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  1. Re:Could you help us help you? on Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling? · · Score: 1

    It comes up fine. I run dozens of CentOS servers. Ogo itself just doesn't work (and by not work, I mean, clicks on simple menu items result in constant errors indicating serious installation or initialization problems).

  2. Re:Could you help us help you? on Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling? · · Score: 1

    A calendar server could just use an existing LDAP or SQL database for identity.I don't need a fancy document storage groupware server to share calendars. The client obviously needs email access, but that doesn't need to be integrated. My email server of course uses the existing LDAP server.

  3. Re:Could you help us help you? on Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling? · · Score: 1

    Oh, one more -- it desn't need to try to replace other things, such as email servers, etc..

    Yeah that's my big issue. The only working (or at least theoretically working) open source calendar servers are not calendar servers, they're "groupware" servers. My email server works fine, thanks. So does my LDAP server.

    Oh, and I say theoretically, because maybe someone somewhere has OpenGroupware working, but it sure isn't me. Even the self-contained demo images don't work, let alone trying to install and configure the pig.

  4. Re:.....or on Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm sure if Microsoft ever allows outside software to properly interoperate with Exchange, that will happen. But they don't.

    Shocking, I know.

  5. Re:buying out of state isn't an option on Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The founding fathers were willing to go to war over something like a 1% tax. They lived in an age where it would be impossible to imagine paying 25% taxes, let alone the 60% that is now common in the OECD. Virtually no one had that much surplus wealth; only the exploitation of free energy on a large scale, in the form of fossil fuels, enable that sort of excess now.

  6. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    That's probably an element, but a larger aspect is that America used to be a place that built and exported things. Many, many people prospered doing so, and that wealth trickled out to the rest. Unfortunately, you used up most of the natural resources that made that possible, so nowadays you import a lot more than you export (especially oil), and the things that you do export a lot of, arms and food, see most of their profits flow into only a few hands due to ridiculous subsidies and kickback schemes.

    Wealth is generated by actually making useful things, not by trading haircuts and lawsuits in a "service economy" and driving 40 miles to Walmart to buy made-in-China crap to fill up 6000 sq ft Mcmansions. For the last 10 years you've managed to cover up the ill effects of that transition by borrowing trillions of dollars at low interest rates in order to keep importing all that stuff, but now that the housing bubble that made that possible has popped, the leverage to continue doing so has disappeared. The fact that oil is more than 8 times more expensive now than it was 10 years ago, and most other commodities are also rising, isn't helping.

    Unfunded social programs to the tune of half a million dollars per person, on top of tens of trillions of real dollar debt, are the reason Americans are no longer prospering. Erosions of rights is a merely a side effect of that, as your government moves to offset the problems that will be occurring as this plays out.

  7. Re:The real story... on Forbes' Dan Lyons Hates Groklaw, Wants to Be BFF with Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, it has the EJB and the JAAS and the JACC and the JAF and the JMS and the JMX and the JNDI and the JTA and the JTS and the .. errr

  8. Re:Heh on Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast · · Score: 1

    Simply put, past maybe the poverty limit, more money doesn't make one more honest.

    Why cut off at the poverty line? There are plenty of poor, honest people, too. You don't need to excuse criminality just because someone is poor.

  9. Re:Three words on Storm Worm Botnet Partitions May Be Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    You can when you subpoena their bank records and find the payments.

    You know, police work, etc.

  10. Re:no sunspots huh? on "All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun · · Score: 1

    To put it simply, water vapor tends to track the global climate rather than set it

    Historically speaking ... so does CO2.

  11. Re:Post-lawyer on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    I'm 37. The only times I have ever needed a lawyer are when I need to protect myself from other lawyers. I'm pretty sure most people would say the same.

    Stop fooling yourself that your job is so important. Most societies function just fine with a tiny percentage of the lawyers currently infesting America.

  12. Re:and? on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    Canada's socialized health care does not include dental. Unless you're on welfare, then we hand out everything, but that's only like 7 or 8% of the population.

  13. Re:misleading... on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 1

    look for pure-ftpd. You can have virtual users in databases or whatever. It's also written very securely.

  14. Re:Camera proponents spin it both ways on 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime · · Score: 1

    My post was anti-gun control, in case that wasn't obvious.

  15. Re:Why? on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    Well, most miners will die younger than, say, desk workers. But coal miners also face Black Lung, which has to be worse than anything in a uranium mine.

  16. Re:Why? on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    The volume of fuel is considerably smaller, for starters. And coal mines are inherently dangerous; methane tends to be found in and around coal deposits, which is both flammable and tends to displace oxygen.

  17. Re:In which case on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty common misconception. I suggest you watch http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279&hl=en-CA

  18. Re:Permit to pollute on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    The politicians can't even agree that C02 is a problem. I don't imagine the big bag of cash would even have to be very big to get them to ignore it for coal's sake.

  19. Re:Boom on First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years · · Score: 1

    OK, as an environmentalist who is in favour of keeping industrial society around, please advise which baseload power generation technology should be being built right now to expand North American power generation. Please keep in mind that all the good hydro sites already have dams on them.

  20. Re:That will wreck IT... on Law Firm Fighting For White Collar (IT) Overtime · · Score: 1

    He must mean billion. I think the UK calls billions trillions or something.

  21. Re:Camera proponents spin it both ways on 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime · · Score: 1

    Americans just like to kill each other. In such circumstances, allowing non-criminals to have guns makes sense, since the criminals already have them and, as you just admitted, no gun control laws will change that.

  22. Re:Duh on US Register of Copyrights Says DMCA Is 'Working Fine' · · Score: 1

    Ask the South.

  23. Re:Caldera to SCO: Backing the wrong source on SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but not the cash that Microsoft paid them to go after Linux.

  24. Re:Watch the video on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 1

    Since when can cops assault you without placing you under arrest?

  25. Re:Had it been a Republican rather than Kerry on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 1

    Oh, is that why you're there? I thought it was WMD? Or was it 9/11? Oh, wait, maybe it was oil ... err no, that can't be it.