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  1. How 'bout some shrimps? on IF bugs, THEN marketing director eats insects · · Score: 1

    Shrimps (crustacian), crabs and other seafood (oyster, lobster) basically belong to insect order. Don't tell me you haven't eaten them before? Seriously though, a study found that we eat about 15 pounds of insects a year w/o knowing it.

  2. Re: equal access terms on Feature: The Broadband Wars · · Score: 2

    Things aren't always that simple. This is pretty much a replay of equal access act where customers are allowed to use a different telephone company as their long distance carrier, bypassing the local telephone company (but not without a fee sometimes). The money that was spent installing lines (cable or otherwise) was not cableco's alone. It also came from taxpayers, the local government and various entities. These companies make use of public land and will therefore have to stand the same treatment. Cable subscribers also have already paid much the costs as part of their monthly fees. So down with the bloody monopolies!

  3. Re:Fucking Seti@Home on Forged e-mails from Linus · · Score: 1

    Human race is 35K year old? Homo sapiens? Where did you get this info?

  4. Re: That or have Microsoft steal the IP-stack? on GIMP, Civ:CTP, and low-cost box Coming to BeOS · · Score: 1

    Interesting conjecture to say the least.

  5. Re:Men have bigger brains than Women! on Why size mattered for Einstein · · Score: 1

    Hehe, I bet she also is MCSE (or is it MSCE) licensed?

  6. Re:Damn it Jon. (Re: ? or ' You Choose!) on The Power Of Deep Computing · · Score: 1

    You probably have to either context search/replace the '?' or 1,$s/?[ ]/' or something similar, else it'd replace his real question marks.

  7. Re:Weather on The Power Of Deep Computing · · Score: 1

    My Math is a bit rusty, but IIRC, chaos theories say that things are deterministic but not predictable (because we do not have enough computing power), meaning given one initial condition, only one set of final results may be expected. For example, those nice Julian sets always give you the same result if you use the same input parameters.

  8. Re:More info, anyone? Critical mass on Students Build Reactor For Scavenger Hunt · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, it's all about critical mass. If you have pure enough samples, the moment these materials reach critical mass/density (i.e, the fission bomb makes up of two halves which are joined when it hits the ground), the thing goes haywired.

  9. Re:Dehumanize the Enemy. on Yugoslav Internet Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    These idiots never get it. Two wrongs don't make one right. It doesn't matter how often NATO did something wrong or where they did/didn't/should/shouldn't do it. If the issue is Kosovo, and what NATO is doing is entirely justifiable.

    If a rapist saved a drowning person. He/she is to be praised for saving a life. His/her crime is to be handled separately because it's a different issue.

  10. Re:Linux? on New Nintendo System to use PowerPC · · Score: 1

    How can you stand those cutsie pics?
    I hate anime trying to be cute and all (eyes as big as watermelons, with non-existent noses.)

    I did enjoy super metroid though, which at the time was a neat looking game.

  11. Re:PII vs. CeleronR��??�?����?? on Celeron Dual Board Adapter · · Score: 1

    Your comment is probably true towards certain games and applications that spend most of the times utilize small pages of main memory. PII will likely a Celery when you begin to use serious applications such as Photoshop.

  12. Re:Don't shoot the messenger on Mindcraft Fun Continues · · Score: 1

    How about this?

    Broken drivers (disk & LAN card drivers) on a sabotaged Linux+Apache server only led 50% performance drop when compared against similiar NT machine?

  13. Re:Don't shoot the messenger on Mindcraft Fun Continues · · Score: 1

    Silmaril the clueless wrote:
    >Their benchmarks let anyone see (and >REPRODUCE) the relative performance of >NT+IIS or Linux+Apache for a given >high-end hardware configuration

    Seems like another M$ fanatic who likes to play with words. FYI, Jemmy reproduced NT numbers, not Linux numbers.

  14. Re:Reliability on Practical Beowulf · · Score: 1

    It really depends on the package. Certain packages have built-in functions to handle node failure. Try running Oracle with PS option on Linux and you will see and it will not go down if only one machine is dead. Similarly with POV clustering. You have to ask yourself whether PVM and similiar daemons can handle node-failure. Do you know the answer?

  15. Re:Odd... on K7 vs. Pentium III benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Which part of the AMD-cpu is outperforming the Intel chip? I hope you are not talking about the integer unit cause that's the only thing that barely beats Intel's.

  16. horses for - tips for a 5-reboots-a-day nt box? on IDC: NT usage is mostly hype · · Score: 1

    I use task managers to shut them down all the times. Neither virtual or real memories are reclaimed.

  17. to get NT Workstation stablity on IDC: NT usage is mostly hype · · Score: 1

    There is such a file on my network which I run once in awhile in hope that one day memory leaks would disappear. Are you saying that if I run daily the problems would go away?

  18. horses for - tips for a 5-reboots-a-day nt box? on IDC: NT usage is mostly hype · · Score: 1

    Since you seem so knowledgable about NT, could you tell me why my NT box runs out of memory so fast, even when you close out all the applications? All applications seem to do this, including Access, Excel and Outlook. Any tips?

  19. Linux ran on 8 and 16 cpus boxes on WSJ Says Linux Lags · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, a report appeared on the kernel mailing list stating the successful installation of linux 2.2.X on a 16 cpu Sun box.

    And about the 2G file size limit, I don't think this is the limit for Alpha and other true 64 bit boxes.

  20. Datafile size vs overall database size on WSJ Says Linux Lags · · Score: 1

    You forget to mention that such a database can be constructed on Linux/Oracle. If you want a single table to be one TB (which is unlikely as a dataware house consists mostly of MANY tables), just create a tablespace of >500 datafiles, each 2G. Being a data analyst at a large telecoms company, the largest,single daily file that I run queries against is about one Gig (a few million calls) or so. Performance reasons usually keep datafiles small and spread across multiple disks.

  21. Wanna play with FJS? on WSJ Says Linux Lags · · Score: 1

    Mr. S. Tweedie is working on such a project. He has indicated in the kernel mailing list that a preliminary version of fjs would be available in about 4 weeks or so. If you have time and resources, help him to iron things out.

  22. image is nothing on Melissa suspect arrested · · Score: 1

    On top of that he's from AOL!

    Wondering if he actually spelled Melissa 'MELISSA'.

  23. Just a dumb benchmarks on Microsoft Wants $1M of Larry Ellison · · Score: 1

    some background on the 1M challenge.
    Oracle performed the test on a $16M machine (64 cpu machine if i remember correctly). No way on earth NT could be installed on such a machine (not in the near future at least.) The test was sorta partial because of way data was processed before queries were run on top of it.

    How does mySQL measure up to all of this?

  24. Xenons vs Celerons on IBM Demos Cray-Matching Linux Cluster · · Score: 1

    I have not actually built any Xenon cluster (or Celeron cluster for that matter), but when you run an application like povray, why the heck would you need such large L2 cache anyway? The bottle-neck is still with the FPU and I/O activity such as the network. FPUwise, a 450mhz xenon does not outperform an o/c'ed 450mhz Celeron.

  25. Hurting where it hurts... on Windows Refund Wrapup · · Score: 1

    If they fail to honor the license then you are allowed by certain consumer's state laws to not honor it (right?). So why don't we start making copies of your WinOS and sell them _legally_?
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