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  1. Dell also has racks on Rackmounting at Home? · · Score: 2

    they have cool racks that go with their gear designs http://www.dell.com/us/en/esg/topics/segtopic_serv ers_000_rack.htm

  2. Re:Nothing about Adobe in the dictionary... on Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name · · Score: 1

    try his then

    adobe

  3. Re:I totally agree on Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name · · Score: 1
    If they called the product Kadobeillustrator, that would a different story, as Adobe is copywritten.

    Maybe, but Adobe is also a word in the dictionnary (it's a type of dirt)

  4. Re:Why stop there? on Signs of the Apocalypse · · Score: 1
    George W. Bush-head shaped watermelons. As decoys.

    as targets???

  5. Re:zip file support on Rivals Upset At Windows XP Features · · Score: 1

    you're too late, it's already in Windows Millenium...

  6. Re:Priceless..... on Pentium IV As A Budget Processor · · Score: 1

    and Mastercard to stick 2 lawyers up your ass...

  7. Re:Quit complaining on Dangers in the DSL World · · Score: 1

    ever tried to understand anything at air travel pricing? this is the most opaque thing that you can find...

  8. Re:Why DSL is important, and cable modems are not on Dangers in the DSL World · · Score: 1

    something everybody seems to fqil to notice though is the following :
    The basic line the DSLAM (and Cable router, whatever) is connected to is a T3. This is about 45Mbit/s. Now this corresponds to about 45 people downstream (if everybody gets 1Mbit/s). the average upload speed is about a 1/4 of that, which means that only 11Mbit/s will be used.
    Question is : what happens to the rest of the bandwidth ?

  9. Re:Codes? on Code for Running GPS Satellites Stolen · · Score: 2

    No, the satellites have a KG-xx device inside. It handles Key generation/decryption and is linked with another device with a similar name for commands decryption and analysis (found that on the web somewhere.)
    This system uses the TS crypto called "baton", thought to be somehow related to skipjack

  10. Re:Go after Dairy Queen first on Blizzard Sues Over Diablo Movie Title · · Score: 1

    > Sorry...I think that Mother Nature has prior art :)

    No, no :Mother:Nature ;-)

  11. Re:Now hiring.. *censors are here* on Draconian Censorship Push In South Australia · · Score: 1

    sounds like some obscure bureaucratic thing from Nazi germany, or maybe stalinist USSR

  12. Re:The Aussies.. on Draconian Censorship Push In South Australia · · Score: 1


    Wasn't Australia the island where the british sent all their criminals and other "anti-social" people to get rid of them ?
    </flamebait>

  13. Re:Bigger picture on Draconian Censorship Push In South Australia · · Score: 1

    This is the same kind of idiocy and obscurantism that wierdo muslims in black africa use to justify the surgical removal of little girl's clits on religious belief that woman should not enjoy sex because all they are is kids producing factory...

  14. Re:Bigger picture on Draconian Censorship Push In South Australia · · Score: 1

    wtf? Mother Nature (who the F is god, show me...) made sex playful and enjoyable for one purpose, so that you make kids and it's a game (and as a side purpose, allows to make the humans proliferate...)
    These christian people need to go see a psychologist, they are sick.

  15. Re:Who decides what is obscene? on Draconian Censorship Push In South Australia · · Score: 1

    I remember testing some of this crap, and it would block some chicken slaying company's web site... sure enough, they produce Chicken Breast...

  16. Re:how can open source stifle on MS Wants To Outlaw Open Source: "Threatens" the "American Way" · · Score: 1

    well, having a paper about something like this published allows to shoot down a patent on the subject applied for by some random company after the said paper has been published...
    Think about it:
    - Idiot CEO (crying) : ouinnn, those university students shot my business plan down...

  17. Re:Fortunately, the USA isn't the world on MS Wants To Outlaw Open Source: "Threatens" the "American Way" · · Score: 1

    yep... Next thing you know, Mexico would be the next world superpower, and the US turned into a 3rd world country

  18. Re:GCC 3.0 "stable ABI" is irrelevant... on Linux Applications And "glibc Hell"? · · Score: 1

    applications that relies on bugs in the library in order to work, may break when new the library is updated.

    Then these (badly written) applications that rely on bugs should die and be forgotten

  19. Re:Not with my old Matrox Rainbow Runner, it won't on Linux Box As Digital VCR · · Score: 1

    oh, yeah ?
    check there, works for me.

  20. Re:KDE? on Anti-Aliased GNOME and Mozilla · · Score: 1

    try copying some text from wordperfect to word... good luck. (that's in Windows of course)

  21. Re:A quick blasphemy on Anti-Aliased GNOME and Mozilla · · Score: 1

    IE does not do alpha blending transparency. it's on/off... (read piece of shit)

  22. Re:ummm... on Anti-Aliased GNOME and Mozilla · · Score: 1

    depends on the order of the R, G and B filter on your screen.

  23. Re:what does this mean??? on Anti-Aliased GNOME and Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Poor hinting, NOT the lack of Anti-Aliasing

    Blame this on the patents on hinting in fonts that either adobe and/or apple hold (more details on the FreeType web site

  24. Re:Other antivirus vendors? on Symantec Patents Virus Updates · · Score: 1

    Kapersky labs AVP seems to be quite advanced. Furthermore, help those poor russians to get a little bit of steack in their plates

  25. Re:More central to /., how this is good for Linux! on Symantec Patents Virus Updates · · Score: 1

    1. Its viruses (ii ending for latin virus isn't a latin word)

    Sorry, but you are mistaken there. (I know, I have 3 years of Latin, even if that was a looong time ago).
    The word was first used in the 19th century and they loved latin at the time.
    Cited from Britannica.com
    an infectious agent of small size and simple composition that can multiply only in living cells of animals, plants, or bacteria. The name is from a Latin word meaning "slimy liquid" or "poison."