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  1. lineage the blood pledge.. on The Trouble with MMORPGs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lineage is actually a pretty good game.

    I recommend it to people who don't want to be crowded in UO or would prefer a "darker" world than EQ.

    It is a timesink, all these games are.. hell, computers are.. it is just the way things work..

    anyway the site is at
    http://lineagethebloodpledge.com
    easy to start, eases you into the game nicely (which is something none of the others do) and people are good..

    cheers

  2. I am sure slashdot is next.. on X10 Pays $4.3 million In Damages For Pop-Unders · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slashdot gets sued for message-postings on articles.. next on cnet...

  3. Re:And running on Linux, no doubt... on Robot Sales Are Exploding · · Score: 1

    no.. running on ITRON
    http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/10/19 .html

    and

    http://www.ertl.jp/ITRON/home-e.html

  4. and yet more ways.. on Fitness Racer: PC Control of an RC Car · · Score: 3, Funny

    and yet more ways to waste time..

    somehow I remember time being at a premium..

    seems a long time ago now..

    time to get me an RC car..

  5. Re:ActiveX? on Microsoft Antitrust Compliance Questioned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, with the release of the Apple iTunes and them selling 1M songs proving that the model works suddenly MS is gonna want to come in and try to dominate the market and shove Apple over..

    It is just what they always do..

  6. Re:MS on Patching Paranoia - How Fast Do You Patch? · · Score: 0

    yep..
    with the MS "root" of the day patches I wonder how many man hours per day people in the USA spend "rebooting"?

    Sitting here with some servers that have 280+ day uptimes..

  7. that website is one... on Top 5 Submerging Technologies Pinpointed · · Score: 1

    why didn't they list their site as dead as soon at it is listed on slashdot..
    someone want to post the article here?

  8. Re:KDE or Gnome on Seven Years of KDE Celebrated · · Score: 1

    http://lucifer.intercosmos.net/images/
    look at the first screenshot_2003...

    there are a bunch in there.. but..

  9. Re:KDE or Gnome on Seven Years of KDE Celebrated · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    umm.. actually if you want your box to not crawl (ever) you might be better off with something like evilwm (
    http://lucifer.intercosmos.net/images/screensho t_2 003-05-08_16%3A25%3A34.png ) for a screenshot..
    Takes a bit to get used to, but sits in memory at around 40k total and is easily hackable..

  10. at least it wasn't on Seven Years of KDE Celebrated · · Score: 3, Funny

    at least it wasn't "kewl d3skt0p env."

    though sometimes when seeing the latest junk for karumba I start to wonder..

  11. Re:Using an apostrophe doesn't make a word plural. on FTAA Treaty Threatens Innovation · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    oops.. mexicans..

  12. total information lockdown on FTAA Treaty Threatens Innovation · · Score: 4, Funny
    It will require all countries to change their domestic laws on a wide range of topics, including intellectual property rights.


    All your mind are belong to us..

    just great.. now we will have mexican's filing patents for velcro.

  13. Re:What's up with Slashdot? on Text Mining the Multiverse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yes, I have noticed the metamod thing too..

    in addition there is also this tasteless group of guys who keep making posts about greased-up yoda dolls which has also forced me to start browsing at +2..

    seems that mod points are being handed out with less frequency than they were before.

    I think they should start handing them out for people with "excellent karma" and then track if the metamods agree with the point distribution..

    that is just me..

  14. create large volumes of junk to feed this.. on Text Mining the Multiverse · · Score: 1

    yea...

    text mining is fun until someone creates something to generate a bunch of junk to feed to the text miners..

    take a look at my .sig

  15. Re:of course it does... on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    what site?

    we are a large domain name registrar (not the largest, but close).

  16. Re:of course it does... on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    our one java server at present that is running jacarta and tomcat is a huge resource hog and is slow on top of that, we are actually porting java code to PHP left and right because of issues with it being slow.

    saying that it is actually a much faster box than the php boxes we have, and that those php boxes can outperform the java ones (at every turn, the benchmarks are ridiculous) we are not considering java at all.

  17. of course it does... on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 2, Interesting

    we use PHP here for huge web applications.. we have six servers pumping out one website and it connects to a redundant database server.

    The same system in java probably would not work, and if so would take up so many resources as to be no efficient.

    If you are interested in more examples of some somewhat crazy things you can do in PHP check here to see examples of using it on the commandline for ncurses (which I wrote the primary tutorials on zend.com for) and for handling sysv shared memory.

    Cheers

  18. hahah on Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    this must be an early april fools or something.

    btw: FP

  19. Re:Chalk up another wind for the childrapists on Miyazaki's "Nausicaa" Dub Updates · · Score: 1

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..

    hahahahahah..

    dude.. I just blew coffee all over my monitor reading that..

    hahaha..

  20. Re:My favorite Miyazaki film on Miyazaki's "Nausicaa" Dub Updates · · Score: 1
    "It is probably Hayao's most "adult" work. It explores themes such as science without a conscience, the absurdity of war, and the relationships we have with our planet."


    I think that perhaps "Princess Mononoke" covers this same ground...

  21. for those of you who don't know.. on Miyazaki's "Nausicaa" Dub Updates · · Score: 1

    Miyazaki is the guy who did the following very well known movies:
    Spirited Away
    Princess Mononoke
    Kiki's Delivery Service
    My Neighbor Totoro

  22. Re:I guess.. on Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook · · Score: 1

    yes.. and shredding does not have the same effect either..

    `shred ~/ebooks/*`

  23. Re:I guess.. on Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook · · Score: 1

    I would not mind a little foldable pad that could display them, that would be cool.

    God, printing 10k ebooks?

  24. I guess.. on Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it is time to read up eh?

    I still kind of have issues with ebooks.. I mean, reading is pretty much a tactile thing for me.. I.e. I like the smell of books, I like turning pages..

    In other words, it is nice to get away from the computer sometimes and just read..

    Though, I congratulate their efforts, it is cool

  25. Re:this is good..Linux condoms. on AMD to debut multi-core CPUs in 2005 · · Score: 1

    true..

    if you can run linux on a zilog, well, you can run it on anything.