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  1. Backup Plan ... on How to Handle an Internet Outage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a backup solution we always have a dial-up connection ready ... Coupled with scripts which automate the switch from Cable Dial-Up Internet Access, the perfect solution to still have at least communication going at all times.

  2. Speed reached ... ? on Skydiving Across the English Channel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's funny how both Sky News and BBC say the speed reached is 220 mph and how CNN says it's 200 km/h. Hmm... someone's obviously got it wrong. ;-)

    But then again, who (here) is to notice this discrepancy. ;-) It'd require READING ALL THREE ARTICLES.

  3. Serious testing?? on Bayesian Filter Testing? · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, just check my mailbox!

  4. SCO!!! on EMI and Sony Lose Lawsuit Over Crippled Music Disks · · Score: 1, Funny

    Obviously SCO has caused some inspiration! ;-)

  5. Dupes! on Bayesian Filtering For Dummies · · Score: 1

    Perhaps /. could implement a bayesian filtering for killing all the dupes!

  6. Re:This is not lethal but ... on When Bad Software Can Kill · · Score: 1

    This is obviously totally irresponsible on the part of those responsible for the tech being used for the operation. This really *is* scary!

  7. Re:What will they do? on Inside Microsoft's New F# Language · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the drive letters team is (still) working this one out.

  8. Re:Whose computers still crash? on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    Reboot? What reboot?
    Now, when was the last time you tested those init scripts? :)


    How about changing run levels?

  9. Re:think of the gamers man! on The Interplanetary Internet · · Score: 1

    Introducing... delayed messaging!

    I think it's been around for a while. We call them letters.


    ... or emails.

  10. Re:Not dead at all. Just changed..... on Is The Software Industry Dead? · · Score: 1

    Look at it this way. The fundamentals of a car haven't changed since the model T. It still has wheels, an engine, and a transmission to link them. But I would hardly say the best of cars is behind us. Nowdays, we have 200k miles reliability, 30mpg fuel consumption, from cars that can run 11's on the strip with a little work. Computers/Software industry is much the same way. The easy bang for the buck software is written(word processing, etc). These won't change.

    Quite. But software doesn't age or get broken like cars do when they reach the end of their life time. Well, yes, software perhaps gets outdated, but look at Word. All Joe Doe needs for typing up letters was already available in the early versions of Word 9x.

    So, in the car industry you're going to have a need for new cars simply because cars can't be used forever. But with software ...

    Okay, the aging could be applied to hardware I guess.

  11. Crashing Win9x on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 1

    Geee, thats almost as bad as the file:///C|/con/con thing that crashed the whole of Win9x.

  12. Re:How does it tie to the older story? on Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics · · Score: 1
    I guess I don't quite see how this ties into the older story about new titles for Sysadmins.

    So much for editors reading and understanding past stories before submitting new ones. ;-)

  13. Re:Questionable benefit on IBM To Publish Java Office Suite · · Score: 1

    ... I can see how it would be a benefit to those who have already deployed or decided to deploy WebSphere.

    Or for those who have started deploying and are still waiting for it to finish.

  14. Re:ZoneAlarm on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Duh.

    He said "patch", not "workaround". There's a difference, you know. In my eyes, a patch actually fixes something whereas a workaround merely does a temporary fix that could also be considered a "hack" or something ugly and dirty.

  15. Re:ZoneAlarm on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 2

    No. Why?

    By firewalling, you merely hide the problem, you don't fix it.

  16. Architecture on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 1

    An architecture that doesn't allow a bug/vulnerability to be fixed??? Come on, that clearly shows that its flawed by design. ;-)

  17. 8,609 Mbps on 8.6 GB Internet? · · Score: 1

    8,609 Mbps ought to be enough for everyone!

  18. Re:I won't ever see this one on Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines · · Score: 1

    You definitely need to get out more.

  19. Re:Debian should adopt new NetBSD/FreeBSD init on FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Now Available · · Score: 1

    Interesting.

    Could you provide any specific links that elaborate a bit more on that concept? It certainly sounds promising.

  20. Re:Soon there will be nothing left on Phoenix 0.3 Is Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I just hope that nice things such as a pop-up blocking whitelist will be backported to Mozilla ...

  21. Re:Linux Drinking Game on Linuxbierwanderung Among The Heather · · Score: 1

    one thing is sure: if this were played with blue screens, the evening would be much funnier. ;-)