User: oohal

Re:lets just suspend ALL students and save time

On: Student Attempting To Improve School Security Suspended

perhaps the school does not DESERVER your funding.

I'm thinking you should have spent more time listening in your english classes, rather than complaining about how the system is broken.

Extremely Terse Configs

On: Define - /etc?

Easy

Re:Playing Idiot's Advocate

On: Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

my personal opinion is that this is because unlike Windows, Linux does not assume that the user is an idiot

Used GNOME lately?

Re:Broken Laws

On: LSI Patents the Doubly-Linked List

I have an idea. Let's hold Patent examiners legally and financially responsible for issuing trivial or frivolous patents.

And while we're at it, lets hold programmers legally and financially responsible for bugs in their code!

Re:6502 was neither the first or the best micro ch

On: The Rise and Fall of Commodore

The Motorola 6800 was next. And after that came the MOS Technology 6502, which was a variation of the 6800.

Well according to wikipedia and the book, the two aren't related at all, the 6501 (predecessor to the 6502) was pin compatible with the 6800, but used a different instruction set, etc. Since MOS Technology got sued for using the same pin layout the 6502 is the (almost) the same as a 6501 but it wasn't pin compatible to avoid another lawsuit from Motorola.

-oohal

Re:XOrg/Apache/Perl/BSD/GNU/Linux

On: Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks

neither does it mean his face should be on the proverbial wheaties box at the exclusion of the rest of the team.

I always figured having RMS' head on a box would scare people off.

-oohal

Re:Event Streaming to Browsers

On: The Future of Rich Internet Applications

Strikes me as odd that the browser would make a new connection for each request, isn't the bottleneck that unneeded requests created the reason HTTP/1.1 introduced Keep-Alive?

-oohal