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  1. Re:Leatherman Wave on Best Leatherman-Style Multitool? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Send it in for repairs. They've got a 25-year warranty that should cover that kind of damage.

  2. Re:Weak correlation on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    That occassionally there's some disturbance in the distribution of the data points is no more than statistical probability. The world is a big enough place that something important is happening somewhere in the world, but to say that it causes the disturbance is missing the simplest explanation.

  3. slrn on Are Betas Taking On Lives of Their Own? · · Score: 1

    slrn has been asymtotically approaching a v1.0 release (it's at v0.9.8.1 now). It has fewer bugs than other news readers like Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook. Who cares that it's not "production"?

  4. Weak correlation on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    Correlation does not imply causality. I think no more needs to be said. Move along....

  5. Also cluster in a suitcase on Server Inside a Suitcase · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My boss has a friend who has done tours around the country to high schoool and college CS classes, demoing parallel computation techniques.

    He found it difficult to count on suitable computer resources, so he put four small ATX motherboards in a suitcase with power supplies, hard drives, and a four port switch. He just powers everything up when he gets to his destination and he's good to go. TSA apparently gives him weird looks but not much more.

  6. Ask around on Where Do You Shop for Server Components? · · Score: 1

    Ask other sysadmins. When we were shopping for a new tape autoloader, I asked some other sysadmin friends who they bought from, and got a nice list. I called for quotes, and even got other recommendation from the companies I called.

    We eventually settled on ZZYZX, but we also strongly considered CDWG.

    Remember that people networking is as useful as computer networking. :)

  7. Re:Difficult to detect / prevent on Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia · · Score: 1

    BBC News shows Somalia listed on their map.

  8. Re:Or.... on Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? The Beowulf cluster of xServes I maintain (queue the jokes) would like to argue with you....

    xServes seem to be at least as loud as the Dell Poweredge 1750s (also 1U servers) I've worked with.

  9. Dubya on Cognitive Enhancement Drugs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we enroll Dubya in the trials?

  10. Long-term on Green Energy Almost Cost-Competitive with Fossil Fuels · · Score: 1

    Long-term, green energy is probably much more cost effective. Oil cannot be renewed as quickly as wind, hydroelectric, solar, or even hydrogen gas, so the long-term cost is much higher for oil.

  11. This is no more than an ad. on 11 Anti-spam Products Tested · · Score: 2, Interesting
    All these are commercial products. ZDNet has a long reputation of discussing commercial solutions without any regard to completely viable OSS solutions like

    MailScanner

    MIMEDefang

    SpamAssassin

  12. Mirrors on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 1
    Here's some mirrors:

    Mirror #1

    Mirror #2

    Mirror #3

  13. Mirror on A Private Home For Retired Supercomputers · · Score: 1
    The site's getting hammered. Here some mirrors:

    Mirror #1

    Mirror #2

  14. Re:First you need to ask yourself these two questi on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1
    Do we have enough fissionable fuel to accomplish this?

    The Earth definitely has enough. In addition to the insulative properties of rock, the Earth's warmth can be attributed to the radioactive decay of heavy metals (mostly uranium and thorium). Whether we can get to most of them is another question, but the supply of radioactive materials won't be a problem until the Sun becomes a red giant, and even then we'll have plenty.

  15. Re:Stop the Press! on Researcher Only High Bandwidth Network · · Score: 1

    He might be wrong on lots of counts, but not on this one. Internets refers to a collection of networks with common links, and is a generic term that needn't refer to the protocol. The Internet is the largest collection of such networks, and is a non-generic term for an internet that uses the IP protocol.

  16. Re:/.'ed on Verizon Taking FTTP Installation Orders · · Score: 1

    I doubt this will be a problem. I don't think it's clear, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're multiplexing IP and analog phone.

  17. In related news.... on Coffee is Addictive · · Score: 1

    The sky is blue, and grass is green. I've known caffeine is addictive since I started drinking it. It's not really news.

  18. Re:a clarification on An Analysis of Various Election Methods · · Score: 1

    I go to a Quaker college, and we use a modified approval system for voting. Basically, we mark every confident with either "confidence" or "no confidence. A candidate must get over 10% of the number of votes cast, and get more confidence votes than no confidence votes. A run-off election is held if that doesn't happen. It works marvels here.

  19. RT on An Automated Support E-Mail System? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd recommend RT from Best Practical. I use it with a Postgres backend and Apache/Sendmail on the front-end, and it works beautifully. It does everything we (and you, it sounds like) need it to do, with plenty of added flexibility if you need it. Check it out.

  20. Re:Map Everything Online on Municipal Online Services Wishlist? · · Score: 1
    Milwaukee was one of the first cities to embrace GIS with any seriousness, and it shows. Their Map Milwaukee interface is quite practical, and quite cool:
    Erm:
    Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8' Object required: 'oSelectedNode.selectSingleNode(...)' /display/includes/nwsCMS.asp, line 98
    :)
  21. Re:2001 sucked. on Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I really enjoyed 2001, particularly in subsequent viewings. It is less of a movie, and more of an art masterpiece. Kubrick uses a variety of subtle techniques, my two favorite being writing the movie for the music ("The Blue Danube" in particular) and silencing the voices when he wants to suggest that Hal is reading lips.

  22. Re:Alpha Smart! on Note Taking Devices for Students? · · Score: 1

    I'll second the Alphasmart. I used the original model in high school, and it was a god-send as far as note-taking and test-taking was concerned. All my teachers were fine with it too.

  23. Eegah on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    I don't think it even approaches any other movie in sheer crappiness. The only way it's bearable is if you see the MST3K version.

  24. Re:MJ works for me on Sleeping Problems? · · Score: 1

    You didn't tell us what you started smoking. You wouldn't happen to live in Vancouver now, would you? :)

  25. Was I the only one.... on Microsoft Plans News Aggregator · · Score: 1

    ....who read the head line as "Microsoft Plans News Aggrevator"?