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  1. funny names on Microsoft Freon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think that some of the marketing/PR people of MS have been sick / on holidays / away these times.

    Palladium : was originally the name of the statue of Pallas-Athenas, which was supposed to protect the city of Troie. Which was later invaded by greeks which used a subterfuge which will be known for centuries as trojan horses.

    Freon : according to this web page, apart from evident utility in refigerators, "Only decades later did people realize that such chlorofluorocarbons endangered the ozone layer of the entire planet." and, even worse for MS : "The trade name Freon® is a registered trademark belonging to E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (DuPont)."

  2. Re:Erik on Geeky Child Names? · · Score: 2

    if you have a girl, it should be a good idea to avoid : cf conspiracy, point 2 :

    2. You must have a Moustache

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  3. Google set reply on Two Directions for the Future of Supercomputing · · Score: 2

    (my emphasis)

    • Deep Blue
    • Stand Away
    • Solitaer
    • Master Mind
    • Floor planing
    • Reaching Horizons
    • Freedom Call
    • DEEP RED
    • Queen Of The Night
  4. Re:I'd be more worried about on Current State of the International IT Market? · · Score: 2

    Yes (but I don't think my neigbhors will complain).

    Another one (according to some friends in another canton) : you can't pee while standing up afer 22:00.

  5. Distribute GPL parts of Interix on Microsoft Interoperability and the GPL? · · Score: 2

    What about distributing as much as possible from interix (the GPL parts) ?

    They can even be included in debian ;)

    (I'm probably wrong at some point, but I don't care)

  6. Re:Sounds interesting! on Are the VPN Alternatives Enterprise Ready? · · Score: 2

    I wrote a long answers but it didn't post it ...

    anyway ...

    cisco.com -> software -> VPN -> 3000 : Clients
    (require cco login and des export authorization)

    if you want, I can send it to you.

    dago158 at advalvas dot be

    other software for macos9 : netlock.com

  7. Re:Sounds interesting! on Are the VPN Alternatives Enterprise Ready? · · Score: 2

    There is a client for cisco 3000 series for Mac. In fact, there's a Cisco client for MacOS X and another (can't get the name now) for older versions (or at least 9.x)

  8. Re:Slashdot ! on Speed Reading? · · Score: 2

    ummmmh and did you sent an email to this address ?

  9. Slashdot ! on Speed Reading? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just read slashdot comments at 0.

    and try to get the interesting answers ... the go at +4 and verify if you catche the good ones

    (or if there was a bias in the moderation system)

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  10. Re:It is NOT a p2p Network people! on Finally Real P2P With Brains · · Score: 2

    There's a new CS patch !

    and nobody told me !!!

    I'm gonna get it on kazaa ...

  11. Complaints on North Pole is Leaving Canada · · Score: 2

    Please don't tell NBC !!!

    Otherwise, they will convince god to give a magnetic north pole to both Russia and Canada.

    (now, I can read the other posts to see how many people replied that ;)

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  12. Re:Reliability has a cost on IBM 120GXP Revisited · · Score: 2

    And why shouldn't I post trolls ??? ;)

    seriously : ok, I was to lazy to check warranties times.

    one thing I planned to include in my post (but not made) :

    MTBF :
    Deskstar 60GXP 750.000
    Ultrastar 36LZX 1.000.000

  13. Reliability has a cost on IBM 120GXP Revisited · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As stated before, this line of HDD (Deskstar) are *CHEAP* ones.

    and for hardware (even if it may not be true for software), you get what you paid for !!!

    I've go 3 IBMs SCSI drives (UltraStar) ranging from an old 2 Gb 5400 RPMs to a (recent) 18 Gb 10000 RPM and guess what ?

    Not a single bad cluster, not a single problem with them.

    Oh, yeah they have a 3-year warranty ...

    What is the warranty for an DeskStar ?

  14. Re:SIM cards in US? on New Nokia Phones - with Java · · Score: 2

    Quick answers.

    1. GSM -> GSM specifications -> SIM cards + Mobile phone (or pcmcia card or whatever) in order to have a mobile terminal

    2. If you've got a GSM phone (I think .au is a GSM country, no), yes, you can buy any prepaid card and put it in your phone and it will work (that's what I do between .ch and .be)

    3. For the USA, well, you'll have to find a GSM network, prior to do that ;)

  15. Re: "Java Viruses" Already there ... on New Nokia Phones - with Java · · Score: 2

    Yep.

    But also 'traditionnal' P2P applications (like sharing ;)

    and hopefully, there's an option (at least on my phone) which makes that any action on/with the SIM card has to be acknowledged manually.

  16. Already there ... on New Nokia Phones - with Java · · Score: 5, Informative

    It makes (at least) 6 months since SIM cards with java have been shipped to customer (in Europe).

    So, it is already there in many phones and peoples already made some applets for them

  17. Inversion on Compuware Brings IBM to Antitrust Court · · Score: 1

    future antitrusts complaints :
    Kodak
    Standard Oil
    AT&T (if they still exists)

  18. Well ... on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of ... euh ... ooops sorry, wrong story

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  19. Re:Why This Won't Work (for many of us) on Biological Network Security · · Score: 1

    Bandwith scalability -> distribution of devices.

    So, no, there's not many machine which analyzes Gbit/s but if you separate this traffic to many devices, you just have more devices who analyzes and centralize the information.

  20. PCI ? on Hot New Silicon Graphics Workstations · · Score: 1

    ... but why finally PCI ???

    SGI has made much more advanced bus for years ...

  21. Re:Read at the bottom ... on Plug-n-Play Server And Network · · Score: 1

    it was supposed to be ...

  22. Read at the bottom ... on Plug-n-Play Server And Network · · Score: 4, Informative
    ... of the page presenting this system :

    Systemax PC's use genuine Microsoft® Windows®

    www.microsoft.com/piracy/howtotell

  23. Re:..The good and the bad on The Google Effect And Domain Name Speculation · · Score: 1

    Did you mean: ORA 12345 Oracle

  24. Printing system on Large Scale Deployment of Linux for File/Print Services? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cisco has internally devlopped their printing tools and can apply to other (large) entreprise systen.

    http://ceps.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

    and they work great under every OS ...

  25. Nobody on Name The MySql Dolphin · · Score: 1
    Don't you wanna go where nobody knows your name

    or because nobody's perfect ?