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  1. Re:Other Borland Products on Interbase Backdoor, Secret for Six Years, Revealed in Source · · Score: 1

    Try http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

    It is the "pretty" version.

  2. Generational Freedom on Dark Hearts And The Net · · Score: 1

    Bush simply wants the freedom to continue living the way he did when he was young. You want essentially the same thing.

    It is up to each generation to avidly protect their most precious freedoms from attact. You, and Bush, are simply trying to protect and promote the lifestyles that work for your respective generations. You are both entitled because it's a free country. As long as we keep it free, the details will work out.

  3. Re:Is it really worth it? on Caldera Acquires Big Chunk Of SCO · · Score: 1

    You are misinformed. Linux lags behind UNIXWARE in several areas (and vice versa). Let's hope the juicy bits seep out.

  4. C2 will be necessary! on Auditing for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Good question! I'm a Department of Defense (DOD) contractor as well. We use SCO OpenServer and it is C2 compliant. (VAX/VMS was as well.) I haven't gone looking for Linux info, but I haven't seen anything about it. I suspect that it doesn't exist.

    C2 certification will require some investment and a corporate commitment to the sanctity of the code. This looks like a real good opportunity for one of the major Linux flavors to snag some market share. But it won't happen in time for your project.

    Good Luck!

  5. Re:Interesting Facts From The Article on AOL/Time-Warner Opens Cable Network to Other ISPs · · Score: 1

    I pay $40/month for RoadRunner. AOL is roughly $20. Every dial-up AOL user that moves is $20/month in cash flow. Every non-AOL user that moves will be $5 to $20 more cash flow as well. ISP market share isn't the issue. What they are after is bandwidth market share, and it will come at the phone company's expense.

    There are also thousands of AOL users that won't currently move to RoadRunner because it would be $60/month ($20 to AOL and $40 to RoadRunner). I assume that this price penalty will disappear for AOL. The FUD factor for the common user will drop drastically when AOL is the cable-based ISP. For each AOL user that jumps to cable, the bandwidth money moves from some baby bell to Time Warner.

    I wonder if AOL/Time Warner will oversell its cable bandwidth the same way it oversold it's dial-up access?

  6. Perhaps Terradata on Linux Databases with Huge Tables? · · Score: 1

    What you're looking for is NCR's Terradata product. It's UNIX-based. I don't know if there is a Linux port.

    This dbase was designed from day one for very large datasets. It's been around long enough to trust it with your data. I would definitly check it out for a dbase with a growth rate that large.

    http://www3.ncr.com/product/teradata/

  7. First the data - Then the schema on Who Owns The Database? · · Score: 1

    Protecting the contents of the database seems logical enough, but what if a judge decides the law applies to the schema of the database? The real value of some databases is not in the data elements but their defined inter-relationships. If that is where the value resides, then that is where legal protection will be desired.

    It scares me to think that a data schema for a bank could be registered and any other databases that are substantially similar could be held hostage.

    I know it sounds far fetched, but one judge, one big case...