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  1. Re:"kick-ass system administrator" on Blogger Hacked · · Score: 1

    I imagine the status blog now reads, "Our system administrator got his ass kicked."

  2. Re:3.0? on Linux 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Well, some people still think that the 1.3 double-odd series was one of the most solid kernel branches ever.

  3. Re:Reiser4 on Linux 3.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He's going to submit it on the 27th. Linus gets back on the 27th, but probably won't actually start looking at pending patches until the 29th or 30th. I'd say it's got a 50-50 chance of getting in to the first 2.6-pre kernel, but an excellent chance of getting in before 2.6 is actually released (don't worry about the Halloween freeze - there hasn't been a major kernel release in living memory that didn't have some enormous chunk of code dropped into it at the last minute).

  4. Re:Is media automount in the kernel yet? on Linux 3.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out something like WOLK - it includes the Supermount patches, which do exactly what you want (as well as automount of NFS shares upon first access).

  5. Re:Xt on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    One of the two guys who wrote the original Gimp toolkit (the basis of GTK+) has publically stated that the one thing he would go back and fix is to make GTK use Xt.

  6. Re:OSX and Unix on Learning UNIX for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    MS owns 51% of Apple?

    "+1, Interesting"?

    "-10, Pure bollocks" is more like it.

  7. What, no dogcows? on Learning UNIX for Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Funny

    Moof!

  8. OpenBlockS on Tiny Boxen · · Score: 2

    Names are pretty similar, but these are definitely better for use as a firewall - dual Ethernet for a start, and they run a lot cooler. A 200MHz PPC405 is enough for most network applications, and you can install a 2.5" HDD if you need one.

  9. Re:Just thought I'd point it out. on Blue LED Inventor Loses Patent Fight · · Score: 1

    The confusion arises because the character for 'ao' means green in Chinese.
    Just to clarify your example, ao is not really blue/green, in the sense of a single ambiguous colour - 'aozora' (blue sky) makes that evident. It's more a word that can be used to express blue or green.

  10. Re:No offense but... on Blue LED Inventor Loses Patent Fight · · Score: 1

    Ahem...

    This guy's case is fairly famous in Japan. Here's what *really* happened:

    1) Guy was working on new idea for blue LED development
    2) Everybody else (inside and outside the company) was taking a different path
    3) Company told him to forget his way and get with the company plan
    4) He told them no
    5) For years, he had to scrounge around the company for budget and materials to carry on his development
    6) He struck it big, proving everyone else wrong
    7) Company took his patent and gave him 20,000 yen "bonus"

    Basically, they screwed him over. The company did *fuck all* to support him in his research - in fact, they actively tried to discourage him.

  11. Re:one word on Sacrificial Broadband? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have kids - that takes care of the sex "problem" pretty well.

  12. Re:Um, why ? on A Printshop Equivalent for Unix? · · Score: 1

    It's a really amazing that the incredible engineers at Microsoft were able to make two totally unrelated operating systems run the same applications so well. I'm not kidding here, either.

    Me again... if you want to see amazing, look at the job that Apple did moving from m68k to PPC - an operating system that ran on two totally different architectures, but which let you use applications for either.
    Or NetBSD - the same kernel and userland ported to more than 30 different architectures.

    MS wasn't even able to keep to their original ideal of developing NT on Alpha, in order to remove any x86-isms.

  13. Re:Um, why ? on A Printshop Equivalent for Unix? · · Score: 1

    Well, now you've "met" me. The company I'm at at the moment has supplied me with a Dell desktop running NT wirh SP6al, and it blue-screens at least once every three days.

  14. Re:Why switch? on A Printshop Equivalent for Unix? · · Score: 1

    My 3-year-old son loves Frozen Bubble, although he's not particularly good at it yet.

  15. Re:Ive given thought to this. on Sacrificial Broadband? · · Score: 1

    WHy are we invading Iraq again?

    Even the Internet can't tell you that...

  16. Re:My thoughts on Xandros on A First Look At The Xandros Desktop · · Score: 1

    Activate DMA on your drive. If it's /dev/hdb, then:

    # hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdb

    should do it.

  17. Re:Umm on A First Look At The Xandros Desktop · · Score: 1

    No, they wouldn't put a GUI installer on x86 and a text-based installer on all the other platforms, because that defeats the purpose of a multi-architecture distribution - you should be able to move between architectures and find it the same everywhere (with exceptions for things like apmd or other programs that are meaningful on only one architecture).

  18. Re:I'm confused... on Epson Pulls Linux Software Following GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    I was in a hurry and didn't have any WD40 on hand, so I just dripped some cooking oil onto the bar... seems to work fine, but when I do a big run it smells like I'm deep-frying the printhead.

  19. Re:Love it! on Libranet 2.7 Released · · Score: 1

    The power of... APT-GET!!! (Cue Thundercats roar or something)

  20. Re:Bamboozled at the Revolution? on Bamboozled at the Revolution · · Score: 1

    There are two types of people: those who divide people into those who divide people into two types and those who don't, and those who don't.

  21. Re:Bluetooth Vaios Next? on Sony Presents Bluetooth Digital Camera · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some Vaios in Japan have had Bluetooth for a year now.

  22. Re:"Cocoon" on New Linux-based PVR from Sony: Cocoon · · Score: 1

    Well, this thing costs 130,000 yen (around $US1000)... how much is the Reply4000?

  23. Re:Sensationalism on MIT Steals Comic Book Character · · Score: 1

    They might say it's a 'reproduction', but in this case I think that means 'reproduced via flatbed scanner' more than by hand...

  24. Re:Would you enjoy 200,000 geeks leeching 45Mb, Ta on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Trailer · · Score: 1

    File's gone. I guess someone reads /. ;)

  25. Re:Naaaah on MIT Steals Comic Book Character · · Score: 1

    Ahem... you're saying *I* have no idea how pitching works?

    Once you've done the pitch and got the business, you _don't_ send out the pitch swipe you bodged up from magazine scans as part of the goddamn press release, dork.