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  1. Re:state of integrated graphics on VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm so glad I can't use my $500 video card today because it's much better to be able to use my $0.50c card in 10 years time!

    Piss off you idiot.

    I've still got my ZX81 (qitrh 16k rampack), BBC Micro, (the 386 & 486s I ditched), a P54C, a Pentium 75, a Pentium 150, a Pentium Pro Proliant 800 (I cba to find out what speed - probably 200Mhz), another Proliant a bit later 500Mhz I think, then its on to the Pentium IIIs - 10 all the same 700Mhz ish (from a skip), an IBM E-Server dual PIII 733Mhz (that runs my business), a Dell PIII I was using as my terminal until recently, a couple of AMDs - an 800Mhz Opteron and a 2400, some AMD roughly 1Ghz thing I never use, an Intel dual 1Ghz PIII and at the top of the tree an Intel quad core 2.4Ghz. You really don't want my list my pile of VGA/NIC/SCSI and other ISA/PCI/AGP cards and other peripherals.

    That's 27 years of still working hardware, from companies who came and went.

  2. Re:state of integrated graphics on VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    and also the only one with fully accelerated 3d

  3. Re:What's the real plan? on Comparison of Windows XP and Linux/Sugar On the OLPC XO · · Score: 1

    see, you answered your own question

  4. virtual filesystems on Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    prior art from 1986 Plan 9 V 1.0

  5. That's the file system's job on Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? · · Score: 1
  6. Shucks, on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 1

    Where some = those not suitable for coping with a power loss scenario, quel surprise.

  7. Malware, what's that ? on Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware" · · Score: 0

    Pics plz.

  8. Re:Obviously on Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone · · Score: 1

    Also, file systems are databases.

  9. Re:Money Machine on "Probable Cause" Hearing Against MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    sure, we coming to town to perform our film for you next week, see you there!

  10. Re:Twitter is up...down...up...down...Whats on TV? on Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide · · Score: 1

    Web programming gay

    fixed it for ya !

  11. Re:Iraq/Iran on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 1

    Freedom through death.

    "Do unto others as you have them do unto you." - some beardy guy

  12. Re:How is this regime possible? on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yeah me too, oh Iranian, I thought you said American!

  13. Re:Doesn't mean it should be fixed.. on FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969 · · Score: 1

    I'd be more enamoured by your call to arms if you were studying Politics and International Relations combined with Economics and Philosophy.

  14. Re:Doesn't mean it should be fixed.. on FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969 · · Score: 1

    I already vote against every incumbent, and their opposition but somehow one of the bastards always seems to win. I think other people must be voting because I certainly am not.

    It's like choosing which bullet to be shot by.

  15. It's called "channel bonding" on Working With 2 ISPs For Home Networking? · · Score: 1

    On FreeBSD - http://www.taosecurity.com/bond.txt

    #!/bin/sh
    # I believe I originally heard of this here:
    # http://seclists.org/lists/focus-ids/2003/Oct/0028.html
    kldload ng_ether
    ifconfig fxp1 promisc -arp up
    ifconfig fxp2 promisc -arp up

    ngctl mkpeer . eiface hook ether
    ngctl mkpeer ngeth0: one2many lower one
    ngctl connect fxp1: ngeth0:lower lower many0
    ngctl connect fxp2: ngeth0:lower lower many1

    ifconfig ngeth0 -arp up

    OpenBSD has it also

    http://geek00l.blogspot.com/2005/12/bond-interface-for-openbsd.html

  16. Re:It doesn't have to be perfect on Casting Doubt On the Hawkeye Ball-Calling System · · Score: 1

    How do you take the measurements to compare?

  17. starvation is a tactic on Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual · · Score: 1

    Starving the population was a trick learned from British lassaiz-faire economics in India in the late 1800s and used to devstating effect in the Phillipines and later in Vietnam.
    Drought & disease conflagrated while the Imperialists looked on, 50 million dead in 30 years and the construction of the Third World. Go Europe!

    My school seemd to miss that part out when they told me overpopulation is the cause of famine

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts

  18. Re:Milli-pascal? on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They used that because it's the number they beat.

  19. Care for a bath ? on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:Who said Reiser doesn't support robust recovery on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Postgresql

  21. Re:The dog died. on Linux Cluster Supercomputer Performs Surgery on Dog · · Score: 2

    I doubt it was a volunteer.

  22. Re:big brother on UK Local Councils Spy On Emails and Calls · · Score: 1

    5 million viewers is not "the most popular" by any stretch of the imagination.

  23. Re:AMD competition on Intel's Atom — First Benchmarks and a Full PC Review · · Score: 4, Funny

    Steve would be better ;)

  24. Re:Really... on VIA Introduces the Nano Processor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Like the old joke "the watch is tiny but look at the battery I have to carry in a suitcase" take a look at this photo.

    That's the CPU in the foreground, passively heated, oo groovy. But wait, what's that huge heatsink with the fan ?!
    Intel have offloaded all the power requirements into the northbridge. That way they can say "our CPU is 2.5w matey".

    Oh, and it was supposed to ship June '08 but that's been quitely cancelled so no MSI Wind for you for the near future.

  25. I'm as big a fan of "freedom of thought" as anyone on UK Proposes Banning Computer Generated Abuse · · Score: 1



    OMG it's children. CHILDREN!!!!