finally updated:04 Sep 2004 20:05 UK time oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Mike' View all Jossers sorted by : Name | Comments | Words | First Comment | Final Comment Number of Comments: 615 Number of Words: 31,522 First Comment: 18 Oct 2001 Final Comment: 01 Sep 2004 Number of Topics Posted: 47 First Topic: 15 Nov 2001 Latest Topic: 19 Aug 2004 When Item Comment 01 Sep 2004   Outlook client with ....   I hadn't heard of it either, until this last issue....   >>         Scalix already exists and does what you want.   >>   31 Aug 2004   SAN - Can they be ac....   Here's how I break it down. SAN = Sane as in it....   >>   30 Aug 2004   Outsourcing happenin....   We don't want Kenny getting in trouble. It would b....   >>   29 Aug 2004   GmailFS - Gmail File....   'Just what I need. A really, really slow 1GB hard ....   >>   28 Aug 2004   Peoplesoft Bug Track....   KC is right.  Everytime you run into a QMS sy....   >>   26 Aug 2004   If MS Only Cares Abo....   'I thought McDonalds POS ran SCO UnixWare?' Tha....   >>   25 Aug 2004   Return back to the c....   I have a couple of invites as well if anyone is in....   >>      Technology Review on....   on the marketing brocure "...and for a few dollars....   >>         '.. When a major, stable, and visionary company is....   >>   23 Aug 2004   MSDN editorial   'This sort of thing really doesn't work for the co....   >>      Anti-anti-virus   '(I really don't understand how it got infected so....   >>   20 Aug 2004   How bad is goto, rea....   The only useful place I've ever used goto was in e....   >>   19 Aug 2004   At the end of the day...   >>   19 Aug 2004   Production/Testing D....   Save time with http://www.red-gate.com/SQL_Com....   >>      GOOG off to the race....   'Did they get hacked?' No some large playas tri....   >>      Ford kills major Ora....   What major technology company has had all it's pro....   >>   18 Aug 2004   SQL Server - Up or D....   This link, Dennis http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results....   >>         'UNIX is an operating system standard, and runs on....   >>         Number 1 and 3 are not SQL Server and are lower co....   >>         ' In any case virtually all of the DB2 and Oracle ....   >>         'but SQL Server has support AWE (a sort of extende....   >>         ' 64-CPU Itanium boxes' Can you honestly get on....   >>         'Lets keep in mind the SQL Server 2005 coming out ....   >>      Backup Software   I too left Backup Exec. Way bloated and will dr....   >>   17 Aug 2004   Latest IE threat   >>   17 Aug 2004   Latest IE threat   'Does the post change any of our lives one iota?' ....   >>         True, technically.  Look one thread down and ....   >>      Plain-text messages ....   ' 'Read all standard mail in plain text' option in....   >>         Put a signature in apologising and saying it's Mic....   >>      Morons and Assholes ....   'To be fair he made each dimension a range, so som....   >>         Why does every blogger write an article that alway....   >>   12 Aug 2004   word processor with ....   Possibly open the document with open office then t....   >>   11 Aug 2004   SQLServer getting th....   First 5 in the table starting from the top.  ....   >>         Actually, In other words. select top 5 * f....   >>         In other words. select top 5 from x order by....   >>   10 Aug 2004   Pricing a source cod....   My data analysis tool comes with source code. I s....   >>   09 Aug 2004   Shareware and ISV's ....   Who is this Eric Guy?   >>   07 Aug 2004   Good forms design re....   How about left aligned with leaders? Or something....   >>   05 Aug 2004   What do you use for ....   If you put .LOG as the first line of a text docume....   >>   02 Aug 2004   I am a great hacker   'Oh my God...did you just use the word 'n00b'? Gee....   >>      The Village is a hit   '$50.8 million at the box officein one week.' S....   >>      lacking telecommutin....   'Err.. done correctly, a wireless network can be e....   >>      Earth to Microsoft   Muppet, he had 95, NT and 2000 machines.  In ....   >>      By 2007 Linux will h....   'In other news, developer salaries have droped by ....   >>   29 Jul 2004   HTTP Access logging   My company uses squid. It runs on NT and authenti....   >>      How do pople get thi....   Take a job in helpdesk or pc support.  You'll....   >>   28 Jul 2004   Compelling reason to....   Who cares. This is akin to someone saying that if....   >>      The burst is about t....   'I think we all considered that back in the 1950s ....   >>         '(If you think $3/gallon for gas is bad, just imag....   >>      SPAM   Symantec mail gateway.  Scrubs all of our inc....   >>   20 Jul 2004   Reporting Engine for....   Whoa now - I never said anything derogatory about ....   >>         Business Objects has been around for a while. ....   >>      Programmer Performan....   Google for "heisenberg"   >>   17 Jul 2004   Microsoft (or other)....   Microsoft sent me a very nice usb flash drive the ....   >>   16 Jul 2004   open source data min....   http://sourceforge.net/projects/dat-a/    >>   14 Jul 2004   New Windows slogan   Swiss cheese I tell ya   >>      Big Companies & ....   New Thought: People have expressed belief in go....   >>         Thanks Katie - That's an interesting bit about Rat....   >>   13 Jul 2004   Big Companies & Small Companies   >>   13 Jul 2004      I have to agree with Mark. I can't sit back whi....   >>         ---you and 5 people go to Vegas, and pick up HDD's....   >>         > It's all about how you can succeed, despite thos....   >>   12 Jul 2004   Revenue Sharing   You and they need to calculate how much the add-on....   >>      Video games dont cra....   Driver 3. (I rest my case)    >>   11 Jul 2004   RFID   I was just looking into this the other day.  ....   >>      Revenue Sharing   From your point of view, it presumably has to be p....   >>   05 Jul 2004   Need help on the VB ....   You might find what you are looking for in the Mic....   >>         In absolute terms, there is no significant busines....   >>   04 Jul 2004   Minimum browser list....   Brad / FG, >> Are you using a standards complia....   >>   03 Jul 2004   Minimum browser list for ASP.NET application   >>   03 Jul 2004      Andrew, Thanks for that full response and usefu....   >>   01 Jul 2004   DNS WMI Provider   >>   01 Jul 2004   DNS WMI Provider   Yeah, it looks like its available now. Thanks for....   >>   29 Jun 2004   Why 'http://WWP" and....   That is what I was trying to say in a roundabout s....   >>   28 Jun 2004      Why prefix the domain name with anything at all? ....   >>         That's a good question. They have a list of wwp si....   >>         It looks as though they are trying to start a new ....   >>   24 Jun 2004   Java: can't reduce i....   The alternative is composition.   >>   23 Jun 2004   Innovation, Producti....   They are all words you'd see in a Microsoft press ....   >>      Dell Computers   '- rapid turnover of sales rep (every 4 months or ....   >>   22 Jun 2004   Don Box replies to "....   Well, he couldn't exactly say. 'Joel's right. Sh....   >>      Swing to MFC   'Hell, I can write a report in two days.' Bah, ....   >>      New IIS Hole?   Dennis, why not have your friend turn this info in....   >>   21 Jun 2004   Why should I buy fro....   Trust but verify.  If some comoponant reselle....   >>      The RedHat Enterpris....   'Hopefully when Microsoft rightsizes and stops its....   >>      Microsoft plans to s....   What the hell runs FAT anymore.  Certainly no....   >>   20 Jun 2004   Microsoft is ruining....   'There is no mention of what was used to control t....   >>   19 Jun 2004   Microsoft is ruining the internet   >>   19 Jun 2004   XP SP 2 & The Ri....   So finally Microsoft is thwarting running it's uns....   >>   17 Jun 2004   Browser Accessibility (Section 508)   >>   17 Jun 2004   Browser Accessibilit....   While Section 508 does only apply to federal agenc....   >>   16 Jun 2004   Summary of Joel's La....   I knew that longhorn is going to support . net and....   >>      Maybe It's Not That ....   'Right or wrong, good or bad, maximizing profit is....   >>      All is revealed   What is the difference between Mozilla and Firefox....   >>   15 Jun 2004   U.S. declines to cre....   'Secondly, most spammers operate overseas anyway. ....   >>      Poll: www.foxnews.co....   I'd say it's the same people that did abcnews.com,....   >>      Maybe It's Not That ....   'Where were all you whiny programmers when we text....   >>      Firefox 0.9 has bad ....   Well then keep to your IE and spyware/adware/bho's....   >>      What will they come ....   Dubya: DFC Dumb Fucking Conservative    >>   14 Jun 2004   Good reading while J....   It's like he's trying to be Hani over at BileBlog.....   >>         My God.  He must be a very bitter VB develope....   >>      What will they come ....   DFL Dumb Fscking Liberal    >>      Excel automation wit....   'Why's it unacceptable to have OK as the default? ....   >>   11 Jun 2004      Microsoft GUI is CUI Captive user interface. T....   >>   10 Jun 2004   Yup the problem is n....   'If it was demonstrably secure then business clien....   >>   09 Jun 2004      From the article 'an exploit that Microsoft Cor....   >>      Thanks for the spam   'If you left your front door open and a big ass do....   >>      Good news   Slowpen office I call it.    >>   06 Jun 2004   Is the tide now goin....   WOW! That has got to be your longest ever post Al....   >>      Another evening wast....   More TCO, eh?   >>      End users' computers....   I think you should charge double the going corpora....   >>      Virus / Trojan Weird....   Read the file o.bat. It ftp's down the other fi....   >>   05 Jun 2004   640K Should be Enoug....   Yup cause some of those guys had monopolies too.   >>   04 Jun 2004   MYSQL in trouble   You are mistaken. Almost every rebms is superior ....   >>      Run screaming into t....   'I do keep checking it thrice a day, either in per....   >>   03 Jun 2004   what an article!   >>   03 Jun 2004   what an article!   http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&....   >>      Disk shredder / hard....   DBAN   >>      Long-term prospects ....   And yet the unix community forges ahead with tools....   >>   02 Jun 2004   Windows based Email ....   Did you give up on the Bat, Brad?   >>   28 May 2004   Win2k forever   'Seems daring to me. Allowing win2k sever to hang ....   >>   25 May 2004   How do I become a contractor? (in the UK)   >>   21 May 2004   My tech crystall ball reveals 10 years into the fu   >>   21 May 2004   Future of desktop de....   'I am afraid server-side programming will just bec....   >>      my gripes with Offic....   Back in the day when I worked help desk, I'd get c....   >>   19 May 2004   Lots and lots of fre....   Migrate the Unix servers to Windows.  Once yo....   >>      AS/400...EXPERIENCE ....   http://www.texas400.com/default.html Has free a....   >>   18 May 2004   And so it begins   >>   18 May 2004   what you don't know   'How much do you have to know before you can stop ....   >>      And so it begins   'nor what OS the desktops were running.' Dude, ....   >>         'It's not as if they are running Microsoft Office ....   >>      Quikview.exe on Win2....   WTF is quickview?  What makes it so indispens....   >>   17 May 2004   Oracle hardware plan....   'You can never have too much RAM :-). Hence the....   >>   16 May 2004   Thoughts on decent l....   'Isn't it also possible to 'grab' the data file at....   >>         Whoop ass.  Want some?   >>         I guess I wasn't clear. Really I wanted to stay a....   >>   15 May 2004   Thoughts on decent looking UI   >>   15 May 2004   What another awsome ....   For a minute there I thoght the really long post m....   >>         Too funny.  A caricature of JOS regulars.   >>      Thoughts on decent l....   Yes they are easy enough. I have a spare machine ....   >>   12 May 2004   Is 64-bit worth it?   If you run a vldb, yes by all means.   >>      Massive Windows Pain....   'So given my very undemanding needs, what advantag....   >>         'Everything's so freakin' fragile. It works so be....   >>         Knowing full well that XP Home sucks for what you ....   >>      How to negotiate wit....   Well, Jim S, if the billing rate is say $85/hr and....   >>   11 May 2004   Wanted: Article why ....   Top 3 reasons were: Monopoly Monopolistic Prac....   >>      Save up for Windows ....   One more vote for IBM's desktop middleware.   >>      How to negotiate wit....   Could be. In fact the broker repeated the rate tod....   >>         About contacting the manager directly, is it ethic....   >>         Guys, I don't know wbaout going to the client dire....   >>   10 May 2004   How to negotiate with broker   >>   08 May 2004   Does commissioning a....   Doesn't necessarily indicate it, but it is sure im....   >>   05 May 2004   Open Sourcers: What'....   It's in the Unix convention to be 'cute' with na....   >>      Integrating web site....   'They use telnet to connect to their inventory sys....   >>   04 May 2004   Why do fax machines ....   'Fax machines are easy to use. Enter a phone numbe....   >>   03 May 2004   U.S. Is Losing Its D....   '(It's free to register. Unfortunately you do have....   >>   02 May 2004   Microsoft Security p....   'Maybe this is their subtle way to encouraging peo....   >>   01 May 2004   VoIP Security   >>   01 May 2004      I don't mean ignorant people don't use them for en....   >>         Look at the drivers that this thing fails with. O....   >>   30 Apr 2004   Programmer's Assumpt....   Microsoft doesn't understand security.   >>      Give Work Away?   'Where are the graphic designers or user interface....   >>      more great open sour....   ''The time has gone when it would have been possib....   >>   28 Apr 2004   Double-Byte Languages List   >>   28 Apr 2004   Double-Byte Language....   Sorry for the confusion caused by my initial post,....   >>   27 Apr 2004   Best current Backup ....   '*shudder*' I'll second that. Get ready to spe....   >>      Life Stream   Search technology is going to be uber important in....   >>         Reminds me of this in a way http://research.micro....   >>   26 Apr 2004   Never write a progra....   I was pretty sure 12 lines was the limit.  Ju....   >>      Yahoo servers overlo....   More unix lossiness?   >>   23 Apr 2004   File archiving tool?   I use this - IDEM http://peccatte.karefil.com/sof....   >>   21 Apr 2004   How I can sell sourc....   I want to start a website and sell binary but I do....   >>   20 Apr 2004   How I can sell source-code of my Apps   >>   19 Apr 2004   Have a nice weekend or...   >>   19 Apr 2004   Service Oriented Arc....   Services Oriented Architecture is there to drive r....   >>   16 Apr 2004   Exercises in UNIX   'Linux is not Unix' Not by name, but in functio....   >>   07 Apr 2004   Why do people just w....   Ask a linux user   >>   29 Mar 2004   Linux: First determi....   'They're not all brainless,' -- John. True. I....   >>   28 Mar 2004      'Its irrelevant that Linux was aimed at the Unix....   >>      Xbox 2 compatibility....   A new console that plays your old library of games....   >>   24 Mar 2004   Open Source UI Design or lack there of   >>   24 Mar 2004   Open Source UI Desig....   ''Mangle' or other scary text is a perfectly valid....   >>         Who is forcing you to use this? Nobody How much....   >>         Plus the great grammer. 'Setting that don't fit....   >>   23 Mar 2004   Communist Western Eu....   Isreal should have nuked the funeral yesterday.    >>         'EU to fine Microsoft a record $613m Ha Ha    >>   18 Mar 2004   EU "Competition" Com....   Excuse me if I don't cry Microsoft a river.   >>   17 Mar 2004   good books for Maste....   Thanks Jordan that is a great link. I'm a vba /....   >>      JoS Forum's law   Clinton   >>         sysadmins.  Those bastards make life hard for....   >>   16 Mar 2004   Any thoughts about O....   Here is why we are all in trouble. Robert Scobl....   >>   15 Mar 2004   Bad Programming Team....   'Team first. Individuals second. Didn't you watc....   >>   12 Mar 2004   RentAcoder   ' Need a strong ASP programmer to fix an error in ....   >>      How Should a novice ....   I've heard good things about this book http://w....   >>   09 Mar 2004   salary on current jo....   Just in respecting your current employers wishes t....   >>   08 Mar 2004   Nielsen is getting o....   If Nielsen doesn't trip your trigger. Pick some....   >>   07 Mar 2004   Organize Against Off....   OP sounds like a wanker from the World Workers's P....   >>      How come Yahoo conta....   Lip service. Notice how Microsoft has all these e....   >>      Windows XP SP2 Will ....   'This is the best feature in XP SP2, and unfortuna....   >>   06 Mar 2004   Tom Peters on Outsou....   You know what? This thing about the US not bein....   >>   05 Mar 2004   Open Source: Get up ....   'Each doing their own thing has worked perfectly....   >>   04 Mar 2004   Quotes from a custom....   'Performance is scalable. You can get any amount o....   >>      Keeping track of ser....   Unix admins solved this awhile back.  Usaully....   >>      ESR/CUPS feedback   This is ESR's follow up.  The original thread....   >>      Does Windows XP Sp2 ....   Here you go Real http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-....   >>         'Hopefully Longhorn will actually have .net in it.....   >>   03 Mar 2004   Open source... rat r....   'but I've never met an SCO system that couldn't be....   >>   02 Mar 2004   Stock Market related....   The market will be interesting around 2015 or so w....   >>         I think "Happy Days" was a big Fonzi scheme.   >>   26 Feb 2004   Tom Peters: Sixteen ....   To paraphrase Tom. Economics effects us.    >>         Nothing is inherently good or bad, we make it so.   >>      Spam filtering on se....   'Phone calls don't generally leave paper trails, s....   >>   25 Feb 2004   Laughable Web Servic....   ' it's screamingly fast, which it needs to be to k....   >>         As Joel said, check with the finacial houses these....   >>      Spam filtering on se....   'All sysadmins do it tell you why you can't do wha....   >>         'What if it costs you a client because you never r....   >>      Best argument agains....   Two things: 1. The guy in the interview works f....   >>   23 Feb 2004   Subversion hits vers....   "Oh, and Apache performs like ass."  Brad, th....   >>   22 Feb 2004   bookkeeping for mobi....   This is a good package. My father uses MYOB on Wi....   >>      my career   'Especially when we're talking about MSSQL' Whi....   >>   21 Feb 2004   DotNet is Deja Vu   'but the reality is that most developers do not ge....   >>         So I guess what your saying is the Microsoft centr....   >>   17 Feb 2004   How successful has M....   I drove charter/tour bus in a former life. Once d....   >>   16 Feb 2004   Pitfalls of oursourc....   From the article: > Farming out development to ....   >>   13 Feb 2004   Best Windows Program....   Today, the .NET framework works over Win32 - it wo....   >>   12 Feb 2004   What's the big deal ....   Orkut is an act in marketing information gathering....   >>   11 Feb 2004   Software to view doc....   Text Text Baby!   >>      Oh boy. ANOTHER secu....   downloads.microsoft.com appears not to exist. ....   >>   10 Feb 2004   Two blank spaces aft....   And again some of us wonder why our jobs are going....   >>      System DOA   And yes, the US would have laws as well. Typicall....   >>         'You mean, since he didn't pay enough for it, he c....   >>         I think I see your problem. 'bought a $400 deskto....   >>   09 Feb 2004   Disk IMAGING softwar....   Not sure if this would work or not http://www.ult....   >>      Firebird 0.8 -> F....   After the problems they've had picking a name perh....   >>   08 Feb 2004   The Virus Undergroun....   Virus creator acceptance speech. First off, I'd....   >>   06 Feb 2004   Hard Drive ...warbli....   Probably a bearing going.  Backup and replace....   >>   05 Feb 2004   Mydoom a taste of vi....   'I don't think it's going to be as bad as this guy....   >>      Best email/newsgroup....   The Roman's had lead plumbing, we have Windows(TM)....   >>      why is my computer s....   I swear the sob that wrote find fast is a close pe....   >>      Firebird 0.8 might d....   'It couldn't be simpler.' Yes, and then make it....   >>   04 Feb 2004   why is my computer s....   OS rot.  Or have you patched recently.  ....   >>      Alternative for IIS?....   JD has posted here many times before. Not every p....   >>      Oracle - where to be....   ' Oracle sent a legion of consultants to help us g....   >>   02 Feb 2004   The Borland Brain Dr....   I'll bet they never hired away a marketer from Bor....   >>   29 Jan 2004   My Adventures with o....   I hope the manager at my bank lets those eager you....   >>      I'm a programmer and....   'I used to use SharpReader, but found it taking 60....   >>   28 Jan 2004   Is Eiffel a contende....   'Does it have glaring faults that become obvious o....   >>      Any reason to switch....   Doesn't everybody leave their browsers running 24x....   >>         I use Firebird at home on Win2K and Mozilla at wor....   >>      Resume thing...   I've heard from so many headhunters say to keep th....   >>      Home Web Server - wh....   'Can I have both Apache and IIS running at the sam....   >>      Email Problem -- don....   The Email system stores the messages and retries s....   >>      Any good career site....   Try the large Indian newspaper websites.  For....   >>      Need some kind of fr....   Microsoft has a crappy photo editor that comes wit....   >>      Brussels set to rule....   Why? the EU is perhaps even a worse buearocracy th....   >>   27 Jan 2004   Windows XP command l....   Cygwin or SFU from Microsoft - now free, comes wit....   >>      Remember when gettin....   I guess we know what Miguel de Icaza is doing thes....   >>      Brussels set to rule....   Now what would be cool is if the EU said we want $....   >>      death of COM/DCOM?   I believe Don Box said Com is finished.  Mean....   >>      Microsoft not a real....   Please try to read more into people's words.   >>      Frustated by (Near) ....   ''why doesn't this API for which I don't have the ....   >>      .Net virii   Maybe we should, instead of answering the damn que....   >>      Blade Servers Versus....   'Our Dell 1U sounds like a jet engine. I think the....   >>   26 Jan 2004   Now I had it with Jo....   I'm also having a hard time understanding all this....   >>   25 Jan 2004   Want eat book   A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the....   >>   24 Jan 2004   More Windows Brain d....   'Stop thinking that everything has to be designed ....   >>      convert an integer t....   java.io.DataOutputStream   >>   23 Jan 2004   More Windows Brain death or Stealth Marketing?   >>   23 Jan 2004   More Windows Brain d....   'Try 'find' from the command-line, or the 'find in....   >>   21 Jan 2004   "Unix culture values....   '* There are no retarded flags! Shell commands ha....   >>   20 Jan 2004   Recommend Web Hostin....   Arrogant P Maybe you're just one of those peop....   >>      sysadmin stuff -- li....   I backup sql to the harddrive and from there to ta....   >>      A Random Walk Down W....   I bought it for my father in law. Synopsis: ....   >>   18 Jan 2004   Power brick rant   'scuze me while I whip this 18 foot power strip ou....   >>      Windows versus Linux....   Next, I think I will call Larry Ellison and see wh....   >>   17 Jan 2004   Decent classified ad software recommendations   >>   17 Jan 2004   Decent classified ad....   Oh, I should have added it will be on a website so....   >>      My Grammar be gettin....   Glad to hear grammar's feeling better.  How a....   >>   15 Jan 2004   The myth of th....   Who are you trying to convince?  Us, or you?   >>   13 Jan 2004   Interesting Security Article   >>   13 Jan 2004   Interesting Security....   'What other language are you going to write an OS ....   >>      JVM On Windows 2000 ....   You might try to dig around on Unisys's website as....   >>   12 Jan 2004   Why Lotus rocks in u....   Like MX said.  It is not that no one is bette....   >>   11 Jan 2004   Would you...   'Considering how much more harm and degradation re....   >>   08 Jan 2004   RSS and the Ars Digi....   Gotta be your aggregator.  I'm demoing newsga....   >>      Recommended time tra....   I like the TaskCapture program by Captureworks ( h....   >>   07 Jan 2004   How to develop enter....   But IBM could effectively have sell you all the se....   >>         I think what the person from IBM is getting at is ....   >>         Jim does look like the stereotypical Unix guru doe....   >>         I think this interview with Steve Mills, senior VP....   >>      SourceGear Vault eva....   I have no experience with any of them, but how abo....   >>      Case-sensitive filen....   Actually I dislike case sensitivity.  It sure....   >>   06 Jan 2004   Websites - Index Pag....   '- Bow before my graphic godliness swathed in Flas....   >>      K   I agree that databases have become uninteresting.&....   >>      Virtual Macs?   Joel, be sure to check out the Lacie D2's for your....   >>   05 Jan 2004   Will patents stop Linux?   >>   05 Jan 2004   Will patents stop Li....   My point was that I would think Linux would run in....   >>      Managing holiday dat....   Joe Celko has a beautiful solution for just this p....   >>      The problem with CSV....   CSV works well, use it all the time. One hint i....   >>      Need techie advice o....   Philo!!! 'My first thought is 'get insurance' My....   >>   04 Jan 2004   Technology ought to ....   'I mean look at Oracle. Oracle 7 and Oracle 9i, th....   >>      Cross UNIX Portabili....   '1. A fork()-equivalent system call is not availab....   >>   03 Jan 2004   Sanity checking FogB....   I think you're right about apt-get.  I think ....   >>         'Everyone I know who is using Debian as distributi....   >>      Open Source OCR Soft....   Open source == no dollars.   >>   02 Jan 2004   Sanity checking FogB....   To be more specific. THE INSTALLER SUCKS!!!!!!!!!....   >>   31 Dec 2003   Bought Empower ISV, ....   Just revise your release date a few years like MS ....   >>      Selling software app....   I'd like to sell them a hardware idea.  One k....   >>   30 Dec 2003   Israel Stops Buying ....   My favorite part ' 'On a policy level, the gove....   >>      Can a folder be hidd....   'Is there a program that allows you to hide a fold....   >>   29 Dec 2003   A coherent Linux str....   ' government after government, and city after city....   >>      "IT shifting away fr....   'It's not a zero-sum game. MS doesn't have to go b....   >>   28 Dec 2003   Open source complexity issue   >>   28 Dec 2003   Open source complexi....   'You're pretty much a god damn mother fucking stup....   >>      More Linux Developer....   'Windows Server 2003 (aka Server XP) has a 64-bit ....   >>         Some random comments to the thread 'They will thi....   >>      Recovering data afte....   'I hear AVG is a good antivirus ;-)' My mom has....   >>   27 Dec 2003   Smallest possible Ww....   The 10 mb matters for the same reason that it matt....   >>   26 Dec 2003   MySQL or Postgress   Mauricio, With thousands of users without using....   >>         I was being sarcastic to the op's view that sqlser....   >>         'I'm worried because my current tools (ASP & Acces....   >>      I want to be like An....   "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'"   >>   24 Dec 2003   Windows for a Bank T....   It won't.  But a poorly written Unix app prob....   >>         'Of course Unix can prompt the user. However, as ....   >>      Creating Specs for a....   It is old, but a lot of the guidelines still make ....   >>   23 Dec 2003   Latest on SCO/Linux ....   'And since those files were GPL'd we know what tha....   >>      Windows for a Bank T....   I think a big reason is Windows lets the damn bank....   >>      Creating Specs for a....   http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/databases-interf....   >>   22 Dec 2003   Unix OS installs   'When you get time why don't you list all your pee....   >>   21 Dec 2003   Did linux just show ....   'Somebody announces he's going to make yet another....   >>   20 Dec 2003      Eric, I read the same article tonight http://www.....   >>   19 Dec 2003   Privacy Gimmicks   I love how the anonymizer link doesn't work with a....   >>      You have to love OSS....   Good move OSS. Now Microsoft can support their cl....   >>   18 Dec 2003   Athlon 64   IMHO Off to an early lead. Now Intel realized It....   >>   17 Dec 2003   Doom on Itanium   >>   17 Dec 2003   Cultural Divide: It'....   The biggest problem I have with wsh or likely mona....   >>      OS dominance   Looks like a monopoly gives one leverage.   >>   16 Dec 2003   Why programmers shou....   I meant great quote   >>         'When support drops off, _then_ I can turn my atte....   >>      Has Joel even used K....   'arguably hasn't truly come into its own until the....   >>         'He basically concludes that Unix programmers can'....   >>   15 Dec 2003   Standards Schmandards   >>   15 Dec 2003   Guide to building JE....   That is an excellent Access listserv   >>      Has Joel even used K....   To me kde and gnome feel klunky compared to Win2k ....   >>      Message board softwa....   I use anyboard and like it. http://netbula.com/....   >>   14 Dec 2003   Help, my HTML Always....   'No, not harmful. Just obsolete' And who is goi....   >>         Font tags considered harmful, tables considered ha....   >>      Linux 101   Yes there typically are 63 ways to do any given ta....   >>   13 Dec 2003      get to a prompt, then type more /etc/fstab tha....   >>   10 Dec 2003   Odd situation   Q: Now I need to know whether I should start my o....   >>   07 Dec 2003   CityDesk, Blogger an....   My father purchased City Desk. He uses it to upda....   >>   03 Dec 2003   When will .NET achie....   'Does 2000 SP4 really contain the framework? Tha....   >>   02 Dec 2003   Do you want to chang....   ''Why does the account have to get locked out when....   >>   01 Dec 2003   Does .Net Have   .Net will probably adopt BoB as he isn't doing muc....   >>      Machine identificati....   I should add to that I mean if it is on a domain....   >>         Also renaming the machine generates a new SID    >>   25 Nov 2003   I hate regular expressions   >>   25 Nov 2003   Death of Moore's Law....   I wish we had something like Moore's law for dis....   >>      Call me a tinkerer   In C and C++, consts can be modified by casting aw....   >>      I hate regular expre....   The evolution of programming languages, starting w....   >>         How about this: regular expression: [ab]{3} ....   >>         As for C being more successful than other language....   >>         Hey! I don't mean like that. I mean something h....   >>   24 Nov 2003   Window Managers   Likely Linux will remain a fine server system, but....   >>   23 Nov 2003   Stupid Users   'I think what they really mean is the application ....   >>      Linux Refactoring   Which is more important: a) The speed at which ....   >>      JoS - Delphi...   As with many things in computing.  Popularity....   >>   22 Nov 2003   Joel Mentioned on Sl....   'If the Linux crowds want to kill windows, they sh....   >>   19 Nov 2003   How can companies pr....   GenX'er, Can the users running the dot net app ....   >>         Yes, maybe you can whack out something quicker in ....   >>   17 Nov 2003   How do I develop a p....   'but if you need to ask that question, you are sim....   >>   16 Nov 2003   Search engine censorship   >>   16 Nov 2003   Search engine censor....   So perhaps the topic should be: 'Large monopolist....   >>      RedHat:with morons l....   Redhat realized that a new version every 6 months ....   >>      Microsoft gets a fee....   'Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. The world's sma....   >>         'I fully expect to see an article somewhere that t....   >>   15 Nov 2003   Microsoft gets a feel for large scale services   >>   15 Nov 2003   Why do I want to hos....   'Cursors are slow regardless of using T-SQL or C#.....   >>      Ok, seriously, why W....   'Thank god Microsoft included the best text editor....   >>   14 Nov 2003   Why do I want to hos....   'It's for poor schlubs like me who know C# really,....   >>      Ok, seriously, why W....   'Fool, noone uses those! What the world needs is m....   >>         'The people we sell our software to all use window....   >>      Open Source Software....   http://www.osdn.com/bcg/ is a survey about the to....   >>   13 Nov 2003   I don't like upgrade....   I don't like upgrades from the stand point that la....   >>   12 Nov 2003   Linux hack attempt   One other thing, if this ever happened at Microsof....   >>         I think they are shoring up cvs and Bitkeeper a bi....   >>   11 Nov 2003   What's China got to ....   Interesting that while everyone was concerned abou....   >>   10 Nov 2003   mailing list softwar....   Listserv is decent. http://www.lsoft.com/    >>      Developing a Replace....   'If any policy decisions are left to the masses, e....   >>   09 Nov 2003      http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/ls-x-window....   >>      What Anti-virus do y....   So for the really paranoid you accept the fact tha....   >>         'I think that the AV companies are long overdue in....   >>   08 Nov 2003   Downloading Linux   In fact if you like Knoppix, you can install it to....   >>   07 Nov 2003   Can MS sell the lock....   One other thing, arguable you need fewer linux s....   >>         How about a truce. MS leaves the server market ....   >>      SQL Server hot backu....   Why use software solutions when hardware is avai....   >>         Look into an EMC CX200 or an IBM FastT600, I belie....   >>   06 Nov 2003   How to translate "gu....   There is a whole different meaning in the context ....   >>   05 Nov 2003   When is open source ....   FW was right.  This is a stupid argument.&nbs....   >>   30 Oct 2003   Fearing abuse of new....   Good post. One thing you didn't mention that has ....   >>   29 Oct 2003   D.O.D. CIO says "Uni....   Let me know when I can run Photoshop, Quicken, Tur....   >>         Read the Unix Hater's Handbook. http://research.mi....   >>      Development has beco....   The AS-400 and RPG and Cobol on anything are the b....   >>   24 Oct 2003   Here comes the monoculture   >>   23 Oct 2003   Empower Program for ISVs   >>   23 Oct 2003   Are Blade Server all....   Blade servers are useful for: Low space consump....   >>   22 Oct 2003   Microsoft Versus Lin....   ' This is marketing 101: Any mention of your compe....   >>      User permissions on ....   Beware that even though Microsoft does offer fine ....   >>      IIS 6   So I guess no one uses it.   >>      The "zip code" is no....   'Yes, because absolutely everyone in Africa is lik....   >>   21 Oct 2003   The "zip code" is not universal   >>   21 Oct 2003   IIS 6   >>   21 Oct 2003   So Who IS Going To P....   I live in Romania, East Europe. One of my dream....   >>      Patterns of Human In....   > C++, VLSI design and simulation, assembly > pro....   >>      The "zip code" is no....   ' If you want those 6 billion people going elsewhe....   >>         'One of my personal peeves is sites that have the ....   >>         And one more thing: Addresses in the US seem to....   >>   20 Oct 2003   YANIIC   >>   20 Oct 2003   YANIIC   So unless the Windows crowd adopts Itanium en mass....   >>         Blah, HP is continuing the Alpha for awhile longer....   >>         The model T was a dead end, but at least was viabl....   >>      Am I the only one wh....   At least Ballmer works for Microsoft more than 20 ....   >>      MSc Anonymous   I live in Bucharest, Romania, and I have a college....   >>   13 Oct 2003   finally, exceptions ....   I must say also, this is first thing I strongly di....   >>   11 Oct 2003   Magazines - How do y....   Throw them, you won't miss them.  Or at least....   >>   10 Oct 2003   ANDY GROVE (!!!) war....   I agree with you Philo.  Now say I work from ....   >>   07 Oct 2003   Buying Your Own Tool....   I alternate between three keyboards as my mood sui....   >>   06 Oct 2003   SpreadSheets rows li....   Augusto, I know a little Sed and am just learning ....   >>         Oops, meant to say dump it into access   >>         If you have that much data either dump in in excel....   >>      What is Hyperthreadi....   I just thought the reference to the Itanium was re....   >>   02 Oct 2003      I have no silly hatred of anything.   >>         'I think the previous poster owns a lot of AMD sto....   >>         A way to get you to pay for twice the number of ph....   >>   29 Sep 2003   Dell a competitor of....   Dell is the grocery store. Microsoft is the gro....   >>   26 Sep 2003   Tech Exec fired for ....   BTW he was the founder and CEO.   >>      Best Cities for Smal....   I live in MN.  Bring your business here, we'l....   >>      Why am I regularly k....   Isn't it laughable that the wireless networking so....   >>   25 Sep 2003   Is Postgres/MySQL re....   Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe Mysql....   >>   23 Sep 2003   Open Source is the n....   'Job 1: Write code. For free. Job 2: Work tech su....   >>      Linux Profitability   'why ruin a perfectly good article by dressing it ....   >>   19 Sep 2003   Sun's Marketing Prob....   Sun is going to take Microsoft's market away by bu....   >>   18 Sep 2003   Oracle complaints?   Oracle is not hard to price. If you want unlimite....   >>         If you want a 64 bit database on a 64 bit platform....   >>   16 Sep 2003   Motor giant Ford to ....   Just Me, Oracle cost more than SQL, but Sun wa....   >>         There is a white paper on Redhat's site 'Beyond th....   >>   15 Sep 2003      Likely these servers would not have been Windows a....