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  1. Re:and she would rather... on Video Games Need A Woman's Touch · · Score: 3, Funny


    "Trailer Park Girl" Only for XBOX!

  2. One of my big ones.. on What Are Your Favorite Computing Memories? · · Score: 1


    Hooking up a new 10 MB Sunol Systems hard disk to my Apple ][+ for my BBS in ~1985. Cost me a fortune. I remember seeing that 9.x megabytes of free space and thinking "I'll never need more." Heh, my wee iPod shuffle has 512 MB.

  3. BSD Certification? on BSDCertification.org Survey Report Available · · Score: 3, Funny


    ... is that anything like a will?

  4. Re:Your IT guys are lazy on Video Conferencing Behind a Firewall? · · Score: 1

    Whoops, something I neglected to think of when writing my reply; our firewall has "fixup protocol h323" enabled so dynamic port allocation is handled just fine.

  5. Your IT guys are lazy on Video Conferencing Behind a Firewall? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Netmeeting rules in our PIX configs need only 5 TCP ports: LDAP, 522, 1503, h323 1731. If you know the IPs of the remote side you can open up a very restrictive set of holes for incoming "calls" or you can initiate the connections and not worry about opening up incoming holes altogether (if you use NAT/PAT this is easiest.)

    Remember: your IT guys aren't running the show, they're there to help you do your job (and I'm an IT weenie at a research lab where Netmeetings are not uncommon...)

  6. aye... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1


    Scotty's been beamed up.

  7. Think for a second. on Googling May Break Copyright in Canada · · Score: 3, Insightful


    I think they're aiming at things such as torrent & eMule search engines not Google and Yahoo.

  8. Re:Example? on German Youth Convicted for Sasser Worm · · Score: 1

    hehe, well I'd assume that the parser is smart enough to know "this isn't an allowed tag, ergo it's a &lt" but noooo..

  9. Re:Example? on German Youth Convicted for Sasser Worm · · Score: 1

    [retarded /. truncated at my 'less than' sign]
    People do all sorts of dumb things when they're [less than] 18. It's unwise to run him in an adult court because of scheduling and birthday issues. (yeah, adults do stupid things, too but as a minor it's though that they don't know better)

  10. Re:Example? on German Youth Convicted for Sasser Worm · · Score: 1


    I think that as he is now over 18, he shouldn't be tried as if he's a child.

    People do all sorts of dumb things when they're

  11. Makes total sense. on How Games And Religion Could Mix · · Score: 4, Funny


    Both games and religion are make-believe, it only makes sense that they merge. Jesus with a BFG-900 taking on a 50M tall Ganesh with glowing laser-tusks could be fun.

  12. Re:Um... on Interactive Drama Prototype 'Facade' Released · · Score: 2, Funny
    This post is licenced under the GPL.

    Per the GPL: please supply me with the source code to your post.

  13. Re:Easy Solution! on China Signs Anti-Spam Pact · · Score: 5, Insightful


    I'm assuming your friend's school has no Chinese students that would never need to keep in touch with family and friends back home? If I tried that at my workplace I'd be keelhauled (on a junk, but keelhauled nonetheless)

  14. Re:Microsoft on Following Bill Gates' Linux Attack Money · · Score: 1

    About as brilliant as naming a sanitary napkin "StayFree"

    Oh hell, my sides hurt from laughing at that. :)

  15. Re:Premature optimization is the root of all evil. on Building the Ultimate Gaming Desktop · · Score: 1
    1) Fair enough re: swap. However swapping on other OSs (except for Mac OS 2) AV Scanner: one CPU can scan the system while the game run on the other. I wasn't referring to scanning the game you're playing. There's some IO overhead but AV scanners usually run low priority.

    3) I don't know about Windows firewalls. Never used one.

    At least that's how I understand Windows. I have just one Windows machine (out of ~8 total) and that's just for gaming so my Windows user-side knowledge is a bit limited.

    thanks!

  16. 1 core is fine. on Building the Ultimate Gaming Desktop · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Today's games aren't multithreaded. So, when designing a gaming system only one CPU core is needed. [...] In real-life, when you're playing a game, your CPU still needs to spend time managing memory, the swap file, all while keeping your real-time anti-virus file scanner and firewall active

    Right, which is why multi-core or SMP machines are good for gamers: the extra work is running on the other core|CPU.

  17. Re:well... on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1

    Isn't Pittsburg where George Romero shoots all his films?

    Almost. The current Land of the Dead was shot in Toronto for financial reasons.

  18. byte or bit? on Lucas's New HQ · · Score: 5, Insightful


    data network with more than 300 10-gigabyte ports.

    I think that means gigabits. Unless they started rating cards in bytes overnight.

  19. Good old one. on What's the Best Geek Joke You Know? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q- Who was the first computer technician?

    A- Eve. She had an Apple in one hand and a Wang in the other.

  20. Do me a favour. on Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights · · Score: 5, Funny
    Pick one for your blog:

    - Donchu h8 it when no1 sends grub cash?
    - any company giving grub money gets my business!
    - grub does so much and asks for so little.
    - i'd buy an SUV if a car company gave grub some l00t!

    Thank you.

  21. Re:You are expendable pawns. on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 1

    Military officers have to come from *somewhere*

    Oh, absolutely, I'm referring to the people actually in the trenches. They aren't ivy leaguers with 2 BMWs in the driveway back home.

  22. Re:You are expendable pawns. on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 0


    And how many rich kids officers are dying in Iraq right now? I'm not sure if he was an officer, but there was that one football player who died. But he was killed by friendly fire. The military is welfare painted as glorious.

  23. Re:You are expendable pawns. on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 0, Troll

    For military or other purposes, it is QUITE REAL since stereotypically poor equates ignorance and not a whole lot of self governing thought of intelligence.

    Dead on. And the poorer people eat it up. They see it as an avenue, perhaps the only one, from poverty. The government doesn't give two shits about them. They aren't likely to contribute much in taxes in their lifetime and they aren't likey to start a business which can help the economy. In short: they are a nuisance. The governments tell them how great they are and what a good thing it is to fight for your country. It's just glorified welfare with a bloody cost.

  24. You are expendable pawns. on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 5, Insightful


    to create a database of students ages 16 through college to help them identify recruits.

    It will start similar to "Student A has a rich family, pass. Ahh.. Student B is lower-middle class, offer Student B a scholarship attached to a term in the Reserves." and end with "Draft Student B."

  25. Re:Stop using Hotmail on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 2, Informative

    How? Simple, this is from my /etc/mail/access file:
    From:hotmail.com ERROR:"550 rejected: Hotmail is whitelist only. [20030405]"
    At the top of the file I have the allowed addresses ala "foo@hotmail.com OK"