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  1. Re:Stop the World i wana get off on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry, but "You SCO bastards, you killed my son." is too much like "You Bastard, you killed Kenny." and this is a Trademark of South Park Enterprises, Inc. For your unauthorised use of this phrase, you owe us a Darl McBridely sum of $699.

    Thank you for your cooperation.

    South Park Enterprises, Inc. Legal Dept.

  2. Re:I used to be a AMD fan on AMD's Roadmap revealed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well you have compared an apple with an orange. A Athlon 2800 is not on par with a Pentium 2800. On some benchmark the Athlon could loose, but on other Win. If you want to try to compare the 2, compare them on the exact application you use and need power to use them. Not some synthetic benchmark, or ISPEC or FSPEC and then you could make your choice. But please don't troll about the PR rating. AMD NEVER say that the PR rating is something equal to the frequency of an Intel processor. And as a side note. If you compare your applications on the 2 architectures: Please recompile them with the exact architecture of your processor and the hadoc optimizer. This can change a lot of thing. I am not an AMD or Intel FAN. I just choose the best Proc/MB at the best price for the work I need to do. (And I have the facility to try them before buying :))

  3. Re:Socket-939 is going to be fast!!! on AMD's Roadmap revealed · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Don't like to respond to a troll but:
    The cpu speed is not on par with the ram speed. This fact cause that from time to time the cpu has nothing to do because the new datas from the RAM are not already there. A cpu doing nothing has a worst PR than a cpu doing something. Adding the support for the dual-channel double the speed to the ram and thus the cpu have more work to do and less idle time then a better rating.

  4. Re:probably because on NASA Scientists Get Custom 24h39m-per-day Watches · · Score: 1

    Digital watches are far more accurates than mecanical ones. And you can compare the 0.1$ digital watche to the finest mecanical swiss one, the digital one will be the winner in accuracy. The sole reason I see to have chosen the mecanical one is the "cool" factor, the beauty of the mecanic, and craftmanship involved in the conception of it.

  5. Re:email filters on Security Predictions of 2004 · · Score: 1

    I have this problem too with outlook 98 at work. I can't set rules then I have to do it myself. But I have a very simple rule: If the subject is in French => Non spam, elseif the subject is something meaningful and in correct english with the correct letters => Non spam, else Spam. This filter work at 99.9% :-)

  6. Re:Shooting themselves in the foot again on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    Hum, ext3 is too overkill for most embedded OS. To much code. Ext2 at best. Or better some FS that could be managed by a couple of line of code to reduce the memory footprint of the FS driver. In nearly every embeded system, 1 octet of memory is enough to make a good idea a not profitable one due to the cost...

  7. Re:"Celebrate"? on 20th Anniversary Of Computer Viruses Commemorated · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good old virus were marvelous. The one who can put themself into an MBR sector, COM or EXE executable. Who can disimulte themself and trick antivirus with interruption tunnelling. Written in assembler. With polymorphism, Encryption... Yes those virus were marvelous. Not the shit you can have now written by some looser in vbscript :/

  8. Re:Well, you obviously know what you are doing on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    Hum hum. You don't have been hit by Blaster... It was fun to see how the couple Blaster/Antivirus reacted each others.

    1) Blaster infect
    2) Blaster scan a little
    3) Antivirus disinfect
    4) Antivirus send information to a central server
    5) Wash, rince and repeat step 1

    Do that on a network with 2000+ computers. The antivirus has done nothing good in our case. And yes we are behind a firewall. But put some laptop in the equation and you get the receipt of the catastroph :(

  9. Re:Globalisation on U.S. Supreme Court To Rule On Online Porn Law · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The same apply for the cuban where the legal age is 16. Then a cuban could put up a legal web porn site with model of 16 and above. In this case, if I watch this site could I be a pedophile ? Could the webmaster arrested for pedophilia or receive a c&d under COPA ?

    A local law on a global network doesn't just work at all.

  10. Re:But how many people NEED them? on Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    My company block Chat, IM, Streaming, filesharing, don't give right to install software. I don't care for block Chat, IM, Streaming, filesharing, but the last suck.

    For my productivity I will have a great benefit to have a dual screen configuration. How much error I do because I can't have all the information I need at the same time. I don't do so much error at home where I have a 3 screen configuration (set up for playing, but used to work too).

    But, go back to your point:
    For my non productivity (the same apply for the others developpers), when I need a certain soft to work on a special case I don't knock my head on the wall. I open a call to the tecnical service and wait for that software. If I am lucky I can go back to work in the 48 hours. In my timesheet I note "workstation breakdown", a special task where we put all sort of thing for why we can't work (viruses, HW malfunction, network problem, missing software...). In some: every occasion me and the others developpers have to not work due to theses restrictions are used to the full extent of the company policy.

    The only reason I have not already quit my job in this company is because there is a very good ambiance, friendly relation and we are not put under presure. And I have a lot of good reasons to quit it too (low pay, no car, ...)

  11. Re:Is there on EU Parliament Approves Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Well, if it is a 'pure' sofware, you can't and that's the good news. But if it is linked to some hardware, you can if there is a technological step realised. Now think of a GSM, has it is a software with an antena...

  12. And now the server ! on PowerBook 15" and 12" Disassembly · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And now the server is disasembled for the pleasure of the ./ crowd :)

  13. Re:MS: Our software dies. Linux: Have it your way! on More Linux Activity in German Government · · Score: 1

    The point is not about Gnome 2 running under RH7. But your current gnome or RH still be patched or patcheable 10-20 year after their release. Like the old adage, if they work, and work well, don't touch them, juste do the necessary maintenance.

  14. You could do it now !!! on Back To SCO · · Score: 1

    You can use your methode to compare linux with BSD and show to all who much code is not under legal threat by SCO. Having all the code not under threat you can evaluate how much code is under threat.

  15. Re:Only 127? on China Blocks Spam Servers · · Score: 1

    No, non. They have just used some signed variable thus the 127 limit. With a good coder they can go up to 255, but it is another story :)

  16. Re:You can't beat free! on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 1

    Why use free products to develop on a free platform. Kylix is as good if not better than VB and cross platform. CodeWarrior existe on Linux too... There is a lot of non free products for developping on linux as good as the windows one. Compares apples to apples. Thanks.

  17. Re:The right decision on Judge OKs Competitive Pop-Up Ads · · Score: 1

    Lat's write a worm who ask for it :) Perhaps simulating the way an activeX component ask it during an IE session...

  18. Re:what's a quantum computer? on Quantum Cryptography Gets Nanotube Boost · · Score: 1

    A quantum computer is a computer who use the quantum physic has his logic. This logic has the 'advantage' to have multiple states in the same time like have a bit at the 1 and 0 state in the same time :) A completly new kind of programming paradigm :)

  19. Re:I'll save a fortune! on Bacteria Powered Batteries · · Score: 1

    Well, true if your yaghourt aren't thoses light kind your girlfriend like :-)

  20. Re:This is what happens ... on Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? · · Score: 1

    But in some parts of the world, this isn't expected or acceptable. I gave a taxi driver in Europe a $10 tip for getting me from point A to point B in no time. He was polite, held the door for me, yada, yada, yada. He was completely flabergasted that I gave him anything extra.
    In a lot of country in Europe, tips are already included in the price of the course. If you go to France and Belgium, 2 country I well know, on the tarif who the display is mandatory you can see that a certain amount of money is already included as tip in the cost.

  21. Re:Whiner on Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing · · Score: 1

    Did a spam filter tool is a prerequiste to write a mail client?
    Did the RCF for mail echange mention the need to use a spam filter?
    Spam filter is an option you can add to your product, and just an option. Not a prerequiste! Now you can use a very well integrated plugin like Spambayes to do the spam filtering on Outlook 2000 (unfortunatly not for Outlook 98 or Express).

  22. Re:let's blame everything but the obvious.... on Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office · · Score: 1

    It is why here in France/Belgium you can't rent a film during the 1st year after the theater coming out. To keep you to see it to the theater or wait a very long year if you really want to see it...

  23. Re:addendum: on Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office · · Score: 1

    Absolutly true (I am for one) :)

  24. Re:so what you're saying is... on Carriers Might Profit From Cell Number Portability · · Score: 1

    MOD it as Insightful, not Funny.

  25. Re:Damn it! on Samba 3.0.0RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    Under win 98, from time to time he loose the password of the sharing. I can retype it all I want, impossible to reconnect. But if I change to another directory (local or not) and go back on the sharing, he will ask you the sharing password one more time and all return in order... Why? I don't know, but it can be very frustrating :(