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  1. Re:Bad News for Athlon? on AMD and Fujitsu Spin Off Static Memory Giant · · Score: 1

    The company owes you nothing; they have no requirement to pay you the value of your stock. In fact, the value of your stock is based solely on what other people are willing to buy it for because they *want* part of the company.

  2. Re:Hardware requirements on How To install Neverwinter Nights on Linux · · Score: 1

    As tacky as replying to yourself is, I should point out that I get 30+ fps in online gaming on that machine playing Quake III Arena and 15+ fps in the Urban Terror TC.

  3. Hardware requirements on How To install Neverwinter Nights on Linux · · Score: 1

    Could someone please reply with *actual* hardware requirements? I have a somewhat aging AMD Duron 800 machine with 384MiB of RAM and a Matrox G450 video card in my Linux box.

  4. Re:Goals of the company on LCD Price Fixing? · · Score: 1

    Considering that Pepsi in fact used that technique 50 years ago ... a not too detailed summary of each's advertising techniques can be found here:

    The Coke and Pepsi Cola Wars [Google Cache]

  5. Coverage on CBC from a Canadian perspective on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    For all the flames this may bring me, the CBC webservers are still up and going well unlike CNN's (last I checked).

    If you want to see the canadian news coverage of this event; try the CBC homepage above or http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/03/19/war030319.

  6. Re:The choice: Ethics or Material Considerations on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    Just because one person or another is or is not a Christian doesn't mean they support the views of other Christians. The same goes for Muslims, as we should all know since 9/11.

  7. Re:I hope they have good reasons on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    A well-coordinated SEAL attack came to mind, however it was commented by a CBC reporter (www.cbc.ca) that some of the american special forces have been noted in border countries in civvies ... probably marking targets in Iraq.

  8. Re:Where, indeed. on Latest ID Theft Tactic: Fake Job Listings · · Score: 1

    There are a number of employers these days who require forms to be filled out pre-interview. That bugs me, and its braindead, IMHO, but its still done.

    Oh well; I ignore them.

  9. Re:browser innovation on Microsoft: 2003 and Beyond · · Score: 1

    There's almost no excuse now that download speeds have increased so dramatically with the proliferation of high-speed Internet access. When IE was taking over from Netscape, it was partly because it came bundled with the OS/computer and Netscape had to be downloaded. Now that you can download Mozilla in a matter of minutes, there's not much reason not to do it, if you know it exists.

  10. Re:Where, indeed. on Latest ID Theft Tactic: Fake Job Listings · · Score: 1

    You don't think a good ID theft ring wouldn't be willing to do in-person meetings to pull off this scam in a year or two when the 'net dries up as a source?

  11. Re:New Mirror on The Next Level of X-Box Modding · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes, its tacky to correct your own post instead of just previewing in the first place, but the URI should have been http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/www.to mmarsh.net/xmod/, without the space. However, the original (misspelt) URI will also work.

  12. New Mirror on The Next Level of X-Box Modding · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thanks to comment http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=55018&cid=5378 313 I've set up a mirror of his/her mirror at http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/www.to mmarsh.net/xmod/

    It is still downloading from the original site, so some pictures may not come up when you initially visit.

    Good luck. I'll be throttling it in case it gets Slashdotted too badly. And yes, the server penalizes rapid reconnections.

  13. Re:RISC Rules on Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium · · Score: 1

    Its surprised me any number of times that the first instruction set the Crusoe chip was designed to emulate (assuming they ever write translation software for other platforms at all) was the x86.

    I would have thought that in the embedded and low-power market you'd get a better response out of having GHz StrongARM-compatible chips. Perhaps that market is already saturated? (compared with x86 though??)

  14. Re:Clearly Symantec! on Symantec Security Gateway vs. Custom Linux Box? · · Score: 1

    Its pretty sad still, isn't it?

    At any rate, I didn't have 3hr advance notification of the Slammer worm; it just didn't get in at all.

    Welcome to stateful firewalls by iptables and some good old E-mail filtering.

    qmail + qfilter + some good PERL programming + McAfee

  15. Re:How about "On September 1st, 2001" on Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self? · · Score: 1

    Some of us read newest first :-)

    It gets rid of the especially annoying "first post" posts.

  16. Re:History is written by the losers on Inside The Development of Windows NT · · Score: 1

    I ran and helped maintain Windows NT 3.51 systems for a few years and they were stable as long as you didn't tinker with them at all. Maintaining modems on them was hell, and you certainly didn't want to run Visual C++ on it.

    Applying hotfixes was hell as well, fwiw.

  17. Re:Source Code Control System on Inside The Development of Windows NT · · Score: 1

    Or bitkeeper :)

  18. Re:Encryption on Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Signatures aren't as big of deal as encryption of course. I want my transaction to be signed by my private key and encrypted to VISA/MC's public key so that the intermediaries only have the encrypted version of the transaction data, not the raw data.

  19. Re:Wayback Cache on Abandoned & Little Used Airfields · · Score: 1

    In the future consider using a * instead of the date; http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://members.tripod .com/airfields_freeman/ is a link to a full list of wayback-available pages.

  20. Re:Now all we need.. on Open Watcom 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind AMD taking on a similar project. Perhaps each submitting a GPL'd compiler to the GCC group would get us a good blended optimizing compiler?

    I use AMD's Code Analyst tool with VC++ 6.0 when on Windows and its quite helpful.

  21. Re:This is a sad and horrible development. on PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked · · Score: 1

    As a fellow canadian, I cry when I hear my friends and neighbours whine about the state of healthcare and education in our country. I remind them of the state of the american equivalents. I let them talk to friends who've relocated to the US and deal with HMOs and the like.

    'Public school' is almost a four-letter word south of the border. Ah well, we do have it good, don't we? Our government actually asked for our opinions and input _before_ drafting new DMCA-like legislation.

  22. Re:Shocking on PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked · · Score: 1

    ... like the Soviet Union in policing, and without even the benefits of a socialist state. Joblessness, no health care, etc. and no rights either.

    Fun, fun.

    So why can't you vote for the people who make these laws -- that would be the lobby groups.

  23. Re:CD/RW standard? on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 1

    Tell me when dragging files onto a CD-RW doesn't require fixating or closing the CD to allow it to boot up and when I can do it from a command prompt in all major operating systems, and programatically from other software, then I'll be happy.

  24. Re:Thank your lucky stars on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 1

    Score: +5 Depressingly true

  25. Re:One observation... on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 1

    He didn't break someone's trust for the sake of that information; he asked an anonymous person for it, and a friend (later) who knew what they were getting into (it seems).