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  1. Re:Better than PostgreSQL? on Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux · · Score: 1

    Sybase Central is really coming along, esp after 12.5. I use DBArtisan too. Good product.
    If you're just using DBArtisan for non-admin query building, you might want to look at Aqua Data Studio.

  2. Hope they fixed stuff... on Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available · · Score: 1

    I had numerous problems with my 9.1 install:
    - kernel-source not included
    - Error-loop installing CDC ethernet driver
    - secsup mirror was unreachable!
    - After I ran Mandrake Update all my KDE and GNOME menus were EMPTY!
    - No screensavers with default install
    - Python couldn't find itself
    - Couldn't compile and run Karamba or SuperKaramba(ay carumba!)

  3. CLI intellisense primer with pipes and redirection on Microsoft's new CLI · · Score: 1

    c:\spot
    c:\spot\run
    run|spot>>run

  4. Re:XPlay on On Videogaming TV Shows And Vitriol · · Score: 1

    Yuh but they NEED to get Lauren Fielder back.
    They can keep Adam and Megan, with a little Kate Botello thrown in for good measure, but man, Lauren was way hot.
    Maybe even that sexy goth chick from MuchMusic/Fuse.
    Too bad that Gamespot stopped sponsoring them. (I still call it GamespotTV or even Extended Play sometimes.)

  5. Re:WTF? on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    So, what's the deal? Why are we honoring a man who destroyed America by naming the most expensive carrier ever built after him?
    Wow, the USS Abraham Lincoln was pretty advanced for it's time...

  6. Sagan on Hormel Sues Over SpamArrest Name · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of the "Sagan" chip that was in a prototype Amiga. Engineers had meant it as homage to the great Carl Sagan. Well, ol' Carl demanded payment for his name. They renamed it instead, to BHA. When Sagan found out it stood for "Butt-headed Astronomer", he sued them saying that BHA was "defamatory". He lost the case.

  7. An Army of One, A License of 494,000 on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 0

    Perhaps the Army could get some Ad placement in Windows to offset the cost. "This Blue Screen of Death is brought to you by the US Army!"

  8. This just in... on US & Russia Pencil in Mars Launch by 2018 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am about to launch a pencil into the ceiling!
    .....3
    .....2
    .....1
    RUMBLE! **Go with throttle up.**
    D'oh it crashed!

    Hmm, problem with those damned tiles again.

  9. Re:Reformatting my hard drive on Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue · · Score: 1

    In installed RH9 last night. I ran up2date and **poof** I had to download 90 megs up updates.(!)
    So it's not like everybody doesn't have to patch now and again...
    And BTW, Crossover Plugin 1.3 won't install past a certain point. It just quits when the gui says "checking dll's". Any suggestions? Supposedly 1.3 works with glibc 2.1 and greater(2.3 for RH9).

  10. Re: Enterprise Application on Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I put my application in to serve on the Enterprise, but was kicked out of Starfleet Academy during my senior year for cheating.
    Seems my instructors didn't like my solution to the Kobiyashi Maru. I hax0red the computer so I could win.
    I heard that a similar case happened with a boy from Kansas or some such place, but he received preferential treatment due the the fact that they thought that he was retarded, what with his stilted speech and all.

  11. Prior art on IPv4 Headers Investigated · · Score: 1

    RTFRFC, mofos! According to an unpublished RFC addendum, the Evil Bit is also known as the 'Bacon Bit', used in the new USB protocol created for the George Foreman USB Grill(c).
    I do have prior art, though. I created a bowl of Cap'n Crunch that interfaces via my cereal(sp.) port. Parity is determined via the 'Alpha-bit.'

  12. Re:In other news on Microsoft to End DLL Confusion · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding me? I've had a hell of a time even getting some programs to install(using the gui RPM manager even); it often won't let you keep old libraries.
    You usually have to blow away old versions of gcc or qt to install something that needs a different lib version! "No conflict now, it's just gone!"

  13. Re:Bill Number is H.R. 395 on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry On the Way? · · Score: 1

    And for those who don't understand how laws work in the US, this just means that now it gets to go over to the Senate, who then may or may not approve it, who can then approve it with amendments, send it back to the House for further approval in a committee or two, and eventually send it off to the President to sign into law.
    RTA. It says "The program will not need separate Senate approval under an agreement reached late Wednesday." It was presented by Tauzin and Hollings, who have the full blessing of [$corp] to declare it the 11th commandment.

  14. Memory switching on Atari 2600 Game Development · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ahh, but I seem to remember that developers used to do something called 'bank switching' in the carts.
    They had more than 1 memory chip in there and they could switch to another chip.
    Was it Activision that started using that trick? I remember that they had the shweetest games. A friend of mine got the first "extra memory" game, although I don't recall what it was. The one with chopper flying down the river, maybe?
    And it was cool the first time I heard my Atari talking to me...(not imagined, really!)

  15. CStrike Rulez on PC Baangs In America · · Score: 1, Funny

    I loooove Counter-Strike. I've been playing it for years.
    The thing I don't get is....why do I still suck? I mean I really suck. I'm most always the first one dead. I have a 2 ghz and a cable modem, so I can't blame the machine any more. ;(
    Guess I just go running in guns blazing cuz it's so damn fun.

  16. Re:More interestingly, the article states: on 1.5 TB DVD by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Requisite BSOD definition: "Blue Sting of Death"

  17. More interestingly, the article states: on 1.5 TB DVD by 2010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "* BY 2010, according to senior Intel architects, a CPU will have processing power equivalent to the brain of a bumble bee."
    Wow. Woweewow.
    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
    Oh. Wait. I have one of those in my back yard.

  18. Pole Position on MAME for SonyEricsson's P800 Smartphone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now you can simultaneously wreck in the game and in the car. Weeeoooooh!

  19. My crackpot theory. NASA prove me wrong! on Should NASA Try To Refute Crackpots? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I theorize that my head will not explode if I have sex on the moon with that hot chick Topanga from 'Boy Meets World.'
    Almost explode, but not quite. I won't mind if it does explode afterwards.

  20. public static int poem() on The Poetry Of Programming · · Score: 1

    public static int poem(){
    while(roses=="red" && violets=="blue"){
    iLoveYou=true;
    }
    return(1);
    }

  21. I like the Sims on Virtual Simerica · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, it's like a dollhouse. Yes, it has mundane tasks. But the mundane tasks(as in life) are the means to which you get better 'stuff'. It's fun to get neat stuff. I always liked my GI Joe, and I always wanted to get him better gear(like the real working submarine or the kite!). The Sims are easy to project yourself onto, and it's a lot easier to get yourself neat furniture, chicks, etc. It was a bit traumatic for my son when his dad-character got killed in a kitchen fire, though. (Well, for a couple of hours, anyway.)
    And isn't it fun to play your computer with other people esp. when they're from far away? "Wow, I'm playing with a guy from Alaska!" Just like when those video-trivia-quiz machines first popped up in bars and places like Damon's, where you could compete nationwide.
    I wouldn't be at all surprised to see real-world relationships spring up from this. Didn't some Everquest-ers get married recently?
    I also read an article about how therapeutic 'The Sims' is for shut-ins and the elderly. Bringing them online would be a lifesaver in many cases. I think that there should be a discount for the elderly.

  22. Spam bank on SpamArchive.org Launched · · Score: 1

    I told my wife that I was going to make a deposit at the spam bank. I went like 5 times a day.
    She's amazed and grateful that I can even 'log in' any more.

  23. Re:Speech on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 1

    I saw on tv that he was a Shakespearean-trained actor. He'd do Hamlet-in-the-park in SF or someplace. He saw Kirk as a Shakespearean character. (Tiberius: "et tu, Spock?")

  24. How to Overclock your water computer::: on Water Computing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Add a scoop of Maxwell House.

  25. Re:im blind on ADA Doesn't Apply to Web · · Score: 1

    Yeah, voice tags should sound differently based on the comment's mod. If the Mod= -1 Flamebait, then it should sound like Peewee Herman. If +5 Interesting, then we should hear James Earl Jones.