which the kernel is distributed.

  24. Re:One question. on USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap · · Score: 1

    INAL, but I believe you are correct. NMap cannot yank sco's license to distribute nmap, no matter how badly sco misbehaves--if they are abiding by the terms of the GPL for nmap.

    It would wreck the premise of free software. How can you revoke a license simply because a person or organization is breaking the license on another product or because you disagree with their FUD, politics, race, religion, whatever? You can't. It doesn't work that way.

  25. Re:And in a recent announcement... on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    You would have thought they would have started with their own. They still offer stock Linux source code under the GPL... Just look for any of the linux-2.4.13-x source RPMS they have posted... ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Serv er/current/SRPMS/