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  1. meteorites impacting earth daily on Comet Nearly Hit Earth? Not So Fast · · Score: 4, Informative

    The number of meteorites impacting the earth daily is in the hundreds if not thousands. Most of them are so small that they bun up in the upper atmosphere. On average 2 every day are big enough to make it through the atmosphere and reach earth. If the comet was fragmented into tiny pieces it would not matter.

  2. Re:no, they havent. on A Critical Look At Open Licensing For Hardware · · Score: 1

    A mass spectrometer will give you the exact alloy composition of your car's cylinder or gearbox. If someone does this and makes the information publicly available then you don't even have to do it yourself.

  3. Re:Just now? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    Slackware was always famous for slow release cycles and stability as well. As for 64bit distros it is still hard to find a real use for them. At least in my environment.

  4. Re:Wow Slack is still around? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    SLS was not arround that long and it was rather buggy. Actualy both Debian and Slackware got born because their creators got fedup with SLS.

  5. Re:Wow Slack is still around? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    Correct. MCC Interim Linux was the first linux distro.

  6. Re:64bit only DVD's? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    No digital cameras then. :) I remember it was a shopping bag full of them. Unfortunatelly not the most reliable medium. I still have vivid memories from the strugle.

  7. Re:Wow Slack is still around? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From Gentoo to Suse! Ouch. My path was Slackware -> FreeBSD -> Gentoo and never got tired of compiling. Such is Unix.

  8. Re:Original anouncement on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    I used to run that on a 386DX33 with 4MB of RAM. And I was fortunate I had a friend who had to run it on 2MB. Try that nowadays. When I got money for 8MB Xwindows started flying even using Openlook.

  9. Original anouncement on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Re:Wow Slack is still around? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    Yep! Best learning distro ever. Actualy the first linux distro.

  11. Re:Wow Slack is still around? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    I found in 2004 a slackware 3.6 mail server which I instaled back in 1998. It hasn't been rebooted since. Almost 6 years uptime and over the 2000 day mark.

  12. Re:64bit only DVD's? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    First one I installed it was 40 something floppy drives and it took me quite a few hours. That was back in 93. Nowadays you install everything off a usb stick in minutes. Sort of spoils the whole adventure.

  13. Re:Wow Slack is still around? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want a linux engineer to fix things up for you pick a Slackware user not an Ubuntu one.

  14. Re:Glad to here. on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 2, Funny

    First distro I ever used. And I kept using it until 2002. It warped me for good on the BSD file layout. Now I can only use Gentoo because of that. :)

  15. Re:Will this help? on Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine" · · Score: 1

    Me neither, but I am strongly advocating for the reduction of our impact on the environment. Otherwise we will cull ourselves by famine, due to destruction of fertile land, disease, caused by pollution lack of water supply and ultimately genocide. WAIT! We are already doing that! http://www.library.utoronto.ca/pcs/eps/rwanda/rwanda1.htm

  16. Re:Will this help? on Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mosquitoes certainly have their role in the ecosystem and killing them will certainly have unforeseen consequences. More like in the Mao and sparrows story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sparrow_Campaign

  17. Why a 100K would be needed from Bill to fund this? on Gates Foundation Funds "Altruistic Vaccine" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." Hélder CÃmara

  18. Re:Translation on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they call me anti-social next they are going to call me a communist.

  19. Jane Goodal on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bring me that Jane Goodall chick!

  20. Re:Contrary to popular opinion... on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    better implemented product has to compete with the same feature set - you said it yourself - with a more established product.

    Assuming they will be able to deliver anything, which they had a hard time anyway, after a mass defection. Good luck guys.

  21. British volunteers received the most Nigerian scam on What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam · · Score: 1

    Quote fro the article: "the British volunteers received the most Nigerian scam e-mail" Maybe this is telling us something about Britain.

  22. Re:Sun is still screwing up, albeit not as much on Sun Spokesman Says "We Screwed Up On Open Source" · · Score: 1

    Mysql 6 will be the perfect example of Sun screwing up even more than before.

  23. Re:still skeptical on Sun Spokesman Says "We Screwed Up On Open Source" · · Score: 0, Troll

    True, but the cat is out of the bag now. They could have open sourced java years ago and really make a difference. Right now I only remember their stupid forms I needed to complete on their website to download the Linux version.

  24. Re:2001-2002? on Sun Spokesman Says "We Screwed Up On Open Source" · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think THEY are the problem.

  25. Re:GPL zfs on Sun Spokesman Says "We Screwed Up On Open Source" · · Score: 2, Funny

    The day they will open source ZFS will be when their next file system will be ready for sale. And from the looks of their recent performance that will be never.