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  1. Re:Off Topic, But.... on Build Your Own Lava Lamp · · Score: 2, Informative

    A nice yellow-orange lava-lamp is a really nice illumination if you want to have sex and you dont like a lot of candles (these things can fall over and create a real mess if things are getting a little "active"

  2. Re:3ware on Mirroring Controllers - What have been Your Experiences? · · Score: 1

    Considering the fact that WD hasnt got a line of SCSI drives, your statement is BULLSHIT.
    It is just a faster IDE drive with priority shifted from price to speed and performance.
    And not "a scsi disc with ide interface".

  3. Re:Pen drives? on Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years? · · Score: 1

    They arent really expensive.
    For 30$ you can get a pen drive that can store more word documents, excel files, html pages, cpp units ect than you can write in weeks.
    But to bad porn and warez normaly comes in 650MB+ portions, so they are too expensive for "practical use"

  4. Re: effective virus on The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase) · · Score: 1

    But what use are the safeguards when the virus doesnt even try to disguise the attachment?
    Anyone who wants to run a screensaver will of couse klick yes if he is told that it is a executable programm.

  5. WRONG. on Seven Spam Filters Compared · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of couse your baysian filter will QUICKLY learn that html tags that create invisible text are VERY common in spam and nowhere else-> problem solved
    Dont forget that the filter sees more than the eye...

  6. Re:Why electronic voting ? on Electronic Voting Machine Cracker Challenge · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here in germany, the votes are counted in small "wahlbezirken", each of them with a few 1000 votes. The results are transmitted to a central station, the papers are secured.
    At the last election, 30+million people voted. After 3 hours, the results were aproximated +-2%, after 7hours the official end result was presented.

  7. Re:did you read the same article I did? on Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and why do you think you need AI (?!?!?) to use its power?
    There isnt enough computing power in the whole world for a few simulations some profs in the solid state faculty of my university would like to run.
    its too bad if even a teraflop computer can only solve a 20^3 lattice...

  8. Re:cable management on Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier · · Score: 1

    The main point of the network is a semi-random optimized nodo2node network using 2 parallel nets.
    It would be almost impossible to use a cable management system without creating a greater mess.

  9. Re:How many university have larger clusters? on Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier · · Score: 1

    At my university, there isnt a "real" cluster or supercomputer ;(.
    But there is a gigabit connection to the 1.6 TFlop Hitachi in Munchen...

  10. I wish on Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad · · Score: 1

    there was an option the mod a message as "+5: Look everybody, a retarted 8year old reads slashdot"

  11. Mods on crack on Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier · · Score: 1

    "Insightful"?!?
    Yeah, right.
    Guess everybody from universitys to big corporations spend tons of money for supercomputers/clusters because they have no use for them.
    Sounds very likely.
    Given the fact that your other posts in this topic all concern the blackout or McDonalds->
    MOD PARENT DOWN (OFFTOPIC)

  12. Re:Cooling on Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier · · Score: 1

    Well, enough cpus in a room, no matter what type, will generate a lot of heat.
    And price:
    http://aggregate.org/KASY0/cost.html
    It should be easy the extrapolate the system configs :)

  13. Wrong on Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier · · Score: 3, Informative

    In reality, beowolf clusters are good for only a subset of supercomputing tasks and the "real" supercomputers are still best at general purpose supercomputing.

    If you can paralize your application well enough, beowoulf rules, but if you need a lot of node2node communication, the network cost quickly surpasses the cpu cost of the system

  14. Selective Memory? on ATi FireGL X1 Vs. NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 · · Score: 1

    Outperforming the new cards?
    With 19fps in quake2 timedemo in 640x480?
    The card SUCKED ASS n gaming.
    It was only better than the OTHER professional 3D cards at that time, which didnt even run games because of lacking d3d drivers or abysmal fillrate at that time.

  15. MOD PARENT UP on SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World · · Score: 1

    This is excactly the meaning of the statement.
    It has nothing to do with desktop distros.

  16. Re:Thats like... on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: 1

    Actually, in my teenage days Linux hadn't been written yet.
    And yes, IMHO ANY PC that gets trasnfered to another part of the company ect should be wiped.
    a) Licenses. Yeah, you give away PCs with expensive software on it. Cant be a bad thing, can it?
    b) Data Security: What traces of maybe important stuff has accumulated? Confidental stuff quickly safed in a forgetten .txt file, passwords in browserchache, ect.
    c) Age. Any Windows installation degrades with time.
    If the PCs are used in quite a different way than before (which i suppose, because they didnt seem to think that they needed licenses for the software anymore), a clean start is highly advisable. Would safe the IT-Department (even and espacially if it is only 1 guy) a lot of work in the long run.

  17. WTF?!? on Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains · · Score: 1

    You are REALLY telling me a nuclear power plants internal network is connected to the internet without a firewall?
    Or even worse, a employee can plug in his notebook and access mission citical systems?
    What happened to access restrictions?

  18. Re:Thats like... on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: 1

    Well, if it is such a hassle and so expensive, they could have used linux instead.
    But they decided to go the microsoft way and dont didnt ensure they had licenses for everything. Bad luck.

  19. Thats like... on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    someone who lost his driving license because of speeding exlaiming that he will now drive with a bicyle because thats the better way and all cars are bad...
    Come one. If these guys were cool, they would have used Linux instead of warez in the fist place

  20. Can only speak for myself... on Pressure-Induced Pains - Fact or Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Well, i am a born "non-beliefer", but at some point of time i realized that whenever i head strong headaches, most of the time the next day there was a weather change.
    Dont know why, but nowadays, if my head hurts, i automatically look at the weather forecast...

  21. Like the old joke on Our Solar System's Nomenclature Wars · · Score: 5, Insightful

    of the old statue with the inprint "created 274BC".
    Of couse they are not very systematic, because the system itself was just devolped while they were given names.

    And if you really want a non-nonsense way the address them, there are catalogue-numbers and other ways to refer to them without room for misunderstanding...

  22. Noob on Masters of Doom · · Score: 1

    IDSPISPOPD

  23. Re:Prescott will actually dissipate around 130W on Watercooling Drifting Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the electrons dont jump out of your chip, but create heat by hitting si-atoms and causing vibrations.
    DONT think that the electrons are moving FAST and have high kinetic energy

  24. Re:The shit idea is called radio on One Worldwide Power Grid · · Score: 1

    Yeah, now think about how much energy density you need to have a resonable range. People dont like outdoor microwave ovens....

  25. Yeah... on One Worldwide Power Grid · · Score: 1

    and it is a prime example shown to everybody that even a genius can produce SHIT ideas.
    If you think 5 minutes about the consequences of this tech, you will see why....