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  1. Heart Beat Traffic on Where The Bandwidth Goes · · Score: 1

    When I was working as a network admin, we did a study that showed 50%(!) of the traffic was heartbeat and network system messages.

    And we had 56K lines in use.

    Not much we could do about it unfortunately...

  2. Re:Good book on Developing Applications with Java and UML · · Score: 1

    What?

    You read other boards than Slashdot??

    traitor....... :-)

  3. Re:Simple on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    BTW any Goto's... send 'em back to microsoft!

    In general goto's are a bad thing.

    BUT, there are situations where only a goto will work, without going through a lot of gyrations with loop constructs.

    Mind you, in the past 10 years or so I have only had to use a goto twice...

  4. Advertise on Starting a Software Business in Today's Economy? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you advertise on Slahdot.

    Oh wait....

  5. Re:False positives on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 1

    Hey, I didn't know Alisa knew my email

    You too?

  6. Re:Economy Geek Food on Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking · · Score: 1
    Hey, the beginnings of a geek recipe book!

    Ok:
    • 1 lb of gound beef
    • 2 cans of baked beans (I like the "molasses ones)
    • package of chinese noodels, any flavor
    Cook the ground beef.
    Break the noodles into little pieces (while still in the package). Cook the noodles. Do not add the package of flavor.
    Add the beans to the beef.
    Add the noodels to the beef.

    For extra flavor add some pancake syrup.

    Eat.

    Lasts just about forever, and microwaves well.
  7. Re:Is this really a security risk? on Shattering Windows · · Score: 1

    Scenario:

    - I am a user on a corporate machine. I have very basic access to the machine, ie: I cannot install s/w that requires admin access.

    - I install a utility that does not require admin access.

    - The utility runs, but in the background raises MY access to 'local System' (read root), using this exploit.

    - Now that utility can do anything it wants.

    It's the equivalent of a Linux user gaining root access simply by running an app.

  8. Re:ahh the thoughts on 1985 Usenet About Y2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    I kept looking for the "Reply" button so I could tell them how it turned out.

    I guess it wouldn't work in that direction, though.


    Of course not. Their news reader app cannot handle the four digit year....

  9. Re:true world champions on World Cup Final · · Score: 1

    name me a baseball club anywhere else that could compete with the us pro teams

    Ok, how about the Blue Jays?

  10. Re:When can I buy the Thinkgeek Poster? on Mapping the Spam · · Score: 1

    This sig is a waste of 32 bytes.

    Um, no, it is a waste of 39 bytes. You forgot to count the opening and closing italics tags.

  11. Re:who owns anything/power/authority/badges on Canadian Government to Jam Radio Signals · · Score: 1

    I am forced to assume you are a cop by your statements

    Not me. Just had some training is all.......

  12. Re:Who really owns the airwaves? on Canadian Government to Jam Radio Signals · · Score: 1

    And the Canadian government is now flexing their muscle and exercising their right to take this valuable resource away from its citizens, who wish to communicate amongst themselves

    Canadian Citizens? Prehaps a minority of the protesters. Most of the protesters travel from summit to summit.

    And until you have been on the side which needs to protect something (people, buildings, ...) you have no idea what you are talking about. The fear that comes over you when 200+ people are trying to get past you when you HAVE to stop them is like nothing you have ever felt.

    So police react to the protesters. If the protesters would just protest, all fine and well. That is nessessary in our society.

    But violence? Civil disobediance (a phrase for "break the law")?. The people that do this are just using the summit as an excuse for violent behaviour. The same type of people cause riots after sports events.

  13. Re:U.S. Govt on 120,000 km Is Still Too Close · · Score: 1

    Only a few astronomers are engaged in the search for potentially threatening comets and asteroids, in fact the total number of people working on this problem is less than the staff of one McDonalds

    So, would you like super-size fires, um, fries with that?

  14. Re:Google cache and copyright on What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie? · · Score: 1

    The google cache threads on the muddy water of copyright

    And as an addendum:

    Since you cache pages, you in effect become the publisher. How do the recent court cases where foreign countires are charging Web Publishers with illegal information (according to that countries laws) affect Google?

  15. Re:I prefer to jam the signals on Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. I've always wanted to overload their amps or blow their speakers, possibly causing a fire?

    Ok, ok, a little extreme.....

    Well maybe not :-))

  16. Re:I prefer to jam the signals on Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    What we really need is a way to jam/stop the kids with their 200 watt bass systems. Nothing worse than having your music over-ridden with some RAP from the idiot beside you. The car is falling apart, but boy, does he have a sound system.

  17. Re:This means... on Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    Nope. It's the idiot drivers.

    If talking on a com device were the problem, then the police, fire, ambulance, heck, even the truckers on their CBs would be the problem. And there you need to press a key to talk....

    The real problem is the drivers that can barely manage on a clear road with NO distractions that choke when they are on a phone.

  18. Re:why so keen on earth-sized? on Planetary System Similar to Sol · · Score: 1

    you've got potentially a 1% increase in gravity

    From 9.8 m/s2 to 9.9 m/s2? That's not very much.

    Moreover there is a gravity variance between sea level, and Mount Everest

    "Careful experiments would tell you that g = 9.80 m/s2 at sea level but g = 9.77 m/s2 on top of Mount Everest."

  19. Re:Workstations bad. on Making Users Back Up Important Data? · · Score: 1

    MAKE DAMN SURE YOUR BACKUPS WORK, OR YOU'LL LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT.

    Remember what a backup system is for. It is not for making backups....

    It is for restoring. If you cannot restore, then the backup is worthless.

    And make sure you test the entire round trip. You ARE rotating your backup tapes are you not? With offsite sotrage? Make sure you test the tape AFTER it rotates back from the offsite storage. That way you prove the round-trip.

    There is a true story about a person who was doing regular backups, the tapes would go into an onsite safe, then be rotated offsite. Trouble was, that the safe was magnetized, so they were in effect erasing the tapes before they went offsite.

    So test, test, test.

  20. Re:Interesting on IBM Reinvents Punch Cards · · Score: 1

    I'd say there's little chance that the folks who shut down the hard drive division knew (or cared) that some branch of the research division

    I think there was a very good chance that the "folks who shut down" know every bit of what IBM is doing. Branch managers do not shut down multi-billion dollar divisions.

    This descision must have come form the very top, and they DO know what the research departments are doing.

  21. Re:That's the power of .NET on F# - A New .Net language · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the CLS runtime is a cheap knockoff of the JVM

    And the JVM is a cheap knockoff of P-CODE.

    "The intermediate code produced by the Pascal-P compiler." And this was in 1976.

  22. Re:All i can say is, who cares? on MTV Movie Awards Webpage Pull a Lone Gunman · · Score: 1

    I hope I'm not alone in really hating awards shows.

    You are not alone. I hate them too. Not only do I not watch the shows, I could care less who wins or has won, or...

    They should be embarrased about who they are.

    And so should the people that hang on their every word. Like an actor knows something about issues. Some full-of-himself actor came to town a few years ago, said something about the local problems. He had no perspective on the issues, but the local media treated it as a proclamation.

  23. Re:thttpd on PocketPC Wireless Webserver · · Score: 1

    And that is why you are an AC.

    Those of us who have an account know how to use search engines.

  24. Re:Perl is mad powerful on Apocalypse 5 Released · · Score: 1


    :-)

  25. Re:Perl is mad powerful on Apocalypse 5 Released · · Score: 1

    Proven?

    Not really.

    Are you now saying that having the conditional forced to be at the front is never backwards?

    You are mis-interpreting the word "backwards". I mean that the conditional is after the statement. I think you are reading "is worse than".

    Anyway, I do not want to get into a language war. Each has its merits. I have programmed in Perl, and I do not really like it. Way to much syntax to remember. Somewhat like Visual Basic, except that Perl is more powerful.