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  1. Its not a leak, its a feature on Wikipedia Leaks Some Users' Passwords · · Score: 1

    Its an encyclopedia so they need to have referenece on usernames and passwords.

  2. Propeganda on History of Netscape and Mozilla · · Score: 1

    The spawn of Netscape, Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market.

    Now I use Firefox but statements like this are as bad as statements by Microsoft about security of Linux.

  3. Re:fuck off on HP Announces National Id System Built on .NET · · Score: 1

    .NET is a managed lanuage envirnment, if the developed application is insecure it will be because of poor design not .NET. Currently .NET is the most powerful environment around, the only other choice is JAVA but since most newer government servers run Windows why not use .NET.

  4. Re:database is the bottleneck on Load Balancing Heavy Websites on Current Tech? · · Score: 1

    This should be qualified with the database can be the bottleneck. Depending on how often the data is updated he may be able to cache a large amount of the data on the webservers. A .NET example would be caching a commonly hit data table or object collection even for just a minute or 2 can reduce a large amount of database traffic.

  5. Re:Earthlink sucks on IPv6 for the Linksys WRT54G · · Score: 1

    Well I did work in Harrisburg for a little while for them. But seriously its thier price it never made sense they are over priced for web hosting, dialup, and broadband. I didn't get laid off, I left for greener pastures over a year before that happened.

  6. Earthlink sucks on IPv6 for the Linksys WRT54G · · Score: 1, Funny

    but as far as I know, Earthlink doesn't supply end-to-end IPv6 yet.

    they probably never will, because Earthlink sucks

  7. Re:Object-relation databases on Beyond Relational Databases · · Score: 1

    support for XML in databases is far hotter. Thats because XML has become a marketing standard, add XML support to your product and put it on the bulleted list of new features. I personnaly think xml is horrible for storage of a large amount of data, too much extra meta data per record.

  8. Re:KISS on Beyond Relational Databases · · Score: 1

    You forgot about developers who don't create proper indexes or use too many triggers.

  9. You can get it for less on Windows Mobile Development No Longer Free · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you buy just the C# or VB.NET ide instead of the complete Visual Studio. I believe they start at about $100.

  10. Re:Here we go again... on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 1

    It only says Intel would make the chips, it does not say they would be x86 chips.

  11. Re:Death Star on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    Well to show the nerd I am, slavery of the Wookiees was a reoccuring thing throughout the thousands of years predating the Empire. Even with slavery you would need to have good labor management skills not necessarly labor relations but management none the less. Also I've never built even a small space station but I imagine something of the scope of the Death Star would require many thousands of skilled laborers not just anybody you can find.

  12. Re:Death Star on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    It takes 4 years to build an aircraft carrier now imagine trying to builld something 10,000 larger and more complex, its gonna take some time. Think about the project mangement skills and the materials to build it. Labor management would be a nightmare, plus building it in zero gravity can't be easy since once the thing is big enough it is gonna have a gravitational pull of its own.

  13. Re:NOOO on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    Your too hard on Hayden he did a good job in Episode 3, in my opinion the second best of all the Star Wars next to Empire Strikes Back.

  14. Re:duh.. on The Problem with DHS's Plan to 'Buy American' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Texas Instruments makes some chips in the US as well. So does Intel.

  15. Re:Why? on Installing Fedora Core 4 on the Mac mini · · Score: 1

    I agree it won't fit in a mini, but the poster did specify the size they argued the size as one point and the firewire as another point.

  16. Re:Why? on Installing Fedora Core 4 on the Mac mini · · Score: 0, Troll

    I recently bought a 3 port Firewire 400 pci card for $18 at Wal-Mart, I don't think Firewiree is expensive.

  17. Re:GNU/Linux get the facts on "Get the Facts" Campaign Working · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen a objective debate about this. you never will

  18. Re:4gb internal microdrive? on PalmOne Releases 4GB PDA [updated] · · Score: 1

    If you move around between many different sites that have wifi access it makes a good email device as well.

  19. 15,000 is nothing on Updating Free Software in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    You pay 15,000 for office, CALS and upgrades to all your computer OS's. If that extends across your enterprize you'd be crazy to ditch that in favor of OSS. Its gonna cost you much more than to migrate to OSS and your users will not be happy if they can't use MS Office. I personnaly Open Office but non-nerds view MS Word as the only word processor anything is just a rip off to them.

  20. Access on Software for Technical Support Tracking? · · Score: 1

    If your a one man shop Access should be good enough set up some simple tables and forms and be done with it. You don't have time to putz around with something more complicated you don't need something real robust to track one persons work.

  21. Re:ridiculous on HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can · · Score: 1

    Its ridiculous to say they should be paid for committing a crime. If they knew a security flaw and wanted to show it to them they should have contacted a network admin and explained it. Your actions are what you are judged by not your intentions. How would you feel if your personnal info was in the hands of some kid, sure you'd be mad at the school but you'd also wish the kid never tried.

  22. Re:this stands to reason... on Internet Explorer's Share Dips Below 90% · · Score: 1

    IE 6 sp1 will stop popups, so your misinforming your users if you make it sound like a Firefox feature absent from IE.

  23. Re:The PC was intended to be low priced on 25 Years After DOS - Lessons for Linux? · · Score: 1

    When the IBM PC was first released you could get it with PC-DOS, UCSD P-System, or XENIX by MS. XENIX was a Unix OS.

  24. Re:Typical Geek Home Network? No such thing. on What's in a Typical Geek Home Network? · · Score: 1

    I like to add a FreeBSD machine in command line full screen continously performing GREPs so the screen is scrolling with text and tell people who come over it is doing something important.

  25. Re:Not going to happen on 25 Years After DOS - Lessons for Linux? · · Score: 1

    I don't think some obscure Linux dying makes the OS look bad, but you have point about resources being spread to think. You don't need 8 or 9 ways to do the same thing. Look at packaging systems how many of them are there? But Linux without a comercial vendor will never be dominate, to business it will always be a fringe OS because they want someone to answer for thier systems since they are investing millions in them.