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  1. Why move from California to Oregon? on Kernel.org Moves to Oregon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think the light went on in their mind!

    Q: How many Californians does it take to change a light bulb?

    A: Six. One to turn the bulb, one for support, and four to relate to the experience.

    Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?

    A: Five. One to change the bulb and four more to chase off the Californians who have come up to relate to the experience.

    -

    So what it's lame? At least it's on topic -- sort of. Shut up.

  2. Sorry Guys... on Study Puts Hole In Comet Theory Of Life's Origin · · Score: 1

    I'm actually the reason for the origon of life... You ever forget stuff on a trip? Well, I went back in time and left a pair of old, smelly socks...

  3. Re:USB 2.5" hard drive on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I'm not sure why it is exactly that hotplug doesn't set those options by default. I doubt it's even very hard to fix but I've yet to bother since I don't use USB storage that often. (Then again Win2k didn't either. MS set the default to be bufferless writes in WinXP)

  4. Re:USB 2.5" hard drive on Samsung Develops 16Gb Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    Two things:

    First, before you pull the device out, if you run sync from the command line, it will write all outstanding buffers to disk and thus your file to the thumb drive. I don't know if that's what you mean by "safe removal," but that's all I usually do when I want to pull it out quickly.

    Second, I believe that you just need to add 'sync' to the entrys for your USB drives in /etc/fstab to keep it sync'ed up like you wish. I'm not sure if vfat supports it (though I seem to recall that it does) but ext2/3 definately does.

    Hope that helps,
    --Josh

  5. Re:I wonder when on Can Microsoft Out-Google Google? · · Score: 2

    Actually, they'll change their name to NURV. Then they'll launch Synapse to connect the global village. When they can't meet the launch date, they'll Kill for Code!!!

  6. Re:Question on Advertising of the Future, Already Here · · Score: 1

    I've gone a long time without Coca-Cola and I can tell you that when I come back to it, I do indeed like its taste. I think my favorite is RC though.

    Everyone has their own idea of what flavors they like. No one can convince me that catsup tastes good at all. On the other hand, I like brussel sprouts. Dissing coke's flavor is kind of a silly argument.

  7. For those too lazy to read TFA, as it turns out... on NASA Reveals Dust Devil Data from Mars · · Score: 1

    The Devil is in the Details.

  8. Re:Userfriendliness (Windows is not) on Microsoft's 'Hands-On' Linux Lab · · Score: 3, Funny
    I guess the most alarmist error message one can see in Linux is a "Kernel Panic"

    Well, I would agree except perhaps for "lpt on fire!!"

  9. Re:Increasing awareness is a good thing? on Creator of Sasser Worm Goes on Trial · · Score: 1

    I think Bin Laden needs to be added to Godwin's rule.


    Nazi...
  10. Units of measure on Atomic Clock Turns 50 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lump of sugar has to be the oddest comparison ever...

  11. Re:already on the market on Self-wiring Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    It is not a mainframe with vector processors and huge amounts of memory bandwidth, which is what most people think of in relation to Cray.




    What about fish?

  12. Re:Dictionary subject to trends? on w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word · · Score: 1

    That's totally BOSS!

  13. Re:Fiber Service In Sacramento, CA on Citywide Fiber Project Challenges and Goals · · Score: 1

    Good deal. I used to spend a lot of time down in South Sac, especially around Florin Road, but I know that area too.

  14. Re:Fiber Service In Sacramento, CA on Citywide Fiber Project Challenges and Goals · · Score: 1

    What area(s) of town is it in?

  15. Re:Aol is dying on Time Warner to Spin Off AOL? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Back a long time ago, September was when new students would log on to usenet for the first time and it took a long time to get them to post productively. Once AOL got on usenet, there was a constant influx of new people. (Plus whatever you want to say about AOL users)

  16. Re:not hackers. on BusinessWeek on Hacker Hunters · · Score: 1

    Not Crackers,

    Corn Bread!

  17. Re:Give me my any-color-but-blue SOD! on Longhorn: Fewer BSODs, More RSODs · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of Soylent Green - when people would "Go Home" they would go to a special place to die. They got to choose their favorite color which was projected on the wall where they didn't see the wilderness images.

    If they include it in Windows, it'll be official - WINDOWS IS MADE OF PEOPLE!!!

  18. Re:freezing water on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sounds just like Michigan roads...

  19. Re:Ridiculous on U.S. Fed Goes Brand Neutral · · Score: 1

    Well, outside my house there appears to be one.

  20. Re:Sometimes I think Pat runs KDE on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 1

    I've used KDE from time to time on Slackware. For a while, I ran FVWM2 too. Pretty good anecdote, eh?

  21. What I like to do... on VoIP to Fuel Plague of 'Dialing for Dollars'/Spam · · Score: 1

    Whenever I get an automated telemarketer call, I press '1' to talk to someone. Once they get on the phone, I start talking in an uncommon language. People have various reactions to it, but I've been taken off of at least one list. I find it really effective to say the name of one of those languages with the proper accent as well. Honestly, you don't even need to know that much of the language...

  22. Long Pass Phrases are fun on MS Employee Calls for No More Passwords · · Score: 1

    Back in High School, I was in a computer science class. I had a long pass phrase - something along the lines of "For me, GNU is not Unix." Or maybe longer. I remember that from time to time, people would see me type in my password. They would ask me things like "Josh, how do you remember that long password." To which I'd snidely reply "Don't worry about it!"

  23. Could we Makeup our diffrence? on Simulation Explains Supermassive Black Holes · · Score: 1, Funny

    I always thought that Cosmetics were a black hole for money.

  24. Re:One advantage to Firefox... on Browser Speed Comparisons · · Score: 1

    I used your game as a bench mark. I was totally unbiaesed. I used the exact same configuration. In Firefox, the game was playable, fun and fast. In IE, it took it at least a minute for the game to bring up the first screen and you couldn't even move the character.

    I used FireFox and IE both from Gentoo.

    [For the humor impared: I ran IE in wine so it was slow]

  25. Re:How do you know if you're NAV is patched? on Symantec Antivirus May Execute Virus Code · · Score: 1

    How can I tell if it's patched or not?

    What's you're e-mail address? I'll send you a utility to check from. Look for n0rt1n.exe