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  1. Re:ICE COLD Water on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 2, Informative

    One calorie is the amount of heat needed to raise 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius.

    Truly ice-cold water is at 0C. Body temperature is 37C. That means that if you drink 250 mL of ice-cold water, it'll take 250*37 = 9250 calories to raise that water to body temperature.

    Those are chemist's calories, though, not food calories. A food calorie is one kilocalorie, so in terms of food, drinking a glass of ice-cold water burns about 9 calories. You'd do better to drink the water at your preferred temperature and just take the long way back to your computer from the water cooler.

  2. Re:security? on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, most CGIs run as the user ID of the web server, so unless something like Apache's suEXEC is being used, this is no substitute for having genuine shell access.

    If two or more people on a server both install this, they can read and modify each other's files, etc. since the CGIs will be running as the same user.

  3. ezmlm on Mailing List Managers? · · Score: 1

    BugTraq uses ezmlm, and it's certainly a large mailing list.

  4. Re:Does anyone else... on "L33T" Speak Invades Schools · · Score: 1

    The word "hella" and its cousin "hecka" were SF Bay Area slang as far back as 1994, particularly in the East Bay.

  5. Re:Who remembers Firefox? on Atari's 30th Anniversary · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you liked that, you should check out Solar Wolf. It's an updated Solar Fox, written in Python, with modern graphics and sound.
    I've spent too many hours playing this game...

  6. Re:Dell isn't all that great on Tech Support Getting Even Worse · · Score: 1

    Try memtest86 for diagnosing memory problems.