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  1. Re:I have karma to burn... on A Crash Course on Network Bandwidth Metrics? · · Score: 1

    One of diddnt live up to the second sylable in its name when it came of the assembly line, new. The other is a Ford. Fucked either way, get a horse.

  2. Re:Why go that far? on Commodore 64 Confuses Austrian Police · · Score: 1

    Well, your fucked then. Turn in your geek card, dont let the door hit your ass on the way out. C= 64's use PETSCII. Amongst the most important thing you wont transfer (or rather, will mangle in transfer) is the Big Gong sound. And, of course, C=64's dont have RS-232 ports. But thanks for playing; knowing one OS besides Windows does not an expert make.

  3. Re:Case study? on The Segway, Five Years Later · · Score: 1

    Well, thats why your a computer nerd and not in marketing or management.

  4. Re:LDAP/Postgres? on LDAP Authentication in Linux · · Score: 1

    Its all linear store, somewhere.

  5. Re:RFID based? on Shopping for Building Access Security? · · Score: 1

    No. RFID is radio frequency identification, which is vague and meaningless. Some RFID tags are RO, some RW, some more complex IO. Some have crypto/hash capabilities. However, they are all RFID.

    Consider the one paragraph breif on the TI RFID Compact Series Digital Signature Wedge Transponder DST+

    This new generation of secure RFID transponder provides additional levels of security. In addition to the proven TI encryption known from the DST transponder, mutual authentication increases security and sophisticated diagnostic features allow fraud prevention and after-theft diagnosis. It offers 50Byte of EEPROM memory from which 26Byte are free for user data. The DST+ can be operated in DST mode in which it is functional compatible to the DST.
    So, Im still curious. Since your non-RFID access cards can just will doors open, does that mean that your locks just will the doors closed? Do the elevators in your building need wire rope, pullies, and motors, or do they just will themselves up and down?
  6. Re:RFID based? on Shopping for Building Access Security? · · Score: 1

    Contactless but non RFID? What then, telepathy? These magic little non-RFID cards just willed the doors open?

  7. Re:Here's a question for you on How Much Does Your Work Depend on the Internet? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The failure isnt just with the DSL part, but possibly with the copper too. Say you have two connections with shitty SLAs, and the pole out front of your building that has 500pair on it, 2 of which are yours, and it gets taken out by a car. Telco comes by to fix it, and they have only 250pair cable in the van, who do you think they are going to fix first? Their own end-user customers, and then ones with high SLAs which are resold to high SLA end-users. Not you, in other words.

    You low SLA providers are sure as shit not going to be providing you with a BGP feed, so its not redundent, anyway. Multiple MXs and RRDNS does not count.

  8. Re:Approved by administrators before publishing ? on Not As Wiki As It Used To Be · · Score: 2, Funny

    NO INDEPENDENT RESEARCH!

    Clearly, you dont cite the treaty, you need to cite someone else who discusses the treaty.

  9. Re:How many BSDs do we need? on The Future of NetBSD · · Score: 1

    Its from the car modding and racing community. Specificly, from the modding of cars that come from countries that dont like wheat.

  10. Id say file away, if it bothers you on Misconceptions About the GPL · · Score: 1

    If the devs have a bug tracking system, or a public mailing list, then they are soliciting help from their users.

  11. Re:It's a TRAP!!! on Mozilla Developers Invited to Redmond · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Gecko based IExplorer? on Mozilla Developers Invited to Redmond · · Score: 1

    Well, the resources on the IE layout system are already paid for. It been years, its in beta, I think the heavy lifting is over with. Besides, the layout engine in Moz isnt a HTML layout engine, but a XML layout engine, with specific support for (x)html, and xul/xbl, out of the box. Microsoft now has xaml; if they are even half way smart in their engineering then the IE engine is also not a HTML layout engine, but an XML layout engine with specific support for (x)html, and xaml. Under this scenario, throwing away the IE engine would mean throwing away the specific support for xaml, and having to rewrite that specific support for Gecko.

  13. I feel.. on Dark Matter Exists · · Score: 1

    Less bad about the Dark Matter futures I purchased when GOOG hit $87.

  14. Re:Heh on NASA Learns Anew From the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    Excluding Caffeine Free Coke, all of those were available in the '60s.

  15. Re:I can't find my copy of the memo from Google, on Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations · · Score: 1

    Well, yes and no. The generic term is acetylsalicylic acid, though its 'discoverer' called it Apirin. The German company Bayer lost much of its forign assets after WWI and in the USA, for example, the formula was bought by a private company from the government, but that company tried and failed to maintain "Aspirin" as a trademark. In other countries this played out differently - in Canada Aspirin is (still) a tradmark.

  16. Re:dual boot on Hardware Virtualization Slower Than Software? · · Score: 1

    Which is only helpful for an extreemly small subset of the uses for virtualisation. You look to VMWare when you need to run N (for N>1) or 1+N (for N >=1) OSs concurently. If VMWare isnt good enough, then what you do is buy multiple pieces of hardware, not change the input requirement.

  17. Re:It gets better.... on Novell Defends 'Unstable' Xen Claims · · Score: 1

    The quote was initially a Windows company. Novell initially sold CPM hardware. What became Netware was a CPM disk sharing system, and was first developed as the IBM PC was just being shipped -- Novell purchased the first PC in Utah. If "initially" means "within the first 15 years", then yes, Novell was "initially" a Windows software company. But were not talking astronomy here, were talking computers. The history of Netware dates back to before DOS was shipped.

  18. Re:Red Hat's fault on Novell Defends 'Unstable' Xen Claims · · Score: 1

    Uh, 1.2GB is nothing. My palm pilot has a 1GB SD card in it. And for enterprise customers (you know, those who are interested in getting things done rather then having a "pure", cruftless system), they are running big boxen, and 1.2GB is a rounding error.

  19. It gets better.... on Novell Defends 'Unstable' Xen Claims · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Initially a Windows software company, Novell turned to Linux-based software when it completed the acquisition of SUSE Linux in 2004.
    <nelson>Ha, hUh?</nelson> Novell was, if anything, initially a hardware company. OK, that Novell dosent count, Novell was initially network OS company (Netware), that supported primarily DOS! Ok, that doesnt count either: Novell was a focused on enterprise network services, with integrated directory services backed management. OK, no one knows what that means: Novell was focused on identity, asset, file and print, software and configuration services and management. Begining in the early 2000's, porting their products to both run on, and manage, linux systems, Novell entered the market full force when they aquired SUSE ..... But a Windows software company? WHAT IN THE FUCK?
  20. Find a local nerdling on Managing Site Growth? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Offer him some Coke and M&Ms. Profit.

  21. Re:FAA? on Another Pass at the Personal Jetpack · · Score: 1

    Sure, but no slashdotter is average. We are either all 6'2", 130#, or 5'6", 270#.

  22. Re:Who needs this thing, on 50th Anniversary of the First Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    It wasn't just backing up stupid stuff to floppies, either. It was storing important files that you had reasonable expectation of needing again - possibly soon - to floppies. I fill up partition on my desktop all the time. But its always with crap. About 90% of the stuff on my drive I could loose and not have a care in the world.

  23. Oh, crap. on Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks like Ill have to find a new place to play bridge, poker, checkers, tic-tac-toe, chess, and global thermonuclear war.

  24. Its not about cash on Investing Tips for College Students? · · Score: 1

    But total networth. If you have money in the bank, and a student loan, then you are donig something wrong. The first, and best investment is paying off loans (or having smaller ones).

  25. Re:where's the tech? on AT&T Labs vs. Google Labs - R&D History · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not a very good list; with the exception of SQL, they all came from PARC. And SQL arguably isnt that revolutionary, either. Relational databases, OTOH.....