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  1. my question on More Details on Cut-Rate Windows OS For Asia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What defines an application?? If you start something as a service, does this mean it's not an application? Surely there must be more than three services running at time.

  2. Re:Missed the best idea on Projecting Video On Curved Surfaces · · Score: -1

    why would you do that when you can project a stripper onto your wife instead???

  3. CloudScape is primarily used in websphere on IBM Donates Java Database App. to Apache Foundation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe it's just me, but I believe cloudscape is primarily used inside Websphere to ease development of ejbs by making the database local. I can't see it being incredibly useful outside of that... only as development, not as anything deployed. i could be wrong....

  4. MY THEORY on SGI & NASA Plan 10240-Processor Altix Cluster · · Score: 1

    They are doing special research for part of our new mars initiative. here

  5. Re:Perfect! on IPv6 is Here · · Score: 1

    It may be Orwellian, but we need some number to replace our beloved Social Security Numbers when it finally cannot be saved. It would make me feel better if there was some geek aspect to it. Wouldn't it make you feel better if you could calculate your mask :o)

  6. Re:Internal Server 503... on Dunst Demands Asset Reduction For Spider-Man 2 Videogame · · Score: 1

    i was getting the same errors for the last four or so hours. when i got home from work i finally tried to use an anonymous web proxy. it did the trick. honestly, i find it to fix most we access problems for me. of course, i'm in eastern europe so god knows what kind of crap the normal connections go through. currently using guardster.com

  7. who cares? on The Liberty Alliance Grows Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who cares what company has the new identification standard? I'd rather keep my multiple passwords than rely on one breach of one system to lose my entire online life. I'd assume most geeks are the same and I've met some pretty paranoid non-geeks out there about having any information on the web. So unless we really believe that the information we need to have to exist in our online world won't be available outside of the authentication standards of a few companies, we have nothing to worry about.

  8. Re:Final Year Project?!? on Build Your Own Electric Etch-A-Sketch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well.... In the poor guy's defense, I know I couldn't have built an LED that counted in binary at the end of my second year of school. I assume that his community college only counts to 10 like most others.

  9. Re:Okay. on Hacking Quartz · · Score: 1

    i'm not sure where i can get non pasturized cider. this is an apple country though, it must be somewhere. i haven't done the googling yet, but i assume that the cider yeast is different than bakers correct? also, what are the instructions if i find a place that has it before pasturization. thanks a lot man :o)

  10. Re:Okay. on Hacking Quartz · · Score: 1

    I love cider too........ how about some cooking instructions??? I used to always drink woodchucks but you can't get those in the czech republic :o)

  11. Re:Updated 20 year old book... on The Mythical Man-Month Revisited · · Score: 1

    How about the Purposeless Person Period????

  12. Re:2 things. on Labels Find New Method of Payola · · Score: 1

    If you have a dvd burner, you can always pull the trash out. Dual layer burners are at a decent price now, although, I haven't seen media for them yet. It's not that hard to restructure the dvd :o)

  13. Re:Well now... on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 1

    while i was still in college we got a brand new server set-up at the mcdonalds i was working at. it was a screaming fast p100 from ibm(mind you, this was in the time that intel was peaking around p4 2.4ghz). Our store wasn't very large, but we had one system running the whole store(well, two really, but one was a windows98 box that ONLY ran the graphic menu system outside). Everything ran off the one sco box, given the kinds of transactions, i'm sure we had more problems with network latency, due to the nice coax everywhere, than with machine slowness. i'd be willing to bet that they are only replacing machines that need to be replaced due to age and saving themselves licensing hassles at the same time.

  14. will it scan in PhotoShop? on Atlantis: Discovered at Last? · · Score: 1

    so if i scan these new "Atlantis" photos in photoshop, will it show up as forged(Blacked out) money??

  15. Re:Most Important Single Guy Food Tip on The Single Man's Guide To TV Dinners · · Score: 1

    This is a serious comment from experience: Make sure you wash your hands very thoroughly before touching certain female body parts. Just normal washing after handling peppers isn't good enough. Luckily, there is a quick cure........ just chew on a few tums and then go to town :o)

  16. A super computer with Windows(tm) on In The Works: Windows For Supercomputers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess then the computer wouldn't be so super :o)

  17. Re:A whole movie? on "A Sound of Thunder" Movie This Summer · · Score: 1

    czech, slovak, russian and polish are all very, very similar. i can hear it with my own ears. pardon me for not being more specific on my reference to eastern europe. when i move to another part of europe, i'll let you know what my experiences are.

  18. Re:A whole movie? on "A Sound of Thunder" Movie This Summer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wouldn't exactly say they have two seperate languages. Officially, yes they have two seperate languages, but in actuality, most of Eastern Europe is the same language with different dialects. It's no different than someone from the midwestern US compared to a deep southerner, mild difference in usage, mild difference in vocabulary, and mild difference in pronunciation.

  19. Re:What if....... on Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs · · Score: 1

    Sorry to point this out but I had to laugh when I read it :o)

    My impression of SCO was it was the product you bought 10 years ago because that power accounting and database software was written for it, dated but does the job and has never rarely failed.

    So SCO was famous for software that always failed often. I assume you meant never really failed but I still had to laugh.

  20. Re:I miss the simple life on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah, i know, i tried to reply to the post, calling myself an idiot. apparently i'm even too stupid to reply to a post :o)

  21. I miss the simple life on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    10 I miss basic on TI-80 calcs.
    20 Programming in basic was my favorite thing to do in math class
    30 my freshman year.

  22. welcome them on A Mouse With Two Mothers · · Score: 1

    I for one, welcome our new fatherless overlords

  23. Re:Wireless on Dan Gillmor Reconsiders Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Mod me Offtopic for saying so but, I'm impressed... it's not often you see a 5 Offtopic :o)

  24. more RPMs is fine with me on Hack Your Ride · · Score: 1

    Not everyone can deal with compilation issues. RPMs make the average user's life much easier so if this "Chipping" thing makes more RPMs for everyone, I think the world will be a better place.

  25. Re:...and the whole thing is over!? on IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case · · Score: 0

    Don't worry, once we get rid of Vader, we'll still have three horrible prequels to look forward to later.