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  1. Re:It can tell when a glass is empty... on Intelligent Coasters Keep Beer Mugs Full · · Score: 1

    only half empty? drink up sally.

  2. Re:Takes Balls on Episode III Deleted Scenes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    Pirates get a whole week in Ybor City / Tampa Florida.

    Gasparilla

    When a ninja is given credit for founding some cit{y,ies} and they celebrate it with a week of drunken debauchery[1], then they'll be on par with pirates.

    [1] I prefer definition 2 of debauchery per dictionary.com

  3. Re:Seriously? on Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ? · · Score: 3, Informative

    3 steps is too many, yes, but not bad to keep the UI clean.

    1. Click Message
    2. Click More options
    3. Click Trash this message

    alternately:

    1. Check Message
    2. Click More Actions... drop down
    3. Select Move to Trash

  4. Re:Low energy mouse. on Logitech Unveils Smart Mouse · · Score: 1

    I've had my mediaplay for 10 months(pre ordered it) and am on my third set of batteries in it. I'm at the computer most of the day working, then travel home with it and do the usual IM and E-Mailing. I do visit the real world on the weekends, but I don't see 2 days a week giving me better than 35% more battery life.

  5. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    Isn't it obvious from how intertwined IE and Windows are? IE has the S bit set. Yep, IE has to run with full admin rights.

    (yep, that's a blatant troll and a joke)

  6. Re:I love the math they did to come up with this.. on Wi-Fi Times Sixteen · · Score: 1

    not to forget the fact that in a wired network, the wires can fail. 1 idiot contractor with a drill or a few rats or mice and the wiring would need to be rerun. Also consider that case that some buildings being brought up to having a wired network might not have ideal wall cavities for it.

  7. Re:Must....resist.... on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 1

    Good thing I installed this net for catching giraffes!

    Farnsworth in The Route of all Evil

  8. Re:Back to the old Cisco on Cisco Going Mobile, Acquiring Nokia? · · Score: 1

    We'll be seeing your submission later today in the form of a slashduping.

  9. Re:Darn! on Getting A Handle On Vista · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe the reboots are due to the .NET framework. If you've already got it installed and have taken the time to do all the updates, it may not require a reboot. I figured this out after completely fucking my Office 2003 install somehow, uninstalling it, rebooting, deleting it's leftover crap in C:/Program Files/ and redoing the install. The reinstall was one pass no reboots.

  10. Re:Hmm... on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WHERE IS THE MONEY LEBOWSKI. We cut off your balls lebowski. We believe in nothing lebowski.

  11. Re:Popular music? on UC System Chooses Mindawn Download Service · · Score: 1

    Maybe the higher ups at the school wanted to see the IT department come up with an attempt at a solution to the piracy problem, and the IT people are smart enough to know they can't really do anything to stop it completely, came up with a solution that was cost effective for the school, was easy for them to do, and made the higher ups happy.

    And maybe that's not a run on sentance.

  12. Re:This is great news because... on Fingerprint Recognition with Linux & IBM's T42 · · Score: 1

    but will it know it's your finger? Think of linux as your girlfriend, and you want her to know(and perhaps care) that you're the one giving her the finger. If she doesn't care, then she's just a promiscuous mode bitch.

  13. Re:New Car? on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    well, since the speed of light is a constant(arguably here and there), you can just divide a distance by c and suddenly you have a time. This is actually explained in a book I have 'SpaceTime Physics' and it lets you take conservation of energy, momentum, and mass and roll them into one big Momenergy.

  14. Re:E-book on Amazon's 1,082-volume Classics Collection: $7,989 · · Score: 1

    apparently sysadmins lack humor as well.

  15. Re:benchmarks on AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Chips Released · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if this has ever been pointed out, but as I don't have a non disclosure statement with the company, I'll post it. In the '3rd party stress tests', they're using a SAP product. Those are the stored procedures SAP Business One uses. I have to work with it on a daily basis, and I can agree, it's a complex data structure. It has some 350+ tables, 10-15 of which must be outer joined when doing transactions due to the INCREDIBLE flexability of it.

  16. Re:hold for a few more days? on Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7 Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you're not declaring a type for i in your sig...back to the booze.

  17. Re:My epiphany... on Intel Ships Dual-Core Chips · · Score: 1

    But with threading comes the overhead of thread management. With one thread, everything is done, more or less, sequentially. Taking something implemented sequentially and making it multithreaded generally means a rewrite. Also, there are tasks out there that would be hurt by splitting it into threads. Anything that requires the output from the previous task to procede could end up with a thread in i/o wait getting cpu time every so often.

  18. Re:What about electricity... on Finally ... RoboShark! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    duh? they ground it with one of those wrist bracelets you wear while working on your computer. Onli it's yellow like the lance armstrong ones so the other sharks think the shark is standing up for sharks with just one ball racing across europe...

    p

  19. Re:Not all cheap webcams have filters. on Infrared Webcam HOWTO · · Score: 1

    ahhh, IR sensitivity along with a polarized lens filter will allow you to 'see through' cotton clothing. It's really quite a cool effect.

    At my former workplace, we had a sony camcorder that had their night vision mode. If you used the polarized lenz filter, and accidentally left the night vision on, you might accidentally see through somones shirt.

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  20. Re:Different filesystems? on Comparing MySQL Performance · · Score: 2, Informative

    Depends on the amount of ram in the box, really. If you have 4 gigs of ram and a 1gig database, it can cache the whole DB, so reads can execute quickly, while writes do take a bit of time to update the physical files. Tuning the cache in mysql can greatly improve performance(and also bring a machine to it's knees, if my memory serves me correctly).

  21. Re:It's all competitive advantage on Custom Software vs. COTS Products · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am actually in the process of deploying SAP Business One at the place I am working. You are 100% correct in that the core will just get you by in most situations, but that you can tweak these products to fit your (almost) every need. My ONLY complaint about SAP business one is the lack of the ability to do conditional printing. Is it so much to ask that if I create an order, it prints at one spot, and if I create an invoice it prints at another? The software we're moving from(silversystem or something like that, runs on PICK OS) had this feature, and my company had been on that since 1992ish.

    p

  22. Re:What? on Backing Up is Hard to Do? · · Score: 1

    now to be technical, you'll need to boot a livecd and mknod null c 1 3 in order to get your null device back after rm -rf / erased it.

  23. Re:Mirrordot link on SNES Audio Unit As Stand-Alone Player · · Score: 1

    As slower is a relative term, did you sit there with a stopwatch, hitting refresh after a certain interval, and timing it to judge when you could safely get away with posting a mirror?

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  24. Re:Slashdotted already...Goatse CPU. on The CPU: From Conception to Birth · · Score: -1

    -EINPUTINOUTPUTPIPE usually.

    p

  25. Re:Why NOT? on OpenBSD Activism Shows Drivers Can Be Freed · · Score: 1

    some of the firmwares just provide an API you use to set the broadcast strength. I know the acx100 drivers can violate FCC regulations. It can even cook the card if you run it too long at full strenght.

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