Comment: Re:Just withdraw from Germany. (Score 1) 215
Comment: Re:One of the advantages of Linux (Score 1) 433
You actually don't need to use cat (a command designed to concatenate files) or grep, you can get around just with the shell internals. So with a text based log, you can still go around checking the logs if
Also text is very disk corruption resistant compared to binary... what happens to your nice binary format when a single block of the disk it resides on is gone?
Don't get me wrong, I can sort of see the appeal of their proposed solution as a complement to the existing syslog... but as a complete replacement?
Comment: Re:If you don't vote... (Score 1) 390
Why shouldn't I complain?
As an expat, I don't get to vote in the places that impact me most: the regional and national elections of the country where I live... I only get the right to vote for the city council. Thankfully, there is the option to vote for the Pirate Party at the local level as none of the traditional parties campaigns on anything that remotely interests me.
I do however have the obligation to vote on the national elections of the place that has no impact whatsoever on my life: the country I left 10 years ago.
Comment: Re:SACEM (Score 1) 349
Comment: Re:It's not really scox, it's Microsoft (Score 1) 208
Comment: Re:Keep moaning and looking for brains SCO (Score 1) 208
Funnily enough, I have the exact opposite experience...
I was given a windows-only mp3 player and have never been able to sync it with Windows. I plug it in, windows then tells me I need to install drivers so I install them. It then tells me to reboot, so I reboot. I launch WMP, then after clicking all over the place I finally find the device to try and sync it with some playlists. At the end of the sync, WMP tells me "there was an error please try again later". I check the player, nothing on it... the damned thing spent a good 20 minutes churning away to do nothing. I plug it into a Linux box, a pop-up comes and asks me if I prefer to use Rythmbox or AmaroK to manage the player. It syncs no problem. After asking on forums, I'm told I must be some kind of moron or my windows installation has a serious problem (or both) as those devices are plug-and-play. Or maybe the device is defective... but it works 100% fine with Linux even tho it is a windows-only mp3 player. So I try on another machine, same result. A third machine with a more recent installation of windows, same result. A VM with a fresh installation of windows and all patches applied... same result.
Last week, I bought a random cheapo no-name USB wireless stick. I plugged it on my Linux box and it worked directly. Windows required me to install drivers.
Comment: Re:SCO = Herpes (Score 4, Funny) 208
drive a wooden stake through it's heart
That part would be a problem... we're talking about a lawyer here...
Comment: Re:Dialog is good and all... (Score 1) 717
You state that your Wild-Ass Guess is that we descended from primates. A Creationist may believe that the FSM created primates similar to humans to really confuse you and make Darwin the butt of Creationist jokes. Either way, there is no scientific PROOF as you are requiring, and in my opinion, all there will ever be are Wild-Ass Guesses.
You may want to check mtDna and the retrovirus marks. Not only do we have retrovirus leftovers from our primate relatives, those leftovers allow us to trace the branching of our family tree.