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  1. No war but class war, my brothers and sisters on Major Strike on Iraq Underway · · Score: 1

    Remember the Maine! Don't fight imperialist wars, fight wars against imperialism.

  2. Re:How about XWindows? on MS Asking Makers of 'Windows' Software To Rename · · Score: 1

    ecchs

  3. Re:"It helps us visualize what we're doing." on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom · · Score: 1

    I use my calculator to explore the equations, so I find out how they work before we are taught. Not all bad, and i tried that with pen and paper, but I was boring so, i didn't do it for fun.

  4. Re:Filtering/Throttling on P2P Programs on K-12 Networks? · · Score: 1

    Uconn also blocked napster, but on summers and weekend, its great to max out pulling files from other building on campus at over 1Mbps

  5. Re:Techno Martha Stewart on Black Is The New Beige · · Score: 1

    for a video kiosk,I am doing something similar

  6. Re:Completely useless on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, 120$ for a new ibm m-series is so cheap. I don't even know if they have them in usb. I don't like any other keyboard

  7. Re:From API NEWS: on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Grr, those bastards, at mozilla made me go shopping for coats. I hate shopping.

  8. Re:Soyo Dragon on ACPI Forced On & Option Disabled in WinXP-Certified Motherboards · · Score: 1

    I think you mean FIC. i have had many va-503+s, and they are decent super 7s.

  9. Re:US vs USSR Engineering Parable? on Apollo 1 · · Score: 1

    Right, and then the pencil shavings caused silicosis, and gave the cosmonauts lung disease.

  10. Re:More lessons from Apollo 1 on Apollo 1 · · Score: 1

    The same thing would happen, due to Dalton's law of partial pressures. According to this law, one of the first, and most basic gas laws, the amount of pressure exerted by each gas in mixture is equal to the total pressure*% concentration of each gas.

    Ptotal=Pgas1+Pgas2+Pgas3+...

    The amount of oxygen in 101.3 Kpascals of Air (1 ATM) = (.21*101.3) which is 21.273 Kpascals. (.21 ATM)
    Thus, the Apollo 1 at 16.7 PSI (115.08 Kpascals) had partial pressure of O2 the same as (115.08*1) =(Pair*.21), Pair being Pressure of air = 548.01 Kpascals(5.4 ATM), thus the capsule had the same amount of O2 as a capsule under 5.41 times atmospheric.

    The partial pressure of N2 is of no matter, as it does not burn and the two bank vaults above are equivalent to each other.

  11. Re:Nice article on google... on The Google Effect And Domain Name Speculation · · Score: 1

    Nope, The Guardian is famous for typos, hence the nickname Grauniad.

  12. Re:Only 512 MB of RAM in 2004? on 20 Factors That Will Change PCs In 2002 · · Score: 1

    I have 768 Megs of ram in my computer, pc-100, and currently, with a winamp, an opera and a aim running, I have 500 megs unused. however, my games load nice and fast.

  13. Re:And don't forget... on Musicians Get Together For Anti-RIAA Concerts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    E. o Smith all the way! My math teacher had him, and says he was a good kid.

  14. Re:Sept 11, Part 1 on Great points in Usenet history · · Score: 1

    Funny, the guy that made my post is still a Mac fan, and he post regularly to Uconn's internal IT mailing lists.

  15. Re:Fix it! Please! on Interview with Adam Di Carlo (Debian Boot) · · Score: 1

    My first linux was debian, i just sat down and did it. YMMV, i guess

  16. Re:uhm... on Is the Internet Shutting Out Independent Players? · · Score: 1

    Univeristy of Connecticut has 137.99.*.* netblock.
    Most likely more then we need.

  17. more like bizzare on KDE 3.0 Screenshots · · Score: 0

    (text to avoid the filter)

  18. Re:a critical tool in the Emacs-vi wars on Hellhound Paintball ATV · · Score: 1

    hmm... That reminds me, at one linux or unix convention, there was an emacs vs vi paintball conest. Vi outnumbered Emacs, and won. This is obviously the Emacs of paintball, as it is huge and well equiped, perhaps the next time team emacs could get one and prove that bigger is better.

  19. Re:Yep, my apache server is crawling. on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 1

    im on a 26400 bps connection, and i have gotten 37 differnet ip addresses attacking in three hours

  20. compaq==sucks on A Few Baaaaaad Apples · · Score: 1

    Stay away from compaq, as they are awful. i have a compaq laptop, and it has broken several times.
    I had a 2 inch long rod fall out of my computer, through an airvent. the floppy died, i sent it back, it died a week later, as they had not properly installed the cable. then when i sent it back, they factory wiped my harddrive. now i have to re-install linux. just because of a loose cable they wiped my harddrive. the laptop is a flaky piece of junk. it crashes and is poorly built. compaq is not a company worth buying from on there products that are comsumer based. i have no experience with them on server lines, but there towers aren't much better. one of my friends has a compaq, and i have to fix it when it breaks. it really is a pain in the butt. compaq makes poor components, proprietary and all that junk. the only good thing they did is reverse engineer the IBM bios.

  21. Re:Licensing in Schools on Linux Win In Schools · · Score: 1

    Currently im looking a job, replacing some windows desktops with linux ones at a local university. The Admin is sick of MS's BS and wants a linux solution. its great.

  22. Re:Well... on Public Outcry Over Popup Ads · · Score: 1

    Then you have people like me, who decided that one or the other wasn't enough, and after reading junkbusters chaining rules, chained junkbuster to proxymotron. this works well.

  23. Re:Does it matter? on Mozilla 1.0 Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Yes, It matters. I make this post, running mozilla 0.9 on my k6-2 500 in windows. i only have 60 megs of ram, and IE 5 has this aweful leak, making me reboot every so often. mozilla is just as fast, doesn't crash, and as a bonus, is not microsoft. on my parent's computer, they went from netscape 4.75 to mozilla .9 becasue my mother can't use ie, she hates it. so it matters, at least to this happy user.

  24. Re:Microsoft Needs "Features" to Sell Software on Rivals Upset At Windows XP Features · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure about usage vs. sales. I have been paid money, as have many of my friends, to remove windows ME and install windows 98 on non-geek's machines. I wonder how many OEM installs will replaced. Microsoft makes this difficult, but it is doable.

  25. Re:why tech support sucks on Tech Support: Sucking Even More · · Score: 1

    Going back to the car analogy, knowing not to delete dlls is like knowing not to pour sugar in the gas tank. these people have been taught that using a piece of equipment with far more nuances and details than a car, should somehow be magic because its "new" and work perfectly. this is patently false and tech support takes the force of this failed assumption. Imagine the tech support at a car company if this were assumed for cars.
    <tech> Hello
    <user> My car dosen't work
    <tech> Did you do anything?
    <user> Nothing
    <tech> are you sure?
    <user> I filled the gas tank, and now it won't work
    <tech> With what?
    <user> it said it was empty, so i filled it with a hose.
    <tech> **stunned silence**
    ---