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  1. Re:Had to uninstall SP2 due to IDE DMA/PIO issue on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 1

    I ran into the same problem. I formatted multiple drives and performed five seperate XP installs from scratch. DMA->PIO problems started to appear shortly after applying SP2. I have yet to reproduce the problem after re-installing without applying SP2. I heard that this problem doesn't happen if you install SP2 directly (slipstream install) rather than install SP1 and then "upgrade".

  2. Clusters aren't performance? Just not true! on Database Clusters for the Masses · · Score: 3, Informative

    This simply isn't true. Oracle's clustered database solution (9i Real Application Clusters) are designed to increase the ability to gracefully recover from individual node failures. Additionally, they can scale the performance of your database application by increasing the number of CPUs with access to shared storage. For CPU bound database applications, this technology provides near linear scalability!

  3. Re:So, not "spamassassin" on Network Associates Aquires Deersoft Inc. · · Score: 1

    That name only works if we can safely assume that Spam is made from ham ;)

  4. Re:Wait a minute... on The Need for Open Hardware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Absolutely! This is exactly what happened to Apex. By circumventing the MPAA's region encoding system, Apex gained a larger market share than they would have otherwise.

  5. Re:Terrorism laws on Fighting The Spammers Down Under · · Score: 1

    Don't give Bush any ideas!

  6. Re:VC?? I HATE THE VC on ArsDigita Founder Responds to Closing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please mod this Anonymous Coward's post +1 funny. I laughed out loud!

  7. Fairly safe to assume that this is a hoax on ZeoSync Makes Claim of Compression Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    From their website:

    "ZeoSync's new "Binary Accellerator (TM)" is not a compression technology, rather it encodes digital information into fast and dependable muti-dimensional mathematical entities that the company calls "Gems (TM)". We have chosen the name "Gems" as an acronym for Multi-Dimenstional Mathematical Reduction (MDMR) does not clearly define the condensation process, as successfully as does the mental image of the crystallization of nature that transforms rough materials into precious stones."

    "Once crystallized, Gems are able to move rapidy on a fixed set of binary carriers through existing digital transmission devices, breaking all known transmission barriers. This MindSpeed velocity affects the complete global communications infrastructure by sending more data accross less bandwidth while saving time..."

    MindSpeed velocity? You've got to be kidding me!

  8. Re:No fonts match .... on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 1

    Figured out the problem. The hint was in:

    /etc/PROBLEMS

    This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be are:

    - in your ~/.Xdefaults file

    - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or
    /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs

    One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a
    fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find
    the problematic line(s) and correct them.

  9. Re:No fonts match .... on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 1

    I've run into the same problem. I'm running SuSE 7.2. How about you?

  10. Unencrypted passwords submitted via Egghead form! on Egghead Customer? Your Data Goes To Fry's · · Score: 1

    I received a copy of the email from Egghead. When I went to the site to have my personal information removed, I received a notice from internet explorer (I know...) that the form was composing a message on my behalf. I checked the content of the message being sent to smtp-02.egghead.com and noticed that it included my Egghead.com username and password in unencrypted form. As SMTP traffice is not encrypted, this is VERY, VERY bad!!!!

  11. Embedded Linux Journal interview on Pocketlinux Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    The new Embedded Linux Journal has an interview of Transvirtual's Tony Fader and Paul Fisher. Unfortunately, the article isn't posted online.