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  1. many useful features... on IE7 Details Emerge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but nearly one will ever install it unless MS forces them via autoupdate...
    I bet I IE5 and IE6 will still annoy us for many many years...

  2. Re:How did you get around the lack of a MMU? on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd like to install it too?

    I didn't get around, I just installed an mtec 500/030 board, they're not fast (3 bogomips ;-) but fit into an A1000 and can be bought cheap at ebay..

  3. Damn... on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just managed to find some spare time to finish my Debian m68k install on my fellow Amiga 1000 and now they're going to drop support? Argh...

  4. Re:CmdrTaco needs a spell checker on More On Save Enterprise Donations · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Donors", not "doners".

    Hm... doughnuts ...

  5. Re:I don't get it on Zend Taking PHP In the Wrong Direction? · · Score: 1

    Are you doing any data manipulation? I have never seen a JSP page perform as well as PHP, let alone ASP.NET pages in identically designed pages.

    I've never seen a PHP page or ASP.NET performing as well as JSP in identically pages.
    And I bet, we both are right, each of the named languages can be very fast, if using in a right way and very slow if used a wrong way.
    Most things tend be complex these days, you know...

  6. Re:Hot-Swappable on Sun Opens OpenSolaris.Org · · Score: 2, Funny

    Merging solaris code into the linux kernel is a lot more difficult then implementing the feature from scratch.

    write from scratch? Are you mad? lets just copy it over like we did with all that stuff from sco ;-)

  7. Re:less is more on BBC on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    Let me get this straight... we are getting less sunlight, but the world is getting hotter?

    they fear its getting less rainfall too...

  8. Re:Feh! on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    It's not worth a cracker 'cause it doesn't have my first Usenet post, back in December '87.

    well, it doesn't have my first usenet post either, but the first of my posts available contained the subject: "2nd test".

  9. Re:Good news on Cybernetic Prosthetics for Amputees · · Score: 1

    This is good news, but you know, it doesn't put a smile on my face. If there were a story here entitled "Thousands of kids didn't lose their leg in the first place" that would make me smile.


    The first step to get a headline like this would be to stop the production of anti person land mines.
    This has already happend, many major countries have agreed to to stop production and distribution of this mines, but there is one major country left whos military can't guaranty the national security without anti person mines, and so they are still using them...

  10. Re:Why SOAP on Weather Data Available in XML · · Score: 1

    Can't the XML files just be fetched by HTTP ? Why introduce that SOAP layer? I mean, can't I just wget .../BOS.xml or something?

    You can AND you can also invoke remote procedures via SMTP. I've never seen anyone doing this, but it sounds pretty cool.. ;-)

  11. Re:What they didn't mention on The Mystery of Cell Processors · · Score: 1

    That's a fairly significant jump over the 4.7GHz Pentiums aavailable now

    Yes, outperforming a current cpu by a factor of two or three isn't that bad at all. But with several dual core cpus at the horizon its not as impressive like it was back in 2001 either...

  12. What they didn't mention on The Mystery of Cell Processors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    details of the processor will be released Feb. 6-10

    it gives a 10 times performance gain over a normal processor, from the year 2001 of course, which will be something like a 1.3 GHz P4 or a 800 MHz Celeron, both introduced in january 2001 ;-)

  13. Re:NASA could.... on Scientists Debate Robotic Hubble Mission · · Score: 1

    try to launch a new telescope for 2 billion bucks and then watch it asplode because they forgot to do metric/imperial conversion.

    Well they could just replace their old crap telescope with a new one they bought from a local wal-mart for 1000 bucks.

    oh wait, maybe Moores Law doesn't apply here...

  14. LDAP based profiles please on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    still missing from ns4...

  15. Re:Not worth the outlay at present on RC4 Code Achieves 319 MB/s On AMD64 Opteron · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's kinda vague. The 386 was a 32 bit processor with a 16bit data bus. It still could perform 32-bit arithmetic natively, but the bus was strangled.

    thats the 386SX you're taking about, the regular 386DX which came out before the SX was full 32bit..

  16. Re:usefulness? on TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Hell, you seem pretty dumb to me...

    I am dumb. I am so dumb, I won't get a joke even if it kicks my ass. I also need advice to boot from a rescue CD... so dumb ... so dumb..-

  17. Re:What we really want to know is on TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds · · Score: 1

    How long does it take to boot Gentoo?
    look here for exact timings... ;-)

  18. Re:usefulness? on TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why would anyone *possibly* want their bootloader be able to compile the kernel?

    So you never fucked up your .config and tried to boot a kernel that wont support harddisk without having a backup kernel somewhere? Hell, you seem to be a lot smarter than me...

  19. Re:Kids today have it too easy... on America's Most Connected Campuses · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember dialing in with a 9600 baud modem to do my CS 60A (scheme) homework at UC Berkeley and only getting 2400 baud because of the answering modem's speed most of the time.
    [..]
    Sigh. The good old days.


    9600 Baud? Come on youngster, I bet I got pants older than you...

  20. Re:Virii??? on MyDoom Seeks to Destroy Antivirus Firms · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you'll find the plural is 'viruses'

    yeah sure, next time you gonna tell us that the plural of box is boxes and not boxen...

  21. no No NO... on Catan Online Set to Debut This Month · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll never signup for a msn account....

  22. Re:Killing Lions? on A New Species Of Giant Ape? · · Score: 1

    They are probably stronger than lions, and quite a bit more intelligent. Much like a man fighting a Dog. Man should win.

    Well, good luck then ;-)

  23. Re:Hurrah on Washington State Archives Go Digital · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates and H. Ross Perot; together at last!

    hm, according to this link, their CEO is a guy called Michael Jordan ...
    this name seems to attract money alot better than mine ...

  24. Re:The biggest challenge on Details On Inflatable Space Modules · · Score: 1

    My question is that since it is inflatable and space is a vaccuum, wouldn't the inflatable device implode on itself?

    Think it over again, the vacuum is *outside* and the air is *inside*, so why should it implode?

  25. Re:Money on Private Mars Mission Planned For 2009 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can a private group raise the money for a mission like this?

    the point is not raising 100 billons to fund a mission to mars, the point is doing it for less than 100 billons...