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  1. Re:Insurance? on Meteorite Crashes Through New Zealand Roof · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Impy is right. If you hid the posts so that they were not an eyesore then you would probably be successfully sued. Now, if you put large posts coloured red or yellow at the edge of your property to protect it you might be able to get away with that. The legal sistem is quite silly IMNSHO.

  2. Re:Insurance? on Meteorite Crashes Through New Zealand Roof · · Score: 1
    Funny thing is I know several people that "b" has happened to
    B) A car careens around a curve and drives into your living room
    ok maybe not the living room specifically in every case but at least 1 was and Robert Woodhead had a vehicle crash into his offices
  3. Re:What about readability? on Searching for the Best Scripting Language · · Score: 4, Informative
    I don't know where you got your info on the origin of PHP but the official history found at PHP.net states this:
    PHP succeeds an older product, named PHP/FI. PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, initially as a simple set of Perl scripts for tracking accesses to his online resume. He named this set of scripts 'Personal Home Page Tools'. As more functionality was required, Rasmus wrote a much larger C implementation, which was able to communicate with databases, and enabled users to develop simple dynamic Web applications. Rasmus chose to release the source code for PHP/FI for everybody to see, so that anybody can use it, as well as fix bugs in it and improve the code.

    PHP/FI, which stood for Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter, included some of the basic functionality of PHP as we know it today. It had Perl-like variables, automatic interpretation of form variables and HTML embedded syntax. The syntax itself was similar to that of Perl, albeit much more limited, simple, and somewhat inconsistent.
    So while its origins lie directly in PERL it was not names Perl Header Pages. So 5 points for effort, -27 points for accuracy
  4. Re:2 Quick Comments/Questions on iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the post,

    3) BSDRTS and LinuxRTS are almost identical in every way.
    2) BSD actually uses less mem and is smaller especially picoBSD
    1) You are absolutely right about the MMU I did not realise that Linux had been ported to non MMU systems (though I should have if I had really thought about it from that side.

    Your comment lead me to take a look see and find this comparison between BSD and RTOSs and so I think you again.

  5. Re:2 Quick Comments/Questions on iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player · · Score: 1

    Because I have view sigs trurned off and forgot that was in there. Though as a general rule it is true if gramatically incorrect. Does it offend you that by grace I respond to more than I should?

  6. Re:2 Quick Comments/Questions on iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player · · Score: 1

    See I am thinking it is your second point more than anything else. After all if you are building your own chipsets and such driver writing should not be an issue.

    As a note *BSD are Uxices(sp) where Linux is well GNU/Linux and is a re implementation of a reimplementation of Unix .. or so goes my history of OSs not that that has any bearing whatsoever on your statement.

  7. Re:2 Quick Comments/Questions on iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player · · Score: 1

    See now thats a reasonable response the intial response was well lacking ....

  8. Re:2 Quick Comments/Questions on iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player · · Score: 1

    Umm I am sorry would you like to back up your statements with any kind of proof or articles? because to the best of my knowledge they are similarly easy to develop on and the BSDs support a heck of a lot more embedded systems .. but if that was the argument why not use QNX?

    Seriously is there anyone who can point me in the right direction with this? I know I was talking to a friend of mine last night and we were discussing design philosophies for programming and we finally came down to the point of he writes games and I write server applications. Is there some fundamental underlying portion of GNU/Linux that makes it more responsive in media apps that wouldnt account for picking a different proc or hardware decoding?

  9. Re:super-DUPEr on British Telecom Plans to Ditch POTS Network · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not a dupe, its the echo coming back across the transatlantic lines from the original article.

  10. Re:Holes? on Birth of Black Hole Possibly Being Observed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because "Gravastars" are still very much a new and thus fringe theory.

  11. Re:Not quite accurate. on Birth of Black Hole Possibly Being Observed · · Score: 5, Informative
    You are pissing over 3 years? Read the article and you can derive that it supposedly went nova over 31 million years ago. We are just now seeing/detecting it from 1982/3 on. Oh and the reason it wasn't "seen" was because the frequency of the emmisions.
    SN 1986J was so bizarre that it was serendipitously discovered first in the radio, and afterwards in the optical. Therefore, the precise date of its explosion is not known, but on the basis of the available radio and optical data sn 1986j has been estimated to have exploded around the end of 1982, or the beginning of 1983
  12. 2 Quick Comments/Questions on iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) Why do people seem to think that GNU/Linux is superior for embedded media devices than *BSD? This is an honest question because it seems that a company would rather be subject to BSD licensing than GPL so there must be some other reason

    2) Couldn't they come up with a better sounding acronym than PMP reads like PiMP

    No I am not trolling I really do want to know why GNU/Linux is preferable to *BSD for these kinds of devices.

  13. Re:The sky is falling! on Dvorak On The Future Of The Xbox · · Score: 1

    No He already is the "the mad, raving, lunatic of the high-tech industry." but if he keeps throwing crap around eventually something will stick. Then, at that point, people will treat him like ole Nostrodamus.

  14. DVD SP3 and iDVD on DVD Studio Pro 3 Review · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The tutorial seems nice, I ran through the section on alpha transitions just a moment ago and am now snagging a local copy to go over later. Considering what DPD SP3 can do it is a remarkably easy program to use. It is nowhere nearly as user friendly for newbies as iDVD, and I do not t hink the average home use ever needs to even look at it but for the small media shop or company that would like to do in house DVDs at a fraction of the external cost it is supurb. I am personally waiting for my copy of SP3 to arrive alone with FCP 4.5HD.

  15. Re:Support issue on Fiber To The Dorm Room · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least for Apple, it is not uncommon for a campus to have a mac shop if there are enough macs located there. Apple doesn't treat them any differently than any other mac shop, rather it is something the campus requests and they have to pay their own techs.

  16. Re:Rights? on Circuit Boards + Soldering Iron == Terrorist? · · Score: 1

    Way out of context sir, I am not talking about giving up my rights for so called protection but rather, because I am called to do so. I agree with BF but contextually we are talking about different things.

    Now go take some pepto and learn to read critically.

  17. Re:Rights? on Circuit Boards + Soldering Iron == Terrorist? · · Score: 1

    No I don;t call anyone ... I personally know my rights and thus am willing to give them up for a higher purpose. The ACLU is not the answer in all cases. In this cae your first step should be to the AGs office if you want to make an issue.

  18. Re:Rights? on Circuit Boards + Soldering Iron == Terrorist? · · Score: 2, Funny

    There may have been no seizure but had he refused it possibly would have become an illegal search. I do encourage people to know the constitution and the rights it is supposed to provide and protect. And then I want all teh christians out there and especially Baptists (of which I am both) to remember as individuals we have no rights and are to fully allow such searches and seizures w/o argument (even though in myself I would be one of the first to fight back I need to learn to become less.

    And no this isn't meant as a troll or a flame though I am sure if modded it will be listed as such.

  19. Re:hardware solution on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, I also drop by the Dollar store/Target/Walmart and buy those plastic drawer sets then spray them with anti static spray. It is amazing how much easier it is to find things now .. If I had a db or spreadsheet I would have to maintain it. this way I open up the drawer full of drives and I can see what I have all organized and sorted by capacity speed and manufacturer.

  20. Re:Ebola-Cold. on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 1

    Europe wasn't infected, that is part of the "horror" of the movie. The Horror aspect is not th ezombies or "infected" but rather man's inhumanity to man and the complete isolation of britain. This is why we are allowed to see a plane fly over, so that we know that the contenent is not infected but that no one is sending any help. After 3 weeks or so (IIRC) the infected effectively starve to death.

  21. Re:Apple spam on How Apple's Mail.app Junk Filter Works · · Score: 1

    Its not a back door its a rule in your profile. Problem is, I don't think your can trivially delete it. Its the same reason they all get labled blue.

  22. Re:Use the Firewall on The Windows Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Well then don;t complain you have what is called job security ... since you will be responding to virus calls for a long long time.
    Why is it that everyone wants to install active directory? I spent several hours last month walking guys through a severly botched active directory install.. severly botched meaning they tried to install it. For 11 machines! 11! 3 of which were servers that everyone needed access to. But then these guys couldnt figure out why they were having problems and couldn't get their alpha to install windows 2000 so what did they do? they got financing to chump up another 25k in equipment and licenses again for 8 users and 3 servers. What was the problem come to find out? Well one of the admins had gone to an active directory class (certified training center microsoft gold partner blah blah) and decided he wanted to do it at his location. What did they really need> Nothing the systems were fine and everything was running smoothely before they did anything. Oh and why on G-d's green earth do they need 3 admins for 11 machines in a tool shop?!? sorry been meaning to get that off my chest for a while .. . I reccomended to the owner that he bring in someone who knew how to run a tape drive, restore the system and fire the 3 admins.... unfortunately for him he didn't listen to me.

  23. Re:Use the Firewall on The Windows Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    if payroll become infected you certainly should isolate it. Then you send somone down to fix it and bring it back up. Further whoever set it all up is an idiot if they put accounting on a public segment. As for the switches .. try running a script on them to check usage and ports ... Until you start acting like an admin and quit passing the buck its not going to get better. Now if yjere is an imbalance in responsibility/ authority then you need to take it up with the board of trustees if no one else will listen.

  24. Re:Use the Firewall on The Windows Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Forward them to me, I will send you the support bill. Whats your tax ID and I will need 3 credit references first though.
    If you have a campus lan then here is an amazing idea run managed switches and when a machine shows signs of infection isolate it and send the student a message. Further, use a firewall for actuall net access. I know students will scream but you are a private network so you do not have to leave every port under the sun open.

  25. Re:Software patents are evil on Apple Files Patent for Translucent Windows · · Score: 1

    Ever hear of salaries? They are getting paid so they should work.