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  1. There is no excuse! on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1


    There is sort of a benefit to having output plugins...

  2. Andy Rooney usually has a point. on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    n/t

  3. Not for nothing but... on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    what the hell was wrong with XMMS? I mean seriously, the plugin architecture was ass-simple. It wasn't fancy visuals-wise but it ran on damn near every Unix with that could support an ATI rage card.

  4. It _can_ be faster... on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If all you're browsing are pages served from a single domain, consisting primarily of flowed elements (headers, lists, images, and that's about it) with pages that are fairly short.

    Start adding tables and forms, trying to reflow the page when resizing (especially if it's a long one), and prepare for the wait of your lifetime.

    At least mozilla can display part of a page while the rest renders, and resolve more than one domain name at a time when connecting to resources in parallel.

  5. Exactly. on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    I mean, XP and 2003 have less security holes, not more. If XP gets it, dollars to donuts 2000 has it too (with few exceptions, notably UPnP).

    All of his opinions are as shallow and uninformed. He just sounds like someone whining about change, only looking at the downside, and not even attempting to realize the potential benefits.

  6. Solaris 9 supports MD5 passwords on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    FINALLY.

    That alone was enough to make me upgrade.

  7. logo: Net over pixelated globe, block letters: BSD on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: 1

    Wherein the letters are blockface, and of the same height as the globe (making the "net" aboveline).

    The net implies it encompasses the whole "world" of computing (the pixelated globe)

  8. Eric, do a tasteful piece of artwork? on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: 1

    ::uncontrollable fits of laughter::

    You've got the wrong artist, AC. He's one fucked-up furry, I'll tell you what. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

    The NetBSD logo should look like this:

    A net descending upon the globe (outline of continents only), followed by block-face "BSD".

  9. Those are behavioral differences. on Hot-Swapping IDE Drives? · · Score: 1

    You know, "kernel personality". But they are embedded in the same set of exes, dlls, vxds and sys files. It's like when you enable smp/ioapic and bigmem in linux from grub.

    The driver is making an incorrect assumption (probably about per-cpu locks or something). In fact, it might be a good way to weed out bad drivers, switching mode to Advanced Server and seeing what sticks.

    I've always had trouble with ATI's drivers, especially video capture stuff on anything but a single-cpu system running 98.

  10. I don't have a mom you insensitive clod! on Hot-Swapping IDE Drives? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Liar!
    And my dad (well sort of), eh, well, I'd rather not talk about it.
    ::crying::
    ::sniff:: anyway. Yeah, I realize the website is old... so is mine (don't look, I'm warning you!!!), I'm just trying to make you feel like a jerk.
    (I mean 4hrs to compile nethack? What major were you at tech anyway... god.)
    But honestly. Really. That troll appears like 15 times a day in every thread. Don't ever reply to that. Even if you think it's funny, or insightful.

    Because really it's not. It's like replying to spam and ridiculing the sender, or whatever. It just encourages them. Validation for the cut and paste morons sitting around, masturbating in their parents' basement. Don't give them the satisfaction.

    Immature children, all of them. ALL OF YOU!!!
    (you know who you are...)

  11. Okay, sure. on Hot-Swapping IDE Drives? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there is the whole "check WindowsVersion" thing, which can be easily circumvented for stuff like Partition magic.

    NTSwitch... it can turn Pro into Server without issue.
    Also of note, it apparently turns XP into an incomplete beta of .NET server (no seriously, try it, you can always switch back)
    And as for the install CDs, well maybe you're right about the packages' presence on the disk. But it really is the only difference. All you have to do is run the change tool, pop in the 2k server CD, and install Message Queueing, or the full version of IIS, and you're a happy camper.

  12. And I will say: on Walking Through SkyOS 5.0 Beta · · Score: 1

    Your four events are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and thus do not necessarily need invidually to add up to a probability of 1.0.

    Also, I will register myself in the another OS project category and his own damn time.

    Specifically: 1) I don't really see what is good or bad about this OS. It doesn't have any particular feature that can't be gotten elsewhere, nor does it do anything particularly well. That being said 2) it is impressive being primarily an single individual's effort. If only an attempt to understand operating system design on x86, then he has succeeded thouroughly.

    He should next attempt to develop a robust security architecture in the style of Trusted Solaris, NT 5.x, or SELinux, because this is the new hot shit of operating system design, if he really wants to stress his noodle.

  13. They intend to release the source.. on Walking Through SkyOS 5.0 Beta · · Score: 4, Informative

    once they get it to the point where they think people will be able to contribute to it in a way that is meaningful to the core team. They are apprehensive about having to take patches/requests from the public yet. Or maybe they are embarrased at the state of the internals! :-)

    In the meanwhile, they had the SDK and DDK which will get you very far.

  14. We call them "Cheney" and "Dubya" on Why Such Unimaginative Nomenclature? · · Score: 1

    Huh. Two syllables, whaddya know?

  15. Then explain what FLAC is. on Why Such Unimaginative Nomenclature? · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, you don't know if you weren't told?
    How about MP3? Remember when it was new?

    Jesus christ, don't you people understand it doesn't matter? Frankly I like "vorbis". Don't call them OGGs, that's like calling DivX "AVIs", which sounds equally retarded.

  16. FYI: As far as drivers go... on Hot-Swapping IDE Drives? · · Score: 2, Informative

    2000 Professional and Server are the exact same thing

    Forget drivers... the only difference is the productID when installing. The install CD contains the exact same files, and the service packs are exactly the same. Hell, they even use the same kernel binary.
    It just artificially limits the number of CPUs and RAM.

    So whatever is true for Professional will automatically be true for Server, and vice versa.

    You should really be looking at something centralized like Retrospect (which isn't too expensive, unlimited clients). Or DVD-Rs.

    And tapes can work great. You just have to figure out how to justify spending over $6000 to get an AIT-3 drive or something.

  17. Ahhh my eyes!!! on Hot-Swapping IDE Drives? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your website is ATROCIOUS. Tech's ACM should voluntarily disband for letting it grace their servers.
    No, you know what? They should disband because they let you in. Because you're a GODDAMN MORON! Do you enjoy replying to trolls, knowing that the original poster is laughing at your gullibility (your inability to even work something as simple as OS X or Mandrake notwithstanding)

    Now I have to cut my own eyes out. I think they went gangrene. Thanks a lot, buddy.

  18. ::hugs:: on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  19. That's a dumber idea than burying it in NM. on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    1) Costs tons of money to lift the waste and containers
    2) Lighter containers (to save money on 1) could spell instant disaster if you have launch trouble.

    No, I'd rather have my taxes used to build breeder reactors and pay the armed forces more to guard the generated plutonium.

  20. Because slash doesn't allow e' () on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    Hence he spells it phoentically.

  21. Have you seen those weird maroon dots lately? on Oscar Screener Leak Traced · · Score: 1

    They show up in scenes that aren't too bright, where the picture is busy. They're maroon circles that are spaced as far apart as they are wide, about 1/60th of the print in diameter, in patterns resembling braille.

    The MPAA has started using this system to "watermark" film. They use different patterns for reels they send of to different movie houses (so they can determine who released a telesynced version on the net). Presumably they used the same tech for the screener DVDs.

  22. What the hell is this? on Red Hat will give eCos Copyrights to the FSF! · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about and what does it have to do with the "liberal media"?

  23. ...Says the user who's domain is a clever play on Novell Releases SCO Letters · · Score: 1

    on words referring to a male's genitalia.

  24. Come on, mods, funny, FUNNY. on Novell Releases SCO Letters · · Score: 1

    You people here have no pop-culture sense at all!

    I think we can bump Kevin up from 6 to about 3 for everyone since he did that turning-invisible scene where we got to see his kibbles and bits without the skin.

  25. [ot] Did you write imagedupe? on 61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1

    n/t