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  1. Re:Balmer: Research it yourselves. on Ballmer on Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh I am sure we care what they are doing, but not from a Hopeful Anticipation stance.

    We hope they'll actually fix smehing without adding ANOTHER problem.

    Like we wish that we could put a user in the "users" group on thir own machine and actually be able to use it.

    Or that "boot with last known working configuration/(kernel)" actually did.

    Or that recovery console could.

    Or that the beast had a real shell and programatic doodads

    perhaps even ssh (client and daemon).

    Nope. That's WAY to much to ask for anyone isn't it? *caugh* EVERYONE ELSE HAS IT *caugh*

  2. Re:Balmer: Research it yourselves. on Ballmer on Linux · · Score: 1

    priorities?

    He needs to understand IRONY.

    (and I am not talking the Alanis Morrisette variety either)

  3. Re:No on Is Tableau The Next Google? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man I so want to reply to this, just to be at the top...

  4. Re:Home Simpson? on SCO's Finances, Legal Case Take Hits · · Score: 1

    well if you had said anything nice at all in your post, or if you had even read the VERY first LINE...
    I would right now be helping you with your marriage. (Has it happened yet?)

    ahhh f' it. I'll help anyway. Cheers Mate.

  5. Re:Home Simpson? on SCO's Finances, Legal Case Take Hits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From greenspun.com

    If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00. With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left. If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00. Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

    NOw I am not sure on the current price of Nortel, or am I sure anyone would be able to ride it from top to now without taking profits (lol I mean losses)

    P.S. in Ontario Canada (where I and Nortel are from) beer cans do indeed have 10 cent deposits.

    Like the old stock broker saying...
    "We'll take your money and my experience and turn that into my money and your experience."

  6. Re:I security really that important? on Windows Not Expected Secure Until 2011, Says MS · · Score: 1


    Tell that to Peter Norton,symantec and all the other AV companies.

    Windows has been berry berry good to them.

  7. Re:Am I the only one... on Winamp Skin Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    nope. there are many of us. Rise UP

  8. Re:All that remains... on Violent Video Game Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    and then everyone could unsubscribe to cable :-)

    sheer brilliance!!!

  9. Re: depending on how you read the law... on Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping · · Score: 1

    "I think its a bit of a pipe dream to believe that there will be a legal way to acquire large amounts of copyrighted music for free w/o the consent of the copyright holder"

    True. But they DO GIVE CONSENT everytime it is allowed to thump my eardrums (radio, shoe stores, elevators, every fricken commercial...)

    The real hack is an ear interface with AI to reassemble streams (sounds).

    They'd need to get into our brains to catch us on that one.....

    Oops nevermind.

  10. Re:Akam"ai is still losing money on Akamai -- The Other Huge Distributed System · · Score: 4, Funny

    " I mean, where else is there to turn for something as strong as Akamai for a bursting-load application?"

    This is a Viagra troll, isn't it?

  11. Re:it took you this long to switch from sendmail? on Postfix · · Score: 1

    Fully agree. except that I don't think there will be any Antispam stuff that sendmail cannot interface to at any point (while smtp is still the transport)

    Remember that sendmail will gladly run 2 instances. One taking inbound and one forwarding AFTER the spaminator. Very flexible .

  12. Re:it took you this long to switch from sendmail? on Postfix · · Score: 1

    Finally someone sticking up for sendmail!!

    Sure it's complicated. Sure it's powerful.

    Sure it makes some people crazy.

    But consider this: Sendmail has been there and done that..

    I use postfix only because my needs are extremely simple.

  13. Re:Dream on, rice-boy on Hack Your Car · · Score: 1

    distinction there eh?

    High revving was not my point.

    Bulletproof bottom end (designed and balanced for high revs at HIGH TORQUE LEVELS) will far outlast
    an aftermarket hopped up block.

    IT's not rocket science. Think Hemi (old style 426) VS Buick Grand National (remember them?)

    One was solid ponys (and scary torque levels),

    the other? a 6 banger with a strapped on supercharger.

    Guess which one still runs (and wins) today?

    While I completely agree that strapping on aftermarket gear is FUN, it's by no means anywhere near as reliable as a factory hi-po set up.

    The factory HAS to WARRANTEE the WHOLE CAR. The aftermarket people, just their product.

    Feel free to disagree, but I think I (just may) have the entire muscle car history on my side here.

    P.S. I have been both routes in my youth, and the reality nowadays leaves your option the only option, given smog laws and such.

  14. Re:Dream on, rice-boy on Hack Your Car · · Score: 1

    You are all missing an important point.

    You may add on to get the ponies, but the is no replacement for displacement.

    The viper will be stomping 4 bangers on it's original parts (all smog and street legal BTW) long after your nissan (no offence at all meant) has gotten it's first bottom end rebuild.

    You don't really think your crankstaft and valve train are going to hold up long with 300+ HP hammering on it, do you?

  15. Re:Microsoft's initial response: on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    Friday, 27 October, 2000

    article date

  16. Re:Piano Teachers Unite! on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1

    Shhh!

    I am speedily listening to all my original compositions for prior art on that C# thingy.

  17. bait and switch on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 5, Funny

    and they sneak a patent though while we all look for the source code.

  18. Re:Web Myth: Windows NT crippled ship on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    The fault was with certain applications that were developed by CAE Electronics in Leesburg, Va. CAE? eh? sounds Canadian....

  19. Re:this could be really bad on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1
    "The Windows code hasn't had nearly as much peer review as open source OS's"

    I think that might change soon.

  20. Re:You're missing the point on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems that you are not looking far enough.

    Computers are necessary.

    If windows is untrustable, what do you do?

    (Hint: There ARE other operating systems that run on PCs)

  21. Life just got WAYY better on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    I think rates just went up.

    (And so did domestic (IT) employment!!!!)

  22. Great.... on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    now we'll need to reverse engineer Knighthood to add any further knights.

    I hope Linus is up for it....

  23. Re:HOMOS FANCY APPLE! on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let me get this straight (no pun intended)....

    You are prepared to go to war over who has the tougher "gays"?

    Are you from Texas or something?

  24. Re:On to more relevant things on Microsoft Not Out Of Anti-Trust Hot Water · · Score: 1

    Moral of this story?

    Incorporate.

    fine for a corp (read: go bankrupt)

    or 3 years in prison + fine for a citizen (or otherwise).

  25. Re:good... on Killing Cancer With a Virus · · Score: 1

    Spanish Drug Lords.

    (Kidding of course)