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  1. Re:Why I use FreeBSD on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready · · Score: 1

    Whoops, my bad

  2. Ewww on Hacker Tinkering With Yahoo Stories · · Score: 1

    I have no intention of checking Andover's "back doors". It's just not my bag.

  3. Re:Why I use FreeBSD on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready · · Score: 1

    Give OpenBSD a try, it's great for certain roles since it seems geared more to servers than FreeBSD. As of 2.9 I believe that it shares the ports collection with FreeBSD too. Highly recommended for firewalling or other network services.

  4. Re:Copper-based fungicides on Mmm ... Purple Disease-Resistant Potatoes · · Score: 1

    The story of how the first fungicide is very interesting. In France there was a terrible fungus problem that they though was going to ruin the wine industry. A scientist that was studying the problem was walking on a road in an area hard hit, and noticed that some grapes next to the road were untouched. There was some kind of film on the grapes he couldn't identify. He talked to the farmer who told him that he had mixed copper and I think lyme to put on the the grapes by the road to keep travelers from eating them. Which also happened to work as a fungicide.

    On a potato note I'm from Wisconsin, in which some areas grow a lot of potatoes. At first this would seem great since farmers spend big bucks fighting the blight. Unfortunately a huge customer is McDonalds, who has special machines for processing taters into fries. Well the machines can only handle one specific type of potato and they don't want to get different machines. So at least in this area this new type won't help because economics forces are in favor of monocropping one that one type of potato.

  5. Re:Why do stacks grow downwards? on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 1

    A stack is identical whichever way you orientate it. If you reverse the orientation you can still overflow the buffer, it will just start overwriting memory at decreasing memory addresses.

    In summary: It wouldn't make a difference.

  6. Re:What is the future of the JBOSS project now? on Lutris Closes Enhydra Source · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think the issue is they can't get the nice logo's on the box by going Open Source with the current J2EE license.

    Don't care about being recognized by Sun? => Problem solved!

  7. Re:I can prove that VRML will never catch on... on Review Of 3D Web Browsers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look 'harder'

  8. Re:Management Overhead. on Exchange vs. Linux/390 Comparison · · Score: 1

    Management overhead would be pretty specific to a company.

    I would think that counting for depreciation would tilt things to IBM a little more. Those mainframe's value usually stays higher than PC's, where within a year their value has dropped 25-50%

  9. Re:Bogus Numbers on Exchange vs. Linux/390 Comparison · · Score: 1

    They are assuming you are paying the support costs already since you already have the big iron, and would already have needed a support contract.

  10. Re:Where is united 175? on More Links And Reports On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    Could be that no one can get close enough to it / there isn't enough left to be sure right now.

  11. Re:rebuilding the towers... on Our New Pearl Harbor · · Score: 1

    I agree that WTC V2.0 should be built. Those responsible should be put on trial, a counter-strike has an appeal but will only make marters. Putting them in jail would be a much more satisfying punishment. Life in jail would be worse than being killed by a US bomber attack in the middle of the night.

    Rebuilding WTC in some form would be the ultimate form of passive resistence.

  12. Risk = Evil on Creative Games sans Violence? · · Score: 1

    Risk is truely evil given form! In college a couple of times we got a game going... and going.... and going. One went so long people were subing in and out, I don't think we ever got done before 2 am.

  13. Re:Old board games: on Creative Games sans Violence? · · Score: 1

    Just because there is a correlation between playing chess and being a good student does not mean you can assume that playing chess causes better grades. What is so tricky with studies is showing causation, in this case you cannot determine if one factor is causing the other. Either one may cause the other or they may have no effect on each other and a third factor is creating the correlation. If the study showed causation between playing chess and then getting better grades THEN it would be truly useful. You don't directly claim causation even if it is implied so I will give you the benefit of the doubt.

  14. Re:That's the hard way of solving the RB on When Lego Meet Rubik · · Score: 1

    I always preferred to disassemble the blocks the stickers are on from each other and rebuild it to get the solution.

  15. Re:Some sites are already doing this with cookies on Image Detecting Search Engines' Legal Fight Continues · · Score: 2, Informative

    Opera has a wonderful setting allowing sites to set all the cookies they like, and when you close the browser every single one goes into the trash. No problems viewing pages or placing orders and it makes tracking you a little bit harder.

  16. Re:where to find? --- what to do? on What Do You Do With Old Computer Parts? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will that cheap Linksys router let you write whatever TCI/IP filtering rules you would like?

    Can you install apache and PHP on it to put up a basic website?

    Will it tell you how much traffic you are sending to and from the net?

    Can you install wget on it so you don't have to use a spyware infested windows DL manager?

    My 486/33, 16 MB RAM, 1 GB HD does all this and more if I wanted it to, and does it well. It keeps the wolves away from my gaming machine and my game latencies increased by maybe 10 ms. The broadband routers are nice but don't expect them to do what a PC can. You say that the routers are useful and well-engineered, and imply that old x86's are not. Old x86's are just as well-engineered, they just didn't have the advances in technology or in design concepts we have now. Were steam engines poorly engineered because they were built before internal combustion? Were the engineers of the steam era less intelligent than modern engineers? Answer: No!

    Also, don't a lot of devices, such as broadband routers, use 486 class chips?

  17. Re:Inefficient compared to what? on Parasitic Computing · · Score: 1

    Bah, who has time to add the zero. Most of the images aren't worth the effort when I can change my viewer to suit my needs.

  18. Re:Inefficient compared to what? on Parasitic Computing · · Score: 1

    Funny, my roomate loves the image viewing program I threw together in Java. It's so fast it increases his PPS (Porn Per Second). The only real delay is my own fault, when you open a folder with 1000+ files it takes a few seconds to sort them (I hate when 10.gif comes before 2.gif).

    Guess I shouldn't have used a bubble sort :-)

  19. Re:slashdotted quicker than... on Ask AtheOS Creator Kurt Skauen About His Creature · · Score: 1

    That's great but the images load from atheos.cx so it won't get you far.

  20. Re:3 inch disc = power savings on New Philips eXpanium Will Use 3" CDs · · Score: 1

    If the cd isn't spinning all the time when it does it will require less power.

  21. 3 inch disc = power savings on New Philips eXpanium Will Use 3" CDs · · Score: 1

    smaller disc = less mass to move (assuming 3 inch discs have the same density)

    I wonder how much power this would save, considering the player must keep the disc spinning throughout operation.

  22. No hits here on Code Red Back For More · · Score: 1

    I'm an @home customer, and have yet to be hit by this one. One of the above articles said it skips IP's ending in 0, perhaps it skips any IP with a 0 in it. I'm 24.*.0.* Side note, got two V1 attacks today. (120 total)

  23. Might be time to move... on Your Daily Dose of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    to the fatherland. It's not too late to learn German is it? I could give up my programming job and go work at the Lego factory! Maybe then I wouldn't have to worry about Microsoft anymore. And hey I could go be on Sprockets! Then I could run across the boarder to France and rub it in their noses how the US pulled their butts out of two world wars!
    Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!

    &#60Castaway&#62
    The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
    &#60/Castaway&#62

  24. To go or not to go on World's Largest (And Smelliest) Flower Blooming · · Score: 2

    I've been debating if I should go see this flower or not. I live in Madison and could easily go down there but it sounds suspiciously like the plot or Little Shop of Horrors.

    Feed me Seymour, feed me!

  25. Re:Is an ISO available? on OpenBSD 2.9 Released · · Score: 2

    He's not charging for the code. He puts everything onto a CD and then copyrights the CD layout. Just like a book, the letters and words in it are free to use but the author copyrights their arrangement. You could download all the code and make your own ISO's, which you could post on the internet. But that would undermine the project's support.

    When I did my 2.8 install I did FTP, since the computer didn't have a CDROM, and it was completely free (after you pay the cable bill ;)