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  1. Re:So... When will Oracle or Microsoft buy them ou on MySQL Hits $50 Million Revenue, Plans IPO · · Score: 1

    "A private firm can turn down an offer, but a full public company has to go to its shareholders."

    A private firm must go to its shareholders as well.

  2. Re:Plants on other planets on When the Earth Was Purple · · Score: 1

    First, life occurs in nature. Second, it doesn't have anything to do with anti-entropy.

  3. Re:I/O prioritisation on The Completely Fair Scheduler · · Score: 1
    Nope, I used to think that as well.

    argv.py:

    #!/usr/bin/python
    import sys
    print sys.argv
    test.sh:

    #!/bin/bash
    a="1 2 3"
    ./argv.py $a
    ./argv.py ${a}
  4. Re:FreeBSD on S3 Standby State Done Right · · Score: 1

    Ah sorry, I thought it was a standard unix tool. I had to use it on my laptop running linux to get the screen to come back up after it was turned off by power management (the only way to get it to come back on was to switch to a VT and then back to X, I wrote a script to run chvt to do this and had it triggered by xlockmore and it worked like a charm).

  5. Re:Probably Vista on QuickTime .MOV + Toshiba + Vista = BSOD · · Score: 1

    But any kernel mode drivers Toshiba shipped had to go through Microsoft's certification program, so the blame still ultimately falls there.

  6. Re:FreeBSD on S3 Standby State Done Right · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the command chvt, and you may be able to script it and put the script as a button on your panel/dock/whatever.

  7. Re:its bad enough on Goatse.cx Is For Sale · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure you do, Mr. 867045.

  8. Re:I/O prioritisation on The Completely Fair Scheduler · · Score: 4, Informative

    A one line script does the trick, name it kplayer and put it in ~/bin (and put ~/bin at the top of your $PATH):

    #!/bin/sh
    nice -n -19 ionice -c 1 /usr/bin/kplayer


  9. Re:Gee I'd like to listen on RMS Protest Song On Gitmo · · Score: 1

    HOW DARE YOU? It is called GNU/Ogg, not Ogg.

  10. Re:And in America... on In Russia, 50% of News Must Be Happy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Please at least read the article summary, relevant bit: "recently acquired new managers, reportedly loyal to Vladimir Putin." Loyal to him, not legally bound to do what he says to him.

  11. Re:You'd be surprised on The Gigahertz Race is Back On · · Score: 1

    >Getting back to photo manipulation and the hypothetical grandmom, what about using face recognition to correctly tag each person in each picture?

    Is it gonna kill the world if that isn't available *right now* and instead runs in the background for a while>

  12. Re:Only pure heroin is more expensive. on Is Your Printer Ripping You Off? · · Score: 2, Informative

    And that article was totally wrong. Anti-matter generated from a particle collider is by far the most expensive substance known.

  13. Re:Kinda makes you wonder... on Return of the Game Development Ninjas! · · Score: 1

    Whoa, you spelled a lot of words wrong. Can you please post a reply to me saying, "I hate to state the obvious, but I doubt the parent realizes I was spelling the words wrong on purpose?"

  14. Re:If this sounds familiar... on Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks, Nerd Version of Jeff Foxworthy.

  15. Re:Interesting on Phil Harrison Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0, Troll

    Then they would be copying Nintendo, who released a motion-sensing controller for the gamecube and called it a Wii.

  16. Re:My thoughts on Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law · · Score: 1

    I don't think any one other than you is talking about private schools.

  17. Re:Or the better (free, as in choice) option on MS Releases New Media Player Firefox Plugin · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll just chime in with 'it happened to me'.

  18. Re:Don't. Do. That. on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    Oh please DO NOT DO THAT. By showing outrage at someone mentioning that worse things have happened, you ARE making it so that the next guy who goes on a spree isn't dissuaded by the fact that he probably can't make it into the top 3; he/she won't be dissuaded because they will know that after they go through with it they will have a LIVELY audience in people like YOU, who will be OUTRAGED and PAY ATTENTION TO THEM and argue about anything they can.

  19. Re:They need to focus on 5 second ads on Enforced Ads Coming to Flash Video Players · · Score: 1

    Huh? Tv shows are around 23 minutes, with 7 minutes of commercials, or roughly 30% commercials. And you think 1 minute is too much for 5 minutes? (I personally think ANY is too much, but I wouldn't say it is for everyone)

  20. Re:I am not an Economist, but... on New Law Lets Data Centers Hide Power Usage · · Score: 1

    You mean tomatoes.

  21. Re:Follow the money on Why Apple Delayed Leopard for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    "The margins on a $500 phone are much higher than a computer or operating system"

    I think Microsoft, with near 100% margins and distribution handled largely by Dell, et al, would beg to differ.

  22. Re:NOT a Model employee on Microsoft Pressures Testers After Software Leak · · Score: 1

    Didn't AOL get sued for doing something similar to that?

  23. Re:I support the IRS on this issue on IRS To Go After eBay Sellers · · Score: 1

    Since the IRS requires receipts, damn near all of them. The IRS has completely sidestepped innocent until proven guilty, by making 'not proving yourself innocent' a crime which they can easily prove you guilty of, thus sidestepping the constitution.

  24. Re:I am not an Economist, but... on New Law Lets Data Centers Hide Power Usage · · Score: 1

    >Part of the deal is that, because the power companies are granted a monopoly by the public, they have to publicize all transactions they undertake.

    Bullshit; I can't see my neighbor's power bill.

  25. Re:Wifi not working as well as it could? on Xbox Spring Update To Offer Codecs, MSN Messenger · · Score: 1

    Well, as a compromise I guess we could say it constantly wastes battery life searching for other Zune.