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  1. Two Satans on Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability · · Score: 1

    Wow, 6 sixes, that is like running at two satans... That's a lot

  2. Re:Why bother? on Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously · · Score: 1

    Maybe the community should just step up and write them? I mean they do it for Linux, why not Microsoft? Plus, for any device supported under Linux, the hardest part of the work is already done... figuring out how to communicate with the device.

    I am sure that the community will write all the drivers once we have full source to the OS to know the right way to do so....

  3. Re:The cake wasn't a lie? on 550 Metric Tons of Uranium Removed From Iraq · · Score: 1

    I'm shocked.

    And Awed???

  4. It depends what you are trying to resolve on Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation? · · Score: 1

    If you are looking for a frequency response, then you would use one type of method, a FV or DG approach, If you are looking for a broad frequency response to a general input form you would use something like a FDTD approach. Then there are MoM, boundary element methods as well. All of these work for what you are talking about but are better suited for particular problems. You can look in the electromagnetic community for more info on this, basically, you are simulating EM waves with non-constant dieletric. Now, just a side note, if your wave speed varies over a very large range (many orders of magnitude) then your problem becomes much harder and many of these techniques don't work, at become inaccurate.

  5. Re:Would you like Fries with that? on TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006 · · Score: 1

    If you notice the largest machines are all at DoE labs, that means weapons (nuc and high energy particle) work. I know that for the DoD the largest user is geophysical (atmo/ocean modeling) This is because you need to run a lot of models every day.

  6. Re:Wanna know something Scary... on TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Mississippi missed the top 100 by not-so-much. 115 Mississippi State University You may wanna check that list again, Mississippi has 4 in the top 100, (#26,35,48,58) It is only behind in NM in TFlops/capita.

    To answer your question on why, Trent Lott.

    BTW, ERDC (WES at Vicksberg) and NAVO (Stennis Space Ctr on the coast) are in MS

  7. lynx on Major Browsers Have JS Pop-Up Flaw · · Score: 1

    man, thank god i am still using lynx.... I was worried when they said major.

  8. Hell here on MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where did all this snow come from??

  9. Re:Agreed wtih the article on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 1
    Well written article, and she even forgot to write about the other problem of FOSS: PROPER TESTING.

    Have you ever used windows ME?? I am willing to bet my fedora distro was more tested...

  10. It is not about sales but control on Study: MP3 Sharing Not Serious Threat To CD Sales · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I feel the best thing about P2P is that you learn about other music that you don't hear on the radio. This is what scares the RIAA the most, not a loss of sales but of a loss of control on what you listen to. If people start listening to independent artists they will no longer just listen to britney spears or limp bizkit or whatever crap the RIAA forces down peoples radio.

  11. Re:My poor ex-girlfriend :( on Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain · · Score: 4, Funny
    No, not even this is going to get women to give up their vibrators.

    Fortunatly, most women use their vrbrators no where near their brain, However, the male version of this device is typically placed directly over the male brain.....

  12. Re:How creative on Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name · · Score: 1
    I doubt that even if they *HAD* called it "Nike", Nike would have been able to do anything about it unless the Mozilla Nike project was also about manufacturing and selling tennis shoes.

    Well, that depends on how much of mozilla's coding is done in sweat shops in the far east... Nike might not like that much of a theft of an idea :)

  13. Tinfoil hats on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 5, Funny

    They may be able to read my bank records, but they cant read my mind thanks to my tinfoil hat.

  14. Re:'power users' ? on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny
    'power users', 'Windows'... in the same sentance.. what are you smoking? :P

    It is like slashdot poster and correct spelling...

  15. Re:Build a .sex red-light district on 101 Ways To Save The Internet · · Score: 1

    but why would a porn site abandon .com for .sex voluntarily? Why do people put up port sites? To make money mostly.. Who pays for these sites, people with credit cards and such, most of those people don't have parents who would/can block those sites. Now, what this won't stop is stuff like redirection sites like www.whitehouse.com vs .gov but in general I think it is a good idea.

  16. Is this a dupe on Rekall Now Available Under GPL · · Score: 2, Funny

    I seem to "Rekall" seeing this before.

  17. Updating for RedHat on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1
    Since many of the mirrors don't have the latest rpm, people can build them quite simply.

    Step 1, get the older 3.6.1p1 src rpm from any of the mirrow sites. and install. rpm -U openssh-3.6.1p1-1.src.rpm

    Step 2: untar the the file in the source dir

    cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/

    tar xzf openssh-3.6.1p1.tar.gz

    Step 3: replace the buffer.c file with the one from here here

    cd openssh-3.6.1p1/; cp /tmp/buffer.c .; cd ..; tar czf omniORB-4.0.2.tar.gz openssh-3.6.1p1/

    Step 4: build the rpm. cd ../SPECS; rpmbuild -bb openssh.spec

    Step 5: install, cd ../RPMs/i386; rpm -U --force openssh*; /etc/init.d/sshd restart

    Thats it...

  18. ferris wheel type structure on 3D File Manager on Linux Wins NSF Prize · · Score: 5, Funny
    Apparently this involves arranging data in a ferris wheel type structure.

    Does this mean that you have to wait for your files to get back down to the bottom to be able to read them???

  19. Step in the right direction on Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    Now, if they just stop producing outlook, IE, office WMP and all the rest we would be set....

  20. Re:This greatly surprises me on Supercomputers To Move To Specialization? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I also work in the geophysical modeling arena and you will find that one of the biggest differences in using a purpose build S/C versus a lot of OTS equipment is memory speed. It is typical to reach only 10% of peek efficiency when running an application, even with nice structured problems like you are running. While you claim that you are CPU bound, you really are not. For example, if you run on a slower CPU but with a better memory subsystem or a larger cache (example SGI vs intel/linux) you will find that the SGI will win even though it is a much slower machine on paper. This is because the memory thruput and large cache. Now, to explain why you don't notice the speed up when you went from a 100-1G network, that is because your latency did not change much in that. You are typically sending lots of small packets (assuming you are not doing variable packing and the only atm model I know doing this is WRF) you are never really getting out of the latency mode and not seeing much improvement on the communicatoin speed. This is why people use myrinet (SP) because this can be accessed from the application, not going through the kernel and start transfer much quicker. (For typical latency/bandwidth numbers for a structured grid halo exchange google wallcraft halo and you will get numbers for all different types of machines and code to test yours)

  21. Re:Obligatory /. dups on OpEd Piece on Extended Life Expectancy · · Score: 1

    You forgot This is a dup of a /. story I read 100 years ago

  22. Re:Lets make people more aware. on Still No Federal Spam Law · · Score: 4, Funny
    Lets forward it to all our friends, and tell them they have to forward it all their friends.......

    Here is a good idea, lets get a huge mail list and send it to everyone in the world. Like some sort of mass e-mailing.

  23. Still not using linux on Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit · · Score: 5, Funny
    Fully 91 percent of people responding to an InternetWeek Reader Question said they will not change their Linux deployment plans as a result of SCO's actions.

    Yeah, they still are not going to use linux :)

  24. Re:Awesome on FreeBSD 5.1 Review and BSD Roundup · · Score: 1

    I think that most people would agree that libc is a core part of an OS, You really can't do anything w/o it (at least is a .so environment) In the windows world, most people would agree that explorer is part of the O.S, as is the rest of their GUI environment. I am not that up to day with the *BSD O.S, but I am guessing it would not be that complete without any of the GPL tools such as bash, tcsh or whatnot for example. Now the extesion to vi and gcc, somewhere this is a line between those where something stops becoming a O/S and a complete system. I don't thing a O/S is complete until it has a compiler, but that is just me.

  25. Re:Awesome on FreeBSD 5.1 Review and BSD Roundup · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your point may be true aobut the BSD license, it is not about *BSD in generl. Rhe OS is not just the kernel. That has been RMS's point for a long time. compilers, editors, libraries, those make up the OS, not just the kernel. Many of those are GPL'ed.