| 2007/10/2-5 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:48219 Activity:very high | 10/1 Where's the short Google at 100 guy?
\_ Me thinks it's a great time to short now.
\_ Yeah, definitely short it now! Funny thing about stock
valuation: it can sometimes be rational and sometimes
be irrational. If everyone hates a stock, and everyone
shorts it except for a few, and no one who actually owns
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| 2007/5/13-14 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:46613 Activity:nil | 5/13 Someone please give us a 411 on Windows Vista? Is activation
tougher than WinXP sp2? Is it impossible to get around now forcing
you to pay for upgrades? Let me just say that I don't like Windows
OS. I don't mind using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint,
and they actually make decent games. However, for over a decade
I've been sucked into using Windows3.0/95/98/2K/XP because
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| 2007/5/4-7 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:46528 Activity:high | 5/3 so you think microsoft will buy yahoo?
\_ If yahoo is owned by MS, perhaps they will no longer have scientology
moles within their organization farming for the email addresses of
people who are trying to avoid the COS. Fuck Yahoo, and fuck their
evil scientology moles!
\_ God I hope not. -tom
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| 2006/10/31-11/2 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:45057 Activity:moderate | 10/31 A friend of mine said he's loving Microsoft again because Bill G
is starting to donate all of his money to charity. He's boycotting
Google, Yahoo, and other mega companies because they're too big and
too power and thinks they're all becoming the old Microsoft, whereas
Microsoft has recently done a lot of good things like investing in
education and charity. He just paid for a copy of Microsoft Windows
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| 2006/9/12 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:44358 Activity:nil | 9/12 I haven't used MS windows since the win95 days. Can someone please
explain to me what in the world a "domain" is? I'm familiar with
IP addresses like 128.32.112.233 or domains like http://csua.berkeley.edu
but what are things like "\\My Workgroup" or "\\MYCOMPANY"?
Is Microsoft inventing new linguo?
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| 2006/8/27-29 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:44164 Activity:low | 8/27 Trying to teach someone to write web pages. Microsoft Publisher
2003 writes really bad HTMLs that don't render well on FireFox,
but is pretty easy to use. What are other WYSIWYG html editors
that is better than MS Publisher?
\_ nvu?
\_ second that. I still think it is helpful to learn from the
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| 2012/7/2-8/19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54429 Activity:nil | 7/2 If I download a software that has GNU GPL and create a search
engine on top of it and the search engine profits (and I don't
release the source code nor do I modify or redistribute it), is
that an acceptable use of GNU GPL?
\_ Yes. Even the AGPL allows this if you don't modify the program.
\_ What if I'm a search engine that uses something that uses
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| 2012/4/23-6/1 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54360 Activity:nil | 4/19 My Firefox 3.6.28 pops up a Software Update box that reads "Your
version of Firefox will soon be vulnerable to online attacks." Are
they planning to turn off some security feature in my version of
Firefox?
\_ Not as such, no, but they're no longer developing this version,
so if a 3.6.x-targeted hack shows up, you're not going to get
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| 2012/1/4-2/6 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54281 Activity:nil | 1/4 I want to test how my servers behave during a disk failure and
a RAID reconstruction so I want to simulate a hardware failure.
How can I do this in Linux without having to physically pull
a drive? These disks are behind a RAID card and run Linux. -ausman
\_ According to the Linux RAID wiki, you might be able to use mdadm
to do this with something like the following:
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