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  1. Re:Nagios? Never heard of OpenNMS, I take it on GUI-Based Asset-Tracking Tools For a Datacenter? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'll second this. Once upon a time I spent weeks trying to get a Nagios setup working the way I wanted until I eventually abandoned it. Recently discovered OpenNMS, and while it's far from perfect it is a huge step up from Nagios. One thing I will warn though, it's a bit of a beast. Full SNMP collection on a few hundred devices requires some decent processing power and a boatload of I/O.

  2. Re:Carthage, MO has that as well on Databases In Caves? A Unique Google Fiber Bid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that's a lot of collages, though I'd rather not receive medical treatment from a nurse who's education came from a small collage...

  3. Re:Didn't see that one coming. on 3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Though in a perfectly sane world, the police would never have become involved in the first place.

    you have a strange definition of a perfect world. the security of a schools computer system was compromised from a remote location, and you'd prefer to keep the police out of it? somehow they were to psychically know that the perpetrator was a 9 year old with minimal malicious intent and thus shouldn't bother to investigate?

  4. Re:I'm conflicted on Will Adobe Sue Apple Over Flash? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you know what a monopoly is? how can you possibly claim Apple has a monopoly in either one of those markets? most figures I've seen put them in the 15-20% market share for smartphones, and those numbers are probably high.

  5. Re:Welcome back to the 90s on The 1 Terabyte SSD Arrives · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Compare how fast 3.5" capacity went from 1G->500G to how relatively slowly its inched from 500G->2000G.

    First 1GB hard drive came out around 1994 or 1995. It took 10 years until the first 500GB HD came out in 2005. Then the first 2TB drive came out in 2009, 4 years later. So basically, what the hell are you talking about?

  6. Re:The fun is in the simplicity on All the Best Games May Be NP-Hard · · Score: 4, Funny

    exactly, because every single windows user plays minesweeper, but not tetris which is unfortunately only available for ps2.

  7. Sign me up on A Wireless Hotspot For Your Car — Why Not? · · Score: 3, Insightful
  8. Re:What'll you bet... on IE9 Throws Down the Hardware Acceleration Gauntlet · · Score: 0, Troll

    What am I missing?

    A lot.

    Mobile Safari supports hardware acceleration of CSS. No hardware acceleration of Javascript or HTML5.

  9. Re:16 years old, no legal rights against parents. on Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA, his grandparents have custodial rights, not his mother.

  10. Re:Greatest Opening to a book review ever: on Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics · · Score: 1

    ok, you're clearly retarded, so continuing this debate seems pointless, but i'll make one last, half assed attempt.

    http://classiclit.about.com/od/atreegrows/fr/aafpr_treegrows.htm

    http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060736262/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn/index.aspx

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14891.A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn

    http://classicreads.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-schedule/

    http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/tree-grows-in-brooklyn.html

    http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780060736262

    http://www.librarything.com/work/1475

    http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2005/11/a_tree_grows_in.html

    And again, Betty Smith is not a 'classic' author, but one of the few books she wrote is a classic book. Can you really not understand that very simple concept, or are you just grasping at straws in a desperate attempt to not have to admit you're wrong?

  11. Re:Greatest Opening to a book review ever: on Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics · · Score: 1

    well, it was published in 1943, so i think it fits the criteria of 'been around a while'. It was in my school curriculum, and most of the people I went to college with were required to read it in high school, so i think it fits that criteria. now

    hence everybody, regardless of their erudition level, has heard of them

    That's a tough one, since it is an Appeal to Popularity fallacy and this impossible to disprove, so I'll choose to just ignore it. I will agree that Betty Smith herself is not a classic novel, and will go so far as to speculate that she still won't be in a hundred years. However, her book is a classic now, without a doubt. Again, your ignorance plays no role in the significance of her novel.

  12. Re:The most toxic DESKTOP App on Naming and Shaming Toxic Web Apps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    stupidly fake-formal sign-off, awesome name,

    Kilgore Trout is the fake sci fi author in Kurt Vonnegut books.

  13. Re:Greatest Opening to a book review ever: on Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics · · Score: 1

    so apparently your ignorance plays a significant part in determining what is or isn't a classic?

  14. Greatest Opening to a book review ever: on Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics · · Score: 5, Funny

    "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith:

            This book is 3 words over and over again: MY LIFE IS BAD.

  15. Re:xkcd is not funny. Please stop linking to it. on Twitter Predicts Box Office Results · · Score: 0, Troll

    you are definitely right, because humor is not subjective, and the millions of people who read and enjoy xkcd are simply wrong, while you are simply right. out of curiosity, when will you be posting the comprehensive list of what is and isn't funny so that i'll have a point of reference to check before i ever laugh at anything?

  16. Re:Amazing ... Not! on Twitter Predicts Box Office Results · · Score: 1

    BTW, after seeing all the posts online about how many people hate the iPad even before it came out should have predicted it wouldn't sell at all - even though it seems to have sold pretty well so far. I guess their theory didn't predict that their theory failed. Oh wait, now that I've posted this it does predict it.

    except the number of posts complaining about the iPad were and are far far outweighed by the number of posts praising it. this is combing twitter posts, not slashdot posts. if it used slashdot posts then it would predict that the iPad will fail, that Linux is the most popular desktop OS, and that people love pictures of gaping assholes.

  17. Re:This is discussed in the "Security consideratio on IETF Drops RFC For Cosmetic Carbon Copy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    actually, the 'CCC standard' allows obfuscation of Ccc addresses when they get merged with CC. Option is left up to the implementation as obviously both have drawbacks. No obfuscation means reply all would show the CCCed person they were left out, obfuscation would allow the CCed person to know who was CCCed if they looked closely or hit reply all.

  18. Re:Once you seen one Roland Emmerich on Will Smith In For Independence Day 2 & 3 · · Score: 1

    like maybe a biopic on shakespeare?

  19. Re:Two hours? on Self-Destructing USB Stick · · Score: 2, Informative

    from TFA:

    Victorinox says the device uses the Advanced Encryption Standard 256 to protect your data as well as its own proprietary security chip.

  20. Re:WTF? Just ask the patient. on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 3, Funny

    if your code crashes the system powering your sight, how will you see the debugger output?

  21. Re:Ah on College To Save Money By Switching Email Font · · Score: 1

    ah, the real idiots of slashdot who try to attack commenters without even reading the fucking title, much less the summary or article.

  22. Re:BIOS on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Online Banking has worked perfectly fine the last years.... At least for me :-) It needs no saving...

    current cancer prevention methods have worked perfectly fine... At least for me. I don't know why we waste all this money on research...

  23. Re:sixth grade? on BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was learn

    Solving for X, and Solving for X and Y with 2 or more equations.

    I was not in honers classes.

    Take Bags of balls mark some as 'X'

    Find out home many balls are in X and in Y

    i definitely think your school system should be the model for all others...

  24. oblig on How the TSA Plans On Inspecting Your Monkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    oh, i can't wait to eat that monkey

    (alternatively: PRAY..FOR...MOJO...)

  25. Re:Brian on Open Source Alternative To Google Earth? · · Score: 3, Funny

    and spending 30 seconds to read the fucking page you posted a link to would have led you to read the 2nd posting on that page:

    25 November 2006, we've got the letter from Michael Jones, the Chief Technologist of Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Local search, requesting us to cease reverse engineering and improper usage of licensed data that Google Earth use. We understand and respect Google's position on the case, so we've removed all downloads from this page and we ask everybody who have ever downloaded gaia 0.1.0 and prior versions to delete all files concerned with the project, which include source code, binary files and image cache (~/.gaia).

    which was posted over 3 years ago. although what can i really expect from an AC who either can't spell brain or consults someone named brian for all his decisions...