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  1. Ha ha ha...you don't understand on Supreme Court rules algorithms can be patented... · · Score: 1

    Sengan, the whole idea is to _become_ a member of that 2% that worries you so.

  2. First of all... on Ask Slashdot: What Training is Necessary in Becoming a Sysadmin? · · Score: 1

    You have to have enough brains, discipline and maturity to cause you to refrain from making "first posts". Anyone that attempts that lame stunt is definitely NOT sysadmin material.

  3. Gawd! on SunWorld Explains *bsd · · Score: 1

    Look at those stats! The sucker is really pumping that 100M pipe hard. Looking at the ramp-up on the year graph and the maxed-out peak stats, I wonder how long it's going to be before they have to add an eth1 card or mod the box.

  4. Alphas and Sparcs and PPCs... on New Distributed.net Clients for DESIII · · Score: 1

    Are _so_ much better at DES because they are 64 bits wide and can take advantage of the more efficient bitslicing algorithm.

  5. Definitely worthy on Linux in Information Week · · Score: 1

    Any babe that can occupy an editorial spot on a technical trade rag is certainly worthy of (y)our attention.

    There aren't enough of them around here in any shape or form.

  6. Don't worry too much... on New Distributed.net Clients for DESIII · · Score: 1

    ...they don't update the web page very often, but there is a live mailing list and they have gotten the funding that they needed.

    Hell it better still be alive, I contributed some source(bug fixes and screen output formatting) a little while ago!

    They are supposed to start up in April. Last I heard that schedule is still valid.

    Hmm, I'll send a note and see for sure...

  7. Ya, ya, ya... on New Distributed.net Clients for DESIII · · Score: 1

    It is pretty easy for even a d.net critic like me to see that v3 is what they were talking about. The latest clients are _still_ just extensions of the security-through-obscurity v2 stuff. Apparently my last jab did get Beberg to update his finger page, so at least someone is listening(Nuggett I assume). Whether anything is actually getting done or not is another question.

    I know that I'm not going to bother with this upgrade. It's just too much trouble for the return. Perhaps I'll put it on the two machines that I use every day(after waiting a couple of weeks for the bugs to sift out), but it's just too much trouble to deal with fifty-odd boxes and their users for basically no return.

    If they don't run DES-3 or the test run, so what? They'll still crank on RC5-64, no gain, no loss, no motivation, no effort.

    Seeya when v3 arrives, unless SETI@Home arrives first.

  8. Hmm... on SuSE 6.0 released (German only) · · Score: 1

    Is it penis envy, or just a lack of balls that produces comments like this?

    I haven't figured this one out. I guess you have to be a non-USA person to understand.