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  1. Re:Fake data on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    that should of said:

    Address: <my old mailing address> (I live 2 states away now)

  2. Re:Fake data on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 4, Funny

    What I use:

    Name: Zaphod Beeblebrox
    Address: (I live 2 states away now)
    Phone: 620-664-5522 (Modem Pool)

  3. Re:Ethanol on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    Fuel for farm implements
    power for pumping irrigation water
    power to transport the corn to the factory
    power for the fermentation equipment
    power for the solids separation equipment
    power for the purification equipment (i.e., distillation, gas absorption, pervaporation (which can't be done yet on a large enough scale to matter), etc.)


    Oil/Gas for the tankers
    Oil/Gas for the tugs to haul the oil drigs
    Oil/Gas to pump the oil
    Oil/Gas to transport the oil
    Oil/Gas to process the oil in the refinery
    Oil/Gas to transport gas to gas stations
    Oil/Gas to power gas pumps to get it in your car

    Your point?

  4. Did they really even read the patent? on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    XML based script automation

    What part of that says they're patenting XML?

    Systems, methods and data structures for encompassing scripts written in one or more scripting languages in a single file. The scripts of a computer system are organized into a single file using Extensible Language Markup (XML).

    To me, yes I know I'm not a patent lawyer, basically makes it look like they're patenting the process of combining n scripts into a single XML file, whereupon each individual script can still be called/ran/whatever.

  5. Re:For those who RTFA and still don't get it... on Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet · · Score: 5, Informative

    The FCC's talking about powerline broadband. Yeah, we're nowhere close to a commercial rollout yet, but at least the regulators are certifying that the plans won't cause massive harm to any other communications tech, so they're about to sign off on it.

    Have we just completely forgotten the problem of BPL totally killing HAM radio?

    Just some background information for you to read.

  6. Re:Fun with Torrents on Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I dont see why 1million+1 people make torrents of the files, all you need is 1. The main problem with large releases like this is keep the tracker up under the strain.

  7. Re:Is it Down or is it 'down'? on SCO Offline · · Score: 1
    remnetworks:/home/ovrlrdq# dig sco.com @nsca.sco.com

    ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> sco.com @nsca.sco.com
    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34788
    ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 1

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;sco.com. IN A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    sco.com. 60 IN A 216.250.128.12
  8. Is it Down or is it 'down'? on SCO Offline · · Score: 3, Interesting

    www.sco.com has address 216.250.128.12

    traceroute to 216.250.128.12 (216.250.128.12), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
    1 66.182.216.1 (66.182.216.1) 44.788 ms 45.293 ms 45.307 ms
    2 iah-edge-13.inet.qwest.net (63.149.189.73) 51.143 ms 54.774 ms 51.355 ms
    3 iah-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.31.142) 54.766 ms 51.816 ms 56.265 ms
    4 dal-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.8.125) 56.562 ms 56.563 ms 58.236 ms
    5 dal-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.25.130) 58.450 ms 54.056 ms 58.734 ms
    6 dap-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.225.2) 231.204 ms 99.812 ms 92.647 ms
    7 p3-2.IR1.Dallas2-TX.us.xo.net (206.111.5.13) 59.997 ms 61.537 ms 77.399 ms
    8 p5-2-0-3.RAR1.Dallas-TX.us.xo.net (65.106.4.197) 55.789 ms 60.882 ms 57.735 ms
    9 p0-0-0-1.RAR2.Dallas-TX.us.xo.net (65.106.1.42) 57.992 ms 63.093 ms 58.382 ms
    10 p1-0-0.RAR2.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.0.41) 89.096 ms 93.724 ms 93.356 ms
    11 p0-0-0-2.RAR1.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 89.825 ms 84.570 ms 85.701 ms
    12 p4-0-0.MAR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 109.317 ms 98.882 ms 314.447 ms
    13 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 104.638 ms 99.345 ms 104.216 ms
    14 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 100.682 ms 105.112 ms 101.775 ms
    15 * * *

    linuxupdate.sco.com has address 216.250.128.241

    traceroute to 216.250.128.241 (216.250.128.241), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
    1 66.182.216.1 (66.182.216.1) 48.151 ms 89.228 ms 47.732 ms
    2 iah-edge-13.inet.qwest.net (63.149.189.73) 51.187 ms 49.542 ms 52.654 ms
    3 iah-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.31.142) 53.441 ms 101.028 ms 53.714 ms
    4 dal-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.8.125) 319.413 ms 57.257 ms 59.600 ms
    5 dal-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.25.130) 57.595 ms 55.800 ms 57.578 ms
    6 dap-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.225.2) 61.077 ms 56.746 ms 59.109 ms
    7 p3-2.IR1.Dallas2-TX.us.xo.net (206.111.5.13) 59.587 ms 54.717 ms 59.362 ms
    8 p5-2-0-3.RAR1.Dallas-TX.us.xo.net (65.106.4.197) 60.098 ms 61.397 ms 58.609 ms
    9 p0-0-0-1.RAR2.Dallas-TX.us.xo.net (65.106.1.42) 67.524 ms 59.960 ms 71.663 ms
    10 p1-0-0.RAR2.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.0.41) 93.370 ms 113.441 ms 92.632 ms
    11 p0-0-0-2.RAR1.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 89.880 ms 85.503 ms 85.974 ms
    12 p4-0-0.MAR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 98.055 ms 97.907 ms 98.232 ms
    13 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 99.287 ms 96.170 ms 99.050 ms
    14 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 101.741 ms 104.765 ms 100.452 ms
    15 c7pub-216-250-136-254.center7.com (216.250.136.254) 106.771 ms 100.281 ms 105.686 ms
    16 linuxupdate.sco.com (216.250.128.241) 106.443 ms 107.751 ms 105.682 ms

  9. Re:Been there already... on James Cameron's Illustrated Mars Reference Design · · Score: 1

    no actually it was a coverup by those evil people at Rekall.

  10. What's with all these debian jokes? on 2.4 vs 2.6 Linux Kernel Shootout · · Score: 1

    I mean it has nearly 8000 different packages. Each one has to be rigously tested for stable, and is for all sakes and purposes nearly 100% bugfree. ALl relavent security fixes are backported to stable.

    If you want something more current try 'testing'. Testing means that things should not break as bad as in unstable or experimental distributions, because packages are allowed to enter this distribution only after a certain period of time has passed, and when they don't have any release-critical bugs filed against them. You can track these here. (More info here).

    Finally if you want even more up-to-date, try unstable. Most of the development work that is done in Debian, is uploaded to this distribution. This distribution will never get released; instead, packages from it will propagate into testing and then into a real release. "sid" (codename for unstable) is subject to massive changes and in-place library updates. This can result in a very "unstable" system which contains packages that cannot be installed due to missing libraries, dependencies that cannot be fulfilled etc. Use it at your own risk

  11. Re:Facts? on MATRIX - A Dossier for Every Person in Utah · · Score: 1

    AHAHAHA, greatest sig evar.

  12. Re:Don't get socket 754 on Athlon64 Motherboards And Chips Compared · · Score: 4, Funny

    Humm I suppose I can't break off a pin to make my 940 Athon a 939 now can I? :)

  13. Morphix on Four Linux Live CDs, The Executive Summary · · Score: 5, Informative
    Personally I've tried Morphix and I liked it very well. You can also install it to an Hard-Drive by double clicking an icon on the desktop if you dont want to boot from cd. It's based off of Debian GNU/Linux as well as Knoppix.

    There's 4 Official 'Flavors' of Morphix including:
    • LiteGUI - a small, lightweight desktop, that provides things like a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, browser, email client, IM-software and media player (avi / mpeg).
    • Gnome - a desktop for people that want more than the basic tools. However, there is little you can't do with this cd image (full printing support, photo-camera tools, a few games and OpenOffice to work with Word-documents, for example)
    • KDE - a desktop that is between LightGUI and Gnome when it comes to the amount of tools pre-installed. Like Gnome, there is support for multiple users, but it doesn't contain OpenOffice, and hence doesn't deal with Word-documents as well.
    • Game - a small lightweight desktop with only a browser and a lot of Open Source games, and one or two Free commercial demo's/games.

    In addition to those 4 Official 'Flavors' there's quite a few Derivitves including ones for HAM Radio users and a MAME system.
  14. Re:Spirit not that impressive...? on News from Mars · · Score: 1

    There's a nice replica of one of those, not more then ten miles from where I lived. Not to mention being able to touch an SR-71 that flew, and being able to stand less then 5 foot away from the original Apollo 13 command module . . . long live Kansas.

  15. Re:umm yeah.. no on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes I think Me and my IE6.0 on a Commadore 64 will work nicely. Oooh look, now I'm running IE5.0 on a Mac! (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)

  16. Re:I'm dreaming of... on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yess so all code will end up looking something like this.

  17. Re:Sounds Tempting! on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Poorly written and poorly conceived. on Bleak Future for Videogame Customers · · Score: 1

    Dunno what version of Steam you're playing with but oops, I just got done playing de_dust3, awp_map, aim_arena, et al on my Steam install . . last time I checked that wasn't an 'Official' map. Sorry to say it but you're 100% wrong on the 'no-custom maps' argument. Just because you didn't see any servers, doesn't mean they aren't there.

  19. Re:Liquid Metal on Scientists Create Supersolid From Helium · · Score: 1

    I hope to god you mean T-X and NOT The T-1000.

  20. Re:My Quick Review on Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep · · Score: 1

    Wow, I am impressed as well. According to the 'experts' (I don't use the term lightly since the people there surely DO know what they're talking about) over at Hydrogen Audio also reccommend those LAME version/settings over the newer 3.93+ versions for higher quality encodes.

  21. Re:Pfft on Debian World Domination Plan · · Score: 1

    GCC != Gnu Compiler Collection
    GCC == Gnu C Compiler.

    So if you wanting the Gnu C++ Compiler, Yes you would have to install g++.

  22. Interesting Idea on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1
  23. Really . . . on The Expensive Hobby Of Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 1

    A pretty accessible pastime, so long as you can afford to lose the lot in a sudden gust!

    Eerm, you know you CAN tie knots in said string . . . like for instance tying it to something heavy?

  24. Re:But... on 10 Ads The US Won't See · · Score: 1

    Nice troll, but the movie that you say it was copied from was "The Way things go" not "The Way Things Work"

  25. Re:rash of naughty dates coming on Time's Up: 2^30 Seconds Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    Nah, my favorite is this:

    2^1E80 approx. - As there are only about 1E80 particles in the observable universe, it has by now become impossible to write the date.

    We're really screwed then.