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  1. Re:Oh I hate those [ "X$var" == "X" ] on Beginning Portable Shell Scripting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not everybody has bash and/or zsh installed.

  2. Re:how do you pronounce ubuntu? on Build a BoxeeBox and Wean Yourself From Cable · · Score: 1

    /me imagines a ubuntu advertising campaign similar to the budweiser frogs, but with monkeys.

  3. Re:Nothing new on False Fact On Wikipedia Proves Itself · · Score: 1

    there was also an instance (from slashdot last year) where a journalist edited a wikipedia page and used that as a source for his article. Then the article was used as a citation.

  4. Re:Interesting no one has asked this yet... on Shifting Apps To ARM Chips Could Save Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    XScale is an ARM variant. Intel sold that line to Marvell in 2006, though.

  5. Re:WTF? on WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband · · Score: 2, Insightful

    more bank lending and consumer spending? The problem was consumers spending money they didn't have and banks lending money to people that couldn't pay them back (sometimes approving loans with no proof of income). Consumers need to stop living beyond their means (this applies to the government) and banks need to be run as a boring for-profit businesses (which means no bailouts when they fuck up).

  6. Re:Big Surprise on WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't worry! The stimulus plan will include in-vitro fertilization for welfare moms and illegal immigrants. Once they start popping out babies (8 at a time!), that $50k debt per person will drop significantly.

  7. Re:Does it matter still ? on Shifting Apps To ARM Chips Could Save Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    ARM has 14 general purpose registers vs x86's limited set. Most ARM instructions have conditional execution which eliminates most branching. Comparing mhz to mhz, ARM ends up being twice as fast for integer work.

  8. Re:More bloat... on Firefox 3.2 Plans Include Natural Language, Themes · · Score: 1

    If the average joe can't use google's advances search, or read google's advanced search help, how are they going to make use of firefox's awesome search?

  9. Re:Wrong Premise on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 1

    Where is your proof that they are in agreement?

  10. Re:Oh really? on Phantom OS, the 21st Century OS? · · Score: 1

    Phantom also stores the thread/process (state and local variables) data. If you restart m/cache, the globals are still there, but not the processes.

  11. Re:Time to play Spin The Wheel, Techie edition... on Phantom OS, the 21st Century OS? · · Score: 1

    C is an abstraction. Use assembler you fucking poser.

  12. alt-f2 + gnome-terminal on HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    that shows what's wrong with gnome. alt-f2 isn't an easy key combo, and then having to type "gnome-terminal", with a -, not the easiest character to type. On OS X, command-space (possibly the easiest key combo) brings up the spotlight menu, which will find Terminal after 1-2 letters.

  13. Re:Big Deal? on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 3, Informative

    bonjour is multicast dns + service discovery. The multicast dns part means a computer, printer, etc broadcast their name/ip address to the local intranet (no need to set up a hosts file or dns server). The service discovery part means they can also broadcast a list of services/ports/etc they support. As mentioned, that's how iTunes can identify other computers on your intranet that are sharing music.

  14. Re:Holy moly... on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    Maybe it wasn't in Utah, but I recall hearing some state/county/city where if you went to a bar and ordered hard liquor, they didn't have regular (fifth) bottles -- they had to open up one of those hotel/airport shot-size bottles and serve that.

  15. Re:News Flash! on Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's not everyday that 63 municipal police, 39 municipal government officials, and 7 government contractors are accused of conspiracy and corruption.

    I guess you've never heard of Chicago.

  16. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    Suicide bombings are a daily occurrence in the middle east. There's a sizable percentage of people who consider destruction, mutually assured or not, a good thing.

  17. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wrong side of the equation. How do you reason with Stalin? Or Hamas or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Do you compromise, only let them build half a nuclear bomb, only kill half the jews?

  18. Re:Why do we have a problem with Gates? on Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes · · Score: 3, Funny

    What part of

    REM The IBM Personal Computer Donkey
    REM Version 1.10 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981, 1982
    REM Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM

    don't you understand?

  19. Re:Since the WSJ couldn't write a tech description on Wozniak Accepts Post At a Storage Systems Start-Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    The article is from the NY Times.

  20. Re:Apply won't start on Behind the Scenes In Apple Vs. the Record Labels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One point the article made (not that anyone read it) is that the labels were scared Apple would drop them.

  21. Re:VMWare was always a doomed business. on VMware Releases Open Source Virtualization Client · · Score: 1

    I like and use virtual box, but it has some serious problems. First hand, it doesn't support openstep or NetBSD 5 as a guest. (I've heard it doesn't support haiku either). FreeBSD 7.1 occasionally gets disk geometry errors. Their main concern seems to be supporting windows (and I suppose Solaris), which I've never had a problem with. Outside that, good luck.

  22. Re:Hurray? on LinuxDefenders.org Launches To Fight Patent Trolls · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft.

  23. Re:Embrace. on New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Linux is GPL licensed. But you're not free to compile your own version to run on a tivo.

  24. Re:What I want to know is on Second Netbook Wave Begins · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried that with your mom, but she freaked out

  25. Re:(cough) BSD is increasingly reliant on GNU on NetBSD 5.0 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    personally, I think PCC is a dead end. But Apple is working on llvm which should suit openbsd's goals. Currently, there's usable gcc-4 front end and a non-gnu c/c++/objective c front end, clang, in development.