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  1. Re:Reevaluation of constants.. on Constants Not Constant? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Indiana had that one on the books as well

  2. Re:This was bound to happen ... on Loki Files For Chapter 11 Protection · · Score: 1

    Explain starcraft, one of the best PC games of all time, if I remember corectly, when I bought the brood war box, the mac ports were done, with the box being released at the same time as the broodwar stand alone. it can be done, if developers would wean themselves off of D3D

  3. Re:Another vote for SuSE on What's A Good Starter Linux distro? · · Score: 1

    Another caveat if you've been dumpster diving, Mandrake 8 is a pentium or higher distro, no 3/486 for a default install.

  4. Re:Anodized on How to Burn a Magnesium NeXT Cube · · Score: 1

    That drill was the result of a carrier disaster during Vietnam. The day's sorties were canceled after bad weather socked them in. In the process of removing the armament, a magnesium flare ignited, and instead of just droping the damn thing on the deck or into the drink, the tech threw it into a storage locker, filled with more flares. this happened before the Forestall fire but Naval firefighting proceedures weren't changed.

  5. Re:Appropriate on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    Tarantino was last seen playing the crazy man in Little Nicky, and writing the liner notes/mini-bio for Johnny Cash's Murder, God, Love, trillogy.

  6. Re:Clone Wars? on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    Which makes a big 8-year gap in the 1-3 trillogy, when TPM ended, anakin was ~10, Obi-Wan mentions flying with him during the clone wars in ANH, so he would be 18 or older during the clone wars. That should be interesting, the longest time gap in the original flicks couldn't have been more than 6 months.

  7. Re:raw sockets? on TCP/MS, We'll Cure What Ails You · · Score: 1

    So how many of us running various unix-like systems have been rooted, how about that 15 minute redhat honeypot mentioned last week. Unless we move to vanilla OpenBSD (the remote root chastity belt), killing Raw Sockets isn't going to help.

  8. Re:Encryption! And the Slashdot worm... on TCP/MS, We'll Cure What Ails You · · Score: 1

    Can grandma use pgp? There are millions of users out there who have no concept of internet security other than the padlock icon when they go to buy something from an e-tailer. Getting users to use PGP or some other encryption and/or signing method would be great, but is pie-in-the-sky dreaming at the momment.

  9. Re:Sure puts a different spin on the "Windows Tax" on Do We Spend More On Linux Or Windows? · · Score: 1

    True, you can't typically beat dell, gateway, compaq on price, but you'll typically also use medium to high quality components(7200RPM ATA/100 vs 5400 RPM ATA/66, etc.) at higher prices than they would pay, for myself, I'm never ordering one of those prebuilt jobs if I can avoid it

  10. Re:Hunting accident? on Iceman Murdered by Arrow in the Back · · Score: 2

    bowhunters (at least in my state) do not wear hunter orange, only rifle/pistol/shotgun hunters are required to wear hunter orange during deer/small game season. During Turkey season, everyone gets to wear camo and you are stationary, so you really do look like a bush. They suggest you tie a orange ribbon to the tree above your position though.

  11. Re:Sun Tzu's Art of War on AOL Desktops On New PCs · · Score: 1

    So that would be.....Larry Elison, perhaps Jeff Bezos whenever his stock gets out of the shitter, or Old Granddad, IBM, waiting for the youngens to wear themselves out before making the kill.

  12. Other TLD's kicked arround DC.... on US Congress Wants .kids TLD · · Score: 1

    from the home office....

    • .porkbelly
    • .blackops
    • .idonotrecall
    • .gridlock
    • .deficitspending
    • .taxandspend
    • .scandal
    • .300toiletseat
    • .w
    • .intern (A favorite of Clinton and Condit)
  13. Re:How long ago? on U.S. East Coast Bombarded By ... What? · · Score: 1
    The current record for skydiving without a parachute (and living) was a crewman of a B-17 bomber from WWII, 32000 feet, give or take a few feet. He hit a marsh in france, broke several bones but survived.

    I'd never heard of the flight attendant, but I guess its possible if assuming, it glided into the ground, burning a signifigant portion of its energy in friction/lateral movement, and the tail crumpled into a piece large enough for a human to assume the fetal position or kiss their own ass

  14. Re:solution: don't use outlook on Another Nasty Outlook Virus Strikes · · Score: 1
    This thing thinks it is cute, it sent one copy as a .com file (dos executable), the next time, it sent itself as .bat(DOS batch) file, so I got foo.doc.com and foo.doc.bat, hotmail scanners didn't catch it, but I hopped over to sarc as soon as I saw this bird, it was a little suspicious, why would the emergency management commission in my hometown be asking me for input on a saturday morning about a list of board members.

    Perhaps we need to make a Tuberculosis colony on the net for the people stupid enough to use outlook, partition them away from the rest of us.

    As for your mysterious .pif, it is a dos loader file, a kind of batch/link file, DOOM was the last game that I can remember making one on install. It basically calls command.com $CONTENTS_OF_PIF_FILE

  15. SadisticYoda's Predictions on Predict Worm Headlines, Win a T-shirt · · Score: 1

    WT News: White House avoids internet attack
    NYT News: Computer Virus Misses White House
    WT Ed: A prediction of things to come from Microsoft?
    NYT Ed: Wars in the 21st century to be fought on the internet

  16. Re:Duh? on Can Cable Really Be Slower Than 56K? · · Score: 1

    Depending how large a cable company defines a neighboorhood, how about a 3000 person dormitory complex. It was great working for those bastards anyways though, received a job ticket for slow/no service, went to the users apt, hung out for 15 minutes waiting for the service to step off of peak and billed for 1 hour, the user got their connection and I got paid.

  17. Re:language barriers on Space Stations That Suck · · Score: 1

    My vote is for Emperor Palpatine's standard basic, switching to esperanto when Priceline starts offering trips up there.

  18. Re:National Holidays on Linux Kernel 2.4.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I wish you could find it on tap in Lexington Ky. Its only on tap at 2 bars that aren't on my side of town.

  19. Re:National Holidays on Linux Kernel 2.4.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Its got the perfect cool quotient it

    • is a Catholic's Saint's Day, St. Pat allegedely drove all the snakes from Ireland
    • is a day to celebrate Ireland
    • Happens near the start of spring in Europe, North America, and Asia
    • lies on or around Mid-terms and/or Spring Break for American college students
    • gives cities a viable excuse why their waterways are an abnormal color
    • last, but not least, cheap Guiness bread in a bottle

    Going back to that first one, perhaps we should celebrate St. Patrick's day by getting drunk and doing nasty things to lawyers :-)

    --And thats for talking about the Queen on Independence Day -- Little Bill Dagget after beating English Bob: Unforgiven, 1993.

  20. Re:Grammar Police on Dot-com Liquidator · · Score: 1

    I don't get paid to write stories for a publication in a mid-major market. When I do, I'll consider checking my grammar.

  21. Re:Tough reading on Dot-com Liquidator · · Score: 1

    I'm a Lexington resident and that's a typical article for the Herald-Leader, unfortunately its one of the better papers in the state, other than a few of the Local papers. What's sad is that the college paper that feeds the Herald-Leader,The UK Kernel, is worse.

  22. Re:Oh goody... on C Styled Script - C-like Scripting Language · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the ORB drive that syquest(i think) makes.

  23. Re:Hmm. Maybe i'm missing something, but -- on Can SSE-2 Save the Pentium 4? · · Score: 2

    A little Karma-whoring, swiped from intel's site
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  24. Re:God, how many times do we have to tell you... on Slashback: Reconciliation, Passportation, Inflation · · Score: 1

    Check out Pricewatch, many system builders their will preload a linux distro on an order or even set up a dual boot system before it leaves the shop. Plus they allow you to hand select the components that dell won't give you a choice on, mainly motherboards or other video and sound cards than their exclusive deals with some companies prevent you from ordering. A2Z computers is who I had build my latest rig and I have been pleased with the system and their support, but shop arround and check with the BBB to make sure the company is legit.

  25. Re:Cisco Support on Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage · · Score: 1

    Don't know about the routers, but when I worked for @home at my university, proceedure was to pull the plug on the ubr 95x switch/hubs for 5 minutes, and plug it back in, since they had disabled the hardware reset switch on the back.