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  1. Re:Free internet. on Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Internet? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Alternate thrusts between her vagina and anus. Her vaginal juices facilitate easier entry into her anus.

    Obligatory Warning: Don't do this. Cross-contamination is nasty. Always use a fresh condom when switching from anal to vaginal. The other way around is not so important.

  2. Re:Music Store Opens in another Country... on iTMS Launches in Japan · · Score: 1

    In Australia, the ACCC* has ruled that it is perfectly legal to import those cheaper CDs and sell them for whatever you want to sell them for. Similarly, they have ruled that cracking the DVD regioning system is the consumer's right. Nice bunch of people they are, standing up the the corporates.

    I just can't wait for the iTMS to open in Australia... I'll even go out and buy an iPod then.

    * Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

  3. Aspect Ratios on Goblet of Fire Teaser Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Is it me, or do aspect ratios on movies keep getting wider and wider? Now we're up to 30/13 already.

  4. Re:what for ...? on 1Gbps Broadband Service for Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    You could just about do that 3D gaming over a gigabit network!

    Say 800*600 pixels/frame * 32 bits/pixel * 60 frames/second = 0.92 gigabit/second

  5. Re:what was HD size on those macs? on Apple Easter Egg · · Score: 1

    Living in China, it's easier to just buy pirated CDs than to bother downloading warez. They cost less than a dollar each, and you don't have to bother backing it up.

  6. Re:teh living computer on Flying By Brain · · Score: 2, Informative

    This time the story comes around again, and it has been embellished even more! It was debunked on Snopes here, back in 1999!

  7. Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1
    And 'x' always comes before 'q' in 'xq' pairs, but how's that gonna help you?

    I never could remember how to spell 'eqxuisite'. Thanks.

  8. Re:ads on Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size · · Score: 1
    Your homework assignment for today is to find a value 'n' such that 2^3n = 2^9. You may take off your shoes if necessary. Begin.

    Obviously n = 3. 2^(3*3)==2^9

    Or if you actually meant 10^9, then:

    2 ^ (3 * n) = 10 ^ 9
    3 * n = log(10 ^ 9) / log(2)
    n = log(10 ^ 9) / log(2) / 3
    n = 3 / log(2)
    n ~= 9.9657842846620870436109582884682
  9. Re:Macintosh Flight Sim 1.0 on Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator · · Score: 1
    Your Mac Plus had 512x384 resolution. EGA is 640x350 in 16 colors. Sorry, you lose.

    My Mac Plus has 512x342 resolution, not 512x384.

  10. Re:x86 only on ATI's Radeon Linux drivers no longer supported? · · Score: 1
    Yes, unfortunately it often is an artificial 'market segmentation' thing. I must have hit an unlucky run with expansion cards...the PC PCI cards I have tried in my PCI PowerMac have all needed BIOS tweaking to work (or not work, as the case may be). These have included SCSI cards, ATA cards, and of course the infamous PCI Radeon 7500 BIOS flashing trick. The markups on the Mac version of the same card are outrageous (especially in Australia).

    I recently bought a new PC PCI card, a USB host controller, installed it in my PowerMac 7300, plugged in a USB mouse and switched it on. First boot, no drivers or configuration, both the ADB and USB mice control the pointer perfectly. Both on the console and in X, no configuration required. That's Linux for you!

  11. Re:*drool* on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 1
    Really? That would eliminate C/C++, lisp, Java, FORTRAN, perl, awk, sh, TeX, Scheme, Prolog, Python, .... What's left? BASIC?? Hah!

    Good old "Hello, world!" + CHR$(13) + CHR$(10). Or there's Delphi which IIRC uses the hash character (#).

  12. Re:*drool* on Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK · · Score: 1
    Real operating systems don't use escape characters as a path separator.

    Real programming languages don't use path separators as an escape character.

  13. Re:What are yuo talking about? on The Australian Broadband Disaster · · Score: 1

    Lazz wrote:
    > I love my bpc.
    >
    > It's a great service.

    That's BCP. Check yuor settings. Hope this helps.

  14. Re:Is it me or does everyone get crappy sites on Compute Google's PageRank 5 Times Faster · · Score: 1
    (Here's hoping the next thing they split out are mailing list archives.)

    Actually, I often find mailing list archives very helpful for solving technical problems.

    However, if they would instead add them into their Google Groups hierarchy it could be quite good.

    --
    Simon.

  15. Re:DVD-R?????? on Rabid TiVo Fanaticism · · Score: 1
    DVD-R?????? For TV? A VCD or maybe SVCD recorder maybe.

    DVD-R is a media type, not a codec! Having a DVD-R drive doesn't mean you will record DVD-quality video with it.

    The point is to store 4.7GB of VCD-quality video, ie. over 7 hours of video on a DVD-R disc.

    --
    Ralmin.

  16. Re:'wouldn't it be neat if...' on Build Your Own PowerPC? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yes, it would be wonderful to have an emulator for recent Macs, that was capable of running MacOS X!

    Microcode Solutions are writing an iMac emulator now, both an all-software emulation and a hardware emulation solution (PPC CPU on a PCI card). It currently still vaporware, but they say it is nearing completion.

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    Ralmin.

  17. Re:the new P4 *that* will run at 3.06 GHz on Intel Pushes Pentium 4 Past 3 GHz · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt that your firewall's CPU runs at 91.8 mHz, that is, it takes 10.9 seconds for each cycle.

    --
    Ralmin.

  18. Re:This is no typo... on Intel Pushes Pentium 4 Past 3 GHz · · Score: 1

    Where did you get that figure 1,052,688,062,745 from? Ah, you've done:
    (3 * 2^30) / (3.06 * 10^-3)
    But GHz is not 2^30 Hz, it is 10^9 Hz! The correct answer is that 3 GHz is 980,392,156,863 times faster than 3.06 mHz.

    (If for some WEIRD reason you did want to specify a unit of 2^30 Hz, you must write it as GiHz or gibihertz.)

  19. Re:Bah.. on Dell No Longer Selling Systems w/o Microsoft OS · · Score: 1
    This is exactly what drove me to buy an iBook over a wintel notebook. I found it extremely offensive that I could not purchase a relatively decent laptop without purchasing Windows XP with it.

    And did you manage to get Apple to ship your iBook without Mac OS installed?

  20. Re:Best Part on HighWLAN · · Score: 1

    http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/ircd.html

    To "apt-get install ircd" (298.1 KB) at 9600 bps, it would take 254 seconds, that's less than five minutes. They say they spent at least an hour online.

  21. Re:It's not dead yet... on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1
    when you buy a new HDD, how would you be able to set it up without the trusty dos boot disk (or the disk that comes with it, they dont come with cds for that stuff

    You don't need a boot disk to set up a hard disk. If it's a second hard drive on an existing system you just partition and format it from within the existing OS. If it's replacing the boot hard drive you just boot from your OS CD, and it will allow you to partition and format the drive as part of the set up process. This works perfectly on Win2000/XP and all Linux distros I've tried.

    what about school??? if you're in college and you type a paper in your dorm, you dont want to burn a word doc to cd just so you can print on the school's computers, and also if you type a paper at home (even gradeschoolers do it) and need to revise it at school, you use a floppy (alot of schools dont let you check personal email now so no emailing to yourself)

    Of course you email it to yourself. As if the school wouldn't let you use email to grab your school work!

    virus scanners always have emergency boot disks incase you get a boot virus (would you want that whole ~1mb of files on a CD!!???)

    The last time I made a set of virus scanner emergency boot disks it took five floppies. Who wants to waste that much time and money when it would be so much easier to use a cheap CD?

    buy a new network card and you need the drivers before you can get on your network, and those come on a floppy disk

    Mine have always come on a CD, but often they're available with the operating system anyway, at least good enough to get you running before you go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest drivers.

    you format an old computer which you no longer have driver disks for, so you go to another computer and download all needed drivers that arent on the win(if you're using win) disk, and put those on floppy and run it to the other computer

    Or just burn a CD; chances are with all the needed drivers it'll take too many floppies anyway.

    i have been on many computers lately that wont boot from cdrom, which could be a prob when installing a new OS

    That's a lame excuse, if CD booting doesn't work there's something wrong with your motherboard or CD drive, go upgrade them to something that works.

  22. Re:So? on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1
    And on the 943th page of the Acknowledgments sections, I would like to point out that my ability to count this high is due to Mrs. Smith, my elementary school teacher.
    Who evidently didn't do a very good job; that should be 943rd .

    --
    Simon.

  23. Re:This is an incredibly common problem on Security Hole Lets Lycos Run Arbitrary JavaScript · · Score: 1

    While it is true that this is a problem with Lycos which should be fixed, it's indicative of a wider problem.

    Scripting languages in browsers should not be capable of DoS attacks like the while(1)alert('') one I posted above.

    Something needs to be done to actively prevent massive window-spawn or un-endable alerts. You should be able to stop scripts from a button such as Stop.

    And make sure the button is clickable! (It's not clickable on Mozilla or IE due to modality issues).

  24. Lycos URL to hang IE5 on Security Hole Lets Lycos Run Arbitrary JavaScript · · Score: 1

    This link is a fine example... difficult to get out of on Microsoft browsers.

    Click this