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  1. Re:can they also make a contraption... on Using Gym Rats' Body Power to Generate Electricity · · Score: 1

    They already have that, it's called a fuel-combusting power plant.

  2. Re:Mine is! on Worm Exploiting Solaris Telnetd Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    I'm a sparc user so I don't have 120069, but 120068-03 "SunOS 5.10: in.telnetd patch" is listed as "Install Requirements: NA". Presumably these are the same patch. ...Interesting, -03 seems to fix 6524404 which says "rebootafter property is not necessary".

    Looks like -02 says it required a reboot but didn't; -03 does it right (I didn't get -02, I just disabled in.telnetd).

    -02 is quite hiliarious, it fixes bug "6523815 LARGE vulnerability in telnetd"

  3. Re:Credentials are over rated... for some fields.. on Academic Credentials and Wikiality · · Score: 1

    When my mother graduated High School, she went to Teacher's College. I think it was a year-long program. She then taught grades 3-4 while she put herself through University.

    So, not only has your theory been proven correct, it was an accepted norm only 40 years ago.

  4. Re:Keyboard on Do-It-Yourself Steampunk Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Check to make sure you're getting a good, steady +5V inside the keyboard. Then add a small NP cap and a big electrolytic cap near the microprocessor. "small" and "big" don't really matter, try .01 and 220uF.

  5. Underpants Gnomes, where are you? on BitTorrent Video Download Store Falls Flat · · Score: 1

    I've figured out the ????!

    1. Make really large files full of random numbers and pretend they're movies
    2. Market the hell out of some fictional movies.
    3. Sell the files and tell people they can't view them because of the DRM
    4. Profit!

    Note that I haven't actually to pay for the cost of making a movie here. It's sheer genius!

  6. Re:I like threads. on Pthreads vs Win32 threads · · Score: 1

    A lot senior programmers (myself included) run away from other people's threading code because there always seems to be one stupid, gotcha bug in whatever steaming pile of code we're handed that takes 168 hours longer than expected to find, and it's only found by old-school code-reading and note-taking, because the test case takes 12 hours to replacate.

    Now, *writing* MT code from scratch without using local-to-the-enterprise libraries? Nobody with any skills should be afraid of that. If you can't visualize your threads interacting in your head... you don't fully understand the problem domain and should promptly commit seppuku.

  7. Re:Clone on Pthreads vs Win32 threads · · Score: 1
    If you can re-write your forkish program from the form

    while()
      if (!fork())
      {
        blah;
        blah;
        blah;
      }
    to

    doWork(args)
    {
      blah;
      blah;
      blah;
    }
     
    while()
      if (!fork())
        doWork(args);
    Then you can do what you want with a wrapper oriented around pthread_create() and friends so that your code will look like

    while()
      magicFunc(doWork, args)
    with trivial complexity.
  8. Re:Eeew, threads. on Pthreads vs Win32 threads · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > (e.g. memory is only copied if there is a write on Linux)

    Not just Linux.

    I think this was the case with SVR4 and BSD4.3.

    But that was a LONG time ago... memory gets fuzzy..

    It's entirely probable that the first time I read about fork being copy-on-write was in Tannenbaum's yellow book, so it might even be in Minix.

    It has certainly been the case as far as I'm aware in every non-toy Unix and UNIX for at least a decade.

    But then again, I don't care, since I'm not a kernel developer. :)

  9. Re:Needs an extra step to be okay. on Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy · · Score: 1

    Actually, he could just pop up an alert dialog box: "Erase all your files? OK Cancel".

    Most idiots hit OK without reading the dialog boxes during install. Might teach them TWO lessons!

  10. Re:A big strike against Net Neutrality on Does the Internet Need a Major Capacity Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, where do you live?

    I live in a city of about 120,000 in Ontario.

    I can get my internet delivered via:
      - Wireless (3mpbs up/down, latency a little stumbly for VoIP)
      - SDSL (dedicated point-to-point copper)
      - ADSL from at least three different companies (with a Bell back-end)
      - Faster ADSL without a Bell back-end (mom-n-pop has co-lo at the CO)
      - Cable from at least three difference companies (with a Cogeco back-end)
      - T1 (big bucks)
      - Dial-up from at least two local companies
      - ISDN from at least two local companies
      - Probably something I've forgotten

    I don't really see a problem with lack-of-competition.

  11. Re:Ok, so in layman's terms... on Does the Internet Need a Major Capacity Upgrade? · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, not pipes. The internet is not like sewage pipes. It's more like... a bunch of TUBES.

    Why, just last week, my staff flushed an internet, and I only got it, I got it yesterday. And I still haven't figured out who this "tub girl" is supposed to be.

  12. Re:Is there such a thing as... on Recovering a Wrecked RAID · · Score: 1

    Solaris Volume Manager (aka ODS and SDS) does this out of the box. I wouldn't be surprised if other LVMs do too.

    With SVM, create three stripes, create a mirror with one stripe, newfs it, when the newfs is complete, add a stripe to the mirror, (and then add another stripe to the mirror).

    The stuff in the brackets is the only difference between creating RAID 1+0. Oh, and you don't want to use the GUI...

    FWIW, my standard rollout these days is software-triple-mirrored hardware-RAID5 enclosures with an independant path to each enclosure. I have no idea what the hell you call that. I originally set out do to a typical three-mirrors-of-stripes, and then realized that I could just add my hotspares in as RAID 5 parity and pretend that I had pre-populated hot spares from a reliability point of view.

  13. Re:Any recommended registrars out there? on Some Hope During Registerfly's Meltdown · · Score: 1

    I use my local ISP as my registrar.

    They are more expensive than GoDaddy (by a significant amount), but my domains are valuable to me. And if they ever mess up my domains, there is a real brick-and-mortar building I can go to, with a real flesh-and-blood geek I can beat up.

  14. Re:Related metalworking question- on Astronaut to Attempt Spacewalk Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That depends on how you use the chisel.

    If you use it to flake bits of metal off, then yes, there will be flakes. But chances are, they're just going to use the chisel as an impromtu guillotine to cut through the antenna legs. Chiselling away at them would serve no purpose.

  15. Diabolus in musica on Earth's Constant Hum Explained · · Score: 1

    Holy shit!

    E to Bb! That's a TRITONE! THE SONG OF THE DEVIL!

    Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

    THEY'RE HEARING HELL!

  16. Regional Caches on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 1

    There already is something like this; I noticed the other day, when I had to download a 173 MB Brother print driver (that doesn't work), that it came from a machine three hops from me, on an Akamai server.

    It's not like mirrors are a new concept.

    What I WOULD like to see, though, is a series of giant squid boxes. They could even keep the FSM company.

  17. Re:"Global bandwidth crisis" is a crock on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 1

    The 1973 Honda Civic got 40 mpg.

    More, if you use British gallons.

  18. Re:"Global bandwidth crisis" is a crock on How Would You Deal With A Global Bandwidth Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Hey, did our pumps use US gallons, or real gallons?

    I'm not old enough to remember.

    (But I *am* old enough to remember yellow gas)

  19. Solaris will be a problem? on 'Daylight Savings Bugs' Loom · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now that SunSolve patch access has been restricted to support-contract-holders-only..

    How the hell do we update our old Solaris boxes that haven't had support in years?

    Will they distribute new zone info files separately?

  20. Re:Ha Ha Ha.... on Canadian ISPs Send Thousands of Copyright Notices · · Score: 1

    Shit, is THAT why you never see Victoriaville sticks anymore?

    I just figured they got outsourced to India or something.

  21. Re:You can't stop commoditizing of an item on The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > Either way, it's been a perpetual fact that bad artists will put
    > out albums with just a few good tracks; the phrase "one hit wonder"
    > isn't unique to the 21st century

    There are two problems with this statement:

    1. Just because an artist does not release only "good" material does not make them bad
    2. The absense of cassette and 45 singles IS certainly a 21st-Century phenomenon.
          The MAFIAA could certainly sell 3.5 CD singles at a reduced rate if they so chose.
          Making OHWs available ONLY on $15 albums means they're effectively charging $15/song.

  22. Re:About the preference to work late on Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior · · Score: 1

    It's called self-preservation in the face of a typical co-worker environment.

    If you get up at four, work for a few hours, then come in at nine as usual, people expect you to stick around 'till five. Oh, just wait one more minute.. But, we have a lunch meeting scheduled, can I see you on your way out, etc, blah blah.

    If you work 9-5 and stay up a little late to do whatever needs doing during non-peak hours, you log in at, say, 11pm, go to bed at one and come in a few hours late the next day.. but by the end of the day, you're all caught up with everyone else.

    I guess, the point is, that a lot of office-people-to-people interaction occurs in the early-to-middle of the afternoon, and sometimes bleeds 'till EOD. Missing that is more critical than missing the part of your day when you sit bleary-eyed at your terminal.

  23. Re:here comes the spam on Google Opens Gmail To All · · Score: 1

    PSSSSSSSST!

    Spamming is when you *send* UCE. Signing up to gmail allows you to *receive* mail.

    Unless you think the spammers have *so many* people they could actually poison the filters by clicking on the "no, this viagra email ISN'T spam button"

  24. Re:Harper's at it again on Canadian Government Rejects Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Yeah!

    I was actually pretty pissed when they cut the GST.

    That doesn't really affect me (seriously, a penny on a Tim's, who cares?) -- but it DOES affect our national debt AND poor people (I'll bet they get smaller GST cheques now).

  25. Re:Conservative government in charge.. NOT FOR LON on Canadian Government Rejects Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 4, Funny

    If by "populists", you mean "lying assholes", then yes, you're right.