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  1. Re:How can this be the best on Slackware 7.2 [Not] Released · · Score: 2
    Firstly accept that there's no such thing as a benvolent "best" - and that "best" is just an opinion by whomever said it.

    You'll find life much calmer; and you won't have to type the same old tired tripe: "the best is what does the job", or "the best distro is always the one that you like the most"

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  2. Re:Get a life Taco on New Tenchi Muyo OVA Series Confirmed! · · Score: 1
    You can't copyright a plural - so the owners of Lego say the plural of Lego is still Lego. It might be a legal thing rather than what most people call it.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  3. Re:[OT] Re:Your .sig on Is There Anybody Out There? · · Score: 1
    Um, nothing wrong with Slashdot's HTML, what about having the BGCOLOR and the TEXT colour the same?

    It's not breaking the standard. But if I were to colour all my page elements in black with a black background this would be a bad thing, keh?

    Just because it passes the W3 test don't mean it's all apple pie, or blueberry pie, for that matter.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  4. Re:TrustedBSD With VMS Features? on Learn From Robert Watson Of FreeBSD And TrustedBSD · · Score: 1
    Linus is so impressive.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  5. Re:Is it just me? on Learn From Robert Watson Of FreeBSD And TrustedBSD · · Score: 1
    The general ratio's and the yellowness (blue pants - too) are probably what did it for you.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  6. Re:Ho-hum on What Do You Need To Watch For In A Linux SMP System? · · Score: 3
    To avoid the troll calling: Linux and *BSD are good on x86 but in SMP they don't compare to Alpha's official OS.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  7. Ho-hum on What Do You Need To Watch For In A Linux SMP System? · · Score: 3
    Firstly, imagine a beowulf cluster of these.

    Secondly, if internode communication is as high as you say and you can't parellelise your code/algorithms you made a good choice with SMP (as opposed to beowulf). Avoid x86, go for Alpha. Avoid Linux or *BSD, go for the native OS which scales to multiple CPUs much better.

    If you can parrellelise your code the obvious thang is beowulf and cheap x86 boxes.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  8. Re:No! on Whistler "Anti-Piracy" Tools Tie OS To Machine · · Score: 1
    That she's sucking her own dick.

    Well, obviously.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  9. Re:Seems poor method for "largest prime found" on Is There Anybody Out There? · · Score: 1
    When you have 24 primes in a row it's pretty much assumed the next number will also be a prime. You can assume they already know the result. Assuming this, you might want to have a different but simplistic formula for our notation that's quick to work out by throwing numbers around - as they did.

    It teaches them part of our notation. I guess that's why they did it.

    Now who's for pie?

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  10. Re:Salon Article on What is 'IT'? · · Score: 1
    Wow, you're wrong!

    1. Browsers will expand the screen or table cell indefinately if there's something big inside - like a really long word.

    2. Expanding a cell can badly affect the display of a site.

    3. Malicious input of long words could affect the site.

    4. So Slash (the engine) puts spaces in long words (and they're not at all randomly placed as you state).

    It's not the combination of lazy perl code and more importantly it doesn't do it to markup.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  11. Re:who cares? on Mozilla 0.7 Released · · Score: 3
    The reason IE loads so fast is that it's libraries are loaded at boottime. Mozilla will have an option (does have an option?) to do the same. If you quit Mozilla the start it again (assuming it starts) it's quite fast and.. dare I say it... faster than IE5.5 on machine.

    (Celeron 566, 128MB RAM, everything else vanilla)

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  12. Re:Examples? on The Object Oriented Hype · · Score: 1
    Microsoft?

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  13. Re:ARRRGGHHH! on Heart Surgery By Robot · · Score: 1
    Well, yes. What's your point?

    That you like screaming?

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  14. Re:LOGO on Linux for Tots? · · Score: 1
    LOGO scholarships? Dear god, what has the world come to!

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  15. Re:Linux on Setting Up A VPN on CISCO 2600 / 2500 / PIX520? · · Score: 1
    Old and possibly useful cisco hardware is rendered useless by not having the sourcecode.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  16. Re:I never really understood on The Sounds Of Space Near Jupiter · · Score: 1
    Sounds like someone pushing an empty trolly through an empty supermarket.

    Apparently.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  17. LOGO on Linux for Tots? · · Score: 2
    Install LOGO - Turtle Graphics.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  18. Re:ANTI - Nintendo Rant on First Looks At XBox · · Score: 1
    Oprah's worse than sensationalistic - she's moralistic.

    (in a neo-christian all gods are the same lets talk about our feelings kinda way)

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  19. Re:I Like the XBox... on First Looks At XBox · · Score: 1
    My dear Matthew's theory is that it allows them to continue anti-competitive practices as price-cutting and so-on is common-place in the console industry. Further more he says that he expects the X-Box to have a .NET 'player' soon (must be something to do with that client/server version of office software).

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  20. Re:Wow sarcasm.... on Linus Talks About 2.4 · · Score: 1
    Righto

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  21. Re:Will game consoles kill family life a little mo on First Looks At XBox · · Score: 1
    Just have multi-player games if you want family togetherness. There's no need to live like Amish.

    There was a kuro5hin feature on multi-player games at parties and whether it was a Good Thing.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  22. Re:What's with the controller? on First Looks At XBox · · Score: 1
    No, it looks more like the Atari Jaguar controller (64bit wonder, out about the time of the Sega MegaCD, was still-born)

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  23. Re:YES! First p-o-s-t! In your face!!! on Neural Networks In The Home? · · Score: 1
    tR0LL?

    Blitz Basic was the name of a programming language for the Amiga (500). In it there were such games as Woody's World, and a Super-off road racer clone: Skid Marks.

    Go to bed without dinner moderators!

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  24. Re:MIT MediaLab on Neural Networks In The Home? · · Score: 1
    BZZZT! Try again!

    The idea is to use a neural network to not have to program the computer, per se. It should be able to identify people and learn their habits.

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!

  25. Re:Possibility? on Game Controllers For The Feet? · · Score: 1
    Another dancing mat game was out a few months ago: a tie-in with Disney's The Jungle Book, called Rhythm N' Groove (ugh.).

    -- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!