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  1. Re:Funny Logic ... on Zotob and Mytob Worm Authors Arrested · · Score: 1

    Strangely, many of the "saves" that body armour has had over the years has been in car accidents where it acted almost like an exoskeleton for the person wearing it, protecting against steering wheels, direcctional forces, etc.

  2. Re:What's up with Slashcode? on Migrating from Mambo to Another CMS? · · Score: 1

    Pain to install on a system you've got around doing stuff anyway, but I did a net install of Sarge right before it became -stable, added sshd and my fav editor, and then did apt-get install slash and it was up and running perfectly.

  3. Re:the promise? on Intel Ports Developer Tools to Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    No.. JavaScript!

  4. Most important question on Shape Changing Plane In Development · · Score: 1

    The most important question though is...

    Can they buzz Ben Hill Griffen stadium during a game and not get arrested, their grant money taken away, or forced to park out here by SFCC and walk to class?

  5. Re:Open Source and free books on An Open Source Guide For The Average PC User · · Score: 1

    There are a few free "animal books" (O'Rieley sp?) available, and quite a bit more documentation of varying degrees of quality and style out on that intarweb thingie. (Creation of good clear docs that actually help you use/install/configure the program is one of the big thing non-coders can do for OSS).

    But printing an actual dead tree version will cost lots of money, and typically be out of date by the time it actually arrives in a user's hands.

  6. Re:All you can eat on MS & Game Rentals · · Score: 1

    How about maybe a little more $$ ($10 or so at most), latest releases, you pick twelve per year and you can play 'em forever... 'Cause for 40-50 a month, you should be able to buy one of the newest releases once a month... if there are even any worth paying that for. Of course, you'll have to figure a couple hundred per year for hardware as well.

  7. Re:Politics as Usual on Free WiFi Trend Continues · · Score: 1

    Are you saying he isn't a total fuck-up then?

    Note that I'm not into bush-bashing, or politics really, but he has been doing some pretty asnine things...

  8. Re:Hypothetical Prison Conversation on Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months · · Score: 1

    And so there we sat on the Group W bench...

  9. Re:Is it sentient? on Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen · · Score: 1

    What? You wouldn't want to meet the meat?

  10. Re:How common is this common sense? on Anti-Phishers Pose as Phishers to Make Point · · Score: 1, Funny

    You've been hit with a *nix worm!

    Unfortunately, we're not very good programmers, so be a pal, su to root, and delete 3 random files or directories from /etc, /dev, or /bin. Once you're done, forward this message to 3 of your *nix using friends!

  11. Re:FUD? on Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global · · Score: 1

    Thats not one of the web safe colors....

    (does that apply anymore anyway?)

  12. Re:This is great on Quake 3 Source Code to be Released · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, why is keepign the content "closed" bad? It is the content that makes QuakeN what it is. Other commercial games have been based on the various Quake engines already, not to mention the Firt Of mods (original CTF or TF in QW, AirQuake, AQ2, etc). Its the content that makes a new game...

  13. Re:So much for selling used books on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 1

    Strange. Our bookstore, even when an instructor has CDs with content they created (and own copyright on) and wants to sell to students for $1 each, marks the price up to *at least* $9 or a 60% markup, whichever is higher.

  14. Re:Rule #1 on WiFi At Logan Airport Leads To Turf War · · Score: 1

    And how does this relate to engaginc in a land war in Asia?

  15. Re:ISPs shouldn't block anything on Risks of Partisan Spam Filtering? · · Score: 1

    Should be the other way around... if the customer asks for the filtering, then put it in place.

  16. ISPs shouldn't block anything on Risks of Partisan Spam Filtering? · · Score: 1

    ISPs shouldn't block anything at all except by protocol/standard - for example dropping mail not properly sent when using SPF or similar. But blocking based on content, etc. is not proper.

  17. Re:FUD from the NYT on Rating System for Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Well, based on what I see during the install, I can see where spammers get their ideas for various enhancement products...

  18. Don't comment on Successful Strategies for Commenting Your Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't comment at all, and just run it thru The Commentator!

    http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/

  19. Re:now correct me if im wrong on U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Ummm... why reinvent the wheel? The hebrew calendar works, there are existing functions and calendars for it (did you know PHP has support for it in the date functions?), all you need to do is get support for it.

  20. Re:Voice narration? on Review of Consumer-Friendly Linux Distro · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Debian is more PnP for me than Windows XP.

    I just installed Debian stable (sarge) last week on my Dell GX-270 at work (adding an XP partition and getting rid of FC2). In my past experience, all the dell optiplex hardware will work, but often times the proper config needs to be made, just like you mention.

    Anyway, this particular install of Debian everything Just Worked. Sound, network, USB mouse, LCD monitor, Intel video, USB ports - everything, no extra config needed.

  21. Re:Why? on Transferring Mail from AOL? · · Score: 1

    Same here. I have an archive of over 90,000 messages (mostly) regarding old funny foriegn cars. Lots of valuable information, including stuff from experts in their areas who have since died.

  22. Re:"Computer Services" not "Hardware Upgrades" on Startup a Computer Business? · · Score: 1

    I do hourly, with one exception. Backing up personal files and reformatting and reinstalling windows is a flat fee ($125). Takes too many hours to be justified on the hourly rate ($50/hr) since a lot of the time is spent waiting on updates, etc. to download.

  23. Re:Am I getting old? on The State of Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    Sill exists. Saw some PCI cards that take up to 8 pc-133 dimms when I was doing some online shopping not too long ago.

  24. Re:Summary of instructions on Multi-booting Mac Intel Developer Machines · · Score: 1

    What, no network install using carrier pigeons?

  25. Re:Why not during loading screens? on Full-Motion Ads Come to Videogames · · Score: 1

    I had a thought about somethign similar ... could using a ramdisk to hold the games decrease load time?

    I tested it by timing how long it took to start a ET map from disk, then copied my et directory to a ram disk, then started ET again. No real noticable difference...