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  1. Life Expectancy taken into account? on Innovators Are Older Than Ever · · Score: 1
    I can't be bothered to RTFA, so could somebody tell me whether the survey takes into account the higher life expectancy today?

    Perhaps the percentage of the way through your life that you do your best work has not changed.

  2. Re:Well, maybe on Firefox Growth Slowing? · · Score: 1
    I don't mean to purposefully troll here, I've just never figured it out and I've never bothered to ask anyone before...

    Exactly why is tabbed browing better than just firing up another IE? Isn't doing Alt-tab to change windows just as easy as whatever it is you do to change firefox tabs?

    (I don't care if it's slightly less memory, as I have enough)

  3. Re:Coding style... on BBC Launches APIs · · Score: 3, Funny
    streamer.c:1: error: local time 16:01:43 GMT. Tea break detected. Recompile in 4 minutues 17 seconds
  4. Re:Looks great.. on Initial ROTS Reviews Hit the Internet · · Score: 1

    heheeh, those are better than mine :)

  5. Re:Looks great.. on Initial ROTS Reviews Hit the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lucas is the sux0rs?
    digital actors raped my childhood?

  6. Re:Hmmm... on Red Hat Developing Early Login with gdm · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You wouldn't.

    I would. I last booted 25 minutes ago. Power usage and fire risk are concerns for me.

  7. FP on Streaming Audio 10 Years Old · · Score: 4, Funny

    First Po

    [buffering 36%]

  8. Re:In contrast to the MS method... on Lack of Testing Threatening the Stability of Linux · · Score: 1

    They do exist for the games industry, and most likely other areas too.

  9. Re:Screenshots? on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 2, Funny
    gcc: no input files
  10. So? on MS: Beta Software Good Enough for Production Use · · Score: 1

    Could somebody point out the newsworth bit here? All I can see is a story about Microsoft providing supply for a commercial demand.

  11. Re:How queer... on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 2, Informative
    This Brightonian is currently working here, and used to work here.

    It's closer to central London in terms of journey time than many places inside Greater London.

  12. Re:Who really answered this survey? on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "I have to wonder who participated in the survey. Elementary school kids and people who think AOL is the Internet?"

    Why not? They outnumber slashdot readers by orders of magnitude.

  13. Re:Debian Sarge is vunerable on Some Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I switched from FreeBSD 4.something to Debian about a year ago because it would randomly hang roughly once per week.

  14. Re:Debian Sarge is vunerable on Some Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default · · Score: 1

    (oops, obviously I need a '&' in there)

  15. Debian Sarge is vunerable on Some Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default · · Score: 3, Informative
    I just locked myself out of my Debian sarge machine with the following:

    (forkbomb.sh)

    #!/bin/bash
    while true; do
    ./forkbomb.sh
    done

  16. Choose one on Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science? · · Score: 1
    "I want to further my education, and increase my marketability."

    I'd make your mind up on one and concentrate on that. If you think they're the same thing, chat to some potential employers.

  17. Re:Knoppix has come full circle on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More · · Score: 1
    Yeah, they're a bit dodgy to say the least. You've got to love the half-assed excuse though ;)

    "Monitor unauthorized access to your computer or your network. Use it to troubleshoot or make fixes by tracing back through a users command sequence."

  18. Re:Knoppix has come full circle on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More · · Score: 1
    "if you want to browse securely from a cyber-cafe - without any keyloggers peeking"

    Saw this little beauty in thinkgeek the other day:

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5a05/i mages/750/
  19. Re:Leadership? on American View On Korean Broadband Leadership · · Score: 1
    With the exception of P2P stuff, there's little reason to get off 56k.

    OK that's a slight exaggeration, but P2P has got to be at least as important as http these days.

  20. Re:MP3? on Microsoft's Martin Taylor Responds · · Score: 1

    Damn, beaten to the does it support ogg? troll! ;P

  21. Re:Mods... on First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD · · Score: 1

    heheh, oh well :)

  22. Re:Mods... on First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD · · Score: 1
    Ooh, it never really crossed my mind that Duke Nukem Forever could be written 'DNF'.

    I normally associate DNF with 'Did Not Finish', which is displayed instead of a time in motorsport races on TV. Quite appropriate really :)

    (I hope I'm not just being really really slow and that everybody else got the joke on day one ;)

  23. Re:Where's the buggy-eyed smily when you need it? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1
    In Japan, high-value transactions with 'real' money are still common.

    A japanese friend of mine thought nothing of buying a new sports car with a briefcase full of cash. When I went over there a shopkeeper had real trouble accepting my Visa/Delta for about £20 of souvineers.

  24. Parallelizing a C compilation on BigTux Shows Linux Scales To 64-Way · · Score: 1
    Compiling the kernel didn't scale quite so well, but that was because it involves intermittent serial processing by a single processor.

    Really? I would have thought that the compilation of loads and loads of .c files is exactly the sort of thing that could be shared among processors. It certainly has been on projects that I've worked on.

    make -j (num of processors) ?

  25. Free BBC link on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4163975.stm

    Written in the BBC's unimitable dumbed-down style.