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  1. Re:branded addresses on Gmail Becomes Google Mail in the UK · · Score: 1

    Lots of companies offer that. Postini, Messagelabs, Outblaze, just to name a few large ones.

  2. Re:Adgenda indeed on Microsoft Consults Ethical Hackers at Blue Hat · · Score: 1

    Geeks preaching XP security? I don't know of any. Quite a few people did praise XP SP2 though.

  3. Re:PR Stunt. on Microsoft Consults Ethical Hackers at Blue Hat · · Score: 1

    You mean, people like OpenBSD, or perhaps Debian, or Gentoo or ....
    When you avoid screwing up your design the first time round, it does help that you need to do less work.

  4. Re:FreeBSD Ports on A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    USE="mysql"

    Any application with an optional MySQL dependency with get MySQL support.

    USE="-mysql pgsql"

    Never build in optional MySQL support, always build in optional Postgres support.

    Set it once in make.conf on your build machine. If you like, set the buildpkg flag as well, and make your own binary packages. Then install those.

    rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm --with pgsql --without mysql does the same for one package, not all.

    I didn't see you setting compile time optional components in your example. And then do it for all your packages.

  5. Re:HP Website not all that linux-friendly on Stopping Linux Desktop Adoption Sabotage · · Score: 1

    Http://www.discountlaptops.com/ offers OS free laptops.

    I'm not affiliated with them, just found them while googling for a laptop without Windows. The price is right too.

  6. Re:Kyon? on HP Recalls 135,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    Yadi Hindi appki martubhasha nahin hain, to aap Hindi aachhe bol lete hain. Parantu aap vichar Angrezi mein karte hain, aur usi tarah likhte hain. Hindi aur Angrezi ki vyakya-rachna thodi alag hain. Hindi aur French ki vyakya rachna ek saman hain.

  7. Re:Simple fix.. on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    And when your ISP decides to do the same thing and masquerades?

  8. Re:did anyone read the articles full of "facts"? on A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 2, Informative

    RPM is the equivalent of .deb.
    Yum is the equivalent of apt-get.

    Don't confuse between the two.

  9. Re:FreeBSD Ports on A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 1

    Ports is a way of installing from source, choosing your optional compile time flags. The same applies to USE flags for Gentoo. This is equivalent to building .debs from source packages, after editing a bunch of files, but in a much more elegant fashion.

    Debian really doesn't have the concept of ports, just *BSD packages. Gentoo lacks support on the packages front, but is rock solid on the ports side.

    You can build your own binary packages trivially, and then install those with pkg_add in FreeBSD, or the equivalent Gentoo emerge option. Packages are just tarballs in both cases.

    Understanding the difference between ports and packages is useful and necessary.

  10. Re:No one will notice on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    Which is a wholly different point, of course. However, if a government backs a few root server operators, getting the fixed IPs should not be too hard.

  11. Re:Sticky Triangles on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    A tetrahedron. Trivial question.

  12. Re:Kyun? on HP Recalls 135,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    Kyonki aap shudh Hindi mein varta nahi kar rahe hain. Aapne poonchna chaiye "Aap Hindi me varta kyon nahin kar sakte hain?"

  13. Re:What's a "potentially dangerous" animal? on Microchips for Dangerous Animals? · · Score: 1

    Ask the Australians if rabbits are dangerous.

  14. Re:FWIW on 20th Anniversary of Windows · · Score: 1

    Actually, a small company named Compaq, which started the PC clone wars, bringing PC prices lower and lower. Microsoft simply rode the wave.

  15. Re:They're Dreaming on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1

    But you forget that your vendors do need to access Chinese stuff. So if China forces stuff within China to use their DNS roots, your vendors will have to use the same roots. And if you are employed by a large tech company, chances are high that you will be using those roots at work.

  16. Re:Fall Apart? on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1

    Or you will see a migration from ICANN to alternative roots.
    http://www.circleid.com/article/1219_0_1_0_C/
    http://www.circleid.com/article/1224_0_1_0_C/
    http://www.circleid.com/article/1227_0_1_0_C/

    Explanations and viewpoints.

  17. Re:let me be the first to say on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 1

    You forget that heating doesn't just melt the icecaps. It also causes changes in atmospheric movement patterns. May I remind you of the unprecedented rainfall in Mumbai, and a little storm named Katrina?

  18. Re:Fragging children. on Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18 · · Score: 1

    They are protecting children from the truth. Reality is dangerous.

  19. Re:Will it be usable? on Tango Project to Make Open Source Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    A keypad. Just start typing. Oh wait, iPod.

  20. Re:It's No Less True on Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos · · Score: 1

    And your claim is that he wont move until these problems are all solved, at which time there is no need to go and return hardware, or ask for Linux compatible dongles.

  21. Re:On Meeting Big Cats on Mystery Australian Big Cat Shot · · Score: 1

    On the other hand there is near unanimous agreement that pound for pound a leopard is the most dangerous lethal killer on the planet.

    Did you forget man?

  22. Re:No one will notice on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    Or if the world standadises on a set of alternate roots, _US_ citizens will have to change their root servers.

  23. Re:Common carrier status on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 1

    Uh? ISPs are not liable for content on their network (layer 7). They are however, fully liable for connectivity (layer 3).

  24. Re:X1000?? on ATi Radeon X1K Graphics Launched, Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    OS X11? No. X isn't as bloated as emacs yet.

  25. Re:Amen on Linus Says No to 'Specs' · · Score: 1

    s/Amen/RAmen/