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  1. Re:PHP and Industry on Building Scalable Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Mainframe or unix derivate, that's why I wrote "proprietary software" and not just Windows.

  2. Re:PHP and Industry on Building Scalable Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Every airline, every bank, every govenrment agency, every healthcare org, every big company you can think of uses proprietary software and languages instead of OSS.

    (yes, it is a generalization, just like the one in the parent assuming 8 web companies comprise "most large companies")

  3. Re:Not Really a Dupe on New Bill Threatens to Plug "Analog Hole" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1- Post it
    2- Don't edit (or even read!) it
    3- Someone writes it well
    4- ???
    5- Profit!!

  4. Re:How much difference between Java and C++? on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 1

    Don't retract it, you're getting some modlove just because your question "looks like a good one".

  5. Re:CalendAr on Email Turns 34 · · Score: 1

    So, basically you say Gmail needs to be pressed and rolled?

    Man, if you hate Gmail just stop using it :P

  6. Re:Editorial control on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man, I want to mod your sig up!

  7. Re:Dag Nabbit! on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 1



    I can't imagine what kind of fucking idiot modded parent Insightful.

    In most languages (I can be wrong, but I could bet that in all languages besides English) "fuck" ISN'T a word.

    If someone uses "darn", and YOU weren't raised to recognize it as a curse word, it loses effect. The word acquires meaning by the interpretation the receiver performs.

    If it depends on how the emitter was raised, I might very well ask you "are you insulting me?" everytime you said "chair".

  8. Re:I think that's just MS way on Apple Campus Missing From MSN Earth · · Score: 1

    That's only for the US (and Europe, I think), but for Argentina, on MSN you only get to zoom until you have a whole state on the screen, while Google shows the cities photographs, basically in two definition levels: detailed for country capitals and strategic points (i.e. a city with a river port), blurry for secondary cities.

    I can see my office and my apartment in Mexico DF as if I was 200 meters above them, but I can't get nobody near my childhood home in Córdoba, Argentina.

  9. Re:The next logical step on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 1

    I'd kiss this guy

  10. Any comments on this? on Anatomy of a Hack · · Score: 1

    Yeah guys, I RTFA, what do you think of this:

    Naturally, many other ports can be open, particularly if the target system is not a Windows system. However, these are the ones we look for in this chapter.

    Wasn't windoze the OS with stupid, wide-range, unexplainably open ports? Any volunteers to slap the author senseless?

  11. Re:So much for cold war escalation. on Solar Sail Launch Failure Confirmed · · Score: 1

    i am sure it is easy to design something that works well for its designed purpose, but doesn't do a very good job when you try using it for something entirely different. Can't-avoid-thinking-about-goatse-or-something-imp roperly-similar

  12. Re:Suggestions on Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails · · Score: 1

    If behind "CMS type web application" lurks yet another blog script, don't bother.

    All the features in a blog script you think you couldn't live without, you'll never use them.

    On the other side, have you tried Ariadne?

  13. Re:Serves up webpages... on Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips · · Score: 0

    I
    need
    mod
    points

  14. Re:Hmmmm on Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use · · Score: 1

    Having used it for a while now (in an effort to not have any pirated software in my windoze partition), I can tell AbiWord does a pretty good job at behaving like Word.

    You may want to give it a try.

  15. Re:Bwuah? on Inquirer Blasts Mozilla for Microsoft-Style Bashing · · Score: 1

    Can somebody translate the ^H^H^H^H^H^H thing for me, please?

    Is that some "delete" command for WordStar or WordPerfect for DOS?

  16. Re:No big loss on George Dantzig, 1914-2005 · · Score: 1

    Man you're nuts! Glenn Danzig i/was great. He starred my wardrobe across high school. I don't remember how he sounds like, but I really loved GD back then.

    (lookin' for my creepy buffalo skull tee)

  17. I really suffered LP on George Dantzig, 1914-2005 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well folks, I'm an accountant. You can have all the fun you want about having an accountant here, but that's the way it is. In Argentina, where I come from, that was the best way to land a management position in no time, which I'm still waiting for.

    All that aside, I love technology in all its forms, just in case.

    Studying my 4th year, we've been teached LP, as a way to solve transport route problems, and minimum stock estimates, optimizing resources and stuff, in an assignment called "Operations Research".

    I hope one of my fellow students will read this, but I really doubt an graduate from Facultad de Ciencias Economicas - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba would read /.

    We always dreamed about finding the damn mf that invented the simplex method, but the net was far from being an accesible thing those days, so now that I find out about Dantzig, I'm kinda sad. There was a time when I would have cursed his family and chased him if he was within reach, but now I pay him honors, as one of many bright minds that go by unnoticed for students and developing minds all over the world.

    My respect

  18. Re:Easier to remember random passwords on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 1

    What about attempt-limits on the login server side?

    Can you really brute force 100K passwords at any login without getting the account locked down?

    I think brute force could work for a password protected zip, but if you try to login more than 10 (30 or 40) times at mosts systems, you'll lock the account.

  19. Re:the bubble is back? on Firefox-Based Start-Up Gets Off The Ground · · Score: 1

    Pez, porn, pot & liquor become a necessity if you don't have the Ferrari and the Loft

  20. Re:Open Source Competition on Firefox-Based Start-Up Gets Off The Ground · · Score: 1

    This is a "me too" post

  21. Re:Not Just Java... on Developer Site CodeZoo Launches · · Score: 1

    You can find this as a VERY light gray bar at the top of each page.

  22. Of course, this is a flaming flamebait on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Cancelled · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks, Dan Brown, for bringing Fibonacci to the masses.

    Not a single day without some "look ma, I'm smart! Fibonacciiiiiiiii!!" post on /.

  23. This is waaaay off-topic on Making Money Using Open Source Software? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I couldn't resist, after reading your sig...

    Is that why you SHAVE?

    Anonymous Coward

  24. Swiss people... on Ohio Wants eBayers to Post $50k Bond · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...is by far more literate than the average US Joe.

    AND they KEEP the damn assault gun AT HOME!

    You US Joes want to carry the guns when you walk through a park in a Sunday afternoon (just in case a group of people decides to beat you), and THAT results in bloodbaths every single day in yankeeland.

    I just don't want to see untrained people bearing guns at the amusement park. If you carry a gun, and you aren't in law enforcement, I prefer seeing you disarmed and driven to a precinct, instead of having a hard time trying to decide wich side of the law you are to see if I run or not.

    Remember: GUNS KILL PEOPLE. Idiots and sons of bitches usually manage to have them kill the wrong people. But it's ALWAYS the gun that does it.

    Cheers

  25. Re:CNET News.com on Gator CPO at the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    IF they are really using that particular bit of data, they can sell an extra dollar to companies in Angola wanting to advertise on their site. That, and a bit of news: portals are identifying IPs and translating that to country for their demographics for many dog years now. So go ahead Smarty, register as if you were from Ghana if you like to. I think it's about trying to find a balance between the accuracy of IP2country and what registering users declare.