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  1. Re:Effects of having multiple C compilers? on Corel to Buy Inprise/Borland · · Score: 1

    I think this will have MORE effect on toolkits, than on c compilers.
    Borland's c compiler is not THAT far from gcc from my point of view, but with a GUI Designer of that class the "toolkit wars" could be over very fast.

    regards,
    Michael

  2. Re:I *really* don't understand this on Corel to Buy Inprise/Borland · · Score: 1

    Well .. then please show me a RAD-GUI developement
    tool like delphi or their c++builder with database connectivity, CORBA, etc.

    The only I know are :
    - vdkbuilder (looks promising, but MUCH work to do)
    - kdevelop (did not try that one)
    - gide (uhm... dead ?)

    EMACS/VI may be nice for experineced hackers, but
    for most people its really not the answer. Go try and use delphi or c++ builder for a while, you really going to miss at least some of its features in EMACS :)

    regards,
    Michael

  3. Some notes .. on Handling 1,000,000 Hits a Day? · · Score: 1

    lemme check ... 1.000.000 Hits /day = 41666 Hits / hour = abt. 700 Hits/minute.
    That should be not too much for a descent server with enough ram.

    Be sure to :
    - use an index on the username column ! :)
    - use an socket connection instead of tcp/ip
    - that max_clients(mysql) >= max_clients(apache)
    (this one is important !)

    Do the mysql processes eat much cpu time ?

    You could also give mysql more memory, the default
    is about 20 mb or so.

    Michael

  4. Mozilla gtk themes ? on Mozilla M13 (Alpha Version) is Out! · · Score: 1

    Hi,
    I remember using some early mozilla version which
    was using my gtk-theme. Now M12, M13 don't use it.

    Bug or feature ? :)


  5. Re:Remote Printing to HP printers is flawless on VA and HP Join Forces for Linux and Samba · · Score: 2

    Uhmm ... IIRC the HP Network cards have some major
    flaws ... (at least the older ones we have here)

    They can only have ONE connection at a time, that
    sounds not that bad, but if you print and have the
    print-queue open, samba would call lpq, which will
    try to open a second connection. As a result the
    lpq command will timeout afer some time, and during that time, the Windows client will FREEZE !
    That is a pretty nasty behaviour, one way to get
    around it, is to pipe the print-data to port 9100
    on the network cards, and don't use the internal
    lpd for it.

    I don't know if this is a flaw of the lpd of that card, or a generic problem with those cards.

    Regards,
    Michael

  6. VPN is your friend on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 1

    I don't think that they will monitor ..
    Just blocking all services and then only allowing
    few selected is MUCH easier. If you install squid
    on the gw server, with some descent logfile-analyzer, make squid only accept requests
    with passwords, and voila, you have an easy system
    for such purposes.
    (I administer something like this in an company ... but it's neccessary, without it the employees
    would saturate our line 24/7 ....)

  7. Aqua theme for Sawmill on Apple Gets Testy About GUI · · Score: 3
    No .. its not for E .. but for sawmill ...

    go to : http://sawmill.themes.org/ themes.phtml?themeid=947266463
    I'm using it quite for a while ..
    And ... to make thing really pretty use :
    http://gtk.themes.org/themes.p html?themeid=947543904 the matching GTK theme ! YEAH !

  8. NOOOOOO !!! on Jagged Alliance 2 for Linux · · Score: 2

    Don't do that ! I allready lost TOO MANY weeks playing that great game !
    If you release it on linux ... horror ... I think nobody can talk to me then for the next 2 weeks at last !

  9. only 16 mb RAM ! on Songboy Turns GameBoys into MP3 Players · · Score: 2

    That thing has only 16 megs of Ram, meaning about
    1/4 hour of mpeg music ... :(

    It looks that they use the gameboy only as "display" for the song titles, etc, so I think
    this is a pretty useless invetion.

    I think I stick with my RIO .. :)

  10. Re:DGA !? on Open Source Video Streaming Needed · · Score: 1

    NO !

    DGA is NOT enough !

    a) DGA = ROOT only, or players must be SUID root.
    b) DGA can't scale, can't filter
    (ever looked at a win* video player, stretched to full screen ???)
    c) OS != Linux/X11, but XFree86 is THE OS X server ... Solaris has a video extension for ages (XIS or so)

  11. X11 !? on Open Source Video Streaming Needed · · Score: 1

    I think that we need the xvideo extension of XFree86 first, playing movies in XFree86 3.x is
    really not that entertaining ...

  12. Re:Evolution is my email client on Interview with Miguel de Icaza · · Score: 1

    The last time I did try it was rather crappy, esp. for slow IMAP mailbox windows.

    The best one for Linux/x86 for the moment is the recently released mulberry.
    Its a closed-source commercial product, but if you do IMAP, it really rocks your world. You can even adminster parts of the cyrus imap server with it !


    Samba Information HQ

  13. Re:My 2 cents worth on Leonid Meteor Shower Tonight · · Score: 1

    Ok .. this may be a little offtopic, but (as I am doing a paper on multicast right now) I am very interested if SOME (commercial, or cross-platform) software exists for multicast. I know there is mbone and its tools, but thats nothing for joe user.

    Especialy I am wondering WHY those big sites won't use multicast at least to some Mirrors, so that they could be much more effective.

    (I allways HATE the way those rt vids saturate our oversea lines ... )

  14. Large dir Lookup bug fixed ! on Samba 2.06 Released · · Score: 1

    Another very important one ... Large directorys now get listet much faster !

  15. PHP on Perl Domination in CGI Programming? · · Score: 1

    I think perl is not easy at all ... those string-manipulating scares most newbies. (Regular expressions ? what the hell is that ? :) I think (IMNSHO:) that PHP is a lot better. It is a mix between Basic and c++. The best argument PRO perl is, that it runs nearly anywhere, and is installed on most webservers. PHP is easier, faster, less memory-intensive, and will soon be compileable to some p-code. (PHB's just LOVE that feature ! Most of them hate the Idea of selling your source code :) Check it out at http://www.php.net

  16. What about sybase RAW IO ? on Linux Databases with Huge Tables? · · Score: 1

    The Sybase ASE can use RAW devices as database storage, so I think the 2 GB limit does not apply here. The ASE has some drawbacks when it comes to large tables (esp. forward only cursor), but if you compare it to MySQL, which has no cursors at all ....
    (do a select * form bigtable limit 1000000,10 or so in mysql .. it takes AGES, a DB with good cursor support helps ALOT in this situations ...)

    I am just trying the ASA (adaptive Server Anywhere ) from sybase ...

  17. Re:As I Understand It on When Pretty Good Privacy Isn't Good Enough · · Score: 1

    The problem is, that it is not known how "hard" factorisation is. I.e. there is a small,but existing chance, that there is some algorithm that solves factiorisation in polinomioal time.

    So : Factorisation element NP = ?