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  1. Re:4x cheaper than mso? on UOF Vies to Be a Third Contender in ODF–OOXML Battle · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking it's +Inf.

  2. Re:Can I ask a stupid question... on Brian Aker On the Future of Databases · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is called MVCC. Other databases such as oracle and postgres also use this approach. MVCC has its pros and cons. It allows for higher concurrency, but it might require extra copies of data and that translates to more memory and disk space. On a "weak" server it might actually end up being less concurrent.

  3. Re:That's what you get for making stupid rules. on W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic · · Score: 1
    Properly configured xml systems have common schemas in their catalogs so they never fetch those dtd from remote sites. If they don't have a dtd they would only need to fetch it once.

    To summarize: Doctype = good, misconfigured or stupid xml systems = bad

  4. Re:Quite possibly. on NEC SX-9 to be World's Fastest Vector Computer · · Score: 1

    Calling this a PC (Personal Computer) is a bit of a stretch :)

  5. Re:Microsoft still wins on Microsoft Finally Bows to EU Antitrust Measures · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or write a "reference" implementation. It's no substitute for documentation but it will help those that cannot/will not buy the specification.

  6. Re:BSD okay for Windows but not for Linux? on Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code · · Score: 1

    They left the author name intact.

  7. Re:GHz != Performance on AMD Beats Intel in Power-Efficiency Study · · Score: 1

    Actually it's the applications that make the most difference. In a typical server most of the cpu time is used for the database (queries etc) and calculations. Optimizing/reducing your queries and application code might save you more a lot more electricity than switching platforms.

  8. Re:What use is DRM for a scanner? on Microsoft Pleads With Consumers to Adopt Vista Now · · Score: 2, Funny

    To prevent you from printing the movie frame by frame and scanning the frames in another PC.

  9. Re:Doesn't Apple have the patent for TrueType font on Linspire Signs Patent Pact With MS · · Score: 1

    It says "license Microsoft code related to...". Code != patents, just like standards != implementation.

  10. Re:Use NAT liberaly on IPv4 Unallocated Addresses Exhausted by 2010 · · Score: 1

    It's a necessity and it only works well for client-server stuff. For P2P not so well. Try "torrent NAT" or " NAT" in google and you will see why.

  11. Re:And one of those is on No Wine for Dell Ubuntu Users, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    The key-signing part is solved (your suggestion should work without issues). The main issue is incompatibility in naming and/or features. If there is a wiki or something similar to document those AND packagers follow the wiki then your suggestion would work. Another solution is a centralized search-enabled page that allows anyone to submit their repos and keys. It should ideally spider all repos for available packages and network reliability issues.

    For your sources.list problem: You can use apt-cache policy <package> to see what source provides each package.

  12. Re:This is on TV tonight on Scientologists In Row With BBC · · Score: 1

    No other religion keeps its teachings secret no matter how idiotic they might seem to non-believers. Why is CoS different?

    That's what makes it a cult in my book

  13. Re:And one of those is on No Wine for Dell Ubuntu Users, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1
    Get real! Installing packages from anonymous people off the internet is not only dangerous but it will destabilise your system.

    For the nvidia kernel module you need to:

    • # apt-get install module-assistant
    • # module-assistant a-i nvidia-kernel
  14. Re:Average Indonesian won't benefit on Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples · · Score: 1

    Big Pharma could agree to sell them the vaccine at (greatly) reduced prices. That's if they actually cared about saving millions of lives.

  15. Re:Dependency Rejection on Finding New Code · · Score: 1

    Most apache projects use maven so dependencies are handled automatically for them. The learning curve for maven is steep but it's well worth it.

  16. Re:so how long till... on Sun Releases First GPLed Java Source · · Score: 1

    It's already in the non-free section for Debian in both testing and unstable. So it should be included when etch is released (early next year probably).

  17. Re:Moral correctness is not enough on Stallman Critical of OSDL Patent Project · · Score: 1
    It's more like having a law that doesn't sense and instead of voting it down you have a law firm that will take cases for free.

    Does the problem still exist? Yes.

    Does the law firm help? Yes

    I would call it a "better than nothing" measure but I wouldn't call it a solution.
  18. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on Stuart Cohen Predicts Office for Linux · · Score: 1

    I hear this a lot and it's simply not true. *BSD has GTK, QT (on top of X11) but Mac OS X has Cocoa, Carbon. Their APIs are not similar. How does that make porting any easier?

  19. Re:So enabling YasT to handle kernel modules... on Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    You mean something like module assistant?

  20. Re:Such as? on Fedora Core 5 includes Mono · · Score: 1

    I don't think there is a reporting solution that works with Mono. Please let me know if you know one that does. The two big players, Crystal Reports and ActiveReports, use Win32 hooks either for licensing or for functionality not present in .NET. Also, many commercial applications use the Infragistics components which also uses Win32 hooks

    Native calls or the above libraries are not the only things preventing an application from running on Mono. Did you actually get your commercial application(s) to run on Mono?

  21. Re:Will all applications be rewritten? on Fedora Core 5 includes Mono · · Score: 4, Insightful
    All applications.. no chance. Some of them might.

    The problem is that MS (intentionally or not) left a lot of functionality out of the .NET standard libraries _AND_ made it almost trivial to call native code from within .NET.
    The end result is that most applications end up using Win32 DLLs directly so wine is still necessary.

  22. Re:WGA plug-in for Mozilla on 10 Biggest Microsoft Surprises of 2005 · · Score: 1

    It worked for me yesterday without a hitch when I downloaded the DirectX (Dec 2005) SDK with FireFox. I uninstalled the plugin shortly afterwards (deleted the npSomethingSomething.dll from the plugins folder).

  23. WGA plug-in for Mozilla on 10 Biggest Microsoft Surprises of 2005 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Windows Genuine Advantage validation plug-in was the biggest surprice for me. In the download page they even have step-by-step instructions with photos on how to install it on Firefox.

  24. Re:Java.. on Learning Java or C# as a Next Language? · · Score: 1

    Visual Studio != C#. When you consume a Web Service, VS writes the necessary code for you.

  25. Re:Intel supports open source? on Intel Begins Support for Debian · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the email:
    "All the drivers of course include source and have been released under the GPL. They have also already been submitted upstream ( kernel.org, alsa.org , x.org) and can be downloaded at intel.com/go/linux."