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  1. Re:Why? on Saving Unix Heritage, One Kernel At a Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those that don't learn UNIX are doomed to reinvent it. Poorly.

  2. Re:ZFS still needs more miles under the belt on Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS · · Score: 1

    But the engine is preset to run on normal roadways, streets and highways with acceptable performance. If you want drag race specific tuning you can up the horsepower by playing under the hood. If you need circle track you may want to make some changes to the tires and suspension. Dirt track there'll be other things you'll want to tune.

  3. Re:It's great! ...until... on Online Vigilantes, Or "Crowdsourced Justice" · · Score: 1

    But putting him in a black dress and giving him a wooden hammer, now that's the best system.

  4. Re:...and justice for all on Online Vigilantes, Or "Crowdsourced Justice" · · Score: 1

    Or the police/security.

  5. Re:BooHoo on iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy · · Score: 1

    I worked at a place once where we got to buy stuff at cost - 10%. I got a TV and an LCD Projector while I was there.

  6. Re:What used games market? on Publishers Want a Slice of Used Game Market · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I always just fiugred they already had a piece of the market. You know, the first piece.

  7. Re:Analog computing has its place on Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949 · · Score: 1

    My car I can do it with one finger. Pres the display button a couple of times while it cycles through my MPG, Miles to empty, and several other options. And I didn't even need any training on how to use the device, and was able to use fairly common knowledge to interpret the results. Might have been more difficult if I was in a metric country and never messed with Miles though.

  8. Re:2010... on Google's Android To Challenge Windows? · · Score: 1

    Not just early adopters of OS X, it's still that way. I have to look at everything in detail before I know if it will work. I have a windows box that I keep around just so I can do things like relyably sync and/or update my blackberry. Update maps on my GPS. etc...

  9. Re:2010... on Google's Android To Challenge Windows? · · Score: 1

    You telling me people don't know how to use firefox on mac os x/eee's linux distro but do know how to use it on windows? That's absolutely ridiculous.

    Not even a little ridiculous. Even things as simple as having the [x]close button on the left side rather than the right side is enough to confuse people. Yet alone the crappiest thing I think OSX does, puts all the menus at the top of the screen rather than attached to the window I'm using. When I have my MBP connected to my dual monitor setup I have to literally move my mouse pointer 22 inches to get from an app running on my secondary monitor to a menu item. Sure keyboard shortcuts are nice for the standard things, but some apps I don't run every day and am never going to learn every keyboard shortcut for every function it has.

  10. Re:Painful to Watch on Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds · · Score: 1

    Estimates put the total at about 4.5 million. Now, if you throw in the countless (uncountable?) people sitting in secret prisons outside the US

    Could push that number as high as 4.5005 million.

  11. Re:Based On One Case from 1996? on Sotomayor's Position On Copyright Damages · · Score: 1
  12. Re:excellent sales story on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    If you have physical machines connected to the same SAN, both VMWare's products and Microsoft's Hyper-V support running failover clustering. This way, if one of the machines goes down, the VM and its services keep running with perhaps a small delay (in milliseconds) while the handoff to the other machine takes place.

    VMWare has only introduced this capability in vSphear 4.0 (ESX 4.0) called Lockstep which runs a persistent vmotion between two different hosts so if one goes down the other takes over instantly. Microsoft's Hyper-V has nothing like this yet. What you are thinking of, regular vMotion, does not allow the ESX host underneath to die and keep the server running. You still have to boot and recover the VM on another ESX host in the cluster just as if the VM had crashed. Although this is much quicker and can be done before the failed ESX host is fixed.

  13. Re:Holy Crap! Calm down on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    So when the index card system doesn't work, how do you find the child?

  14. Re:Holy Crap! Calm down on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Goodness...how did we EVER survive as a species before cell phones and GPS trackers??!?!

    Much higher birth rates.

  15. Re:Holy Crap! Calm down on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hate to get a closed source one then find out that it was hacked by a child slave harvesting organization where they just sweep around and pick up all the tracked kids.

    Like GIJoe says, knowing is half the battle.

  16. Re:My hammer. on 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web · · Score: 1

    It comes from intelligence in the design about 6000 years ago. I'm sure they'll still be functioning as atoms in another 6000 years. Or at least until the end of 2012.

  17. Re:That's a damn shame on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    please check the facts http://www.adpov.net/2005/03/09/adpov-001/ directly from TD-0013 himself. I think he was there.

  18. Re:US Fanboys are still archaic on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    ,i>This isn't the end of the world. Can't we all realise that there's a market for both Windows and Linux?

    No, you can have any OS you like as long as it is Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo)

    Those who want Windows on their netbook can buy it, those who don't can buy Linux. See?

    No, you can buy any OS you like as long as it is Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo)

    Ultimately this is business, and it ain't pretty.

    Maybe it needs a bailout from the guberment

  19. Re:Asus screwed up on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    He didn't specify it was with the OS.

    "He brought it over...Its been a love affair every since."

  20. Re:Didn't plan on buying another Asus EEE anyway on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    He was just trying to help. I don't think he was suggesting to permently remove the applicaion you require, but it is a way to narrow down the issue. Perhaps you can up/downgrade flash to fix the problem, but you wont know if that is even the issue unless you remove it and try again.

  21. Re:Meh on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    Hmm, you're either going to have a hard time or easy time finding a job. By priceless do you mean you work for free or only for an infinite amount of money?

  22. I submit on Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness · · Score: 2, Funny

    I submit "Compulsive Classification" as a mental disorder, but everybody thinks I'm paranoid. I have proof.

  23. Re:Better games without cinematics? on Speaking With the Blizzard Cinematics Team · · Score: 1

    I can see where getting out and going to the movies is much more active than sitting on your but passively playing video games. But while sitting there, why not have a cool little short display that is what your are playing only at a much higher resolution and fully animated?

  24. Re:Oversucking on Build an $800 Gaming PC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mine's way cooler, it's got a "Turbo" button on the front that switches it from 8Mhz to 16Mhz. It's freaking awesome!!!

  25. Re:Another relocation incentive deal? on Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    So they should keep the area economically depressed rather than boasting it even if only shortly? You try to use the ole "Economics 101" argument. Well maybe you should read up on that class once again. Boasting an economy even for a few boasts the entire economy. Repeat after me, "It's not a fixed size Pie." Just by taking your piece of the pie you create a bigger pie.