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  1. Re:Of course... on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 1

    And did you get some significant chunk of the cash you made them?...as if.

  2. Re:Do this: on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 2

    Indeed.

    "canceling all non-stand-up meetings for the foreseeable future.

    Ah, yes...the standup meetings. Somebody at my old job heard that buzzword a few years ago. Nothing like standing up for 3 hours listening to report after report that has to do with you only in the 3rd degree of separation.

  3. Re:Is Facebook a viable long term business model ? on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 1

    the source, who did not want to be identified because he had signed a non-disclosure agreement
    Perhaps a better wording is "the source, who did not want everybody to find out he can't be trusted."

  4. Re:Future government agency. on German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs · · Score: 1

    Shirley you mean raids.. For a couple of downloaded songs, expect a visit that makes the BATF effort at the Branch Davidians in Waco look like a Sunday school outing...

    Don't call me Surely.

  5. I hope they're not allowed to back down on German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs · · Score: 1

    That's a way to make sure your songs are forgotten by future generations, and they deserve oblivion.

  6. Why is this an issue? on What's the Oldest File You Can Restore? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the stuff from the '60s, if it wasn't migrated and kept up - that's a challenge, but any competent (and competently-managed) solution has at least one extra copy of everything it's got backed up, and keeps up with moving the data from the least-recently-accessed volumes so they never get a chance to rot - independently of media. I'm sure lots of the lesser solutions, like backup exec, commvault, legato, etc. can do it by now, in case you can't drive TSM.

  7. Re:Dell has cubes that are... on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    7x3x4 feet... you do the math... you won't - its 80 something sq feet... =/

    But if you do, it's only 12 square feet.

    Or 21, or 28. He didn't label the dimensions. I'm personally in a 6X8(imprecisely measured in fathoms) cube that's only 3 feet floor-to-ceiling... but I've got 144 cubic feet! Sometimes they open the grating and put in a dish of coffee if I'm far back enough in the corner and don't snarl too much.

  8. Not fooled, and not surprised on MS Hypes Win7 Tablets For CES — Again · · Score: 1

    I bought a windows 7 netbooktablet. Really nice concept, and I was excited to try win7. But I do more than display wallpaper with my systems, and having all applications spend most of their time in "not responding" status wasn't tolerable. I sure wish ubuntu would use the touchscreen(or I had time to write and integrate my own drivers). Seems such a waste, but at least I can use it now.

  9. Re:Sinkhole sounds plausible; impact crater not. on The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. It looks like a sinkhole. One google earth picture doesn't tell much. The fact is it COULD be something else, within the confines of the information presented. If the geologist "laughed you out of his office" on just that image, he's a fool...unless you talked about spaceships, aliens, etc., in which case it's difficult to afford you even polite dismissal. It probably is a sinkhole, and doesn't require the "mother of all caves" to do it. Could be a deposit of soft rock gouged away by a glacier. Could be a very old impact crater torn up by glaciers. Probably a sinkhole, though.
    "new-metal" looks like a blob of zinc. Perhaps an outbuilding was in that location and burnt down? I've seen a lot of zinc-head nails, and a haymow burning would melt all the zinc on top of a corrugated roof sending it down in rivulets to solidify on the ground.
    It's really hard to take you seriously when you talk about the "vibe" of the place. That says you've already decided to believe things not in evidence. That greatly reduces your usefulness as a source of information.

  10. Re:Write to the manufacturer on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let me translate: pull your panties out of your slit and use what works. Sure, Oracle's going to start making nonsensical tie-ins with their main products. They haven't done it yet, and even when they do, it'll just be irrelevant wasted efforts, not harming the functionality you need. My old boss had a hissy fit and decided there would be no more IBM products in the company, ever. The existing products got starved (TSM shall have no more tapes when we're keeping everything forever and doubling the data under management every 6 month) and their failure under that pressure was used to justify the irrational personal decision. Are you that guy?

  11. Re:Hmmm .... on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Test' firing and attempting to keep a secret immediately off the coast of LA don't jive

    You're right. They boogie. The difference is subtle. Very acute observation.

  12. Re:One BILLION dollars on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1

    Did he run out of sharks?

    no. lasers

  13. Infinite compression? on ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication · · Score: 3, Funny

    If a hash were a replacement for data. that's all we'd need....goedelize the universe? Sometimes I just want to scream, or weep, or shoot everybody....or just drop to my knees and beg them to think - just a little tiny insignificant bit - think. Maybe it'll add up. Probably not, but it's the best I can do.

  14. Re:"But would anyone volunteer to go on such a tri on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    I searched for the first person to use the word "heartbeat", and sure enough, in the same sense I use it in this question. No hesitation. They don't need me, but I'll go if they'll take me. Wife knows that from early conversations - I wouldn't ask her, and she'd be stuck with the kids. Everything you need to know me is in my username.

    In.a.heartbeat.

  15. Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    He is spruking the for CEI lobbyists Someone set up us the bomb. All zigs take off!

  16. There is only one reason for. an opt-out link on Opting Out Increases Spam? · · Score: 1

    That is to give the spammers your new address on mail that's forwarded from an Bld and possibly expiring one.

    Back in 1998, when I was putting my company on the internet, I received a spam on my regular address. I created a new fake user, and opted out with it. Within a day, it was receiving spam. Over the following week, its level of spam reached that sent to my own. One opt out was the only way anyone in the world except me could possibly have known about the existence of 5l1ckw1lly@kingsystems.com. I tried a few others after that in case the one I chose was a "bad apple". The other usernames were less clever and I don't remember them, but they all got the same result.

    Honestly, there were so many duplicates of my experiment (it was 11 years ago - I was probably a duplicator, not an originator) that it's surprising to me to see this question even asked. Spammers know you don't want to hear what they're saying. They try to fool you into reading it, like a tranny trying to fool you into letting it... well, just ask that Anrade idiot. What makes you think anything else they say or do is trustworthy? I wouldn't trust a spammer I saw crossing the street to actually be there when I ran over him.

  17. Accessories are for pansies on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    Make a mount for it inside a Jeep, and then use the Jeep like it should be used. I know two gorgeous young ladies who know that's the coolest thing on the planet, and though it means nothing to them, they have their own existence as proof of my virility.

  18. Re:Pay per Paper on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 1

    Well said. I have contempt for people who can't tell the difference between GPS and mapping.

  19. just call them... on Shaming Russia Into Action On Cyber Crime · · Score: 1

    nekulturny

  20. It's purely a cultural thing on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    Until a couple of years ago, this was a "red state". Unfortunately, enough sheeple moved here for the jobs our intelligent government attracted, so now we're a blue state, so that type of government is gone.

  21. Welcome to last week on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 1

    This is a dead thread on a board discussing driving jeeps at 12000 feet with no water anywhere around. http://www.colorado4x4.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=141946 Why are we talking about this outrageously overpriced bit of silliness again, especially here, on the cutting edge?

  22. One way it might be valid and true on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    If the benchmark he's using sends a set of data, which is stored on disk and then sent back, at least in my experience, there could be a WORLD of difference between windows and Linux on similar hardware, even with twice as much RAM for windows as for Linux. Every windows desktop I use becomes almost unusable during any continuous disk access - rsync, cp, etc., while much lesser-equipped Linux systems don't act any different doing the same tasks.
    I'm talking desktops here - 1G or less RAM, single IDE hard drive, single-core post-pentium somethingorother. The server-class windows systems seem to be every bit as capable as the desktop-class Linux systems.

  23. Potential thread hijack on Synchrotron Gets Sci-Fi Writer In Residence · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ok, Kandela. If you're "Daniel Cotton", let me be one of the ones to tell you - that was fscking brilliant! I haven't been so pleasantly smacked in the face by a short story in a very long time. That bit of fiction is a much bigger story than that of some writer trying to get inspired... and yes, I admit it - I've never heard of Robert J. Sawyer, though I've got on the order of 19 untouched copies of "Asimov's" piled up from between the onset of presbyopia and the procurement of reading glasses(it was hard to admit that need).

  24. This is a function for your "shovel buddy" on Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors? · · Score: 1

    After he deletes and/or buries (hence the name) all your porn, he gives your loved ones the keys/authentication pairs/etc..

  25. Re:grep -R on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    You know what? On large heirarchies, fscking around with xargs is MUCH faster. forking and execing a grep for every object has a lot of overhead, while letting grep (or whatever) iterate through a list can really speed things up, by comparison. The OE where that's most evident (among those I've got for comparison) is windows. It doesn't spawn new processes well, no matter what the cygwin guys do.