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  1. Re:Conservative and don't like Debian? on Using Debian in Commercial Environments? · · Score: 1

    Having extremely high uptimes is not always something to be proud of.

    Either it means extreme stability, or extreme lack of progress and development.

    Debian is both to me.

    I rather use FreeBSD which has that stability, without walking onto the path of becoming a dinosaur.

  2. serial or parallel years? on Implications Of The Recent Hash Function Attacks · · Score: 1

    so that's 98 billion billion serial-years?

    But, we've proven already with distributed attacks it's not so many parallel-years if you gather enough computing power together, so how many is that in parallel-years, or even quantum-years?

  3. it's for the gold Re:In other news on Movie Playback From 1TB Holographic Disc · · Score: 1

    "I funded a deep space mission to find 2 neutron stars and smash them together to create enough gold to build my mansion!"

  4. B.A.G.(G).I.N.S.! on Pre-802.11n Offers 4x the Speed · · Score: 1

    I called this a while ago actually on Slashdot.. It'll most likely spell B.A.G.(G)I.N.S. :)

    Frodo Lives!

    double post.

  5. Re:Maybe It Means Something on Pre-802.11n Offers 4x the Speed · · Score: 1

    I called this a while ago actually on Slashdot.. It'll most likely spell B.A.G.(G)I.N.S. :)

    Frodo Lives!

  6. Re:I'll Do it anyway on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    IBM had months to update their apps.. What didn't happen?

  7. Re:Akamai on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent suffers from the standard clustering issues.. Unless you got low latency, high bandwidth connections between the nodes, it suffers greatly.

    It's overhead versus throughput.. Bittorrent has a huge amount of overhead versus the piddly amount of bits you can feed from it.

    BT is sure lots better than waiting in a queue though.

  8. Re:You need to give to get.... on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    And what is this I need to configure? I got 30 ports open on my FreeBSD firewall/nat and still only pull 20KB/s. How is this supposed to beat 1 port to MS pulling 600KB/s?

    Bittorrent is a nice idea, but doesn't really give you more in reality, imo.

  9. Re:Nice to see a few less gallons consumed on Ford Launches First American Hybrid · · Score: 1

    If you're a Bushie, you should be driving his awesome hydrogen SUVs, and other, vehicles then.

    You wouldn't want to near a leftist hybrid vehicle that Bush has never really supported at all...

  10. Balances the energy equation? on Ford Launches First American Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Isn't it the reason that SUVs are so inefficient is because it takes so much energy to get them moving, and then all lost to braking, compared to a smaller car?

    So, if you regain most of it back now through regenerative breaking, doesn't it make SUVs about as efficient as normal cars now, no matter the mass?

  11. Re:Yes, they work. on Windows Accelerators - Do They Really Work? · · Score: 2, Informative

    In your Gecko browser in the url:
    about:config
    set, or create boolean config.trim_on_minimize to false. That should mostly pin firefox/mozilla, etc in ram.

    Also, I have no swap running on any HD because all Windows really does is move its dynamic swap file into ram instead. That's what you see with PF Usage. I use TaskInfo to double check and it says 0 swap used.

    1GB of ram helps there, else Windows will insist on some disk swap, esp with 512MB or less ram.

  12. Re:Tobes Of Hades Lit By Flickering Torchlight on FreeBSD Moves to X.Org · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about binary compatiblity, or source? *BSDs are fairly compatible with each other due to all the code sharing.

  13. Re:Why don't... on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    or a Trojan Horse.

  14. Re:A clear advantage on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    You know, the elephant in the room with all of this is Microsoft, and some others, CONTINUE TO SHIP application binaries with known exploits.

    It's much like if Ford continued to sell Explorers with the tires that auto-shred, and ask you to drive the truck back to the dealship to get "patched" after you bought (installed) the truck when there's a well known recall on it.

    I know it's corporate policy not to make new CDs of their shipping stuff, but maybe it's time they changed it. "Return your old OS install cds and we'll replace it with the fully patched version back to you, or download it from <here>. Be sure to keep your original product IDs."

    "The CDs you get with your new computer or you buy from the store will always be the latest fully patched version, or you can download it from <here>."

    Ya right...

  15. Re:If they don't stop making shit movies they won' on Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings · · Score: 1

    Eh? I used to duck the headshots. Once they figured out I was a "ducker", they started shooting low.

    Then I started jumping over them. That's when it got really exciting.. WHICH WAY WILL THE MASTER GO?

    One memorable time I had front and back going for low shots on me (you know, Greek dodgeball), and I jumped. The two balls smacked each other underneath me, for a memorable photo moment.. if they had digicams back then.

    It's not that hard to move around people, especially in grade school when you haven't built up the hacker fat yet.

    Maybe people should get into adult dodgeball leagues to get people in shape for the Olympic sport. ;)

    You haven't played dodgeball until you start throwing them very stiff and unforgiving kickballs at people.

  16. Re:No, no, no! on Reduce C/C++ Compile Time With distcc · · Score: 1

    Oh no! You better tell them folks at Seti, and Folding@Home, Distributed.net, and theGrid, etc etc...

    I'm sure they'll appreciate this obvious wisdom.

  17. Re:C64 on Commodore - Back In The Hardware Biz At Last? · · Score: 1

    Could be 64MB or GB of ram..

  18. Re:BitTorrent on Mozilla 1.7 Released · · Score: 1

    I use burst!. Works fine to 100% for me.

  19. Re:What about... on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    Click on the bar, right click, select customize, and start moving stuff around!

    You could theoretically put everything on one bar.

  20. Re:First thoughts on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    The guy who forced the new theme is ugly.

  21. Re:Firefox on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    ...
    Wings of Flames
    Lord of the Flaming Wings ...

  22. Re:Cat attack! on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    Get a new keyboard man!

  23. Re:their secret is... on NTT DoCoMo's 4G Tests Hit 300Mbps · · Score: 1

    Family size is usually about 1 child, and people marry late. Now combine that with the humongous population density, and lack of need to buy a "house" due to lack of available land.

    Now that you're not pissing money away to raise all your kids as either single, or married parents, in a large household, or saving up for that down, you too will tend to have a lot of disposable income to pay for the next fashionable trinket that comes onto the market.

  24. Re:XviD + Matroska + Vorbis Damn hard to beat... on XVID 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    If it's a P4 Celeron, then that explains it. P4 Celeron's pitifully sized cache suffers A LOT more from its small size than the P3 version.

    Check out the article on Ars Technica about inclusive and exclusive caches, and why the Duron isn't much by its smaller cache.

    Think I'll do a comparison between xvid and divx on my Athlon. As is, divx is hell slow already. From what doom9 is saying.. I would gain a lot of encoding speed switching to xvid.

  25. CVT spooling on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    I have a 1996 Civic HX (high fuel efficiency) model.

    A lot of the spooling up comes from the CVT itself where you have to give the tranny some time for it to get to the proper ratios for the target speed.

    For passing, or racing, I shift into 'S' mode, let the engine spool up from 2-3K to 5K, and THEN I floor it.

    Btw, I get 35mpg average.