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  1. Re:Agreed it's entertainment, but... on SimCity Trains Bad Urban Planners · · Score: 1

    I spent 2 years in East Anglia, Martlesham Heath to be exact. That part of England ain't so bad compared to Dallas, Texas.

  2. Re:the return of the arcade? on Massive Multiplayer Gaming Warehouses On The Way · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hrmmm, hang out at a titty bar or play adolescent arcade games at Dave and Busters? I think I'll go get some pussy while you kids play with yourselves.

  3. Re:Summary for non-chemists on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1
    This means the solid phase has higher entropy than the liquid phase.
    And this solid actually does have lower entropy than the liquid phase.

    You can contradict yourself with these statements; so which phase has the higher entropy?

  4. Re:High quality mirror on Mechanical Pong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wasting A&M's bandwidth was one of my favourite pastimes too when I was an undergrad there. Of course, nowadays you can't get away with half the things we did 8 years ago.

    --
    Big Jason '99

  5. Speedzter2 on Portable Storage? · · Score: 1

    I just bought a Speedzter2 and a Seagate Momentus 40GB for about $180. It's bus powered and reasonably fast with firewire.

  6. Re:Another completely different approach on Redundant Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    Aren't man traps illegal? Maybe it's lethal man traps that are illegal...

  7. Re:Cost of saving electricity compared to making i on Green Energy From Manhattan's East River · · Score: 1
    ...it's no suprise that my electric bills are about half what my friends and neighbours are getting for similar sized houses.

    Finally, another Texan who spells "neighbour" correctly. I wish more people would spell "litre", "centre", "fibre", etc correctly.

  8. Re:Increased Irrelevancy, however. on Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IBM == I've Been Masturbated

  9. Re:OpenBSD on Passwords Can Sit on Hard Disks for Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    Umm, no.

    vm.swapencrypt.enable is set to 0 (zero) by default, take a look at your /etc/sysctl.conf

  10. Re:Curse of the Stadium Name Buyers ... on The 3Com Saga · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Reliant Stadium in Houston.

  11. Re:Plenum Rated vs Normal Cat5 on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Plenums are defined to be any compartment or chamber which is connected to or a part of the air distribution system of a structure.

    Does this include cable run underneath a raised floor in a server room?

  12. Re:A Warning on Math And The Computer Science Major · · Score: 1

    Fucking t-sip, =).

  13. Re:What *are* you smoking? on ClearChannel Complains About XM, Sirius Radio · · Score: 1

    I used to listen to public radio but it got boring quick. I don't know about you, but XM gives me variety. I reguarly listen to the BBC World Service , 3 Techno/Dance channels, 1 Opera channel, and of course the newly introduced local traffic channel for DFW. $10/mo is a steal for that type of variety.

  14. Re:Normal Practice at Wal-Mart on Computerized Time Clocks Susceptible to 'Manager Attack' · · Score: 1

    I used to work at a Pizza Hut about 8 years ago in Flower Mound, Texas. The store manager tried to short change a friend of mine, the overtime was not that significant mind you. I think my buddy got his pay after enough haggling.

  15. Re:Well... on LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Back in 1995, I put a Windows 95 disc in a Goldstar (now LG Electronics) 4x CD-ROM. The drive started making a horrible sound; I hit the eject button and the disc flew across the room! The CD also had scorch marks!

  16. Re:Try a faster cipher on Sending Files w/o Sending Clear Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I think arcfour is even faster.

  17. Re:oil prices - manual trans. - full circle on Engineers Design Safer SUV · · Score: 1

    But what car can hande my 26" rims?

  18. Re:Smug. on Remote Root Exploit In lsh · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like that douchebag Bennett Todd on Full-Disclosure claiming that a remote root exploit in OpenSSH was unacceptable and that he was promptly switching to LSH.

    Funny thing is, someone released a root exploit for LSH to the list a few days later. I have yet to see a (working) exploit for OpenSSH.

  19. Re:Easy... on Logging Unexpected Shutdowns/Crashes w/ Linux? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not to be confused with last | reboot, which I've done before. Doh!

  20. Re:Sun won't die. on On the Record: Scott McNealy · · Score: 1

    I've tried to use Gnome on Solaris 9 and it sucks ass; I went right back to using CDE. I prefer the lean and mean window managers like fvwm or blackbox.

  21. Re:Improvements to GCC? on Ars Technica Interviews 970 Designers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a Sun fanatic, I must admit that the POWER architecture is pretty nice. AIX OTOH is a steaming piece of garbage, and I'd rather be a Wintel admin than have to deal with it again. Hell, HP-UX 9.0 would be a step up.

    I really wish Sun would ditch the ailing SPARC line and adopt the POWER/PPC line.

  22. Re:Or they made a mistake on Honeytokens: The Other Honeypot · · Score: 2, Funny

    By that logic, I the UNIX Admin, should give you the root password because you think you need it to write some half-ass code, or do a "chmod -Rf 777 ..". DBAs and SAs exist to *manage* the environment, your job is to write shoddy code.

  23. Re:Simply wrong on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    In Dallas there is the George Bush Turnpike and at Texas A&M there is the George Bush Library.

  24. Re:Cane sugar in sodas. on Will Caffeine Cause Health Problems? · · Score: 1

    Dublin Dr. Pepper is the only Dr. Pepper I drink. The bottles you are starting to see in grocery stores in Austin and Dallas are the 8oz non-returnable type.

    The 10oz variety are returnable, but unfortunately there is a limited supply of bottles because they are no longer mass produced; therefore some morons out there consider them collector's items. You have to return the empties to Dublin for refilling and if you want to buy a case of 10oz bottles, they won't sell them to you unless you give them a case of empties plus $15. Fortunately, I know someone at work who hooks me up.

    Check them out online.

  25. Re:A question... on Mainframe Techies Are A Dying Breed · · Score: 1

    My "inferior" Sun Fire 15k can go up to 72* processors, 576GB of memory, and has up to 43.2 GB/sec sustained system bandwidth and 21.6 GB/sec of sustained I/O bandwidth. Best of all, it runs Solaris.

    * Technically up to 106 procs, but you have to sacrifice I/O.