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  1. Mac Driver Museum on Seeking Drivers for Unknown Apple Ethernet Card? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should check out the Mac Driver Museum. If they don't have the right one on their site already there is the MacDrivers Yahoo Group where you can ask.

  2. Order it online on New Zealand Censor Bans Manhunt Outright · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah they may have banned it for sale there but how is it going to stop people ordering it online?

    I used to have a game that was banned over here in Australia, was easy to buy over the internet and have them send it over. Also makes me wonder if it will be banned here in Australia at all?

    But on a different note, doesn't sound like the sorta game I would like to play. I play GTA Vice City a bit and thats good fun but this... I think not. Yeah in GTA you kill people (which is still fun) but its not the aim of the game. Also seeing someone fall over and there being a bit of blood is a lot different to seeing the victim's mouth gasping for air inside the bag you suffocate them with. The latter is, IMO, bordering on perverse.

  3. fading displays in full sun on Best Bluetooth Capable Cell Phone? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amazon reviews that said the display fades in sunlight

    This is actually a common problem with most of the new colour display mobile phones. I own the Nokia 6610 (no bluetooth) and do experience this problem when the phone is used outdoors. I have yet to see a colour screen mobile phone that does not have problems being used in full sun.

    One thing you need to look out for is there are some phones that are shipping with data-only bluetooth. So if you are planning to use a headset be careful of that. I was looking at the Nokia 7650 at one point but decided not to get it for that reason. The specs list contains bluetooth but I found out later it was data-only.

  4. Re:Access versus SQL on SQL Vs. Access for Learning Database Concepts? · · Score: 1

    You contradict yourself a bit there

    you should look at MySQL ........then using a database that is ANSI compliant is the only way to go..

    Last time I checked MySQL is not ANSI compliant. It doesn't support || for contact operations and quotes should be escaped using \ not double quoted. Doesn't sound ANSI compliant to me.

  5. is this really helping our cause? on SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again · · Score: 1

    Do the trolls that are doing this really think this is going to help the situation?

    Yeah SCO are idiots, yeah they are jumping up and down screaming for attention and dribbling 100% crap but is this going to make them stop?

    All this does is give them the impression that the Linux community is scared and that this is the only way we can fight them. It tells them that we are feeling guilty and are trying to keep them quiet.

    Actions such as this only gives them more reason to bag the Linux community.

  6. Re:Firebird merged, When ? on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think they are merging it, they will keep working on the Mozilla core but not release any more Seamonkey (Mozilla Application Suite) milestones.

  7. Re:/.ed? on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Mozdev.org and Mozilla.org are not the same thing. They are seperate sites.

  8. Deja-vu on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was getting a bit of Deja-vu reading the NTLM stuff since I was sure they had announced it earlier.

    NTLM support on all platforms was announced on the 18th of Nov and has been available in CVS since then.

  9. load balancing on Considerations When Accepting Bandwidth Donations? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What I would do is accept them all and setup each server as a subdomain. (www1, www2, www3 etc)

    Where the main domain resides is an account that is in your control and redirects the request to one of the other servers.

    This way if one goes down you can simply remove it from the list of mirror servers. It also maintains you in control of the setup instead of giving one person 100% control of the site by putting it on their server.

  10. compile your own kernel on Two papers On Performance Tuning FreeBSD · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has gotta be one the easiest ways to boost the performance of your system.

    The best place to look for reasons as to why this helps out so much is the FreeBSD Handbook: 9.2 Why Build a Custom Kernel?

  11. Re:* BSD is dying on Two papers On Performance Tuning FreeBSD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What troll has been given mod points again!?

  12. Stability of their email on Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh this will be brilliant.

    Picture this: Telstra Bigpond email systems die again (just give it another week) and you cannot send out your email. You have 20 messages in your outbox waiting to be sent. Finally their systems come back on-line (for now) and you send all the emails only to get flagged as a spammer and denied to email again.

    You end up back where you started.

  13. Re:Wondering what YACC is? on ifconfig refactoring for FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Now you see that is where your arguement falls to bits.

    XFree86 is a product for Unix and Unix variants. XFree86 was developed during the 80's, a bit before the time of Linux.

    Apache HTTPd started life as a series of patches to the NCSA HTTPd server which was available for most flavours of Unix, Linux being one of them. I wouldn't go as far as to claim it as part of any community since the software they develop is platform independant.

    Now the Linux community does contribute code to these projects, just as members of the BSD and other communities do. I never said that we were doing more for Open Source than Linux was so I don't know why you are arguing a non-existant point. The Linux community has a much larger user base and more contributers. I think the BSD projects have made some great contributions to the Open Source community with many of them not even realised. One of the most prominent ones in OpenSSH, that was developed by the OpenBSD team and is now used on nearly all Unix variants.

  14. Re:Gandalf aging backwards? on Peter Jackson Hints At The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    Well mentally maybe but he was also corrupted physically by the power of the ring. He used to be very much like the hobbits. I remember Frodo saying that in the movie.

  15. Re:Gandalf aging backwards? on Peter Jackson Hints At The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    One thing to note is that Gollum would be a lot different in this movie than in the LOTR.

    In the Hobbit he was not as corrupted like he was in the LOTR.

  16. Frontpage on Web Publishing Tools for Kids? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I will most likely get modded down to the basement for posting this but what about Frontpage.

    You get it for free (well you get Express for free) and its so easy to use even a kid could figure it out. I do not think we should expect a little kids website to be perfectly valid HTML. Using Frontpage will make sure its not....

  17. Wondering what YACC is? on ifconfig refactoring for FreeBSD · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who do not know what YACC is all about

    Its good to see something like this happening as ifconfig is not only used on FreeBSD but also on most (all?) Linux distros.

    Ifconfig is just one of the many contributions the BSD projects have given to the Linux and UNIX community.

    PS: To all those "bsd is dying" trolls, things like this show its not. Without the work of the BSD projects you wouldn't have some of the many tools you use each day.

  18. Re:Where are the fish? on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Okay links were there when I pressed submit. :-/

    Here is your fish ;)

    Sorta lost it a bit after that.

  19. Re:Where are the fish? on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here is your fish, all you need is X-Box Linux and you are set.

  20. Re:Something smells... on Netcraft Web Server Stats Challenged · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I just checked this too... Port80 displays MS IIS and Netcraft displays Netscape. I thought I would do my own check. This now shows a flaw in both checks, Netcraft and Port80.

    andreas:/var/mail# telnet disney.com 80
    Trying 198.187.189.55...
    Connected to disney.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    HEAD / HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
    Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3
    Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:44:12 GMT
    Location: http://disney.go.com/
    Content-length: 0
    Content-type: text/html
    Connection: close

    Connection closed by foreign host.
    andreas:/var/mail# telnet disney.go.com 80
    Trying 198.187.189.93...
    Connected to disney.go.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    HEAD / HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa PSAa PSDa IVAi IVDi CONi OUR SAMo OTRo BUS PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA PRE"
    Set-Cookie: SWID=E4481904-1BC1-4D6B-A21F-5FB993D69628; path=/; expires=Thu, 27-Nov-2023 06:44:39 GMT; domain=.go.com;
    Cache-Expires: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:47:13 GMT
    Cache-Control: max-age=300
    Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:44:39 GMT
    Content-Type: text/html
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Last-Modified: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:42:13 GMT
    ETag: "ba9b4197b1b4c31:b10"
    Content-Length: 6260
    Vary: Accept-Encoding, User-Agent
    Via: 1.1 redline-7 (Redline Networks Accelerator 2.2.8 0)

    Connection closed by foreign host.


    Interesting, Disney.com is a Netscape webserver which just does a 302 Moved header and sends the client to Disney.go.com which is an IIS box.

    So the actual Disney site you end up with (Disney.go.com) is IIS so in that case Port80 are sort of right in reporting it as so. But Netcraft are also right in reporting Netscape for the Disney.com domain since that is what Disney.com is running, Disney.go.com is a seperate domain and would be counted seperately.
  21. Re:Finally, the mainstream is slamming SCO on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More · · Score: 1

    But he did make it onto the CRN list of top 25 execs

    Article here

  22. "wider awareness campain" on UK Becomes Sixth Country to Implement EUCD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the article:
    "Once we have digested the implications of the revised copyright legislation and communicated this to our members we will consider the need for a wider awareness campaign..."

    Will this "wider awareness campaign" involve sending out subpoenas to ISP's and suing 12 year old children?

  23. Re:Video Game animation on Fountainhead Boss On Machinima Perils · · Score: 1

    While it may or may not be "open source", it certainly isn't Free Software. If you believe in Freedom, pray for this company to go under.

    Who said that open source programs must be free? Some people do have to make a living somehow.

    I believe in Freedom but certainly will not be praying or hoping for any company that charges for its open source software to go under.

  24. Re:A "Fountainhead Boss"? (offtopic but I had to a on Fountainhead Boss On Machinima Perils · · Score: 3, Funny

    No... Dilbert has the Pointy Haired Boss (PHB)

  25. Meetup.com? on Professional Organizations for Web Developers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you checked Meetup.com. It may not be a professional organisation but at least you get to meet people.

    Also web developers is quite a broad term. Many designers also call themselves web developers even though many of them have no clue about programming. They still develop websites so are still able to use the web developer title.