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  1. Re:Outdated view of geeks on What Kind of PHB Do You Want? · · Score: 1

    If one has been on this earth longer than 10 years, and can not spend 8 hours of productive time at work without recess, then they should go back to kindergarten and try again.

    I question your definition of "needs" for the work environment.

  2. I seem to remember on UNIX Process Cryogenics? · · Score: 1
    reading about theorectical OS's that were designed this way...if you flipped the power switch off then on again, you were instantly back where you left off. I think it was in "Accidental Empires" (Robert X. Cringly).

  3. Microsoft's Frenetic Development Cycle on Security Flaws May Be Microsoft's Undoing · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Microsoft has created a monster--a consumer public that expects an OS to never be older than a year or two. So MS is in the position of having to release software before its been properly debugged. I am no lover of Microsoft's business practices, but the public will need to be educated before anything can change; look at how the public reacts when they announce a delay in the release of a new OS. Heaven forbid they take the time to do it right before unleashing it on the world!

  4. Biting the hand that fed it... on Dolby Tells NetBSD Project: Don't Decode AC3 · · Score: 1
    The area of microcomputing was considered a bastard step-child in the business arena for so many years. All the while, hobbyists, geeks if you will, nurtured the "ugly duckling" into a powerfull force to be reckoned with.

    Only once the general public discovered the (remember this?) "Information Super-highway", did big-business suddenly become interested in throwing their money and their weight around in the micro-community.

    Isn't it sad that they're using their money and their weight to wrest control of this technology from the very people who believed in it and nurtured it when it was unwanted.

  5. Small racks on Rackmounting at Home? · · Score: 1
    Check musical equipment resellers. Musician's Friend and Amercan Musical Supply spring to mind.

    I got a 3' rack about 5 years ago from AMS for about US$200.

    -Brett