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  1. Re:Rock! on Iceman Otzi was a Fighter · · Score: 1

    FISH!

  2. Rock! on Iceman Otzi was a Fighter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientists discover 5,300 year old, mumified, Italian badass.

    Next season on NBC:

    Law and Order: Special Caveman Unit

  3. Location, location, location... on New Underwater Volcano · · Score: 3, Funny

    "To me, it's exciting because it's in the United States and not in some remote part of the South Pacific," Reynolds added. No, just the most remote part of the north Pacific. Got to love those silly scientists.

  4. Re:Novell Still in play? on IBM Countersues SCO, And More! · · Score: 1

    Novell is going to start distributing Linux. They already announced that early this year. They announced today that they are going to discontinue development on Netware (or at least plan to. I guess they want to see what their current base has to say.)

    Very soon, Novell will be a Linux company.

  5. File this under "Duh!" on Bent Fibers Put Networks At Risk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Improper handeling and installation of fiber can effect performance and even the operation of the fiber? The hell you say?

    That must be in the book right after "An end-user that constantly runs over their cat5 cable with an office chair might eventually experience connectivity issues." and "Why does my server spontainiously re-boot when it's plugged in a power strip with five HP5000 laser printers?"

    This brought to you by the Ministry for the Preservation of Stating the Obvious.

  6. Re:Chris Hoover needs a faster connection on Slashdot T-Shirt Contest Winners! · · Score: 1

    Worse than that... it's not an RJ-11 or RJ-45, he's only got five pins in that thing.

    It's either not geeky at all or it's REALLY geeky.

  7. Re:Asymetric Internet on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 1

    No one, no company needs or for that matter, should want, all of the IPs inside their network to be routeable/visible to the outside world.

    ex: There's is no reason Susan in accounting, who is running no services on her Windows '95 box, should have a routeable IP. Which applies to 99% of the employees of any company.

    Of course routeable IPs should be available but if the people using them that don't need them didn't have them there would be no IP shortage.

  8. Pocket Administrator's Guides on A Linux Admin's Guide to Windows? · · Score: 1

    Being a cross-platform admin myself, I feel your pain.

    The only usefull and/or needed reference guide I've ever found for Win32 server platforms are the (I'm sad to say) Microsoft Press, Windows Administrator's Pocket Consultant books.

    They are more to the point and have much less fluff than most other books on the subject.They are a lot more like the books we Unix/AIX/AS400 guys are used to reading.

    Just remember, a book about an OS can only be as good as that OS.

  9. Re:What About Instict? on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Yea, that Bugs Bunny robot obviously wasn't programmed with Asamov's laws.

    Before the plane hits the ground does Bugs finally hit the "Air Brakes" or does the plane run out of gas?

  10. Re:What About Instict? on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Until they can build a robot with a fear of death, I totally agree.

  11. There's some IP that's worth being sued for... on DirectX Flaw Leaves Windows Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Is Microsoft being sued by InterTrust over intellectual property that doesn't work?

  12. Re:68015? 68012! on Paleontological Musings On Tux? · · Score: 1

    If you look closely at my post it's ambiguous sarcasm that can be taken either way.

    I found nothing on a Mot:68015

  13. Re:68015? 68012! on Paleontological Musings On Tux? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A google for motorola 68015 sure does point to a lot of pages about a chip that never existed.

  14. The Exploritorium in San Francisco on A Geek's Tour Of North America? · · Score: 1

    Cool stuff...science in action. I espcially like the laser beam that's pointed at the wall over your head that "draws" an image when you shake your head back and fourth.

    Steve is cool btw... he's no Mad Max but he's cool.

  15. Re:Hey um, fuck you? on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 1

    You need more bran in your diet.

  16. Re:IPv6: The Coming Address Shortage on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 2, Funny

    >For example, teleportation might require separate addressing for all possible energy states of all elementary particles in the teleported object.

    Doesn't the Heisenberg compensator eleminate the need for particle addressing?

  17. Re:Is no one using NAT? on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We're going to switch the entire world to an unproven, currently widely unsupported IP stack based on the idea that gamers are too stupid to forward a udp packet?

    If you've got your machine running with a public address and your not behind a firewall you're an idiot and your input into the future of the internet shouldn't hold much weight.

    If you are running a firewall it's one more minor step to forward a packet. ...or go spend $70 on an internet gateway router that you can fill in two boxes on (IP Address and port) to do port forwarding.

    I run a home private network and a corporate network with 600+ nodes on it and I'm using 5 IP addresses.

    Most ISP's that charge per machine are actually charging per routeable IP. I've had that conversation with Charter. They don't care how many machines you're running on your private network as long as they aren't nabbing IP's from the DHCP.

    Perhaps it's time to find a new ISP?

  18. Is no one using NAT? on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 0

    I would have thought that the invention of NAT would have taken care of this. You only need one IP address per organization/company/household.

    Is it time for private networks to be manditory?

  19. Now, if I buy this license... on SCO Extorting Unixware Licenses to Linux Users? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I buy this SCO license it means I own Unix right? Do I own Linux? Netware is thrown in there somewhere too isn't it? What about the Brooklyn bridge?

    You can have my Linux when you pry it from my cold dead hand.

  20. Talk about something that needs PGP immediately. on Wozniak Unveils WozNet · · Score: 1

    This would be a pretty cool thing to have if you could have a reasonable assumption that only trusted sources could locate your tags.

  21. Re:Nerds for Nerds? on The Management Secrets of T. John Dick · · Score: 1

    Uh... business in general and management fubarary appeals to this nerd.

    Speak for yourself Mr. Spokesman.

  22. Windows is not a NOS on Managing Multiple User Profiles in Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    After many years of supporting multiple platforms, Windows included, it still astounds me that Windows is obviously not designed so an administrator can easily make changes to the normal users environment/settings/desktop in any reasonable or effecient fasion.

  23. Re:Please [gG]od on Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound · · Score: 1

    ACK RST

  24. Re:Still not good enough for enterprise... on Opengroupware · · Score: 1

    Wow! I guess they should just give up then.
    FUD-monkey!
    Exchange sucks, always has, always will.

  25. Does that mean?... on Microbe Processors · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microbe users guide:

    Chapter II (detection):

    If your urine is:

    Blue: stop eating meat.
    Green: time for your insulin shot.
    Red: seek medical attention immediately!