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  1. Re:Sad or Telling? on Linus Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    I always thought it should be MiSCOsoft...

  2. Appples and oranges... on Performance Evaluation of Xen Vs. OpenVZ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OpenVZ is somewhat like FreeBSD Jails. It provides some separation which makes it easier to manage multiple complex servers. For example, it makes sense to run a web server and mail server in two separate virtual machines, since it keeps the configuration independent.

    Xen, is like VmWare or Qemu and provides an independent virtual machine for each system. These systems can be anything at all: Windows, Linux, BSD, whatever.

    Performance wise, OpenVZ is bound to win, because it is a different solution to a different problem.

  3. Ask Scott McNealy on Why Microsoft Won't List Claimed Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    who MS bought Excel from. According to him, MS hasn't actually developed anything at all and I tend to agree with him...

  4. Nope - SMB infringing on protocol patents on Why Microsoft Won't List Claimed Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    MS bought SMB from IBM - sorry. BTW, MS bought the Outlook/Exchange protocol from the OpenGroup, so that won't do it either.

  5. CDE was before Windoze on Why Microsoft Won't List Claimed Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Enviro nment
    Sorry to burst your devil's bubble, but most, if not all the MS patents are probably junk and they know it.

  6. Hmm, how about an alcohol sponge? on 'Virus Sponge' Could Improve Flu Treatments, Diabetes Care, Vaccine Development · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think that a method to remove alcohol from the bloodstream the moment you walk out the door of the pub would be a killer app, except that then all of a sudden that gorgeous girl at your side will just become a common broad and that just might ruin the rest of the night...

  7. Linux already works like that on Rethinking the Linux Distribution? · · Score: 1

    Linux distributions already depend on centralized servers for software downloads and anything that makes sense are hosted on LAMP stacks. As bandwidth increases, CDs and DVDs will be used less. That trend has been ongoing sense the 75 baud modem was invented.

  8. Re:personal responsibility on Blame Your Mistakes on Technology · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Blaming someone or something else is what religion is all about.

  9. Inquisition on Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion? · · Score: 1

    With the BSA as the Spanish Inquisition?

  10. They do have one... on Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion? · · Score: 4, Funny

    but it is a Hate Cult.

  11. Only 'move' it? on NASA Gears Up for the Regolith Rumble · · Score: 1

    Being an orbiting planet, the regolith is never stationary, however I'll just use some TNT...

  12. Re:Whatever happened to common sense? on State Bans Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    It is America - common sens isn't. Blame it on the public school system and No Child Left Behind.

  13. ...but Pretexting is still legal... on State Bans Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Hello HP! Dumbasses...

  14. Re:Already been done. on Microsoft & SanDisk To Provide Desktop on Thumb Drive · · Score: 1

    In the good old MS tradition, they are playing catch-up again, so they are allocating 500 programmers to do worse what one guy did years ago already.

  15. Portable Apps on Microsoft & SanDisk To Provide Desktop on Thumb Drive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It looks to me like MS finally caught on to Portable Applications and BartPE bootable CDs or USB sticks.

  16. Re:Won't be a big hit. on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 1

    Uhh, plastic is organic, so is wax, petrol, diesel, coal, oil, tar and most pesticides... Organic stuff is not necessarily edible or healthy.

  17. PC Decrapifyer on No Wine for Dell Ubuntu Users, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, the PC Decrapifyer makes short shrift of it: http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/08/62

  18. To Hubble... on NASA Unveils Hubble's Successor · · Score: 1

    is to screw-up so unbelievably badly, that it will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars to fix the problem. Let's hope they test the mirrors this time round.

  19. Re:DRE huh? on HBO Exec Proposes DRM Name Change · · Score: 1

    Ah, here we go: Digital Crap Enhancement

  20. DRE huh? on HBO Exec Proposes DRM Name Change · · Score: 1

    As in
    Digital Consumer Exclusion
    Digital Content Explosion ...

  21. Identical Devices on Obsession With Firewalls Could Hinder IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Here is an example that needs NAT:
    Say you wish to produce and deploy 1000,000 rather complex but otherwise identical systems that are mobile and can be moved around at will.

    Example: Armoured cars, ATVs, Tanks, Aircraft, Helicopters, Ships, Boats, Submarines, Motor cars, Jeeps, Trucks...

  22. Who cares? on Warner Brothers Pulls Canadian Previews · · Score: 1

    Seriously - few people go to the movies more than once per year and who gives a flyingfsck about previews?

    Anyhoo, I don't believe that movies are ripped by paying goers using camcorders. These things are ripped by professionals with telecini boxes. It is organized criminals and we don't need new laws to combat it. Laws do nothing. Old fashioned Policing is required.

  23. Re:all talk, no action on Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Come on, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and Java are all Sun projects. Give some credit where it is due.

  24. Your humble servant... on Library of Congress Threatens Washington Watch Wiki · · Score: 1

    Is there anyone here that knows when Civil Servants stopped signing their letters that way?

  25. Good news on Dell Partners with MS/Novell for Linux Servers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The MS Active Directory system and Exchange is what keeps MS shops locked in. Lately, the Active Directory integration has improved with new wizards from Redhat and Mandriva, but the Exchange front still sucks.