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  1. Synergy on IBM-Sony-Toshiba Reveal New Cell Processor Details · · Score: 4, Funny

    So it will be utilizing synergy. That's good. I like my solutions to be customer-focused, and above all synergized. :)

  2. Re:NGSCB/Palladium on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1

    We've got that. Just try this, thisthis, or, if all else fails, this.

  3. Obligatory on A Piece of CherryPy for CGI Programmers · · Score: 4, Funny

    units.smile.face.width = "Miles"; smile.face.width = "10";

  4. Trying to RTFA, on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    but I can't get past page one. Shoot! If the other six pages are this good, I'll . . .not bother.

  5. Re:10 days? on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1
    Or, if I was thinking more clearly at the time, throw the computer out the window.

    You can see a window from where you sit? I'm jealous. :)

  6. 10 days? on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why stop there? Except for work, not using MS software is pretty much my life. Work, OTOH, I'm working on defenstration. Should be easier once I'm in management.

    Now, if only that were likely. :)

  7. So. . .Miro gutted? on Miro Replies to Mambo Allegations · · Score: 4, Interesting
    My impression is basically that the core devs were unhappy with Miro and left, intending to fork. Is Miro's main beef that the Miro fork wil die while the Rebel fork will survive, making Miro the victim of essentially a brain drain? If Miro's stated objective is the continued survival of Mambo, what's the big deal? Mambo survives, and maybe Miro becomes irrelevant. Ideally, this shouldn't bother the folks at Miro, since the core devs are still in essence working on Mambo.

    Just my $0.02.

  8. Re:Simple Business Model that works for ezines. on Wanted - An Online Publishing Business Model? · · Score: 1
    Ad banners to your articles.

    That might have been the most confuzing misspelling I've seen this week. :)

  9. Re:Dupe on Typewriter As Keyboard Mod · · Score: 1
    Hear, hear.

    I sometimes (gasp) am away from /. for days at a time and don't have time to sift through the Older Stuff section. This is true for many, and the second set of comments is frequently as good as the first, if not better. Get over yourselves.

  10. Re:finally... on Typewriter As Keyboard Mod · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Still I prefer the IBM Model M. Now that sucker's awesome. It's not just the most robust, sturdy keyboard I've ever used, I've also a weapon :)

  11. Non-perceptible==Backwards compatible? on Intel Plans to Overhaul Chip Architecture · · Score: 1

    Will I still be able to run my current x86 OSs and code on these chips?

  12. Re:SATA-150 and Ultra ATA-133? on High-End, High-Capacity SATA-150 Roundup · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Answered my own question with the data sheet on Maxtor's site. It's two flavours, not a drive with two connectors.

  13. SATA-150 and Ultra ATA-133? on High-End, High-Capacity SATA-150 Roundup · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The review isn't clear, but does this drive have both interfaces, or is it available in two flavours?

    Now I like a drive I can use in more than way. I can use this on my current ATA aetup, and if I upgrade motherboards, I can just switch cables and move on.

  14. Context highlighting? on Microsoft's Bold Patent Move · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wouldn't the context highlighting capabilites of, say, Emacs, Joe, and countless others be considererd prior art? It couldn't be that hard to created An Emacs Major Mode that did this, if there isn't one already. I don't see anything worthy of a fresh patent here. That it's MS doing it is irrelevant.

  15. Re:About to migrate... any tips? on Spring Into PHP 5 · · Score: 1

    Watch for array_merge calls. It's a lot pickier now about what it will accept. Be sure to look here for the whole story, but I found that in the process of tidying up my code to accommodate the change, I refactored several sections of code to avoid the need for array_merge entirely. Hint: Do absolutely everything you can in SQL instead of in your code. This goes for any language. The performance boost will be noticed both on old hardware and on high-load installations.

  16. Re:I don't get it on Following Bill Gates' Linux Attack Money · · Score: 1
    I just fixed that on my mother-in-law's machine. It was doing exactly what you describe, but only under her non-root account, and the media-install didn't work under non-root. So, I bumped her up to root, went through the media-install/reboot cycle 3 times, and then it stopped, so I bumped her back to non-root, and it has ben fine since.

    And yet she still won't switch to OO.org. (sigh)

  17. Oops. on Japan Probes Mysterious Vapor Eruption · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Excuse me!

    I suspect this may about to become the single longest thread ever dedicated to fart jokes. . .

  18. Worst possible timing, but I'm not surprised. on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If she and Rehnquist both go under Bush, he gets to fill both seats, which means we'll probably get two more Antonin Scalias, which means you can kiss Roe v. Wade goodbye. Heck, I think theocracy can't be too far behind. Sad that people call any judge to rules according to the constituion and not a strict literal interpretation of the Bible an "Activist Judge", and yet we condemn countries like Iran when they try to map their laws onto the Qu'ran.

    I just hope we can put off filling these seats until either a Democrat or a Republican with some respect for the constitution and checks and balances is in the White House. I'm tired of Bush trying to gut the other two branches or bend them to his will.

  19. Re:What I want in an editor on Nvu 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Notepad++, at sourceforge.

  20. Re:Who cares on Microsoft Cuts Anti-Virus Support For Unix / Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, ClamAV is not merely usable, ClamAV is awesome. They update quickly, and one can set up regular updates and scans with cron in seconds. It catches stuff McAfee misses and it has a nearly transparent milter. The milter's a bit tough to set up from scratch, but you can still scan your maildirs with cron if you like. That might be good enough for some orgs. But by and large ClamAV is all you need.

  21. Re:CNN is apparently in the midst of a new plan... on CNN Now Offers Free Online Video · · Score: 1

    Of course. The majority of the media is left of most of congress because most of congress is on the right. However, by and large, the media still skews right. The only major media outlet I've found is Air America Radio, and that's mostly opinion stuff. The brief news segments are fact-based and pretty free of editorializing, something one cannot say of FOX, where news and infotainment are seamlessly blended. And one wonders why FOX viewers believe Saddam was behind 9/11. . .

  22. Re:Contradiction? on Solar Sail Launch Failure Confirmed · · Score: 1, Troll
    Were you looking to find consistency and accuracy from Faux News?

    That's so sweet. :)

  23. It's not MS bashing! on Bram Cohen's Response to Microsoft's Avalanche · · Score: 5, Informative
    Bram read a paper on a topic he actually knows something about, and critiqued it. It's not like he did this sight unseen and is just venting sour grapes because the big bad corporation is trying to steal his thunder. He actually judged MS's proposed software on the available merits, and found it deeply wanting. He also goes to point out a few minor strengths. Yes, all in all he relegates Avalanche to the junk heap, but he did so based on a surprisingly dispassionate evaluation.

    So, lay off! :)

  24. Re:Minutes ago?!? on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 4, Funny

    I submitted it 2 hours ago. :)

  25. Re:Cyclic Dependencies ? on Debian Upgrade May Cause Serious Breakage · · Score: 1
    No. This sort of thing is extremely rare. Having used up2date, apt and yum on fedora, and apt on debian for a long time. I've even done quite a bit on Slackware. Been doing this for maybe 6 years.

    I've never run into a single cyclical dependancy, which is when package A needs package B, which needs package C, which needs package A.