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  1. Re: inherent Beowulf'n on Replacement for "Microsoft's" Virtual PC? · · Score: 1
    no no no! not what has been done but what could be...

    I meant every app automatically uses any compute nodes available, not just specialised apps.

    The win32 layer is NOT an emulator in a window - I mean a layer like MacOS layer and the UNIX layer. It would be transparent. kinda like wine...

  2. Gimme a Win32 LAYER! on Replacement for "Microsoft's" Virtual PC? · · Score: 1
    This is my fav mac subject since it evolved to having a UNIX layer... How about a WIN32 LAYER (not "in a window") !?! not in software but Hardware. ie have an x86 in there too. IFF apple implement this layer then the arguments for "no software" "not fast enough" kinda vanish. I appreciate memory and gfx will be a little difficult, but not impossible. details, details....

    While I'm dreaming... I'll have transparent clever clustering of apps.

    With a Win32 layer and inherent Beowulf'n I would only buy macs (even @ $10k) rather than never....

  3. Q-Crypto on Three Electrons Entangled · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this mean (theoretically) you could entangle a third photon to an already entangled pair and then strip it off - of course without harming the originally entangeled pair?

  4. Cone Shells on The Platypus: Good For You · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This is not new, cone shells (a mollusck) can shoot out a spike and inject venom which WILL kill you in less than 10 secs (4?).

    Scientists have seperated certain agents in the venom which, when grately diluted, are excellent pain killers for chronic pain, apparently with little or no habbit forming problems (don't they always say that)

    Apparently this is a popular idea - treating chronic pain with venom derivatives.

  5. too easy! on Why Does Manga Succeed Where American Comics Fail? · · Score: 0, Funny
    porn...

  6. No Loo? on Microsoft's Home Of Tomorrow Has No Bathroom · · Score: 1
    So I guess the MS user would be "full of Shit"

    Fancy that?!?

  7. Ya gotta love the Aussies on Don't Eat The White Snow Either · · Score: 1
    Pissing in the wind and selling as snow!

  8. mini laser pointers on Favor Ideas for a Geeky Wedding? · · Score: 1
    Dim the room... LIGHTS!

  9. Marketing - creating the need on US Military Uses Spam, Internet Explorer · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Spam is used to market items which are dubious to say the least. I guess GW's personal Jihad against Sudam Husux is looking more and more fickle each second....

  10. Re:Why not one of the commercial UNIXes? (Apple?) on "Turn-Key" Linux-Based Fileservers? · · Score: 1
    bugger!

  11. Re:Why not one of the commercial UNIXes? (Apple?) on "Turn-Key" Linux-Based Fileservers? · · Score: 1
    You only need one "seat". For all the rest you just install from the same copy. The "seat" is for the docs and support. Besides you manage all the servers from one "seat" anyway (or not, it still don't matter). As for overkill, you are essentially right, but there was a requirement to be easy, and the need for redundancy and clustering == AS.

    Anyone can d/l AS free. It's the support & stuff(docs?) that costs.

    so for PREMIUM subscription
    $2500 / (70 * 2) = $17.86US
    or
    $799 / 140 = $5.71US
    or
    $costOfBandwith + $costOfCDR = SRPMS

  12. Re:Why not one of the commercial UNIXes? (Apple?) on "Turn-Key" Linux-Based Fileservers? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Since they're non-profit, I guess this means budget. Xserves are more than $7000!! what planet are you from?

    Redhat Advanced Server + 2 (or more) $200 Wallmart boxes (for redundancy) per remote.

    All the redundancy & clustering is handled out of the box.

    With $upport of varing level$, you're way ahead, <snagglepuss> an order of magnitude even...sheesh!</snagglepuss>

  13. Are the MS servers on Suggestions for Unique Names for a Server Room? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Then you could name it after a local Brothel. You know the place you go and pay to get screwed ;)

  14. It's about Recycling. on European Parliament: No More Ink-Cartridge Chips · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Everyone seems to be on the pro/con $corporation bandwagon. This is only an effect of the decission.

    The issue is recycling. The EU considers issues from an environmental and economic perspective and not solely an economic. Their rationale is not so concerned with the monetary price as much as the environmental impact of these cartriges in manufacturing and land-fill.

    It appears the rulings were made from the responses from printer manufacturers et al. - With all their: can't this, wont that... While some of it is vaguely valid (eg replacement jets in the cart) This will only encourage innovation.

  15. Killer app? on Decentralization · · Score: 1
    VisiCalc & 123 were killer apps. They were quite innovative for their time. To compare these to blogs as a killer app is down right dissrespectful. I mean whats so innovative or interesting or marketable about blogs. Technically they are simple SQL & Perl (or whatever), hardly an innovative achievement beyond a web-guestbook. I guess banner adds count for marketability now-days, but it's not a seriously relevant business model - ie: enough to call it marketable.

  16. I see there still on DreamHack Winter 2002 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Getting there furniture from Ikea....

  17. Re:Sure on Silly Kernel Panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2 · · Score: 1

    I understand the commands. I don't understand for the life of me why this warrants a PANIC!!!! ok a "denied" error response is UNDERSTANDABLE (well to me) this is just sloppy...

  18. Man Trap on Building Your Own Hobbit Hole · · Score: 1
    Conversely it works a treat for the females of the species...

  19. Re:We Don't Have To Be on Speaking Out For Free Software In India · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately John lives in a not-so-eutopic world. (No cures for cancer today) and he dies. Poor John. What about the Company he worked for? How's it gonna "add up" now. All is not lost, coz John worked (as all professional persons do) to a set of standards known to all, which in the event of his demise (yadda yadda) can be applied by anyone who has access to the standards by which he "added stuff up". This can be done in a foreign language practally, agian because of the standards.

    Sally, has time to write the user doc for the recipe program (she helped design too) Jimmy was hacking up on his FreeOS box and feels quite justified in using the GeForce driver "that guy in India" wrote.

  20. OR what plnet are you from? on Coolest Cluster Ever · · Score: 1
    Dude you do too much one handed browsing...

    Each of the $3K hookers are surely to be better in reality than anything you could imagine in your WILDEST fantasies. $3K is one hell of a hooker... She could make you forget computers even exist!!!

    AND THERE'S 100 OF THEM!!!

    *SMiLE*

    "Hand me that jar of mayonaise, I'm goin' in!"

  21. FREE Recycling on The Darker Side of Computer Recycling · · Score: 1
    With good karma to boot! it seems so silly to throw it away.

    http://www.computerbank.org.au/

  22. Distraction = Accidents on "Smart" Billboards Debut in Sacramento · · Score: 2, Informative
    Here in Oz "roadside TV" is a no-no, you cannot change a roadside billboard automatically, or with any frequency manually. This is a result (apparently) of a study on driver concentration.

    The sugestion is that if a billboard changes in a drivers immediate or peripheral vision they will be distracted/alarmed by it.

    This much different from seeing a billboard off in the distance and reading it at your leisure as you approach.

  23. svgalib on Porting DOS Applications to Unix? · · Score: 1
    You probably don't need/want to load even a thin X, so go direct.

    www.svgalib.org

  24. Re:Not to be confused with... on Supercomputer To Use Optical Router · · Score: 3, Funny
    Which, in turn, is not to be confused with:

    the Comittee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society.

  25. Swirly thing alert! on Possible Signs of Life Detected On Venus · · Score: 2, Funny
    Are you sure it's not something stuck on the view screen again. Just cos it's wiggling doesn't mean it's alive...