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  1. Only two things come out of Redmond... on Windows Longhorn Screenshots Available Online · · Score: 1

    Steers and crappy software.

  2. Re:Did you see it? on Cassini's First Glimpse of Saturn · · Score: 1

    "It is silently Running...."

    Congratulations, your knowledge is truly trivial.

    Movie:Silent Running
    The third maintenance robot (Louie) got torn from his leg and flung into space while his ship the Valley Forge traversed the rings of Saturn.

  3. Did you see it? on Cassini's First Glimpse of Saturn · · Score: 2

    A one legged robot floating in the rings.

    (Resolve that obscure reference, I dare you!)

  4. Quote from Alan Cox on BitKeeper EULA Forbids Working On Competition · · Score: 1

    I like this post to lkml from Alan Cox:

    "Linus used to do about a patch every 2 days. Nowdays its a lot slower. I put that down to buttkeeper"

    Haw!

  5. Devo said it best... on (CD) Pirates Take to the Ocean · · Score: 1

    I'm a big pirate and I like to steal.
    Ah ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

    Go speed racer.

  6. Seems obvious on Cell Phones: Japan vs. the United States · · Score: 1

    "reasons for why the Japanese kick Americans' butts..."

    With butts that big, how can they miss?

  7. Re:This will collapse like a black hole... on The Ideas Behind Longhorn · · Score: 1

    "let him even get a persian kitty..."

    Maybe that's the source of Bill G's attitude problem:
    Not enough pussy!

  8. Re:Its time for a tux show. on Disney Switches To Linux For Animation · · Score: 1

    "Tux is such a cute friendly creature/character, I would really like to see a Disney cartoon series based on that."

    They could reuse the South Park movie scene where the general shoots Bill Gates in the head. Just add Tux crapping on his corpse.

  9. Features? on FreeBSD 4.6 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is this the version with the Hurd kernel, runs on computers with nanotube transistor technology, and comes with Duke-Nukem Forever bundled?

    Or is that version 5.0?

  10. Re:Modded up if bashing IE, down if bashing Linux on Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here · · Score: 1

    > Do you even know what Mozilla is?

    as Spock once said : "...it is a wreath of pretty flowers, that smells bad."

  11. Re:Sheesh! on FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed · · Score: 1

    > Haven't you editors heard yet? BSD is dying!

    Since we're playing Saturday morning troll:

    Doctor McCoy logs off a FreeBSD machine...
    "he's dead Jim"

    Scotty logs onto a Linux box...
    "Captain! She's gonna blow!"

  12. The judge should have waited... on Salon on Video Games and Free Speech · · Score: 1

    for and reviewed Doom III. Now that's gonna be some art baby!

  13. Window Dressing on Rolling Your Own Business Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Money is tight and you are upgrading 400MHz machines? Yow! My company is only now decommisioning some 286 machines, a 400MHz P2 would be heaven.

    Anyhow, IANAEE (I am not an Enron Employee) but I suggest fresh Windows installs and some spiffy new case labels on the existing machines and pocketing the cash. No one will suspect a thing!

  14. Re:This is cool but... on Wireless, GPS-Loaded 'Bait Car' Traps Thieves · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the police just lose them in the crowd of teenagers who already drive like this?

  15. Re:Uhhhhhh.... on Bdale Garbee elected Debian Project Leader · · Score: 1

    "but the rest of us call him Bdale"

    Fine. But how do you pronounce it?
    (Lee-Nuhks?)

  16. Re:Exercise works better on Provigil Extends Your Day? · · Score: 1

    "Yes, but if you're out exercising, you're not WORKING, slacker! Get back to work!"

    Plus it interferes with my weight gain program...
    Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!

  17. Re:Whoa. This is quite amusing. on Email, a Legally Binding Contract? · · Score: 1

    > Subject: I want to give you free money

    This is not a contract anyways. Both parties must have a 'detriment' (the service or thing they are exchanging). What you are describing is called 'gifting'.

  18. Whatta you call that thing? on New Semiconductor Coolers · · Score: 1

    The material, devised by Rama Venkatasubramanian and co-workers...


    I hope they don't name the devices after the inventor. "Give me a Venta..., a Venkatip..., a Venksubrim..., ah dammit! Just give me a heat sink!"

  19. Re:Most universal remote on In Search of the Best Programmable Universal Remote? · · Score: 1

    "but it allows me to change DVD, push the cat out of the way..."

    A guy at a Widespread Panic show once told me you could train a cat to change the TV channels by using a water pistol, a box of rubber bands, and repeatedly shrieking "Bad Kitty!"

    ...but he might have been pulling my leg.

  20. Almost enough... on Consumer Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    to power my 1.4GHz Athlon.

    "The power module generates up to 1200 watts..."

  21. Re:100,000 on Code Red Worm Spreading, Set To Flood Whitehouse · · Score: 1

    hmmm.... it now says:

    Welcome to http://www.worm.com! Hacked by Chinese!

  22. Re:Windows Update on Code Red Worm Spreading, Set To Flood Whitehouse · · Score: 1

    "NT sysadmins who know their shit are on Microsoft's Technical Bulletin list."

    For a fix this important, MS should use a less rarified environment.

  23. Re:What about Whales? on Supercavitation: Ultrafast Underwater Weapons · · Score: 2

    "Or du you only listen to Greenpeace pullshit,"

    I listen to all sides.

    "portraying whalers as psycho killers?"

    they are indisputably killers.

    "That's just pathetic."

    I agree.

  24. Re:What about Whales? on Supercavitation: Ultrafast Underwater Weapons · · Score: 1

    My guess is that Japan and Norway can adapt this technology to whaling. Much more effective than a harpoon. (assuming whales are not extinct before the technology can be developed)

  25. Re:Why Upgrade? on Microsoft Postpones Office XP Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    "why you are claiming Win2k has a 2 Gig memory limit?

    Just wondering, because... well that's wrong"

    The NT 32-bit address space (4GB) is divided between the kernel and applications. By default, applications only get a 2 GB address space (00000000-7fffffff). The rest is used for the kernel, page tables, system pool, and cache.

    Certain versions of NT/W2K change this to 3GB(app)/1GB(kernel)

    see http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/NTDRIVERS/AWE.htm