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  1. YAY on Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family · · Score: 1, Funny

    New fonts are like christmas. It's like getting a
    new version of your favorite mp3 player or P2P
    client with new stuff added. Free stuff rules.

  2. Re:DHCP is just akin to laziness on Introducing DHCP on FreeBSD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you've ever had to admin a network with a few
    nearly populated class c's or even a slightly filled
    class b along with a parade of arrogant cock
    contractors and traveling dignitaries coming and
    going with their laptops with alarming frequency,
    you'd understand how the benefits of DHCP far
    outweigh some broadcast packets when you are already
    severely understaffed.

  3. Neat little article but... on Introducing DHCP on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    I had NOTHING to do with configuring a simple DHCP
    server at all. It's only about dhclient and
    dhcp terminology. Way to screen the story.

  4. sorry bout that OFFTOPIC on Friday Apple Quickies · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    brain no worky right dead tired sleep now.
    night.

  5. It's nice to see Scotty McNeilly that list. on Friday Apple Quickies · · Score: 1, Funny

    $31.7 salary
    74.7% behind

    Watching Linux grab up your market share?
    priceless.

  6. Re:I got a name for em! on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    I vote Gazorninplat. That's a great name for a
    browser. 3 cool points to the first person that
    knows where that word came from.

  7. This looks like sour grapes on Should You Hire a Hacker? · · Score: 1

    from mister Painter. Boohoo Chris. Kevin is going
    to be worth more money than you will make the rest
    of your life in a few years. Not even a lame book
    deal will help you keep up.

  8. I see it as Mozilla.org's duty on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 5, Funny

    to completely ignore these idiots and definitely
    keep the name to spite them now. It might not be
    a bad idea to write some sort of redirection or
    "pitty party" filter code that rewrites the
    offending morons websites like Opera did with
    MSN.

  9. FreeBSD was added? on Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition · · Score: 2, Informative

    News flash. FreeBSD has been covered in this book
    since the beginning if my memory serves me right,
    and the author is a pretty big fan.

  10. interesting idea from reading the article on Scientists Accurately Predict Supernova · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about generating crypt keys based on a
    random sampling of the night sky with a powerful
    digital telescope?

  11. On the bright side, on Tridgell Taking Samba Beyond POSIX · · Score: 1

    samba appears to support FFS with softupdates just
    fine so I'm cool. ;)

  12. It isn't like this is the first lull we've had on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 1

    in progress. Your limited thinking is common. I
    think it's ludicrous to think we'll hit a glass
    ceiling at any point. Most of the arguments against
    my way of seeing this is the uncertainty principle
    example of an electron being shot at a plate with
    two holes in it and going through both at the same
    time. That's great but an electron isn't the only
    particle. Think about that. I'd be more inclined
    to believe that our current science is fundementally
    flawed like it turns out to be every hundred years
    or so than to think we won't eventually be able
    to find patterns and signatures in everything.
    From the shape of the chambered nautilus to the
    orbits of atoms and galaxies. Something leads to
    something else and it gets unraveled and
    understood with increasing levels of certainty.
    Cause and effect. If you think that any science
    we have now will be applicable in a thousand
    years, you are kidding yourself. I'll put my
    money on time.

  13. Let me put this another way on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 1

    We have electron microscopes. The technology will
    get more refined. We'll eventually be able to track
    the movements of an atom and find a pattern in
    relation to what's going on around it.

    Ok, fast forward 100 years. At this point computers
    are a ridiculous combination of DNA, and some sort
    of fastening mechanism that attaches it to your
    body for either voice or (hopefully) some sort of
    direct thought connection. This is the computer
    you can plug into the machine that blasts an
    enormous amount of some particle that passes
    through matter into a collection sensor on the
    other side that looks for the subatomic equivalent
    of doppler shift, then charts the path of every
    particle in that substance. Something powerful
    enough to translate the slight change in that
    particle passing through the substance into an
    interception vector and plot speed and movement.
    All this outputed to a 3d model that you can
    zoom in on and automatically record to some
    sort of database for more thorough data analysis.

  14. Re:A Better System on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Ok,
    The more precisely the position of an object is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant,

    If that's what you think you are talking about.
    That doesn't do much to change the fact that
    technology is progressing at a very rapid rate.
    I'd think that we'd be able to accurately predict
    the movements of every paths of atomic particles
    in decaying radioactive substances maybe, one at
    a time in the next century. I'm not saying we'd
    be able to accurately predict the movement of
    every single atom in the universe. If I had said
    that, the uncertainty principle would apply. I
    don't even think it's unrealistic that we'd
    progress beyond that to the point that we could
    track the movments of a few million atoms at the
    same time. It would figure we'd make that jump
    eventually. In fact, something like the uncertainty
    principle will probably make a lot more sense when we get
    that much closer.

  15. Yeah so I made it up on All Shapes in One Equation? · · Score: 1

    But I'm so fucking BORED!
    I wanted to see who would call bullshit first.

  16. stuff I've been using on What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? · · Score: 1

    Lately I've been partial to 'leka'. It's a single
    disk linux OS with a bunch of useful tools
    that are useful with linux and windows. It also
    supports adding modules. One of the most common
    uses I have for it is to run memory tests on just
    built hardware. Once I'm building a machine
    and I get the ram in it, I boot up leka, then mount
    a second floppy and install my memtest module from
    there. I picked the module up from the leka
    homepage: www.leka.net.

  17. Re:A Better System on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The beautiful thing is that nothing is truly random
    at all. It's a convenience to think that way.
    Eventually everything will get cracked down to
    accurately predicting the paths of atomic particles
    in decaying radioactive substances.

  18. Shapes are cool on All Shapes in One Equation? · · Score: 2, Interesting


    So like if it's only for shapes then I'm cool with
    it too cause yanno like shapes are cool and stuff.

    But seriously,
    Bummer. Graphics realism and speed could probably be
    greatly enhanced with a technology burned into the
    firmware that can make any shape with one equation.
    That could be a neat way to do a lot of things. In
    the very least it could be a new way to precache
    memory if you think about it. Or something.

  19. Good lord, no wonder they removed it. on Tempers Flare Over Ill-Tempered Sword Remarks · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if tinfoil hats help you channel the
    natural energy your body has as well as their
    swords do. That page had me singing the highlander
    theme song and saying "there can be only one!" in
    a chrisopher lambertesque voice.

  20. so that 99 dollar ninja sword I got at the mall on Tempers Flare Over Ill-Tempered Sword Remarks · · Score: 1, Interesting

    is a piece of junk? But it chops carrots in half
    so easily.

    Seriously though. Swords are really neat and all,
    but what practical use do they have? NONE. There is
    so much more I could spend 10 grand on that would
    see actual use.

    Old 240sx, sr20det engine, some mods, POW!
    11 second car to scare the ricekids with for barely
    8 grand

    So yeah, a car isn't quite the same thing as a
    sword, but I'd see more use out of the car. What
    am I going to do with the sword? I can't carry it
    conceiled. If I pull out my sword when 4 guys
    jump me in an aly, I'm dead when they start
    shooting me with their jennings 22 autoes and
    tec-9's. A kid with a bb gun is going to fuck me
    up pretty badly until I can get within sword
    striking range. So a sword is kinda pointless in
    light of current technology. It's "for pretty".
    Or it's to satisfy that "I just gotta have one"
    thing that happens after you rent Highlander.
    But you can placate that need with a 99 dollar
    flee market sword. So the moral of the story is,
    don't spend 10 grand on a sword. Instead, make
    yourself a Silvia clone with an old 240sx and a
    sr20det crate motor instead. With the couple of
    grand left over, get a membership at a decent
    gym, buy a good handgun (like an HK USP Compact),
    and take some martial arts and marksmanship
    classes. Not only will you have a great car that
    will annoy the hondahahaha crowd, you'll have a
    great gun and know how to beat people up and
    be all muscled and stuff. Sure beats the hell out
    of laying in a pool of blood dying while someone
    walks off with your 10,000 dollar sword.

  21. so the website is mightier than the sword? on Tempers Flare Over Ill-Tempered Sword Remarks · · Score: 5, Funny

    someone was going to say it

  22. Depends where in Phili on Pennsylvania Refuses to Disclose Banned Website List · · Score: 1

    South Phili has a *cough* charm all it's own. But
    you have areas like king of prussia and shwenksville
    and especially mana yunk sp? that absolutely rock.

    On a side note, a lot of people would be amazed if
    they knew how many movies are filmed each year in
    Harrisburg. They thought they were looking at
    detroit or chicago or DC, but they weren't. A lot
    of movies that require maasive trainyard shots, or
    D.C. looking architecture are filmed there. Kinda
    sucks for traffic in the summer though.

  23. The Gingerbread Man alone.... on Pennsylvania Refuses to Disclose Banned Website List · · Score: 1

    would be a great reason to live in Mechanicsburg.
    It has to be one of my favorite bars in the world.
    The G-man in Carlisle isn't too bad either.

  24. Actually Troll, on Pennsylvania Refuses to Disclose Banned Website List · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pennsylvania rocks for many reasons. Don't take one
    lame law and your experience with Harrisburg and
    label my state a "shithole" you arrogant fuckwad.
    Why don't you just go the whole pathetic route
    and craft up a "Pennsylvania is dieing" troll while
    you are at it. I've lived all over this country in
    the past 20 years, and I always come back here at
    some point for some very important reasons.

    #1 I don't have to lock my fucking doors at night
    because crime isn't an issue.

    #2 The education opportunities here are
    incredible

    #3 There is a bubble of positive economy in many
    areas that isn't effected much by the rest of
    the country.

    #4 The cost of living is low, but the quality of
    living is outstanding.

    #5 The cops aren't assholes.

    #6 You don't have to pay a premium for good
    service with a smile like you do just about
    ANYWHERE else I've been. It's EXPECTED.

    #7 Some of the best Italian food "in my area
    anyway" in the US. Period.

    #8 Excellent nightlife without a shitload of lame
    scenesters trying to pretend they are in L.A.

    #9 Perfect place to raise a family.

    #10 It's own deep history and culture. America
    started here moron.

    So just because you were too lame to enjoy
    yourself here in "Pennsyltucky" doesn't mean
    anybody else wouldn't be able to see past your
    bullshit and truly enjoy themselves in this small
    piece of heaven. Just because NY and LA are the
    only things you see on television doesn't mean
    it's the only way to live you pompous twit.

  25. Dear SCO, on SCO Group Lawsuit Q&A · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did you help Al Gore create the internet?