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  1. Mixed drinks? on Linux-Based Bar-Monkey · · Score: 2

    Real men drink beer. (real beer, not Bud of course).

    It comes 'premixed' in a bottle, very convenient...

  2. Re:What I don't get on TiVo to support HDTV by "Year-End" · · Score: 2

    a) you could have a cable modem, so no landline

    b) you could have a barebone phoneline for your DSL, one that charges you for even local calls

    c) i do have network jacks in my bedroom, but no phoneline there

  3. Re:Better question.... on Me Oh Me Oh My, Malda Gets Married · · Score: 1
    Oh, maybe I'm not too bright, or maybe it's an English pun that I, being a non-native English speaker, am unfamiliar with.

    Please do explain.

  4. Re:Run UD as a publicity stunt on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 2

    They are running UD :)

  5. Re:Income statement... on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 2
    For this $1300 (I didn't do the math myself, I'll take your word) you get the newest of the newest every 6 months (that's how often Gateway refreshes all their display computers with the latest model)

    So for $1300 you _always_ have the latest, fastest model inc tech support, electricity, write-off, maintenance, etc.

    Also, if you have a need for only 1 month of computing power, you pay 1/12th of that figure AND still get all the advantages (write-off, etc) I mentioned.

    For really big companies who need this kind of computing power 24/7/365, just use your already present desktops in your company and install the Enterprise version of the MetaProcessor platform.

  6. Re:Would you want,... on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 2
    Sure, I'm not afraid. But then again, I know what technology is powering this network.

    disclaimer: yes I work for United Devices. That's why I know our security rocks in the first place.

  7. Re:Better question.... on Me Oh Me Oh My, Malda Gets Married · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine that at all. Where is the Sauth Pacific?

  8. Re:Corpoprations don't need to buy processing powe on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 3, Informative
    Yup, there is. United Devices sells the MetaProcessor which does exactly that, tap into the power of your intranet's underutilized desktops.

    UD is also the software enabler behind Gateway's Processing On Demand

    and UD also happens to be my employer</disclaimer>

  9. Re:bullshit on Cable Companies Despise PVRs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So how exactly is this different from people taping their favorite Friends/WestWing episodes on a VHS tape?

  10. Timewarner on Cable Companies Despise PVRs · · Score: 2

    TimerWarnerAustin cable here in Austin TX is selling PVRs for a very small fee to go with their digital cable.

  11. Re:I swirched to FreeBSD... on FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Now Available · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I know from experience that you are wrong, and that FreeBSD people are the most zealous people I've ever met. Yes, if you're reading this, you know who you are!

  12. FPGAs rule! on A Reconfigurable High-Res Network Camera · · Score: 3, Interesting
    FPGAs are so cool.

    Imagine you whole processor made out of FPGAs. Then, when the compiler detects there's a whole bunch of multiplication coming up, it instructs the processor to reconfigure itself to be good at multiplication, on the fly!.
    Or, when you do a lot of I/O, reconfigure the processor to have more concurrent access to your cache.

    The possibilities are endless.

  13. That name... on Bitrate Peeling with Ogg Vorbis · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No wonder the format is not getting any mainstream traction, with that name. "Ogg Vorbis". What lame-ass developer came up with that ridiculous name?

  14. Re:Why attack the DNS-servers? on DOS Attacks On DNS Provider · · Score: 2
    Yeeeeaaaahhhh.

    For some reason that doesn't seem much like 'surfing' to me...

    Now, a method that a) would work and b) would prove to me that you actually more than just a lamer, is to add the hostname to your /etc/hosts file or %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file

  15. Re:Why attack the DNS-servers? on DOS Attacks On DNS Provider · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which of course doesn't work now that all decent apache setups use vhosts for their domains.

  16. Re:Still useful on PINE Releases 4.50 · · Score: 1
    What, I have to REBIND my cursor keys to actually be useful?

    What, is this mutt program still using the paradigm that you must be sshing from a console without cursor keys and you need to press hjkl to move around?

  17. Re:The counterexample is NVidia on GPL Issues Surrounding Commercial Device Drivers? · · Score: 1
    Bzzt, wrong.

    NVidia has one and just one corporate opinion. For the outside world, it's completely cohesive. Therefore, NVidia acts as one entity, and is singular.

    I'm equally bothered by Dutch newspapers (Dutch follows the same stupid rules as British), that always use phrases like "The USA are". No! It's one country, one entity. "The USA is". Especially when you use "USA" in the abbreviated form.

  18. Re:The counterexample is NVidia on GPL Issues Surrounding Commercial Device Drivers? · · Score: 1

    We think you are indeed a smartass. (we, of course, represent all the molecules that make up me, I just like the see a human body as a group of molecules and not an entity). What a load of crap.

  19. Re:Give me ksh or give me death. on Red Hat Nullifies Differences Between Bash, Csh · · Score: 2

    You use arrow-up and arrow-down in cmd.exe?

    You might want to try more useful history navigation and command completion with F7 and F8 in cmd.exe

    Try it :)

  20. Re:Vi versus Emacs... on Red Hat Nullifies Differences Between Bash, Csh · · Score: 2

    On that googlefight.com site, you should click "classics". One of them lists 'bill gates' vs. 'linus torvald'[sic]. No wonder it's 3M hits against 2k, if you misspeel 'torvalds'....

  21. Mandatory post on The Legends Of Dune - Volume 1: The Butlerian Jihad · · Score: 2

    With this nick I couldn't pass up the opportunity of this gratituous post.

  22. Allow me to analyze... on Windows 2000 Gets Common Criteria Certification · · Score: 2
    Qnal writes "e-Week is reporting that Microsoft Windows 2000 has been awarded Common Criteria Certification..
    Wrong, saic.om and microsoft.com are reporting this. e-week had a completely unrelated article, dated 5 months ago, about SP3.

    Read more of the propaganda here.
    So now press releases are 'propaganda'?

    Basically, according to the article Any user running Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 is running exactly the same system that was evaluated.
    Which article? The e-week article is the only one talking about SP3, and it says nothing about 'running exactly the same system'.

    The Common Criteria certification is an internationally recognized ISO standard established for evaluating the security of infrastructure technology products. Too bad it takes 3 Service Packs..."
    Troll, troll, troll. You are obviously unaware of all the point releases linux distributions make that SUCK. (redhat 7.0 comes to mind)

    Allow me to put you on my 'foe' list, mr qnal.

  23. Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us! on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 2
    doesn't explicitly repress free speech

    Then why is the US so poorly ranked on the worldwide press freedom index ?

    Greetings from the Netherlands (proudly #1 on the worldwide press freedom index!)

  24. Re:And... on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Most hosting services use 1 IP per apache setup and rely on the Host:-header and apache's vhosting capabilities to serve the right page.

    So, yes, for most of the WWW, DNS is just as important, or maybe even more important, than IP.

  25. Hmm, I recognize those people on Fortran 2000 Committee Draft · · Score: 2

    I think I recognize some of these names on the Fortran 2000 committee, they were on another committee that was coming up with designs to retrofit Model-T's with solar cells