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  1. Personally ... on Wine 1.0 — Uncorked After 15 Years · · Score: 0

    Personally I've always found it better to run windows applications on Windows, either installed on the machine or in a VM.

  2. Re:Legal Ramifications on Ask Lt. Col. John Bircher About Cyber Warfare Concepts · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm willing to bet they don't really give a damn.

  3. Re:Environmental Impact on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    Ah, comparing tobacco to staples of life are we? I'd love to see you actually try to cut out all fat, carbohydrates and salt out of your diet.

    Also, casual smoking of straight tobacco (for example, not a commercial cigarette) would most likely do you no harm.

  4. Re:Environmental Impact on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    "food" consisting of fat, starch, salt
    Yes, death to natural ingredients.
  5. Re:Where are the stupid investors now? on '90s Dot-Coms — Where Are They Now? · · Score: 1

    No, they're speculating in Oil. Real Estate is so yesterday.

  6. Re:Might not have anything to share on US Data Centers Wary of Sharing Energy Data With Feds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One place wasn't a dedicated data center. There were corporate offices of a handful of companies in addition to the one that owned the building. One of those companies ran their own small datacenter (100 machines or so) an the company that owned the building ran 2 (different departments). The amount of power their own used were estimated, and they just ran UPS's that ran over that. The company that ran their own datacenter also paid on an estimated basis of the total amount of power they used. Large portions of the building that were not associated with the datacenter were also on the UPS/Generator in the event of a power failure. They didn't track how much power per circuit was used and they didn't track how much each of those rooms used. They had a big, overall picture.

  7. Re:Might not have anything to share on US Data Centers Wary of Sharing Energy Data With Feds · · Score: 1

    That don't include anything else?

  8. Might not have anything to share on US Data Centers Wary of Sharing Energy Data With Feds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not really surprised. I've seen decent sized data centers (100-500 machines) that did not track their power usage. They might not have any data to share with anyone anyway.

  9. Re:Constitution Violated by Domestic Military Ops on Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers · · Score: 1

    There are ECHELON listening sites around the world, including in the US. This is not including the supposed listening devices the NSA is said to have had installed in major telecoms.

  10. Re:Components - yes. Distributions - no. on Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    RHEL seems to do fine with that. Then again, Red Hat will support whatever packages they ship even if upstream drops it. Beyond repackaging, what exactly does Ubuntu do?

    This is a request for everyone to follow Ubuntu's schedule so Ubuntu can continue to do nothing while still providing a "LTS" branch. It's not Ubuntu LTS if Ubuntu can't support it over the long term.

  11. Re:Ok this is good... Now I have a couple of quest on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    It's almost like some sort of bubble popped around 2000.

    OMFG STOCK PRICE FROM 2000 DROPED, MS IS NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE! IT'S THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP AT LAST!

  12. Re:A neat concept but... on Life-Size Photo of a Blue Whale · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean something like a harpoon?

  13. Re:Sysinternals? Windows? on NSA Takes On West Point In Security Exercise · · Score: 1

    Oh great, now I look like an idiot.

  14. Re:Sysinternals? Windows? on NSA Takes On West Point In Security Exercise · · Score: 1

    [blockquote] NSA-Key[/blockquote] Oh shut up.

  15. Re:VMware on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well VMware is pretty damn awesome.

  16. Re:Still asking, who's gonna use that? on Video Demo of Microsoft's "Containerized" Data Storage · · Score: 0

    By this metric, no one would buy any storage product from any vendor.

  17. Re:Picture of 'New' Rack? on OpenBSD 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    SS10 and 20 machines can run up to 4 hypersparcs which keeps my hopes for SMP SPARC32 alive and with hypersparcs up to 200MHz, they make pretty good build machines. Also Ultra1's are Sun4u. It's sort of hard to hack SPARC32 on a SPARC64.

    As far as wanting machines, if you want to donate them, I'm sure they wouldn't mind hearing from you.

  18. Re:Picture of 'New' Rack? on OpenBSD 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    Most likely these And what's wrong with SS20's or some other, older hardware?

  19. Re:Who's Freer Than Who on FSF-Approved gNewSense 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Feel free to get some work done whenever you want to.

  20. Re:Microsoft's Official View of the Situation on Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you post something similar when it's a PHP app on Apache being exploited with a SQL injection and the PHP authors say it's not their fault a whole bunch of their users are idiots?

    Microsoft provides a platform, that platform has problems, but in this case the platform had nothing to do with what happened. This rests entirely on web developers who didn't bother to do things correctly.

  21. Re:DB Programming 101? on New Attack Exploits "Safe" Oracle Inputs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People learn database programming now? I thought they just threw together whatever SQL and PHP they could find online and called themselves programmers.

  22. Re:No, No, No and No again. on Patch the Linux Kernel Without Reboots · · Score: 1

    If I may ask, what PostgreSQL clustering solution do you use?

  23. Re:I say! on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mr. Fusion only powered the time circuits and the Flux Capacitor, the engine runs on ordinary gasoline, always has, always will.

  24. Re:Well that's a change on FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear · · Score: 0, Troll

    Absolutely, a xenophobic, if we don't do it it shouldn't be done and if it wasn't made here it's no good is the way to go.

  25. Not that hard on Star Cooler Than Venus Found · · Score: 5, Funny

    Venus never was that hip.