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  1. Re:forgot the scare quotes on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 0

    It's obvious MS paid for this study but it's not so obvious there were other 10 studies this month paid by MS not worth mentioning because of their contrary results *sigh*

  2. Re:gaim works for me, but loses ground from here on Linux Instant Messengers · · Score: 0

    Sorry folks, acting is all you have left... Personal communication and instant messaging is far beyond you imagine it is as I understand from your IM field critics... I don't care about critics, it's just about how it should work for people who know what is TCP/IP and how it actually works when you don't know how but know what, when and who.

  3. Re:Ok, back in 1995 on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: 0

    Java is another excuse for programming. XXI century BASIC. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't believe ? Look insiGHT!

  4. Re:yes, it does rot your brain, or at least habits on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Generally in .windows .net application is just set of controls interactions. It could be done by scripting what C# actually is. So it is not programming in retrospective view, it is just building an "application" from blocks. And while it is good to have a good block toolbox, this is far from mastering machine code. VS is good, but as platform is a habit of commercial future dependency. And what is bad there is no future alternative, mono is just an excuse - OSS can do it. It can, yes - but it just enlarges .net multi-platform user base. Not good. Reasuming, parent is right. Mod me redundant, but one thing to add: IT is driven by M$ to create standards M$ way, what is incompatibile, it is behind. And this is the power of Visual Studio - charisma not competence.

  5. Re:Kids will be kids on Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax · · Score: 0

    EU is a union of countries, has it's own money and government... What else does it need to have TLD ? And one more thing: who's to decide about it ? For now USA has a ball and plays with it alone, it must change.
    Maybe UN is not a good idea but who else? IEEE?
    About taxes I envy Brasil it's tax service, here in Poland I can only send my assurance reports online and I must visit tax office personally monthly or even more frequently to give some papers...
    Client updates was only an option which i've provided for pools of trusted users with illegal character filtering (invalid-ddns-chars = replace;), average smith has had it's dhcp host in dns or for dynamic ip's dns entry like ip-a.b.c.d (ddns-hostname = pick-first-value(host-decl-name, concat( "ip-", leased-address)); ), so please don't assume i'm incompetent script kiddie. I'm speaking in past tense because i've sold my ISP company to much bigger one (ya know, consolidation _and_ profit ;) )
    To be honest my current group's projects (console and mobile games) are earning US taxes as we speak. If you wish ( considering you're representative of Netstylus - wire-head.org) to outsource some development work, I'm breaking /. rules and I'm officially advertising you our outsourcing services [ visit our website ] and possibly closer cooperation, because our services are suprisingly similar.
    Finally, our DNS dispute is interesting, but far from being resolved. Facts are one country's company cannot rule the fundament of Internet as we know it. Greets

  6. Re:Kids will be kids on Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax · · Score: 0

    Why .eu domain is silly (and assuming U R US citizen, I'll humbly complete this sentence saying for you that .us is not) ? EU might not yet be oficially one country divided to cultural regions, but you bet it will unite, quite possibly in this century (in Western Europe it's just a matter of definition of word Country and unifying econopolitics).
    And your objections of UN politics are pointless because UN has among all international organizations greatest influence in global economy and politics, there are no other real alternatives - if there were, you've probably mentioned them instead of whining about how worse TLD administration would be under wings of UN.
    You've mentioned running taxes over internet is stupid? What about your Paperwork Ellimination Act? I am sorry, but I have no words to describe such dead-ended thinking.
    As net/sysadmin I'm running my own, ddns-updated, redundant and synchronized servers, so I quite well know how it works. And statistics of TLD access have GREAT value - ask your national security authorities how easy might be tracing online terrorist actions by comparing region ip's and queried domains. And market value of dns query information is enormously high.
    Gathering it in efficient way is far from impossible, thanks to today's storage capabilities in conjunction with effective compression of importatnt query information (packed ascii query string with timestamp and ip is quite enough).
    With current growth of internet, world DNS will be (or should I say is) worth billions. Where this money would go is not to decide by one country occupying half the continent of 5 total.
    And while you're opposing government involvment, this scale should make you think about danger of commercial total control over one of many VERY important issues like DNS.

  7. Re:Kids will be kids on Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax · · Score: 0

    The control that it gives is really to decide who is running the TLDs, and what TLDs are added to the root zone.

    Yes that's exactly the point. It might be considered as security breach for all countries but US. Consider mentioned earlier Brasil 90% of population tax services, consider LOGGING and STATS of DNS queries for ALL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. Consider decisions, propositions and vetos of TLD names - it was a problem and will be if it wouldn't be taken care of (.eu is plain example).
    .com.us/.com.gb etc segmentation is not a solution (although it would clarify DNS order quite well), solution is one global organization, being there just to decide what to do with . zone.
    And possibly ISP instructions where to query should be being sent first (national/continental root servers first) or DNS servers patched to choose the lowest latency root server. It's all what it is about and guess what... it will happen sooner or later.

  8. Re:gaim works for me, but loses ground from here on Linux Instant Messengers · · Score: -1, Troll

    You all act as a bunch of nerds... oh sorry, wrong page.

  9. Re:The UN, dictatorships and the Internet... on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 0

    But xxx domain and where possible, control of removal of xxx sites from .com .info etc and national domains would fix all problems, - .xxx dns firewalls in schools / fundamentalist zones etc - unified IIRC most frequently visited web page category And you all misinterpret intentions of EU/UN: they want - functional domains of free democratic choice of world nations, look at .eu case and ICANN bitchin' - load balancing of all DNS queries to world geographically (sorry 13:1 ratio of TLD servers is not fair) And definitely more...

  10. Re:This again? Where's the problem? on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    Where you don't know where the problem is, it's about money.

  11. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    So attempts to control the oil is who's and what way? May your pride be with you, I think world is evolving and US is in stasis (or maybe back to the roots, which I've mentioned as GP).

  12. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And who invented US in the first place? EUropeans did.

  13. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    ... and how aout control over ip && whois databases ?

  14. Re:Well hurry the hell up then. on Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" · · Score: 1

    It is also common trend in few latest books of polish writer Stanislaw Lem, eg Okamgnienie [A Blink of an Eye]. Dunno if these recounts of accomplishments and ideas are to suggest buying previous books or for parading a belly in ivory tower, but this doesn't work for me, hell no.

  15. Re:Speed and memory consumption on KDE 4 Promises Large Changes · · Score: 1

    How about amiga workbench, 3.0 IIRC was boxed in ROM of size 0.5MB, all it needed to run was about 2kb app called loadwb. And on the contrary of current desktop features, huge BPP sizes, multiple image formats, it just worked. Why? Because it was consistent yet quite extendable by datatypes, MUI among others like compression libraries. It was well thought from the beginning! Current multitude of platforms and interoperability requirements are not helping here but hey, think... almost every file format, every compression algorithm is developed by standalone library (libpng, libjpeg, libbz2 etc) which requires every end solution programmer to learn, program and test how it works on every one of these library dependencies. To say more, when all linux console tools, servers (although this post is not only about linux) use command line and text file argument/configuration interface, it must be programmed - this takes time and is bug prone. Windows staff sees this problem and Vista console would surprise you. But it can be done on FOSS too, look for example at kernel crypto modules. Think about including dynamic, binary, scripting configuration format in linking process, accessed using a pointer to one and linked when loading program. And some IDE tools for creating such configuration, namely database of predefined as in windows registry data formats or custom ones, which may be configured runtime using command line, text gui or KDE/GNOME (replacing damn slow xml and faster yet slow text configs). Think about httpd virtual host configuration or ls settings with argument command line names or GUI description edited in IDE and compiled to config.bin. If anybody follows the idea, pls respond here.

  16. And... on Searching for a Decent Scanner? · · Score: 1

    ... do you want to run it on linux ?

  17. Re:The Cisco Advisory on Cisco Flaw Opens Routers to Attack · · Score: 1

    Just wanted to calm down /. crowd, hope they'll sleep better now.

  18. Re:Milk on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    My milk consumtion to farting frequency ratio is very annoying for myself and my neighbourhood. I hope r^Hevolution will fix it soon.

  19. Kosh would say... on BBC Opens TV Archive to Remixers · · Score: 2, Funny

    irrelevant.
    And Sinclair would add as far as 0.009376 of every human being vill care.

  20. Re:Highly paid consultants or....Ask Slashdot on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Try http://www.zmailer.org/ for smtp, it will scale by it's design (two processes communicating with each other). It is deployed on few known to me large free mail sites.

  21. Re:The Cisco Advisory on Cisco Flaw Opens Routers to Attack · · Score: 1

    Advisory statement:
    Products Confirmed Not Vulnerable
    Products that are not running Cisco IOS are not affected
    ...
    So linux is not affected. Happy?

  22. Re:sKYPE on Ebay Rumored to be Buying Skype · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes of course, just follow the instructions on 0-700-SKYBAY and maybe on lower than 10th level of DTMF service menu you will have luck to scream on innocent living person of flesh and blood.

  23. Re:How many floppies do I need to back this beast on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1

    How about huuge 500GB torrents now? You just select what u want to download from it's content. Moviez2005.torrent MP3z2004.torrent pr0n2005.torrent 6.8GHz1/4of2TBLaptop2006.torrent etc... WouldBeGood