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  1. What sounds more possible? on Orbital Express Launches Tonight · · Score: 1
    A.) A satellite that lasts a good 20 years after years of work and knowledge accumulated on how to make them last 20 years...


    Or:


    B.) A super complex robo-satellite that fixes *other* satellites and stays out of repair itself.


    It's A if you ask me... for a good long time.

  2. Why not Gentoo... on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 1

    This would give the best range of options for desktops... giving a high degree of quality as well since everything is custom compiled from source.

  3. "It's a fascinating story" on New Microsoft Dirty Tricks Revealed · · Score: 1

    Sounds rather typical to me. If you're somehow "fascinated" by this story you must have not worked in a corporation before.

  4. Korea: on Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now · · Score: 1

    So smart... yet so ActiveX...

  5. Translation... on Expert Says Cisco's iPhone violates GPL · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you're going to "bring it".... bring it|"real" or STFU.

  6. The whole reason I run Linux... on Internet Explorer 7 on Linux · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Is that is does NOT have IE. Why in God's name would I want it?

  7. But dude... on Acer May Be Bugging Computers · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're Ferrari's

  8. Just moved out of Raleigh on Top U.S. Tech Cities · · Score: 1

    It's true that there is a lot of tech jobs but your certainly not a commodity in the RTP. I just moved down to Hilton Head SC from Raleigh and now I'm in demand. My skills are good for a sysadmin but there are just too many people doing that in the RTP area to expect to get paid like you should be paid.

  9. If everybody truely hated microsoft on Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They would be gone... the fact is that Microsoft's marketing & legal practices keep them moving. It gets to the point where it has nothing to do with how good their software is.

  10. Re:That fake computer sound! on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    Haha! Thanks!

  11. That fake computer sound! on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    I'd kill to have a program that makes terminal output sound like it does in the movies!

  12. Claims to have led a 'white hat team' to expose... on Another NASA Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    I can believe that. You'd almost certainly look like a black hat trying to describe flaws in such systems.

  13. I've got a vote for you now... on Gates Foundation To Spend All Its Assets · · Score: 1

    That must have hurt.

  14. I just finished building it... on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 1

    My modded T23 Thinkpad running Linux!

  15. garbelled mplayer output... on Solar Probe Films Plasma Loops, Sunspots in Action · · Score: 1

    Well half of them are really amazing... the other half I could not see. Anybody else getting garbelled mplayer output?

  16. I feel naked... on Community Comments To Security Absurdity Article · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wait I AM naked! GD VPN!!!

  17. Re:"funny" but true on IE7 Released and Available for Download · · Score: 0, Troll
    "a guy who's worried about IE trashing his computer"


    Well, if you've got IE on it at all it's trash already.

  18. XFS anyone? on Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS · · Score: 1

    Why not move it to XFS? This says "commercial production ready" to me.

  19. Better be stable!!!! on Windows Vista RC2 Available · · Score: 1

    RC1 stays up for about 15min... then crashes over and over again. Oh yeah it looks great... for 15min at a time! OH WOW Windows that look like real windows! I get it hahahah...crash.

  20. The way I use swap on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many people think that you should save the fastest part of the HD to allocate as swap. But after thinking about it no matter where your swap is on a hard disk it's going to be noticeable when the system pages. what is not noticeable is the perceived difference in human terms of the VM at the outer most of the platter or the innermost. And if your allocating a gig of VM or more you're wasting space for system files or applications files where things like time to boot and application launch speed can be faster. (Along with prefetch data) In Linux you can use riser for your system root to further optimize this since most system application files are small in size. (Along with a small block allocation size.) Also, if you're using a secure VM file you may notice a difference if you move the paging file to a secondary drive with the file allocated at the outermost section. No matter what the system I make a page file. If it needs to be secure you should lock the applications pages to ram memory. I any event when using a disk you're going to notice paging and at that point you'll be waiting anyway... I doubt you'll care or notice at that point the page finsihed 2ms faster or not.

  21. Re:No surprise to me. on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1

    You don't have to tell me that... I got one raise the entire 5 years I was there. Thank God that year my manager was a personal friend! If I see Palmisano he'd better be wearing a cup. I'm not afraid to bend him over like his Mother should have.

  22. No surprise to me. on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1

    Is this even news? Palmisano has no idea what he's doing. He's sold half the company, the stock keeps getting worse and worse. Now the regular employees have no benefits and the only people being hired are contractors. Yet he's doing just fine. Why do people put up with this sh1t?

  23. Must I say it again? on State Department Hit With Many More Break-Ins · · Score: 1

    Keep it off the network!!!

  24. Yes. on Does Sophos' Switch Argument Hold Water? · · Score: 1

    There will always be security problems. At least your mind will be off them with all the promises of OS X.

  25. Give it up one more time for the Japanese on Japanese Lab Creates 'Da Vinci' Voices · · Score: 1

    Always using their technologies the right way... wow!!!