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  1. Re:What? on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1

    ah, so if i look at polish porn, I'll get a sztywny-y

  2. Re:COBOL hasn't been topdog for a while on Google Unveils Code Search · · Score: 1

    cool but there is a mistake, they have Object Pascal in 1985 being a predecessor to Turbo Pascal. Not true, although there was an oo version of Turbo Pascal for which that might be true. TP came out in 1983.

  3. defeatist attitude on Intel Accused of Being an "Open Source Fraud" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What OpenBSD is doing has worked with other companies. Until someone has hundreds of millions to put into your open source hardware, the OpenBSD's approach has much more likelihood for success useful to other people.

  4. Re:I've got one on Invisible Unmanned Aircraft · · Score: 1

    I saw it, or rather, Wonder Woman had hijacked it and I saw her zoom by overhead in seated position. She really shouldn't wear that miniskirt and thong when piloting a craft like that, ran my car into a ditch.

  5. you're half right on Two Tiny Gas Turbines · · Score: 1

    the story is about a turbine and generator(spun by the turbine) together

  6. Re:Hmm.. maybe no security beyond 2017 won't matte on BT Futurologist On Smart Yogurt and the $7 PC · · Score: 1

    nope, it's sooner: December 21, 2012. Move up your party plans, go out with a bang. Actually, what will happen is the plane of the ecliptic will lie in the galactic plane.

  7. Re:Wikipedia on DARPA Sponsoring Limb Regeneration Research · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's the spammers I fear: get your Penis Enlargement Blastima now!

  8. Re:Apart from management; what's the problems? on Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot · · Score: 1

    my company provides "terminals" to banks, you'd be amazed what the "desktop" in a bank could be. OS/2, DOS, windows 3.1....

  9. Re:Arrrrrrrrrr on Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, Me Hearties · · Score: 1

    Hangovers be that which only men who sober themselves get, keep passin the rum, yaarrrrrrrrrrr!

  10. Re:I expect more XP users on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    well, the freak show also can happen with spyware and adware from supposedly trusted companies. By the way, regarding your sig, you also should have mentioned that Khan fucked thousands of woman by the time he fell of that pony. Every thinking geek therefore yearns to be like Gengis Khan.

  11. beta tagging for this and other articles on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    a tagging system won't do any good with the stupid, juvenile, and meaningless descriptions like the ones we currently see. A useful tag for this article might be "windows+98 linux migration" or similar

  12. Re:It really amazes me... on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    I ran my tax software and some of my kid's games on 98 until a few months ago, now I have win 2000 pro under wmware on my linux box. Win 98 booted very fast compared to later MS products, don't see why anyone using it off the internet would need to upgrade.

  13. Re:Apart from management; what's the problems? on Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot · · Score: 1

    geez, I better turn off the ten year old machines running our company, then.

  14. Re:Amazing on Segway Recalling 23,000 Scooters · · Score: 1

    they do explode and catch fire, but the customer doesn't inform the manufacturor in those cases

  15. Re:kill your land line on Is the Do Not Call System Working? · · Score: 1

    bad news, cell phone telemarketing is ramping up hugely now that people are able to transfer their land line number over, and telemarketers seem less and less to care about law. Especially since they outsource the calling, try suing or complaining to FTC against someone in Bombay.

  16. Re:Why does Ruby score so badly in the C.L. Shooto on Sun Backs Ruby by Hiring Main JRuby Developers · · Score: 1

    good grief, there are other (and better) web frameworks available based on Ruby than ruby on rails; ruby on rails is fun and coding-fast though. If you check out the comp.lang.ruby threads you'll find that plenty of folks have refactored various benchmarks in the C.L. shootout and been able to improve performance by factors of two to many times, which proves exactly nothing. The benefits of ruby aren't speed of execution. Speed of coding is, most power for the least typing compared to others except ocaml.

  17. Re:not a user, eh? on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    no more or less boring than typical linux kernel changelog, minus the very limited hardware issues compared to what Linux has to worry about

    IRIX 6.x installs have less complexity than recent redhat or suse distro install if one follows the quick route, Any Unix is going to be a bitch if one goes off the quick install into a custom setup, but that's part of the fun and gives true sys admin a hardon.

  18. Re:GPL: License to Sue on GPL Gets Its Day in Court in Israel · · Score: 1

    bullshit, the bsd license also can be enforced by suing, it too is based on copyright law with the same mechanisms protecting it from violation.

  19. Re:And then we'll realize in horror... on Supercomputer to Hit 1.6 Petaflops With 16,000 Cell Chips · · Score: 1

    or we'll be running Linux but the honkin' bloated Sun jvm brings our pocket supercomputers to its knees

  20. Re:Make patches available on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    legal, pfffft, even sgi sells that stuff on ebay at times. at the moment there's five full sets of 6.5.x on ebay, two of them are 6.5.29, one 6.5.26 and one 6.5.16 and one 6.5.3. Like they're going to hunt us down..

  21. Re:Pick an OS with staying power on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    Don't forget apple energy supporting bsd. If someone runs linux on an ibm mainframe, that's happening under z/vm, which is part of the vm/cms family. Also, plenty of money and databases still running there, so yeah it's of interest to an integrator/migrator like myself.

  22. Re:Such a crowded graveyard, big deal. on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    well, there's mighty cool stuff being R&D'd with optical, quantum, biological computing, to say nothing of different digital electronhics such as reversible and spin-bus, so I'd say there's still some chance some major disruptive technology to computing will come.

  23. Re:Make patches available on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    just buy them for dirt on eBay like the rest of us museum-piece SGI owner/operators 8)

  24. Re:Pick an OS with staying power on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 3, Insightful

    oh, we should all be sorry for people who chose mvs or vm/cms in the last few decades? SunOS 1.0 was released in 1982, and today we have SunOS 5.10 aka Solaris 10. we'll have to see if there's Linux distros in 24 years before we can really pass judgements on longevity compared to Sun's stuff. BSD is still widely used too, and fifteen or more years older than GNU/Linux distros depending on how you look at things, so I'd say any BSD based stuff has even more safety than Linux (and Linux keeps borrowing good stuff from it and verse vice)

  25. not a user, eh? on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    last release 6.5.30 was on august 16, 2006. See improvements and new features here