User: Real-Timer

Re:What?!

On: NASA To Shoot Comet With Copper Projectile

Now *this* would be ironic:

1. Projectile smashes into comet
2. Comet breaks into chunks with various new orbits
3. One of the chunk's orbit allows it to smash into the earth 125 years later on its next orbit.

Matter's revenge!!

Re:Once, just once...

On: Microsoft, Unisys & Dell To Make New Voting System

It wasn't a battleship, it was an Aegis-class cruiser - a premier machine for protecting the US (and for other uses :-/)... all but rendered useless by the overzealous application of "Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS)" thinking. You can build sandcastles with plastic shovels and buckets, but to build the real thing, you need to use real tools.

Your tax dollars at work.

Re:I hate PDF!

On: Compaq: Alpha is Better Than IA-64

Are you sure you mean PDF and not RTF? I didn't know MSWord could do PDF, but RTF yes ...

Re:I think a half day is worth it

On: Voting over the net?

Yep, some things are best done in person, even though the Internet is famous for supporting certain activities "remotely". ;-)

Re:Tightly vs Loosely Coupled Systems

On: Linux: Look before you Leap

The other funny thing is that Microsoft looks to be gravitating to command line admin scripting in Win 200x (20x0?) to fix the mega-inefficient UI paradigm that "real" NT server installations suffer through. I don't have any URLs handy that confirm my story, so if anyone has a few, please reply.

The story continues; you guessed it: they're getting the scripting capability by putting in shell support with perl, etc., so they can run the zillions of lines of admin scripts from unix-land. It's not "legacy" code, rather it's the latest thinking in perl, TCL, etc.

Gee, I wonder where they got the source?