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  1. Re:More space.. on The Past and Future of the Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    Its blisteringly fast but is resistant.

    Did you mean 'persistent'?

  2. Re:is it that hard to believe? on Web-Surfing Indian Slum Kids Ask: "What's a Computer" · · Score: 2

    How the hell does a 2 year old hold that friggin controller? I'm 20, have big hands, and it's awkward for me.

  3. Re:It won't replace coffee. on Provigil Extends Your Day? · · Score: 2

    I believe that is what it is called at the hospital too.

  4. Re:Java's been crashing IE of late on Don't Hit That Back Button · · Score: 2

    The images all save, they are hosting at 'home.hp.com' or some such place.

  5. Re:It won't replace coffee. on Provigil Extends Your Day? · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't recommend doing both. Caffeine may interact with the drug in interesting ways, and I wouldn't recommend trying it out unless studies have been done.

    An interesting note along these line, I ran across some articles a couple of weeks about deaths related to 'energy drinks' (high-caffeine, etc.) when taken with alcohol or strenuous exercise.

  6. Re:Java's been crashing IE of late on Don't Hit That Back Button · · Score: 1

    Uh, what on earth are you talking about? I cannot replicate this problem.

  7. Re:So Lets See on eWeek: Apache 2.0 Trumps IIS · · Score: 2

    With apache you can quickly write a shell script to add websites, etc. Run the script, answer a few simple questions, it will set the rest up. Need it a little different? Go in the conf and change it. Or copy and paste the previous entries and change a few things.

    I liken configuring IIS to trying to do CSS in VS, it's a real neat tool and all, but I'm better off editing a text file to get it done. I'm also more confident in the security of Apache when I configure it. It's so easy to determine who has access to what, and what rights they have there.

  8. Re:ASP Support on eWeek: Apache 2.0 Trumps IIS · · Score: 2

    Ha! IIS is only "free" if you have Windows Server, lowly little XP Pro only allows for 1-3 connections I believe. Not very useful for much of anything really.

  9. Re:the downtime on No More Rebooting? · · Score: 2

    The people I support here love it when I come around to do routine maintenence on their workstations. They get a free 15 minute break or so and wish I could stay around longer.. ah. Now if I could somehow rig my computer to fail once a day so I can spend 2 hours 'working' on it....

  10. mirror of his webpage... on Streaming RealAudio From a Commodore 64 · · Score: 2

    I've got most of his personal webpage backed up, which has info on the project, so if you have somewhere to put it, reply with a place to upload.

  11. Re:Truly Scary Part on e-Denounce · · Score: 2

    I would guess that if they found someone in the company using illegal software and paid those yearly fees, they probably wouldn't get so hard for it, but rather just the person caught, instead of the whole company.

  12. MS, MPAA, RIAA on e-Denounce · · Score: 2

    I'm thinking going to Microsoft.com, MPAA.org, and RIAA.org and clicking that F button 1,000,000 times might be very fun indeed. After all, maybe with the exception of Microsoft, I bet that many of the individuals who are members of MPAA or RIAA or work for them probably make daily use of pirated software/music. Oh dear me.

  13. Re:xBox or just a new PC? on From Midway to Xbox, The story of Seamus Blackley · · Score: 2

    Yes, but you can't have a bunch of friends over and play multiple player games sitting on the couch in front of the TV drinking beer and eating pizza with a new pc. You can't pick it up and take it to your friend's house with the big screen tv and hook it up to it so easily either.

    4 people sharing a keyboard and mouse and monitor just doesn't work =]

  14. Re:Mind er spelling on War Driving Version 2.0 · · Score: 2

    maybe they said 'easedrop' to imply how much 'ease' you could do it with? =] I doubt it. But you never know

  15. Re:Not likely :) on Trouble Ahead for Java · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pure OO was thought up by the creators of smalltalk, like Alan Kay. Java isn't even pure OO in the same sense that smalltalk is.

  16. Re:Kmeleon comes along? on Mozilla Poised for Revival? · · Score: 2

    I would hope that's not how most people would react. That'd be like the person who dresses a certain way solely because it's different, and as soon as someone else adopts it, they dump it for something new, and probably 10x more uncomfortable.

    I will use mozilla as long as it is a quality product and remains as such. I will not dump it for the new fad unless that new fad is truly better.

  17. Re:Noah's Ark on Sunken City Found Off Of India · · Score: 1

    A lot of people on slashdot give many claims that are not their own ideas, or make claims without sufficient evidence to support them. When you see a post like the parent here, you can have much more confidence in the content therein. You don't have to think 'is this guy just blowing smoke out his ass, or does he really know what he is talking about?' It helps make things much more informative.

  18. Re:Just proves Joel's point on Mozilla Poised for Revival? · · Score: 2

    Yes! And why can't /. make Joel a slashbox? I asked them once, and never got a response. Maybe we should ask Joel to work on that. =]

  19. Re:Noah's Ark on Sunken City Found Off Of India · · Score: 2

    You must be the only person on /. to actually provide references with your comments. I swear my English profs would have fits if they saw everyone else's posts =]

  20. Re:sea level rise on Sunken City Found Off Of India · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why does everyone say 'the end of the last ice age'? We are still in the middle of an ice age that just happens to be in a slight recession. Just because half of the US isn't covered in ice doesn't mean it's not an ice age. In fact, we are about 1.6 million years into this ice age. Periods like the one that we are in right now (where it is warmer there's not so much ice everywhere except at the poles and on mountains) tend to last about 10-15,000 years. I guess that means we're due for some more ice pretty soon.

    If you don't believe, go pick up the nearest geology book and have a good read.

  21. Re:Noah's Ark on Sunken City Found Off Of India · · Score: 3

    There are many many texts, including the Bible and Gilgamesh just to name 2 which have an account of a great flood. (Both corresponding to approximately the same time period for the flood occuring). I'd say from the evidence and everything else that there probably was a huge flood at some point in time that killed a lot of people, whether or not it occured exactly as describe in the book of Genesis, I am not certain.

  22. Re:OE... on XP, Phone Home · · Score: 2

    Uhm, it doesn't check your mail, it just displays the number of unread messages in your inbox at the present time, it doesn't connect and login to check your mail without you there. I think it only does this with OE, because I use Outlook, and it never tells me I have unread messages, maybe since I use IMAP?

  23. Re:i have a quote too on Singing Cow To Attack CBDTPA · · Score: 2

    Nah, it's got to be something more unrelated like, "If only the music industry would devote a little bit of the million of dollars they're spending on lawyers to help put China in space..."

    In other words, why should Gateway spend millions of dollars to protect someone else's stuff? They have their own business interest to protect, and feeding the hungry musicians isn't it.

  24. Re:What a fool on Singing Cow To Attack CBDTPA · · Score: 2

    Why is it they make it sound like it is someone else's responsibility to come up with a way to prevent all digital copying? Shouldn't that be their responsbility? I can hear the auto companies now, "No one has proposed anything that would solve this fuel efficiency problem, it's not our problem to worry about it, you spend millions of dollars developing the technology, then hand it over to us, okay?" Yeah.

  25. Re:Go Gateway! on Singing Cow To Attack CBDTPA · · Score: 2

    A long time ago, back in their early days, Gateway had great customer support, which is what set them apart from everyone else. (The machines were built-to-order and of good quality as well).

    I personally have not done business with them in a long time, but I have heard that their support isn't what it used to be. Sad to see that happen.