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  1. Unintended Wikipedia humor: on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 1
    From the AoE link:

    AoE specification is 8 pages compared with iSCSI's 257 pages.[citation needed]
    uhh...the specs in question?
  2. What cool things can be done? on Supercomputer Simulates Human Visual System · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If it can help me find my socks...

  3. Re:No references? on Building an Effective Information Security Policy Architecture · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    by Alzheimers (467217) on Friday June 13, @03:30PM (#23783459)
    Just pass it as (Void *) and let the reader figure it out on their own.
    I seem to vaguely remember forgetting something about void * ...
  4. Re:GREAT on ISO Puts OOXML On Hold · · Score: 1

    Slashdot moderation is frequently as meaningful as a campaign promise.

  5. Re:GREAT on ISO Puts OOXML On Hold · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bob

  6. Re:GREAT on ISO Puts OOXML On Hold · · Score: 1

    However if OOXML is ultimately rejected as a standard
    As you kind of know it will be in the Court of Public Opinion, irrespective of what the paid toadies do.
  7. Re:Anonymous Cowards on Drive-By Contributors to the Linux Kernel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Better still, record number of one-off accounts with names like d1b946b97d71423f365fa797d1428e1847c0bec1 that look like
    #include "small_patch_preempted_by_fascist_Filter_error_ hmm_wonder_what_that_means_WRT_popularity_of_once_great_site as_I_break_this_up_to_work_around_yet_another_asinine_error.c"

  8. Re:I'm one! on Drive-By Contributors to the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm hoping to acquire the skillz.
    While stuck in the Manchester, NH airport, I've just had my first bootable 2.6.26-rc4 compile.
    With my Intel ICH7 drive, the ata_piix module apparently wasn't initializing things, and I had no /sys/block entries, and thus no /dev entries available after mdev to mount and boot.
    Everything is easy when you know how to do it, but the make menuconfig options had change enough from my previous bootable 2.6.25.x image that I was hating life for a while.
    Documentation? Stuff that: let's easter egg!
    Also, whatever change was made to change the resulting device from /dev/sda to /dev/hda was _particularly_ painful. Hope that doesn't flop around like a politician too much in the future. :/
    (Thank god that ordeal's over)

  9. Re:Totally geeky on goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, w3m runs nicely as an inferior process under emacs.
    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/emacs-w3m#WThreeM

  10. So, after the break-in, during the post-mortem... on Rails 2.1 Is Now Available · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PHB: "butbutbut...we used safe tool X, that was supposed to protect us from butter overflows!"
    Skillz: "So they nailed you with SQL injection. There is no substitute for knowing WTF."

    I'm not claiming that C/C++ are a great choice for web programming, merely bristling at the rejection as "unsafe".

  11. Re:Shot in the dark on MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf · · Score: 1

    Actually, EverythingButTheCamelCase made sense.

  12. Shot in the dark on MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf"
    Some magnetic levitation involving rubies, VM (Ware?), more gems, object oriented databases (didn't they die?), World of Warcraft, rails (magnetic levitation again?), and, finally, conference.
    Doesn't the Lameness Filter usually take care of this sort of thing?

  13. Get into government contracting on Is UML Really Dead, Or Only Cataleptic? · · Score: 1

    UML can be a fantastic way to manage a problem, so long as you hold before yourself the ultimate truth that a "government solution" is like a "smart manager".

  14. Absolutely not! on Is UML Really Dead, Or Only Cataleptic? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  15. Re:Ugh on I Will Derive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, partially.

  16. Re:Cool.... on New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >by and for people who are too 1337 for regular Gentoo.
    The greatness of Gentoo has been its flexibility. The downfall has been the focus on 'fun' at the expense of good engineering.
    The bigger headz are rebelling and pursuing something better engineered.

  17. Re:Sturgeon's Law on Most Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (Psst: the Gaelic in your sig contains some misspellings.)

  18. Re:Most Businesses Fail on Most Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    let's just declare this thread successfully finished
    But, no one has bashed AOL yet!
    Oh, wait, that was Bob Pittman
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0
  19. Re:Corn on Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (gentooflects)

  20. Beware the Wiki Tiki Foundation: on Wikimedia Censors Wikinews · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF

  21. (mental image based on title) on DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ivana Trump-like woman on sidewalk with using a cane to move a manila envelope forward.
    On her shoulder, of course: PRADA.

  22. Re:I wish this one wasn't killed.... on DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope · · Score: 1

    Some stuff is just unspeakably evil, or unspeakably dumb.
    A market for medical knowledge gained unethically, for example.
    This is one of those can/should discussions: the fact that an action is possible doesn't make it a bright idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-ATG1AP3E

  23. Re:wreck on Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It would be nicer to say it's a Piece of WoRK.

  24. Re:Is it just me? on Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'll attempt a radical paraphrase: "Form follows function, not process."

  25. Re:I'd taken an old P2 200... on What To Do With Old Laptops? · · Score: 2, Informative

    What about the 'trons?
    Some of that older stuff draws a not-insignificant amount of current, no? Nice gadget, but if it adds $5/month to the electric bill to just turn it on and fuggedaboudit, that adds up.