User: AlastairMurray

Portable?

On: Atari Announces an Official Portable 2600 System

Portable but has to plug into a TV? Well by that merit a PS2 is 'portable'.
To me a portable games console is something likea game-boy.

Spintronics???

On: Spintronics May Lead to Quantum Microchips

Spintronics??? I had the idea of sticking my computer in the washing machine months ago. If only I'd patented it.

Re:Non Wintel Os's

On: Matrox Parhelia 512 Preview

If you read the page linked in the original article you'll see that it list's linux support.

Re:It's Official

On: PS2 Price May Fall, Gamecube Staying Put

The other week I could buy a PS1 for £20 sterling (roughly 30$ US) locally.

Oh right

On: 5.2 Earthquake Shakes Up SF Bay Area

That was a quake? I thought it was just my mobile on vibrate mode.

Looks like I have to agree

On: Workstations 'Dirtier Than Toilets'

Just looked at my keyboard, and it's grubby as hell. Cool :-D

Re:Brain Contents

On: Reaching Beyond Two-Terabyte Filesystems

I'm sure I read somewhere that all sensory experience for a human with an average life time can be stored in 3.5 Petabytes.
But obviously the brain doesn't remember everything.

Doh!

On: Ground Effect Flying Boat

"The web site you are trying to access is experiencing an extremely high volume of traffic."

I think I'm just going to have to wait before I can see those videos.

Same story

On: Remote Controlled Rats

Can be found at the BBC News Site.

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these

On: Japan Builds World's Fastest Computer

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

*Drool*

First Post

On: Lab-Grown Meat Chunks - It's What's For Dinner

Woohoo!!!!!

All my passwords are....

On: Crappy Passwords Very Common

PASSWORD

Lol - okay, not really.

Re:Food for thought

On: 3.5 Ton Satellite to Crash Back to Earth

At the sort of speeds things travel at in orbit I don't think theres such a thing as "small chunks that pose no danger to other spacecraft". I believe that specs of paint can chip the shuttles windscreen.

Re:which side of the law is our community on?

On: ISP Forced Out of Business by DoS

"Writing a DoS tool is not a crime. Using it on someone else is. What's so hard to understand?"

Would a terrosist build a bomb if he wasn't intending on using it?

All I can say

On: Chess Players 'Are Paranoid Thrillseekers'

All I can say to this guy is: e4

Re:Perpetuating the Monopoly

On: Microsoft Would Settle For The Children

Um, Linux is available for free to everyone. Does that make it the defacto standard?

Free but not plonked in front of your face.

Re:Perpetuating the Monopoly

On: Microsoft Would Settle For The Children

These students will grow up in Microsoft(TM) America and like so many people before them be hooked into software that they'll be reluctant to leave in the future.

I completely agree with this, I am predominantly a windows user but have mucked around a bit with Redhat. But recently I just started using Linux at the command line to do some stuff with Apache and Perl (for a school project) and I was amazed at the sheer power of what I could do. I'm slowly but surely being converted to Linux.