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  1. Re:SQL Statement Gone Awry? on Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted · · Score: 1

    Classic one. He panicked and logged out and during the log out the commit took place (oracle sql defaults)

  2. Re:Eject a floppy... NOT! on Big Red Button Disasters? · · Score: 1

    Yeah i remember that button. happened a lot of times instructing a remote user to insert a floppy. Even covered it with a piece of plexi glass so you could only turn it off/on with a pointy object,and still users (" administrators Kuch") managed to push the button of those NCR's

  3. Strange link on Intel's Single Thread Acceleration · · Score: 1

    The link to "single core overclocking" states:

    "This is not overclocking. Overclocking is when you take a chip and increase its clock speed and run it out of spec."

    THis is just a technique to stay under the specified power envelope. Nowadays not the speed is the real problem, but the powerusage. Not that in single thread mode the CPU will run less instructions per watt.... and i guess for every 25% more cpu frequency you you 75% more power or or something like that.

  4. Re:Raising the standards of Windows software (a bi on Working Around Vista Apps' Incompatibilities · · Score: 1

    No, not the developers are the problem, the users are.

    YOu cannot run a program that never had Virutlisation in mind uder different users. (And the "U no Adminstrator Chrash" makes it even more complicated to explain to user ho to hand things you need administrator rights for.

    Of course this can be fixed by using some API calls that are only available on vista.... making you applicaltion not runnign on win98 (!)

  5. Re:Software patents at devices. on Truth Behind the ClearType/OpenSUSE FUD · · Score: 1

    huh.. my link disappeared...? and i cannot edit the comments i "own" :-1

    no i have to reply to myself...
    http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7095411-claims.h tml

  6. Software patents at devices. on Truth Behind the ClearType/OpenSUSE FUD · · Score: 1

    Unless you call the lcd monitor a device.... however looking at


    Methods and systems for hinting fonts

    A system for providing a hinted TrueType font comprising: one or more computer-readable media; one or more processors; computer-readable instructions on the one or more computer-readable media which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a method comprising


    They work arround it by nameing the computer processor as a device.... Not sure if this is really valid.

  7. Re:MEK on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    and mek does not make a big hole in your components? Make a solution out of them?

  8. Re:Environmental issues? on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    THat oil can be reused real easy. e.g. to convert it to diesel oil to run your car on.

    The only problem i can see is that once you bath your pc components in oil you cannot reuse them elsewhere because the contacts get all dirty. Also i wonder if the components on a Motherboard can handle being oaked in oil. I can imaginge some component will solute in oil after a month or so.

    Note also that Harddrives can not be soaked in oil (they need the air cushing )

  9. Re:Hack account == tax loss on Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft · · Score: 1

    My time investment becomes unrealized gains as I have not made a real world transaction.
    That is a tax deductable?

  10. Re:Illegal? on Cable Packet Shaping Causing Slowdowns · · Score: 1

    But is is trottling VOIP services? something that they offer themself as well?

  11. Re:Let me guess... on Despite Aging Design, x86 Still in Charge · · Score: 4, Informative

    "There's no reason why they couldn't ditch 60 percent of the transistors on the chip, most of which are for legacy modes."

    I think 50% of the transistors on a modern cpu are cache, you could call that legacy stuff. But the 60% figure makes no sense. For the real, seldom used, legacy instructions, less time is spend on optimizing them in Microcode. And the microcode does not take THAT much space on a cpu.

    Some sources:
    Cpu die picture, est 50% = cache
    P6 takes ~ 40% for compatibility reasons. And as the total grows, the percentage should DECREASE, not INCREASE. If the amount grows it is for performance reasons, not compatibility reasons.

    However when you count the source "XenSource Chief Technology officler" it is not surprising that backwards compatibility gets that much attention. A main reason virtualization exists is to run older platforms so they are compatible.

  12. Re:Post-gag reporting is worse than the gags on Google 'Toilet ISP' Gag Not Without Precedent · · Score: 1

    SPecially since this is more or less a very old story that is reported on.

  13. Re:Simple calculation -- one block every 100 secon on Architect Claims to Solve Pyramid Secret · · Score: 1

    It's whether you're allowed to quit the job and try moving on to something else, preferably by telling the foreman that he can take this 3-ton block of stone and shove it.

    There is no way to tell if that was allowed. However, it is believed that this all is focusing on religion, and not so much to see this as a tax from the government.

    YOu could tell the foreman to shove it, but the result may be that you do not have a pretty after life. Since the rule of the country also rules the after life, you may have to regret your decision for eternity, and not only for the rest of your (shortened???) lifespan.

  14. FIrefox? on Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling · · Score: 1

    Is Firefox vulnerable? Or does FF not support animated cursors? Or did it required click to download/view some file in the first place?

  15. Re:This has been my experience too on Virtualizing Cuts Web App Performance 43% · · Score: 1

    Linux under VMWare's network performance is pretty bad.

    Do you want them to test vista performance?

  16. Re:Whah? on Vista Slow To Copy, Delete Files · · Score: 4, Informative

    No that guy is just keeping the low level of bug reporting that all are doing in that technet thread.

    If you did google for the "bug" you might have come accross this

    "Start >> Control Panel >> Programs and Features," Turn windows features on or off" ,Uncheck "Remote Differential Compression"

    I think that is only for the network problems, not for the generic copy or delete problems (not sure, reports are not good)

    I have seen also reports about vista that is has problems with large sparse files, but i haven't taken the time to reproduce. (will do later, but every 30 days it seems i have to evaluate windows vista again.... )

  17. Re:Rare diamond? on A Million-Dollar Laptop Created · · Score: 1

    Bigger is better,

    that might go for diamonds, but it needs to be a laptop, not a luggable tv. TH e concpet of anything bigger on a laptop that should be transported (other than arround on your bosses desk) seems strange except for some nice users to me.

    If you do not mind... i take the money and leave you with the laptop.

  18. can you run java in the x86? on Java-Based x86 Emulator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    THe next question would be: can you run java in the x86 emulator that runs an other emulator that runs java, that runs an other emulator.

    Just like the old days when you ran windows real mode under a windows 386 mode windows.

  19. Re:In practice it means "national" URLs. on International URLs Pass First Test · · Score: 1

    international keyboard is a setting of the US layout keyboard....

    type a " and e and you will get ë

  20. Re:In practice it means "national" URLs. on International URLs Pass First Test · · Score: 2, Informative

    umlaut is hardly a problem if you set the use keyboard to üs-ïnternätional. But asian/hebrew/arabic/hebrew charcacter are much more difficult to enter... in my expierence.

    But you will still be able to click them. IDN support is available in most popular browser (although disbled for security issues.)

  21. Re:Agreed and.... on Wikipedia May Require Proof of Credentials · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    More like:

    If you pretend you CmndTaco_1 because your first account is not valid you have to prove it. and if you have a account number below 1000 you have to prove to did not buy it, but really were there.

    This is just a nice way of Jimbo Wales to say that his previous statement that is was just an alias was incorrect.

  22. not 10, 9 on 9 Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood · · Score: 1

    At least theydid not try to make it a nice round number, but thing the author cared about

  23. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 1

    if you only checked it yourself you could have seen it was a hoax....

  24. Re:Predatory Pricing on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 1

    Actually..

    I don't see the problem with the variants. Ever check how many different distribution of linux there are? Too expensive, sure, but the writer of the keygen is very doubtfule to earn much money with it. And the virtualization issue (not big for most users...) is nowadays only a license issue, i doubt the software limits it currently.

    As for the Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking.. that still has some value , specially if they keep pointing a niche markets like languages MS does not support fully (lawyer speak eg?)

  25. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I bet...

    This is not a brute force hacker, but just a database of some key with a fancy interface on top that pretends to be calculation just just updates a progress bar. The database will release some key after some hours of "calculation". Users notice that the (enterprise?) key is accepted and tell it works. MS will notice some volume keys are used too often wan will block them at the next wga update (and the next service pack)

    Since MS cannot simply extract the leaked keys form the database they have a harder time to block them.

    Note that theinquirer article is mostly speculation based on what the program claims to do, not on facts.... just as my writing here is.