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  1. Re:OpenBSD? on ISS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail · · Score: 1

    I can tell you that NetBSD does ship with sendmail installed, but it will refuse to boot in multi user unless you've configured your system anyway. It's disabled in the default options though.

  2. Re:Two words... on Object Prevalence: Get Rid of Your Database? · · Score: 1

    Are they worse than Regular Beans at giving you gas?

  3. Re:Of Course were pissed on Microsoft Opens Source to China · · Score: 1

    It's not like Illinois would cost an awful lot, and it's easy to rename like that. I guess he could buy Iowa along with it.

  4. Re:Really? on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 1
    Amateur.
    typedef int tni;
    typedef char chra;
    #define prinft(x) printf(x)
    #define reten return
    and if you fix the { you could also do a:
    #define maine(x, y) main(x, y)
  5. Re:Joy of joys on Intel To Redesign PC With "Grantsdale" Chip · · Score: 1

    It'd be fun using a floppy at 2GB/sec = 2147483648B/sec, a floppy contains 1440000B, so reading a complete floppy would be possible in (1440000/2147483648=) 0.0006705522secs. I wonder how fast floppies would need to rotate for that.

  6. Re:Bloody tricks! on Intel To Redesign PC With "Grantsdale" Chip · · Score: 1

    It's all about the bloody tricks in systems. UN*X is a combination of bloody tricks. It gets interesting to see how a cmobination of tiny little tricks cause major systems improvement (like paging, and on demand page loading).

    When you have to work with what you have, tricks are best to squeeze every last drop out of that, but then performance really matters you need to redesign from the ground up, which intel has been failing to do since the PPro(?).

  7. Re:Big deal on Intel To Redesign PC With "Grantsdale" Chip · · Score: 1

    Luxury.

  8. Re:Turtle races! on PowerPC 970 Running at 2.5 GHz · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Any takers? on PowerPC 970 Running at 2.5 GHz · · Score: 1

    What are you betting on? A bet with without a prize is just silly..

  10. Re:Klingon target practice on NASA Gives Up On Pioneer 10 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So is this going to mean there'll be a big war between V'ger and P'ner?

  11. Re:Let's make Google a pejorative instead. on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today is the word "google".
    Out of all the English words that begin with the letter 'g', "google" is the only one referred to as "the g-word". It's the one magical word.
    Just by it's sound it can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love.

    In English "google" falls into many grammatical catagories. As a transitive verb for instance:
    "John googled Shirley"
    As an intransitive verb:
    "Shirley googles"
    It's meaning is not always searching. It can be used as an adjective, such as:
    "John's doing all the googling work."
    As part of an adverb:
    "Shirley talks too googling much."
    As an adverb enhancing an adjective:
    "Shirley is googling beautiful."
    AS a noun:
    "I don't give a google."
    As part of a verb:
    "Absogooglinglutely" or "Ingooglingcredible" and as almost every word in a sentence:
    "Google the googling googlers".

    You must realize there aren't many words with the versatility of "google". As in these stituations describing fraud:
    "I got googled at the used car lot!"
    Dismay:
    "Ahh.. google it!"
    Trouble:
    "Oh, I guess I'm really googled now."
    Aggression:
    "Don't google with me buddy!"
    Difficulty:
    "I don't understand this googling question!"
    Inquiry:
    "Who the google was that?"
    Dissatisfaction:
    "I don't like what the google is going on here!"
    Incompitence:
    "He's a googleoff!"
    Dismissial:
    "Why don't you go outside and go play hide and go google yourself!?"

    I'm sure you can think of many more examples. With all these many purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word? We say, use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech. It will identify the quality of your character immediatly. So say it loudly and proudly: "Google you!".

  12. Re:ok, so he removes it from his lexicon so what? on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    How about "Damn redhat their 8.0 is so microsofted, it bsods so easily"?

  13. Re:Who cares. on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    Don't even think of xeroxing that, or using a klaxon while you do it. ewwww..... and be sure to clean up with a kleenex, or do can you hoover it up?

  14. Re:as in... on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    I say it's a mortal sin whereever you are. If I order a coke, I want coke damnit!

  15. Re:Spam: My Review on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    Are you lactose intolerant?

  16. Re:Sorry my ignorance but... on Intel: No Rush to 64-bit Desktop · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that's the number of bytes, not terrabytes like I said.

  17. Re:Sorry my ignorance but... on Intel: No Rush to 64-bit Desktop · · Score: 3, Informative
    You could address 18446744073709551616 bytes of memory, give or take a few.. that's:
    • 18446744073709551616B
    • 18014398509481984kB
    • 17592186044416MB
    • 17179869184GB
    • 16777216TB
    • 16384PB
    • 16EB
    in comparison, IPv6 has 128 bit addresses, so it can address 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 hosts. Boy, I can't wait 'till we have 4096 bit computing! Yes folks, you could address: 94986615423581725434974278934225765859079206079275 88029126431895601434989399035265240189000314763310 06060815265699841655066460078329140385233800850848 06094341361765740994996880577818058953536666597580 73472912167075049354383715697128285088950584273493 37587573887325292226963982775595112902436065072468 43557976439021957211278817967980120580336060773284 17384919423994021567005429688069601978602024387707 33202145388796894911354606333131172584955377387356 27053773809288851081606633223934143993624368974641 42653468752392803884612776666597681704271854794875 76914126583226649352696358824685649244515648081319 95459206756734038800087841592433117678900097199277 48872890062536482240040359262620828987523828617864 96886789141513076887363156091974324210960288291618 37329072214454857575272787733800195524495373588645 04626736245184193297926922129527175665893043403983 7468702955084828585829647620180419.075257046171493 25537239255053610913152700439754341736696914921610 92779282146897321824556511182705431647991162391712 91892282029026997011828841853373021251121205346026 50588766178514073301784127696187354717558286583213 12933252691787018567929230378451263585682361829754 96003837297613560366674089274646713523143527780279 1491409234589632167936 terrabyte of memory. If that big number won't impress you, I don't know what will.
  18. Re:Isn't the Earth just a big computer anyway? on Computers Will Be Built By Living Cells · · Score: 1

    54 actually...

  19. Re:lousy I/O?! on The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond · · Score: 1
    You can usually get the old RAM for your old processor - you still can get 133MHz SDRAM.

    Fuck dude! You call 133MHz SDRAM OLD!? I've got an Alpha still in need of some 72pins EDO ECC, and a 486 in need of some 31pins EDO.
  20. Re:don't beam ME up. on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Well, being as your conciousness is kept inside your brain, and a perfect copy is made you have two the same people, although if they both exist they would probably turn out different, since it's two the same people, but they would probably make different choices every now and then. And ofcourse different peer pressure.

  21. Re:AUGHH! buzzword compliant! on Feds Working to Stop Worms · · Score: 1

    I agree, this kind of articles make computers more scarey than they are, plus they act like all computers are vulnerable.

    This is written as a fairy tale, and something I'll tell my children (if I ever do have some) when I want to keep them awake all night.

  22. Re:Terrific... on OpenBSD Gets Even More Secure · · Score: 1

    Here's my take on the matter, if you want a UNIX desktop go for NetBSD. It has SMP for i386 (and various other platforms), and kernel threads are on their way of being debugged. It has also had the non exec stack for about half a year now. It also has zero copy tcp features for enhanced TCP.

    Seriously, why do people overlook NetBSD? It's about as secure as OBSD, and about as fast as FBSD. Ofcourse most of these features are in -current, and will be in 1.7.

    Lack of a decent package manager always bothered me when looking at most linux distribution. Linux' NFS implementation is also seriously flacky (not trolling here).

    No doubt this will go on as a troll, but NetBSD does all the things I want it to, both as a workstation and server.

  23. Re:don't beam ME up. on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Well, if that's the case it's kind of like using a copy constructor, isn't it?

    But if you create an exact copy of yourself, wouldn't it also be you? Essentially teleporting people now is just copying the mass somehow, so this would ultimatly be a philosophical question, would you mind being copied and then killed? (ofcourse preserving one of the two)

  24. Re:Does this... on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not necessarily, if you waited a few weeks, 'cause you kinda forgot you were doing this experiment, and checked up on one of the cats and it's dead, you could conclude that the other one is alive because that would have eaten the cat treat. Or one of the cats could have a heart attack 'cause some creeps keep putting it in a box.

  25. Re:buwhahahah on Is Windows Ready For Joe Longneck? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone who maps a mouse button to go to slashdot needs to have his(/her) computer forcibly removed.