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  1. Re:step-by-step, right? on DragonFly 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    LOL, I'd mod you up if I could +1 Informative.

  2. Re:In other news: on DragonFly 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Now Now AC. Other children are present. Wouldn't it be kewl to run this CMS http://dragonflycms.org/ on dragonfly bsd. Maybe they can port this web server from the mainframe to bsd: http://www.dragonflyserver.com/

  3. Cellular, EV-DO rules in remote wooded areas on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    Verizon (was alltel here until recently) works better in remote areas due to the CDMA technology working better in dense trees and the like, and their CDMA2000 based EV-DO technology is available even in my remote area (3Mbits/sec downlink, and about 1.5Mbits/sec uplink). AT&T (aka Cingular) on the other hand sucks here, drop outs everywhere and has only the slower EDGE (maxes out around 240Kbits/sec downlink and about 60Kbits/sec up). Out here where dsl don't reach and cable don't either, way out in the boondocks where they pump in sunshine, those of us that are in the know use Alltel EV-DO (now Verizon) instead of the slow AT&T EDGE service...not to mention the AT&T GSM don't work this far out anyway, can't even make a phone call outside, with CDMA phones you can even still make a call outside, and even indoors if you want to. So in the remote areas, in cellular, it is no contest, and CDMA EV-DO is available in canada also... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Evolution-Data_Optimized_service_providers

  4. ShroomVarius on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 1

    And if you lick it, you have an awesome shroom trip.

  5. Re:Start small? on Fully Functional Bioengineered Tooth Grown In a Mouse · · Score: 1

    She is harvesting the pulp and selling it, along with a detailed traits profile of the person it came from, to the military for dna analysis for their perfect soldier program.

  6. Re:Tax Exempt? on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 1

    I would take what you say a step further and ask the question "Who is someone to decide where in this solar system someone else chooses to work"? What has a being of a certain planet done to lay his/her claim on a that planet or to exclude someone elses' claim on a "piece of the solar system"? Do you really think that in the "Real Truth of Things" the solar system belongs to one being more than the other? I question the whole premise of "Planets" being exclusive to beings of that planet. I reject the boundaries called planets made by beings. I was born in this solar system and the whole system is mine to tread. Mork

  7. In related news... on Chrome OS Designed To Start Microsoft Death Spiral · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's new OS is going to be called Aluminum, it will be polished so it will be shiny like Google's ChromeOS but not perform anywhere near as well under real world conditions.

  8. Re:Whole Disk Encryption on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    Since its XP, how about just an encrypted folder, and put the important stuff in that folder.

  9. Meeses on Best Mouse For Programming? · · Score: 1

    I use a mouse to get from window to window sometimes, but most of the time I use hot keys in my editor. I guess no mouse at all is really required.

  10. Re:Thomas Cook & First Class on Passenger Avoids Delay By Fixing Plane Himself · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can see it now, the toilet will be alway occupied by lazy cattle class who don't want to stand.

  11. Re:I tried this once... on Passenger Avoids Delay By Fixing Plane Himself · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe it was your attitude. Your language probably pissed them off, so they decided to screw with you.

  12. Re:I stopped reading the summary on Best eSATA JBOD? · · Score: 1

    In related news, a geek was crying all in his cheerios this morning when his raid controller went apeshit during the wee hours and wrote garbage over his only backup.

  13. Re:Bad summary on Opera Unite is a Hail Mary · · Score: 1

    Well actually that is already happening, the palm pre and the like...except for the opera rebound part...seems palm just made their own browser built around webkit.

  14. Re:What? on Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality · · Score: 1

    Does it on chrome too. The release anyway, not sure about the beta.

  15. keep it on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    FORTRAN is much better at very large and very small number calculations, and it seems to keep the significant digits and all in play, and is able to deliver output in a nice form without much work, its best they keep on teaching it. I know we would all like to see students learn python as a requirement, but if they have to replace one to do it, this is certainly not the one to replace.

  16. I'm not impressed...no need for research... on G.M. Opens Its Own Battery Research Laboratory · · Score: 4, Funny

    China makes lithium batteries that can release large amounts of energy all at once...the fireballs are spectacular.

  17. Re:OLPC? on California To Move To Online Textbooks · · Score: 1

    The durability is not a big deal really. The schools change to the new revision as soon as it is out, and thats normally every year or two, and colleges change revisions sometimes semester to semester. So it only has to be readable once.

  18. Re:invisible != inaudible on Acoustic "Superlens" Could Make Subs Invisible · · Score: 1

    Well he probably would if he were still alive.

  19. Re:FSFAA! on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    None of this is based on fact...Just a guess but its probably a payoff, so it will probably be big. It probably is however never going to be disclosed, that way leaders of the FSF could maybe line their pockets easier if they wanted to...not that they would or anything.

  20. Political as apposed to problems with glibc? on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 1

    What Ulrich Drepper was saying sounds bad in the quote, but it is pretty much correct, he could have said it nicer but if that is is opinion he has a right to voice it, ... that Politically Correct crap is for the birds. He does the base x86 version, another does the version ported to arm that is in the ports collection, so basically they just reported the problem to the wrong person then got upset when they were told he didn't care. So I do not see a problem with glibc in general, but in politics and/or general care and feeding of the Debian developers.

  21. Typo on R.I.P. MS-DEBUG 1981 - 2009 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oops the seek=466 should have been 446 (or even 448 with a count of 62, either works)...just in case someone really wants to back up a partition table with nothing else.

  22. Re:feh on R.I.P. MS-DEBUG 1981 - 2009 · · Score: 4, Informative

    In linux just use dd to write 512 zeros to /dev/hda (or /dev/sda or whatever the base drive is) for example

    dd bs=1 count=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

    That will wipe the boot block clean, then you can use it like a brand new drive.

    Or if you want, just zero out the partition table using a seek=466 and a count=64 instead of the count=512

  23. Re:60GHz is available because its almost useless on 60GHz Uber-WiFi Proposed By New WiGig Group · · Score: 1

    Um, could be, perhaps (I suspect the feedhorn is too narrow on the proxim unit to begin with). At any rate if it is indeed the temperature changes, why don't they just have two links for each, one aligned for winter, and go into a good switch on each end that can thrash out the link redundancy issues. Oh wait, nevermind, the technology must be flawed...forget about making it work, just say its bad.

  24. Re:60GHz is available because its almost useless on 60GHz Uber-WiFi Proposed By New WiGig Group · · Score: 1

    Whoosh, here let me help you out...I got out of this, its obvious to all but you it seems, that the proxim units have way too narrow a feed. In a nutshell, Bridgewave works, Proxim don't, 60Ghz has nothing to do with the failure. The other thing I get out of this is that you do NOT know what you are doing or you would have figured this out already.

  25. Hamma Time on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    I whack my old drives several good licks with a heavy hard-faced ball-peen hammer, then dispose of them. Much more secure than any DoD standard way of wiping the drive, especially if you peen the disk platters into a nice curved and sometimes cracked surface.