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  1. Re:It'd better happen quick then on Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Now I have 512GB of SSD storage for OS, apps, and primary data. That is then backed by 3TB of HDD storage for media, samples, and so on.

    You do realize what you've done is create a hybrid drive system where you have to manage what data is stored where, instead of letting the drive do that for you, right?

  2. Re:nope, doesn't hurt RH on Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work for a company that does whine about the cost of RHEL. Unfortunately, we are not talking about $100 licenses here (at that price we would just buy licenses for every server), we are talking about either a $349 per server per year subscription for the cheapest option on 2 socket or smaller servers, or a $1499 per server per year subscription for the larger servers. When the annual OS subscription cost for a server is higher than the annual hardware maintenance contract cost, it gets hard to justify.

  3. Re:Just remember... on POV-Ray 3.5 Rendered · · Score: 1

    A chrome sphere over a checkered floor.

    Not at all the same thing. :)

  4. Re:Reminds me of on Community Sets Up Their Own DSL · · Score: 1

    Wanna come see my OC3?

  5. Re:Another Zapstation post??? on Review: ZapStation Media Box · · Score: 1
    This is the second one in a few months. Fess up, are you guys getting paid by Zapatistas?

    Did you actually read the review? It basically says that the thing is a piece of shit. If ZapMedia paid for this review, they should demand their money back.

  6. Re:Huh? on Is Hacking Cars a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    Nah, you still need to turn the key to actually move the car with most remote car starters, so we just wire the bomb to the keyswitch instead of the ignition. Pretty simple, really.

  7. Re:Coolest Flying Geek Toy on Geek Gift Ideas 2001 · · Score: 1
    Imagine no batteries or recharging.

    Bullshit, your own links give the lie to this statement with the text: "Features Blackhawk and controller, Vectron docking base, power pack and instruction booklet. AC/DC transformer is included."

    Seems like the product is cool enough without needing to lie about it.

  8. Re:Screen Resolution on What Do You Think of ASUS Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Dell has the same 1600x1200 display on some of their high-end consumer laptops. I've got an Inspiron 8100 with the UXGA display, and it kicks ass. Q3A at 1600x1200 & 75fps, baby. Prices are much more reasonable on the Inspiron than on the Precision Workstation.

  9. Re:Wouldn't it be better... on Linux Counter Drops 90.000 Users · · Score: 1
    ...if the Linux Counter people ran a mass OS fingerprinting campaign

    Great idea, except that my linux (and other) boxen aren't vulnerable to OS fingerprinting. Some of us actually care about network security...

  10. Re:Is it not a waste? on SETI@Home to Crunch More Data · · Score: 1
    Alien paranoid race: they've got their own version of seti, they wait till the wavefront of electromagnetic radiation produced by an emerging civilisation (i.e by us) reaches them. Next they take steps to prevent us ever becoming a problem for them: just set some nice massiive missile in motion, accelerate to relativistic speed and have it home in on the radio signals.

    That's a great idea. Everyone, write your appointed representatives and get this pushed through the system.

  11. Video in? on Using A Laptop as KVM Head? · · Score: 1

    Where did you get a laptop with KVM inputs? I've never seen one.

  12. Re:The goal is to do away with flat rate anything. on Why Won't You Pay for Content? · · Score: 1
    sure, property taxes pay for common services, the point is that in some places, none of those services exist, but the taxes always have to be paid.

    Think roads, schools, emergency services, etc. then. At least in the US you'll find very few areas with none of those.

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  13. Blatant Plug on Rumored LinuxCare/TurboLinux Merger · · Score: 1
    Mission Critical Linux is providing Linux solutions and Linux service and support, available now. Why wait for a rumored merger?

  14. Re:Sense of purpose, perhaps? on "War Rooms" Double Software Productivity · · Score: 1
    I think you meant to say "IANACP"

    ITYM "ITYM IANACP".

  15. Tom's Hardware Guide? on It's All About the Pentium (4) · · Score: 3

    I'm surprised to not see Tom's review of the P4 listed in this roundup. See: Intel's New Pentium 4 Processor at Tom's Hardware Guide.

  16. Re:Corporate management on UCITA Hits A Few Speedbumps · · Score: 2

    The FSF Deluxe Distribution includes all of the GNU software. Linux isn't part of the GNU project, so wouldn't be included in the distribution. It would still be a cool thing to do, but it wouldn't really answer his boss' inane request.

  17. Re:2Ghz?? on 2Ghz P4 Shown Off · · Score: 2

    Sorry people but Intel is pulling a fast one here. What they have done is allow some part of the CPU's core to run at 2x the rest of the chip. If they were to do this to the PIII and find one which would run at 1GHz, then couldn't they say they had a 2GHz CPU?

    Everything I've read on the chip disagrees with this. True, the ALUs on a P4 are running at 2x clock, but Intel hasn't yet made the mistake of marketing the part based on ALU speed. So, in the 2GHz demo, the ALUs were actually running at 4GHz.

    The AnandTech Editorial posted here a few days ago covers this.

  18. Sounds like you are using RedHat 5.x on Can't install Linux on an Extended Partition >8gb? · · Score: 1

    If so, the solution to your problem is to use the updated 'boot' and 'supp' images that are available on the redhat ftp site in the 5.2 directory. These images add support for Win98 extended partitions to disk druid, which is used for partition assignment even if you use fdisk to create the partitions.

    If you are installing from CD, you'll need to boot of the boot disk and type 'linux supp' at the LILO prompt, as some of the fixes are actually on the supplimental image.