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  1. Yes on NVIDIA Do-It-Yourself Quad SLI Launched · · Score: 1

    But then, as far as the ATI 200m is concerned, 10meg of that is an application "for users benefit". So you can ... I still don't know. Maybe for the sake of science I'll launch the application, eh?

  2. It's nice how you make and break the argument on NVIDIA Do-It-Yourself Quad SLI Launched · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Why blow money on an outdated (and yet current offering?) SGI workstation when you can get better performance out of a quad-(dual core) (8-way processing) PC?

    The question is though: will this work on Linux, and what boards offer four PCI-E x16 slots?
    It's tremendously important to both note and keep in mind that the reason why any individual would purchase an SGI system is two-fold.

    One, your department already runs SGI? Or the application that you want to run runs on IRIX (ya, so they support a linux kernel ...).

    Two, you know the hardware is going to work with the operating system and vice versa out of the box. The same reason why you would tell a family member to purchase a laptop/notebook/ultraportable from Dell/HP/Gateway/Lenovo/Whomever, so you don't have to support it for everything.

    Now, my question is this, does the quad-pci board allow you to run two sets of duo-sli cards instead of one quad-sli or one duo-sli? Any graphics gurus?
  3. Other, More obscure authors... on Shadowrun vs. Shadowrun · · Score: 1

    Since when is PKD an obscure author?

    I guess that makes Asimov an obscure author as well, eh?

    To be honest, I did not originally find Asimov at first, I found others such as PKD and then was led into sci-fi and then got into the "mainstream" authors.

    Just curious how PKD was an obscure author

  4. Request Clarification on NASA Scientists Simulate Black Hole Collision · · Score: 1

    how is this offtopic? because I didn't state that john titor talks about the use of two micro black holes to travel through time?

  5. This whole article* without on NASA Scientists Simulate Black Hole Collision · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a reference to John Titor?

    for the uninitiated: http://www.johntitor.com/

    *and apparently the prev dup article as well, but I could've been wrong.

  6. Working with the hardware directly on New Itanium More Powerful, Power Efficient · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can tell you that the processors are not even in production at the main server manufacturer backing the Itanium family (ie, not Intel, the other one*).

    We have seen a few proto style units roll through, but they have all had serious problems and are not running at full speed. The engineering group either cannot or will not give us a reason why these units are running crippled, but we believe it to be a chipset issue. Hopefully we will see the servers rolling through our manufacturing process within the next 60-90 days, but no management timelines have been released.

    Here's to all those of us who want that raw power and are looking to pay for it!!!

    *Won't disclose the name since I don't know if this info violates my NDA, but screw it, the public should know this stuff. Information does deserve to be known.

    -drach!

  7. Re:That box you speak of... on Hack in the Box Meets Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    omfg * lol * wtf * bbq .conf *

    whad-i miss? barbeque?

    *==got that one

  8. Re:archive then move? on Speeding up Firewire File Transfers? · · Score: 1

    Ahha, but in relation to the dupe that is sure to be posted to the front page soon, how many highways* would that provide the ability to build? corollary question, what's the best transport mechanism to move that many LoCs?

    *that would be an information highway

  9. Re:Legal can of worms on $5 Social Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    that was informative, but still relies upon, if i may use the article in paraphrased form, eve to come into the middle of the conversation for the middle of the article to make sense.

    if eve is at the beginning, and captures the initial DHK request to be setup, then wouldn't eve be able to follow the exchanges? and this is the reason, because, if parties that have no prior knowledge of each other want [added by me] to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure communications channel, then they have to communicate the initial SYN-ACK that says that they want to talk and then they have to establish that they want to utilize cryptography to communicate.

    A counterpoint to my argument arises, however, if it is assumed that any connection to the FON router will be using a version of DHK and that the password will be already encoded by a, and the serverside will decrypt based on a stored key a, and then send the response of s, so that the client can decrypt b, however, you have to know how to get the client to have an unreproducable a to begin with, and then you're using established G, g and p, so it's not a perfect idea yet, and I still see where it should be possible to break this encryption if you can just capture every packet that a unit sends and recieves, but maybe i'm just being optimistic and don't completely understand everything there is to know in the universe, but I see how it should work mathmatically and logically

  10. Figure you would probably like to know on What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do? · · Score: 1

    That you're allowed to use the same license over and over, so long as you use the same install set, which it sounds like you did. The trick is the phone home. The activation process can be done three times without an explanation call to MS to verify that you're the owner and that you want to reinstall for reason XYZ. Also, if you change massive amounts of hardware in your system, you have to reverify, but not for simple upgrades (ie, one component at a time in most cases).

    check the following links
    http://www.licenturion.com/xp/fully-licensed-wpa.t xt
    http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.php
    and this was interesting
    http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/200 5/02/22/changes-in-windows-xp-product-activation/

  11. Re:Who cares! on What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not like this site is for "Goodies for Geeks: Toys that Taunt" or anything.

    You're apparently a Nerd. And remember in RotN, we win!!!

    anyways, I'm going back into my corner and work on my battlebot...

  12. Re:Legal can of worms on $5 Social Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    as the other child-post to yours said, this would be the perfect setup for a MiTM or phish attack, because on this network, you own the router, and the client is connecting to you, so you simply capture all data packets on the network, then you have the encrypted login sure, but you also have the data that transpired before the key exchange occurred. I don't know which part of my original post i made hard to understand, but maybe this is easier, or maybe i wasn't clear enough

    you start capturing -> client arrives at network -> client requests secure handshake and key exchange with whatever -> you see key pass and encrypted data starts flying -> you utilize key and known cryptographic mode (it did happen on your router, right?) to decipher the packets at your leisure because YOU WERE CAPTURING THE WHOLE TIME -> you have their information and nobody can tell you not to do this sort of thing on your own network, right? I mean, this is a whole property issue at this point.

    I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Somebody please show me though.

  13. Re:Legal can of worms on $5 Social Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    unfortunately, with this structure, it would be rather easy to find experts who could testify that this situation lends itself to many:many username/password relationships

    all you have to do is install something like ethereal and capture the whole handshake process. don't say it can't be done, but let's don't elaborate here b/c theres no point in stimulating the evil inherent in people

  14. Re:not to mention... on TUAW Recommends Joke App · · Score: 1
    dinner with the really annoying girl in marketing
    are you seriously advocating /.ers give up the few chances they have to go on an official date?
    having lunch with your parents in-law
    ah, nevermind, I've obviously got the wrong idea about you, you're a /._2.x_er

    To all the rest of the /. crowd . . . err, yeah, nothing witty now, sheesh, karma whoring without the benefits of
  15. eh, i'll attempt to try again, but don't count on on Interstate Highway System: 50th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    eh, the first one wasn't well written, shot was reference to end of post, about those leechs who live off of govt money should be shot, and if you live on good middle income, then you can't be too far removed from these freeloaders to have not heard anyone else griping about them.

    my point is, for instance, when someone gets a FEMA card that is supposed to help them buy groceries and diapers while they are living in govt sponsored hotel rooms, then they should either a) not buy a big screen tv with said FEMA card, or b) they should be publicly executed.

    Okay, so I probably won't get modded very generously for suggesting public executions of trivial rule breakers, but I live in Houston, and I didn't get a FEMA card, but I was very seriously displaced for a short period due to govt non-communication (I reference the roads situation here in Houston and the surrounding areas) and on top of that, my tax money is going to support those who are performing acts similar to the above mentioned two sets of examples. On top of that, why the hell are we paying $3.50 for gas when we don't have to*, and it's a friggin hurricane? *to support the largest recorded quarterly or annual income ever. EVER. but that's a rant for another day. I'm really talking about those freeloaders who go, oh, it's not MY money, it's GOVT money, so I can just buy whatever/not have to work for 3-16 mos/yrs.

  16. Re: SARCaSM on 1st Heinlein Prize Awarded · · Score: 1

    What, the mod's didn't appreciate the joke? Sorry for your sake that I don't have mod points, best thing i've read today!!

  17. You obviously never heard of on Interstate Highway System: 50th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Social Security paying single women who have too many kids and can't get a job, have you? You must either be on the very upper crust of society or live in a really small town. Otherwise, I believe I just shot down the argument in one fell stroke, and proved that sometimes those __ahem__ people should be SHOT themselves. EOM

  18. see, you messed up because on Pluto's New Moons Named Nix and Hydra · · Score: 1

    You are the central mass around which the laptop is dependent, therefore you are pluto and the laptop can be Hydra. Just so long as you don't call your laptop Charon, you should be okay, but should you ever get a g/f* then try and convince her to be Charon, while you two revolve around each other for eternity. It's a nice gig, this being married stuff.

    *oblig ref to most /.ers single male young. DO NOT TAKE OFFENSE TO THIS STATEMENT. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS STATEMENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR, er... ahem, Thank you for your time.

  19. Re:The moon on Pluto's New Moons Named Nix and Hydra · · Score: 1

    Simple: articulative ability in a commonspeak language such as English allows articulative flexibility through use of the root/prefix/suffix language construction, thus English has become the language of much normative information in scientific circles.

    Ohhhh, what does that mean? well, look at the word reblended. re-blend-ed meaning re - again, blend - well, ya know, mix, blend, whatever, and ed - happened in the past.

    A lot of languages don't let you do that, such as German, which would make it more like blen, blentin, blenerdine, etc (NO, I DO NOT INTEND THIS TO BE A REAL GERMAN WORD EXAMPLE. I AM MAKING THIS CRAP UP OUT OF MY ARSE. I AM TRYING TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT, ahem, er thanks) where the end of the word CHANGES based on the gender and tense, as opposed to english, where almost no gender exists, and the tense is indicated by the ending, with "fairly simple rules" for which ending means what.

    Please also forget that English does things like bleed-bled and run-ran because that gets away from the root/prefix/suffix that the op was talking about, especially since that is first and second person perspective more often than third.

    does that make sense?

  20. Re:Must remember not to holiday there. on Pluto's New Moons Named Nix and Hydra · · Score: 1

    heh, thanks for letting me know that i have 69* starbucks within 20 miles of my house, and I feel pretty sure that doesn't count the one in a kroger's just up the road.

    *no, i'm not making it up, zip 77379

  21. It's obvious on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG · · Score: 1

    That's because he said MAKITA and it's a BRIGGS STRATON sponsored competition, sheesh

  22. About these fans on Using Jet Engines to Cool Servers · · Score: 1

    As an HP Tech in their manufacturing division, I can tell you this, the fans do sound like a jet engine. But they also move a lot of air. And their on the back of a special box, with five fans each on top and bottom, so air flow is from the front middle through the back top and bottom. The blades do stay cool. And I don't know if they intend on utilizing this idea on the smaller fans as well, for now, they are only with the blades

  23. Re:Why bother? on Using Jet Engines to Cool Servers · · Score: 1

    HP is retackling this one too (news coming to you directly from their Houston campus)

    you should hear about it in the next 6 months or so, but don't hold your breath on my account

  24. Re:How long before we bring back chillers? on Using Jet Engines to Cool Servers · · Score: 1

    HP is working on this one too (news coming to you directly from their Houston campus)

  25. Re:itanic integrity on HP is Tech's New Top Dog? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are correct, and HP sells more blades w/o itanium than with. As a matter of fact, I believe more AMD gets moved do to the lower power consumption + x86-64 that you are talking about.

    I learned something interesting just last night that says to wait for the fall, because they are going to be rolling a whole redesigned product line, which would be good in my book since IBM seems to outshine us on size.

    I don't know what they're doing, but if I'm correct in my guess, it's reduced size even further (miniturization helps I guess), removed the whole bus-bar setup, and integrated all of the switches into a single sub-cab capable of holding 16+ blades. Which as I understand it is close to what IBM is doing already. We'll just have to see tho, since I'm not with that product group anymore.