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  1. Re:POSIX compliance ? on Microsoft Next Generation Shell · · Score: 2

    Not really, it had a broken implementation of Posix 1.0 that was fairly useless...there was a company called Softway that made higher level Posix API & tools for NT, for $199, but even then one still had to buy yet other add-ons for basic built-in Unix services....like they had Telnet server for $99.

  2. Re:Higher electrical resistance? Huh? on Japan Developing Diamond-based Semiconductors · · Score: 2

    very high resistance is good for the substrate, upon which you place your doped (conductive) materials for active components, and metals for "wires"....this keeps current leakage down.

  3. Re:Mr. Hi-Speed Mailer Loves This Article on RC Car Craze: The Spam Connection · · Score: 2

    yes, that's sadly true...but this list *does* block most of it, and that's a start. What often happens it that spammers get kicked out of ISP and have to go to large bulk mailers.

    And my subject line regular expressions in do block most of the rest (will soon get a page up for that too, I'm building automated system for adding to database and generating the web pages in the hopes that they can help people out) I can't just post the config file because I also have other blocks in there for personal reasons that might not be wanted by most people

  4. Re:If you're out of work, ask youself this... on Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting · · Score: 2

    Only months of working on keyboard music? You're doing fine...it takes at 3 years to be able to play Bach well, and maybe 7 or more of intense study to do the Romanticists (Chopin, later Beethoven....)

    Not at all like learning Java or C++, which I did in a few months.

    I'm saying you might be a gifted musician, and not know it....takes a *lot* of work. If you don't believe me, check out biographies of great performers (like Horowicz) and see how many hours they practiced every day.

    Now *composing* music is another story altogether....that gift seems to be born, not made

  5. Re:Mr. Hi-Speed Mailer Loves This Article on RC Car Craze: The Spam Connection · · Score: 2

    We can blackhole servers now, I do for my domain with this list

  6. Re:Danger.... on Wi-Fi From The Sky · · Score: 2

    That's a valid concern, but the microwave relay towers and cell towers we have now in remote locations are an even easier target, and carry more important traffic than typical Internet data...and right now, when they fail in a given area, we're back to copper phone lines (if any, and assuming no one has also taken the trouble to destroy switching centers).....the same would hold true for wifi balloons.

    Also, these are for remote areas: the likely thing to be hit if they fell would be tumbleweeds, grain crops, hills, etc. Of course, someone could design parachutes for the large components to deploy if the gas bag failed....

  7. Re:Don't fall for it! on Wi-Fi From The Sky · · Score: 2

    If your tinfoil hat isn't grounded it merely capacitively couples the mind control rays into your brain. I would recommend wrapping your whole body with tinfoil to make a Faraday cage.

  8. Re:Danger.... on Wi-Fi From The Sky · · Score: 2

    Enemies of the state? Do you mean terrorists, the types of weapons they have access too aren't going to work against something 13 miles in the sky.....and as for foreign powers, getting their fighters over our land to shoot at these things would likely be a call to WWIII - falling debris from this balloons would be the least of your worries in that case.

  9. Re:Let's face it... on Spam Blocking Engine for OpenBSD · · Score: 2

    indeed I do: /^Subject: .*this is (no|not) spam/ REJECT 553 that WAS spam

  10. Re:Let's face it... on Spam Blocking Engine for OpenBSD · · Score: 2

    Actually, it seems spammers use the same phrases in advertising the same stuff....just by filtering subject lines alone by regular expressions I'm rejecting about 5 spams a day per account, and the rest of the spams are rejected by bouncing e-mails based on source domain of bulk e-mailers (like host4bulk.com, e-mailpromo.net, etc.) I'm now getting 2 spams a week to the 6 accounts in my domain. I may next go to filtering the body of the mail, since there are expressions that keep popping up that none of my friends would ever use

  11. Re:rblsmtpd + spamassassin on Spam Blocking Engine for OpenBSD · · Score: 2

    For half of those addresses, why not just block EVERYTHING from the domains that are obvious bulk mailers, rather than just from a specific smtp relay node? So based on what you posted, blocked anything from rapid-e.net, email-deliveries.net, etc.

  12. Re:Liquid Courage? on Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Vikings found alchohol (honeymead) and hallucinogenic mushrooms to be good for that.

  13. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA on Tetraneutron Discovered · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, neutrons unite WILLINGLY for the greater good of proletariat !!

  14. Re:MAD MAX Beyond Geritol on New Mad Max Film · · Score: 2

    and worst of all don't forget the usual gratuitous Gibson bare hind shot....NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

  15. Re:SMP, yet won't boot with loader beyond 8G on OpenBSD SMP In The Works · · Score: 2

    here's a link to using OpenBSD with GRUB, the problem is that the GRUB docs for OpenBSD are so old they're wrong. But, whether or not GRUB can get beyond certain limits of disk size have to do with particular BIOS in question (according to GRUB pages, scroll up from this entry point): http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/grub.htm#openbs d

  16. Re:haha I knew that openBSD was dying.... on OpenBSD SMP In The Works · · Score: 2

    yes! you're exactly right! In most real world *business* applications, there are other bottlenecks that keep SMP from giving near 100% increase in performance for each additional processor (it was I/O and cache thrashing in this case). I *have* seen scientifc and engineering applications where that wasn't the case, but those 4 and 8 ways are usually a waste of money in view of cost/benefit.

  17. Re:SMP, yet won't boot with loader beyond 8G on OpenBSD SMP In The Works · · Score: 2

    8G limitation is due to your bios and use of crummy Wintel architecture. My Sun machines boot from any partition anywhere, as does my SGI.

  18. Re:haha I knew that openBSD was dying.... on OpenBSD SMP In The Works · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've yet to see a real-world business application with even a 25% speedup with the addition of a second processor. SMP is expensive and overrated for all but certain "embarassingly parallel" computational tasks.

    I worked for an "internet incubator" that had huge farms of 8 and 4 way Compaq servers running MS-SQL Server 7. One CPU would be pegged at near 100%, while the other processors on the machine would be near idle. With Oracle, the situation was some better, but again less than 25% speedup for 2nd processor, and less than 25% of 25% for 3rd, etc.

    Maybe YOU need to grow up, and actually test the benefits of SMP rather than coo and goo-goo over it like some shiny toy.

  19. So why are they crawling me? on Amazon Bots Cause Grief For Associate Web Sites · · Score: 2

    Alexa is all over my web logs every day....I don't even link to amazon (or any other commercial site, just some basic open source ones...apache, openbsd, sourceforge, etc)

    Soon I might just block them....but I would like to know how I got on their list of sites to crawl to excess.

  20. Re:Dumb Question on A Twisty Maze Of Sewerbot Links, All Different · · Score: 2

    I used to live in a high-rise in downtown Chicago, and when a new condo rose up on the next block, watched with fascination as they tore up the street, and "cut & spliced" the sewer pipes (and other cool service conduits).....I can't imagine any fiber runs surviving in the sewer lines the assault of rotary diamond saws and jackhammers.

  21. Re:easier definition on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 2

    I did that, but I also got -pi, and a bunch of other values pi radians different from each other.

  22. Re:Why doesn't math deal with Reality well? on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 2

    I have good news for you, you used math to say there are three 3'- 4" sections in 10 feet. And for any precision measurement you make on a 10' length, you can already tell using math what the radius should be if length is bent into circle, without even making that second measurement! See, math deals with reality so very well we can often predict quantities before even directly measuring them. Sure there are issues of accuracy, precision, and imperfections, but even so engineering uses math to predict, measure, and plan in the real world.

  23. Re:A more straightforward approach on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 2

    The Indiana legislature at the time came within 1 vote of voting pi as "de jure 3.2"? Dumb-ass politicians couldn't even round the correct way, and we allow them to make budgets?

  24. Re:You know ... you would think ... on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 2

    -1 * LOGe(-1) / i........that's simple, but not the ratio of two integers, of course.

    Here's a bunch of simple fractions: (4/1) - (4/3) + (4/5) - (4/7) + (4/9) - (4/11) etc.etc. Repeat to desired precision (this is the slowest possible way to compute pi, you're taking the average of series of ratios of circumference of polygons to their altitude as number of sides increases, get a life!)

  25. Re:Don't need 3 machines on How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website? · · Score: 2

    how about redundancy for what you are doing? If you just do everything on just one machine as per this suggestion, get TWO identical machines, and replicate the database changes to the other. Have the ISP send traffic to the 2nd if the first one fails.