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  1. Re:Is it kernel 2.2 yet? on Sarge is Now Frozen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, I was trolling in a moment of weakness!!

  2. Is it kernel 2.2 yet? on Sarge is Now Frozen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to use Debian but I need to get my CD burner from 1992 working and need at least kernel 2.2. thx.

  3. Re:Finance: Money for Moon Base Unknown on Site for Moon Base Determined · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, Moon Base builds YOU!

  4. Re:Huh? I call bull**** on EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows · · Score: 1

    "this clearly gives the average Californian a much greater income than the average French citizen."

    Per-capita GDP and per-capita income are two different things and not necessarily tied, are they? It might be that California has a greater per-capita GDP while France has a greater per-capita income.

  5. Re:Kind of vague article on Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward · · Score: 1
    Ok, got it! When someone is modding someone..uh..

    I'll just mod everyone down just to be safe.

  6. Re:slime forest on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    I agree, I sent him a small paypal donation. I hope he's able to continue to improve slimeforest.

  7. Re:Undersea volcanoes on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 1
    Yes, scientific truth is best found by finding the midpoint between differing opinions. For example, you probably feel you are a human being. I feel you are a paramecium.

    The truth is probably somewhere in between : you are a mollusk of the species Lampsilis virescens.

  8. slime forest on Learning a Language in the Digital Age · · Score: 1
    He forgot to mention slimeforest. It is not free software but it does run on Linux.


    Also he's a warmonger wingnut! That is all.

  9. Re:I just want C++ programs to COMPILE faster on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think even when you are on a single processor box, you can get a bit of speedup with -j2.

    Hopefully, while one g++ process is writing out an object file to disk (waiting for disk io to complete) another can be using the CPU to parse or optimize.

  10. Re:DOJhood! on Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood · · Score: 1

    Was there any other details? Was she truly a British icon, whether or not we liked her books? Did you hear it on talk radio?

  11. Re:The community is YOU! on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services? · · Score: 1

    Is that only in Soviet Russia or everywhere?

  12. Re:I'll believe it when I see it. on Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for Netcraft to confirm it.

  13. Re:Little relativistic phenomena on Star Flung From Milky Way at High Speed · · Score: 1

    Actually I find the metric system is better for stuff in my trousers too - micrometers, picometers, etc.

  14. Re:Bah. I can do it with over 50% confidence. on Blink · · Score: 1

    I think it's great that perl comes with such amazing support for statistical functions - without even needing any extra libraries.

  15. Re:but... on No Pictures, Thanks · · Score: 1

    I was thinking Samara might resort to trickery to get you on the phone. Like you'd have your friend there screening calls, and she'd call and say "pizza delivery". Then your friend would give you the phone and she'd be like "seven days...BOOYAH!" and you'd be like "Doh!"

  16. Re:but... on No Pictures, Thanks · · Score: 1

    Ok, but why did she do it? She's just courteous? Or she just likes scaring people, I guess.

  17. Re:but... on No Pictures, Thanks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I always wondered, what if you don't answer the phone? Doesn't Sadako (Samara) have to TELL you that you have seven days? Just don't ever answer the phone again and maybe she can't get you.

  18. Re:Change Column Types - finally on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Aha, I see my problem. My knowledge of Postgres is coming from 7.2.1 and I haven't tried anything since. Apparently a lot of good things have happened between 7.2.1 and 8.

  19. Re:Change Column Types - finally on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected; thanks; I wrote renaming columns, but actually I meant to say deleting columns - as far as I know this is not possible yet in Postgres.

  20. Change Column Types - finally on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative
    from the release notes :

    Change Column Types

    A column's data type can now be changed with ALTER TABLE.



    Before, to do this, you had to create a temporary table with the changed column type, copy all the data over to it, and then rename the temp table as the old table.

    Thank you Postgres team! Now, if we can rename a column, that would be a nice bonus.

  21. Re:a real life example on Are Extensible Programming Languages Coming? · · Score: 1

    A Turin complete language is one where if you squint at it, you can make out the face of Jesus in it.

  22. Re:You got a tree AND a printing press?!... on Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, 2nd Edition · · Score: 5, Funny

    We used to DREAM of having seeds. All we got was a list of DNA base pairs and we had to synthesize the genomes of a pine tree and a squid and then grow the tree and the squid from stem cells with the DNA inserted injected into them!

  23. Re:Not a great idea. on Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites · · Score: 1
    I know, the poor US is always getting blamed for the smallest things related to Iraq, like
    • overthrowing the Iraqi government in 1960, so that the ever so much better Baathists could take power
    • supplying satellite intelligence to Iraq to help it fight Iran, knowing that Iraq was using poison gas against both Iran and the Kurds.


    Meanwhile Bechtel is painting lots of Iraqi schools, and the Iraqi people have a whole 6 hours of power a day, but you never hear about good news like that in the Li(e)beral Media!

  24. Re:Here we go.... on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 0

    On Soviet Yahoo, dead peoples' email reads YOU!

  25. Re:Russia on What Do Court-Ordered Internet Bans Really Mean? · · Score: -1

    In South Korea, only old people are banned from the Internet (except for email).