why is this modded -1?

its the first and only sensible response in the whole thread!

got a smallish business? google apps for the domain will be free

really, you pay a fraction of the cost of running your own mail / calendar / collaboration services with the additional benefit of them also handling the spam filtering for you.

i too ran my own smtp/imap servers for years, but have switched and will never look back!

ha. 'the city', and by that we generally mean sydney and melbourne, have been propping up 'the country' for generations with tax dollars from manufacturing and tertiary services ( and the like )

and now, with the voracious chinese economy booming to provide a viable market for all that red dirt, the bleating about 'contribution' comes up.

correcting my own presumptions,

seems java 5 was the first 64 bit sun distribution for linux.

takes a while to get there, but you can still click round the oracle java sites and find the binaries..

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/jdk/142/

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/5u22/jdk

for the impatient

still, java 5 released sept 29 2004, so i guess i'm stretching to remember installs from 6 years ago

eh?

sun has had 64 bit binaries for linux as long as i can remember, at least since 1.4.x, and i'd take a loose bet they had 1.3.x 64 bit packages too. ( any earlier and you'd be stretching to find a 64 bit intel/amd linux distro...)

the java runtime itself has been natively 64 bits for a long time.

you _may_ be getting confused with the horrendous java applet plugin for _browsers_ which i think has only recently been part of the distributed java bundles.

and yet vista was released...

*ducks

'twas the user

please - consider that the internet filter shenanigans has been an elaborate charade to woo that nufty 'family first' senator steven fielding, and as soon as he's gone, labor can drop the charade entirely.

in that regard, if you must vote below the line, reserve the last couple o spots for family first.

( oh, and given there are 60 candidates for the senate in victoria, a 61 for anyone will render your vote null and void...)

ahh, if it were only modern networking mr. Abbott didnt understand - the reality is that he, like his hero predecessor mr. Howard, and his predecessor's hero mr. Menzies, simply dont understand a world past about 1955.

works quite well for me

http://www.snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/

its been around for years, and has kept my ssh service nice and available for almost as long.

basically, keeps a contrack record for tcp new attempts on the configured port(s), with threshholds for how many attempts before being temporarily blacklisted, then a timeout for how long before they can go again.

fail2ban and denyhosts fee way to high up in the stack for my liking

try sloccount for a more accurate account.

http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount

( most distros will have it in the package repos )

i myself think i'd be up near a million in just 10 yrs - java and unit/integration/functional tests make for fairly high line counts, even though most of the code written is not the main game itself.

a more interesting poll might be how many lines of code deleted or obsoleted, and to that i'd like to think about 25 % of what i've written gets refactored over time...

i checked 'generic action movies in space', but really would have liked 'generic soap opera in space' as an option.

the day i realised star trek voyager was just that, was pretty much when i gave em all away!

once worked with a guy who insisted on dvorak... and would set up shortcut switching to change on every pc he went near.

so he comes & works with you on a problem, fast switching back and forth the dvorak... then up and leaves..

without changing back!

all the keys are useless!

( and no, yelling out the dvorak key combo as you walk away to tell me how to change back isnt any help neither ).

with solaris going gpl, i think linaris is more likely :)

correct!

my wife did, now she lives with me in a country where universal healthcare costs us a few % on our incomes through taxes. earn a bit more, pay a little more tax, or voluntarily join a private health insurance fund.

how the debate against such a system can actually be happening there in the US is beyond me.

( Australia, FYI )

mainly because people dont need most consumer goods, and so price competition and product utility/value are the way to entice people to part with their hard earned.

health, on the other hand, is essential to life!, so the health 'industry' really has a captive 'market'.

the 'competition' view for healthcare having broadly self-correcting 'market force' doesnt really apply, because the 'industry' knows they can basically charge what they like.