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  1. Re:Opening phrase of the article on P2P (More) Legal in France · · Score: 2, Interesting

    omfg, rustine is actually used as "patch".
    Just a couple of days ago I was trying to translate patch to a french listener (walloon actually, me being flemish/dutch).

    I just trew in rustine since that's used as a patch on a bike tire, never thought it was actually correct

  2. Re:France on Publishing Exploit Code Ruled Illegal In France · · Score: 1

    it has to be VB, look at all the caps :)

  3. Re:GNOME armageddon on Gnome 2.10 Released · · Score: 1

    don't you have enough alternatives?

  4. great idea on Linspire Five-0 First Look · · Score: 1

    that's just lovely
    - put 2 links to ostg partners in blurb
    - get submission accepted because of free adspace for patners
    - end up slashdotting the site, so far for the free ads then, and i have no clue what other distro's you meant (suse, novell or redhat id guess)

  5. Re:Solution on Climbing up the Search Ladder · · Score: 1

    imagine the page load time you'll get :)

    1 - 6,940,000 of about 6,940,000 for linux vs windows. (15231.15 seconds)

  6. Re:Where's the buggy-eyed smily when you need it? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    I don't normally point out spelling or language errors as I am not a native english speaker myself, but it does tickle me when someone tries to be fancy talking french but doesn't get it right.

    "on holiday to Bhutan and can't find a bureau de change "
    it's a "bureau d'échange".

    fyi, I'm not a french speaker either, I live in the dutch-speaking part of belgium and we have those chique french people with their poodles here too :)

  7. Re:comon everyone, use lynx to go to bt.com on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    Is it ok if I use elinks?
    I like it because my scrollwheel works and i can click links inside my term window.

    Or am I a lesser geek then?

  8. speed focus on Streaming a Database in Real Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if they are so much focused on speed, couldn't this be the mysql killer for web applications that don't need funky features but where concurrency and speed are important

  9. been there done that on What Do You Do When Outsourcing Goes Bad? · · Score: 1

    I've been a dev on a project that had been outsourced to india and went terribly wrong.
    You can stop paying as soon as possible, but i doubt you'll get any money you already transfered back.

    Instead of listening to that "my guys are working on it" tell them that you won't pay them any more and other guys will fix it. If your project is any like ours you will end up trying to fix it first, rewrite it later. Maybe you'd better rewrite it in house from the beginning.

    In short:
    - Get it over to your country as soon as possible
    - you are pretty much fucked for what you've paid already
    - think twice before outsourcing again.

    Disclaimer:
    - I'm not usually a anti-outsource troll, just felt compelled by the post. I live in europe where i suppose it's not as much of a problem.
    - I am sure there are decent indian software company's, I am confident that our customer just ran afoul of the wrong one.

  10. Re:VMS is interesting for smart students, too on An Interview With Mark Gorham Of OpenVMS · · Score: 1

    Oh, and of course the Bill Gates followers find themselves home at http://www.trustworthycomputing.com/

    Thats a rather cheap shot. If you google for microsoft security OR privacy flaw OR flaws OR hole OR holes you get 4 million results.
    If you google for linux security OR privacy flaw OR flaws OR hole OR holes you get a little over 3 million.

    The trick to this is "or flaws" and "or hole" and the like.
    You get loads of results, and hope noone notices the results are generic when you click to the later SERPS (search engine result pages)

  11. Re:What? on Microsoft Eyes PeopleSoft Customers · · Score: 1
    Axapta, the ERP system Microsoft bought from Navision.

    It's sold in modules (if you need crm you buy it, otherwise you don't, same for the web portal or business intelligence tools etc).

    It's extremely customizable because of it's system with X++ (the language) and the AOT/morphX environment. You get easy (object oriented) access to the code of almost everything that's in standard axapta except the kernel (base features, X++ implementation...), but every form or report you see has the X++ code right there for you to look at or modify.

    I've seen it compared to great plains here, but I've worked with that and there isn't much similarity. GP is more aimed at financial stuff and is loads more crappy than axapta.

    Having said that I can't think what microsoft's plans could be. They are buying a whole lot of Business Solutions (and selling them through their MBS channel) but there is so much overlap and I don't see how they could merge it all into a single good ERP platform.

    MBS products:
    • Axapta
    • MS CRM
    • Great Plains
    • Navision
    • Solomon
    All do more or less the same, but are from different acquisitions so are probably hard to merge because of a fundamental design difference
  12. Re:Mono. on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    Probably not, It has deep windows forms and gdi integration.
    Windows forms is still experimental in the current stable mono.

  13. Re:Oh, and a side of IT please on What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side Jobs? · · Score: 1

    "Those who can use iptables
    Those who can't use Windows ICS, and a router"
    That sorta proves you don't know what you are talking about. a router would do the NAT so there's no need for ICS, maybe you meant ICS and a hub.

    I wasn't implying that you shouldn't use old equipment for a NAT server and that iptables/freeswan/etc surpass most cheap routers.

    But if you allready have your nat box, why would you collect stuff to build another one, and then another and another.

    I suppose you are talking about a home setup, and I don't suppose you are working with a gazillion DMZ's.

  14. Re:slashdot the spammers on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Not taking any responsability or even endorsing anything, but lists can be had here. (far from definitive off course)

    host and domain names of sites that permit spammers
    http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/antispam /spamdomai ns.txt

    e-mail addresses of known spammers
    http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/antispam /spammers. txt

  15. Re:Oh, and a side of IT please on What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side Jobs? · · Score: 1

    "good for building a NAT server though."

    If I had a penny for every time someone told me that......

    How many nat servers are you building then? how much are you actually using? And above all why would you want noisy, power hungry old boxes when a router can be had for almost nothing

  16. Re:IT *is* my sidejob on What Do People in the IT Field Do for Side Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Do you mean spamvrij.nl?
    the ones who never answered my mail when I got spam originating from holland (from an obviously shady company which changed domains every few months etc)

    Maybe they only respond to ppl living in the netherlands (as I am belgian)

  17. Re:Size? on Fedora Core 3: Worth The Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    I don't see a reason to download several gigs of things I don't use, such as emacs. blasphemy I tell you :p

  18. Re:MS have one of these on Xen 2.0 Virtual Machine Monitor Released · · Score: 1

    both have a server version too, which is quite different than what you describe.
    they're called virtual server and gsx server iirc (too lazy to look them up)

  19. Re:versus UML? on Xen 2.0 Virtual Machine Monitor Released · · Score: 1

    thankx, that was sorta the summary i was looking for.
    And whoever modded this offtopic probably confused this UML with the other UML :)

  20. versus UML? on Xen 2.0 Virtual Machine Monitor Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm using UML right now, is this comparable/interchangable, and what would be the benefits?

  21. Re:UPS + Generator on Keeping Computers (And People) Warm In Winter? · · Score: 1

    unless you're not at home, and when you return all your food is wasted because your frige and freezer were off for 8 hours

  22. Re:So you can fix Linux.... on System Recovery with Knoppix · · Score: 1

    you should've used ERD commander to try and fix an XP install imo, there's a free emergency download edition

    http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandreco ve ry/erdcommander2002.asp?pid=erd

  23. Re:Hypocracy!! on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 1

    I'm not disputing that, but it's just a little easy to post a "while(true) do crap" comment to criticize windows, you can just as easy crash a linux box with code like that

  24. Re:Hypocracy!! on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 1

    You can write code to crash any os.

  25. Equal representation on Robolawyer to Handle Clickwraps? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if the whole thing can be taken seriously, but a nice possible side effect could be that there would be no more expensive lawyers helping the rich out, but the poor guy could have an equal robot for free.
    No matter how much money you have, it's lawbot 1.2 vs lawbot 1.2 in court.
    Reminds me of pokemon but with robolawyers ;)