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  1. Only 5 minutes?? on Faster DNA Testing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only 5 minutes? No, check the math. Assume 100 people (though it could be FAR more). Each person needs 5 minutes, so you'd need to be there 500 minutes early (8 1/3 hours). I really doubt they'd have that many machines laying around, so multitasking the scans is an improbability.

  2. Re:He should try to get their trademark signed ove on Apple Threatens iTunes.co.uk Owner · · Score: 2, Informative

    How do you get that it was registered in 1998? The WHOIS shows 11/7/00.

  3. Re:We live in interesting times.. on USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Eh? I'm lost. As you say, SCO can download a new license. That's not what's going on. USENIX has terminated SCO's distribution license of NMAP - completely. Even if SCO "downloads" a new license, they would be barred from distributing NMAP, since that's what USENIX's position is.

  4. Re:Unlimited Clients on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 1 · · Score: 1

    Yes. The Xserve comes with the Unlimited license. If you buy, say, a PowerMac, then you can choose three OS X flavors: Client, Server (10-seat), and Server (Unlimited seat).

  5. Re:Replace my stereo/DVD/CD? on Apple Introduces Logic Pro 6 and Logic Express · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've spoken with the Apple Xserve Subject Experts (long story). They say the Xserve G5 puts out about 60 dB of noise. Now you have some numbers to compare.

  6. Re:Uhm, yeah. on Bill Gates On Linux · · Score: 1
    A relative gave it to me. I read it, laughed, and got rid of it.

    Pretty much, "I see the future of computers as being all linked together - sharing data, and evolving beyond what we currently know. Now, pardon me while I put a spin on everything else every other company has done and I'll change the names of their technologies."

    The whole book claims "innovations" (God, that's such an over-used word now-days) that were already done by someone else.

    Remember, the only reason Microsoft has any impact is because it is a monopoly - not because it is popular.

  7. Can we sue... on RIAA To Sue Hundreds Of File Swappers · · Score: 1
    the RIAA for wasting our time with so many stories of their antics?

    They really need to get a clue.

  8. Re:therefore, it's offtopic... or outright false. on Neverwinter Nights for Linux · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ok, so it was obviously harder for me to remember the proper syntax:

    OS X NWN Demo Story on Slashdot

  9. Re:therefore, it's offtopic... or outright false. on Neverwinter Nights for Linux · · Score: 1
    Wow, that was hard to do:

    http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/ 1719237

  10. Scripting Benefits on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I was in a contract to NASA a few years back. I was in a Configuration Management role and was replacing a more senior CM that was leaving.

    Everyone assumed I would simply pick up his work and continue with what was in place. Upon inspection, I realized a huge chunk of his build system was C-based, with some BASH thrown in to tie the Makefiles together.

    I took on a major task (of course without telling anyone =] ) and rewrote the build system in TCL (and improved the BASH imports to the Makefiles). I can't recall the imrpovement we had, but it was impressive. And it took a couple of weeks.

    It proved to the co-CMs the improvements that could be gained with pure scripting without any need for "code."

  11. Re:Classic Slashdot: on Columbia Coverage · · Score: 1
    The shuttles and ISS generally carry IBM Thinkpads running Solaris.

    I worked on the software team writing the GUIs on the ISS. Very interesting work.

  12. Re:No way. on Columbia Coverage · · Score: 1
    To add to your comments...

    There is always some sort of plan B - in this case the most obvious one is dock with the ISS and look to the other shuttles or the Russians for extraction.

    Unfortunately, the astonauts were sent up on a science mission. They did not carry an airlock to dock with the ISS. Also, they did not have enough fuel to get them there (just enough to cover the 16 days in orbit).