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  1. Re:You can't let them out clock you!! on Intel to Release Pentium 1.13Ghz · · Score: 1

    yeah, but staying in a car traveling at 180mph is much easier than staying on a motorcycle traveling at 180mph or 190 mph

  2. modem sniffage on Free ISPs for Linux? · · Score: 1

    What i used to get my netzero password (and then connect from linux, and windows with no ads and no hokey software to kill the ads either) was get a program to use network modems, then use a program to log network traffic, and a network modem server

    the later two i made myself in *gasp* vb, so they aren't too hard, and better written ones should exist somewhere, however the network modem driver i had to use somebody elses shareware for

    if your need more infromation, send me an email

  3. Re:co-location is a great service on Starting Up A Colocation Service? · · Score: 1

    yeah, rack space is a fixed price per unit of space....

    normal boxes don't increas in physical size during a month though, so you can charge a fixed price


  4. as somebody looking for coloservice off and on... on Starting Up A Colocation Service? · · Score: 2

    This is what i want from a coloservice.

    1. multiple backbones
    2. shaped rather than metered service (ie if i pay for 384kbps, i want you to enforce that w/ traffic shaping, rather than billing me more cause i went over)
    3. safe storage for my box(en), i don't want them getting burned, earthquaked, flooded, molested by other customers, etc
    4. visiting hours, i want to see my box(en) cause it(they) miss seeing me in person
    5. UPS, and not the wimpy ones that are just the size of a full tower, i want the whole building to have a diesel gen for power outs
    6. Location, it needs to be close to me (duh)
    7. a decent web page, when i go looking around for colo its a pain in the ass cause ppl don't put their prices or their backbone providers or something is always missing

    if you're running it out of your garage, i'd rather run my boxen out of my garage than pay you to run them out of yours


  5. Re:Reverse-Engineering...? on King's New eBook · · Score: 1

    adobe acrobat has a method to get plain text out of pdf files.... its called accessibility options theres a plugin you can get from them that will do it, and i saw a mention of some automated proccess they would do on their servers (but i didn't pay a terrible lot of attention)

  6. Spiral to off topicness on Open Source Symbolic Math Program? · · Score: 1

    unless sgi's multiprocessing works a lot different than linux's, you'ld have to run a multithreaded thing to really slow down everybody on the 8 way (one cpu per thread is usually the only allowed value)

    although i depending on the normal load, losing a processor to infinite loop would be bad or horrible

  7. Not exactly what you're asking but... on Open Source Symbolic Math Program? · · Score: 0

    Maple runs on several platforms (including linux x86, and a few other unices)

    Mathematica runs on a few more platforms than Maple, (those listed above, plus NeXTstep and vms)

    Maple will give you source to >90% of its programs according to something i saw on its webpage once (that i can't remember where was....)

    Of course its all copyrighted and subjected to their liscense agreement still....


  8. Re:OpenSRS (Have you used it???) on Who is the Best Registrar? · · Score: 1

    The company i work for is an opensrs affiliate, it seems to work perfectly (although i'm not sure about renewals yet.... was in the test environment but i didn't see it in the live environment, not a problem for another 10 months at least but...)

    I'd give you the url to go buy domains through us, but i'm not happy w/ the prices so i won't advertise ($25 is way too much if it costs us $10)

  9. I'd say wait till people email you asking about it on Cyber-Squatting vs. Legitimate Domain Brokering? · · Score: 1

    If they want to buy it, ask how much

    Wait about 30 days from the initial offer, and go with the highest one.

    Would get the best price, in a somewhat timely manner, without being terribly evil.

  10. Re:School computers on IBM Announcements on Chip Design/Nanocommunications · · Score: 1

    of course not

    but the apple II e's that were in my highschool's computer lab might not be state of the are anymore

  11. Re:Toll Roads on Is SDMI a Consumer's Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    yeah totatly
    i want to drive _over_ the bushes and crunch the funny green plant things into the ground :)

    err umm ^U^U^U^U^U^U^U^U :)

  12. alternatives to censorware on Open Letter to the Family Research Council · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it should be suggested that parents watch their children and/or leave them in the watchful eye of people they trust to uphold their morals (or at least similar ones)

    If I had children (what a nightmare for them :) and i was given the choice of letting my children be watched by censorware, or watched by me. I would pick watched by me any day of the week (except days that end in q), because I want them getting my screwed up political views, not the screwed up political views of the people who make the lists. That being said, once I was sure I had established my screwed up views to the point allowed by their willingness and the mother's willingness I would rather they be able to access whatever they wanted to access than whatever they were allowed to access, so long as they are not looking at offensive things that can be clearly seen from farther away than the seat. (so yeah, if they want to read up on theri ascii porn, thats their choice, nobody will walk by and see it w/out trying to, but if they're looking at high res orgy fest pr0n that you can see distincly from accross the library, they need some discipline)

    I would think that the proper course of action in cases of viewing materials that are 'inappropriate for viewing in a public place' would be to force the user to turn off images, and/or make them take a time out from those particular computers.

    thats my 5 cents

  13. Re:Missed the important alternate conclusion on Open Letter to the Family Research Council · · Score: 1

    perhaps you've heard of sexual harassment?

    calling the police is probably not the best solution, but calling the parents and/or removing access to the computers would work


  14. Re:How delightful! on Open Letter to the Family Research Council · · Score: 1

    yes, but is it so bad that we can not look at other people discussing other peoples dicission to tell us not to look at it?

    (ie is /. blocked)

  15. Re:Let me see.... on Advances in Artificial Muscles Using Plastic · · Score: 1

    english word for scraping thing is spatula methinks

  16. Re:Predjudice. on Win2k Security holes found · · Score: 0

    except that win2k is allready to the release version, but just isn't released (i got my copies of the 120-day evaluation of pro, server, and advanced server the day b4 xmas, and should be getting my copy of pro w/ no time bomb soon) which would be akin to linus giving out the 2.4 to a few people, but nto everybody for a few months and somebody found a bug in there

    except that it would be more like a distribution than the kernel, but hey

  17. works here too on Encryption Debate at Mitnick Trial · · Score: 1

    and i'm going through junkbuster so they will get no cookies of mine

  18. Re:Linus' lawyers... on LinuxOne Lite: First Looks · · Score: 1

    ummm no....

    why should one entity not be allowed to distribute a distro w/ binary only parts while all of the other ones have been allowed to do that?

    (think b4 netscape became open source, every distro still had netscape in it, and the latest netscape isn't open source yet either (netscape 5 is supposed to be what comes out of mozilla.org right?))


  19. *gasp* on Universities Begin to Ban Napster · · Score: 1

    the entity who owns and maintains the (usually no cost to access) network can make decisions about what it is used for?


    the horror! i demand we step up and protest this

    <sarchasm>

  20. Re:but. on UPDATED: Transmeta's Crusoe Unveiled · · Score: 1

    i was trying to burn off karma

  21. obligatory AC post on UPDATED: Transmeta's Crusoe Unveiled · · Score: 0

    lets make a beowulf cluster out of a bunch of these overclocked and smp'ed into a wearable computer running linux



  22. Re:Something to add to my collection! on Buy Your Own T. Rex Skeleton · · Score: 1

    Well, I wish you people would quite RUSSIAN everybody to do stuff

    (if you couldn't resist, neither could i)

  23. Re:wait until microsoft hears of this. on Nifty Kitchen Appliances · · Score: 1

    doh!

    i hate it when i miss things like that

  24. Re:building the thing.... on Buy Your Own T. Rex Skeleton · · Score: 1

    no no no, not super glue

    bondo and duct tape (fixes everything that a hammer won't)

  25. dinosaur hunting is great profit on Buy Your Own T. Rex Skeleton · · Score: 1

    After all, he said, he spent more than $250,000 of his own money unearthing the dinosaur. And he'll give 10 percent of the proceeds to the owners of the cattle ranch where the rock-encased skeleton was found, he said.

    and the starting price is $5.8 mill

    20x money if somebody actually buys it (of course thats quick math and neglecting things like auction fees and taxes and shipping (because the seller is paying shipping), but still thats almost as good as doing a linux related IPO)