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  1. aggghhh it's "lose", get it "lose" on Five PC Vendors Face Patent Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Funny


    not loose, lose

    looser

  2. 50 of these on What to Get My Geek for Valentine's Day? · · Score: 1
  3. Here's a link for Inferno on An Introduction to Virtualization · · Score: 1


    http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/

    Inferno was started by Bell-Labs and then sold on to Vita Nuova for commercial exploitation.

    It has always been a free binary downlaod with source for userland and kernel source for pyament, but now, in the 4th edition, the whole kit and caboodle is under a dual license.

  4. Re:OT: you never been to iceland? on Groklaw Traces Contribution of ABIs back to SCO. · · Score: 1


    organic milk, okay, that *might* lead to slightly better welfare.

    So how does your Mars Bar figure?
    The skimmed milk in your crisps?
    That cafe latte down at the corner shop?

    I find it strange that you won't go to Iceland because some of the people who live there killed 30 whales when you live in a country that slaughters millions of animals annually and mandates animal testing for a wide range of products and needs quotas on fish catching because the fishermen can't be trusted to manage their own industry to not kill every living thing in the sea.

  5. If I was the leech on Throttle Apache Bandwidth Based on IP Address? · · Score: 1

    I would use a round robin anonymous proxy and then I could bust your IP based nonsense in a jiffy.

    I already have a module for python to do this that took about half an hour to write.

    HTTP is an open protocol, there is no true way to filter one set of users from another.

    You could always use passworded accounts and use micropayments for bandwidth.

    that's the way to do your usenet porn archive

  6. Re:OT: you never been to iceland? on Groklaw Traces Contribution of ABIs back to SCO. · · Score: 1


    it only counts if you are vegan

    Drinking milk means baby cows will die because male cows aren't needed in large numbers.

    You will find many herds only have one live male.
    European farming uses widespread artificial insemination.

    Lacto vegetarians who cite compassion for animals as their reasoning are deluding themselves if they think that not killing is better than a life long suffering.

    The swollen udders of drugged up cows is testament to that.

    On top of that wearing leather and wool and other animal products for clothes is part of the animal abusing process. Widespread use of leather in modern times goes a long way to support the cow rearing profits.

    I have more respect for a man that says he kills but doesn't care than a man that says he cares but still kills.

  7. Re:Dennis Ritchie (of C and UNIX fame) on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 0

    lol, you ignorant fuckwit

  8. Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1


    There are plenty of webmail services that allow pop3/imap support for free

    try http://www.fastmail.fm

  9. Re:ACCC on Australian Firm Asks SCO To Detail Evidence · · Score: 1

    look at how prices are falling now!

    that's just great until one of them goes bust from the price war and the other decides it's time to recoup their losses.

  10. Re:Think on Australian Firm Asks SCO To Detail Evidence · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If one is going to use a homily, one should at least get it right, somewhat tricky when even biblical scholars can't agree.

    Either way it is given as 'the love of money' not 'money' that brings the evil deeds.

    The New American Standard Bible translates it as

    6:10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

    Whereas King James gives it as :

    6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

    As to what Jesus would do?

    He spent the first 30 years of his life as the son of god doing nothing particualrly holy. He walked past the sick and injured all the time and left them to suffer. He was busy learning to carpent to fill his and Jospeh's pockets with sheckles.

    Eventually, when he needed to get laid, he took up being a messiah. One of his first jobs was to take an obligated pilgrimmage. Arriving at the temple he decided to make a name for himself.

    He turned over the money lenders tables and poured their coins on the floor ("Aw, come on mate, that'll take me ages to pick them up"). And what was their crime? It wasn't because they were lending money per se it was becuase they were doing it at the temple :

    "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business." John 2:16

    So, when you think "What would Jesus do?" the answer is usually "nothing".

  11. Wife? Kids? Am I on the wrong site? on Gamecube Linux Port Announced, In Progress · · Score: 1


    j/k

  12. What would be nice ... on Learning Python, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1


    Is a book review that wasn't for lavae.

    It's like going to the local bookstore and hoping for something more to buy than Learn VB in 24 Hours.

  13. What's the VGA output like? on Gamecube Linux Port Announced, In Progress · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Good vga output would make it a nifty little diskless terminal (the proper name for a "small client desktop computer which stores its data on a server on the network").

    Some operating systems were designed from the ground up to have diskless graphical terminals, even on serial lines.

  14. Re:The near future.......? on Google Eyes New Email Service, Expansion · · Score: 1


    that's odd, I've been reading about these agents for something like 20 years

    and still they don't come

  15. Re:Security should be simple on The Future of Security · · Score: 1


    My point is that some of these things already exist in some form.

    plan9 is 14 years old, it predates Windows 95, let alone NT.

    An open source WinNT clone

    lol, a clone of a Posix compliant VMS clone with an awful GUI, can't wait!

  16. Well, how about the Debian & Soureforge break- on FBI Conducts Raids Over Half-Life 2 Source Theft · · Score: 1


    not so much fuss when Sourceforge & Debian were compromised.

  17. Re:Security should be simple on The Future of Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps you mean something like per process namespaces and device access through file interfaces controlled by normal permission checking.

    Nah, that's just crazy talk.

    oh, wait

  18. "unpoliced" ? on The Future of Security · · Score: 1


    Do you really think the internet is "unpoliced" ?

  19. Vive la revolution on The Future of Security · · Score: 1

    A bastardized version of Crass' Bloody Revolutions

    You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
    You speak of liberation and when the people rule
    Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
    Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

    But what about those people who don't want your new restrictions?
    Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions?
    You say they've got it wrong because they don't agree with you
    So when the revolution comes you'll have to run them through
    You say that revolution will bring freedom for us all
    Well freedom just ain't freedom when your back's against the wall

    Will you indoctrinate the masses to serve your new regime?
    And simply do away with those whose views are too extreme?
    Transportation details could be left to British rail
    Where Zyklon B succeeded, North Sea Gas will fail
    It's just the same old story of man destroying man
    We've got to look for other answers to the problems of this land

    Vive la revolution, people of the world unite
    Stand up men of courage, it's your job to fight

  20. I know, it's annoying on Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through Filters · · Score: 1


    When people spend an eternity not making sense

  21. Re:OSS drivers? on The Successor to AC'97: Intel High Definition Audio · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Even better would be if turning it off in the BIOS meant that the OS actually ignored it.

  22. lol on Linus on SCO, and the Desktop Being 10 Years Away · · Score: 3, Insightful


    for some people 'archive' doesn't mean 'zip up into a binary format nothing else understands'

  23. It's a bit battered but I still have it on On Early Game Packaging Treasures · · Score: 1
  24. Re:I For One on On Early Game Packaging Treasures · · Score: 1


    Nope, superiority simplex.

  25. Acorn did it in '82 on Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 · · Score: 1

    with a Z80 for the 6502 based BBC Micro so you could run CP/M