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  1. $10 billion a year to repaint the tanks green! on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 1

    yeah right that all goes to paint!

  2. Re:Its all in the architecture on Are Internet News Sites Ready for Major World News? · · Score: 1

    ...and also have seperate servers in New York Telehouse which serves all the content for the people on the other side of the Atlantic. so why the hell do they ask me if I'm in the UK or not whenever I go to their site?

  3. Re:dumbass on Microsoft PPTP Buffer Overflow; VPNs Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    after working tech support, i though MCSE stood for Microsoft Certified Stupid Enduser

  4. Re:I just downloaded and burned 9.0rc3... on Mandrake 9.0 (Dolphin) Is Available [updated] · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's how to update to the latest cooker graphically.

    first open up the 'mandrake control center' (under the 'configuration' menu)

    click on 'software management' on the left

    click on 'software sources manager'

    click on the 'add...' button

    for the 'type of source', choose 'FTP server'

    type in a name (like cooker)

    for the URL, you can point it to
    'ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Ma nd rake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS'

    for the 'Relative path to synthesis/hdlist' enter
    '../base/hdlist.cz'

    click Ok and wait a minute while it downloads the hdlist

    click on 'save and quit'

    now once you're back in the control center, click on 'Install Software'

    Next to All packages there's a scroll box, choose 'by update availability'

    expand the upgradable branch and select the packages you want to update, or click on the checkbox next to upgradable to select them all. once you've selected what you want click on install and wait until it's done.

    quit out of the software packages installation (which should read software package installation, but try arguing that one on the cooker list and see how far it gets you!)

    that should be it.

  5. Re:Good stuff! on Novell Releases PostgreSQL for NetWare · · Score: 1

    A common (but rather misguided) complaint is that NetWare has crappy multiprocessor support - because one CPU is at 95% utilisation and the other is idle. Ever considered there's no need to use the other CPU(s) if the first isn't maxed out? =]

    up until netware 6, novell's support for smp was simply 'it won't crash with more than one processor, but dont expect us to use it'. with netware 6 they rewrote the nlms to use threading and now netware 6 really does support smp.

    having one processor pegged and the other idle on a dual processor box is a pretty good sign that whats running doesnt use multithreading.

  6. xparts - kmozilla? on KDE 3.1 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    has anyone had any luck compling kmozilla (from kdebindings). I can never tell if it's mdk cooker's fault for failed compiles or simply some untested code.

  7. Re:Just one problem... speedbumps on HyShot Scramjet Test Declared a Success · · Score: 1

    what about contrails and wake turbulence? I know that a 757 will leave a wake trail miles long behind it, now what will happen at 100,000 ft (~30km) where the air is thin and the plane is travelling at mach 7.6. Also, what sort of contrails would be formed, and considering contrails effect the climate, and the fact that the primary ozone depletion is between 15km and 20km up, how would having planes routinely flying through this chunk of the atmosphere effect our planet?

  8. Re:Misnamed :( on KDE 3.1 Alpha1 is Here · · Score: 1

    what about kwave? I'm not too familiar with what cooledit is like these days but kwave has most of the features I used to use in cooledit 95.

    here's what they say...

    • KDE2/3 conform GUI
    • 24 Bit Support
    • Undo/Redo
    • Simple Drag & Drop
    • Support for multi-track files
    • Complete zoom and scroll-capability
    • Playback via KDE's aRts or OSS (deprecated)
    • Load and edit-capability for large files (can use virtual memory)
    • Reading and auto-repair of damaged wav-files
    • Supports multiple windows
    • Import of all file types supported by libaudiofile
    • Extendable Plugin interface
  9. compile problems - malloc.h on Kernel 2.5.3 Released · · Score: 1

    if you get the following errors compiling the kernel (as i did),

    ....
    gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.3/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c core.c
    core.c:10: linux/malloc.h: No such file or directory
    ....

    copy a malloc.h file from an older kernel to the include/linux directory. I copied the one from linux-2.4.17 and it compiled fine.

  10. 2 and a half� crew members? on International Space Station: Canada to the Rescue? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "At least 2½[and a half] crew members are needed merely to operate the ISS."

    Wouldn't it be safe to round that up?

  11. how much space junk could be removed by a nuke on Space Station & Shuttle Evade Debris · · Score: 1

    OK, this is America, we got nukes. so many nukes as a matter of fact that we are taking them apart and burying them, why not just put on the best 4th of July firework display ever, and, as an added bonus, vaporise a buttload of space junk? Aside from the massive EMP that would happen, would nukes really work at getting rid of some of the larger peices of junk? What about the blast pushing sattelite out of their orbits? Sounds like fun anyway....

  12. Re:These are the days on Mozilla 0.9.6 Released · · Score: 1

    bless your soul! all apps need to come with a complete list of keyboard/mouse shortcuts so that I don't use things for years just to discover my backwards ways.

  13. Re:Best Part of it All... on New Star Wars Episode II Trailer Out · · Score: 1

    You should watch it again. In the second scene, it shows jar-jar, anakin and obiwan saying sup to amadala, granted he doesn't jump out and yell, "meesa back", but his sorry ass is there.

  14. Re:Minidiscs popular in UK on Quarter-sized CD's? · · Score: 1

    I recently bought a Casio MP3/CD player and it works great. 650MB-700MB's of mp3's is a lot of music to be carrying around on a single cd. The thing only cost $100US and came with a tape adapter and an AC adapter and car power adapter (whatever they're called) plus some headphones. If you already have a CD recorder, that's $100 for a much better product than a minidisc player IMHO, and even if you don't a CD recorder only costs ~$40 according to pricewatch. The cheapest minidisc player/recorder I have seen around is about $150US, which is 10 bucks more for around 140 less songs per CD. As for the media, blank minidiscs I have seen for $30 for 10, whereas I just bought another 50 pack of blank CDs for $15. The choice seems pretty clear to me...maybe the americans consumers are correct for not buying minidiscs!

  15. younger drivers? on Sony/Toyota Developing Car With Emotions · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they forgot that you have to be ~17 to drive in most states! I think most 12 year olds would get tired of a car like that.

  16. Re:Bleah...my firewall logs all of this... on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 1

    You should take a look at the License agreement for AT&T@home (I'd link it, but their site is down...I wonder why?) You'ld be surprised at how many of their rules you are breaking, they don't allow you to run web servers in the first place. I generated a huge list of IPs that are infected with Code Red just last week and was going to send it to AT&T, but decided to make sure they wouldn't string me up for it first and it's a good thing I didn't.

  17. the retaliation begins on First-Person Account Of Today's Attacks · · Score: 1

    can anyone back this up.

    "Explosions lit up the night sky in Kabul, Afghanistan, CNN reported September 11, 2001. The Cable News Network showed footage of a series of flashes and flames in the Afghan capital. 'There are missiles flying across the city ... apparently large incoming missiles,' a CNN reporter said. The report came hours after a major terrorist attack on the U.S. destroyed New York's World Trade Center towers and damaged the Pentagon near Washington."

    http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/story.news.y ah oo.com/news?g=events/wl/091101nydccrash&a=&tmpl=sl &ns=0&l=&e=3&a=0&t=