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  1. Re:Screw San Fran on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Even more interesting is that Finland has very high gun ownership.

  2. Re:YES !! on Is Enterprise IT More Difficult To Manage Now Than Ever? · · Score: 1

    As a 4 digit IDer, I agree that ClearCase sucks ass.

  3. FUHRER on DMVs Across the Country Learning Textspeak · · Score: 1

    Saw this one at a Marilyn Manson concert, thought it took a lot of balls to pull off. It's a pretty innocuous word in German, but has negative connotations in other languages.

  4. Re:Fast - good - now focus on... on Chrome 24 Released, Chrome Beta Channel For Android Added · · Score: 5, Informative

    I will concur though that some kind of tab overview would be great. Didn't early versions of Chrome have that?

    Hit Shift-Esc to bring up the Chrome Task Manager. It will give you a summary of each tab's memory, cpu, and network consumption as well as the ability to kill individual tabs.

  5. Re:Ethics for veggies on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 1

    There is a common mis-conception amongst carnivores that a meal has to contain meat to be tasty. This is complete nonesense, but unfortunately prejudice and ignorance prevent many people from even investigating this fact with an open mind.

    I disagree, most attempts at vegetarian cuisine just replace existing meat dishes with cheese, tofu, seitan, mushroom or some other filler. Indian is the only cuisine that has original dishes that do not have some sort of meat influence.

  6. Re:why not use meat on In Vitro Grown Meat 'Nearly Possible' · · Score: 1

    Because Americans eat a lot of goat meat, right?

    I'm a murican and I love goat meat. Muricans don't know what they're missing but then again I guess Jamaican, Indian and Cabrito aren't mainstream.

  7. jwz commented on this as well. on Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots · · Score: 1

    Mentioned on the DNA Lounge Blog: http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2012/05/16.html

  8. Re:Conspicuously bypassing NY on AT&T To Launch LTE Network In 5 Cities This Summer · · Score: 1

    DFW, San Antonio, and Houston all have VERY good infastructures with AT&T (compared to other cities), so its the idea test bed.

    I live in Downtown Dallas, less than 3 blocks away from AT&T Headquarters. I used to have AT&T and the service was atrocious, dropped calls were a regular occurrence. I now have an iPhone with Verizon and the service is stellar, no dropped calls even in the CBD tunnels. So if the infrastructure is great here, I shudder to think how bad it is elsewhere...

  9. Re:No real reason to switch on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    ... I can't easily rip a Blu-ray to my hard drive so I can watch it on the plane.

    Umm, ever hear of AnyDVD HD?

  10. Re:64 cores on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 1

    You mean 64 threads, 8 cores total.

  11. Re:Are you surprised? on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 1
  12. Re:So true! on Data Centers Crucial To Lehman Sale · · Score: 1

    I have some 20-way E6500's that I'll give to you if you haul them off. A Silver maintenance contract is $60k/yr, for that you could buy 3 T2000s, save a bunch on power and cooling, not to mention floorspace.

  13. Re:Hypocrisy is only wrong when someone else does on Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan · · Score: 1

    I'm 6' 4" too and had a hell of a time in Bangalore, India. I guess the shaved head and bushy beard didn't help. It was hard getting used to the blatant staring, I could just "feel" the eyes gazing at me.

  14. Re:World's Greatest Detective on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 2, Funny

    Poser.

  15. Re:AppleTV on Inside the Tech of the Roku Netflix Player · · Score: 1

    It may be silent, but the damn thing gets hot. You could almost fry an egg on the one I have.

  16. Re:I've got a better idea. on Fasting May Fix Jet Lag · · Score: 1

    At least with jumpseats you get more leg room. It beats sitting in cattle class on Southworst.

  17. Re:Clear the Confusion on Cisco Turns Routers Into Linux App Servers · · Score: 1

    Switch- Handles moving packets between endpoints on a single IP Subnet (layer 2 Device)

    A Layer 2 device is not IP aware, perhaps you meant "broadcast domain"?

  18. Re:Why should this be a surprise? on Can Sun Make MySQL Pay? · · Score: 1

    * Client libraries are just pathetic, especially on non-windows platforms. JDBC driver is usable, but C client library is essentially reverse-engineered and not supported by microsoft (http://www.freetds.org/). It is a small miracle we can access MSSQL at all from Linux.

    I had a hell of a time trying to compile FreeTDS on Solaris and get Perl's DBD::Sybase to work. Even worse, DBD::Sybase didn't support placeholders, so I had to use $dbh->quote everywhere.

    Another annoying thing in my (limited) experience with MSSQL was that it was difficult to export a table into complete sql statements. I eventually found a perl script written with Win32::ODBC that did the trick.

  19. Re:quite useful on Ion-Mask Coating Could Make Waterproofing Electronics Easy · · Score: 1

    Be careful, very few PS/2->USB converters will work with a Model M. clickykeyboards.com sells one that works, however.

  20. Re:Under my desk on Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked · · Score: 3, Funny

    You call that low?

  21. Re:Uhm. on Sun's Trading Symbol Going From SUNW To JAVA · · Score: 1

    I always thought it stood for Software Under No Warranty.

  22. Server Lift on Outfitting a Brand New Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    We are using a Presto Manual Stacker as a server lift at my Data Centre. Ours is hand cranked, but Presto also makes an electric variant that would be suitable.

  23. Re:Studies on Brian May, Rock Legend, Soon-To-Be Astrophysicist · · Score: 1

    I like using the British spellings as well, in particular words ending in -re.

    An intersting tidbit: Whilst searching for the American Airlines Centre in Dallas, I came across this at the bottom of the page:

    Note: The correct spelling is American Airlines Center, not American Airlines Centre.

  24. Re:SAN? Huh? on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage · · Score: 1

    Since when is 2x the storage and a high bandwith link b/w sites cheap?

  25. Re:idiots.. But it is true... on Duke Wireless Problem Caused by Cisco, not iPhone · · Score: 1

    In my experience this is only true with the older interfaces: hme, qfe, eri. The newer ones such as bge, ce, and e1000g work just fine with Cisco equipment using auto-negotiation.