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  1. Re:Can't get ISO on FreeBSD 3.4 released · · Score: 2

    Efnet:
    ùíù Topic (#freebsd): The 3.4-RELEASE ISO IS READ ONLY BECAUSE ITS FUCKED -- OK?

  2. The human factor on Top 500 Supercomputers · · Score: 1
    A couple of machines that fell off the list:

    • Bill Laimbeer (formerly of the NBA's Detroit Pistons), 28.6 GF/s while playing defense in the paint.
    • Claude Lemieux (of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche), 26.4 GF/s (he actually gets penalized for flopping, cutting down his efficiency).
  3. Re:My question... on Tucows Opens Domain Name Registry · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, $70 per domain is the cheapest available right now; but at least you get the domain for two years.

    I highly suggest register.com: They make it extremely easy to change administrative contacts, IP addresses/nameservers, and whatever else that's relevant to your domain name.

  4. Re:Extend & Embrace on Linux to Get Windows Apps? · · Score: 1

    With Window's source running rampant

    What do you mean by this? Sure, I'm on IRC alot, but I haven't heard of this being on anybody's "0-day" list. Care to expand?

  5. Other isotopes? on Solar Powered Chemical Processing · · Score: 1

    Now I can finally make use of all of these buckyballs I created while I was a Chemical Engineer major at MSU. I have to work on getting these integrated with my UPS...

    Does anybody know if they tried this with the other isotopes (C-70, C-120, C-160, etc.)? C-60 is the most common, but I wonder what effects this process would have if they used larger buckyballs.

  6. Re:Flamebait: "viruses" on Finns Outlaw Virus Writing · · Score: 1

    The plural for "virus" is viruses.

    There is no entry for virii.

  7. Developed at Michigan State... on Scientists create digital bug-life · · Score: 1

    Will it never arrive?

    Well, since it's being developed at Michigan State, the digital representation of life will arrive with about 10,000 others, late at night, with a bottle of beer in one hand and a torch in the other hand. Then, about 30 minutes later into the simulation, digital representations of law enforcement will show up and begin showering the digital life with digital representations of tear gas. The simulation will then go into chaos with the digital life setting fire to the digital law enforcement's vehicles.

    Very realistic :-)

  8. Re:How long 'til no more free RH ftp? Remember Mac on Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over · · Score: 1

    Right now, only 1.2% of the shares (800000 out of ~63 million) are for people on "the outside." I don't see this happening, especially since the other 98.8% is owned by people who work for Red Hat.

    Isn't it also against the GPL to charge for it? I'm sure RH could think of charging for wear and tear on their server, but come on...I highly doubt this would happen.

    The execs (the 98.8%) wouldn't allow it to happen.

  9. Re:Get in the game, people... on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 1

    This is so typical of people who think the Internet is just Email and the WWW...they aren't even looking on Efnet and Undernet for these things. I don't think I've even attempted to download phil3z off webpages because it's totally unreliable...I always prefer to grab my tarballs from FTP sites because it's faster and ncftp can resume in case something pukes.

    If these lawyers are serious about cracking down on VCD trading, they should hire some 14-year old kids for minimum wage to spend 8 hours a day on IRC and write down the domains of the FTP servers...and knowing lawyers, they probably realize this but opt to get paid the big bucks for doing relatively nothing.

  10. Math Class on Stepping to Solid State Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    This is completely theoretical, and I am using approximates for several figures -- but you'll get the general idea.

    Say a "supercomputer" (from the article) is equivalent to a 10,000 MHz machine. This would make our neat new "chip" the equivalent of a 8.76e15 MHz processor. Wow.

    Going to distributed.net and looking up the current stats for the RC5-64 project (http://tally.distributed.net/rc5-64/), I saw that it had done 27,504,975 blocks yesterday with 41,655 machines contributing. Let's say, on average, 30,000 machines contributed for the full 24 hours (some people may turn theirs off, etc.). Let's also say that the average computer is the equivalent to a 300 MHz machine, which gives us a combined 9,000,000 Mhz per day.

    At 27,504,975 blocks per day, it would take approximately 2,499 days to go though all of the blocks. However, if we substituted our 8.76 quadrillion MHz processor in, we could do 2.677e16 blocks per day. Not too shabby. At that rate, we could have done all of the RC5-64 blocks in 2.57e-6 days, which is 0.22 seconds.

  11. Re:TRANSLATION on Ballmer: Apache is simply better · · Score: 0

    CT lives down the road from me in Michigan...I think it is in the United States. :)