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  1. use a better window manager! on Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age · · Score: 1

    I guess it is time for you to switch window managers. I myself am using XFCE4 on my PC. And no problems like that for me. I even told it not to give focus to new windows. So when I am typing and a new window opens (for what ever reason) my key codes still goes to the original program. Try that with MS-Windows.

  2. new market: Mazda Virsus Scanner on Mazda Switches To USB Keys · · Score: 1
    very soon there will be a new market: Virus scanners for your car.

    It can download data to your car, so within no time there will be virus out to infect your car!

    I am sorry police officer, it was not my fault that I was speeding. I could not slowdown, I really tried. It must have been a virus that I got from my USB key

  3. Re:Devfs removed on 2.6.13 Linux Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    I am running without devfs in my 2.6 kernel without any issues on both my PCs since a few months. No problems encountered so far!

  4. editors can not read! on Philips Working on LCD TV Ghosting · · Score: 1
    "...will do something similiar to a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) by switching the fluorescent backlight on and off at a rapid pace." Where the heck is this info comming from? CRTs do not have backlights!

    In TFA it says:...showed a flat TV that takes the idea of a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) by switching the fluorescent backlight on and off at a rapid pace. This means that they take the idea of switching from a CRT and implements this into a flat TV, i.e. a LCD. And not the other way around. Can editors not read?

  5. Re:Historical Note on microprocessors on Intel On A Building Spree · · Score: 1

    No, Intel started with the 4004 and later Intel designed the 8008, followed by 8080

  6. Re:Need to learn USA! on Intel On A Building Spree · · Score: 1

    yeah, great investment, about $500K per job.... Same size investment in Arizona generates about 1000 new direct jobs.

  7. the same thing on Intel On A Building Spree · · Score: 2, Informative
    Intel will build two new facilities - a new chip plant and a new wafer plant

    This anouncement makes it sound that the two fabs are making different things, chips and wafers. However all chips or made on wafers so in this context a wafer fab is also a chip fab and visa versa.

    Why do people write about things without knowing what they talk about? Or at least try to find out, before writing something down.

  8. only dump criminals do. on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 1

    [i]Of course, only criminals use cash.[/i]no, smart criminals will use stolen credit cards.

  9. Re:Will there always be an alternative? on Intel Cutting Linux Out of Content Market · · Score: 1

    I guess you must be sarcastic after your remark:anything untrue on the internet? not that i've ever seen But I'll bite anyway. I hate people that think they are better because the can spell or write gramatically correct. I KNOW I can not, and defenitely not in your language. And with me many more. So stop bitching about it!

  10. Re:Where does the heat go? on Aquarium Full of Oil For PC Cooling · · Score: 1

    my Citroen (diesel) gets 20K between oil changes, but that is still within a year...

  11. Re:Where does the heat go? on Aquarium Full of Oil For PC Cooling · · Score: 1

    He is running the system for over a year without an oil change. Try that with your car!

  12. help! a what? on Would You Submit Biometric Data to Join a Gym? · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone can explain me what is a gym? Can I remote login to this? Do you need a ssh with finger print now to login? How does this work?

  13. Which film? on Image Preservation Through Open Documentation · · Score: 1
    Your statement is not complete. There are many different films. There are high sensitive films and there are super sharp films. For example Fuji Veliva 50 (or 100) is one of the finest grain slide film (not the only one). It probably has a better resultion than your 10M pixel camera. But take a Kodak Gold 100 (which does not exist anymore, snif), it has an equivelant resolution less than your 10Mp. Do not even start talking about for example TMax-400 pushed to 3200ISO (=lots of grain) or special BW pan films, etc.

    Film or sensor is however not the only important thing when talking about resolution. With ~6Mp sensors and up, the quality of your lens is going to count. Some cheapo lenses will not show enough details on a 6M pixel sensor!

    But the most important question is; what are you going to do with your photos? Show them on the web, 1Mp will do! Make snapshots for the family album? 3..4M is OK. Some nice photos printed on 11"x16" (A3) a 6Mp works fine if you use a good lens and a tripod! If have plenty examples to prove this.

  14. and now for 10 diff systems on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And what do you propose to use for the 10 different login systems I have to work with? And some of them need passwords >= 6 chars length and others = 8. Some need to change after 6 weeks and others not. Also I we have to use 2 different RSA code keys (for different systems). One with pin and one without. Would you blame me for writing down my passwords?

  15. Re:1 year, 8 weeks and 8 days early copy on Mac OS X Tiger Accidentally Shipped Early · · Score: 1

    actually it would be 429 days.

  16. 1 year, 8 weeks and 8 days early copy on Mac OS X Tiger Accidentally Shipped Early · · Score: 1

    And you think Longhorn will by on time???? It will be (at least) 8 weeks late. So: 1 year, 8 weeks and 8 days early copy!

  17. very interresting license agreement they have on Streaming Audio 10 Years Old · · Score: 1
    from their linux 10.0.3-r1 license agreement:

    By clicking on or accepting the "ACCEPT" option below, or by installing, copying or otherwise using the Software, you agree to be bound by the terms of this License Agreement. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT, CLICK THE "ACCEPT" BUTTON AND/OR DO NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE.

    so if you do NOT agree you have to click ACCEPT???? Is this why we love them...

  18. too many passwords on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 1
    I would not mind a more secure password system, but only when I get rid of the multiple passwords of all the difference systems. Up to that moment I will use a serial number + a base passwd. I know it is not super secure, but it is the only safe way to remeber the 10 (yes ten) different passwords I use daily at work. This is to login and use 15 different systems (unix, novel, email (recv+snd), bunch of apps via LDAP, vtpg, vlan, citrix etc.) And I am not talking about the web.

    You, yes you IT guy/gal, why do you not start solving this first?

  19. Re:GOD on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 1

    my password is secret

  20. Re:Least Significant... on Why Aren't More Distros Becoming LSB Certified? · · Score: 1

    yep, but not very significant, right? just joking of course. What about dual side band (with suppresed carier)

  21. Least Significant... on Why Aren't More Distros Becoming LSB Certified? · · Score: 1

    I want MSB!

    LSB = Least Significant bit.
    MSB = Most Significant

  22. Re:Moore's Law on Behind the Closed Doors of AMD's Chip Production · · Score: 1
    400 milli hertz is really slow, I pitty you... I bet that my 733 Mega Hertz P3 with a 133 Mega Hertz memory is faster ;-)

    btw last time I check SATA was also IDE.

  23. Re:300mm wafers thanks to Intel on Behind the Closed Doors of AMD's Chip Production · · Score: 1

    ha ha ha. There are about 5 companies that run a 300mm fab for more than a year now.

    Intel paving the way, probably. They are definitely a driver, and it it was not last year. I think Intel is running 300mm fabs for over 3 years already.

  24. Re:200 & 300 mm??? on Behind the Closed Doors of AMD's Chip Production · · Score: 1

    The wafers are indeed 300 millimeter in diameter. Some times also named 12 inch but this is incorrect there they only are about 11.8 inches...

    This is about the same size as a LP (you know, the black disks we used to have music on before the CD?)

  25. Re:Gentoo on Easy, Fast, Cheap Way to Generate CPU Load? · · Score: 1

    yes, install gentoo in stage 1 and make sure to install KDE and gnome. Put in some nice CFLAGS (-O9 for some ricing) to make sure compiling takes a bit longer. Automate everything with a script and even the fastest computers will be bussy for a long time, while using the whole machine!