User: Ken Broadfoot

Is Novell doomed?

On: Is Novell Doomed?

Short answer: Yup.

--ken

Time to dig out the Vector Graphics spec

On: LaserMAME: Playing Tempest In A Whole New Light

I can see a whole new wave of Vector Graphics games coming out again.

Since I still love Tempest that is a good thing.

--ken

Re:fight for this

On: Music Owners' Listening Rights Act

I agree, except for the "Vote for Bush" part.

Sixteen years of Bush ( George, then Jeb ) will ruin America.

It is simple really

On: Why Does The Universe Exist?

The Universe exists because of this way cool dude:

http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicscience.g if

Weebles Wobble but they don't fall down!

On: Bouncing Robots Exploring Planets?

These are the most expensive Weebles yet!

Prior Art will not allow any patents though.

Surviving MC-Hammer

On: 20 Ways The World Could End

You are right!

I am still amazed that we survived MC-Hammer.
Even more mazed that he still is alive.

To add to your list:

1) Mr T
2) Boy George
3) Newt Gingrich
4) The entire cast of 90210
5) Vanilla Ice

17 -- Mass Insanity

On: 20 Ways The World Could End

Here is the proof:

1) The Backstreet Boys
2) N' Sync
3) Britney Spears
4) George Bush

I dream about sex..... this is disturbing.

On: Tetris Study Reveals Dreaming's Role In Memory

"Though they dreamed about playing the game (as is common), they failed to improve."

Does this mean I will not improve?

--ken

Just my two cents...

On: Are Virtual Worlds Worth It?

I remember back when the best computer games cost a quarter a play. I wasted tons of quarters too.

I had more fun playing Battlezone and Tempest that I do playing Quake now.

In fact I pretty much play Chess and Backgammon only now on computers.

Oh, and XBill.... *grin*

The comment above was not meant to be a "TROLL"

On: Microsoft Appeal Schedule Set

It was just a simple question on what power the president actually has over cases pending in the DOJ.

Thanks for the wasted moderation point.

--ken

Next president's term, eh?

On: Microsoft Appeal Schedule Set

What can George do to derail this thing?

If George Bush wins he said he would do something to "end this anti-trust nonsense" or something to that effect.

Is there anything he can do as Prez to stop this? Could he appoint people to the DOJ to "drop all charges" ??

Re:This is perfectly possible on the 2.2.X kernel

On: Apache vs IIS in Performance?

I was testing on a Compaq Proliant Dual Xeon 800 1 gig of Ram, 8 Gigabit ethernet cards running traffic to 8 separate networks to 16 clients.

With 2.2.X the driver I was testing could only muster a total thruput of around 370 MBPS.

With 2.4.0-test8 ( ia32 )

My Cisco switch was the bottleneck.

This is perfectly possible on the 2.2.X kernel

On: Apache vs IIS in Performance?

I test nic cards and no mater what I use gigabit or fast ethernet. I can't get a total thruput of more than 370 MBPS.

I tried similar test with kernel 2.4.0-test8 and nearly got fired for shouting.

I was able to max out my switch and there is no upper limit in sight with the Cisco hardware I curently have available to me.

The 2.2.X TCP stack is NOT multi-threaded.
The same bechmark on the 2.4.X kernel will take your breath away.

This is depressing

On: Microsoft Making Internet Appliance Chips

How am I gonna crash my Windows box if I can't get it to boot up in the first place?

Excuse to drink

On: Microsoft Quickies

Finally.

Well, this is cause for celebration.

I was going to use the fact that it was Thursday as an excuse to drink ( not that I actually need one ), but this is soo much sweeter.

Prost!

Kinda Spendy

On: Super-Fast Hard Drives

But geez what a great swap partition it would make!

Re:I love dicks

On: New Mega Alphas

The question is does he want 8 dicks or 32 dicks?

Re:So Omega == 1 after all... not suprising howeve

On: Universe's Curvature Measured?

Wow!

Cool....

Thanks for that post... *grin*

So Omega == 1 after all... not suprising however..

On: Universe's Curvature Measured?

This is confirmation at a universal scale of the matter/energy equivalence. i.e. the entire energy of the universe exactly is balanced by the force of gravity.

If this is true then:

There REALLY is missing "dark matter" at least 70 percent of the universe is unknown to us.

The "heat death" ( entropy increasing )of the Universe is going to be our/its final fate. ( Unless that dark matter has some exotic properties we don't know about, which at this point would not suprise me )

And apparently there is such thing as a "Free Lunch" ( as in beer ). We don't have to pay back the Big Bang with a Big Crunch.

I kinda was hoping for alternating Bangs and Crunches, it allows one to imagine perhaps existing again in another iteration.

A Universe that lasts forever and dies an entropy death kind of does not allow that.

How depressing...

Bill is only worth 57.1 Billion anymore...

On: UNIX.com On eBay?

So he can't buy it....

Maybe Larry Ellison?

Obfuscated code release.

On: Will Microsoft Open Windows Source Code? (No!)

This probably would not be far from the truth.

They may win an obfuscated code contest or two.

And they think Gay Marriage was bad.

On: Quake Wedding

The "right wing" seems awfuly worried about gay marriages. Wonder what they would think of this?

Jon Katz?

Sleep Deprivation = Brain Activity = Hallucination

On: Sleep Deprivation Increases Brain Activity

The extra activity is hallucinations..

Ask any Crack/Meth/Coke-head.

hahaha

On: Ask Security Guru Dave Dittrich About DDoS Attacks

Captain Taco... I like it.. I hope it sticks...

( just a little demotion, eh? )

Re:Why exactly should the average citizen care?

On: Ask Security Guru Dave Dittrich About DDoS Attacks

I really believe the motive is money via stock price manipulation.

Taking down a dot.com company is like grounding an airlines fleet.