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  1. Re:Ubuntu is hit or miss on The Clueless Newbie Rides Again · · Score: 1

    My D800 has been running every ubuntu since warthog, and wireless has been 100% the entire time. Which card do you use? I have the ipw2100.

  2. Re:The thing is that it's true on Bungie Vs. Miyamoto - Fight! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, the Simpsons already did that.

  3. Re:Trac on What Business Software Runs Your Office? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unfortunately, trac is the epitome of one of those open source projects that evolves into something can do a little bit of everything, but nothing well.

    It's wiki, rev control, etc. are all good for specific things, but they all severely lack in certain areas.

  4. Re:Try RT on What Business Software Runs Your Office? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Easy to use and and setup? Have you seen the dependency list? Have you installed it? Have you admin'd it? It's a nightmare to setup, it's an ongoing battle to keep it setup correctly (read: high maintenance) and it has so many weird and obtuse requirements you'll can really use the box it's setup on for anything else.

    Outside of that it's a good program, but it's anything but easy to setup.

  5. Re:Head in the sand on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    A damn good beer if I say so myself. After a trip to cananda last year and a startling revelation that beer can only be purchased in hotels (wtf??) and the like, I was presented with a choice of either bud light or moosehead (a very rural area). Knowing that I'd drink a gallon of turpentine and piss on a forest fire than drink bud light, I chose moosehead. Now it's my default beer.

  6. Re:can't you just do this now? on Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Intelligent' Cars · · Score: 1

    There's also going into techniques such as Forced Auto Stop, which will give infinite mileage until you restart the engine...

    up, up, down, down, left, left, right, right, a, b, a, b, select, start?

  7. Re:can't you just do this now? on Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Intelligent' Cars · · Score: 1

    Dang. I have a 2000 A4 1.8T (quattro) . At 55-60 MPH (~400 Mile trips), I can easily get 35-38. It drops to 25-27ish at 70-80MPH. The sad part is, I test drove a 2.8 (v6) and said fuck that after the thing could barely take off at a traffic light.

  8. Re:can't you just do this now? on Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Intelligent' Cars · · Score: 1

    Nice to see I'm not alone with remarkable mpg w/ the 1.8t. I have an 2000 A4 and in Minnesota/Rural areas I have to take trips of 400+ miles @ 55-60 MPH. I almost always see 35-38MPG. I love it. Over course, once I start exceeding 70-80MPH, it goes down to 25-27MPG.

  9. Re:In other words on The Human Mutation · · Score: 1

    If you're an adult, of European descent and can drink milk, you have another mutation to look after:

    LACTOSE TOLERANT MAN!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance

  10. Re:What is a criminal? on Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer · · Score: 1

    It's wrong because the makers have less of a chance to sell their work.

    This is B.S. and cannot be proven. In fact, if you just consider news articles, you'll see it wildly swing to better or worse depending on the source.

  11. Re:It sounds cool, but I think I like the layers m on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    Yeah - right - misconfigure.

    1998 called, they want their arcane limitations back. 8gb of ram? Have you noticed than you and I can go to best buy and purchase a machine capable of of running 128GB (amd64/windowsxp64)?

    Famous quote of 2007: "8GB Should be enough for anyone"

  12. Re:Standard crypt problem on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 1

    If whomever chose "crypt" is also the party that wrote the autentication/authorization system, I'd be very scared. They must have no experience in those areas.

  13. Re:No way. on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 1

    Amazing! I keep mine in the same spot!!!

  14. Re:Why stop at breaking layers? on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1


    Then we'd have to start something called a "technet" where we'd have an innumerable amount of articles detailing how the latest patch/sp/version that fixed some behavior in subsystem A actually broke or completely reversed behavior in the entirely unrelated subsystem Z.

    Indeed, it would take longer for us to test patches because we'd need to do some very intricate regression testing - though we could offer unofficial/untested patches.

    I'm not sure I like it - in fact, it sort of sounds like the stuff that comes from maybe MSFT or AAPL?

  15. Re:It sounds cool, but I think I like the layers m on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    qmail was abandoned long ago, it now consists of software + patches patched with patches to workaround the software's limitations. These patches, of course, add functionality written by 3rd parties that introduces their own vulnerabilities. Since there is no development "tree" per se, many patches are completely incompatible with each other.

    Anyone still using it is desperately clutching the "it's so secure" line, because that's what djb said. They forgot to check osvdb, though, where it's readily evident that it's not so secure.

  16. Re:holistic vs mess on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    No, I've read the developers responses, and I fully agree with layering and the direction the kernel is currently going. You'll find no faith here.

  17. Re:Fuck you IBM on IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course moderators. Really, I deserve the -1 mod you've given me - considering that all I said was what you'd expect.

    Listen, the average corporation doesn't give two squirts of piss about where you've come from, or where you've been. It just wants you to make it money. To argue with that is to argue what's happening to you now.

  18. Re:Linux discipline on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    Couldn't have said it better myself - even if I tried. Bravo.

  19. Re:spit and polish on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    Damn, before you go on complaining about Linux's pkg selection/mgmt, at least use something besides Redhat.

  20. Re:holistic vs mess on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see, it's just every single linux kernel dev that is wrong, and the one random guy on slashdot is correct.

  21. Re:holistic vs mess on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

    They are the norm. For instance, consider d-bus. We couldn't have things like email notifcations, calendar notifications, auto-IM-away status, etc, until D-bus was in place.

    Also, consider udev, where after it's introduction, all sorts of cool and more sane things started manifesting themselves.

    Indeed, HAL is also an exceptional example, with removable storage, etc.

    Stop with the FUD.

  22. Re:I think the same issue is hurting Reiser4... on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    Hasn't the C++ in the kernel argument already been beaten worse than a red-headed step child?

  23. Re:Fuck you IBM on IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't understand why people get pissed when this crap happens. The company doesn't owe you a fucking favor. They hire, they fire, they do well, they do poorly. That's life. If you think it's "unfair", tough shit.

    I don't expect pensions from companies when I haven't been promised them, and I don't expect a guarantee to work when I haven't been given a contract.

  24. Re:What did you expect? on Obama's MySpace Drama · · Score: 1

    Whoa, slow down there dude, there's no evidence he's exploting them for pure profit. As it seems right now, he started the site long ago and has been maintaining it free for some time.

    Now that Obama's campaign is picking up speed, they want to make the site official. $50K isn't a lot of money if you consider how much time he's had the site under his control, maintaining it.

  25. Re:How can I save that information on Censoring a Number · · Score: 1

    You do realize that by the time it reaches your browser, php has nothing to do with it, right?

    It might just be the funky url. Try using "save as", or wget "http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121866&pa ge=6"