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  1. Use the heat. on A Micro-A/C for a Server Closet? · · Score: 3, Interesting


    If it was used for heating at one time perhaps you could use a fan to fee the air into the ducts in the winter months (assuming your winter months are like my winter months :)) It seems counterproductive to use power to cool a hot room in the winter.

  2. Re:I don't care about what people say re: Theo... on OpenBSD Turns 10 · · Score: 5, Insightful


    And Theo is the best example of how you should not treat others.

    I've had a handful of email exchanges with the man over the years and he's never been less than 'to the point' and quite friendly.

  3. Re:Name change? on IMDb Turns 15 · · Score: 1

    or in the case of four letters, impossible.

    Good thing I was forward thinking back in 1997 :)

  4. Re:Good on Pillows Dangerous for Your Health · · Score: 1


    Who wants to be 40 anyways?

    Me! In 2 months, 9 days. ;)

  5. Re:Isn't it obvious... on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1


    yeah, that's something to brag about.

    It most certainly is. If you want to write stories about anally fisting 12 year old retarded, quadrapalegic Jewish girls as they lay on slabs of salt pork while you don a Nazi outfit, then go for it. Sure, it's a sick thought, but the concept of government funded Thought Police is sicker.

  6. Re:What of pornography? on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1


    Obsenity by definition is neither porn nor protected speech.

    No, but the label of "obscene" is a point of view. Speech and other communication should be protected no matter how much you may disagree with the message.

  7. Re:I really don't think thats it on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    How is short-sightedness ruining the US' leadership role in the sciences? I'm not trolling, I'm interested in where you'll take this. (nb. I'm not American but see enough waste within my own government)

  8. Re:I really don't think thats it on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Realistically, the reason is the almighty dollar. Everything revolves around it, it always has and always will. In the US $$ speaks more than any religious morals

    How is it profitable to lose your leading standing in scientific fields? Who would want such a thing? No, I think the original poster was bang-on. Superstition is killing your country.

  9. Re:Who need science... on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 1


    When you have a god and jeebus on your side, you can't lose. Oh wait, why does the Vatican have lightning rods? ;)

  10. Dear Darl & Chris, on IBM Drops Patent Counterclaims · · Score: 5, Funny


    Dear Darl & Chris,
    I'll have a Big Mac, large fries and a Coke.
    Thanks!

  11. heh heh on Review: Ultimate Spider-Man · · Score: 1, Funny


    You'll know Zonk has a girlfriend when all the game reviews stop pouring in. :)

  12. Re:Encyclopedia != Community on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1


    I wish you weren't an AC, I'd friend you in a millisecond.

  13. if you want just a cheap player on Building The Ultimate Home Theater PC · · Score: 3, Informative


    If you want just a cheap player without recording or TV the Philips DVP-642 DVD player can play regular DVDs, MP3, MPEG4, divx and xvid. Dirt cheap at places like Best Buy. Or get an Xbox with mod chip and Xbox Media Center.

  14. Re:too bad on No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    Folding@Home? Nah, if you look at distributed.net's credit page you'll see me (grub) a couple of times. So I have loyalty to them :) (although it's been ages since I did anything for d.net...)

  15. too bad on No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected · · Score: 5, Funny


    'No'--we have no plans at this time to build Office on Linux

    Too bad, I was looking for something other than DVD::RIP and distributed.net which would hammer both cores of my Athlon64 X2.

  16. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1


    The US will never drop out of the UN. The UN would probably then leave US soil and the US would lose all its intelligence it gets through the countless bugs they've planted in the UN buildings.

  17. Re:Make sure... on Test Equipment Finds Life In Mars-like Conditions · · Score: 2, Funny


    Make sure you read the whole title. It's quite misleading otherwise.

    If they do find life on Mars it'll be fun to watch the kooks try to explain that Mars is only 6000 years old. And there were dinosaur babies on a Martian ark. And a tree with apples that two Martians ate from. etc etc

  18. Re:If nothing else on Review: Dragonshard · · Score: 0, Troll


    I just have to say that this has been the best Slashdot article I have ever read. It is very well laid-out, is informative, and has supporting images that are appropriate.

    If you and Zonk came to Canada you could get legally married!

  19. Re:If it's so open on Dell Offering "Open" PC · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, and Dell lost out on a new cluster here because of it. There are 14 nice IBM 1u dual Opterons racked up and running thanks to Dell's stubborn line in the sand on CPUs.

  20. news? on Dell Offering "Open" PC · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Dell has been selling machines with FreeDOS for some time. We've bought several (including the machine I'm typing this on) for work. Let me know when they start to ship with AMD chips. That will be news.

  21. Re:cool on Heap Protection Mechanism · · Score: 1


    It's not that MS Windows (2000K or later)

    Windows 2,000,000? When was that released?

  22. Re:Don't blame LINUX on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which part actually got hacked, the OS or the webserver itself??

    Only those Iranians and the SUSE people know :) Regardless, running something like OpenBSD with its hardened & chroot'd apache could mitigate a lot of the damage. ie.: make most files read only to the httpd process, etc etc.

  23. Re:Don't blame LINUX on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Linux is near-flawless in terms of security.

    You don't follow security mailing lists, do you? Most Linux distros have decent security but "near-flawless"?

  24. hrm. on What's Your Command Line Judo? · · Score: 2, Funny


    foad works every time.

  25. Re:My turn: Democracy on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 1


    That just goes to show you how little influence is exerted by the US government on the internet. Do you really think the administration wouldn't love to have a big ceremony "reopening" the .iq domain?

    That won't happen until Halliburton installs the grossly overpriced networking infrastructure.