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  1. Re:That's Stupid on Librarian Suspended over Patrons' Web Access · · Score: 1

    As much as I hate to say it... that's the price you pay when you live in a free society.

    Anything less is not truly free.

  2. Re:What do you do with the on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Yes - but you wouldn't make your own. Do you distill your own petrol? I thought not. How much waste is left after the crude oil is distilled into petrol?

    I realise there are other products that can be made from the crude oil - such as diesel, kerosine, etc. Perhaps there might be other products that can be gleamed from this waste Sodium-mush?

  3. Re: Why so much bio? on Science's 125 Big Questions · · Score: 1
    Wikipedia has a List of unsolved problems broken down by field, but the field lists I read didn't strike me as particularly well done. YMMV.
    The beauty of Wikipedia is that you can modify it. Go ahead... try it. ;)
  4. Re:ObGetShorty on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    I think the parent was providing a method to help remember their meaning - using modern English - not trying to explain what they stood for.

    "e.g." does not stand for "ergo", however. It stands for, "exempli gratia".

  5. Re:How Old is This? on Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters · · Score: 1

    In the article is explains the relationship with mq.edu.au.

  6. Re:whois on New York's Oldest ISP Gets Domain-Jacked · · Score: 1

    Looking on google for that number reveals:

    http://www.roynet.co.uk/DeveloperHost.htm
    ---
    "TOLLON
    Stewart Hodge 0208 249 6081"
    ---

  7. STM on Advice On Notebook Backpacks? · · Score: 1

    I have one from STM. Their bags are labelled as "luggage for the global digerati". I can recommend their 'sports' model.

    The good things about these bags are:

    • They don't look like laptop bags. Targus = Target.
    • The laptop compartment is in the 'centre' of the bag and raised off the floor. This means plenty of knocking around and the laptop will be unaffected.
    • There are plenty of pockets for palmtops, MP3 players, batteries, pens, books, keys, etc. It also has a large vented area for food, smelly shoes, etc.

    Good bags.

  8. Re:10 miles isn't anything special. on WiMax: When, Not If · · Score: 1

    Luxury...

  9. Erm... on Robot Eats Flies to Generate Power · · Score: 1

    If the robot is sent into dangerous environments, chances are there won't be any flies around to eat - since they'll be as dead as any other living creature.

    Or am I wrong? Perhaps it will be able to eat super-mutant flies that can withstand the dangerous gases, temperature, etc!

  10. Re:Why try for Debian? You will fail. on Using Debian in Commercial Environments? · · Score: 1

    I have to say that I agree. I have run both Debian and RedHat in production environments.

    I never had an issue with Debian. Although, it must be said that I never tried anything advanced with this environment. There were approx 12-15 stand-alone servers with a Cisco load-balancer in front sharing the load over a few of the machines. This ran for 4 years without incident.

    Then, we decided to beef-things-up and install a fibre-channel SAN on HP gear. Our HP Vendor assured us that RedHat was certified to run on the hardware and that's it. Oracle was also only certified to run on RedHat. And our chosen filesystem to run on the SAN, Sistina's GFS (now owned by RedHat) only ran on RedHat (without kernel compilations).

    Now - initially we had some issues with the SAN and RHEL3 but RedHat was able to get us a fix before it was even released to the public.

    Debian is a fine distribution, but as far as RedHat's Enterprise Support goes - it is second to none.

    PS: Also, apt is available for RedHat.

  11. Re:choral delight on Dozens Charged in Spam Crackdown · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bloody vikings.

  12. Re:How to make Windows Better... on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 1

    I think if MS simply kept to the desktop market and worked to integrate better with other OSes and protocols, I, for one, would use it.

    Their current "embrace and extend" mantra is breaking the well documented standards.

    If they took the standards, implemented them and submitted any suggestions for improvement via the proper channels - then we could all benefit from them.

  13. Quick firewall scripts... on Professors vs. WiFi · · Score: 1

    Surely the teacher could run a quick script to stop access during the time when they need the students to pay attention. Then run a script to allow access again when they're allowed to use it.

  14. Re:What are we building, anyway? on Engineer in a Box? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it would simply look like a huge, black monolith?

  15. Just unplug the damn thing on WebTV/MSNTV Virus Dials 911 · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the first line of defence be to unplug the thing from the phone socket?

  16. Re:You are WRONG about AMERICA! on The Lure of Heroinware · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that the british are widely accredited to inventing the computer. It is true, however, that the guys from Xerox, in Palo Alto, *developed* what we know as the personal computer.

    I does stand to reason that both of these things would have been invented anyway - it was only a matter of time.

  17. Lazy directors on DVD Format Changing Movie-making · · Score: 1

    So now the directors can shoot a whole bunch of (possibly crap) footage, slap together something that resembles a basic film and then expect us to re-edit it ourselves using our DVD players?

  18. False processing information... on Towards an Internet-Scale Operating System · · Score: 1

    What if some l33t h4x0r manages to report that they're processing more units than they really are... will they get paid for it?

  19. London already has a wireless network... FOR FREE! on Wireless Internet Finally Coming To London · · Score: 1

    ... it's based on 802.11

    http://www.consume.net/

    "Fed up with being held to ransom in the local loop, phased by fees to ISP's, concious of community? OK so lets build a fresh network, one
    that is local, global, fast, expanding, public and user-constructed.

    This website outlines the strategy for such a network and the progress being made toward its establishment.

    We now have a searchable database of CONSUME nodes operational or proposed.

    Please Register your NODE..!"