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  1. Re:SELinux is a pain in the ass. on Fedora 9 Preview Cleared for Launch · · Score: 1

    I have been using SELinux on my homeserver without having to do any custom rules. I would imagine that if I was using it as a pure server, and not also as a MythtTV terminal, it would work even better.

  2. Re:Differences on Fedora 9 Preview Cleared for Launch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Major difference? Well I can't enumerate them, but I can generalize things you'll see in Fedora compared to Ubuntu

    • Continued work SELinux
    • Continued work NetworkManager
    • Continued work on PulseAudio
    • Some other stuff that will make its way to Ubuntu once the bugs get worked out within Fedora (and upstream)
    • Less specialization (ie. as a desktop) just a general operating system with utils and applications
    • Work towards upstart (something Ubuntu already has I believe)
    • Think I saw a few threads about ext4
    • Think I saw a few threads about full disk encryption
    • Jigdo support for sucking down images
  3. Worst possible way to critize Windows Updates on Windows Update Can Hurt Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no good solution to this problem -- that fixing something makes it easier to find old problems. At some point, users need to be responsible enough to apply updates.

  4. I guess you have to be involved for it to be fun on Microsoft Giving SMB2 Talks At SambaXP · · Score: 1

    From the outside, it looks like a company that hates you was dragged kicking and screaming to come and help?talk to you

  5. Re:Victimless on BitTorrent Use Up 24% Since November · · Score: 1

    I doh know. I disagree. Taxes deprive me of cash. I don't really consider myself a victim to the tax man though.. even though I am paying three taxes (/me grumbles)

  6. Re:Will take my business elsewhere on PayPal Plans To Ban Unsafe Browsers · · Score: 1

    By wanting you to use a secure browser that works on your platform?

  7. Re:hmm. on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 1

    Spanked by Ubuntu? Is Ubuntu selling a server product? Because I don't think RedHat is selling a desktop product.

  8. Re:And Ubuntu will take over in the long run. on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu can take over market wise, however, doing so will divert funds away and directly hurt Linux and Linux based OSS. Because Canonical (normally) looks after Canonical. RedHat codes for all.

  9. Re:Me too on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 1

    This isn't a one way street. Windows doesn't have many of the apps that I need either.

  10. Re:And Ubuntu will take over in the long run. on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is not like RedHat isn't already spending money on the "Linux Desktop". Or do you think all those fancy stuff people from @redhat.com write and find their way to the Ubuntu desktop get all reinvented and rewritten from scratch. Fedora is free to the user, but not to RedHat.

    Ubuntu is okay and all that, but I believe that RedHat does more than their fair share for the community. If they feel they don't have enough resources reaming to package a proper desktop distro, then so be it. If Ubuntu people want to use this as a reason to kill of RedHat, then I hope they are poised to feel both their own position in the community AND RedHat's

  11. Re:Confused ... on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 1

    I think they mean COMMERCIAL desktop

  12. Re:Comments from MySQL on Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this is true, could the editors please alter the article title accordingly? Or at least point directly to the above comment? These articles get indexed.

  13. Best not to worry about forking on Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I like MySQL, I have no real issues with it. But if it's going closed source, I say let it be. Time to put energy behind Postgresql

  14. As I said on my LUG mailinglist on Iron Man's New Villain — an Open Source Terrorist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... let this one go.

  15. How can both exist? on ISO Calls For OOXML Ceasefire · · Score: 1

    Forgetting for awhile the obvious play on words when naming OOXML. How can both OOXML and ODF exist? They seem to be analogous to two trees planted in the same area, competing for resources. OOXML, coming from Microsoft, regardless of its flaws, has quite a head start and will simply kill off ODF. It isn't as if they both start on the same footing and so the better standard would win.

  16. Re:I hate to say I told you so... on Satellite IDs Ships That Cut Cables · · Score: 1

    Well if you want to talk objectivity, then how do a few pixels prove anything to you?

  17. Re:Is this really surprising? on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    African-Americans have more grants and scholarships available to them than whites of equal economic status.

  18. Re:Yes please on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought the topic was about African-American in the US and was based on collected statistics? How am I offtopic?

  19. Yes please on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Use these statistics to raise the usual USA fear of racism. You'd think that the US was the only place to have slaves in its history -- get over it.

  20. Re:colors on Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far · · Score: 1

    So you're saying color travels further than odor?

  21. Waste of time on ISO Takes Control Of OOXML · · Score: 2

    The chances of Microsoft implementing any changes ISO makes is slim to none. And no business or government agency is going to (collectively) believe that Microsoft doesn't follow its own "international standard". Which means that OO.org, Koffice, Abiword, etc all need to follow the Microsoft way, as some have already begun to do.

  22. Re:As the quote goes... on Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue · · Score: 1

    Capitalism is an extremely powerful force. It empowers the powerful and takes full advantage of those willing to simply follow. You may not like communism, but it didn't lose to capitalism because it was weak.

  23. Cut of the source on Cybercrime Is a Franchise Model That Scales · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Kill all bot nets. Seriously. And have companies who sell operating system take some financial responsibility for future security.

  24. Re:If there is one lesson that I have learned on Network Solutions Advertises On Your Sub-Domains · · Score: 1

    I didn't say GoDaddy was at issue.

  25. If there is one lesson that I have learned on Network Solutions Advertises On Your Sub-Domains · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is that registrars have don't care who has a domain. They will happily forget to send you an email and have your domain expire and sell it to a spammer.