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  1. Franchising without the leeches on Open-Source Business Plans? · · Score: 1

    I think it is a great concept!

  2. Re:An ARM port eh? on FreeBSD Status Report March-April 2004 · · Score: 1

    I thought MACS allready came with a BSD derived OS?

  3. Re:Relax on Microsoft and 'An Open and Honest Discussion'? · · Score: 1

    These are good points. Just don't go to the seminar. People who believe MS has a lowwer TCO will go, and they will believe it whoever is there.

  4. Re:Sounds stupid... on EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography? · · Score: 1
    "I remain unconvinced that an extra-US "solution" will be any less broken than a US one. "

    Not the point, it is a conceptional one, not a technical one. The US having have been using Echelon for industrial espionage, passing back sensitive comercial information to US corporations. It is not a conspiricy theory, they even admit it. So why on earth would anyone in Europe have any desire to use a US encryption scheme that is sure to be insecure even if it is nor crackable?

  5. All you need is ........ on Permanently Changing Windows XP Security Settings? · · Score: 2, Informative
    An XP server domain, and everything will work fine!

    BTW, I have a subtle feeling that the TCO savings you get with XP server are because it is designed to be a pig to manage without it.

    What do mean you allready knew that......before the product was even beta'd????????

  6. ......and in other news....... on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 3, Funny

    ....tux reveals that he is the tooth fairy and Santa Claus is his father.

  7. Re:Humour is a sophisticated weapon on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 3, Funny
    "What will be interesting is just how long the AdTI will remain a serious news source"


    How long has it been a serious news source?

  8. Re:Sounds stupid... on EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography? · · Score: 1
    It's a conception problem. After the numerous cases of US intelligence being used to aid US companies, and the extremely unilateral stance of the US on technology issues, nobody in the EU has any faith in the US any more.

    Put another way, any solution is better than a US one because the latter is certain not to be secure!

  9. Great opportunity..... on DNA Sculpture Constructed with Shopping Carts · · Score: 4, Funny
    .....just think how many coin refunds you could get taking that lot back to the trolly park.

    And who said modern art isn't worth a dime!

  10. Re:ARM servers on ARM Unveils One-chip SMP Multiprocessor Core · · Score: 1
    " Doesn't 100Mb flash using 180M transistors work out to 1.8 transistors/byte?"

    Yep. Of course I was reffering to analog EEPROM cells, such as those that were used in the ISD audio recording chips ;-)

  11. Re:It has been some time........ on GGF and Grid Security · · Score: 1

    Yes. But the "V" means you get most of the flexibility and cost advantages of the internet whilst being able to control the access points.

  12. It has been some time........ on GGF and Grid Security · · Score: 4, Insightful
    That banking systems have been computerized, and quite a few years that they make extensive use of communications.

    There are ways to protect sensitive data, such as using VPN's rather than the internet for e.g. Doctors accessing hospital records, grid computing etc. Doing everything on the open internet is neither necessary nor desirable.

    I think our software deployment capability exceeds our network architecture design capability.

  13. So where's Marco Polo? on Ray Bradbury's Reasons to Go to Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mind you, he didn't go anywhere interesting did he!

  14. Re:Seeing as they like history...... on Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was reffereing to the fact that Paul Allen and Bill Gates started Microsoft porting Basic interpreters from a "borrowed" open source base.

  15. Seeing as they like history...... on Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .....and seeing as how they have such close ties to MS, perhaps they could run a study as to how Microsoft came to be born.

  16. Re:ARM servers on ARM Unveils One-chip SMP Multiprocessor Core · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Of course much of the memory we require is due to inneficient software.

    Look at embedded systems and you will see fresh new well thougth out solutions which have much lowwer memory requirements.

    180M transistors means we could have e.g. 100Mb flash, 40Mb RAM and an ARM on the same chip.

    That could do an awful lot in some apps!

  17. ARM servers on ARM Unveils One-chip SMP Multiprocessor Core · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I had thought of ARM processors being the future for client devices and embedded systems.

    Looks like here we are pointing at server technology.

    How long before we have a 64/32/16 bit vatiable word size Thumb like architecture?

  18. Re:Refills? on Using a 747 to Fight Wildfires · · Score: 4, Informative
    It is about 12 times the capacity of a Canadair.

    But Canadair turnrounds can be as low as 15 mins between bombings, and that is also usefull for ground crews to provide feedback. I think little and often is a better strategy than big drop/big interval.

    BTW, the 747 not only needs a significant airstip, you have to get all that water on board and it has to come from somewhere!

    True, my knowledge of Canadairs comes from thier use in Italy, where you are never far from a lake or the sea, I can imagine some areas of the US may be different.

  19. Refills? on Using a 747 to Fight Wildfires · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I know one feature of firefighting planes such as the Canadair is the ability to refill by skimming the surface of a lake or the sea.

    Somehow I can't envisage this with a 747, and how many 747 sized airstrips do you find near forestry areas?

  20. Yeehoo, more tools....... on Object-Relation Mapping without the Container · · Score: 3, Interesting

    After all, Java development environments are well known for thier conciseness and simple nature. Let's throw another couple of tools into the works....

  21. An ARM port eh? on FreeBSD Status Report March-April 2004 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    x86 life looks ever more limited!

  22. To hell with sledging........ on XTango Takes The Xbox Sports Dancing · · Score: 2, Funny
    ....this would be just the game for Tux!

    Then the BSD deamon could be thrown in at random moments to spice things up a bit!

  23. Wot no violence? on XTango Takes The Xbox Sports Dancing · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about being able to lamp other players on the nose for eyeing up your dancing partner?

  24. Re:inferno? on Inferno 4 Available for Download · · Score: 1
    " is it hell to use?"

    Managing daemon apps is apparently very easy, but sending stuf to /dev/null can be quite spectacular ;-)

    Or so they tell me, I am stuck with Windows, the orginal devils OS.

  25. WAG's on Google IPO Swami · · Score: 1
    Look at the SCOX message board on Yahoo finance. They call guessing the next days closing price a WAG - Wild Arse Guess.


    With SCOX stock (SCO groups ticker symbol) it has become a kind of sport ;-)