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  1. Re:Heheheh on Playstation 2 Under Export Controls · · Score: 1

    According to current laws, 2000 MTOPS. (Million theoretically operations).

  2. Reset button on Intercepting the Reset Button · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember reading somewhere that the reset button connects the "POWER GOOD" pin on the CPU to earth, at wich point the cpu reboots....

  3. Re:Yay! No more Microsoft charcodes on Bootlegging Buffy · · Score: 1

    Yup, thanks a lot. Let this be an example to all writers!

    (Yup, feel free to moderate me down, but I'd just like to show a lot of people like ISO html)

  4. Re:Where do I find windows for my Netwinder? [OT] on BellSouth denies ADSL for Linux users · · Score: 1

    Actually, Windows95 DOES run on an i386... I ran It one a 386-33 with 4MB ram and a 200MB harddisk once, just for kicks... Opening an explorer window took 10 minutes, but it worked...

    Tell them to install ADSL on a computer like that, that'll teach em.

  5. Re:check your facts before you post on Warp Drive Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Nice, but I prefer a slightly more viable (IMHO) multiple universe theory: Every quantum `decision` that takes place splits the universe...

  6. Re:The think they own 360deg? on IPIX persecutes free software developer · · Score: 0

    DOH, you made the joke before me :-(
    I should have read on.

  7. Re:The think they own 360deg? on IPIX persecutes free software developer · · Score: 1

    Not only does disneyland have 360's, I've noticed that reality is rather 360-degrees too :-)

    They want to sue me for looking around me?

  8. Re:open source products on Linus gets Golden Nica Award · · Score: 1

    And lets not forget /the/ internet worm... It was definately based on the internet, and it had quite a bit of influence on the real world....

  9. Re:Several schemes get around this paradox. on Warp Drive Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    How about this one? See spacetime as an already pre-painted canvas... Since it's already al decided, it could just be a working possiblity...

  10. Re:Time travel (backwards) on Warp Drive Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    How about this one for whacky (dis)logic: Either timetravel is impossible, or the universe will NOT go on forever... (Or both).

    Assuming the universe will go on forever, infinite timetravel will occur so it would end up here too, so we would have noticed it...

    (Spot the 3 flaws, first one wins a car :-)

  11. Re:check your facts before you post on Warp Drive Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Not completely: We have, up to know not yet disproved that timetravel is possible... However, If I'd have to guess, my money would still be on it being impossible (Due to killed grandfather paradox, lots of bad episodes of star trek, etc).

  12. Re:** DEAD STUPIDITY ** on Warp Drive Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about this one actually, (Not to mention the fact that relativity (wich is pretty much accepted at the moment :-) ) explicitly states info CAN't go faster than light), because the hidden variable principle would work here to (Admitted, it has a lot of other flaws, but HERE it does work). Simply stated: The spin of both particles is already determined, but stored in a 'hidden variable' wich we don't observe untill the measurement is done...

    Oh, dear, this brings back memories of a few fun discussions on the copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics... Would anybody want to give the definition of a measurement? :-)

  13. Re:** DEAD STUPIDITY ** on Warp Drive Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    You can't go faster than light... But light isn't taking the best route....

  14. Re:A year too late !!! on Where is the Oldest PC In Use? · · Score: 1

    You think that's old? My uncle had a 8086-ish thing hooked up to an electrical typewriter for printing and keyboard... It ran MS-DOS 1.0!

  15. Re:Man Pages on Review:Samba: Integrated UNIX and Windows · · Score: 2

    Yes, I'd have to agree completely... I've greately enjoyed studying the bash man-pages for instance, though there are a few badly-written ones around.

    But they certainly needn't be dry, Especially the man pages of the software by individuals (I mean, not companies or projects) are quite humoristic, though still valuable as a manual.

  16. Re:OFF TOPIC? on U.S. Using Key Escrow To Steal Secrets? · · Score: 1

    No, the subject refers to the fact that the pun in the body of the message is off topic, though still quite funny imho.

  17. OFF TOPIC (Was: Re:Freedom to bare arms..) on U.S. Using Key Escrow To Steal Secrets? · · Score: 0

    Not only that, but we also want the right to arm bears

  18. Re:finger ftp.kernel.org on Linux 2.3.0 · · Score: 1

    Actually, they both give the same output.

    QuMa

  19. Re:no complaints here on 3Dfx seeking Linux developer · · Score: 1

    You mean there's an XFree banshee server? Or do you mean the framebuffer thingy?

    QuMa

  20. Re:excellent! on 3Dfx seeking Linux developer · · Score: 1

    3.3.3_4 is out, and it's working fine with my monster fusion...

    QuMa

  21. finger ftp.kernel.org on Linux 2.3.0 · · Score: 1

    Fingering ftp.kernel.org also says the current beta is 2.3.0

    QuMa

  22. NOOOOOoooo...... Oh yesssssssss!!!!!!!!!! on ISP Sues Spammer · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with this idea, The small bit of
    network load wouldn't be to bad imho. (Still, you might want to make that: Clearly labeled AND smaller than 2048 bytes).

    I'm just afraid it's not gonna work. It's a pitty but as long as there are no big actions against spammers and big punishments, nothing will change. Sad but true.

    QuMa

  23. Text -> Speech on Ask Slashdot: Linux and Telephony · · Score: 1

    I had a reasonable text -> speech app, But I can't get hold of the name right now because I'm in combat with my partition table and the 1024Cyls limit :-(.

    It was somewhere in the sound section of metalabs.unc.edu .

    QuMa

  24. techwar vs. nutjob on Fighting the Techno-War · · Score: 1

    >X=Y;X^2=XY;X^2-Y^2=XY-Y^2;(X+Y)(X-Y)=Y(X-Y);X+Y=Y ;2Y=Y;2=1


    Does the term "Division by Zero" ring a bell?

    QuMa

  25. Cool! on The Tragedy of Bedope, Segfault, and User Friendly · · Score: 1

    Great april fools day joke guys, Loving (and half of the time actually believing) it!


    Teeheeeh heee... I think my sides are gonna split...

    QuMa