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  1. Can someone calculate that for me? on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 5, Informative

    What is .027% of 2**128

    Here's a neat (and understandable) place to find out just how stupid it is to say that "only X%" if IPv6 is assigned: http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPv6AddressSizeandAddressSpace-2.htm

    IPv6 is HUGE. I didn't even understand how huge until I found out I can get an address for every friggin cell in my body.

    Weeeee!

  2. Re:Hmmm... on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 1

    And the above comment of "Line of code != Compilable program" stands.

    perl is interpreted, not compiled.

  3. Re:Current reading? on Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading? · · Score: 1

    Yes, Current reading. As in the reading currently or at the present time.

  4. Rollerblades + zero friction.... right! on Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So maybe you forgot to mention the jet pack? Or you plan on lighting your farts?

  5. Re:Wii-lovers on Xbox Price Cuts Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Hmm, 2-3 yrs when I have WHAT? Let's see... I have the same stereo hooked to my TV as I did 16 yrs ago. I have had the same TV (the very first I ever bought) for 10 yrs. Same PS2 since the damned thing was released. No other consoles in the house.

    PS - I have a 6 figure income.

  6. *not* Niven's Ringworld on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't exactly want my kids reading about rishathra and it's many uses political/social/entertainment as pre-teens.

    Great books, but with vampires/ghouls/sex I don't think pre-teen is quite the right time.

  7. Re:But can it... on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tab Mix Plus is your answer... Duplicate in New window and Move to New window are menu items that can be added to tab context, and main context menus.

  8. Re:I'll believe it when... on Verizon, Comcast Say They Are P2P Friendly · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're on Comcast that speed change could just be the effects of Speedboost. They give a short term bump in throughput for each new transaction.

    I rarely get good torrent speeds unless I'm dealing with a highly transacted image. Like a new release of ubuntu.

  9. Mod parent redundant. on Bioware MMOG Likely Slated for 2009 · · Score: 1

    No really... I've read that comment before.

  10. Re:The big deal about spam... on What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail? · · Score: 2, Informative

    FYI - it is not voluntary to DMA members. It is required of DMA members. DMA will put the smackdown on any member that doesn't follow through on the DNM list. I used to work for a mailing list company and every single list got run against the DNM for collisions.

  11. Re:Anyone remember Robot Odyssey? on History of MECC and Oregon Trail · · Score: 1

    I used to play Robot Odyssey for hours on end as a kid... Looking at Droid Quest made me wonder why I did. I remember enjoying it, I remember the satisfaction of solving the puzzles, but I can't for the life of me find the motivation that made me hammer away at that game for so long.

  12. Favors? on Uwe Boll Has Three Picture Distribution Deal · · Score: 2

    How many times does Uwe Boll go down for a deal like this? Silver tongue? Hypnosis? Pact with Satan?

  13. Hey, it's not just some unknown Google employee on Jeremy Allison On Why DRM Will Never Work · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why is it the editors never seem to notice what they're posting. I mean... just put in the summary that this is Jeremy Allison of the Samba team... not just Joe Blow Google Employee #3248 writing the article... sheesh.

    Oh, never mind it was Zonk.

  14. iMatch from photools.com on Flexible Photo Organization Software? · · Score: 1

    It's realtively inexpensive at $60, and the latest version was perhaps a little slow to market.... BUT!

    http://photools.com/

    IMatch is exactly what you're looking for. It can import/export IPTC data, EXIF data, and there's a scripting language that you could use to import/export your own database. Lots of tagging options (I have my family tree, literally as a tree of tags, locations, events, ...) and you can then tag all your photos with as many tags as you want.

    I'm making this brief since I'm busy, but you can try out the free trial. That's what I did before buying it and the trial is what convinced me to go this route rather than the pile of other options I had tried that were either overpriced for my needs, or didn't meet my needs at all.

  15. Re:UI suggestion on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can reorder the tabs in Firefox 1.0.6... All it requires is an extension... Now to figure out which one does it for me...

    http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic =161 MiniT+ that's the ticket.

  16. Re:But who is going to buy one? on Completely Silent Media PC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently you don't know what kinds of things people that use home-built Media PCs want to do.

    http://avsforum.com/ has all the info you're looking for. And these people are putting the highest-end "gaming" hardware to use doing video transform functions on their source material before putting it out to their projector/TV

    Scale, sharpen, color correction, and a whole lot more. Not to mention that once they have all this taken care of, alot of them go on to play... games on their big screen.

  17. Re:ask /. on A Buyer's Guide to Inkjet Printers · · Score: 1

    Here's a shot of a small Samsung laser printer: http://www.i4u.com/article3081.html

    I have a different Samsung and they have easily refilled cartridges (don't over do this if the drum is part of the cartridge) and my start cart has lasted 2000+ pages so far.

    My basic strategy: BW Laser for regular use (maps, recipes, ...) and Costco photo service for digital prints. Costco has low prices, and free delivery. (This is new btw)

  18. I'd like to see.... on AMD Loses QuakeCon To Intel · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see the tourney winner bash the Intel box he got stuck playing on. The only good thing being that all the other players get stuck on Intel boxes too.

    Of course if the BYOC's get to play all the way to the top of the ladder, then it might really be an eye opener when an AMD guy wins...

  19. Re:M/F is just a job on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 1

    Yeah well, when I wrote crap for a mainframe (mind you I was trained for 1 day, and rewrote a very very specific app for varying input and invariable output) when I f'd the pooch the damned continuous form laser printer usually spit out about 500-1000 pages of "error" text before the job got cancelled by an operator.

    So yeah... C++ or Java errors of the most incomprehensible kind are a walk in the park. People get annoyed when you burn entire forests down with every screw up.

  20. Re:Whaaa? on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    Yes really.

    Taken as an average there are *so* many crappy school systems that the few that are wonderful are hardly a blip on the curve.

    The US public system of schooling is flawed in too many ways to create anything but average to below average mules for the US job system.

    The most important thing (to me) that I intend on teaching my children is that they don't need a job to succeed. They don't need a formal education, nor expensive wall-hangings to succeed.

    My definition of success: Enjoy the life you live. Every day.

    I'll admit that I am not yet successful by my own definition. However I have started down the path of education that I feel will best get me to success, and in a short time as well.

    We live in a time where money is the means to nearly every end. I won't deny the possibility of living the sub-rural life, but I doubt there are very many who weren't born to it that would chose it.

    With an education in money there is nothing that can stop you from achieving whatever you desire. (and sadly this even extends to the illegal side of living).

    Sorry this is rambling, but I'm thinking I'll post the edited version of this to my blog, feel free to read it there. ( http://www.mooluv.com/leeman when I get around to it). And to continue:

    The public school system is (purposely or otherwise) designed to create the perfect low-income slave. It is the non-conformists who see the reality around them and strive for the upper-middle class and better. It is the extreme non-conformists (both through caring parents, and self-bootstrapping) who make it beyond that and free themselves from the rat-race completely.

    Someone with an education in money can re-achieve success even after having made mistakes that caused them to lose it. Even with a standard "good education", the majority of people are rarely able to get back to where they were before a critical mistake.

    Moral of the story: Don't let them convince you that debt is normal. Don't let them convince you that the "American Way" is to get a good education and a good job, 1 or more times: (2.3kids, 1.2dogs, a wife). The real American way is to take advantage of the huge opportunities available to anyone with the eyes to see and the willingness to learn how to use them.

  21. Re:no linux box your network... on What's in a Typical Geek Home Network? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm,
    +1(debian/unstable)
    +1 (5 windows machines, not always on however)
    -6 pts, wife == gf*2
    +3 pts, spawned a new geek, 16mo and he can't stay away from a powered up computer
    +25? good lord, why do useless cables count so much?

    How about other points?
    1+TB storage +1 pt
    Raided! +1pt
    >90% used +2 pt
    >90% regularly accessed +3pt
    >10k digital photos ?pt
    wife uses her laptop daily +1pt
    wife uses it productively +1pt
    (recipes, correspondence, personal interest research aka: hobbies)

  22. Re:Geek street... on What's in a Typical Geek Home Network? · · Score: 1

    We're not in that kind of neighborhood is BS.

    Major distribution chains may require a certain "type of neighborhood" but you're fooling yourself if you think that where you live has anything to do with the local availability of drugs of ANY type. Besides, there's always that whole fun degrees of seperation, you're only just so far away from knowing the right person.

    What I'm dying to know is this: how did your kids friend get out of the house with it? Without your kid knowing? There's not a thing that went down in my parents house when I was a teen that I wasn't either privy or party to. This includes the whack shit my parents did.

  23. Hope you see this, great wiring solution!! on Electronic Gadget Ideas for a New House? · · Score: 1

    Saw this on some cable channel, custom homebuilder that built timber houses or some such as modulars!

    Most homes have baseboard trim. Mine happens to be 3" so this wouldn't work too well, but many architectural styles allow for 5-7" baseboard to look good. Route a cable chase behind the baseboard. Figure out a way to make drops for the different levels of your house that go to the baseboard chases. This is even easier than conduit if you end up wanting to drop new/more cabling.

    HTH.

  24. Re:The cheapest webcam = not a webcam on Best Webcam on a Budget for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Ok, so the important question first... why do you have a blog-ish site if you never update it? ;)

    Now the really important question: What is the device that does your tilt/swivel? What's the interface? It's nice... and it's *fast*

  25. Re:College students: timeshifting lectures on Timeshifting: Cram More Into Life · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's a scene in Real Genius.