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  1. This is why Jimbo didn't want the details to leak on Dvorak on Google and Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Informative

    Speculation runs rife. I guess security through well... not very obscurity's bound to get someone chatting in the end.

    The deal in the short to medium term with wikipedia is expected to be the provision of about a dozen caching servers. No actual database work would be done by google. There is already a small (3) squid cluster in Paris that does this for users in the UK and France saving on some transatlantic bandwidth.

  2. Re:Best error ever on Beware The Rotundus Rover · · Score: 1

    10 clients is the limit for IIS running from anything but a $$$ installation of windows server 2000/2003

  3. Re:Troll Article on Intuit Disables Features in Quicken To Force Upgrades · · Score: 1

    I would expect the articles submitted to the editors were more baited - probably preachy about F/OSS or going off on a tangent about WHOMG SI THIZ LEGAL PATRIOT ACT DMCEEA!"!21123oneeleven.

  4. Re:Do NOT donate to these guys! Sitting on the mon on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    They've been around for years, and represent the biggest dozen or so of UK charities. I trust them.

  5. Re:I enjoyed reading this on /. last week.... on Father of PlayStation Admits Sony Mistakes · · Score: 1

    You've not even read the article summary correctly. We subscribers should be cleverer than that.

  6. Re:Well... on Exeem Open Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Long lost, not long defunct. I remember it loosing out to a lot of people in the KaZaA mainia of 2003...

  7. Well... on Exeem Open Beta Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It now does nothing really that new, apart from using the bittorrent protocol. Networks like the long lost WinMX have supported downloading from users with partially downloaded for years now.

    I guess it just saves the client from searching for the peers itself, leaving that job to the supernodes.

  8. Re:Sony have supported MP3s before on Sony Admits MP3 Error · · Score: 1

    Their hard disk "mp3 players" don't support MP3. Not this generation, at least.

  9. Re:why is this news? on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 1

    That should read: My isp has in the last year doubled the download speed of all of it's packages from their starting point. They've done it, I think, because our cost to them has got less and they're passing it on.

  10. why is this news? on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 2, Informative
  11. Re:Slashdotted? on A Look Inside the BBC's Network · · Score: 1

    This'll be one poor server designated for stats. Probably a gigahertz runt from a few years ago :)

  12. Re:life before Wikipedia? on Observer Gives Wikipedia Glowing Report · · Score: 2, Funny

    Naughty Jamesday! Get back to fixing the servers! *whip*

    -BB.

  13. Re:Wonder what code base on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm sure you mean instead of gecko, the mozilla core, rather than basing it on mozilla itself.

  14. appleworks on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dated? Maybe! Useful for simple word processing? Absolutely.

    I cann't fault it's ability to make a simple hand typed document without bloat, and for that I will continue to use it.

  15. Re:Pictures? on Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot · · Score: 2, Informative

    The video link currently shows a 3 minute feed of the robot.

  16. Re:Under the Google radar on Net Worm Uses Google to Spread · · Score: 1

    31/12 figures. In case you wanted to compare them now.
    1 - 144
    2 - 0
    3 - 0
    4 - 9,278
    5 - 21,245
    6 - 13,242
    7 - 18,959
    8 - 25,944
    9 - 43,642
    10 - 47,297
    11 - 81,428
    12 - 86,204
    13 - 60,537
    14 - 77,033
    15 - 44,940
    16 - 56,574
    17 - 92,026
    18 - 51,385
    19 - 32,246
    20 - 30,353
    21 - 48,999
    22 - 18,534
    23 - 13,152
    24 - 8,405
    25 - 8,657
    26 - 4,645
    27 - 4
    28 - 8
    29 - 4
    30 - 4
    31 - 1
    32 - 3
    33 - 0
    34 - 1
    35 to 40 - 0

  17. Re:Not Totally Abandoned on Microsoft Loses Passport · · Score: 1

    And msn messenger.

  18. Re:Tsunami Warning System on Tsunami Satellite Images · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is misleading to describe it as an "international" tsunami warning system as that gives the perception it's reach is wider than the pacific basin.

  19. Re:Dangerous, and probably illegal. on RCA / Thomson Modem Hack Discovered · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please note cable modems do not connect to the telephone network. They connect to the cable company's private wires.

  20. Re:First instance, evah. on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    You can disable the playschool UI at system service level. Cann't say fairer than that!

  21. Re:As usual... on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    MirrorDot does just this. Why doesn't it get the publicity?

  22. Coral Cache file: on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Much faster than either of the mirrors listed.

  23. .mobi? why the i? on ICANN Approves Two More Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    It seems that the i on the end of the domain looks a tad silly and won't do anything for assisting keypad typers who want to have to enter as little as possible! .mob looks much better than .mobi, and seeing as "i" is the third character under the number 4 that's an extra two keypresses per domain.

  24. Re:How does this work? on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But millions of people don't have large enough upload capacity to support millions of other people streaming at that speed. With many domestic broadbands the ratio can be as bad as 12:1.

    And that's before you even deal with people needing to set up port forwarding.

  25. Re:Yes! on Yahoo! Releases Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 1

    Well, in asian regions, it's shemail. Oh... wait...