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  1. Integrating content switching more the point... on Cisco, IBM Announce New Partnership, Network Device · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you have a box of blades... especially if you're going for lower-power blades like for a web farm, by adding "content switching" a.k.a. load balancing, with a whole lotta gigabit networking, you can have a highly reliable, very high I/O webfarm "in a box".

  2. Re:Dijkstra said it best ...not on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    MySQL *shouldn't* be used for anything serious.

    There should be a hippocratic oath for data integrity 'first do no harm'.

    MySQL mangles data in various ways.

    Horrible flaming death by returning errors is preferrable to data mangling.

    http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html

    Read it. Be enlightened.

  3. EU legislation to follow? on Robocones · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will there be a requirement for half the barrels to be standing around doing nothing, as per union rules?

    If they're deployed in France, how long until they go on strike?

  4. Yeah, but... on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 2, Informative

    6 cups of coffee per day? Could it be because they're rail thin, twitchy freaks who burn off all their excess calories by fidgeting constantly?

    Insulin resistance seems to be correlated with obesity. I'm not saying you can't be fat and drink coffee... but most of the "looks like a crack addict with his coffee fix" people I know are thin.

  5. Re:In The spirit of the Holiday's on Depenguinator "Upgrades" Linux to BSD · · Score: 1

    The "knowledge-based economy" requires people who can use apostrophes properly, doesn't it?

    IT *is* fucked.

  6. Re:RH8? on Embedded Linux VPN Router Near Release · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you had read the article, you'd have seen that they are using 32MB CF. Do you really think they're running "a full blown RH 8 [sic] installations"?

    Please check one:
    [ ] I can't read
    [ ] I choose not to read
    [ ] I read the article, but I think that a full install of RedHat fits in 32MB
    [ ] Please forgive my Debian zealotry

  7. hockey stick growth? on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    Exceptional demand for an outstanding product has resulted in "hockey stick" growth.

    Umm... I don't think I want to share "hockey stick" growth with my colleagues. I don't think I could survive too many slapshots to the head.

  8. Re:This would be the day... on Turn Your New Opteron Into A One-Game Console · · Score: 1

    Oh, like on the XBox?

  9. Re:I think that Communist China will overtake US. on China Building Linux-Based 10 Teraflop Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    If you're in Mensa, you should know that geniuses are far more common than 1 in a million.

    If you're in Mensa, you should know that with one genius per million people, we'd have between 280 and 290 geniuses in the US and in the vicinity of 1300 in the P.R.O.C.

    Therefore:
    If you're in Mensa, I see no need to join. The top 2% of IQs apparently includes plenty of people unfit to participate in conversations about intelligence.

  10. Re:Comparing apples and hydrogen on Next Wave Of Hard Drive Tech: Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 1

    Dude, this is EETimes, not People Magazine. EETimes should be chock full of what appears to be esoterica to the general public.

    This article was void of even a technical description of what they were talking about, or a diagram like one of the posts above did with ASCII.

    Rather than providing justification for it being fluff, EETimes should be criticized for providing such a low level of information.

  11. Re:Making less then the minimum? on On Obtaining Appropriate Compensation... · · Score: 1

    1. Hire employees
    2. Make them pay you
    3. PROFIT!!!!!!!!

  12. Re:Oh the memories. on dB Drag Racing · · Score: 1

    Eww... freak.

  13. Re:Help Pay back His Savings on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm torn between the idea of helping out this guy who got the ol' shaft, and paying off the RIAA. I'd rather donate to a legal defense fund than OK paying off the music Mafia.

  14. Re:SCO on SCO SCO SCO! · · Score: 1

    Trillian Dollars? Cerulean's issuing currency now?

  15. Re:Hey, let's include a snide comment! on Open Watcom 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    That'd be 88, dipshit. Add in the fact that you can't spell Michael, and I think you're the one looking stupid.

  16. Re:Keys already found? on Lindows CEO Funds XBox Hacking Contest · · Score: 1

    Too bad the distributed factoring client doesn't run on an unmodified Xbox.

  17. Re:Hmmmm .... on 802.11g Hardware Arrives · · Score: 2

    A little research would show you that the most profitable goods that HP sells are consumer inkjet consumables.

  18. Re:The REAL Killer, the $500 Minimum fee on The New Webcasting Compromise · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nice to see that we have a lot of Burger King employees chiming in on the issue.

    If you can pay for the bandwidth necessary to stream to a number of people, you can pay a $500 minimum.

    Minds are like parachutes, they only work when they're open.

  19. Re:User-to-user payment service ... on Bezos Seeks Amazon Honor System-Related Patents · · Score: 1

    No. You don't have "phone company" checks and "electric company" checks. Your checkbook has *payer* specific pages -- they come with your name and account number on them, not the recipient's.

  20. Re:some rules of English on Should "B" be the Same as "b"? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that polish and Polish are entirely different things. :)

  21. Re:This should be illegal on Comcast May Raise Prices On "Internet Hogs" · · Score: 1

    Multiplexers?

    What millenium are *you* in?

  22. Huh? What's silicon? on IBM Nanotechnology Transistor Faster than Silicon · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    In addition to looking at using the carbon nanotube, which is the strongest fiber in nature and 10 times stronger than steel, scientists are also studying the possibility of quantum computing based on atoms.

    Oh? Silicon computing isn't based on atoms?

  23. Re:Just a guess... on InsightConnector - A Viable Exchange Alternative? · · Score: 2

    The result could be reminiscent of the :Cue Cat: thing -- a company that gives away a free client in exchange for control of the server someone's paying for.

    "Oh, shit. We gave 'em Outlook so we could sell Exchange, but someone's using it with someone else's server"

  24. Re:Cheap NICs, costly switches on Mixing Gigabit, Copper, and Linux · · Score: 2

    I got a Farallon 4-port GigE switch for $210, and don't have to use some kind of bullshit bridging and fuck with an in-place server just to get switching capabilities.

    Consider looking for such a thing.

  25. Re:Obligatory Mac Plug on Mixing Gigabit, Copper, and Linux · · Score: 2

    It's not uncommon. It's called Auto MDI-X.