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  1. LaCie Ethernet Big Disk on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't buy one of these. The drives are non removable (voids warranty) and when it fails like mine did after 9 months they expect you to send it in for repair without take the drives out. As I have all my financial information on it there is no chance so now I have a very expensive door stop.

  2. Re:God, talk about FUD..... on The UK's Total Surveillance · · Score: 1

    We've all seen what a spectacular failure most of the recent UK Gov IT projects have been, if I believed they were even capable of doing this I might be slightly concerned.

    Or is that what they want you to think...

    FYI: I'm joking... or am I... no I am... possibly

  3. Re:This would help on Will Sun Open Source Java? · · Score: 1

    Because you have to hire staff to maintain it once it is written. Not many developers are happy to base their careers on Lisp developement (as compared with Java) so you are going to have long search to resource it once the original developers move on to bigger an better things.

  4. Who cares on Aero To Be Unavailable To Pirates · · Score: 1

    The only reason I keep a copy of Windows installed on a small partition my PC is so I can run iTunes and as I have decided to buy a MacBook pro my iTunes OS will now by OSX, obviously I'll still be using Linux as my day to day OS. I get eye candy with OSX and GLX so who honestly need Aero (or indeed Windows)? To answer my own question the only people that do still need Windows are those organisations that have painted themselves into a corner with their application selections over the years. Buying application that only work with Windows and have closed standards, exchange/outlook, those crappy VB6 cheapo developments... you get the picture. These organisations don't need to upgrade though as upgrading brings very little.

  5. Re:Annoyance on Google Calendar · · Score: 1

    Yep, your right, I couldn't find this last time I looked. Thanks. I still think it should default to being off.

  6. Annoyance on Google Calendar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wish there was a way (maybe there is but I can't find it) to specify which Google applications you want to be automatically logged into. In my case I never want to be logged into the feature that remembers my searches, I find that feature disturbing. However if I log into Calendar or Gmail or Personal Homepage it starts remembering all my searches again until I log out and then I have to log in again when I use gmail or whatever. So I just don't use any of the features right now because it's too irritating.

  7. Re:i luv these guys, but they are doomed on ActiveState Returns to Open Source Roots · · Score: 2, Informative

    I tend to use Cygwin's distribution of Perl on Windows. Granted I'm not using Perl for heavy lifting but it works for me. Anyone used Cygwin perl in a production web environment?

  8. Re:Relevancy? on Hollywood Buddies up with Bram Cohen · · Score: 1

    In fact his bittorrent.com search engine is merely a customisation of the Open Source Nutch search engine and so it wouldn't be hard for someone else to replicate the site and functionality.

  9. Re:Politicians are dumb on A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet · · Score: 1

    .com isn't the root domain the root domain it is the (implicit) . domain. The dot is above .com, .net, .org, .fr, .uk etc, etc. The US controls the . domain. This control allows the US if it so chooses to shut down any or all domains it so chooses.

  10. Grow up on A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Seriously can everyone just grow the fuck up, otherwise this will end badly. The US needs to hand over some control of the root servers and Europe needs to trust the US a little more - this shared responsibility can only be a good thing for international relationships.

  11. Missing something on Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Somewhere in this system there must exist a "plain text" version of the video stream otherwise the video could not be displayed, I'm guessing this is between the DVD player and the TV, so all one would need to do is intercept this transmission and high quality copies can be made.

  12. Re:Never mind DNS; I'm worried about routing on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1

    and would probably have to isolate the US's networks to keep things from becoming completely disrupted.

    Hurray, no more spam for the rest of the world!

  13. Re:Never mind DNS; I'm worried about routing on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1

    and would probably have to isolate the US's networks to keep things from becoming completely disrupted.

    Hurray, no more spam!

  14. Rubbish on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 5, Informative

    This would require everyone in the EU to reconfigure the nameservers to point at a different set of root servers overnight. It's just not going to happen. Speaking as someone in the EU running a number of nameservers I'm not going to do this if it effects my ability to resolve domain names correctly. I might, overtime, add some additional EU nameservers if they are none disruptive but this will be a gradual process.

  15. What is natural about that? on TurboGears: Python on Rails? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    as natural as writing a function.

    So what is so natural about writing a function? I would have though if it is based on Python it would be OO with behavioral methods rather than procedural function calls.

    Why is everyone clambering to find the 'next' language for programming in the small when quite clearly a good language for programming in the large is what is required - at least for enterprise applications (I'm going to include wikis in that for now).

  16. Re:Pointless on Building The Ultimate Home Theater PC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have to agree; maybe I'm getting old, or get paid too much (ha ha, I wish), but I'm inclined just to buy something that just works.

  17. BitTorrent on Earth Departure Movie From MESSENGER Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    His is a torrent

    mdis_depart.mpeg.torrent

  18. Re:I dont get it... on Linux Chess Supercomputer Overpowers Grandmaster · · Score: 1

    Damn, and I'm routinely beaten by mediocre go programs :(

  19. Not true on Wormholes Unstable (BBC) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The one I was using tomorrow worked just fine, well, it did until it broke yesterday.

  20. Re:Top MSN Rankings on MSN Search Engine Favors IIS · · Score: 1

    Never worked for me :(

    picture of gates

  21. Best advise on Comprehensive Guide to the Windows Paging File · · Score: -1, Redundant

    But first and foremost, a large part of the article deals with the various methods of optimizing the Windows paging file, thus yielding a notable performance gain for people who are not overly blessed with RAM.

    Yep, uninstall that piece of shit OS and install Linux.

  22. My site is affected on Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My site the humor archives has been affected by this. I can tell because if you do the following search you can see a bunch of sites that are/were 302ing to my domain. I'm pretty pissed off and I seriously hope Google act soon to rectify the matter.

  23. Graphical stuff it the way to go on Software Engineering Demo for a K-5 Career Fair? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Something like Povray or just plain old fractal generation and manipulation which can be done in about 40-50 lines of code - change the code show them the result - let them have a go.

  24. Re:This is offtopic... on LiveCD Lets You Try Out Project Looking Glass · · Score: 2, Informative

    wget -S https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/

    would do the trick.

  25. Plumber on A9 Search Engine Launches Yellow Pages · · Score: 2, Funny

    Searching for plumber brings back some interesting images....