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  1. Re:Great new filesystems on ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available · · Score: 4, Informative

    Consider my comment some of that.

    I've had no problems with 5T+ datasets, and we even get about a 10-20% performance boost out of it compared to UFS.

    snapshotting & all those neat features work totally as expected.

    Only minor issue I see is that a zfs send is single threaded, so you cant parralellize it over multiple processes easily.

  2. Re:I'd settle for better basic functions on Super-ATMs Being Rolled Out · · Score: 1

    Newer washington mutual ATMs actually do exactly this - they let you set a preference value.

  3. Re:What I want to see. on Transcoding in 1/5 the Time with Help from the GPU · · Score: 1

    Ding!

    http://www.tarari.com/products-cp.html

    They were in Startup Alley a few years ago at N+I demoing their cards doing Perl regex's and spam checking.

  4. Re:static dhcp ? on What's On Your Network? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sure it does, if you design the system around the VLAN capability of your switches. I worked once at small University that had done just that, where their network registration system would move your MAC address around in VLANs upon registration.

    Only way around it was to spoof your MAC with a known good one that you knew was offline, because as soon as it cmae online, you would be booted off due to the conflict.

  5. Re:Not Surprised on Perl's Chip Salzenberg Sued, Home Raided · · Score: 1

    Anarchists are so CUTE. Cuddly and completely out of touch like a puppy.

  6. Question for Chip on Perl's Chip Salzenberg Sued, Home Raided · · Score: 1

    Quick something I don't understand. If, according to your letter, you were unable to work on your assigned project for legal and moral reasons, why were you making cvs checkouts and checkins AFTER you could no longer work on the project?

    Doesn't make any sense to me.

  7. Re:Let the legislators know how stupid this is.... on True.com Wants Warnings On Personal Ads · · Score: 1

    My letter, is case it helps you:

    Assemblyman Pavley,

    As a California resident, I feel compelled to express my distaste for the bill you have introduced (AB1681) relating to online
    services and disclaimers.

    It is blindingly clear that this bill was written/requested by a single entity, True.com, in furtherance of their business desires. By introducing this bill, you have conscripted the legislative machine for the furtherance of profit of a single entity, which I find unacceptable.

    We do not need forced statements of the lack or availability of background checks. Clients of such online dating resources are free to conduct their own checks if so desired, and warning them that such a check has not been conducted is simply stating the obvious. Nearly everyone knows that newspaper personals have not been checked; those who do not know would not pay attention to such a warning anyways.

    All that will be accomplished by this bill is the forced implentation of base scare tactics that serve to enhance the bottom line of True.com.

    I urge you to remove your support from this bill, and do what is right for your California constituents, not a faceless company from Texas.

  8. Re:So the newspaper you prefer is....? on New York Times Buys About.com for $410 Million · · Score: 1

    Why, that bastion tremendous reporting knows as the New York Post, of course!

  9. Re:Mindtrap on 2004 Board Games Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    He had those horrible PIAA foglights. You know, the blinding ones :)

  10. Re:optimizing a mail client is pointless on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    That would be me :). I'm running a Pentium M 1.6 Banias backed by a 4200RPM drive.

  11. Re:optimizing a mail client is pointless on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I'd think, but apparently not entirely.

  12. Re:optimizing a mail client is pointless on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Its all great to have nice theory like that, but tell me why my personal benchmarks as well as MOOX's own benchmarks show a pretty decent 20% performance boost on startup?

    Its great to expound about this, but I'd suggest you actually test your theory before knocking the work.

  13. Are people intimidated? on Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    People are often intimidated to ask famous people/actors/model/beautiful people to just talk. I don't mean interview style, I mean just talk.

    Are you less likely to sit down and have a beer with someone because they might turn out to be a trek-crazy, or is that more of a problem for the more famous?

  14. Re:Argumentum ad Hominem on Windows vs. Linux Security, Once More · · Score: 1

    If there wee an actual logical argument being made, you'd have a point. But it ABSOLUTELY valid to call in question to person doing the examiniation when the examiniation is subjective!

  15. Re:Is the USA still a democratic system? on American Passports to Have RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    Technically, we are a republic, but yeah :).

    But, issues like this aren't voted on. The State Department issues passports, and the officials in the State Dept aren't voted into office...they are appointed.

  16. Re:But... on Search By.... Email? · · Score: 1

    But your index has a flaw. What about the (VERY) edge case of the hooker having zero STDs? Does that make her hookosity infinite due to div by 0? Undefined?

  17. Fossil Wallets on What's in Your Billfold? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know you aren't looking for Wallet suggestions, but I thought I'd pipe in.

    I love my Fossil Chicago Super Capacity wallet. It has a flip up ID pocket, space for about 14 cards, + money and 2 hidden spare key pockets.

    highly Recommended.

  18. Re:we hereby state... on Automated DMCA Notices Still Full of Lies · · Score: 1

    Well, I think you'd have to demonstrate some damage for a cause of action.....

  19. BeyondTV on Streaming TV Over WiFi to a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Beyond TV does this, and has done it from the start - its really seamless software.

    www.snapstream.com

  20. Re:Neat trick on Sal Wise, Philly eBay Scammer Strikes Back! · · Score: 1

    No - actually, I think he judged him based upon that he stole $7000!

    Suggesting that he is on welfare may or may not be true, but you have to admit that many of the poor, are, in fact on welfare....that why we GIVE them welfare, becaus they are poor.

  21. Open it Up! on USB TV Tuner Recommendations and Experiences? · · Score: 1

    opening your Dell does NOT, I repeat NOT, void the warrenty. I dont know why people think that.

    Get the best card on the market, the Hauppauge WintTV-PVR250, and behappy for ever. You can get it for less than 150.

    If you are really averse to opening your machine, get the external version, the WinTV-PVR-USB2.

    Both have a hardware MPEG2 encoder builtin, and produce fantastic quality, much ebtter than the Avermedia crap you are looking at.

  22. Re:Interesting comment about feedback... on Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism · · Score: 1

    I think we settle for it because thats not the experience that most of us have. I personally find Firefox to be far faster than IE, and not at all clunky.

    Are you sure that your hesitation isn't simply being more comfortable from years of using IE, rather than a realy observable difference in the clunkiness factor? I'm not questioning that its the case, just posing that honest question.

    As to the speed issue, on every recent machien I've tried (P3 and above), Firefox has been much faster than IE...I'm at a loss to explain why its so slow on your machine, and can only say its not true for most people.

  23. Re:Memory replacement, not recall on HP Recall on 900,000 Notebooks · · Score: 1

    Not on most modern laptops you dont. The are designated User Repplaceable parts.

  24. Re:Why put on hold at all? on Appropriate Music for Callers 'On Hold'? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An interesting variant of that for people who dont do well punching a phone number into a computer is the following (which I know that at least one company, SpectraLogic, does).

    You call the support line, and you wait on hold a max of about 1 minute. A real human answers the phone, and he/she takes your name, number, brief problem description (this is a tech support line) down and you hang up. The issue is assigned to arep, who calls you back when they are ready. Its like the OP's system, but you get to talk to a real person, and hear an ETA, or give them 2 contacts numbers, etc, because a human answers. Works really well for me.

  25. Sounds like its working to me. on First Experiences with X.org's X11 Server? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From you checklist there soudns like you got the xserver running just fine...gnome & kde are completely separate, and may need to be relinked?