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  1. For better or worse.... on Ask the Author of the Latest MS-Funded Windows vs. Linux Study · · Score: 0
    Mr. Thompson,

    I spent the last two hours re-writing and revising my post in order to concisely, accurately, and honestly, refute your findings, opinions, and potential biasness.

    My post was most righteous, eloquent, refined, accurate, and necessary. However, my Windows XP box was both hacked, and crashed during my submission, and all I'm left with is this tired old message.

    Tired and frustrating (like my operating system),

    Earle Ady

  2. Has Someone forgot the GNU Programming Guidelines? on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 1, Informative
    From the GNU homepae: (www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html)

    The GNU Coding Standards were written by Richard Stallman and other GNU Project volunteers. Their purpose is to make the GNU system clean, consistent, and easy to install. This document can also be read as a guide to writing portable, robust and reliable programs. It focuses on programs written in C, but many of the rules and principles are useful even if you write in another programming language. The rules often state reasons for writing in a certain way. Best, url80

  3. Put that horde of cash to some use!! on Google Paying for Firefox Installs · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Great strategical ploy on Google's parts to really put a chink in the armor of Microsoft. The amount of money they'll spend pushing Firefox is a pennance compared to the cost of marketshare Microsoft will lose. Excellent to see Google really making continued financial backing to Open Source efforts!!!

  4. Cracking DES? on Police Need 90 Days To Crack Hard Drives · · Score: -1

    The ninety day number is hardly due to brute-forcing small keyspaces, it's most certainly due to the inadequacies of technological capability and understanding in most situations. Automated tools that do little more than simple keyword matching throughout a hard drive have proven worthless. People who use modern encryption aren't going to be encrypting their files with 256-bit DES, but will opt for much stronger keylengths (by default) within most software. 90 months, let alone 90 days, would render the 90 day extention meaningless given proper care in selecting a meaningful cryptosystem capable of protecting your data from anything more than your kid sister. In a nutshell, I think the 90 day extention will do more for traditional analysis of data and provide much more time to make sound and detailed analysis of raw data. e.

  5. Poor SGI! on Silicon Graphics To Be Delisted From NYSE · · Score: -1
    I have always been a big fan of Silicon Graphics, even here on their presumed death bed. SGI would certainly be able to list on a NASDAQ OTC market if they wished to, but what's the real point now?

    I still remember the day I got my blessed Indy! At leasrt it now runs linux!!

  6. Usability Questionable? Not in modern ISA's! on Security and Usability · · Score: -1
    Although alot of modern software systems can be cryptic, and outright annoying, I would have to disagree with modern intergrated security appliances not being easy to use!

    With some of the top products from ISS, SonicWall, and Watchguard, you can almost plug and play a complete anti-virus, intelligent firewall, with anti-spam and even VOIP control! These next-gen appliances are certainly easy to use, and do provide auto-updating features as well.

    They generally provide quick and painless setup and initialization, and most are configurable through self-explanitory web interfaces.

    Easy enough?

  7. Licensed to Program? on Fully Automated IM Worms on the Way? · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    How about a forced license to compile? This is getting obsurd. People continuously pourying syrup on shit and selling pancakes. I've had enough.

  8. T-Shirts are Dandy and All.. on OpenBSD 3.8 Released · · Score: -1, Troll
    T-Shirts are dandy and all, but who really uses this anymore? Does anyone happen to know penetration numbers for OpenBSD these days? I can't imagine it's very high at all.

  9. Advertising Revenues on Internet is Killing the Newspaper · · Score: 1
    Also consider the fact that although online advertising click through rates (CTR) have fallen drastically from their debut of around 2% to around 0.2%, they have been slowing increasing with the onslaught of new intelligent relevency systems such as Google AdSense.

    Additionally the pressure of online publishers to produce quality content is going to become much more critical than anytime prior. Sites like Digg can easily attest to quality of content when it comes to writing an article.

  10. Pre-requisite Packages... on The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately, the book expects the installation of several non-essential packages beyond the MySQL client and server. These include Apache, PHP, phpMyAdmin, and Perl (Chapter 2). Then, the introductory example (Chapter 3) is mostly about programming and testing an application in PHP with a MySQL database as a backend. At this point, I realized that the organization of the book did not meet my needs and purchased "MySQL (Third Edition)" by Paul DuBois, the organization of which demonstrates that it really concentrates on MySQL and which is actually the definitive guide I was originally looking for.

  11. Semantics.. Really a difference? on Unblock Google Cache in China · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This seems nothing more than a quick work-around. How long do you expect until this is patched?

    Best,

    url80

  12. Re:Hasn't anyone learned from previous failures? on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1
    That link didn't work right:

    CIX Problems

    Best,
    url
    the bounty network.com

  13. Hasn't anyone learned from previous failures? on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 3, Informative
    Hasn't anyone learned from the failures of the CIX effort in the early nineties?

    I mean.. let's get real.

    Best, url the bounty network

  14. Re:Only an Attaboy? on Help crack the Java 1.6 Classfile Verifier · · Score: 0
    This should be a good challenge for Distributed.Net.

    They could also post a bounty for the breaking of this on:

    The Bounty Network