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  1. Re:Douglas Adams Edition Pulsar on Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded · · Score: 1

    I have almost the same watch -- a Skyhawk AT Titanium (JY0010-50E). It is a solid, nearly indestructible geeky timepiece.

  2. Re:Intent on PC Case Made Completely of Fans · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. Airplanes fly because the wing displaces air downwards, which forces the plane upwards in accordance with Newton's First Law.

  3. Self Certifying File System on Distributed Filesystems for Linux? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would use SFS, the Self Certifying File System. Assuming all the systems you are using are supported, it offers global, secure access to anything you care to export.

  4. /.'ed again on Curious Yellow, Superworm · · Score: 1

    sheesh... twice in a week. Good thing I have no data limits on that line...

  5. Re:Make sure to mirror this.... on Deciphering Windows Product Activation · · Score: 1

    Right here.

  6. speaking of FUD... on Shared Source? · · Score: 2
    Check out this question and answer from the FAQ:

    Q: What is Microsoft's concern with the GNU General Public License?

    A. There is no question that the GPL is a complicated license that has led to a great deal of confusion. For the sake of clarity, we wish to reiterate our basic points in regard to the GPL and other OSS licenses.


    Come on. The GPL a complicated liscense? The intent of the GPL is clearlt spelled out in terms even a non-lawyer can understand, is rather short as liscenses go, and is fairly non-obfuscated. Has whoever wrote the FAQ even read the GPL vs. your average MS EULA? Most people (IMNSHO) never get past the first paragraph in the EULA, because the obfuscation sets in almost immediately, even if they bother to read it at all! Sheesh...
  7. Re:Free Software Will Come of Age If Capitalism Fa on Open Source Is Bad [updated] · · Score: 1

    It won't happen in my lifetime, or our grandchildren's lifetime. We've been promised true AI "real soon now" for decades, with very little progress. Even menial jobs require a degree of intelligence that computers do not have and will not for the forseeable future.

    That may be true, but the "forseeable future" is getting shorter all the time. Right now, I would be suprised if anyone can predict what will happen with AI 1 year in the future, much less the ~20 years or so most people assume when they say the "forseeable future".

  8. Re:Temperature Extremes on Hawking On Earth's Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... if I recall correctly, the major climactic changes that happened were due to a fscking huge chunk of rock hitting the planet at the time, not a forseeable consequence of weather patterns. Besides, the environment may be intolerable in 750 -- 1000 years to our species as it is now, but given the pace of change who can say what our species will be like then, or if it will even exist in a form we can comprehend?

  9. Re:M$ have only innovated the dancing paperclip on Systems Research Is Dead? · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but I belive that the mostly-dead OS/2 had an object oriented desktop before Windows 95 came out (and it was prettier to boot!)

  10. Re:Competition is good, k6-2 chipsets suck on Socket Athlons by early next year? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... the via chiposets do have some oddities when it comes to agp (basically if you don't install their agp minidriver your performance either sucks or does not work at all), however under nt with roughly the same config I had no problems after installing sp3 on it. Without service pack 3, agp support in nt does not exist.

  11. that has got to take the cake for stupidity. on Typical Misinterpretation Of "Hacker" · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... I think their definition of the word Wizard leaves much to be desired. It should not be associated with those solly and annoying config-thingies that MS software has, but rather the definition of wizard as found in the Jargon File. To wit:

    Wizard: 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. 2. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system. 3. A Unix expert, esp. a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well established enough that `Unix Wizard' is a recognized job title at some corporations and to most headhunters.
    (some bits trimmed for brevity)

  12. Truly frightening on Road Rage on the Information Superhighway · · Score: 1

    Actually, userfriendly is alot closer to Real Life (tm) (c) (r) then most people seem to realize...