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  1. 100 MVP's signed? on Visual Basic Developers Revolt Against Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's an amazing feat. Microsoft's MVP directory lists only 111 in the VB section. http://www.microsoft.com/communities/MVP/MVP.mspx

    Maybe some are hanging out in the ASP (vbscript) or Office (vba) sections.

  2. Amazing on OpenBSD CVS RAID Array Failing, Needs Replacement · · Score: 1

    There have been no OpenBSD vs posts yet.

  3. Re:Current Configuration & Need to Upgrade on OpenBSD CVS RAID Array Failing, Needs Replacement · · Score: 1

    Looking on the Dell site, a PowerVault 220S with 14 146gb 10k U320 scsi hard drives costs about $10k. I'm guessing that's close to what they're getting. That or one with 14 73gb hard drives for about $8k plus enough spares to last until the next big replacement.

  4. But without them on Blizzard Drops the Hammer on Gold Farmers · · Score: 5, Funny

    How can people with no skill ever hope to buy their way to the top? This is insane!

  5. danger to everyone on Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First · · Score: 1

    If the US government gets patches first, they have a month to figure out exploits for each vulnerability. Given the frequency that vulnerabilities are found, the US government will always have the means to hack into PC's running Windows all around the world, with the help of Microsoft.

    I'm sure people will predict that this will lead to a worldwide flood of converts from Windows to other operating systems, but only time will tell if governments and other people really care about these sorts of things.

  6. Re:Why? on Novell To Ship Xen in Next Version of Suse · · Score: 2, Funny

    You take 10 machines. Install 10 copies of Linux or NetBSD on each, using Xen to run them simultaneously. Then you make 10 beowulf clusters out of it.

  7. Re:UI on Hindsight: Reversible Computing · · Score: 1

    Don't the video game emulators already do this?

    Yeah. To create a movie they save the state and log the following input, so the game can be replayed exactly. ZSNES also has a rewind key, but I haven't messed with it.

  8. $4.2 million? on Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's nothing. Divide it by the US population.

    Just my two cents. (literally)

  9. Slightly buggy on Google Adds News Personalization · · Score: 1

    Some of my changes would continuously fail to take effect. Deleting the U.S. section seems to have made the problem go away.

  10. Re:How else to topple IE? Re:It's the Branding on Problems With the Firefox Development Process · · Score: 1

    There should have been a couple line breaks before the
    ":(){ :|:&};:", but /. removed them.

  11. Re:How else to topple IE? Re:It's the Branding on Problems With the Firefox Development Process · · Score: 1

    Just like Microsoft Windows, Word, Office, etc. :(){ :|:&};:

    What the hell is that thing?

  12. Re:7 years and counting on Duke Nukem Forever Physics Impress · · Score: 1

    1st level, near the back door to the theater, there's a bridge. With a little bit of searching, you'll find a jetpack. Then you can fly circles around the nice 3d bridge.

  13. Re:Of course, it goes both ways on "Enemies of Linux" Trying to Undermine OS? · · Score: 1

    I've often had over 100 tabs open in firefox with no trouble. But with 512mb of ram, that's not saying much.

  14. Re:A TAB is not 8 spaces! on Programming Tools You've Used? · · Score: 1

    I hate people crapping up nicely tabbed code with their space indents. Especially they have their indents set to 3 or 5 spaces. Stick to tabs and everyone can make them as narrow or wide as they like.

    Always use tabs.
    Use only tabs.
    When breaking a line, it doesn't have to line up. But sometimes you can find a more appropriate place to break it.
    Identifier names should be as long as needed for their purpose to be clear, and no longer.

    public void someMethod(
    SomeType type,
    SomeOtherType other
    ) { ...

  15. Harvard BS on Harvard Business School: You Peek, You Lose · · Score: 1

    Some people are beyond explanation. It'd be too nice to just say they're full of themselves. They've made the decision to deny admission based on only one factor, the desire to obtain knowledge. They'd rather have business students who'd wait for important information to come to them rather than seek it out with a passion.

  16. Re:Alternately, . . . on Linux Server Break-in Challenge · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's 192.168.0.103. Let the hacking begin!

  17. Re:Fines backwards, again on Phishers Face Jail Time Under New U.S. Bill · · Score: 1

    Phishing schemes pay better.

  18. Re:Tried already with BSD on Debian to be Marketed to Japan and China · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah. Commies hate open source. They're jealous of its success where they failed.

  19. Re:Unfortunately... on Cox on Torvalds and Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 1

    I've met people with worse names than that. For example, a restaurant manager who's name sounds like "c**k on food".

  20. Re:wait on Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can say anything with numbers, especially by omitting some of them. Those numbers are probably adjusted for inflation, but we don't really know because it doesn't say.

  21. Re:Google + Firefox on Google & Firefox's Relationship · · Score: 2, Funny

    After winning the search engine wars, they will quietly start optimizing the search result rankings to promote their own political agendas. A search for Microsoft will continue to bring up only anti-microsoft results, as they do today. As people move from TV to the web, the only candidates who's ads you will see will be theirs. The Google founders will run for president and vice president, and win through simple media control. They will gather their armies, as the general population gets more and more hooked on the internet and less interested in reality, and finally take over the world in a single massive coordinated attack.

  22. Re:Yet again... on Is Your OS Tough Enough? · · Score: 2

    With the firewall enabled by default, and with no inexperienced user actively checking email and browsing all the while saying "yes yes yes I do want to download and run this active web page or whatever it is you stupid browser", SP2 didn't need the updates.

  23. Re:Oh my God! on TrekUnited Reports Mission Successful at Trek Rallies · · Score: 1

    He died way way back in 1991, when the Next Generation was still airing new episodes, well before Deep Space 9 or Voyager. The voice of the ship's computer has been doing his job ever since.

  24. The simple solution on Building a Simple Streaming Media Server? · · Score: 1

    Apache (an most other http servers) can serve it all without any work on your part besides making your media directory the root and enabling directory browsing.

    Is the content on this media server going to stuff you own or have permission to distribute?

  25. Re:Effect on Bank Of America Loses 1.2 Million Customer Records · · Score: 1

    mod +1 funny, first grammar post