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  1. Re:funny.. on NASA Announces De-Orbit Mission For Hubble · · Score: 0, Redundant

    actually, i'm canadian :) just poking a little bit of fun at them

  2. funny.. on NASA Announces De-Orbit Mission For Hubble · · Score: 1

    NASA being american... and the news of this big mission being announced by the.. CBC? (that's Canadian Broadcast Channel for those in the dark)

  3. what's funny is.. on More Cell Processor Details And First Pictures · · Score: 1

    they say this cpu has 234 million transistors!

    is it just me that has a bad memory, or is that around 5 times more than any other cpus on the market right now? this is just plain SICK

    hope they got some pretty nifty technology to prevent this baby from going up in smoke, because i am NOT attaching a huge A/C to that thing! i find my p150 is noisy, and the p4 laptop unbearable. can't imagine what this will be like

  4. Re:How can you ask, and still be planning to go? on Taking My Freedom With Me to China? · · Score: 2, Funny

    considering slashdot is blocked by their great firewall, there sure isn't ANY "legal" readers from china

  5. Re:but... on Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    at work we have a similar one. it's not a rotary (sadly) but it has the same shape. and BRIGHT RED.

    people just couldnt help but laught when they saw that in my office (being the sys/net administrator and having a red telephone....)

  6. Re:Great for Openoffice, etc on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 1

    hu no. 8 bit support is completly inexistant for headers. 2.0 simply refuse to process a subject line with an extended character

    sorting is a bit misleading, but i meant switching between folders, your previous position isn't remembered
    the interface isn't much different? maybe you should take a good look, they completly changed it!
    faster, see my comment about calendar taking 45 seconds to load
    imap was completly rewritten, it was in the changelog

  7. Re:Great for Openoffice, etc on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 1

    i just wish they hadn't completly fucked up evolution in their 2.0 rewrite :\

    8 bit support is WORSE than 1.4
    sorting doesn't work properly (did in 1.4)
    interface is uglier (not that 1.4 was pretty)
    it's SLOW (loading the calender is 30-45 seconds, and it's VERY slim with 5-6 events scheduled in the month)
    exporting calendars/tasks lists doesn't work properly (no support at all in 1.4 afaik)

    the only good thing about it is the IMAP that actually work like it should now.

    maybe they should fix those issues before trying to port it to windows...

  8. Re:call me crazy... on Windows Longhorn to make Graphics Cards more Important · · Score: 1

    windows 3.1 is definately still used, altough not much. i know of 1 (out of ~3000 customers) that still use it (along with a 14.4k modem). it does the job, why should he bother upgrading?

  9. Re:It's funnier to note... on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    i don't know about that, my phone is fairly large...

  10. Re:Speaking of people understanding on 100 Years of Einstein · · Score: 1

    ouch. you need better cow-workers

  11. Re:Nostradamus Predicts on Netcraft Releases Anti-Phishing Toolbar · · Score: 1

    date first seen is probably pulled from netcraft's database

    netblock owner and country is from a whois on arin/ripe/apnic 's whois servers

  12. Re:Oblivion? on eBay Retires MS Passport Sign-In · · Score: 1

    i think telequebec had a character named "passe partout" way before jackie chan did (a whole tv show in fact).

    i'll give you this bit: it was meant for kids under 5 years old

  13. Re:it's lame that... on Building Applications with the Linux Standard Base · · Score: 1

    i'm not against this sort of certification, and as another poster pointed out it's not an acceptable thing to do for a home user.

    but for businesses applications, it's perfectly fine.
    if you have to fear that your system "upgrades" are taking too long, your HA setup is flawed. it is not a risk, it should be part of your quality testing no matter if it's supposed to work or not.

    my managers don't fear linux, in fact most of our shop is on linux. most applications Just Work, yet we STILL test them... even on supported distros, just in case something is wrong, or someone fat fingered the config. part of life, it should be part of your plan

  14. Re:it's lame that... on Building Applications with the Linux Standard Base · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that's called ldd and strace. those let me solve missing deps problems in under 5 minutes

  15. Re:Noth Catch-22 but CASH-22 on Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 · · Score: 1

    i still have a customer with windows 3.1 on a 386 and 14.4k modem... he's happy with it, why change?

  16. Re:Already being done (to an extent) on Initiative for Autonomic Computing Gains Strength · · Score: 1

    with the prices of these babies, it's part of the support contract (and you wouldn't WANT one of them without a support contract!)

  17. Re:Squatting on 66.3 Million Domain Names Registered · · Score: 1

    i got mine from www.dynonames.com registered for 10 years, for about 80$

  18. Re:It's interesting to note... on Adieu to Ken Jennings · · Score: 4, Funny

    hahaha no i don't think he does anymore :)

  19. Re:Should we "Abandon Phones" too? on Do-Not-Call List Could Be Opened For Phone Spam · · Score: 1

    and that is when, my friend, that we will each get a FXS (FXO?) card for a small asterisk box and a quick perl script to pre-screen calls. number private? sucks to be you but you ain't getting my time. number on a blacklist? ditto

    (yes there is a potential for false positives, but your friends should know better than to use a phone)

  20. Re:No power supply... on Steve Ballmer's $100 PC, Sans Windows · · Score: 1

    yes i do, firewire hehe.

    let that be a lesson, don't post 5 minutes after you wake up

  21. Re:No power supply... on Steve Ballmer's $100 PC, Sans Windows · · Score: 1

    i can see such a pc replacing my current p150 router . i just hope it has a usb2/firewall plug for an external hd and it'd be heaven :)

  22. Re:The Unofficial Public WiFi on Verizon Seeks To Nix Fee-Based Municipal Wireless Grids · · Score: 1

    our company has an agreement with 17 (admitedly rural) cities to provide high speed internet access to them.

    they ran some singlemode fiber all over the place, we supply the equipment(or part of) and bandwidth. we also get to put a wireless antenna on their rooftop to provide internet to the citizens of those cities.

    cooperation can work if you work on it

  23. Re:Hrmmm... on AOL Dumping Some Broadband · · Score: 1

    let me assure you, dialup is profitable. the cost is about 4$/customer for the hardware (PRI, AS, bandiwdth), add maybe 6 to that for support/billing (i'm being VERY generous here because i don't have the numbers for those) (in canadian dollars even!). we charge 25$/month for unlimited service, so that's 15/customer/month of pure profit.

    limited accesses are even more profitable

  24. Re:Red Alert? on Review: Evil Genius · · Score: 1

    i foun the control room would be deserted on red alert.

    agents do pick up the loot (someone claimed falsely they didn't in another reply to this)

    after you get a research lab though you can do some pretty neat stuff, like building sentry guns outside. 6 of them and an alert eye to tag agents/super agents keeps everyone out of your base, even john steele, who is considered "overpowered" on the evil genius board. he never even reached my base. what a shame

  25. Re:What your distro choice REALLY says about you on What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i think you nailed it right on the head!

    or at least this list is less biased than the one in the article