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  1. Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet on Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1

    ... tentatively code named Windows PEE.

  2. Re:I wonder on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    My, my... Someone has been reading their Coulter.

    :-)

  3. Re:Synthetic Benchmarks? Incredible... on GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. ATi Radeon 9800 Pro · · Score: 1

    Except for one thing... I just happen to have gone to the ATI web site for some Linux drivers, and they appear to be gone now. Clicked on drivers from the main page -> Graphic drivers -> Linux and "Unsupported" came up in the window...

  4. Re:Learn to home brew� on Chemistry Sets for Adults? · · Score: 1

    Hell yeah! I just started home brew before Thanksgiving, and I LOVE it. Brewed a dry stout first. I've got an IPA in the primary right now, just bubbling away that I pitched the yeast on at exactly 00:00 on 2003-01-01. Not intentionally of course, but it just worked out that way...

    Also, buy yourself a copy of Brew Chem 101. Fortunately, home brew books seem to be a lot cheaper than computer books.

  5. Re:November coming fire... Samhain grim on Intergraph Injunction Against Intel Suspended For Now · · Score: 1

    What building did you work in? Just out of curiosity.... They're renting out a lot of their unused buildings now... I'm working out of building 8 now...

  6. Asterisk on Is Linux Used in Production Telephony? · · Score: 5, Informative
    Perhaps you should look into Asterisk: link

    This is Mark Spencer's most recent project. Same guy that did Cheops and started GAIM. Really cool stuff.

  7. Mercury Interactive on Testing Products for Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    Mercury Interactive makes tools that will do this. We have used LoadRunner and WinRunner to test our SAP environment (including the ITS web environment), and it seems to work well. The trouble is that it is very expensive.

  8. Re:PS/2 ports... WHY?? on USB KVMs Compared · · Score: 1

    Mainly because, back in the day, serial mice grabbed either IRQ 3 or 4. This was painful, especially if you need to have more than 2 serial devices in your machine, because plug and play was still pretty rudimentary at that point if you were using Windows 95, and not available if you were stuck in Dos/3.11. Sure, you could occasionally find serial cards that made COM3 == IRQ 9, but you were lucky to find software that could be adjusted to take advantage of that.

    Putting the mouse on a PS2 port actually made things a good deal easier at that point.

  9. Re:Cool; are they going to give it a name on Sun Works to Converge Linux and Solaris · · Score: 1

    Not such a strange thing... You sometimes have to reboot Solaris after an Oracle install due to changes made to /etc/system.

  10. Re:proc - process information pseudo-filesystem on Sun Works to Converge Linux and Solaris · · Score: 1

    You might want to look at the ptree command. It is quite useful... There are also other proc utils: pmap, pfiles, pflags, ptime, pstack, prun, pstop, pwdx... You can do a lot of stuff with those...

  11. Re:Highlights for the impatient.... on Sun Unveils More Linux Strategies · · Score: 1

    >2. Are they taking a play out of IBM's Linux-everywhere strategy? How soon before we see E10k's and E15k's shipping with virtual machine software able to support 1000's of Linux images?

    Not likely. When you say "Linux images," I'm assuming that you mean running linux on a Dynamic System Domain. The E10k only supports 16 domains. I think the E15k will support only 18, but I don't remember that off the top of my head...

  12. Theme music? on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    Hey, I got an idea... Hey don't we find somebody lame and washed out to SING the theme song! Yeah, that would be great!

  13. Washington Budgeting... on NASA Shuts Down X-33, X-34 Programs · · Score: 1

    FYI: I work for NASA. Please explain how NASA is taking these massive cuts, when we all got an email today saying that next year's budget has been INCREASED two percent. So +2% == Cut?! The dropping of these two programs have nothing to do with tax cuts.

  14. Re:another pro-republican/pro-microsoft astroturfe on A Minor Political Screed · · Score: 1

    Why do you have to insult people you disagree with? Small minds....

  15. Differences on A Minor Political Screed · · Score: 1

    The primary difference between Reps and Dems, is that Reps believe that people can do things for themselves. Dems believe that people need the government's help to get out of bed in the morning.

    Plus, who are you to decide how the rich should spend their money? It is THEIR MONEY. Some rich dude wants to drop 1.000.000.000.000 on his prat son, WHO CARES? It was his money in the first place. If it had been your money, you could decide that it is not right to give it to your punk kid.

    I get really sick of people saying that "an enlightened society should do blah, blah, blah..." I have news for everyone... We are NOT an enlightened society. Technical people like us have something others do not have. In the same way, rich people have something the rest of don't have. It is nothing to be ashamed about. And to be totally honest, sure, under W's plan, the rich get a bigger tax break. So what? They paid more money in... there is this thing called "fairness." I mean, geez... so a rich dude gets another $100.000. Sure, that seems like a lot of money to me, but when you are incredulously wealthy, it is a drop in the bucket...

    Under the Bush plan, I will get back about $900. BFD. Sure it is nice, but it ain't gonna buy me a new house. The same with the rich dude.. he gets back a hefty sum by my standards, but it ain't all that...

    People just need to chill and leave us all alone with our own dosh...

  16. Re:sco and raid on Caldera Close To Buying SCO Unix · · Score: 1
    I think you missed the point. Of course EMC boxen are not "SCO-Inside."

    However, there is software/drivers for SCO to USE an EMC array, and probably even some of the associated management software.

  17. Re:Serious Question on HP & IBM Unveil New Chips · · Score: 1

    LinuxPPC should run on the IBM chip with no problem. However, the port to HP PA-RISC (FYI PA=Precision Architecture) is still in the works. You can find more info at the Puffin Group page here

  18. Re:My layman's explanation on Transmeta Awarded Another Patent · · Score: 1

    So, this roughly does the same thing for CPU's that an interpreted language (perl, python, etc) do for code? Wouldn't you incur some sort of performance hit like you do in an interpreted language?

  19. Re:Caldera on Caldera Releasing Lizard Source · · Score: 1

    Something few people know... Caldera was once based on the Red Hat base... during that time of "collaboration," Caldera (not RH) wrote RPM.

  20. Katz on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part Two) · · Score: 1

    This is totally irresponsible. You should know, better, Katz. Advocating these things is the same sort of attitude that set all those fires at Woodstock 99.

  21. Re:Clarification about the Ten Commandments on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part One) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was yesterday. I couldn't remember all of them at the time of the posting though... sorry. I tend to look at things from the other direction... what about the judge's right to freedom of speech to put them in his/her courtroom? What if they had been Islamic? Buddist? Sure. That is fine too, let them put up whatever they want.

  22. Re:What?! on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part One) · · Score: 1

    That is funny... a lot of Christian fundamentalists feel the same way. Personally, I think home school is a waste of time, but hey that isn't the point here.

    Yeah. The bible has some pretty violent stuff in it. But I am not proposing we ban anything. You don't like it, then don't read it. You don't like South Park, don't watch it. The point I am trying to make is that, yes I am a Christian, leave me alone about it.

  23. Re:Don't know what to say... on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part One) · · Score: 1

    So, if I think that my seven year old is mature enough to take my car down to the liquor store and get Dad a nice bottle of single-malt Scotch, that no one should be able to stop me. I mean damnit, it is my kid, and if I think a 7 year old is mature enough to drive a car and buy liquor, it is nobody's business but mine, right? Never mind that it is the law or anything. Hmm.. maybe I think a 3 year old should have the right to vote....

  24. What?! on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part One) · · Score: 2

    What does this have to do with the 10 Comandments? Someone needs to learn to cope with anti-religious paranoia. Even if you are not a Christian, most of that stuff still applies. Murder is against the law. So is robbery. It is bad to shag everything that moves because eventually, you will probably catch something (maybe). The whole gist of the thing (if you leave out the first two, which I think are the only ones actually to talk about God), is for us to be good to each other.

    Yes, there are a lot of Christian people who think that if you say "The Grass is green," and don't include God in it, that you are the spawn of Satan. But lumping all of us together like that, and dismissing what we belive in is tantamount to calling all hackers crackers.

    There are a lot of us in this community that openly embrace religion (and not just Christianity). I think that we are a silent minority, but we are here. I will not accept hostility toward my beliefs in God any more than I will against my beliefs for the Free and Open Source software communities.

    I do agree with you. This should be the decision of parents. I don't go see South Park because I just think it is moronic. I'm not going to stop any one else from seeing it though. Even though some "Christians" would try to stop people, doesn't mean you should just bundle us all together and label us fascists or something...

  25. Something noone else has mentioned: on Ask Slashdot: IP Masquerading Drawbacks? · · Score: 1

    No one seems to have mentioned something I consider pretty important: X Windows. I don't think that X will EVER run across NAT... I mean, what would you set your DISPLAY variable to?