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  1. Re:Won't change a thing on Increased Linux Use With SCO's Defeat Predicted · · Score: 1

    Nobody believed them anyway
    I think if you look at or watch the financial market you'll find out whether anybody believed it or not. And based on what I currently see there, nobody gave a rats ass, or they just forgot.
    I've had more flak recently defending issues with changes in licensing, dropped projects, dropped support (MySQL[not that it was a big deal], dspam, sybase and php). Those are the things which will create real drum beats in the future.

  2. Re:Slow news day? on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    1) People also need food. So socialize farms? No, at most, if you want to ensure people have food, give them food vouchers. So at best, that justifies giving health care vouchers, not nationalizing health care.
    But we do subsidize farming bigtime. We also subsidize not farming. So in a sense we have already nationalized farming.

  3. Re:Slow news day? on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    You just proved you can't tell the difference between a purchase of a lawn mower at WalMart and getting bypass surgery, Which qualifies you as a Republican or at least a potential Republican nominee for president?
    I don't get people like this at all. I have seen too many people who have suffered with private insurance and I mean really suffered.

  4. Re:The cat is already out of the bag on Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not just that the code is available to the group using it. It's also that the code is out there and if XYZ quits working or supporting it maybe someone else will.
    My CEO was shocked when I told him that the accounting software was no longer supported by the original company. But we found some guys who used to work for the company and they'll come here and help us fix the problem. You just have to pay airfare, lodging and $200/hr.

  5. Re:What?! on Netcraft Says IIS Gaining on Apache · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some nOOb could think they have mastered IIS in a weekend. Because they could get a web site up and running. That's really part of the problem. People setting up Web Servers not knowing what they are doing.
    It's akin to people thinking they are CEO material, just because they can make a power point presentation.

  6. Re:Well why not just sell it? on In Australia, An Ebay Sale is a Sale · · Score: 1

    Yes

  7. Didn't we read last week on China's Open Document Format Fight · · Score: 1

    Last week didn't I read that Microsoft had dominated the Chinese market already. If they went to the MS OS then they will probably go with the document format. Don't kid yourself into thinking that the Chinese are this budding bright beacon of intellectualism that is going to have a fresh start. They are just like most of the PHB's around here, uuuuh the Jones' have it so I should have it.

  8. I'd rather on Smarter Teens Have Less Sex · · Score: 1

    I'd rather be having sex than reading this article.
    How stupid is that.

  9. Okay I order my drawings on NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info · · Score: 1

    I ordered my drawings. Once I build this thing, what do I fuel it with? Astronaut Farmer

  10. Re:RMS Proffing on CUPS Purchased By Apple Inc. · · Score: 1

    Will they work on the linux version BSD version? Currently I have had multiple problems with cups and have had to resort to a Windows Print Server. I was hoping that evenually I would see a resolution to some of my problems and could start using it again, but this gives me serious doubts.

    What I would really like to see is that another group starts up and takes over the code. I don't think Apple gives a shit whether cups works on my linux servers.

  11. Re:Two options on Scanner Spots Open Source Installations · · Score: 1

    Okay I'm not disagreeing with you. I guess I wonder if anyone disagrees with me.
    Shareware can be open or closed source. I don't think people should be defining shareware as open source. I've seen a lot of shareware/freeware packages that do not appear to be open source.

  12. Wait a minute it doesn't seem to work on Firefox Quickies · · Score: 1

    I tried a number of the examples provided at http://www.xs-sniper.com/sniperscope/IE-Pwns-Firef ox.html, but they don't seem to work on my test system.

  13. Does it allow extended priviliges on Firefox Quickies · · Score: 1

    Does this exploit create the ability to extend privliges beyond those that the user logged in has?

  14. Re:What OS on Firefox Quickies · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Holly shit, we found the guy running Vista and firefox.

  15. Re:Some want to see the demise of the mainframe? on The Mainframe Still Lives! · · Score: 1

    I think this can also be said for some of the clustered systems.
    But people tend to look at clustering as a way of doing heavy computing, instead of computing in a controlled environment.

    If they would ever figure out the cost of maintaining these PC programs they would see some serious cost benefits to controlled environments.
    I think part of the problem is that people can hire MS programmers for cheap. Then they can say yeah I have 10 programmers working in my group, instead of yeah I have 3 talented programmers in my group.

  16. Re:Who trusts a vendor's benchmarks anyway? on ZDNet Says AMD Posts Blatantly Deceptive Benchmark · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No kidding
    I don't think the accuracy of the benchmarks is in question here.
    The deceptive manor in which the benchmark data was presented is the issue. Which is really a none issue. This is advertisement, anybody who doesn't look critically at data presented by the manufacturere is really gullible.
    Anybody who doesn't look critically at the data from a third party is pretty gullible
    I really really don't see the problem here

  17. Hopefully on National ID May Have Killed Immigration Bill · · Score: 1

    Hopefully Real ID cards will have a unique number so that they can be used in databases and such. That way we can replace the usage of Social Security Numbers for unique identifiers.

  18. Re:Well Then... on Wireless Networks Causing Headaches For Businesses · · Score: 1

    So they install a new wall in the building that is impervious to wireless networks, so you think the network guys should be fired.

  19. Re:confusing on Microsoft Was Distributing Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    The box copy contains the source.

  20. Re:I hate to say it... on AMD Considering Getting Out of Fabrication Business · · Score: 1

    A lot of companies already do major amounts of fabrication overseas. The difference here is that they are talking about turning the processing of new devices over to third parties. This may sound like a good idea on paper but I don't think so. First they will be limited by the capability of their processing foundry. Second innovation will be slower for them because now they will have design and process development in 2 seperate places. I have worked in both types of places where design and process was in house and where design and process was seperated by a few time zones or literally around the world. A thirty minute face to face discussion can stretch to about two weeks. Design guys usually have these nice cut drawings of transistor layouts. Whereas the process guys have to tell or show them what the actually physical limitations are of the processes in making this nice squared up transistors. It also gets very confusing sometimes when you are talking about 3 dimensional layout of metal contacts and that sort of thing.

  21. Re:mmhm... on The Sopranos Ends With a ... · · Score: 1

    It was a Schrodinger ending?

  22. Re:100%? on Red Hat Boosts SELinux With RHEL 5 · · Score: 1

    I think a good start here would be developers of software begin incorporating SELinux in their HowTo's, instead of just saying turn it off. DSPAM is a case in point.
    AppArmors GUI interface reminds me of various tools which ask the user "This wants to do this" Is it okay "Yes" "No".
    SELinux has a little higher learning curve. [Took me four days] But quite a bit of that was understanding what the system was doing or trying to do.
    I believe that AppArmor is probably good enough for the casual linux enthusiast who redoes their systems every six months when the latest version comes out, but SELinux is more for security of enterprise systems .
    This is one of the ways I determine whether someone belongs in the position where they have responsibility for configuring systems. Install a perl script with network sockets, have it do a couple of things, tell them what you want to allow it to do. Here set up an SELinux module for it.
    I really wouldn't want somebody who could only use a security GUI wizard have responsibility for setting up security on enterprise systems.
    The results will give you an idea of what kind of documentation the user will give you and an idea how easy it will be for others to follow what they have done.
    A lot of *nix systems need scripting and configuration without GUI's so this is a pretty good way to find out about someones technical interaction.

  23. I can't believe it on Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House · · Score: 1

    I just can't believe that anybody in the White House would misrepresent data or facts. It is just inconceivable.
    I mean something like that would be punishable. Wouldn't congress get their panties in a tight wad if they found out that the White House were doing such a thing.

    I remember just a few years back a President lied about having sex in the White House and you would have thought the world was going to end , because of some fornification in the White House and on top of that the President misled the media and the public.

    My point being that the White House wouldn't dare lie about facts and such that could actually affect the health of American citizens. Especially after that malstrom the previous President went through.

  24. So what do you tell them on Insight Into AMD's Linux Driver Development · · Score: 1

    I have had NVidia cards before and just gave up on them. Recently I had a whole motherboard and just gave up on it because the onboard card wouldn't work correctly with the distribution of linux.
    I have had other Nvidia cards where I have recompiled the driver for each new version of the kernel. I don't want to recompile drivers everytime I upgrade a kernel. Especially on server systems, but heh whatever for now.

    You know if we could get every linux user (assuming 1 million) to invest 3,500 - 4,000 dollars in AMD, we would have controlling interest and could tell them to do it however we wanted, but then we would probably want to protect our investment and not let our competitors know how our devices are built or work.

    Hey but wouldn't it be cool, we would have our own linux cpu and video company, that could be used to leverage motherboard manufacturers and wireless cards to make compatible equipment

    Hey, got to go my bongs empty.

    AMD just held there stockholders meeting so it would be a year before we could have a stockholder protest.

  25. C and PC network administrators? on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't see where either of these are going away.

    There just aren't that many people that know networking outside of IT and there are still a lot of people that get confused about what is going on. I have seen where many people have cluged together a network at their office, but then they find out it sucks after awhile, so they have to call somebody in to look at it.
    C programming is going away. I'm always seeing algorithms with some part of C in them. Partly because these guys with VB skills say hey there is no reason to learn all that hard stuff. We'll just get more/bigger hardware. So far they have spent $300K on hardware and 5 man years of programming. They've got a lot of code but nothing to show for it. Runs fast and cranks through a lot of data, but nobody can figure out what it's good for.