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  1. Re:NO AMD BASHING on Major Linux/Athlon CPU bug discovered · · Score: 3, Interesting

    AMD doesn't keep tabs on VIA and VIA doesn't keep tabs on motherboard manufacturers.. The only decent AMD motherboards are the from manufacturers trying to compete in the enthusiast market where crap boards just don't sell. Combined with VIA actually being in competition with AMD in the budget processor market (The Cyrix) delaying a decent integrated chipset for the duron and VIA bullying motherboard manufacturers into not producing The SIS 735 chipset, VIA is not AMD's best friend.

    AMD chipsets:

    Nforce 220,420
    AMD-760MPX,760MP,760
    ALi MAGiK 1,MAGiK 2
    SIS 735,745,746,755
    VIA KT266A,KT133A,KM133,KLE133,KT333,K8HTB

    STABLE (100+Days,Linux) Chipsets:

    760,KT133A,735,760mp

    Good Motherboard Manufacturers:

    Asus,Abit,Iwill,ECS,Epox,Soyo

    Personal Best Uptime 135 days, Iwill KK266 (KT133A), Power supply failure

  2. NO AMD BASHING on Major Linux/Athlon CPU bug discovered · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "AMD did prominently announce this bug when it was discovered."

    Keep your tuxedos on. Not like they are recalling processors like Intel had to do to the 1.13 because it would not compile the linux kernel. Or recalling a million motherboeards for memory translation hub issues. Or forcing us to live with a floating point math error then doing their best to cover it up or Run around as the market leader yelling the sky is falling causing a slunp in the tech sector because they were faced with a little competition for the first time. And their 64 bit processor should run 32 bit apps faster than a 200mhx pentium pro.

  3. Re:Open Source funded by AOL subscribers on Warnings to Red Hat about AOL Buyout · · Score: 2

    I love this idea, You are a genius. I wish I had some mod up points. AOL could set bounties for stuff they just had to have. Redhat could review patches for security and compatibility while we got paid for programming... brilliant.

  4. Re:Good for them! on Slashback: Games, Goats, Galileo · · Score: 2

    Why not submit a patch for Linux?

    Because in my current position I am not allowed to even LOOK at GPL'd source code.

    Socialist... moron, we OWN you.

  5. Re:Next thing you know... on Slashback: Games, Goats, Galileo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Because XP is a distributed client itself. Microsoft does not have the server resources to handle serving their .NET architecture. So, XP uses raw sockets to implement a clandestine P2P network. MSN is not serving XP clients, other XP clients are. In the mean time, MS surfs our personal info like google surfs usenet while utilizing what will become the most powerfull supercomputer possible: Everyone's computers.

  6. rats on An Earth Lifeform Suitable For Mars · · Score: 2

    Introduce rats.
    Then cats to kill the rats.
    Snakes to kill the cats.
    Mongoose to kill the snakes.

    Use terestrial bacteria to terraform mars to make it fit for... nothing.

  7. Re:XP on slow machines on P4 2.2GHz and D845BG Review · · Score: 2

    Don't like the pro-linux, anti-ms bent to stories on slashdot? Go get your news at msn.

    Ever packet sniff a msn/xp dialup? Have you ever tried to shut down the connection and have the modem spend another two minutes sending msn encrypted data?

    Look, brain washed boy, MS has stolen the software market, Steals your data every chance they get, stole half the jobs in IT, and you have given them your mind.

    Maybe you should buy another opinion.

    MS: "if we want your opinion we'll sell it to you"

    MS memo fron last year: "PLEASE STOP AND TROLL SLASHDOT!"

  8. Re:Morons on System of the Year, Linux Style · · Score: 2

    Motherboards equipped with VIAs chipsets do not offer the full performance specified for PCI. This problem affects both new cards with Ultra-ATA/133 controllers and fast SCSI setups.

    the register's take

    Tyan makes some via chipset motherboards but you may be talking about the dual AMD tyan motherboard that uses the AMD 760MP chipset. It has no problems at all unlike the AMD 760mpx chipset that has absolutely completely broken usb support

  9. Morons on System of the Year, Linux Style · · Score: 2

    Did they forget the flaw in the via chipset thet prevents any PCI scsi controller from exceeding 60mb/s? Adaptec/cheetah combo is a complete, utter waste of effort on that board.

  10. it IS regulation on What's Holding Up Broadband in the U.S.? · · Score: 2

    The FCC limits dialup modem speeds to 56k even though we know the copper pair can deliver substantially more bandwidth than that. At a minimum we should all be using dial up DSL. But the FCC is a cash cow and they will not allow communications speeds higher than that unless they can sell a licence for the higher speeds.

    FCC applies a tax to you through your phone company, cable, cellphone, television and emergency services. When the government mandates that cash leaves your pocket, that is a tax.

    Insurance.
    Communications.
    Property Restrictions.

    F@cking Cash Cow

  11. 100mhz fsb not 133 on New iMac Announced · · Score: 2

    imac G4 is fsb crippled just like the celeron is a fsb crippled PIII. 700mhz speed grade is only available as 7x100 no multiplier of 133 will achieve 700mhz... fsb specs on the apple website are studiously avoided. Since no new towers were announced, this crippled G4 is their way of insuring propper product placement. Really too bad.

  12. Re:Fungus on New Zealands's Mysterious Sponge-like Creature · · Score: 2

    Good fungus link

    If this is not it... I'm sure it will show up eventually.

  13. Fungus on New Zealands's Mysterious Sponge-like Creature · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is the fungus that was growing on the OUTSIDE of mir when it hit the ocean in that region. Imagine the mutation rate of a fungus in a hard radiation enviroment. Fast enough mutation to become an extremephile living on the outside of MIR. Extreme enough to survive reentery? Shure...

  14. Tech Geek MBA on Bionic Eyes · · Score: 2

    Finnaly a piece of tech that bean counters and lawyers could appreciate. For those cut throat office enviroments... Eyes in the back of my head.

  15. For Televisions on Sony, Toshiba And IBM To Develop New OS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sony sells a heck of a lot more TVs than playstations. Perhaps this new OS is aimed at the much more ubiqitious TV market. Combine that with IBM's support of CPRM. Welcome to pay-per-veiw tivo work-alike. Shure would make the MPAA Happy.

  16. Borders Book Store on Full Spectrum Lighting - Is it any better? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They have natural full spectrum lighting. My red headed girlfriend worked there. She was always very carefull in the sun. She hould come home burnt every day. We went on vacation and she lost her burn. Back to work and she got burnt again. She mentioned it to her boss and was "let go" for "administrative reasons".

  17. Re:Why? on Finding Cheat Codes For A Living · · Score: 2

    Bilestoad: top down one or two up game where everyone made a mad dash for the yin-yang floater disks so they could lop eachother's sheild arms off at high speed. Loved it. Played untill my last apple IIe died in 1997. One of the best emu apple games because best control is with the keyboard, instead of relying on prolematic emu joystick support. What were the cheats? I don't think I ever found any. Wait.. Wasn't enabling a robot -vs- robot fight a semi-hack? Nick cause you liked it or cause you wrote it?

  18. Re:Terraforming... on Mars Odyssey Detects Signs of Water · · Score: 2

    Perhaps use a magnetic mass driver as proposed to place lunar rocks into the lagrange points to move europa to mars a ton at a time. We could not get all of europa there and would certaily ruin it's orbit but there could be plenty of water on mars after a couple of decades

  19. Terraforming... on Mars Odyssey Detects Signs of Water · · Score: 2

    Crash europa into mars. Instant earth. Water, mass and atmoshere. Give the conglomerate 300 years to cool off and begin colonization. wash, rinse, repeat.

  20. Re:All fun and games... on Launching Spacecraft From Aircraft · · Score: 2

    The An-225 Mriya is a scrapheap... the only example is sitting on an airfield being salvaged for parts. A british outfit is trying to resurect it but has pretty much given up. The plane needs a total overhaul and is missing all of it's engines including it's "one off" nacelles. Might as well try to get the SR-71 at Pema air museum to fly.

  21. Re:All fun and games... on Launching Spacecraft From Aircraft · · Score: 2

    Are you kidding? There is a 747 specificly designed to carry the shuttle from the west coast landing back to florida for launch. Don't even mention the An-124 Condor.

  22. How do we know this is bogus? on Launching Spacecraft From Aircraft · · Score: 2

    Because they used all base 11 numbers for cost statistics. Which means some engineer just did an off the cuff calculation. Which means the bean counters have not thrown in their 600% markup for administrative costs. And the congressmen have not thrown their 50 state's billion dollar pet rocks aboard "for safety" and doubled the cost again.

  23. WooHoo on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Excite personals classifieds adult slide show running under a transparent slashdot... Life is so good!

  24. Controvesial??? on Coming Back Soon... The Tasmanian Tiger? · · Score: 2

    how in the hell is this considered controversial? even the sternest luddite would agree that we wiped them out and it is our moral obligation.. NO survival emperitive to replace the species. We wipe out species left and right and expect to not suffer greiviosly as a result? Even if we could wipe out something as terrible as, say influenza, there would be drastic consequences. Even if the only result was longer lifspan for the 6 billion people on the earth ready to procreate 12 billion more. Humans can not live on human biomass alone.... Humans must have other species.

  25. 3.7 to 4.2 sounds like troposcatter on Wireless ISP Using 802.11? · · Score: 2

    At high power, 400+ watts, you can set up over the horizon 190 mile shots at those frequencies. Finding inexpencive commercial radios to support 802.11 at those frequencies will be extremely difficult though. Probly why those frequencies were made available to you. Wait, 3.4 MHZ? plenty of commercial radios in that frequency. You can only pull about 9600 kb/s for every .5 mhz of bandwidth though. So you own about 28.8 TOTAL kb/s from any given central location