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  1. Re:Cisco Sun on IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have had countless Sun consultants for the best part of ten years telling me that Linux is unstable versus the 'rock solid' Solaris and that no one could ever run anything serious on a x86 system versus SPARC.

    Solaris on SPARC has device drivers in user-space. This lets you add SCSI devices to the server without rebooting.

    Need to add a new SCSI tape library to a Linux server? Sorry, need to reboot the server!

    Need to add a SCSI tape library on Solaris? No problem!
    1. Plug it in
    2. # add_drv st
    3. # add_drv ds
    4. # devfsadm -Cv
    5. 99.999% uptime!
    6. Profit!

  2. mac != unix on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Really? I'm posting this comment from a workstation running a commercial UNIX. I'm using a Mac.

    Try running a mac os x server and a solaris server, side by side, running the same application, and tell me that mac os x is truly unix. Any OS requiring >90% of configuration changes to be made in a GUI does not count as UNIX, in my book.
    I'll grant you that OS X is UNIX-certified, but OS X is _not_ SVR4 UNIX.


    PS- That burning you smell is my karma going up in flames.

  3. DRM on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 1, Funny

    You can't put DRM on a rock.

  4. Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX on IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMG! Java is tightly integrated to the OS!

    Yanno, spilling coffee on your computer is generally _not_ a good thing.

  5. LSD on Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not use LSTP? That way you only have to worry about whatever image(s) you keep on the server.

    Better yet, use LSD! Then all you have to worry about is why those images are talking to you.

  6. Obvious Use on Filmmaker Working On Eye-Socket Camera · · Score: 1

    Imagine the possibilities for this sort of technology... in porn.

  7. Re:But ... on Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well enough to play Crysis, even.

  8. Re:A third of a mile makes it a moon? on New Moon Found In Saturn's G-Ring · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you really call an object a third of a mile wide a "moon" rather than "just a rocky piece of junk that orbits Saturn, like a whole bunch of other stuff."

    The Astronomical community is feeling guilty about Pluto.

  9. Immigrants on Smart Immigrants Going Home · · Score: 2, Funny

    'Ey took our jerbs!

  10. !vista on Visa Says No New Processor Breach After All · · Score: 1

    I read the headline too quickly, and thought it said "Vista Says No New Processor Breach After All."

  11. Should Karma Really Be Invoked? on Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    Karma might dictate that, with this release, Ubuntu adoption reaches a critical mass, and the first (legitimate) wave of Ubuntu-oriented virii are released into the wild.

  12. Re:Cease fire on Pirate Bay Founder Begs For Hacker Ceasefire · · Score: 1

    I'm just curious what it will be...

    I predict a revival of the Sneakernet.

  13. Re:People Against the New TOS on Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout · · Score: 1

    Have you been to MySpace lately?

  14. Perfect! on Russia Aims Towards Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Reds are going to the Red Planet!

  15. Oh, Canada, what shall we call it? on Canadian Federal Government Mulling Open Source? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it's Debian-based: Ehbuntu
    If it's RPM-based: Toque

  16. Re:I missed it on 1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began · · Score: 1

    Guess I have to wait for the 64-bit one :-(

    Good luck with that.

  17. Not if it's Red Hat based on Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it's Red Hat based, I say Sombrero!

  18. CigarOS on Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gives new meaning to the term patch rollup.

  19. manbearpig on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    I guess this proves that manbearpig is a figment of the imagination.

  20. Re:IE not supported... on SUSE Studio — Linux Customization For the Masses · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Your browser is not officially supported We have detected that the browser you are using, Microsoft Internet Explorer, is not officially supported. Currently, for the alpha of SUSE Studio, we only support Firefox 2 and 3, and Safari 3."

    FUCKING YES!

  21. Spore for Wii? on Spore Games For Wii and DS, PC Expansions Due In 2009 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Penis Creatures running on a Wii. It's perfect.

  22. The Cylons have a Plan on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The writers don't know what it is.

  23. Fail on Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas · · Score: 1

    Seagate never played Whack-a-mole growing up.

  24. Re:New robots.txt file on The ASP.NET Code Behind Whitehouse.gov · · Score: 1

    That's only fair. He's the president for all the robot-american's also. They should be able to access the site as well.

    Richard Nixon is the true president for robot-americans!

  25. Release date? on Active Directory Comes To Linux With Samba 4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nice features, but when will it be released?