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  1. Re:complete, sure on You Are Here (On Earth) · · Score: 1

    The last digit is 1, on base 2.

    If it where 0, you could just take it off...

  2. Re:CDs are out, use hard disks for storage. on CD-R Lifespan - Is It The Label? · · Score: 2, Funny

    you never heard about RAID disk arrays, did you?

    You know what the acronym RAID means, right?

  3. Re:The /. Review of Moby Dick (spoilers) on Decipher · · Score: 4, Funny

    On, now it's TWO books I won't be reading. Thank you very much.

  4. Re:Old, old idea. on Honeytokens: The Other Honeypot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, I have this really, really, really good joke, but I can't tell you because I use it as a honeytoken.

    I also have a simple proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, but it's being used as a honeytoken also. Sorry.

  5. Re:Having read a little deeper on Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net · · Score: 1

    Five 9's as in 9.9999%?

  6. Re:Why does Opera get so much play on Slashdot? on Opera Releases Version 7 For Linux · · Score: 1

    Version 10.0 finally supports CSS style sheets. (emphasis mine)

    Ah, so CSS is a recursive acronym like GNU? CSS means CSS Style Sheets?

  7. Re:Okay... on Cheap Video Sniffing · · Score: 1

    I've seen this answer so many times here. I think today is my time to say it.

    Slashdot is not a single person. It's not a group of people that think the same way and have the same opinions about everything. That's why you see different --and contradictory-- point of views here.

  8. Re:Manhole covers on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Manhole covers are round because the holes are round.

  9. Re:more random number generators: on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The ultimate RNG: 42

  10. Re:Also to ported to gnu/hurd on Neverwinter Nights Update · · Score: 3, Funny

    Until then, you can use the aalib version...

  11. In SOVIET RUSSIA... on Large IDE Drives as Long-Term Archival Media? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the Beowulf cluster imagines you!

  12. Re:Command line is fine for a toddler... on Moving Your Kids to Linux? · · Score: 1

    And if you save the file, you will probably have a working sendmail.cf.

  13. Re:Translation... on Linus says 2.6 kernel will be out by June 2003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least he didn't use "Debian Years"...

  14. Re:95% of users? on First Worm with a EULA? · · Score: 1

    Really?

  15. Re:95% of users? on First Worm with a EULA? · · Score: 1

    You just raised it to 35.00000001%.

  16. With the new Linux kernel... on EFNet Reaches 100,000 Concurrent Connections · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they can do it in 2 seconds!

  17. Re:so he next question.... on SGI Demos 64-Proc Linux Box · · Score: 1

    After all, a computer without MS Windows is like a person without cancer.

    At least cancer evolves...

  18. Re:Microsoft Kernel Visualization: #@ +1; Informat on Looking At The Linux Kernel · · Score: 2, Funny

    6. ???

    7. Profit!

  19. Re:Shaders on Talk to a Movie Digital SFX Expert · · Score: 0, Redundant

    (...) I realize that special effects are half artistry, half mathematics and half sweaty work: kudos from a 'GL hacker(...)

    If your GL apps don't work correctly, you should first check the math part...

  20. Re:Neverwinter Nights on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games? · · Score: 1

    Here in Brazil they are selling NWN for ~ US$ 30.00

    But it's a lot of money for us, anyway.

  21. Re:For free... on Options for Adults with Renewed Interest in Math? · · Score: 1

    And you also could use Maxima, which is GPLed.

  22. Re:what about the URL on Dutch Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    Rot-13 it twice, just to be sure.

  23. Re:Stumped on What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just pictured Google engineers turning to Google to fix some kind of problem that they might have... if we could kill the middleman, Google would achieve consciousness!

  24. Re:Linux & low spec machines on Ximian GNOME and "Low-End" Systems · · Score: 1

    I have 120mhz pentium laptop with 40 megs of ram and a 2 gig harddrive (...) I stick with BlackBox, Gaim, Opera, xterm, and Emacs.

    You could use rxvt instead of xterm, too.

  25. Re:LINUX QUESTION on Linus Merges ALSA Into 2.5.4 · · Score: 1

    I know you were kidding, but take a look at Lunix.