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  1. Re:Hurm . . . on Water Logic Gates Built at MIT · · Score: 1

    Obviously nobody here has ever seen the insides of older automatic transmission. Definitely nothing new here.

  2. Re:True on Windows Vista: the Missing Manual · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do Mac users have again?

  3. Re:botnet on US Planning Response To a Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    *sighs*, reaches over and yanks the cable out of Fa0/15.
    (probably getting Fa0/14 by mistake, if this thread is anything to go by)

  4. Re:botnet on US Planning Response To a Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    correction:
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    conf t
    int fa0/15
    shut
    exit
    wr

  5. Re:CFLs not always a good choice (enclosed fixture on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    Google. Rotational Symmetry. You're feeling lucky.

  6. Re:Not Weird on Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google · · Score: 1

    *kiss*

  7. Re:Ob Simpsons reference on Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google · · Score: 1

    Close.
    Bud: "Why didn't you call 911"
    Kelly: "Because I couldn't remember the number!"
    I don't know how that's stuck in my mind - must have been fifteen years since I've seen MWC.

  8. Re:Not Weird on Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google · · Score: 1
    I never knew that either, probably because I (and you) have never read the documentation for the browsers we use. While it's true that browsers are one of the many apps you'd probably never need to read a manual to use, you'd still gleam some information if you did.

    How the hell is a normal user supposed to know?

    By R'ing the FM. I think it'd be great if Firefox had one of those "Did you know" boxes on startup that you could easily disable once you're up with the play, and teach you all these tidbits until then.

  9. Re:Mod storage medium down on Farewell To the Floppy Disk · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, it could be (0+1, Redundant) ,(1+0, Redundant), (1, Redundant) and so on.

  10. Re:Over the top on First Spammer Convicted Under CAN-SPAM Law · · Score: 1
    Yeah, think about how long you'd be in jail if you sent millions of spam messages that intentionally killed the recipient!
    I'll bet Outlook 2007 supports that, too.
  11. Re:I've already upgraded.. on Why "Upgrade" To Office 2007 · · Score: 1
    How can a post be modded "overrated" or "underrated" when it hasn't been rated yet?

    Folks like me, who do our own meta-moderation.

  12. Re:I wonder on Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs · · Score: 1
    I've got $5 US that says this reply gets moderated as "troll" or "flamebait" because it contains so much truth about the attitudes of the majority of the Slashdot community.

    Hmm, I usually use "Funny" for those, am I doing it right?

  13. Re:Almost expected on Is A Bad Attitude Damaging The IT Profession? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Male pronouns in papers got you points off, and using "they" would loose yourself grammar points.
    You sure you weren't 'loosing' the points for some other reason?

  14. Re:OpenVPN on Hotel Connectivity Provider SuperClick Tracks You · · Score: 1
    I generally think that anything you get for free has some cost associated with it (tracking, advertising, etc),

    Closed source, maybe. OpenVPN is Open Source. Even if the original author used something like that, someone would just fork it and remove all the spying. I've implemented an OpenVPN server for half a dozen off-site staff, and closely monitored the traffic on its interfaces. It doesn't do anything except what it should.

  15. Re:OpenVPN on Hotel Connectivity Provider SuperClick Tracks You · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Nostradamus, are you not. on Nano-Scale Optical Co-Axial Cables Announced · · Score: 1

    Smug prat. Obviously, his point is, these days it's not too hard to predict just from the article summary that most of the discussion will be merely semantics. Anyway, the last sentence contained three separate points. While the last one could have been worded better, it's plainly obvious and unambiguous as to what it meant.

  17. Re:won't work on Nano-Scale Optical Co-Axial Cables Announced · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. In fact, it never will.
    17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

  18. Re:NYT is out of touch. on NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products · · Score: 2, Funny
    (my friend just could not understand tabbed browsing)

    For about four years, neither could the IE team. It just wasn't "innovative" enough for them until a few months ago.

  19. Re:The problem is credibility of Siemens on Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record · · Score: 1

    I see, thanks for the correction.

  20. Re:Funeral ceremonies were held today for the Amig on AmigaOS 4.0 released · · Score: 1

    Gary was in the early A1000 / 500s, he was a glue chip and floppy controller.

  21. Re:Fiber is Great but quite expensive still on Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record · · Score: 1

    It's not so much the fibre that's expensive (nor does the actual quality of the glass need to improve in the forseeable future), but the endpoints.

  22. Re:The problem is credibility of Siemens on Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record · · Score: 1

    Single-mode fibre does not have these "channels" you speak of.

  23. Re:The problem is... on Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record · · Score: 1
    Well, it had to be said, even if he knew it was obvious. Every time there's an article here about some new data transfer record, half the page is taken up by:
    • People bickering over SI, MiB, MB, Mib, Mb etc.
    • "But my PCI bus can only..."
    • "Hard disks can only..."
    ...completely missing the point.
  24. Re:Great article on How Skype Punches Holes in Firewalls · · Score: 1

    ...and my apologies for the horrible typing there.

  25. Re:Great article on How Skype Punches Holes in Firewalls · · Score: 2, Informative
    I think he means "tunnel" the TCP packets over the UDP "connection", which is exactly how OpenVPN and others work.

    The UDP packets that travel between two hosts (the "connection") is now analogous to some sort of LAN cabling between them: We encapsulate whatever we want inside the UDP packet, and it's probably make it to the destination. We can therefore tunnel TCP/IP inside of UDP/IP packets and get reliability and flow control, as well encrypt the contents if we want security.