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  1. (Friend Spam) In Game Editor Augmentation on From SketchUp to Second Life · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you like building in SL but hate the tedium, you should check out Skidz Primz. It builds a intuitive UI around regular prims. Especially useful when trying to put many prims together.

    (Skidz is a friend and I couldn't resist pimping his tools. Dont hold this spam against him please)

  2. Re:Sarbanes Oxley on Automation in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    That's exactly right. Inflexible (boneheaded) staff and retarded auditors. They're like villians from an Ayn Rand novel.

  3. Sarbanes Oxley on Automation in the Workplace? · · Score: 4, Informative
    My otherwise lovely company, in accordance with the vageries of SOX and the retards from http://www.deloitte.com/us, is rather more interested in slowing things down.

    How many of you are experiancing THAT?

  4. Another "Yay Go Librarians" Article on Librarians to the Rescue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...by Kurt Vonnegut I Love You, Madame Librarian

  5. Re:Thawte on Cheap SSL Certificates for Small Websites? · · Score: 1

    When Verisign bougth them.

  6. Re:Why? on Subversion Hits Alpha · · Score: 1
    Isn't Source-Safe expensive?

    Yes. Insanely expensive. It is pretty good but not really close to being worth $500 per seat (when purchased separately from Visual Studio).

  7. Re:I'm suprised by this on InfoWorld says WinXP much slower than Win2K · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "... because I reformatted and defragmented..."

    Um. Don't you think that's more than a bit redundant? :)

  8. Music Racks on Rackmounting at Home? · · Score: 1
    And has anyone successfully used racks intended for rackable musical instruments to hold servers instead?

    Never saw that exactly but I did see the inverse. My old roommate had an nice old rack surplused from a gov data center packed with tasty musical gear.

  9. Re:Your view of work and organizations on What is the Value of an MBA to a Techie? · · Score: 1
    Are there signifigant companies that aren't EXACTLY as stupid as Adams depicts them? Please list ANY.

    Seriously.

    I'll work for them at below market wages!

    The evidence in favor of Dilbert representing "Universal Truth" has been omnipresent throughout my short career. It's depressing.

  10. Re:Data Duplication? on SQL Over FreeNet · · Score: 1

    That doesn't have to be a problem. For most bizish apps the concept is (seems) pointless. But for Scientific apps with lots of static "historical" type data, it could be sweet. Through in some automatic magic "partitioning" of the dataspace across N hosts and you might have something pretty amazingly useful.

  11. Nova on PBS on A Map to Nowhere? · · Score: 1

    Nova on PBS is airing a show abotu this right now. It's pretty good. Also see the show's website.

  12. Re:Never posts... on CowboyNeal Speaks · · Score: 1

    In a way, they do post. They post the stories and the stories are frequently ammended with quips, thoughts, etc...

  13. Re:MicroSnot isn't the only one... on Microsoft's New Spamming Technique · · Score: 1
    ...but it is a distasteful Microsoft thing. So we're allowed to whine, hiss, and spit. Aren't we?

    Hell yes you are! But it's more fun to broaden the whine to include all marketing weasels.

  14. MicroSnot isn't the only one... on Microsoft's New Spamming Technique · · Score: 3
    I think most mega-dialup ISPs are doing this sort of thing. I know Sprint/Earthlink does it. They do ask if you want to notify those in your address book, but they fail to mention the marketing crap that they attach.

    It is distasteful, but it's not a Microsoft only thing.

  15. Alternate site on UK Publishes Asteroid Armageddon Report · · Score: 5

    SpaceRef Also has this story but with the actual paper attached in HTML.

  16. Re:In-dash MP3 player? (OT) on MP3/CD Players Reviewed · · Score: 1
    Specific crutchfield URLs: AIWA and Kenwood.

    Both are in dash MP3 CD players.

    Anyone have any experiance with either one?

  17. Too little hype... on LinuxFest 2000 : More Penguins Than People · · Score: 1
    I live in Kansas City and I never heard of the event! Neither had any of the other programmers I work with. I'm sure if any one of us had heard of it, that one would have coerced the rest of us to go.

    Too bad the turn out was so dissappointing...

  18. Re:More tools for the USian nuclear weapons brigad on IBM Constructs New Fastest Computer · · Score: 1
    How did you get stuck on 1 trillion? The DOD only gets between 300 and 400 billion a year. That's not a trillion. Even if you are considering some aggregate of years, 1 trillion makes no sense as it's much more than that in, say, a decade.

    I'm not trying to say it's a good thing to spend money on (what do I know anyway?) I'm just curious about your bizzare number...

  19. Re:The merger is off on U.S. DOJ Moves To Block MCI/Sprint Merger · · Score: 2
  20. Re:NASA WAtch *BROKE* the story - not space.com on Evidence Of Water On Mars · · Score: 1

    Not only that but Nasawatch is way cooler. :)

  21. More Info... on Evidence Of Water On Mars · · Score: 3

    Nasawatch has some more good coverage of this.

  22. Re:Carmack on id Software Announces Development Of Doom III · · Score: 1
    He actually did give good reasons for his change of heart. (And before that, good reasons for hating MacOS.)

    You probably aren't enough of an FPS junkie to follow plan updates, but if you look for a finger archive (http://finger.planetquake.com/company.asp?id=1 might be useful) you may find some of his thoughts about Apple taking consumer level 3D hardware and games in general more seriously.

  23. Re:Pretty Nasty actually on I Love You "Virus" Hates Everyone · · Score: 1
    That part about the preview pane is NOT true. You have to dblclick the *.vbs for it to run. I suspect one of your users was trying to keep from looking stupid when they claimed NOT to have dblclicked it.

    As proof I offer as examples 3 people sitting near me (as well as me) that looked at the message through the preview pane but, of course, remain uninfected.

  24. Re:"safe configuration defaults" on Motorola Introduces Home Cable Modem/Router · · Score: 1
    Even better and easier for motorolla: forbid "admin" connections from the outside world by default...

    Just a thought.

  25. Latest news from nasa watch on Boeing Throws Space Station Parts Away · · Score: 1
    Latest news from Nasa Watch

    • 7 March 2000: Latest news in the Boeing lost tank saga Editor's note: word is spreading fast at NASA MSFC that Boeing may have actually sold the two ISS tanks at a surplus property sale for $50. The tanks cost NASA $750,000. Stay tuned.