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  1. Re:Saturn MPG?? on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    My friend with a Saturn keeps it under 2K rpms as much as possible driving around. He also drives the speed limit (65mph), so he gets 40+ miles to the gallon.

    I used to get that in my non-vtec Civic by driving slowly on the freeways, and drafting as much as possible behind other vehicles.

  2. Re:Slow release cycle? It is not that slow on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 1

    Yes, Woody was the unstable for quite a while when Potato was the stable. Potato was the 2.2, Woody was the 2.4. Debian has sorta caught up..

  3. Re:Any More Information? on Stretch Announces Chip That Rewires Itself On The Fly · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with dropping it into a PCI slot and using it as a coprocessor?

    Say you are running this latest DOOM XIII, and it can take advantage of an outboard coprocessor to do custom math and processing that would take more time by CPU or GPU.

    Or even, put it into a GPU so that it can get get more efficient with the latest driver updates, reprogram itself for DirectX or OpenGL operation, or even program for vertex/pixel shaders?

  4. Tivo does have patents, as well as ReplayTV on Clones Are Overwhelming TiVo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Tivo is defending its patents in this area.

    If they win, they could really could become ubiquitous instead of disappearing because of the clone wars.

  5. Re:prefirst on Happy 35th birthday, RFC 1! · · Score: 1

    RFC 0 probably predates all computers because computer math starts from 0.

    Or, RFCs are written in Pascal.

  6. Re:Amazing, but not for the reason you'd think on Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Otherwise known as Psy-Fi.

  7. Re:Not vaporized - naturalized on Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Neutralization. Watch "Bad Timing" again.

  8. Re:it's basically true -- no point in denying it on SCO Changes Tune, Again: Linux Now Just a Riff on Unix · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NeXTStep ran on BSD 4.3 containing bugs in TCP, and encumbered with AT&T code.

    BSD 4.4 fixed those TCP bugs, became unencumbered of AT&T code in 4.4lite2, and then evolved into the modern *BSDs.

  9. Re:Tivo... on You're Watching Less TV · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can download with Tivo and burn straight to SVCD or Divx for much cheaper than homebrew. Look into TurboNet and TivoWeb.

    Not having to dedicate a power sucking ($$$) PC to catch tv shows is nice too.

  10. Re:Scientists my eye.... on X-43A Hits Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    The scientists were probably also the same team of engineers. That's how these research projects work.

  11. Re:Peering into my crystal ball... on Microsoft To Be Fined E500M By European Union? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. People ignoring the elephant in the room of then and now: North Korea.

    NK fits all the "reasons" for going into Iraq, yet fails to qualify for Bush's preemptive war.

  12. Re:One question on "Witty" Worm Wrecks Computers · · Score: 1

    Well, according to Microsoft.. software isn't exploited until a security advisory is released.

    I'm glad the people making the OS for the US military understands causality.

  13. Welcome to ... on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 1

    the Dark Ages again. Europe dug their way out, but most probably because they got rid of their short-sighted, thin skinned, want-to-dominate-the-world religious extremists who went to ...

  14. Re:They are if you just got hacked... on Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    Had my OpenSSH online for years as most other people.. What's the problem?

  15. the new standard? no way. on Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As if Fedora has controlling market share to sway any level of adoption preference by the entire community.

  16. Re:dont forget ... on Spam Solutions from an Expert · · Score: 1

    Why not just blacklist all mail servers except the major ones you expect mail from anyways?

    Also check logs for attempted connects and add the ones you care about?

    That's how my spam filter works, and I get 100% blockage with no overhead, unlike the other spam email filters out there.

  17. Re:Point point releases? on FreeBSD 5.2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    or the RH VM fiasco.

  18. Re:TA has not been matched. No one's even tried. on Total Annihilation's Spiritual/Actual Sequel Planned? · · Score: 1

    StarCraft, good in it's own right, is not Real Time Strategy. It's more aptly named Real Time Tactics, RTT.

    All that micromanagement makes it Tactics. Strategy involves long term planning with macroplacement of troops.

    So, TA is mixed RTS/RTT, StarCraft is singularly RTT.

  19. Re:Im in the wrong business on Five PC Vendors Face Patent Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Pay lawyers the same fixed amount for any case when they win a suit. No hourly rates, no commissions, no percentage of the settlement.

    That should make this job an honest one, if much less lucrative.

  20. Re:screw that - give me Mac OS X on Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM · · Score: 1

    And all the Mac people owe it to the original Apple I? and II which used Control-Open Apple-Reset.

    This became, Control-Command Propellor-Reset on the Macs, and the Solid Apple button became "Option".

    So which computer was first with the 3 finger salute?

  21. misconception of development version, again on FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE Review · · Score: 1

    >There are two main editions of FreeBSD: the development edition (which includes STABLE and CURRENT), and the more stable version with more mature code, called RELEASE.

    FreeBSD's development model is not that difficult to understand which this author is experiencing!

    -CURRENT: bleeding edge development code
    -STABLE: mature and stable code (duh!)
    -RELEASE: a FROZEN point in TIME of -CURRENT or -STABLE

    There IS a CVS tag used also to track security patches to the -RELEASE tag, but that's if you rebuild from sources yourself, and does miss new stable features added

  22. Re:Good on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Voyager wasn't that good IMO. It was too full of episodes that "never really happened".

    Many were just "back to the future" types where they would do something that would change the timeline and the episode never really happened.

    The show never really happened, for me.

  23. Re:Pixar on Disney Shuts Down 2D Animation Studio · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Disney already has a worldwide distribution deal with Studio Ghibli which consists a lot of sitting on the material instead of releasing it.

    The fact that Spirited Away got an Oscar blind-sided them shows how much they want to push other people's better 2D animation works.

  24. speed up Cygwin on Windows Services For Unix Now Free Of Charge · · Score: 1

    My question because I use Cygwin at lot at work is can Cygwin embrace and extend (assimilate) this to speed up some of its core functionality?

    Cygwin always had to use its own dll to emulate functionality, but now it has another path directly the core...

  25. Re:Ah what it is to have friends on IBM, Intel Set Up $10m SCO Defense Fund · · Score: 1

    or go BSD.