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  1. Re:About Time! on Distributed Computing "Advances" · · Score: 1

    Don't make me enlist Rowdy Roddy Piper to kick your ass! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/

  2. Didn't see anyone else post this yet... on Distributed Computing "Advances" · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

    I didn't see it in the story either. Pardon me please if I'm just blind/illiterate

  3. LMAO on Downloadable Origami Motorcycles · · Score: 1

    Even the google cache is ./'ed. Don't you fuckers work? LMAO, go download and configure aide or something; I can just imagine half of americas techies making little origama motorcycles across america right now. Too funny.

  4. here's some on The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing? · · Score: 1

    Products are secure out of the box



    Linux is more secure than windows

    BSD is more secure than Linux

    Windows cannot acheive the same uptime as *nix

    People who call themselves computer techs, network engineers, systems administrators, developers, and programmers know what they're talking about. Most of them are end users with administrative rights

    But I digress

  5. Why is everyone saying... on Red Hat News: Edu Prices, Progeny Support for 7.X · · Score: 1

    ...students can buy WS for $25 and schools AS for $50? I see nothing that stipulates students can by only WS... It looks by the linked page that either can purchase either..... god knows this student is heavily interested in one of each; looks like my RHN subscription cost just went up $10 (used to be $65 for one RH9 subscription) a month, but I think I'll live.

    http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries/educati on/indiv/

  6. I bet what happened... on Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware · · Score: 1

    Is some loser downloaded xyz-p2p-app... got their one billionth popup, called Dell. Helpful Dell Tech said,"Oh, go download ad-removal-app and run it,"

    Nitwhit home user does it, breaks xyz-p2p-app, now home user pissed of because Dell Tech broke xyz-p2p-app, so Dell management makes a call. At the risk of being less helpful we'll avoid looking like we're the problem when the program breaks.

    It's lose-lose cause now they look like dumb shits who can't help, where before they looked like dumb-shits who screwed up users programs. We all know that neither is the case. Sadly end user logic is strange and not of this earth.

  7. A lot of computers... on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    ...come with IDE cables clearly labeling the connectors Master and Slave. Some political intern asswipe son of a senator is gonna be scraping it off all the cables in LA for $50 an hour... red tape, corruption, and beaurocracy... ain't it great?

  8. Good news indeed... on DMCA Doesn't Protect Garage Door Remotes · · Score: 1

    Anyone remember the line:

    "Let the fools have their tartar sauce..."

    Seems applicable...

  9. Anyone else... on First Reproducing Artificial Virus Created · · Score: 1

    have a flash back to 12 monkies?

    Jeffrey Goines: You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs for example. James Cole: Germs? Jeffrey Goines: Uh-huh. Eighteenth century, no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person. Along comes this doctor, uh, Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do they call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, up to the 20th century, last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger at this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. James, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is a plot made up so they could sell disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right?

  10. Re:eh $150,000? on Simcity Microwave Power by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Use the microwave system on the rocket. Then use it on the country that fired it. Problem solved. Think like an evil genious damnit.

  11. Re:Perspective on Vietnam Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    Equiv. of $30,832?!? My Vietnamese is for shit but even I can field this one: Microsoft ngu qua!

  12. Re:Ouch. on LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2 · · Score: 1

    apparently not even reading from the CD. The article says doing a network install does the same thing...

  13. I don't care what it looks like... on Branding Mozilla: Towards Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As long as I can smash all the bars up in one small line. There is nothing more that I hate than having 15 bars covering half the screen with jumbo icons such that I cannot even see the page I'm wanting to look at.

    I have File-Help, the back, forward, stop, and refresh buttons (all with no text & small icons) address bar(no idiotic go button to click), and google way off to the right to stop the popups. One line and the rest of the screen is web page.

    Something along those lines is what I want from Mozilla, without having to create my own theme to get it. And since it's so small and inconspicuous it can be in black and white with icons drawn in mspaint freehand with a mouse.

  14. Uh huh on CNet on WinFS · · Score: 1

    According to Muglia, the new filesystem will not replace NTFS, but will incorporate feratures of NTFS, SQL, and XML all into a filesystem which, accoring to Microsoft, will open up a whole new world of information availability

    Yep, the first SQL vulnerbaility after WinFS will make the whole disk available rather that just the database.

    (joking aside it does seem interesting...)

  15. Re:Anytime someone doesn't want what you like.. on Using Macs In The Work Place · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, the objective of a business was to make money. If making money means IT's job is a pain in the ass, then so be it.
    And so it's not possible to run a company efficiently and productively with one OS? 95% of the time I would say you are sorely mistaken. There are always exceptions to the rule.

    Windows on the server is as silly as Linux on the desktop
    This is an ignorant statement. Linux can be a great desktop OS depending on your needs. Similarly if all you need is file and print for 200 users Windows will do this just fine. Hell it will do just fine for a whole lot more than that. Once again dependent on the situation.

  16. Re:Anytime someone doesn't want what you like.. on Using Macs In The Work Place · · Score: 1

    As an addendum to that thought, I would like to add that I believe the non-homogenous systems should arise naturally as company A chose Windows because it was good enough, company B chooses Linux because it rocked their world, company C chose Mac because it was best for them, etc. It should not be each companies desire to create this kind of thing within their own organization further reducing the sum of their manpower for supporting each, where it could have been pooled into one resource that may have had specializations, etc. but at least had a strong fundamental understanding.

  17. Anytime someone doesn't want what you like.. on Using Macs In The Work Place · · Score: 1

    you think it amounts to ignorance. Here's a happy thought. I don't give a flying **** if the company AS A WHOLE decides they want to use Linux, Windows, Mac, or Solaris.

    I just started a job with a shop that uses AIX, Netware, Windows Desktop and Server, and Linux. There's a friggan security vulnerability released everyday. It's f*ing rediculous. So let's bring in a Mac and add to the joy.

    See the sad fact is no matter what OS you use it can be a safe and cost effective environment. Do you know how many tools for instance Windows has for making the installation of a desktop easier? RIS to install desktop, AD to distribute apps to the appropriate users/systems, SUS to actually INSTALL those security patches/service packs for windows. e-Policy Orchestrator for McAfee VirusScan and I'm sure Norton has something similar if that's your poison.

    And so what if you choose linux. You have other tools, like say RHN if you choose RedHat.

    Or you could use a Sun Ray server and Solaris for all. It could be done really beautifully. But no, as with all places someone has to be the autonomous exception to the rules. So you have a friend in management, what next?

    So, not a troll, but just think for a minute. Like I said I wouldn't care if I was supporting all Macs or all Windows or all Linux, as long as it was ALL ONE. And people will harp on homogenous systems being insecure, but that is largely BS if the IT Staff are for once doing their job. Whether you have 1 or 8 insecure OS'es they are all still insecure. Taking care of one dilligently outways 8 haphazard implementations.

  18. It's bad enough... on Universe Shaped Like A Soccer Ball? · · Score: 1

    I'm already an insignificant spec in an infinite universe. Now I've been reduced to an insiginificant spec in a finite universe. I need a nap it's too early for this kind of depressing news.

  19. It's the end of the world! on Electricity Apocalypse Soon? · · Score: 1

    "It's the Y2K bug!"

    Oh, wait no, no, that's not it, oh wait, "It's the coming of the apocalypse 2001, It says so in the bible!"

    Doh.... Oooh oooh, I got it, "It's the end of the world! It's the coming of the Electricity Apocalypse!"

    Some people need to take a pill, and let the professionals take care of the problem. The coming of the apocalypse stories are getting especially lame now that 2000 has come/gone.

  20. Bad joke of the day on New Material for Spintronics Discovered · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does that make the people who discovered this Spin Doctors?

    whacka whacka whacka

  21. This is why I've succumb to using vmware... on Half-Life 2 - A Linux User's Lament · · Score: 1

    I wanna run Linux, but I play all sorts of cutting edge games. I don't see Lock On: Modern Air Combat coming out for Linux at the same time as the Windows version. I'm still waiting for the Raven Shield dedicated Linux server to come out like Ubi promised. I don't see EQ II for Linux coming, I don't see Half Life 2 for Linux coming out anytime soon after the Windows version either....

    On the flip side I'm also deeply interested in networking, operating systems, and interoperating with them I have a plethora of OS'es all running.... on one system concurrently. See part of the side effect of being a rabid gamer is having an uuber powerful system. This pays off when running VMWare cause I can have several OS'es going all at once. RedHat 9, RedHat Severn, Netware 6.5, OS 2 Warp, Windows 2003 Server, Solaris 9 x86, blah, blah, and on and on.

    So, I love to run Linux, but it's not my only OS. And besides, I have Linux on my 'server' too, so it's all good.

    So Linux lover? game freak? whatever? It's all good...

  22. I wonder if... on Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version · · Score: 2, Funny

    Darl McBride will buy a spot so he can point at you all Uncle Sam-esque with the words "Say no to Linux" over his head

  23. list-generation on Australia To Fast-Track Anti-Spam Bill · · Score: 0, Funny

    Banning list-generation software seems a bit heavy-handed, doesn't it?

    He's a SPAMMER! GET HIM!

  24. You know... on NZ Spammer Shutdown Makes Big Difference · · Score: 1

    I hadn't noticed until somebody said something, but I did get considerably less SPAM over the course of the night than usual.

    I use a hotmail account to sign up for all those things that shout, "This is gonna rack up the SPAM..." and it is usually good for ~80 messages straight to the 'Bulk Mail' folder in the course of the night.

    Today there were only 23. Now I have no idea if, like some people are speculating, this one guy was responsible for it all, or if like others are guessing the recent virus/worm outbreaks are having an effect etc., but something is definately amiss.

    No matter though, if this one guy left a gap in the SPAM kingdom there will be ten slimy SOB's to fill it.

  25. If the elderly can use it... on Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly · · Score: 1

    ...so can the military.

    And from power exoskeleton to power armor.

    And we're one step closer to Glitter Boys. There goes the planet.