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  1. Not a computer but... on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    ...I dropped my original Olympus Stylus camera off of 2nd floor balcony on to concrete, I crashed with it on my mtn bike many times, and I dropped it from a moving car. The thing is 15 years old and still works great.

  2. Re:Easy one. on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1
    What am I saying? I guess I didn't get the point across. I'm saying that there are plenty of ways to get ahead and only a few of them require a ball and chain. Your tone seems to be changing but it originally sounded too me like you were happy that you're reachable 7/24 because it affords you some flexability. Now you're just saying that there are different types of employers.

    Sorry for the delay in replying but I just got back from a 5 day no responsiblities, no cell, no pager, no computer weekend.

  3. Re:Easy one. on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, I don't carry a pager or phone after I leave work, I get paid for the hours I do work, I still take 2 hour lunches when I want, I can take a 4 week vacation without checking in while I'm away. What am I missing that you have? Oh, yeah, a leash.

  4. Re:Personally... on Geeks and Poker? · · Score: 1

    The odds are against you on both blackjack (unless you count cards, which if you do and get discovered you will be unceremoniously booted from the casino) and video poker. With poker since you're not playing against the house you have a fighting chance to always come out ahead if you know what you're doing.

  5. Re:HFS+ defrag source on Measuring Fragmentation in HFS+ · · Score: 1

    Source of that information?

  6. Re:authpf? on Port Knocking in Action · · Score: 1

    And what if knockd has an exploit? Obscurity is fine but at some level you have to have something that you trust. And even given SSH's past exploits I'll trust it more than adding some unknown daemon in front of it.

  7. Re:ISP Port-Scanning on Port Knocking in Action · · Score: 2, Informative

    That would be a benefit. Those using port-knocking for extra security are misguided, though.

  8. Re:authpf? on Port Knocking in Action · · Score: 1

    Great idea but not very portable.

  9. Re:"Film at 11" on Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online · · Score: 1

    Bzzzt, cliched usage of the word meme. You have been modded down by the meme_police.

  10. This is probably redundant by now... on Linux in Canada · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...but Calgary should be switching to OpenBSD. They'd have plenty of top notch support nearby.

  11. Re:Lies on New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM · · Score: 1
    "Let's stake this meme in the heart."

    Improper usage of meme. You've been modded down by the Meme Police.

  12. Re:"It looks cool" and unusable on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 1

    "Now I'm confused: does "packages" refer to the bundles that contain GUI apps". Yes.

  13. Re:Unresolved bugs. on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 1

    I erred only in my choice of words, not in my understanding of de facto. "Widely used format" would be much more accurate than "de facto standard".

  14. Re:In the interests of full-disclosure on Ballmer On Microsoft's Search Goofs · · Score: 1

    You mean anti-trust legislation that preserves individual rights by not allowing a monoply to exploit us?

  15. Re:your sig on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 1
    You religious fanatics crack me up.

    Full of arrogance: "I would say that Islam is wrong".

    Lack reason to conveniently promote their beliefs: "The apostles, the people that followed Jesus around for years, were the ones in the best position to know if Jesus was a fraud". You mean they were biased because of their being so close to him?

    Base their faith on hearsay: "I believe what the Bible says".

    No wonder you quietly hate so many people: "The fundamental premise of Christianity is that everybody's evil, and everybody's going to hell". How can you be happy when your creator has created something so evil?

    The only place where you make sense is here: "Proving Christians wrong isn't too hard".

  16. Re:Unresolved bugs. on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 1
    "Word .DOC is the de facto standard."

    Pray tell, what standards body approved this standard?

  17. Re:Yet another modern feature added to *BSD on SMP On OpenBSD, Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Good sir, you are in fact.. mistaken. There is just as much FreeBSD in OS X as there is NeXTStep. In fact, OS X actually includes FreeBSD code while the NeXTStep influences are just that, influences. See http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/

  18. Necessity? on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    "I consider my cellular phone a necessity both in my personal and work lives." If it's a necessity than how did we ever survive without them? I thought food, shelter, water, and air were necessities.

  19. Re:I guess I'll toss in my 5 nickles here. on Leave a Safe IT Job for Music Tour? · · Score: 1

    "It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you didn't do." I forget who said that.

  20. Re:Babies don't run marathons on Grand Challenge 1, Competitors 0 · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but it wasn't "extremely tought terrain". It was all easily driveable with a 2 wheel drive car. I've spent 100s of days driving and riding the roads they were going to use.

  21. Re:midget drivers, eh? on Grand Challenge 1, Competitors 0 · · Score: 1

    The contest rules exclude animals.

  22. Re:Rough terrain's a bitch on Grand Challenge 1, Competitors 0 · · Score: 1

    There are also these people called religious fanatics. It's a bit more complex than just blaming everything on oppression.

  23. Re:Cost to PRIZE ratio. on CMU First To Qualify For DARPA Grand Challenge · · Score: 1
    Bzzzzzzzzzzzzt, cliche alert, cliche alert, with an extra negative modifier for extremely poor usage of meme.

  24. Re:Pretty annoying on Microdrive Technology Rebounds Thanks to iPod Mini · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you're going with the "Larger flash cards offer drastically diminishing return, making it harder to carry around ten or twenty of them" comment. We have several photographers here at work and they all use 1GB CF over the microdrives.

  25. Re:Interesting Redesigns on Wired Reports on 'Googlemania' · · Score: 1

    With a redesign I would stop using Google. It's already bad enough with all the pagerank spammers but a redesign would be the straw for me.