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  1. Re:OGG? What is that about? on Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that Ogg Vorbis is not patent-encumbered like MP3 happens to be. Have we already fogotten the lessons learned by the Unisys GIF/RLE patent fiasco?

  2. Re:Medical benefits of circumcision on Are Geeks in Saudi Arabia Just Like Us? · · Score: 1

    It is never done for hygine, but mearly to elimate sexual pleasure.

    Actually, the reasons for male circumcision are very similar. Did you know that the typical American circumcision removes up to 80% of the skin from the penis, containing unnumerable nerve endings? That the glans is a mucus membrane (like the tongue), and constant exposure results in drying and eventual loss of sensation? I won't go on, it's not my intent to make you feel guilty. But you should know the truth.

    Please read up at NOCIRC and NORM and learn what the American medical profession wants to keep quiet.

  3. Re:Python and Perl... on Learning Python, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    Assembly Language? Overkill!

    Real programmers directly input hexcodes using cat or copy con..

  4. Re:Naming Worms/Viruses on 'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You · · Score: 1

    Ah, that makes sense. Isn't that kinda the same reason people use modified names of things they dislike? (Fall-Apart, Microsloth, ect)

  5. Save the Hobbits on Space Tug to Save the Hubble? · · Score: 1

    Argh, read that as "Space tug to Save the Hobbit"..

  6. Naming Worms/Viruses on 'Bagle' Worm Heading For A Windows PC Near You · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From the SearchSecurity article:

    The worm is also called "Bagel" and "Beagle." The writer has included the word "beagle" throughout the code, but antivirus researchers have tweaked the name to avoid calling it what the writer presumably named it.

    Why do the researchers avoid calling it what the author named it?

  7. Re:Does advertising have to be annoying? on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking · · Score: 1

    If by shaking you're referring to the practice of resizing/moving the browser window using JavaScript, that's easily disabled in Mozilla by disabling those annoyances under:

    Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Scripts & Plugins

  8. BIND and Sendmail on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 4, Funny

    BIND and sendmail were originally developed at Berkeley as part of BSD

    Aha, so that's where the blame lies! ;)

  9. Re:not new. on New Gamepad Designed To Build Muscles? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That would be Epyx..

  10. Re:"Mars needs men!" on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1

    "Mars needs women!"

    This sounds familiar. M.A.R.R.S. were truly ahead of their time! ;)

  11. Re:HP is a weird place on The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing · · Score: 1

    They'd given me a marijuana unine[sp] test so they knew that they could trust me

    And these are mutually exclusive?

  12. Re:Its interesting but... on Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    I did a double-take on your post before realizing that "GenuLinux" was not some new distro. :)

  13. Re:Its interesting but... on Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    ..will GenuLinux get the software it needs..

    Heh, don't you mean GNU/Linux?

  14. Re:Missing bytes growing fast on A Terabyte In A Cigar Box · · Score: 1

    Great, now I gotta go buy a base-10 computer..

  15. Re:Microsoft motives? on Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you want them to do?

    Die, dissipate, dissolve, terminate, and ceace function.

  16. Re:well thats nice on AMD's Roadmap revealed · · Score: 1

    bzip2 is more processor intensive, however it will create smaller files. Therefore less disk activity. I guess there's a cpu threshold to overcome for bzip2 before you could realize an overall speed increase for archiving your data.

    Another thought that comes to mind is to gzip data from one disk to another (especially on SCSI drives or on independant IDE channels).

  17. Re:A short summery - SCO is cooking it's books! on Novell Releases SCO Letters · · Score: 1

    I certainly hope SCO gets their just desserts. After all, they are a bunch of overly litigious bastards.

  18. Re:well thats nice on AMD's Roadmap revealed · · Score: 1

    bzip2

  19. Re:Not nu on Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow · · Score: 1

    Were you just saying, "Ni!" to that old woman?

  20. Re:Just a novelty...? on Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ah the irony of Niue, "Savage Island". It was so named by Capt Cook after the fierce-appearing warriors painted their teeth red by chewing a local plant. Later they were "Christianized" by missionaries and now apparently rival the Puritans in their pious and strict religion.

    At any rate, Niueans don't shy away from selling the .nu domain (means nude in French), and host many adult web sites under it. Also, they appantly offer a tax shelter for many less than savory businesses.

    My source for this information was the excellent book, _Blue Latitudes_ by Tony Horwitz.

  21. Re:I made my Mandrake move. on MandrakeMove Final Available for Download · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Funny, I feel the same way about SuSE 8.0 which I ran for about a year. I never liked YAST or SuSE's buggy X11 config utility. Last year I moved to MDK 9.1 and couldn't be happier. Perhaps we each simply had bad luck with the version of the distributions we first used extensively, at any rate it's probably a mistake to judge a distro soley on the merits of a single version.

  22. Re:I hope they have lots of batteries... on When Geeks Go Camping · · Score: 1

    No, no, it goes like this:


    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

    >LIGHT TORCH
    It's too dark to see.

    >WHAT IS A GRUE
    The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.

    >FREAK OUT
    I don't know the word 'freak'.

    >N
    You can't go that way.

    >S
    Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!

    **** You have died ****


    Guess I need to work on my game.. ;)

  23. Re:Campfire stories on When Geeks Go Camping · · Score: 1

    ..and even though the computer was unplugged, the Windows logo could still be seen!

    Well, it's scary if you're a Robot..

  24. Re:Sitting on a Benchmark on Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages · · Score: 1

    Besides Mono, C# support is available for MacOS.

    First I've heard of it. Details?

  25. Re:Less complex than that now. on Kernel 2.6.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Hmm, thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with 2.4 until NVIDIA releases updated drivers. (I know about the hacky way to run the old driver under 2.6, but I'd rather not) Was trying to approximate what a 2.6 install would be like, guess I was off a little. :)