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  1. Re:Great on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I'll sell you Enterprise PostgreSQL Support. :-)

  2. Re:Almost accurate on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It will not run on 9x, because it depends on the WIN32 Service architecture, which is only present on NT/XP/200x.

  3. Re:PGSQL has its own gotchas on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    How about distributed txns?

  4. Re:Finally on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sorry, all Yahoo! Finance data is delayed at least 15 minutes. Anyone who depends on this data to make money is going to get a real-time feed from Schwab, Ameritrade or E*Trade, and NOT rely on Yahoo!.

    There's data you can't get on Yahoo Finance.

  5. Re:Finally on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Who the hell actually uses such syntax? The only place I've seen that crap is Access queries.

    Select orderid from orders where customerid = 'xxxxx'.

    WTF?

  6. Re:Doesn't run Windows on IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there is. Take a collection, gather $20,000-$50,000 USD, and buy a commercial source license to redistribute the HAL, vs. what was surely an educational source license that the Xen developers used.

    Then you can Open Source all of Xen, except the Windows HAL, which they can charge a nominal fee for, and continue development.

    It's a cost vs. effort tradeoff. XEN is a first step, code morphing on the fly is next. It will take time, but eventually it will arrive.

  7. Re:Liars on Mathematics of the Social Security "Crisis" · · Score: 1

    Cuz you got food and women and I don't?

    Good enough for a war in my opinion... :-D

  8. Re:That's a shame on OSDL Denies Rewriting Kernel · · Score: 1

    I never had issues getting 2.0 running and working well on Alpha and Solaris machines. You suffer some for device support, in my case my video cards were worthless (that's an X issue more than Linux), and some of the SCSI cards I had were not supported, but the kernel was robust and served me just as well as it's Intel x86 counterpart.

    The applications, on the other hand, were a different story. Most software out there isn't 64bit clean, and compatibility modes proved a little troublesome. Bootstrapping the systems also wasn't nearly as easy as loading on Intels...

  9. Re:Airline Industry on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1

    In reality, they will pass along whatever the market demands. The benefits of being in an unregulated industry. :-)

  10. Re:American version on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1

    And take the chance my luggage ends up in East Buttfuck? No thanks.

    Unless I absolutely have to, I *NEVER* schedule connecting flights, for the chances of A) Losing my luggage and B) Missing the flight.

    My poor buddy ended up returning from Thailand via London to Boston during a blizzard, and got dropped in New Jersey. Poor guy had to ride Amtrak home and take the subway out to the burbs in shorts and a t-shirt in zero degree weather because his luggage was stuck in England.

    Poor planning on his part, yes. Not something I want to chance if I can help it, so I don't go out of my way looking for connections.

  11. Re:American version on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1

    I would say almost all (which is > vast majority) of fat people eat too much and exercise too little. Glandular problems account for very few fat people...

    Speaking as a fat person.

  12. Re:Obvious Solution on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1

    Even at a relatively leisurely rate of 100mph, I could still get from NY to LA in 36 hours. That's not that bad. For a vacation to Hawaii, I might choose an airship if it came with a bed... being able to spywatch America flying at 5000 feet? Breathing real air on the portico instead of recycled pressurized air?

    Might. But then I have few reasons to be anywhere in the world in 6 hours or less...

  13. Re:American version on Airbus Launches 800 Passenger Jumbo Jet · · Score: 1

    I'm fat, but I fit in the seats. I have the same problem as you, and not just with airplanes. I cannot ride roller coasters any more, because the safety devices cannot fit around my shoulders. I ended up squashing my poor boss on our junket to Florida.

  14. Re:Untapped Revenue Sources? on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    They've already started doing this with the new Ford Super Duty Pickup. It's got the thumbs up button, probably to watch some extra Showcase content. Since I already want the truck, but don't have the cash for it, I never bothered trying it out. :-) They also have downloaded movie and TV trailers in the past. I would tend to agree with you that it is too early to count Tivo out.

  15. Re:Wins and Losses. on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    What the lifetime subscription did was increase early revenue to bolster marketing and sales, vs. spreading it out over several years. When product lifetime is measured in months or quarters, it's a smart move.

  16. Re:No TiVo for me.. on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    Commercials are already inserted into shows.

    Office space: Jennifer Aniston holding a 64oz cup of Pepsi.

    I don't know a SINGLE woman whose bladder is big enough to hold 64 oz of anything.

  17. Re:TiVo has two things going for it on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    The pretty sizeable telephone based distribution architecture surely can't be cheap. That could eat lots of money.

  18. Re:Very True on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    Cox and other cable providers, unfortunately for Tivo, controls it's set-top boxes, so can build DVR's that explicitly work with their service. Tivo is a universal service unit, so needed something that could work with EVERY set-top unit used in the countries it serves. The IR blaster is the only solution that works.

  19. Re:So how much is a MythTV? on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    The Tivo Series 1 will indeed work without the service. In fact, I had to use it without service for a few weeks because I didn't have phone service when I moved. It sucks, and is no better than a VCR, but it will work in half hour increments.

  20. Re:Success? on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I'd call them a success either, not in the traditional sense. But they DID create the PVR market.

  21. Re:Success? on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    My Series 1 14G Tivo has been running since I won it in March 2000. I really couldn't live without it, and I'm afraid to put in the TivoNet card and a bigger hard drive for fear of killing it. :-/

    Anyone out there hacked the Tivo remote yet? :-) I really like the thing... If Tivo went out of business, if we had to rewrite the interface, I'd want to continue using the remote.

  22. Re:We tried both, Xen is better for us. on IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure · · Score: 1

    Care to pimp the company? Can I get a dedicated host with Xen installed on it?

  23. Re:Doesn't run Windows on IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure · · Score: 1

    No, Please no. Not a rehash of 3dNow! / MMX again, PLEASE!?!?

  24. Re:Doesn't run Windows on IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure · · Score: 1

    At this level, all instructions are assembly.

    What it changes is the function jumps. If you have code that makes lots of cross-process function calls, VMware slows way down. Yet doing loop processing, it's fast, native cpu speed.

    [URL:http://www.anticracking.sk/EliCZ/import/Vx8 6. txt] A paper by the Bochs guys, written long ago, about the issues with virtualizing the x86.

  25. Re:Doesn't run Windows on IBM Pledges To Make Xen More Secure · · Score: 1

    It's a difference between Free Software, and an encumbered bit of software because they'd have to purchase an MS Source License to build their own compatible HAL.