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  1. Re:Prove it on Astronaut: 'Single-Planet Species Don't Last' · · Score: 1

    Hes retiring in two weeks AC, so I doubt he cares. He just decided to speak out now that its not going to harm is work status

  2. Re:No mention of... on Interchangeable Data Storage Bricks? · · Score: 1

    RTFA, I have mentioned this in another post, but just line the walls with them. Hell even the article mentions this is acceptable:

    The bricks can be assembled "in a big pile of bricks or it could be a one-dimensional wall of bricks," which could make maintenance even easier. IBM is studying which configurations would be most effective for maintenance, Gardner said

  3. Re:New and neat? on Interchangeable Data Storage Bricks? · · Score: 1

    stack them horizontally in many rows just 2 high, or vertically to the ceiling just one row deep, intersecting at the corners of the room (ie line the walls with them), it does not say the cubes need be in a stack to resemble a cube itself, it just says they can be

  4. Re:Huh? on Symantec to Buy Veritas · · Score: 1

    If you click on the partition magic link however, you get the powerquest product

  5. Re:Hey, look right next door! on PARC Signs On A Partner: Fujitsu · · Score: 1

    Well the family is named Fuji, Fujitsu is a spinoff of Fuji Electric in the beginnings. I think Fujitsu (aka Fuji Electric, or Fuji for short for us old timers) and FujiFilm naming their merger with xerox as Fuji Xerox does warrant some confusion since indeed Fujitsu was once part of Fuji Electric.

  6. Re:Now, at last on PARC Signs On A Partner: Fujitsu · · Score: 1

    Same here, their hard drives might be lack luster though I have some and they seem to last about as well as any, but their business products I use rock. Fujitsu document scanners (not the home toys but the 5K-20K 20-90 ppm real documet scanners) rock. I have some that were made in 1995 - 2004 all good scanners that require little maintenance (remove paper shards when they get in the way of optical switches which is rare, change the rubber paper guide and clean the rollers every 6 months ... replace pinch rollers if needed). I have never had any electronics on these die nor scan heads and we scan several hundreds to a few thousand documents a day on each one. I have 4990C, 4097D, 3096EX, 3096E+ and 3093GX (aka scanpartner 93GX) scanners all are solid, all are in prefect working condition. Fujitsu as far as I am concerned make great products that last and perform day in, day out.

  7. Re:Marking is important on PARC Signs On A Partner: Fujitsu · · Score: 1

    Um, guys I think this was meant to be funny, it was a pun on his use of marking, as apposed to marketing in the parent post

  8. Re:Hmm Running a.. on ReactOS Runs On The XBox · · Score: 1

    Well not really, its more like hal is a hardware emulator (hardware abstraction layer) with a pure (as in dos free) 32 bit windows running on top. However all 32 bit windows but the XP variant has a 16 bit windows emulation layer.

    On a side note: What is sad is that part of my current imaging software is still partially 16 bit so I have to stick with running windows 2000 pro even though I have purchased windows XP licenses . . . which is legal since my software still requires something the old version has and the new one doesn't. At some point I will replace my imaging system with something 100% 32 bit and then life can move on.

  9. Re:Talk about "Intellectual" Property on Virtual Island Sells For $26,500 · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is. There is a lot more men that might happen on men.com than those few gamers who play in that virtual universe. Consider only a fraction of those who play will bother to go over to that particular island and you have a losing proposition on your hands.

  10. Re:Backups for big gig drives... on Digital Packrats · · Score: 1

    yep, raid 5 is cheaper, and (depending on whether you have a good quality controller):

    it writes faster since its not writing all data twice, just part on one drive, part on a second drive and a checksum on a third drive.

    it reads faster due to 2 drives being involved in the read (just like striping), and if you have more than 3 drives in your raid 5 array, you get more speed due to stripe chunks being spread across more drives.

  11. Re:Is it pack-rat nature? on Digital Packrats · · Score: 1

    Hey don't knock barbie, she rox.

  12. Its way behind the streetlight on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1

    Not likely since it was no where near that streetlight, that "flash" is the splash with heat release when it hit the water.

  13. Re:It looks like... on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1

    I am thinking you meant to say trajectory rather than projectory

  14. Re:boo on Google Flips Back to Groups Beta (Again) · · Score: 1

    Its more like, how dare the library have an archive of copyrighted information with easy reference capability and charge me a nominal fee to check out said information.

  15. Re:OMGWTFBBQ! on IBM Puts PC Business Up for Sale · · Score: 1

    I have had 3 toshibas, an ibm thinkpad, hp, and compaq armada. I have never had another but toshiba that were reliable.

    toshiba 1: I gave to a friend, Still running fine. 133mhz pent mmx.

    compaq armada: It died in first week, sent it in, it died again, 3 trips in the shop. 4th trip they fixed it by changing the mother board, it lasted 2 weeks. I sent it in again, they again replaced the motherboard, I traded it with the local shop for a toshiba they had in stock.

    hp: I bought it for my mother used, still kicking though its not in use.

    toshiba 2: I gave to my mother, she still uses it ever night. 500 mhz, amd I think?

    IBM thinkpad: I bought it just cause it was pretty black color, it died and went in shop within the first month, I sold it as soon as it got back and bought toshiba 3->

    toshiba 3: Pent III 800mhz, its my current laptop

  16. IRC on 66.3 Million Domain Names Registered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On our network more often I see them for irc kiddies than anything else (vainity domains). They will take the free or low cost offer of a registrar and then let it expire since by the time its time to pay, they are bored with it.

    like .tv, they might get watching.tv and make their irc domain

    was.screwing.your.wife.while.you.were.watching.t v

    and other silly shit like that.

  17. Re:I want to earn money... on Google Battles Fraudulent Clicks · · Score: 1

    Nice site, I clicked a few things. I didn't feel like I was doing anything wrong. I actually thought the wooden models were kinda interesting

  18. Not the first time on IBM Puts PC Business Up for Sale · · Score: 1

    First IBM split off the pc desktop market and let a company that spawned from the old employees use the ibm name for their clones. Then they got back in the desktop market after they started the laptop line. Now they decided it time for the thinkpad to go...dont suprise me. What will surprise me is if they stay out of it.

  19. Microsoft funded, careful! on BusinessWeek On XORP vs. Cisco · · Score: 1

    BTW, after I posted that gnu zebra is a great router already I looked at the site closer, first is bsd licensing (meaning changes do not need to be put back and it can be sold without source). it became apparent that microsoft might be getting people to submit code where they can run cisco out of business. Imaging microsoft routers running the net....oh my gawd

  20. Re:Linux & Decentralization redux on BusinessWeek On XORP vs. Cisco · · Score: 1

    Actually gnu zebra (http://www.zebra.org) is a viable replacement for a cisco now. It pretty much does anything you need and is in use by many as edge routers now (and perhaps core in some cases). Not only that but it mimics the cisco command structure very closely

  21. Re:Adult stem cells on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 1

    exactly

  22. Re:Toshiba Wins Battle But Loses War to Chinese on HD-DVD Wins Support of 4 Studios · · Score: 0, Troll

    A drunken whiny brit posts again I see

  23. Re:Adult stem cells on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 1

    Relief means the govenment requires them to at least pay some taxes but give heavy cuts to assist, exempt means the government allows them to get away with not paying any taxes at all.

  24. Kill the digital camera, NOT! on 7 Megapixel Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    I doubt it seriously, camera phones have shitty lenses and I doubt they put in a decent lense. I myself have a seperate digital camera, seperate dv camcorder which has a snapshot mode I will not use, and a cellphone. Since I don't picture blog I see no need for a crappy image taking device that uploads to web pages, and those that do blog as such will not care for a huge quality 7mp image to be sent up the cell network.

    Its a useless marketing gimick folks

  25. Re:90 MPH???? on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 1

    Around here (arkansas) I dont think it matters how you park, as long as you are within the marked area and within a foot of the curb. I know this because I see motocycles parked two in a spot at an angle and the police say thats fine as long as they are in the marked out spot, they just consider it helpful to the limitated parking spot issues