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  1. Re:Longest uptimes, too on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 5, Informative
    Sorry, but :

    As seen in the netcraft FAQ :
    Additionally HP-UX, Linux, NetApp NetCache, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days, exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at that precise point. Thus it is not possible to see a HP-UX, Linux or Solaris system with an uptime measurement above 497 days.
    Since the last server of the top 50 have an uptime of 1073 days, there's no way a Linux box could be in the list.
  2. Excuse me,... but how is SGI implicated in Linux ? on SCO Derides GPL, Will Revoke SGI's UNIX License · · Score: 1

    The title says it all.

    The name says Silicon _Graphic_, but when I go to their web site, their products seem only to be servers and other hardware. Also, the code fragment of SCO was about malloc(), right?

    Are they working on anything graphic? What have they gave to Linux?

    I'm a little confused.

  3. Re:If you want to be scientific, don't on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would have said the same thing, but that would have been redundant.
    But, it all depends on the precise of your study (you should have been more precise when asking here). Here is some possibility of studies and how you should act :

    1- Which actions get you the most spam : create many new email accounts. Paste slashdot@... here, suscribe to pr0n with pervert@, post to Usenet with usenet@, ... and yada yada yada, you got the point. The check the spams each account got after some time.

    2- What spam do specific people gets : get the spam real people got for the last n days. A university teacher shouldn't have the same spam as a child or as ./ reader. You should ask them before to remove all their anti-spam protection.

    3- What constitute spam : just do anything you want. Try everything you think of to increase spam, you need quantity, not quality.

  4. And in 40 years... on Amphibious Car Beats Urban Congestion · · Score: 1

    We'll hear everyday of congestion on the Thames, because every dandy will have those cars.

    More seriously, I don't know how much traffic there's on the Thames, but I don't think the amphibious car will fare well in the wake of the big ship. And since the article doesn't talk about the possibility of getting upside down. Anyway, it's clear that you'll nead to avoid going in rough water if you don't want to get wet seats...

  5. Seibt vs Microsoft : a possible consequence on Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing · · Score: 1

    It was the fact that they have been treated by Microsoft not as they had expected over the years.
    [Seibt]

    I think it's why Microsoft has so much to lose. Before, they could treat their clients how they want. But now the clients can go check the alternative, see how they can be better, and decide to switch.
    If Microsoft decides to treat better their clients, it will involve many expenses (they can afford them anyway), but I don't think they will really appreciate it.

  6. Re:So that being the case on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1

    [go find my black death book...]
    [searching how many European got killed for the second black death epidemic...][not finding it...]

    Ok, I haven't found the numbers, but if I remember correctly, the first time it killed 1/2 of the population and the second time 1/3. But it was a lower ratio the second time, showing that the living population was more immune to it.
    Also, the reason why the plague stopped after killing most of people before returning a generation later was that between this time most of the population was immune to it.

  7. Re:So by extension... on Why Virus Writers are Useful · · Score: 1

    There's an other advantage of having mild virus (both for computer of the body) in the wild : when a big bad one come, the cure to it is less damaging to the system.
    Take for example the Morris worm, one of the best cure to it at this time was to shutdown the server. Does it still happens now? Does the Blaster worm forced the (voluntary) shutdown of the infrastructure?In the case of a "living" virus, you have those case where some illness only remedy was to cut the limb. But with suffisent knownledge, medics can now treat them with medication.