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  1. it's funny on VMware: Another Netscape? · · Score: 1

    they used to be a Mac-only company with quaint products like RAM Doubler and (was it called?) Speed Doubler, to jazz up your System 7 machine. Ah, days gone by...

    I guess it's been downhill since they introduced VirualPC *for* Windows, just been itching to seel out to MS (says my paranoia).

  2. oh cool on Sun Releases Open Source XACML Language · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    just when I thought security-related articles couldn't get any more boring, Sun releases XACML.

    [/tongue-firmly-in-cheek]

  3. my explanation on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    (i didn't read the article, so I hope it's not the same idea)

    Studying and intellectualism is seen in a similar light to school work and therefore one who is seen to do well in classes, or be bookish, is subconsciously aligned with the teachers and administration. The maturity of their attitudes towards school is i'm sure proportinal to one's nice treatment of the smart kids.

    This is different from being the kid who doesn't bathe and doesn't take care of him/herself. That's just being slovenly, and I think it's more understandable - yet condemnable still - that one would be persecuted for one's hygene (or lack thereof)

  4. Re:technology and voice on Salon on Gollum's Failed Oscar Nomination · · Score: 4, Informative

    the digital makeup (as mentioned above) is not at all unlike any other kind of costume and makeup. I mean, if women in the 80s can cream their panties over the otherwise homey Ron Perlman as The Beast in 'Beauty and the Beast', and he was covered with a great deal of makeup, then why can't people recognize digital-on-actor is just another form of makeup?

  5. "Penny Black Poject" on Penny Black Project Investigates Sender-Pays E-mail · · Score: -1, Redundant

    s/Poject/Project

  6. Re:DL managers on 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    my home setup
    LAN switch DSL modem ISP world

    we have sDSL all routable IPs, at about 80-100K in any direction

    i have no way to throttle anything when he is running eDonkey, downloading 5-10 movies at once with over a dozen connections between each. i dont believe eDonkey allowes any kind of throttling, unlike Kazaa.

    I lost entire messages over AIM while he was doing that shit.

    my http server is set up to allow only 5 connections max now, sincew someone a few months ago started leaching movies from me with FlashGet, killing my own overall speed.

    Sure its not related to the article, but when i saw 'selfish' and 'routing' I had to rant a bit.

  7. DL managers on 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is why I hate download managers, especially ones that create dozens of connections to download segments of large files.

    My flatmate does that with eDonkey on TWO of his computers and squashed our bandwidth for a week (downloading pr0n of course)

  8. Re:with the money and time on Build Your Own LCD Bus Schedule · · Score: 1

    i guess i have to explicitly put in a tag just so people can understand humor *sigh*

  9. with the money and time on Build Your Own LCD Bus Schedule · · Score: -1, Troll

    that he put into the LCD and everything else in the project, he could have worked and bought a car. Sure, there's the geeky challenge of it all, but just as you don't win friends with salad, you don't get chicks by riding the bus.

  10. if anyone has a replayTV on TiVo Video Extraction with Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Informative

    and OSX (or windows or linux) I suggest getting the command line program replayPC.

    Basically, ReplayTV has its own little web server, and you can browse the contents of the drive with correct arsg to the httpfs cgi

    All the video is stored in the /Video directory, and is named by the timestamp (though doing an 'ls' via httpfs lets you view the date in human readable form, so u can guess which show is which.

    The only downside I've found in limited experimenting: after recording an episode of MST3K (2 hours) at lowest ('Standard') quality, it was a 2 GB xfer over the network. You'll have to reencode these movies yourself, to divx or whatever.

    Something else i noticed: replay TV will report it's IP with prepended zeros, eg. 123.234.120.012 rathaer than 123.234.120.012, and that seems to make a difference in whether or not I can connect to it (explanations anyone?)

  11. nice name on Long Computer Sessions Could Cause Blood Clots · · Score: 5, Funny

    there's just something too funny about a disorder called "Deep Vein Thrombosis"... sounds like the name of a porn flick.

  12. another simpsons reference: on Nicotine-Free Cigs, Genetically Engineered · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "We flushed your sin-sticks down the toilet."

    "Smokers are jokers, smokers are jokers!"

  13. ooo ooo! on Register your own .mil Domain · · Score: 1

    i waana get SGC.mil!

    (Yes, I'm a Stargate fan.)

  14. DOA on The 1991 "X-Box" · · Score: 0, Troll

    I bet DOA Xtreme Volleyball would SUCK on this older X-Box.

    On 2nd thought, only the graphics would suck more, the cotrolls would be equally crapporific

  15. Re:Full of it. on Interview with Jaron Lanier on "Phenotropic" Development · · Score: 1

    This guy has seemed to turn into a bullshit artist as of late... i respected his early VR work, but VR is the tech that never was, and I guess he's just killing time now?

  16. Re:whitepaper summary on IBM Trials TCPA Chip Under Linux · · Score: 1

    "Do you have an actual opinion on this, or is that all you wanted to say?"

    Yes =]

  17. whitepaper summary on IBM Trials TCPA Chip Under Linux · · Score: 1, Funny

    "We're all fucked."

  18. Re:Apple?! on Tech Firms Fight Copy Protection Laws · · Score: 3, Insightful

    three words: rip. mix. burn.

  19. what about on More Anime College and University Courses Being Offered · · Score: 5, Funny

    what about hentai class?

    "I still gotta take Tentacle Rape 203 next term"

  20. Re:wxWindows on Cross-Platform GUI Toolkits (Again)? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if this is what you're going for, but check out PythonCard; it uses python dictionaries and lists etc. to structure GUI elements, like this

    It also wraps some of the complexity of wxPython/wxWindows but doesn't take the access to it away from you.

  21. Re:I'll wait... on Phantom Game Console · · Score: 1

    64DD? Those'll be some pretty big knockers, gonna need a counter-balance to keep from throwing your back out too...

    [/joke]

  22. Re:Actualy on Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? · · Score: 1

    hmm, much like guests on Jerry Springer.

  23. if you want GOOD scifi... on More NerdCore Science Fiction From Cory Doctorow · · Score: 2, Informative

    check out the Prime Intellect novella-length story

  24. ah, the irish! on Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly · · Score: 2


    Why, those Irish are good for nuthin' other than drinkin', fightin' and scammin' technology pundits!
    </grandpa simpson voice>

  25. Connective C++ on The D Language Progresses · · Score: 2

    I haven't seen any development in a while, but Connective C++ is a rather interesting language, reminds be of VeriLog sorta, but compatible with C and C++ source (being a C++ extension)

    check it out