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  1. "plaugerists" on EV1 Servers CEO Responds To Customers · · Score: 1

    Are they related to P.J. Plauger?

  2. Regime Change -- vote '04 on Navy Jet eBayed - Some Assembly Required? · · Score: 1

    Yahoo! Go for it.

  3. WTF!? on Mandrake Blocked By XFree86 4.4 License · · Score: 1

    Xfree86 got it from x.org. Can they encumber what they got?

  4. Re:Pay off debt or buy a house on A Wireless Network for a 4-Story Apt. Building? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A cool 2 million for a studio in one of Trump's towers.

  5. FLASH munched? on Spirit Rover Communications Error · · Score: 1

    Apparenly -- from NY Time article -- new code and/or data being uploaded from Australia was interrupted. It may be that the FLASH was incompletely burned and/or corrupted. This is a common problem. The article refers to some checks made to get an image uploaded, but no details. Is this source public? It would be a good thing if many eyes examined the code for flaws. (The source should be available if it was funded by our tax dollars.)

  6. the success stories? on Embedded Linux Tools Market a Myth? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't linuxdevices.com have an interest in posting "success" stories? Why don't they ever offer "failure" stories?

    As for alternatives, there are others beside ecos: rtems, itron, maybe more that are also available.

  7. Assume that on The Weak Signal Challenge - Decode and Win $100 · · Score: 1

    there must be some certain-frequency signal in the "noise" that occurs in the noise for two durations: the duration of a morse dit and dah. Wouldn't an FFT and analysis of the relative amplitudes and durations suggest what the message is (to a person knowing morse code)?

    So, why do people use LabView for this?

  8. Mass. opting for open source on IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Check this out: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Mass achusetts-Microsoft.html A NY Times (reg. regquired, blah, blah ...) link to an AP story about the state of MA wanting open source software for gov't purposes. This story has been out for hours, I even tried submitting a story to Slashdot, but still nothing. This is another nail in the MS coffin, so get your hammers, gang, and pound away.

  9. 16C on Recommendations for RPN Calculators? · · Score: 1

    Is there a successor to this (rpn "computer science" calculator (64-bits,too)). Mine's about 20 years old and crapped-out once, but I took it apart and put it back together (as well as I could) and, Hey! It's working again. Is there a 16C emulator anywhere?

  10. Slack rules on Slackware 9.1RC 2 Out, Mandrake 9.2 Soon · · Score: 1

    I use 9.0. It is good. If you look at the Slack Book's HTML, you'll see that it was created with MS Word; is that telling?

    I hope they soon get the 2.6 kernel going.

    9.0 kernel builds and works with Gcc 3.X, which is more than some distros can claim.

    I want Slack to have a "make world," like the BSDs, then I'd be set; although I must say that Slack generally uses stock sources, as opposed to patched-to-hell, like some others.

    Thanks, Patrick

  11. Re:Proof on HP Offers Linux Purchasers Indemnification · · Score: 1
    The indemnification program is limited to customers who receive a Linux distribution from HP, run it on HP hardware and have a support contract with HP.

    This is "insurance." The revenue they get from the hardware and support contract will cover legal expenses, if any -- unlikely.

  12. outsource it on Geek Eye for the Average Guy · · Score: 1

    That is the answer. They should have outsourced a $7500 time and materials budget, then pocketed the spare $7500. Am I not right? OK, might have outsourced a $5000 budget, then kept $10000. Any lower bidders out there?

    Going, going, sold American!

  13. Executive Summary on Linux Crypto Packages Demolished · · Score: 1

    Open source crypto has vulnerabilites.
    Closed source crypto has vulnerabilities.

    Can't these problems be solved by using STL?

  14. Re:GPG is also a disaster and other rants on Linux Crypto Packages Demolished · · Score: 1

    And when it preserves metadata, too.
    We patiently await Reiser 6.0

  15. Re:Arm chair security experts on Linux Crypto Packages Demolished · · Score: 1

    Did you learn to write before you could read? Could you debug another's code if it was in your own area of "expertise?"

    You can program but can't test and debug?
    Where did you go to school? Just so we'll know ;-)

  16. Re:Linux is SUNs greatest threat on Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO · · Score: 1

    Is it dead simple because the patches may be incomplete? Does RPM/APT, et al., consider all the dependencies?

  17. Re:Uhh, this was *NOT* forecast on Microsoft "Swen" Worm Squiggles Into Sight · · Score: 1

    But that "lots of email" uses up bandwdith, without which the internet will die.

  18. Re:Now... on More on SCO Code Snippets · · Score: 1

    It's hard to short SCO now, because not too many institutions hold it long. When institutions hold a stock long, they often make shares available to brokers to borrow, so the brokers' customers can short them.

  19. 32V on More on SCO Code Snippets · · Score: 1

    Is 32V free? I read that the court ruled that AT&T didn't properly copyright the material, so does that mean that we can use things from it?

  20. Re:May I re-ask the question I asked on Monday? on Kernel 2.6 Real-Time Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    You could try LynuxWorks' Bluecat and if that is not good enough they have a true realtime offering, LynxOS, which is ABI compatible with Linux.

  21. Re:They are a REAL-TIME company on Wind River To Stop Selling BSD/OS · · Score: 1

    One assumes they bought BSD to plunder some techniques and standard API routines...

    VxWorks has always depended heavily on BSD code. They may have been the first RT OS to offer tcp/ip networking -- courtesy of BSD, twenty or so years ago! As far as plundering techniques and standard APIs, VxWorks is a one-address-space-holds-all OS, like MS-DOS, in that respect. They have a follow-on, something like VxWorks AE that may support processes.

    -Rock

  22. Re:Not So Ridiculous on ESR to Shred SCO Claims? · · Score: 1

    But five lines may be too much. The standard in some copyright/plagiarism matters has been a sequence of thiry identical characters.

  23. Re:Be careful... on ESR to Shred SCO Claims? · · Score: 1

    Just DUMP IBM's contributions. That is the simplest way out.

  24. Re:Who says SCO gets to court first? on ESR to Shred SCO Claims? · · Score: 1

    You borgs are counting on help from the BSD community?

  25. Re:Logical flaws, galore. on SCO's Open Letter to Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    Surely there are more. No? Since affiliated is past participle of affiliate, the defs. under affiliate would be informative, also.