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  1. Re:bad Seagate, bad! on Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas · · Score: 1

    > With SATA drives natively supported by SAS controllers,

    What? WHAT?

    Do I need a special cord? Drivers? Can I mix and match? If I have a Sun server with SAS disks, can I just pop in a couple of cheap/huge SATA disks to keep log files and so forth?

  2. Re:jsext: C + javascript - glue code on Building Linux Applications With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, I was just looking at your work last night.

    What would be *really* nice is if you, me, these GNOME guys, whitebeam, jslibs, and other folks could come up with a standardized way of sharing JS classes and objects at the source code level.

    (I have done some work in this regard, and will be trying to pull your JSEXT1 object in this week)

  3. Re:Didn't RTFA.... on Building Linux Applications With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    It's not DOM oriented. DOM isn't even necessary for javascript. It would be more accurate to say it's object-oriented, except that implies OOP, which it isn't.

  4. Re:My old car is fine on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1

    > Oh come now. I've driven a Maruti-800 48,000 km in 3 years

    How does it handle in the snow?

    Also, how is the body holding up against the road salt?

  5. Re:Building WiFi? on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an application for some kind of wireless tagged VLAN. I wonder if there is such a thing?

  6. Re:you can ... on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    > But be aware, when interface is in monitor mode, it only receives
    > packets, so don't start it on a link that transports your packets to the AP.

    I can't tell you how many times I've hosed my connection doing this! That's the problem with wired guys doing occasional wireless work.. Mikrotik really shouldn't allow you to monitor a radio you're logged in from.

  7. Or channel 14 on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Most plebes don't know how to tweak their north american firmware/drivers for channel 14, but us 133t /. d00ds do. The hardware all supports it (tell it you're in Japan), and 14 is far enough from 11 that you're only getting a bit of overlap, and only on one side.

    Just don't tell the FCC.

  8. Re:research in motion on Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Parliament is very similar to congress in that way ... original usage
    > was a meeting or session - nowadays, it also refers to a place or a body.

    Not quite. Parliament comes from two French words -- "Parler", to speak, and "Mentir" ... to lie.

  9. Re:'recalling' email - laugh! on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    Cancelling a news article was a pretty handy feature back in the day. I don't see any difference here, with the obvious exception of the clients supported and transport protocols.

  10. Re:The big question on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    I think the 1996 drop is probably more likely to do with the availability of CD-ROMs, with cheap pressing facilities (a la Walnut Creek) coming online. That's also about the time 4x drives became available cheaply, along with ATAPI drives (instead of proprietary ones)... AND about the same time CD-burners started to get sort-of afforable. (But "sort-of" I mean a Sony Spressa 1x burner was about $2500 and Taeyo-Yuden blanks were about $10 each).

    Most internet access in 1996 was still delivered by 56K modem, which means that it was actually slower than a BBS. SLIP or PPP plus FTP or NNTP are significantly less efficient than Z-modem.

    IIRC, cable modems didn't really start to become widely available until 1999 or so, and not many guys were buying ISDN or T1 lines just so they could beat off a little faster.

  11. Re:THE Book on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 1

    Is that an updated version Ralf's interrupt list?

    I had a soft cover version about 3.5" thick in the early 90s.

  12. Re:Tough choice on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 1

    It's okay. Cancer of the mutant breast can be easily eradicated with mutant X-rays.

  13. Re:It isn't all a trick on Trick or Treatment · · Score: 1

    It's actually kind of funny. The guy who treats me bills my company directly for each treatment, I think it's about $40 a crack. So we're not talking much money -- especially when I go on-demand.. (arms act up, I wonder to another office in my building and make an appointment).

    The guy who treats me is a licensed/degreed Physiotherapist with a Master's degree and a good sense of entrepreneurship. He's told me flat out: "We're not sure why or how it works, but for some patients it does". And then he gives me grief about my posture and other PT-type-things.

    Before I was doing accupuncture, I was hiring temps to type for me until the nerve inflammation went away. WAY more expensive. And really annoying: "No! When I say open brace, I mean shift-left-square-bracket! And unless I say BACKslash, I want the one underneath the question mark!"

    On the plus side, there's now a bunch of temps floating around town who how to re-indent code and save a document in emacs... but don't know what emacs is.

  14. Re:It isn't all a trick on Trick or Treatment · · Score: 1

    I use acupuncture a few times a year to relieve inflamed median nerves.

    I don't know if it's the needles or the placebo effect, but by golly, I'm glad it works.

    Does that make me gullible or pragmatic?

  15. Re:Exploitations? on Trick or Treatment · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Remember, guys, for doctors, your symptoms are a matter of trial and error.
    > The usual way to treat people is to go through every medication until you find
    > one that helps

    Um, no.

    First you insult the black guy. Then you belittle the white guy and make crude remarks toward the hot chick. If you're in season 4, you also insult the brown guy whilst proclaiming his genius.

    Then you hold a "differential diagnosis" and write stuff on the white board.

    Finally, you pop some pills, call the patient a liar, piss off your boss, annoy your only friend, and only THEN do you start trial-and-error treatment.

    Geez. Don't you people know ANYTHING about medicine?

  16. Re:What about drivers? on Toshiba To OEM Laptops With OpenSolaris · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I had never realized until just now that Blackberry phones can be acquire sans camera.

    I don't suppose they would accept a drilled-out camera as no-camera?

    (if it was my security policy, I would not. But I am curious as to what others think)

  17. Re:What about drivers? on Toshiba To OEM Laptops With OpenSolaris · · Score: 1

    What kinds of phones do these people use?

    Last phone I bought, I didn't have a *choice*. Which is really quite obnoxious, when you think about it. I never use my camera phone, yet my Treo 600, 650 700, Sony w810i and Apple iPhone 3G have always been saddled with them.

  18. Re:Jewtube? on Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it's an anti-hispanic jab, made by referencing their difficulty pronouncing "you". It just happens to look anti-semetic, but really, it's just anti-hispanic. Which is actually almost okay, because hispanics are almost white, and you're allowed to make fun of white folk.

  19. Re:I'm amused and somewhat pleased on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    This is very much akin to early automotive racing. The big manufacturers were on near-even grounds with independents. The desire to win spurred the automakers into investing in race-oriented engineering resources. Advances made for racing benefited the consumer in the long run, through trickle-down ... autonomics.

  20. Re:I'm dubious about this. on Nintendo Slapped With Wiimote Strap Lawsuit Once Again · · Score: 1

    My luthier installs the left button at a downward angle to ameliorate this problem.

    FWIW. :)

  21. Re:Where is any verification of any of this? on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could call "Karen" fairly easily, there aren't that many Karens working for AISB who teach grade 8.

    BAILEY KAREN T-7/8 P.E. MARTIN MS 414-3243
    CASE KAREN T-7/8 THEATER MURCHISON MS 414-3254
    CIESLA KAREN T-7/8 MATH O HENRY MS 414-3229
    DONSBACH KAREN T-7/8 SCI- GEN' BAILEY MS 414-4990
    GREEN KAREN T-7/8 LIFE SCI MURCHISON MS 414-3254
    HARRIS KAREN T-7/8 LANG ARTS COVINGTON MS 841-3686
    SCHIPPER KAREN T-7/8 CHOIR KEALING MS 414-3214

    ..and I think you could safely eliminate the PE and Choir teachers. And those phone numbers are in NPA 512.

  22. Re:"Reasonable suspicion" on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What you say is true, HOWEVER, the GPs post is on point.

    On Law & Order, they call it the "Plain View Exception".

    Apparently it exists IRL too: http://www.policelink.com/training/articles/2043-plain-view-doctrine-

  23. Re:wife program code on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    You forgot sex() between clean() and makefood().

    Also, one at the top of the loop for good measure, since your loop structure either implies an implicit sleep() at scope-end, or you are planning on burning out of you wife in about 60 hours.

  24. Re:we need a scientist on Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary · · Score: 1

    You are aware that Cajuns originate from Acadia, which in turn were originally French?

    So it could be argued that most of the great cooking, world-wide, originates in France.

    (Ever had Cajun "fast food?" We have a restaurant chain here called Bourbon St. Grill. Not great, but a whole hellauvalot better than a stinky ol' burger)

  25. Re:You're a genius on Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, they only shipped mysql4 (note -- it's been a LONG time since I've checked).

    I use the distribution on mysql's web site. And it is truly broken.

    mysql-5.0.51s-solaris-sparc.tar.gz was the one I reported the bug on
    mysql-5.1.24-rc-solaris10-sparc.tar.gz was the most recent one I tried.