User: BenV666

Re:So how is Borland play on Linux?

On: Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit

Vmware?

Re:Reply now for exciting business opurtunity!

On: SCO's Next Target: SGI?

Aaaargh, my eyes!!!! :) Good thing this kind of trash will not show up in my mail. Dear SpamAssassin takes care of that: Content analysis details: (7.6 points, 5.0 required) pts, rule name, description 1.9, DATE_MISSING, Missing Date: header 0.6, TO_MALFORMED, To: has a malformed address 2.3, DEAR_SOMETHING, BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)' 0.5, RISK_FREE, BODY: Risk free. Suuurreeee.... 2.3, GUARANTEE, BODY: Contains word 'guarantee' in all-caps 0.0, UPPERCASE_75_100, message body is 75-100% uppercase

Re:72 hours thats pretty bad

On: ISP Recovers in 72 Hours After Leveling by Tornado

yes I am that manager

So that's why your post is such a lovely formatted and readable text ;)

Re:And posted in Askslashdot...

On: Armageddon... in 2014. Almost.

5) A futon, so you can both sleep, and sit back and relax (e.g., with previously mentioned porn) - space will be limited

OMG, I won't be the only one to survive? :D

Re:Vogel?

On: Cindy Smart Knows Better Than To Say Naughty Words

They actually achieved some compression with this, since it also is the dutch word for bird :)

Re:License?

On: Quantum Logic Gate Created Using Excitons

That depends, what universe are you in? :)

Re:Not really...

On: Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead

(Opera maybe is fast but i use Linux so Mozilla is my choice).

Could you explain that to me?
I'm using Opera 7 right now, running linux.
Or do you mean you prefer an open source browser like Mozilla?

Re:Hotmail? and Spyware?

On: Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Spam Efforts

Fortunately there's Ad-Aware that helps to remove most of the spyware. It's usually the first thing I use when I have to 'fix' someone's windows pc.

Re:The truely funny part of this...

On: BSA Creates Piracy Statistics

I take it you don't live in the US? :)

Re:format c:\

On: Spring Cleaning For Your Hard Drive

Yes, but get your commands right:
format c: /autotest
Confirmation? What confirmation?

Re:Some thoughts on RAM

On: MySQL Creator Contemplates RAM-only Databases

For a very long time, the secret bottleneck in PC's (in that it wasn't advertised heavily) was RAM. That's starting to disappear

... It still is, however, the bottleneck is moving up towards the cache...

Re:Correct me if I'm wrong

On: MySQL Creator Contemplates RAM-only Databases

That's what we have UPS for or battery backed ram. Also running a your database in RAM doesn't mean you don't have to backup...

Re:Security! Security! Security!

On: Gates on Digital Restrictions Technologies

> hard drives that spin at 40,000 RPM because of "security" flaws

Well, at least you have a replacement for your powersaw now ;-)

Re:FP!!!!

On: Nmap Security Tool Survey

Too bad it doesn't have your name on it ;)

Re:Upload speed and static IP addresses

On: Cable Beats DSL For Average Speed

But, even though my DSL upload speed is capped at 256 Mbps

If you consider that a cap I wonder what kind of network you have there ;)

Re:Reformatting my hard drive

On: Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue

Won't work out great at all, unless you've put them on cd already ;)

Re:Just for laughs

On: Opt-In Junk Fax Law Survives Court Challenge

I'll check back in about 6 months and let you folks know how much that has changed. ;)

My guess is that the account will be long disabled by then ;)

Re:what about mailing lists ?

On: IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution

but read all of them

Man, where do you get that amount of time? That's a huge amount of mail :)

Re:Is this Monday?

On: Microsoft Bug May Attract Big Worm

Not as far as he knows ;)

Re:Computer Systems Standard Names Stuff

On: The Future of PC Games, According to Microsoft

Sometimes I suspect having a 'Doomed-class' computer ;)

Issue

On: SETI@Home 2nd Look at Possible Hits

The only problem they have with Seti@home these days is the statistics.
I know a few people who actually compete over who has computed the most packets. People also try to cheat to get high stats, that is where it goes wrong...
Therefore it might be better to ditch those stats all together, or at least make them less informative...

Re:ObPrediction

On: Review of First 10K IDE Drive

What's wrong with 5400 RPM? ;)

Re:Redundancy?

On: Program Hides Secret Messages in Executables

Can someone explain to me exactly what this means?

It means exactly what it says, there is more than 1 road that leads to Rome.... combining instructions in different ways leads to the same results.

Will all i386 executable binaries have unnecessary redundancy?

Almost everything can be done in several ways. Consider these 2 pieces of asm:

XOR DX,DX
MOV AX,3
MOV BX,4
MUL BX

verses

MOV BX,4
MOV AX,3
XOR DX,DX
MUL BX

Same results, same size, different order :)

Could the size of the binary be harmlessly reduced by removing it? If so, then why isn't this done?

Often the binary can't get much smaller without having effect on efficiency of the code, as far as I trust compilers that is :) (ASM rules!!! :)) I.e.

MOV AX,A000
MOV ES,AX

verses

PUSH A000
POP ES

Same effect while the latter saves 1 byte in code.

Re:So long as...

On: 3D Mark 2003 Sparks Controversy

I bet you've never been fragged by a red spot on the floor ;)

Re:Why 64 bit

On: Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium

Would you really want to return to the dos himem.sys, memmaker, extended and expanded memory, and autoexec.bat hacks again?

You betcha, do you know how many people I impressed as an 8 year old kid creating those fancy config.sys and autoexec.bat files? ;)