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  1. Re:still a long way to go on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Windows has those same issues, ever gotten the error message about the registry size being too small? How long do you think it takes a user to figure that one out on their own? Plus Ubuntu has great user support on irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu.

  2. Re:Madness on White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows · · Score: 1

    All along, the answer to virii, malware, hacking, and botnets was right at our fingertips. Just have the government "mandate" Windows be secure!
    Ooooh better yet. Just have the government "mandate" that no one produce virii, malware or botnets and make hacking illegal!

  3. Re:BS on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1

    Discontinued for under a year, discontinued June 2006 and strangely enough... no numbers for the 2006 hummer hmm... conspiracy?

  4. Re:BS on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1

    Where in the article does it refer to the H3?

  5. Re:BARF on ReactOS Revealed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unfortunately for the most part ReactOS is just wine that self boots. They borrow heavily from the wine codebase for their win32 api compatibility. Naturally the driver compatibility doesn't borrow from the wine codebase. The real point of ReactOS isn't software compatibility but environment compatibility. The goal is to be able to install all your windows apps on a machine that only supports windows (due to poor ACPI support in linux or poor video driver support or any of a number of incompatibilities). However windows application compatibility is rarely if ever better than wine with reactos.

  6. Re:BS on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1

    The hummer is fairly rugged, Sure its toned down a bit for the civilian versions. but 200,000 miles at least. Well taken care of 300,000 miles is easily achieved. I've seen trucks make it over a million miles.

  7. Libel anyone? on EFF Forces DMCA Abuser to Apologize · · Score: 1

    Just looking at his post regarding this. I wonder if theres now a libel case given the slander he openly and directly makes.

  8. Re:Free phone support?! on Dell Opens a Poll On Linux Options · · Score: 1

    Really? Microsoft supported my Dell server that I purchased with no operating system? Cool! I could have sworn the guy on the phone said I called Dell though.

  9. Re:Why funny? on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    You must learn to read, Properly set up I said. you can take advantage of modern engine technology with vegetable oil by simply preheating it until it reaches the same viscosity as diesel fuel oil. There are other similar methods of getting other fuels to burn. And generally most of the oils I listed do not cause corrosion or buildup. You really ought to learn to read, reading is a wonderful thing.

  10. Re:Rudolph Diesel on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Preignition is ignition before its supposed to happen. It's impossible when your cylinder is filled with nothing but air. They run on Detonation, not preignition.

  11. Re:Rudolph Diesel on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's actually more like 100% preignition in a diesel, but they're built to withstand it without grenading. By design its impossible for diesel to have pre-ignition unless somethings wrong. so its 0% preignition, there is however 100% detonation which is a completely different thing. Pre-ignition is where your intake charge and fuel mixture ignite before your spark plug fires. Since diesels have no spark plug there is no spark plug firing event however intake charge also lacks fuel. So it can't ignite before it is supposed to. The fuel is injected after the compression stroke has already been made and the fuel ignites as soon as it injects, thus 0% preignition 100% detonation.

  12. Re:Why funny? on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 3, Informative

    the beauty of a diesel is it runs on any oil, used cooking oil, cod liver oil, diesel fuel oil, motor oil. Properly setup itl'l run on used motor oil, used transmission fluid, used any oil.

  13. Rudolph Diesel on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Congratulations You've discovered the same thing as Rudolph Diesel except that you don't quite have it right. You don't need to use ethanol or port injection ditch both of those and use good ol fashioned vegetable oil. 0 preignition and you can turn the boost way up on a tiny engine.

  14. Re:No Poll? on Dell Opens a Poll On Linux Options · · Score: 1

    I was able to fill out the poll but hitting submit failed :(

  15. Free phone support?! on Dell Opens a Poll On Linux Options · · Score: 1

    The survey only listed "Fee based Phone support" as a support option. What about with windows where you get free phone support for 1 year or whatever it is nowadays?!

  16. ShopNBC on OpenOffice.org Tries to Woo Dell · · Score: 1

    When I worked for the people they contracted their call center to a few years back they sold computers with OpenOffice.org pre-installed. No idea if they still do but they use to...

  17. Re:the route your kids take to school, of course on Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No · · Score: 1

    Which is still Denial of service, You are making it more difficult for them to use their own service. Thats like saying sending someone 10000s of emails is just cache poisoning, you arent taking them offline, just filling their mailbox up with stuff they dont want to read and will likely delete en masse with their real emails.

  18. Re:The Indian tech support is worse. on Pre-Installed Linux Tops Dell Customer Requests · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bought a poweredge with raid 1 configuration 2 20 gig 15k rpm scsi drives hot swap backplane. 1 week into using it one of the drives dies. system goes down and wont boot up at all (I thought raid 1 + hot swap was so you could pull a drive without shutting down the server!) I call support and get an indian who all he was capable of doing was shipping out a new drive, couldnt understand anything else i said.

  19. Re:Isn't it just Microsoft-style "bloat"? on Linux 2.6.20-rc6 Kernel Performance · · Score: 1

    That's not true, the code must have declarations to evaluate if we have XYZ feature loaded wich DOES impact in the performance
    Those code declarations are called #defines, and the C preproscessor automatically removes them, the C compiler itself never even sees them

  20. Re:Interesting that he's not interested in Wii dev on Gamers Don't Need Vista or DX 10 Says Carmack · · Score: 1

    I'd love to, it sounds very interesting (Especially considering my girlfriend is from shreveport), But alas I have school and Between adhd and schizophrenia, theres not much room for reading non school related books :(

  21. Re:Hmm... on Using AI to Monitor Kids Online · · Score: 1

    You must not have used the internet in a couple years, whitehouse.com is now a people search, basicly white pages

  22. Re:Interesting that he's not interested in Wii dev on Gamers Don't Need Vista or DX 10 Says Carmack · · Score: 1

    He may still be a little angry towards Nintendo because of Wolfenstein 3d for SNES.
    It goes back much further than that, all the way back to the NES, SMB 3, Commander Keen and the founding of ID Software. See the Wikipedia Article for more details, quite an interesting history.

  23. Re:Ubuntu Fan on How One Small Business Switched to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Find out what the NIC is from your motherboard manual (if it's onboard as most are these days), the "lspci" command should be enough to find out what the NIC is (most likely itl'l be more reliable than the motherboard manual)

  24. Re:Windows XP as a server? on How One Small Business Switched to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    the office i am in right now has been running linux as the server for 15 workstations since ~2002. And I recently converted one of the workstations to linux with moderate success, and i will be converting 3-4 more as soon as i get a decent setup for the vpn.

  25. Re:silly... on How To Adopt 10 'Good' Unix Habits · · Score: 1

    "have your prompt include the current path"

    Bad idea as 'cd /home/eviluser; ls' can end up running /home/eviluser/ls which contains 'rm -rf /*'