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  1. Re:Spaceballs: Episode -1 on Mel Brooks Says 'Spaceballs' Sequel In The Works · · Score: 3, Informative

    Former roommate, if I may.

  2. Re:What?! on X.org X11 Server Release 6.8 · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's quite useful. The xprint server allows you to print using standard X protocol, so your program won't have to know about Postscript and so forth. And now it supports GLX, so even 3D programs won't have to do much extra work to support printing.

  3. Re:Some of this stuff really makes alot of sense on Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS · · Score: 1
    What part of the word lightweight don't you understand?

    e.
  4. Re:For the sake of argument . . . on Mike Melvill Chosen To Fly SpaceShipOne · · Score: 1

    Amazing! I actually saw that one yesterday!

  5. Re:A word of caution on AMD Takes Opteron To 2.4GHz · · Score: 2, Funny

    And be aware that it doesn't take a whole lot of force to yank the chip right from the ZIF, possibly damaging things in the process.


    I see. So it doubles as a ZEF, then?
  6. Re:Ogg Video on XVID 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    "OGM" is a spin-off of Ogg from some time ago which hacks together Ogg (a great stream container format) and FourCC (the codec identity field from AVI) to easily add proprietary codecs (ie, DivX, XviD, other MPEG derivatives) to Ogg.

    Ogg supports all these things, so nothing needs to be hacked. People simply call their Ogg video clips .ogm to tell others "This Ogg file contains video as well" since people have come to associate .ogg with audio.
  7. Re:Interesting on ARM Unveils One-chip SMP Multiprocessor Core · · Score: 1

    By "developer" they probable mean a hardware develeoper, not a software developer. I can definitely see how one chip would be easier to deal with than four.

  8. Re:Plug-in on A Worm's Worm · · Score: 1

    Why "virii"? It's not like the singular is "virius".

  9. Re:STOP. FUCKING. AROUND. on Going Back to the Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    > Was this whole "space exploration" thing just the
    > World's Biggest PR Stunt To Piss Off The Commies?

    What the hell did you think it was?

  10. iPod on Best PDA To Read e-Texts On? · · Score: 1

    Small, cheaper than a Zaurus, Linux available.

  11. Re:ldap? on More Info on Debian.org Security Breach · · Score: 1
    I interpreted it this way:


    Local admins have shadow passwords (or something), "debian accounts" are on LDAP. For now, the LDAP backend is disabled because it's uncertain whether some of those accounts are compromised. The statement simply means they can't continue shutting out developers for very long.

  12. Re:Why does a supercomputer need x86 compatibility on Efficient Supercomputing with Green Destiny · · Score: 1
    It's not the only advantage. The morph is not only used for x86 emulation, it also replaces 75% of the hardware compared to any similar processor.

    Using a specialized instruction set would probably be more efficient but, sadly, Transmeta doesn't have enough influence to pull of something like that - they need the compatibility.

  13. Re:Requirements that end up in a checksum failure. on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 1
    The poster was correct. Look at it this way:


    Right now you have two years of w2k experience. Then you go back to y2k, and when you once again reach 2003 you will have earned three more years. If you go forward in time you gain nothing.


    Made the adjustment from daylight savings time yet? ;-)

  14. Re:BitTorrent on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released · · Score: 1

    Cool! I reached 280 kB/s.
    The Sunet mirror runs at over 600 kB/s, though, so not really useful. But still, cool!

  15. Re:The Highlights on The Web's Longest Disclaimer · · Score: 2, Funny
    Download or upload files that may damage the operation of another's computer, such as computer viruses, corrupt files, or similar software
    When was the last time you downloaded something that hurt a website :D
    No no, you don't understand. This means that if they distribute a virus, you are in violation of the agreement. According to the "indemnity obligation" paragraph you would still probably have to defend them in a court of law, should any third party sue them for damaging said third party's software.
  16. Re:Dooku/separatists on Star Wars Episode II: The Book Review · · Score: 1
    The answer to point 5 is given by the late Obi-Wan himself in the swamps of tESB:

    "Was I any different when you taught me?"

  17. Re:Killer App? on At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference · · Score: 1
    he learned a lot in the process and looks great

    Man, I gotta start doing this video stuff. Does it work no matter how bad you look from the start?
  18. Re:Memorable quote on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    Predator, Blain (played by Jesse Ventura), tobacco

  19. Re:bunk on Doubting the Existence of Black Holes · · Score: 1

    considering that condensate is near-absolute COLD and black holes are something akin to absolute HOT, I think it's a pretty immature analogy.


    Well, if Chaos is God's neighbour, what's so immature about such an analogy?
  20. Re:Castles in the sky. on Doubting the Existence of Black Holes · · Score: 1

    "It's matter, Jim, but not as we know it!"

  21. Re:Please explain... on Fuel-Cell Power With Methanol · · Score: 1

    Sound like a law for the protection of the gas station attendant's job opportunity, not for the protection of my health.

  22. Re:Invisible web? on Researchers Probe Dark and Murky Net · · Score: 1

    Not intranets, nets that are supposed to be globally reachable, but are unreachable from some places, due to ignorance or incompetence.

    Definition of Dark Address Space

  23. Re:and the Internet came from the military net... on Researchers Probe Dark and Murky Net · · Score: 1

    It's not the military's fault if the ISPs are too incompetent to be able to route to milnet adresses. It's just that nobody cares if their customers can reach milnet, just as long as they can reach goatse.cx...

  24. Re:"invisible" sites on Researchers Probe Dark and Murky Net · · Score: 1
    I remember an episode a couple of years ago where one of the two major Swedish ISPs (Tele2) blocked access to their network for customers of the other major ISP (Telia), due to an argument (can't remember what it was about, though) between the two ISPs. If I understood the report correctly, some of the invisible nets in this case were a consequence of similar disputes, only on a smaller scale.


    The cable users are a growing customer base, and everyone wants a piece. It's not surprising that one network would want to inconvenience users of a competing network.

  25. Re:Not much content in that article on Researchers Probe Dark and Murky Net · · Score: 3, Informative
    From the actual report:

    Dark Address space

    A Definition
    • The range of topology accessible from one provider, but unreachable via one or more competitor networks
    • In other words, the onesided differences in Internet provider topology.