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  1. Re:What Has Changed? on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    "With a 750GB hard drive selling under $100, what has changed?"

    Well, when I had a 20GB HDD, movies were 700MB each, maybe 1.4GB the largest ones. Now it's true that we have HDD ten times larger, but also we have HD movies of at least 4.3GB each. And complete series. And comics. And games spanning on Dual Layer DVDs. I never wasted 4GB for swap(as I have 2GB of RAM).

  2. Re:Random searches on Google, Circa 2001 · · Score: 1
  3. Thank you on Email-only Providers? · · Score: 1

    Well, it seems I didn't see the forest because of all that trees. Thank you all for your kind replies, the solution for my problem is obvious: Google Apps. I don't know why I had the impression that Google Apps only targets organizations and such and I didn't want to abuse their service and someday to find my account suspended. I already have a domain so the most easy, cheap and comfortable way will be to use Google Apps on it. And if Google fails to satisfy me, I have a few dozens options, including some offers I got on my email. So thank you all.

  4. Re:HOTMAIL on Email-only Providers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This was an option, but this requires having a PC running all the time. I sometimes have a FTP server for my personal needs, but hosting an email server 24/7 for business is out of the question, at least for the time being.

  5. Re:Amazing on Mars Rover's Epic Trek For the Crater Endeavor · · Score: 2, Informative

    Godspeed, Opportunity! Remember that Opportunity and Spirit are on their 5th year on the Martian surface. Their mission were initially planned to last no more than 3 months. Bravo!

    Oops, read that "4th year", my apologies.

  6. Amazing on Mars Rover's Epic Trek For the Crater Endeavor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Godspeed, Opportunity!
    Remember that Opportunity and Spirit are on their 5th year on the Martian surface. Their mission were initially planned to last no more than 3 months. Bravo!

  7. Cute on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Aww, but look in TFA at that tin foil that covers the probe, I bet the Indian engineers saw that in NASA's documentaries and thought that it would look realy nice on their little cheap lunar probe too. The Indian probe is sooo cute!

  8. Apocalipse delayed on LHC Success! · · Score: 1

    Off course we're alive, they didn't start colliding stuff. We'll talk after that.. *evil laugh*

    The Atlas guys uses KDE, yay!

  9. Re:The LHC, a wormhole, and hell. on LHC Flips On Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    LHC is a Phantom Zone projector!!

  10. Re:ehh.. on Blu-ray Gone In Five Years, Samsung Claims · · Score: 1

    Cost might be an issue, but maybe you will need only ONE flash stick to rule them all. One 1-5TB stick may be on market in 5-7 years and why having a stockpile fo optical disk when I can have all my porn^Wmovie collection at my keyring (the real keyring, not the virtual one)? Just a few days ago I trashed more than half of my optical disk movie/software collection, since now I can have them all on my 1TB HDD array.

  11. Re:CDs on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    Recently I tried to destroy a few CD with personal data that I didn't need anymore, but also didn't want to get into the wrong hands. Not having a hammer, I tried to scratch the cd with a knife. The data could still be read. I tried putting the scratched CD in boiling water. After a few minutes in hot water, the now scratched and boiled CD can still be read. Finally, my eyes glance to the microwave oven. This finally solved my problem, as sparks and drifts formed on my CD that helped a lot in mechanically disabled it without a hammer. So yeah, CDs are damned resistent.

  12. DS? on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1

    Nintendo DS?! Come on man, get the real thing, PSP!

  13. Re:Huh on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    Well, you can have either the haisencow's orientation or it's velocity, but never both. So, if the cow is facing north, it could have *ANY* velocity. Beware!

  14. Re:Problems... on Send the ISS To the Moon · · Score: 1

    They've laughed at Jules Verne too.
    (Vanilla Sky)

  15. Next: SD on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 1

    I can't wait the .torrent edition of ScienceDirect, the prices there more than high.

  16. Drink on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Doctors vs. Scientists on A Hippocratic Oath For Scientists · · Score: 1

    The lab's notebook may be a legal document, but you can easily put false statements there. What's beyond the notebook? The files on the computer, but I hardly believe they could be used in court. And with the right tool (a hexeditor, maybe?) you can touch and modify almost any result stored in almost any computer (except maybe when you have tighter security policies like digital signature or restrictive user access, but I doubt this is the case in the vast majority of labs).

  18. Makes sense on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, that would explain the lower population number in Norway, for instance, where Wikipedia says that they are only 4.7 millions inhabitants in such a beautiful country.

    If your vitamin D level gets down during winter and you catch a rainy summer, you're doomed!

  19. Obligatory Futurama tie-in on Study Hints At Time Before Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Is the other universe hosting a planet-sized pink alien monster that will date and finally break-up with our universe?

  20. Re:BULLsheit, I live in Romania,education system=c on How Laptops in Education Can Help Dictators, Hurt Learning · · Score: 1

    "Free laptop = 5xRomanian education system."
    Yeah, and unlimitted access to free porn also!

  21. About games on Old Computer Game Covers - Collectible, Or Just Nostalgia? · · Score: 1

    I've recently get my hands on Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative and played it on DosBox emulator. It was fun, but it really didn't get me into it more than a few hours.

    My first real game (chronologically) played on PC was, I think, Wolfestein3D and Dyna, quickly followd by Doom, Doom2, Quake, Quake2 and Quake3. I've stopped there. I have Quake4, but I didn't played it for more then 5 hours.
    It's not that much about what game you play, I think there's more about the company and the atmosphere surrounding the game experience. (I was playing Quake and Doom in multiplayer, I found single player games really boring).

  22. Re:Hmm on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1

    Amateurs...
    Mininova, The Pirate Bay and sometimes, for stuff really hard to find, IsoHunt (ugly interface). You wouldn't see any of those ones closed in the foreseable future. (Hopefully... keep your fingers crossed, just in case)

  23. Hmm on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 4, Funny

    killall -9 *orrent*
    rm -rf /mnt/storage/downloads/*

    There, I should be safe now.

  24. Re:Oh Yes It Will on Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc · · Score: 2, Informative

    Funny how, on the official IE7 page, there is no option yet to download IE7 for XPSP3.
    I've installed SP3 offline, over my SP2, but there was no IE7 with it.
    But it's ok, IE6 is doing fine over here, not stressing him to much since the Mozilla launched Firefox.

  25. Registering on .su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever · · Score: 1

    So... where can I register a .su domain?