User: hey

Re:How unbelievable

On: Microsoft Not Underwriting SCO's Legal Fees?

Finally a reasonable remark.

I would just add that by Microsoft (or anyone) who pays money to SCO keeps them alive and helps them. And while they are alive they'll probably continue pursuing this suit against IBM and Linux. So in a way Microsoft is helping SCO. I wonder how hard they bargained on the price.

Laws are bad

On: California Could Get $500/Offense Spam Law

I hate spam but I'll fight for your right to send it. I don't want the government making laws about
Internet content. Its just a bad idea. Tomorrow they might make a law against something you do.

DNS zone transfers

On: LPD For Fun and MP3 Playing

While we're hacking ... how about using DNS zone transfers. Its distributed (everywhere) and its cached until a change occurs. Maybe you'd have to uuencode the info. But what if every .com entry had a few MP3s!

Re:Just imagine...

On: Low Cost Cinema Through Dynamic Pricing

It's called the Varsity VIP

I want an IM standard, pleeeease

On: Is There Room for an IM only Device ?

I am totally ignoring IM until there is a real standard.
Check out Jabber's IETF page. I hope XMPP pulls it off. It's hurting my social life -- this no IMing!

Re:This just smacks of "Active Desktop"

On: Eyes on Karamba

And ActiveDesktop was MS's answer to Pointcast

Point2Play a win32 app

On: WineX 3.0 Examined

I wonder if Point2Play a win32 app :-)

public and text only

On: Spaf's Farewell, Ten Years Later

The best things about Usenet:
- its public ... no one company owns it
- its mostly text only so it can be searched

Swissair Crashed because of in-cabin electronics

On: Wireless Computing and Airplanes?

The SwissAir flight (New York to Geneva) that crashed in Nova Scotia probably went down because
of a fire started in the in-cabin electronics.
This was a case of extra bells'n'whistles to amuse the passengers causing trouble. Maybe it would be sensible to bad all wired and wireless in-cabin
electronics. (I know it'll never happen)

Re:Damn...

On: On The Collapse of Complex Societies

Er, look at the guy in the Whitehouse.
And at the helm of Microsoft.

Microsoft OS names

On: Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux

Are they trying to make everyone crazy.
First they used regular versions numbers:

- Windows 1
- Windows 2
- Windows3.1
- Windows3.1 for workgroups
- NT 4

Then we got:
- Windows 95 ... so we figure they'd use years (of course the Y2K issue was there)
OK, here comes:
- Windows 98

Then we get meaningless letters:
- Windows ME ... so we figure they'd use letters

But then we get:
- Windows 2000 ... OK they are going with years.

But then we get:
- Windows XP ... OK so we are going back to meaningless letters

But then we get:
- Windows 2003

Ouch.

Innovations

On: Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux

Humm, one "innovation" mentioned was HTTPD.SYS, an in kernel webserver. Sounds like Tux that was released a few years ago. (I hear it was renamed. I wonder if Apache on Windows will be able to use HTTPD.SYS eventually)

I also like that they tested the SMB implementation and found it wasn't the fastest. Could it have been Samba that was faster?!

Re:oh my

On: HTML: Is it Art?

What about the people in Canada, Mexico, Caribean and South America who share the same timezones as the USA.

Like an OS scheduler

On: Analysis of Netflix's DVD Allocation System

Don't OS schedulers give cycles to processes
that most need it. They typically keep a "score"
of the CPU a process has received an reward those
needing more.

You buy DVDs, be careful..

On: Analysis of Netflix's DVD Allocation System

... it can hurt your sex life !!!

Hey you billionaires

On: More on OpenBSD Funding Saga

Aren't there some non-Microsoft hitech billionaires
that can give OpenBSD 2 million bucks?

(Mitch Kapor seems to have the right idea
with the Open Source Applications Foundation.)

Iraq was a mistake?

On: Run Your Car on Grease

Maybe the invasion of Iraq for the oil was unnecessary.
Next we can invalid a country for the veg oil.

Re:The next boost will be

On: Conquest FS: "The Disk Is Dead"

Thanks for the correction.
My oops.

Re:The next boost will be

On: Conquest FS: "The Disk Is Dead"

Doesn't Linux almost do this?
It nmap()s executables before running them.

Kevin Mitnick

On: Former DoubleClick Exec Named Privacy Czar

... or like hiring Kevin Mitnick as a security
consultant - ha ha. Oh wait that's not a joke.

easy

On: OpenOffice.org SDK Released

What could be easier ?!

Re:How to beat the spam detectors

On: Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam

That, of course, is the problem with SpamAssassin and all similar spam detectors. They classify a certain group of bit patterns as spam (S) and another bunch as non spam -- ham (H). Anybody can download SpamAssassin and add a bunch of H to their content.
SpamAssassin will unfortunately be on a treadmill -- playing catch up -- forever.

Re:Integrating Finder with Terminal

On: A Better Finder?

There is something like that -- based one Mozilla.
Called XMLTERM

Kill, kill, kill

On: Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military

The more the U.S. kills people around the world the more enemies it makes. It needs to kill those new enemies. Better make better guns so you can kill more of those enemies...creating more enemies.

Other standards

On: CDMA vs. GSM in Post-war Iraq

What about other standards... NTSC vs. PAL,
110 volts vs. 220 volts, etc.
And while weren't at it might as well impose
the same stuff on Afganistan.
Oh and lets replace the language with English too.
(Hey the Brits did that in Hong Kong and India)