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Comment: VoIP, eh? (Score 1) 65

by Defiler on Monday October 13, 2014 @12:51AM (#48127913) Attached to: WhatsApp's Next Version To Include VoIP Calls and Recording

I guess VoIP has become a meaningless term now.
Is FaceTime also VoIP?
Is clicking on a YouTube video that features dialogue VoIP?

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Comment: Re:EnterpriseDB (Score 1) 124

by Defiler on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @06:34PM (#40473557) Attached to: HP Asks Judge To Enforce Itanium Contract Vs. Oracle

I mean the money/effort spent on this litigation.

Comment: EnterpriseDB (Score 3, Interesting) 124

by Defiler on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @05:26PM (#40472869) Attached to: HP Asks Judge To Enforce Itanium Contract Vs. Oracle

It seems to me that HP would be better off sinking this money into contributions to PostgreSQL / EnterpriseDB; it already offers a ton of Oracle compatibility, and runs on HP-UX: http://enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/products/postgres-plus-advanced-server/advanced-server-oracle-features

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Comment: Re:User-level package manager (Score 2, Informative) 502

by Defiler on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @04:54PM (#30149236) Attached to: Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges

I know of one for Mac OS:
http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/
It would probably not be much of a challenge to make that work on a Linux machine. That and a Linux tool for this probably already exists.

Comment: Re:Elder feuds reignited? (Score 1) 255

by Defiler on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @12:44AM (#30126160) Attached to: "Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered

I don't remember that.