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  1. Re:Huh? on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    I assume you are kidding right? Or Mayby this is news only for the really nerds....

  2. Re:Every couple of years on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 1

    Could it be that after the entanglement, the two particles stay connected at close range through a dimension not observable with today's tools and theory? This way, no law gets violated (in the entanglement case) and information gets transmitted faster than light had it traveled through our traditional 4 dimensions?

  3. Blows as hard as the older cousin... on Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter · · Score: 5, Funny

    And she could swallow earth.

    At 350Mph, that's what I call a massive blow job...

  4. US is not different from China. on Search Companies Questioned About Chinese Policy · · Score: 1

    Censorship exists in both countries and in fact, in most countries. I cannot say in all countries because I just don't know. But I know this: in the US, nudity on public television is forbidden as well as saying "fuck" on public radio. This is censorship too. And censorship being what it is, we witness only shades of the same beast. Free speech and censorship cannot coexist. Instead of blaming Google, people should try to win their own freedom(of speech).

  5. What about this on AI Researchers Produce New Kind of PC Game · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine a beowolf cluster of trained anonymous cowards imagining a beowolf cluster of these....

    Maybe, after all, such a cluster exists because there is such a post on everything remotely clusterable.

  6. Taxable income? on LinuxPPC64 Contest · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know that this is a "contest" but since you kind of get paid (toyota prius) for work (a pice of software that works on PPC), would you include the price as part as your taxable income? What do the IRS people think about that?

  7. I have been using it for 2 years now on RollerMouse Aims to Replace the Traditional Mouse · · Score: 1

    I have been using the rollermouse for 2 years now, both at work and at home. I must tell you that it is by far the best mouse I have used. The fact that I don't have to remove my hands from over the keyboard has saved my me from many neck/back/arm problems.

  8. Re:Typical Lame Soundbite on France National Library Attacks Google Book Effort · · Score: 1

    I read the editorial writen by Jeanneney and found that he nowhere attacks google or the google initiative. He only asks for Europe to pull together and do the same.

    The betanews article is, IMHO, substandard and manipulates his readers to think that the bad Frogs are against America. Those who bothered to read the original editorial will understand what I mean.

    For those who cannot read more than 1 language (english) here is a translation by google:

    http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fweb%2Fimprimer_article%2F0%252 C1-0%402-3232%252C36-395266%252C0.html&langpair=fr %7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_too ls

  9. Re:Correct. A classic monopolist example on Does Microsoft Cause Lower Software Prices? · · Score: 3, Interesting


    Good for the consumers? No.

    Sure - they're paying less for bread.


    Until the population notices that the bread is of very poor quality like the rest of their mass produced cheap food after which they can only conclude that paying less made them fat.

    cheap food = cheap nutrition = expensive & serious health consequences.

  10. Re:Two Points for Debate on Solaris vs Linux Continues · · Score: 1

    Yes, I remember the scrubber patch... But sun's sales rep kept saying that this problem was neither one of design or manufacturing... ;)

  11. Re:Sweet on Hikarunix: The Go Distro · · Score: 2, Informative

    Personally, gentoo is my Go distro... but all the ebuilds are not available...

    Anyways, I use Gnugo with gGo which is the interface to pandanet and gnugo. Sometimes I also use kombilo.

    http://gobase.org/ is a wonderful website
    http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/go-unix.html has many Go related soft.
    http://goproblems.com/ The name says it all
    http://gtl.jeudego.org/ Is the Go teaching ladder where you are paired with someone stronger than you, to learn go from a stronger human....
    http://www.joseki.com/ Again the name says it all...
    http://playgo.to/index-e.html is a website that has a nice intro to go.

    Go keeps the mind healthy...

  12. Re:I'm wondering... on Microsoft To Share Office Source Code · · Score: 1

    Or maybe use the binaries they compiled instead of the ones shipped by MS. This way they know that the binaries is from the source code provided by MS...

  13. Damn, I did it again. on New Ring Discovered Around Saturn · · Score: 1

    How it looks like, of course.

    Ballmer: "Developers, Developers, Developers"

  14. Re:I don't know how that region looks... on New Ring Discovered Around Saturn · · Score: 0

    How it looks like, of coure

    Balmer: "Developer, Developer, Developer"

    Me: "Preview, Preview Preview"

  15. I don't know how that region looks... on New Ring Discovered Around Saturn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The "contorted F-ring region"

    But that region is really my favorite woman bodypart ;)

  16. Re:Real life on Best Training in Linux Administration? · · Score: 1

    I can actually use both, emacs for coding and vi for sysadmin stuff.

  17. Re:Real life on Best Training in Linux Administration? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yep, parent is right. And you have the Gentoo forums to help you if you are in need. Installing gentoo will certainly teach you lot's of stuff. But if you are to become a Linux sysadmin, your first step, IMHO, should be to drop windows and start using Linux on your work computer and on your home computer. Also, get him to give you a few old PC's to play with. Like 333Mhz which you can get for about 50$. On these PC's, don't use gentoo, compiling everything will be much too long. Use a precompiled distribution and preferably the one your Boss wants you to use in prod.

    Set up the networking, play with apache, PHP, postfix, Openldap. Create and delete useracounts, explore /etc/init.d, read the rc script to understand how your server boots.

    Instead of going on a class, get him to buy good books. I like wrox and Oreily books but others may be good also.
    Learn to use man, the sysadmin's bestfriend.

    Learn vi. Vi may be hard at first but it is very useful. the linux version is generaly vim. You may also use gvim but it's better to kick yourself in the ass and learn it if you are to become a Unix sysadmin.

    Also, a good source of info is generally included in /usr/share/doc.

    Finally, http://www.google.com/linux, I could not live without.

    I do not know many sysadmins that understood Linux and wanted to go back to windows.

    Have fun!

  18. They killed kenny??? on They Killed Ken! · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't worry, He'll be back tomorrow.

  19. Re:Quick! Send in your prior art! on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 1

    # generate_pi |grep -i `cat /dev/uspto`

    and prove that in pi is prior art to any patent at uspto.

  20. There must be a mistake in their datasheet. on Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts · · Score: 2, Informative

    in the Edisk FC datasheet they state that:
    Write endurance (Typical): 27 years@100GB/day erase/write cycles

    That was for the 1G Edisk. Now assuming that this is sequential access, it would imply 100 passes/day * 365 * 27 years = 985500 erase/write cycles.

  21. Re:Portability, GNU and brains on How Microsoft Develops Its Software · · Score: 1

    And the preview button is beyond the reach of my mouse ;)

  22. Portability, GNU and brains on How Microsoft Develops Its Software · · Score: 1

    12. Portability is for canoes. While clever QA management can minimize the burden somewhat, the complexity of multi-platform support is beyond the reach of most development organizations. Maybe this proves that OpenSource is after all a good development model. What has been achieved by GNU, portability, is, according to this development specialist at microsoft, beyond the reach of most development organizations. Only a commited team, driven by computer science can achieve portability. If the development is $$ driven, portability is beyond reach.

  23. Re:This says quite a bit about... on SpaceShipOne Flight Not as Perfect as it Seemed · · Score: 1

    and about the size of his balls ;)

  24. Re:My default Linux install is just more USEFUL on What Keeps You Off of Windows? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Like you, usability is the main point. Good support for focus follows mouse is a major point for me. CLick doesn't raise window is an other. Tweakui provides badly implemented version of these features. A good scriptable shell. sed, awk, perl, gcc, find, grep, strace, tcpdump, lsof to name a few.

    9 years without using a virus or an anti-virus is an other incentive. The virus of the week always makes me laugh. Yes one day virii might hit the Linux user but for the moment, Windows is the easiest target for kiddies. ;)

    Last winter, I tried to give XP a shot... it lasted a week and I could not take it anymore.

    Bottom line, linux is just more usefull.

  25. Re:Calling Marcus Brody on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not it will not fail. They will surely find Hussein's WMD. Bush will be re-elected claiming that this was a message from god and that he is the chosen one.

    But seriously, how did this get on /. WHat's next? The search for santa's House at the North Pole?

    What have the nerds become...