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  1. They all suck on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    Right now, Windows 7 sucks the least.

  2. It's a good thing on Apple Deprecates Their JVM · · Score: 1

    Maybe the next Java for the Mac won't suck. Their implementation has been crippled with memory leaks and is always back rev. It's slow and clunky and I've always had the impression that they intentionally developed it that way so people wouldn't use it. Good riddance.

  3. Re:And there are statistical aberations... on iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that you own one. Ok.

  4. And there are statistical aberations... on iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' · · Score: 1

    I know 2 people that own iPads: a 60-something guy with a GED that spent his life working as a clerk or a delivery guy and never complained about it and a 91 year old WW2 vet that became a real estate agent after the war. What they both have in common? They're both really inquisitive and they both love new technology. Neither of them are selfish or elite.

    Editors: Quit posting troll articles.

  5. And their evidence is? on Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux · · Score: 1

    We've suffered this case for how many years and this is their evidence? Someone tell me that they actually had a software engineer with extensive multi-generation and cross platform software development experience testify. Code like "if (foo->bar == 0) return 0; return foo->bar;" simply DOES NOT qualify as duplicated code. This is their evidence? Come on.

  6. Get a grip already. on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    Seriously.

  7. Duplication of effort on NASA Trying To Reinvent Their Approach · · Score: 1

    How about a World Space Agency instead of this massive expenditure and duplication of effort.

    Oh, right. That would make sense.

  8. Cause and effect on ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication · · Score: 1

    And the modification of a duplicate block will generate not only a copy-on-write fault but also a law suit by whoever owns the COW patent.

  9. Make the check payable to... on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Send me that "measly" $7.8 million would ya? Since it's just a drop in the bucket...

  10. Turn the corner... on Bootstrapping a New Technology? · · Score: 1

    Start a consulting business removing viruses from folks' Windows boxes. That's what I did after I quit my job and pissed away my life's savings on an idea that only I thought was a good idea.

  11. Before you learned to speak on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    Slackware v0.0something around 1994. Stored on and ran off a 5.25" floppy on a 386-25 with 256K of RAM and a 40Mb disk. Or 192K/20Mb. It was 20 computers ago and hundreds of OSs ago. I ran it long enough to say "this sucks" and went back to my brand-X SVR4 install which was installed off of about 50 3.5" floppies.

    I just upgraded my quad-core box with 4G RAM/500G Rust from Hardy to Jaunty yesterday from an ISO I downloaded.

    Time warp...

  12. Yeah, this is a worthwhile topic... on Nominate SysAdmin of the Year By Oct. 12 · · Score: 0

    ...while so many other stories go unpublished, we're patting ourselves on the back.

    Nice job.

  13. Ackerman ala Backus on John W. Backus Dies at 82; Developed FORTRAN · · Score: 1

    {a(=@[1,%0]->+@[2,%1];(=@[2,%0]->a@[-@[1,%1],%1];a @[-@[1,%1],a@[1,-@[2,%1]]]))}

  14. And I'm a damn good Java programmer too... on Tech Geezers vs. Young Bloods · · Score: 1

    I think the more important point is that old farts like me (45 yrs old, 20 yrs since my B.S.C.S.) are still useful, but since I'm not fluent in the 100 different web technologies (I don't recall all the acronyms), I'm not employable. My salary is too high and I'm not a JBoss guru (and I have a real dislike for Windows). My options are to find a new profession or become a PHB. Yeah, that's it. Get stupid and become a manager.

    That new career in woodworking is looking real promising.

  15. Re:What usually happens... on Keeping the Lights On · · Score: 1

    Uh yeah. I'm still waiting for that phone call. A year and a half later.

  16. Who's kidding? on Microsoft Porting SQL Server To New Platforms · · Score: 0

    I hacked a M$ gateway, a VMS box, and got inside. They've actually written a PL/1 interpreter in C# and rewrote the entire database in it. It's worth noting that the C# virtual machine that is running the PL/1 virtual machine runs under a CMS session within a VM emulator on top of a software S390 processor under Linux inside of M$ virtual PC. Locutus is still waiting for the arrival of a PC that supports the terabyte of RAM required to run the new product though.

  17. Cooler Master TAC-T01 Wavemaster on Really Stylish PCs and Peripherals · · Score: 1

    http://www.mbx.com/p/cooler_master/tac_t01_wavemas ter

    Pics don't quite do it justice.

  18. About your career on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you knew then what you know now, would you still
    get involved with Star Trek?

  19. I'm all broken up on Star Wars Producer Says Box Office is Doomed · · Score: 1

    Hollywood will go bust. Yeah, bite me. I'd rather watch the movie on my big screen at home anyway. The local theatre is run by kids who don't control the sound and the screen has holes in it.

  20. Here's why I don't think so... on Do Digital Photos Endanger History? · · Score: 1

    I've got a Sony Mavica MVC-CD200 that writes the pictures on a CD.
    I take pictures that I wouldn't otherwise take because I've got the storage.
    And when the disk fills up it gets filed.

    Professional photographers don't have such equipment? Even if they don't, they don't file their
    photos on a CD-R?

  21. Re:Remember the past on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I fear all we have done is to wake a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve."

    Japanese Admiral Yamamoto
    After attack on Pearl Harbor
    Quoted from http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/generation/ph.htm