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  1. Re:GHz is the wrong metric on Looking Into The Power Architecture Future · · Score: 1

    MIPS is a horrible benchmark too...

  2. Re:Wow on Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL · · Score: 1

    bittorrent sounds kinda cool

  3. Re:Of course on AOL to Release Netscape 7.2 Based on Mozilla 1.7 · · Score: 1

    but dead people usually drive even slower

  4. hardware solution on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use filing cabinets. Each drawer has a label on the front (drives, cables, fans, etc...). Each item goes in the designated drawer when I receive it. Cases go somewhere else.

  5. Re:In the land of empty tanks on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    and how many pounds of vegetables does it take to feed a cow?

  6. Re:Who is going to care? on Trained Rats for Mine Detection · · Score: 1

    http://whyfiles.org/012mad_cow/6.html

  7. Re:Cygnus on Seven Open Source Business Strategies · · Score: 1

    In RevolutionOS, Michael Tiemann talks about porting GCC, working on Emacs, and doing some other GCC related work.

  8. Re:Already in use on Hardened PHP · · Score: 1

    hey! How's it going?

  9. Re:Great, more calculator dependence on TI-84 Plus Released · · Score: 1

    on the TI-86: math->misc-> >Frac Converts a decimal to a fraction.

  10. Re:ObQuote on Alan Kay Receives ACM Turing Award · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
    - attributed to Edsger Dijkstra

  11. Re:Oh, please on 2.4, The Kernel and Forking · · Score: 1

    I don't know if the problem was my dual processor rig, SCSI, or just one of the kernel options I picked, but I didn't have the knowledge to debug the problem back then, and I haven't felt like going back since. I've had uptimes upwards of 30 days (just a personal box, I reboot once in a while) on my box since switching to the vanilla kernels (2.4 and 2.6)

  12. Re:Only Nvidia can solve that, on XOrg Foundation Opens Membership and Elections · · Score: 2, Interesting

    which card do you use? I'd like to support that company

  13. Re:Oh, please on 2.4, The Kernel and Forking · · Score: 1

    I use Gentoo with vanilla kernels because the 2.4 gentoo patched series crashed very often on my system. I switched to vanilla ~8 months ago, and haven't crashed since (I switched to the 2.6 series around 2.6 test7).

  14. Re:How is this a privacy issue? on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    I, or any independant neutral parties, can read my own odometer. Only my automobile manufacturer can read the data in my black box.

  15. Re:XFCE vs. KDE on Cobind Desktop Reviewed, With Interview · · Score: 1

    ICEwm? FVWM? (Flux|Black|Open)box? ION? PWM? Waimea? TWM?

    XFce not the only game in town for low end hardware, it's probably just the best looking one.

  16. Re:why bt and not archive.org? on Thebroken Videos · · Score: 1

    slashdot couldn't even destroy kernel.org's paltry 250mbps when 2.6 went stable

  17. Re:Did any of you ACTUALLY made any money? on Man Accused of Attempting to Extort Google · · Score: 1

    I got a few $30 checks

  18. Re:I used to vigilante too on eBay Fraud Vigilantes · · Score: 1

    perhaps he searched for the newly created email addresses at Ebay or on Google?

  19. Re:Discrimination on Sims Online Presidential Campaign Shapes Up · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe you mean host byte order. Network byte ordering is always big endian.

  20. Re:Yeah, but how does it compare for porn? on Seattle Times Reviews Desktop Linux Distros · · Score: 1
    I think
    curl http://some.site/gallery[1-50]/image[1-15].jpg -o whatever-#1-#2.jpg
    is a lot easier to use btw, your duplicate image script rocks!
  21. Re:That's not the real heart of the problem though on A Look at the Upcoming GNOME 2.6 · · Score: 1

    There are already WMs to fill the niche of slow computers. There's ICEwm (which should be easy enough for the average workplace), ION, waimea, XFce4, (flux|black|open)box, twm, FVWM, etc...
    There aren't a lot of WMs oozing with eye candy and ease of use, and that's the niche that Gnome and KDE are wrestling for. Performance might not be at the top of their priorites, but they aren't the only game in town.

    and for the record, the KDE developers seem to have started to put a lot of effort into optimization.

  22. Re:Hmm. Sounds like the problem could be on Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Gentoo isn't for the average Joe

  23. Re:How to upgrade on Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apache:
    stable 2.0.48-r1
    unstable 2.0.48-r4
    link
    You realize you can unstable packages on a stable system, right? You also realize unstable updates like 5x as often, right? I recommend running a stable system with a few unstable packages if you need them.

  24. Re:XBox2 to be world's most expensive console... on Xbox 2 SDK Released On Mac G5? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ALR Revolution 6x6 - a 6 way system. From what I've read, there are 2 processor cards with 3 processors each. Each processor sees the two local ones and the other card, which is seen as a single processor.

  25. Re:The color of radiation on Japanese Government Raids Microsoft Offices · · Score: 1

    Haven't you seen the Simpsons? The radioactive stuff is always green!!! It glows too!