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  1. Calculation on Windows Servers Neck and Neck with Unix Servers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this mean they took the value of the entire server market and calculated the share of Windows server from the size of the sales... (100/35)*4.2bn = $12bn total market? Doesn't this mean that the amount of Unix installs per server is still much bigger because Unix (if it includes *bsd) is cheaper?

  2. Re:Graphical stuff it the way to go on Software Engineering Demo for a K-5 Career Fair? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree with you that creating something visual is very rewarding but my suggestion instead of povray would be Processing.

    "Processing is a programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, and researchers for learning, prototyping, and production." Where you can show the examples of Complexification on what they can achieve.

    Software engineering is ofcourse more than just programming. But being able to show some nice visuals can make it all much more interesting.

  3. Re:Everyone, except on EA Reconsiders Overtime Position · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But I believe that's only when they earn more than $90k a year.

  4. Korean times article with a picture on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 2, Informative
  5. Re:Very, very hot water? on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 2, Informative

    It depends on the pressure the water is kept under...that's the reason that you're able to prepare food faster in a Pressure Cooker.

  6. Re:Rendering slashdot on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah everyone has it. It's some sort of flow-bug in the gecko engine. But no one is sure how to fix it really...

  7. Re:I, for one on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1

    You must be new here...

  8. Re:Bad Grammar...? on The Google News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    must be a word joke...

    you had to read it as: Better not make money or Betta not make money or Beta not make money

  9. Almost sounds sponsored to me on EWeek Details Linux to Windows Migration · · Score: 1

    The move to Windows was "seamless and efficient. The costs to move were minimal as compared with the alternative of developing a new set of sites," Case said. "We have not had an outage in two years, where before we experienced downtime at least two to three times a year. We have also lowered our TCO [total cost of ownership]."

    He said with a bright white moviestar smile while the the little background jingle says "This message has been sponsored and brought to you by Microsoft"

    How is what he mentions a Linux issue on itself. He wanted to use Linux with a database other than Oracle obviously. Why didn't he just switch provider then to one that DOES offer other database support on Linux. I'm sure there are more than enough of those around. It's blaming Linux again for sometimes which is not Linux's fault.

    "There was a limit set up within the program that said you can only order 'x' amount of products within one transaction," Roy said. "When one of our guests went over the limit, it crashed the whole store. We then had to manually identify the erroneous credit card charges."

    I can't see how this has anything to do with either Apache, PHP, MySQL or Linux on itself - this is obviously a programming error in the PHP 'e-commerce component' they use. It's like blaming the car manufacturer that your self-made garage collapsed on top of your brand new car and saying that it didn't happen when you bought a car from an other manufacturer.

  10. Re:Internet Explorer Only on MovieLink 2004's Top Film Download Service, So Far · · Score: 1

    Already have my localization set to en-US. So it probably looks at the IP adress as it is the only thing left where it could get the country information from.

  11. video on demand on MovieLink 2004's Top Film Download Service, So Far · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The South-Koreans have a nice service as well vod.naver.com. The service is very cheap compared to those mentioned above, only about 2000 won for new movies (which is about $1,50). The quality is near DVD and is distributed by a p2p like network, on which i usually get speeds above 150KB. Besides lots of Korean movies (sometimes with English subtitles) they also have a gazillion American movies.

  12. Re:Internet Explorer Only on MovieLink 2004's Top Film Download Service, So Far · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Thanks for your interest in Movielink, the leading source for movies delivered directly over the internet. We want you to enjoy our powerful movie download experience, but it is presently unavailable to users outside of the United States."

    Why don't they just say "Sorry, but we only support Internet Explorer on Windows in the United States. We don't plan on supporting anything or anyone else".

  13. oxymoron? on Are You Ready for the SCO Blitz? · · Score: 1

    In the case of Darl McBride i bet that should be an oxymormon

  14. New installer? on Debian Installer RC1 Is Out · · Score: 1

    I've started using Debian about a year ago (or even longer ago) and from what I can remember I've never used an other installer for Debian than the one I see in the screenshots posted in this thread.

    Have I just been using the beta version of the installer all along or is this install just a minor version update over the previous installer?

  15. Re:Mod Makers Moving on on Make Something Unreal Gets Next Phase Winners · · Score: 1

    A mod has lots of predictable elements like models, textures, sound. All those can be made already without the need for any version of the game.

  16. Re:I can't take it anymore! on Make Something Unreal Gets Next Phase Winners · · Score: 1

    it's the rocket launcher from quake.

  17. Far Cry modding on Make Something Unreal Gets Next Phase Winners · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually Far cry has some excellent mod tools (especially their sandbox editor is great). With the SDK available at www.crymod.com I expect their will be some excellent mods coming from this game. Far Cry seemed to be quite ahead of Half-life 2 and Doom 3 at the moment of release.

  18. Re:Google search for MINUX on Andy Tanenbaum on 'Who Wrote Linux' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no you didn't mean linux, i'm sure you meant MINIX

  19. I stopped worrying and love SCO on SCO Aims For The Feds · · Score: 4, Funny
  20. Re:Of course there is on Spam Solutions from an Expert · · Score: 2, Informative

    how about:

    1000000 * 5 / (24 * 60) ~= 3472 Days or 3472 computer to send 1 millions emails. Doable, but much more difficult than the 138 you state