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  1. Re:ummmmm.... security? on Africa Enters Global Market For IT Outsourcing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No. In fact, it *is* fair to generalize. If a country is cheap to outsource to, it means that labor costs are cheap. Which means the workers get paid little. This is fine (commercially speaking) when you're just making running shoes. But when you're handing out IT support and the workers must have access to sensitive financial and proprietory information to do their job, this has to be something that crosses a managers mind.

    Oh. Wait a minute. No, it doesn't.

  2. Re:Neat, Now if only on Cheap Cell-Phone Detector · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Only if you don't have a proper mobile phone network. .

  3. Re:You're welcome on Realistic Driving Simulator Games? · · Score: 1

    Do this in the UK and he'll get repremanded by the driving instructor on his first lesson. Here, you MUST reverse by looking over your shoulder - Otherwise, you have NO vision behind you. You could reverse straight into anything.

    Mirrors are for when you're moving and CAN'T look behind - Or dangerous, lazy people.

  4. Re:Live For Speed on Realistic Driving Simulator Games? · · Score: 1

    I'd second this one. The physics model (Suspension effects, grip / no grip effects, etc) is very realistic and some of the beginner cars are almost street stock. The only thing missing at the moment would be a "real world" course - Surprisingly enough, it's all race-tracks (and two donuting type playgrounds)

  5. Re:Let's work together people on Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... It's a bus. I think there might be something stopping them running it through a car wash.

  6. Re:Damn, it's in Britain. on Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour · · Score: 1

    No, this is in britain. We call a snake a snake. We _like_ our children frightened. (It's called snakes and ladders over here)

  7. Re:That's 2 words. on Making Operating Systems Faster · · Score: 3, Informative

    You have an interesting definition of "justify". Besides, letting the VM do it's own thing with the buffer-cache does *much* better than stuffing RAM full of some random portion of disk that you think is 'important'.

  8. Re:Great... on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right?
    Carbon cycle

    Hint: Plants take in CO2.

  9. Re:What it all means on Ruling Clears Way For Lindows Trial · · Score: 1

    Of course they did. IN Glasgii.

  10. Why spreadsheets? on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why oh why is everyone's first reaction a spreadsheet?

    Spreadsheets == handling of numbers
    Databases == handling of data

    Spreadsheets are not originally designed for searching or indexing. Spreadsheets have no good concept of interrelations.

    Use the right tool for the job, for a change.

  11. Okaaaay... on Cow Brains Into Biofuel · · Score: 1

    So does anyone else wonder what they did with all this nutrient filled goodness BEFORE BSE was thought of as a threat?

  12. Re:I'll be doing something similar shortly on Security Camera-to-DVR Setup on Linux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact, it has one input, internally multiplexed into the card. Your app will have to grok this.

    What this means is the maximum frame rate while running all inputs is somewhere under 15fps / card, switching between the inputs as required between frames, which is still acceptable.

    I'd also suggest looking on ebay

    Unless, of course, you're paranoid enough not to give your address to someone that is selling security gear.

  13. Re:Yes, seperate drive and fixed size on Swap File Optimizations? · · Score: 1

    "Second place a seperate partition"

    Eh? You like making the head traverse the platter to get to your swap partition... why? Don't do this - Please.

  14. XFS Filesystem on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 5, Funny

    AAAAAARGH!

    It's XFS. NOT XFS Filesystem. I'm gonna do something illegal to the next person that says ATM machine, too.

  15. Re:Obligatory... on XCOR Launch Application Complete · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No. Actually you didn't.

  16. Re:Different tastes for different sexes? on On Gaming, Girls, And Germane Genres · · Score: 1

    Huh? DDR=Doomdarks revenge?

  17. Poor results anyway on Google Considering Merger With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I don't know about anyone else, but I'm finding Google increasingly less useful. For example, look at the obviously inflated results for Jolt here

  18. Re:I don't see why you need software on Build A Network Router On Linux · · Score: 1

    ... Simple, really. What you set up was just a router between two (probably) networks. It had static routes to the networks involved. OSPF, etc, are protocols that learn the complete network topology around them, in an automated manner. They're useful for complex network environments.

  19. Re:Electricity Apocalypse! on Electricity Apocalypse Soon? · · Score: 1

    Worst Description Of A Battery... Ever.

  20. Misunderstanding on Upper Ozone Depletion Declining · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. It's an example of us stopping screwing it up quite so quickly.
    The rate of depletion has slowed != everything's OK again.

  21. Re:backlit keyboard like on PowerBook? on Toshiba Introduces A 17"-Screen Laptop · · Score: 1

    IBM has the "Thinklight" on the T20 series. It's a white LED at the top of the screen, shining down onto the keyboard. And one of the most pointless wastes of engineering time ever. It's got a EL backlight. Why add an LED when you can just turn the screen up?

  22. Re:What is it ? on Struts 1.1 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... After a whole 3 seconds of research... Struts homepage

    "Welcome to Struts! The goal of this project is to provide an open source framework for building web applications."

  23. Re:Institutionalized Stupidity on Corporations Suffer Microsoft Activation Bug · · Score: 1

    Nice idea. Shame the company DOES have an enterprise agreement (VLK + Select). It's a bug. It SHOULDN'T require activation - But it does on a specific date.

    Cheers,

    Allan.

  24. Others on More Ways to Blow Things Up · · Score: 1

    If you've not seen it already,
    Mike's Electric Stuff
    More dangerous stuff :)

  25. Re:Sega Channel on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That wasn't new. The BBC did a few series (for the BBC B, etc) with a flashing microdot.

    You attached a big sucker to the corner of the screen, and it 'downloaded' the program. It was waay too cool at the time.