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  1. Re:Record set in 1933 on Running out of Hurricane Names · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, a few of those 40mpg+ hybrids were mid-sized (Prius) or so (Civic Hybrid), and not so econo-boxed.

    If you're stuck to SUV, there's the Ford Escape which is decently 30+.

    For your straw-man argument, sure it's wrong commuting with 8500-pound SUV when one doesn't need it for hauling something, but who says to make it unavailable? And, I guess the Prius seating 5 comfortably, or being considered for cab service in NY with noted rear-leg room, isn't enough to haul most stuff around, deliver things, or drive the family somewhere. Is the USA that fat and pack-rat-like?

    Them eco-types seem to be saying drive what you need, and most people DON'T need a SUV.

    If you can afford a SUV, you can afford a decent MPG car. Buying another car is patriotic. Saving fuel is patriotic. Blah blah blah.

  2. number like supernovas or security vulnerabilities on Running out of Hurricane Names · · Score: 1

    I propose we go back to numbering hurricanes like we do with security vulnerabilities, and supernovas.

    Like 2005.01, 2005.02, 1987A, etc.

  3. AppleLink: Personal Edition on Quantum Link Reverse Engineered · · Score: 2, Informative

    So then somewhere along the line, it became AppleLink: Personal Edition, and THEN it became AOL Online later. Oh, I remember those magazine ads of AppleLink vaguely well.

    So were Commodores cut out of the network somewhere?

    After version 2.0, even the Apple II people that helped maintain, and fund the early years were cut out the network through interface 'updates'.

  4. Laputa - Last Exile on Miyazaki Talks to the Guardian · · Score: 1

    On a side note, if you are interested in a vastly expanded universe that has Laputa-style technology & world with great story and modern (Japanese) animation, check out Last Exile: http://halo-productions.com/LastExile/ available on DVD from Geneon (formerly known as Pioneer).

  5. Re:Renting on Miyazaki Talks to the Guardian · · Score: 1

    Complete works: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/films/.

    I recommend:
    Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (not usa-released yet?)
    Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (not usa-released yet?)
    Laputa: The Castle in the Sky
    My Neighbor Totoro
    Kiki's Delivery Service
    Grave of the Fireflies (hardcore war film)
    Porco Rosso
    Ocean Waves [TV movie] (aka, I Can Hear The Ocean) (not usa-released yet?)
    Pom Poko (not usa-released yet?)
    On Your Mark [music video] (not usa-released yet?)
    Whisper of the Heart (not usa-released yet?)
    Princess Mononoke
    Spirited Away
    The Cat Returns (not usa-released yet?)
    Howl's Moving Castle (was just in theatres)

    Consider renting from your local Anime club for the rare ones.

  6. Re:Some clarifications, especially about rsync on Subversion as Automatic Software Upgrade Service? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's a combination of available strategies:

    o DON'T use SVN (imo)
    o check out your latest rev to a staging 'folder'
    o rename your previous release 'folder' to backup name
    o rsync the data from your staging 'folder' to all your clients one by one.

    If you have issues with the release, just roll back to the previous release 'folder'.

    There other thought is to use rsync a .torrent file and use something like bittornado to distribute from your 'staging' folder.

    All this should let you get by with a 1GB or less ram master file server, and crappy i/o too.

    You figure out a security-scheme to wrap around this.

  7. Re:CVS on Subversion as Automatic Software Upgrade Service? · · Score: 1

    CVS is better than SVN here because SVN lacks the 'obliterate', or 'admin -o' ability that Perforce and CVS have.

    This is important because you DON'T need to be storing 100 large revisions of your software release in the repo with no way to ever remove it.

    Of course CVS sucks when tagging a huge repo, and removing releases is a PITA, but you got no such options in SVN.

  8. Re:Other games that use Python on Game Scripting With Python · · Score: 1

    Toontown Online uses plain Python. http://www.toontownonline.com/ (IE only)

    It uses the open-source multi-platform Panda3D http://panda3d.org/ engine.

    And the SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/panda3d/ link, the Helix community https://panda3d.helixcommunity.org/, etc.

    Works pretty well, 10K+ players.

  9. Re:ReplayTV Tivo on TiVo OS Update Adds Content Protection · · Score: 1

    I have a series 1 with the LAN card. I never have to use the land line.

  10. Re:iPod durability on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 1

    Thought you can run over CDs and LDs with cars also and still works afterwards.

  11. Re:Geeks are like apes on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 1

    Or make them clays, PULL!, boom. That usually works one way, or when the ground stops it from falling.

  12. Re:What apple should do now on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 1

    I wrap my keyboard, and cover my laptop keyboard in plastic-wrap. Keeps it clean (considering the keyboard is dirtier than a toilet seat), and easy to swap it out every month or so.

    Btw, letter A, C, and N are the most used keys; not E.

  13. Re:License? on Solaris DTrace To Be Ported to FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of OpenBSD, the great makers of pf, and OpenSSH.

    FreeBSD is mostly about making things work fast on x86.

  14. Re:"frick..." on RNA May 'Run' Genetic Coding · · Score: 1

    Frell you! :)

  15. Re:Same episode, day after day on Adult Swim To Offer Streaming Video Option · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is why I have a TiVo and only watch what I want to watch. The repeats of shows, including SciFi channel, are absolutely great for us DVR people because it helps in the time conflict management.

    Besides, Cartoon Network is a mix of lot of anime and adult-themed shows that have a bit more thinking involved than your usual 'adult' realty shows.

  16. Re:the end is neigh... on The End of PalmOS? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What happened recently is that PalmSource owned the PALM brand and sold it 'back' to PalmOne, so it can rename itself Palm again. The original Palm had split into two companies with one focusing on the hardware, and the other focusing on the OS with the ability to sell PalmOS to anybody, respectively.

    Some have said this was one expensive buyback of a name originally owned, but I'm guessing it was to throw money at PalmSource where the stock has been eroding to nothing since the split.

    So after still two companies of Palm (aka PalmOne formerly known as Palm) and PalmSource, and now only just Palm except they don't own their OS anymore.

    Hindsight now I think the split was extremely pointless and expensive, and not keeping the original founders around to keep the innovation up even more stupid.

    Considering Access's history of 'great' changes and innovation, I have even less confidence they will be able to do anything with the OS except embed their browser more deeply and try to sell that unchanged for a few years.

  17. Re:I, for one... on Google Plans To Destroy Unindexed Information · · Score: 1

    so what is Google, Krypton's Brainiac? or the already mentioned Brains from Futurama...

  18. Re:Kill Interoperability? on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 1

    Too bad this sounds like another Microsoft 'buy it and kill it' strategy.

  19. Re:i didn't know about these unix services on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 1

    I used to think that. The problem with Samba is there seems to be poor metadata caching going on. Maybe there's a tuning parameter I'm missing, but when I try to use WinCVS over Samba shares it's like waiting for ice to melt vs a cool breeze.

    I know a lot of it is WinCVS's own stupid fault that was introduced in the 2.x code versus the original 1.3 code (polling for file/drive information incessantly), but it's a great demonstration of how much better NFS still is for this type of extreme case, at least.

  20. Re:SFU was only good for one thing on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Bzzzz. Comes from Redhat, famous repackagers of Linux.

    Let's look at the webpage www.cygwin.com:
    # Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
    # A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.
    Let's look at the page it www.cygwin.com points to:
    http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/ which even has this sentence:
    Cygwin delivers the open source standard Red Hat GNU gcc compiler and gdb debugger on Windows.
    It may not be 'pureblood' Linux, but it comes from the package sources. Thanks for playing.

    SFU is better (and FASTER) because it's a real subsystem talking to the kernel instead of a futzing emulation layer on top of Windows. You might call it a better kernel than Cygwin.

    What makes Cygwin better is the ample userland where wider and better supported range of 3rd party program packages built into the default install than SFU.

    Now if pkgsrc fixes that issue, I might switch over more. I'm using it for speedier NFS vs Samba file access due to better metadata caching.

    For those of you whom has tried WinCVS over Samba and declared it unusable, you haven't tried it through NFS. Night and day.
  21. such a friendly virus on Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global · · Score: 1

    Wow, what a friendly virus. Looks like it also tries to clean up some spyware for you.

  22. Re:What did they do that B[erkeley]SD guys didn't on Bell Labs Unix Group Disbanded · · Score: 1

    Evidence is showing Archimedes either about thought up calculus already, or already did, but was too busy jumping out of tubs and then later getting killed by a Roman soldier. So 2000 years before Newton, and not really able to tell other people about it.

  23. Go Go Golion! on Voltron Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    For those of you who don't know the original Japanese name for lion's version. For the Go (5) lions.

    As previous mentioned about the Wikipedia article.

    Since it's going to be just recycled story in a 71? minute format, they could try to hire some decent non-BermanBraga type writers.

    With the USA pretty much abandoned cel animation by now (Dreamworks, Pixar), how is it going to look?

    Japan is still king of animation that includes traditional cel-look with CG, and Golion just won't look the same otherwise.

    Just look at that ugly "newer and better!" CG-only series in the late '90s. Even now with horrible looking 'cel-shaded' CG Transformers.

    However, Shrek/Incredibles level 3D animation would be sweet, but unlikely.

  24. Re:Nostalgia Nausea on Voltron Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Click on clique.

  25. Re:Yes, I am going to hell for this... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    They should considering they were probably all younger than the principal actors.