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  1. BLAH on Got Game? · · Score: 1


    I hate blogs.

  2. hmmm on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 2, Funny



    Where am I going to put my computer lint then?
    My floppy drive is full of it, I believe it brings luck. Also acts as a good firestarter for when the feds break in.

  3. Re:LOTR rooted in 50's english xenophobia on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 0

    You should see J.R.R's writing on people who want to see the "real" meaning of the books - It's somthing like "The pretentious bastards can go to Hell." Basicaly he just wanted to make up his own mythology - he wanted a make believe history.

  4. Re:So... on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 0

    Actually there weren't that many ents in the book - the mass of trees was "Hurons", (I believe that's they were called), they were trees that had been ents and become mostly tree like or trees that had become mostly ent like, kinda a wild force of nature thing.

    I haven't seen the movie but it sounds like that's not really in there.

  5. Re:Note that this trailer has a big spoiler! on New Lord of the Rings Trailer · · Score: 0


    Ents weren't in the battle of helms deep, they attack Isengard.

  6. hmmm on Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test! · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    I haven't posted anything for 2 years...

    oh wait, now I have.

  7. Re:That's ridiculous on IBM Kills project Monterey · · Score: 1

    hm
    anyways, its going to really piss off VERITAS

  8. Re:3D GUI's suck on GUI Research - Is it Still Being Done? · · Score: 1

    hahah
    makes me want to fire up tinyfugue!

  9. Re: Looks like parts of AIX on IBM Promises Logical Volume Management For Linux · · Score: 1

    i pitty the foo

  10. Re:xeon vs p3 on Intel Releasing PIII Xeon Today · · Score: 1

    yeah, and the ultra 10's are the low end ones.
    at least they're not 5's. but I'll take a 60 or 80 `1337!(whee) 3D.

  11. The Desert planet, with sandwor.. er sandstorms. on Anarchy Online · · Score: 1

    hm, the desert planet is the lone source of a mysterious substance that is used and needed by major orginizations that shape the universe....
    sounds a bit familiar there, but hey, frank herbert's dead anywho.

  12. Re:Jaguar pioneered this on Driving with Night Vision · · Score: 1

    probably, since they're both owned by the same company. Ford

  13. Re:smart mice - eeek on Genetic engineering boosts mouse intelligence · · Score: 1

    WE MUST MOVE THE HOUSE TO THE LEE SIDE OF THE STONE!!!!

  14. Re:a journaling FS for w2k?? on Business Week Online Laughs at Win2K · · Score: 1

    um
    isn't NTFS just HPFS with some extra fiddleybits in it?

  15. Re:Why not one big partition? on XFree86 Release Plans · · Score: 1

    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda1 296M 76M 205M 27% /
    /dev/hdb3 197M 46M 141M 25% /var
    /dev/hda6 4.4G 2.4G 1.7G 59% /home/volb
    /dev/hdb4 1.6G 297M 1.2G 19% /home/vola
    /dev/hda2 972M 522M 400M 57% /usr
    /dev/hdb2 197M 78M 109M 42% /usr/src
    /dev/hda3 1.9G 473M 1.3G 26% /usr/local
    /dev/hdb1 1.9G 621M 1.2G 34% /usr/local/games

    Do somthing like that ;)

  16. Re:ADD on Task Processor Found in Human Brain · · Score: 1

    http://www.webcom.com/bmainc/welcome.html
    check this out, they do som e cool, non-drug treatment that teaches out how to control brainwave patterens. I went there twice a week when I was in Highschool.

  17. Re:Microsoft's Linux Strategy! on Microsoft Challenges Linux community · · Score: 1

    Thats what we need, an ethics benchmark; I can see it now... "Linux has a ethicmark of 9700.3, while NT has one of .002" or an "OK" rating.. "Linux makes you feel like a good productive member of society, where as NT makes you feel slimey like a newt"...
    heh;)

  18. Re:Who/what's guarding your computer? on Star Wars Toy Mania · · Score: 1

    a copule of hand made bean bag frogs, Mr paisley, and punk frog (he's purple and has a saftey pin through his nose).

  19. Re:George is losing it on Star Wars Rekindles Old Copyright Hassles · · Score: 1

    George probably has nothing to do with the letter itself.
    the lawyer wrote it, blame him. not the guy who said , "They're not supposed to do that, can you do something about it?" George is probably plying ith his kids or something.

  20. It's not the games, it's the upbringing. on The Public & The Internet: Open Forum · · Score: 1

    I think this thing with parents sueing game makers, etc. is a result of the parents unable to face flaws or shortcomings in the way their children were raised, so they look for the simplest excuse to blame. Games are being used as a scapegoat for a much larger problem, and that is the problem with the upbringing of children in America. You see, what these parents are advocting is th shelter children from the raw nature of real life. Those people responsible for the upbringing fo a child feel that every little thing will influence children this way oe that way. Problem is, that's not the way it works. Children are not machines as adults seem to precieve them as. They have the their own perception of reality. and they have their own abilities to proccess information. Parents, etc. have treated kids for so long in a sheltering manner that many of them raise their kids to be extremely receptive to persuasion because they do not try to nurture their critical thinking skills as they grow up. The problem isn't the voilence in games or on telivision. It's that kids haven't been prepared to deal with it. Look at all of the billboards and ads you see now days that say things like "A lot of people are talking to your kids about sex, shouldn't you be one of them.", You see these things because after years of blaming the media, etc. for promiscuity amongst kids, people realised that some kids were doing it and others weren't. This led them to realise that it's the way the kids are taught to deal with things, not the fact they they are exposed to it. This is the solution to so many problems chilren have these days, effective upbringing, parents can't expect the television or the computer to raise their childern, or protect them. As I child, I often got picked on by the more "socially elite", and often I was angry and saddened by it; And I easilly could have brought a gun to school and killed a bunch of people, probably even thought about it from time to time on an impulse. But, I could never have done it, because I couldn't cope with the thought of committing such violence against others, because it was wrong. It's a classic question that has been around for ages. There is a fine line between sheltering and nurturing your child, and many parents can't tell the difference. People might not think it could be so simple of a solution (and it's not easy to do), but it really is. Why do some kids on the net grow up to be script kiddies with seemingly no moral value, and why do others grow up to be brilliant programmers and leaders?
    Upbringing, it's all in the upbringing.

  21. Well on Higher Res Prequel Trailer (and Quicktime 4) · · Score: 1

    Lucas already suggested that ;)

  22. Palm Phones on PalmPilots like Sheep: Cloned · · Score: 1

    Qualcomm is not only the people whi make eudora, but they have a product line of digital PCS phones. Last I heard, they are making a digital phone palm pilot combo device.

  23. Joel Ness created the internet on Trent Lott Invented the Paperclip! · · Score: 1

    Joel ness helped make "info" at the university of minnesota, which became gopher, so joel helped to create to internet, so there, his address is jness@d.umn.edu, tell him how cool he is.

  24. Generally Accepted Accounting Practices Fault on Bad Books at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Would that be a Generally Accepted Accounting Practices Fault (GAAPF)?

    "Your company has caused a Generally Accepted Accounting Practices Fault (GAAPF) and will be terminated"

  25. How to fix the modprobe stuff on Linux 2.2.0pre6 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm betting that the reasons for the different names has something to do with RFC standards; perhaps the ppp-* and net-pf-* names are standard across different OS's. I think it could be a bit better documented, however.

    Anyway,

    I think what it is is that ppp-compress-26,24 go t o ppp_deflate, and ppp-compress-21 goes to bsd_comp.

    From /usr/include/linux/ppp-comp.h
    ----
    #define CI_BSD_COMPRESS 21 /* config. option for BSD-Compress */
    #define CI_DEFLATE 26 /* config option for Deflate */
    #define CI_DEFLATE_DRAFT 24 /* value used in original draft RFC *