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  1. Re:Farsi is Right to Left on Free Software In Iran, KDE In Farsi · · Score: 2, Informative

    most people

    Hm, most? I have no idea about Chinese and Hindi, which would be pretty important to be able to qualify that. So far it looks good for you :)

    Portuguese: vigesima quarta ("e" should have an acute, can't get it to display)
    Spanish: veiticuatro
    Italian: ventiquattro
    Serbocroatian: dvadeset cetiri ("c" should have a caron)
    Kisuaheli: ishirini na nne

    But:
    German: Vierundzwanzig

  2. Re:Sorry, you are wrong on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    You use one flaw to give you remote access, then leverage that remote access into exploiting the local access flaw

    Exactly. The Debian machines were compromised b/c somebody gained local access to a machine wiht a sniffed password and used the kernel hole to gain root. That's why the joke wasn't funny - the IP and the kernel hole won't help him, he needs another hole to get in first. I was not commenting on the crack, I was only commenting on the joke :)

  3. Re:Yay on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Not funny. The exploit that was used to hit Debian and the FSF was a local hole. His IP won't help you at all

  4. Re:As an Evolution user for about a year... on Evolution 1.5 has Been Released · · Score: 1

    This isn't a "release", it's a development release. It will be released to users as version 2.0

  5. Re:explanation on Future of 2.4 and 2.6 Kernels · · Score: 1

    BTW it is kind of weird thing that a stable kernel has grown so much

    No it's not, these are just new device drivers that don't touch other kernel code

  6. Re:So use patchsets on Future of 2.4 and 2.6 Kernels · · Score: 1

    Con Koliva's patchset for 2.4.23 contains XFS. GrSecurity has been included for quite a while, but is not yet included for 2.4.23. So it's even easier

  7. Re:Why aren't pre-emptive and low-latency merged? on Kernel 2.4.23 Released · · Score: 1

    You may be interested in Con Kolivas' patchset. He has a lot of patches merged, like preempt, O(1), lowlat and GrSecurity, which would reduce your work to squeeze FreeSwan on top

  8. Re:"Ransom Love" is such a cool name. on Caldera/SCO Co-Founder Ransom Love Speaks · · Score: 1

    First, it's Engelbert, not Englebert.

    Second, it's a real name and a stage name: The original Humperdinck was a German composer (1854 - 1921), whose name was occupied by the kitsch singer you are thinking of.

    A couple of years ago, the estate of the original Humperdinck tried to force the singer to not use the name, b/c they didn't want the composer to be associated with the singer's BS

  9. Re:The ultimate desks are sold at Poetic Technolog on The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of · · Score: 1

    Once upon a time, when VA Linux shares went up 700% on a single day, Poetic Technology had prices on the website. Now they have seem to taken them down, you need to follow the prices link and fill out the sheet before they'll make a quotation. I seem to remember that the Aura was about USD 50-70,000

  10. Re:For the Record on Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google · · Score: 1

    dogs don't have tits

    On the contrary, they have 8 to 12, and these can get quite big when they are lactating. I hope this new piece of information doesn't mess up this little algorithm of yours :o)

  11. Re:For the Record on Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google · · Score: 1

    Would they like to get a page of search results or a page of advertisments?

    No, you don't get it! See, it's not about what users would like to see, but what the OS vendor likes them to see. Just like TV, is that so hard to understand? Jeez, with this attitude free software won't ever go anywhere

  12. The ultimate desks are sold at Poetic Technologies on The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of · · Score: 4, Informative
  13. Re:Old Research and Patents - A True and Recent St on Great Computer Science Papers? · · Score: 1

    Moderators, get a clue, this clearly ain't a troll

  14. Re:Nay, archetypal... on Great Computer Science Papers? · · Score: 1

    No need to alert your enemies to all of your methods, after all

    After Cryptonomicon, everybody and their uncle know how it's done ;o)

  15. Re:It's about time on First Look at Debian's Next Generation Installer · · Score: 1

    why gentoo doesn't live up to it's social contract

    I'd guess it's, as nearly always, that the amount of work needed is so big that the resources and time contributed are not enough. If they keep going, they'll come closer

  16. Re:It's about time on First Look at Debian's Next Generation Installer · · Score: 1

    er, before I get flamed to hell and back, I do realize that the "good things of Debian" include freedom, which partly is lost with these distros.

  17. Re:It's about time on First Look at Debian's Next Generation Installer · · Score: 1

    Gentoo definitely is only for the experienced. I appreciate that it's possible to taylor it to one's liking, but to do this one should first know what one's liking is, or what is possible. If you want a distro to combine the good things of Debian (vast array of packages, tremendous package management) with commercial distros (easy, very new software), may I suggest Libranet or Xandros

  18. Re:Reinventing the wheel.. on First Look at Debian's Next Generation Installer · · Score: 2, Informative

    b/c Mandrake runs only on i386 while Debian supports 11 architectures? Which has always been the only reason for the state of the Debian installer anyway

  19. Re:It's about time on First Look at Debian's Next Generation Installer · · Score: 1

    The documentation on gentoos site keeps going and tells me to install a kernel logger, a cron daemon, X, alsa, etc. And emerge is apts perfect equal if not it's better.

    My usual Gentoo rant:
    puleeze! This is the thing that annoyed me no end in Gentoo. Thing is, the debian docs don't need to tell you to install a kernel logger or a cron daemon because, guess what, those are installed automatically. Simply b/c a general linux system won't work very good without them. Granted, those will be the crond or the kernel logger the debian developers have chosen for you, but that's fine with me: I could care less which crond I run as long as it works and is secure. And if I really think I want another one, Debian won't stop me from installing it (or removing altogether, after the appropriate warnings). I addition I get the benefit that all of Debian will work with the kernel logger installed, something that can't be said about Gentoo: e.g., Gentoo's firestarter (simple Gnome firewall tool) wouldn't work with Gentoo's recommended metalog (that was half a year ago, may have changed)

    In contrast, the Gentoo docs stop at the point when you have installed a working system. They don't tell you, however, that this system is not at all configured to work ok. They should tell you b/c Gentoo's packages, compared to Debian's, install very little configuration stuff. It surely is a matter of preference, but I hated the amount of work Gentoo needed me to perform to get a working system (and people complain about Debian, ha!). E.g., Gentoo's fileutils decided to install no cron job to run updatedb, making locate useless. I thankfully forgot what else Gentoo expected me to do manually, but it was a lot. Ah, yes, another example: X ran nice 0, and I had to hunt down a startup wrapper on Gentoo's website, compile and install it to make it run nice -10, which is Debian's default (so much for the perceived responsiveness of Gentoo. Ha). Each and every thing easy in itself, but they added up tremendously.

    As far as emerge being apt's better, we'll talk when it actually can take dependencies into account when uninstalling, not only when installing.

  20. cat /usr/bin/nautilus /dev/audio on What Counts as Music and Why? · · Score: 1

    This program sure is nice, but the fact that I could 'cat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio' was the thing that got me started with Linux and saved me from windows years ago. Nautilus sounds better though

  21. Re:Doh. on Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux · · Score: 1

    AFAIK most give you the choice between Win and Unix/Linux for higher priced, self administered accounts, and I wouldn't be surprised if somebody had the idea to run tests for Win 2003 by switching a bunch of the cheaper, no-choice accounts.

  22. Re:Wonder if they used this? on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: 1

    Agreed. And probably not without the info he has on his website that lines between Unixes do not mean code inheritance but "influence"

  23. Re:Doh. on Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Something to keep in mind: the headline on /. is even more misleading than already mentioned. It says "Windows 2003 continues to increase in total hostname and active sites" not "servers". This means that probably some of those switching sites weren't even asked. Before jumping to conclusions, it has to be asked, what kind of sites was involved? Somehow I think most of the switchers were not big sites making a conscious decision, but small sites hosted for $5 per month at some hosting providers who happened to switch their hosting servers.

  24. Re:Wonder if they used this? on SCO's Plan Examined · · Score: 2, Informative

    Read this at the bottom of SCO's page: "Original UNIX history chart created by Eric Levenez. Copyright (C) 1996-2003, Eric Levenez. January 2, 2003. Used with permission."

    And go the Levenez's wallpaper site and search for McBride

  25. Re:Bavaria rulez! on More Linux Activity in German Government · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    good education for the few, right. It's easy to have high standards in education if you are so selective that you are actually educating fewer people than you need yourself. Bavaria is importing people with Abitur and academic education from other German states.