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  1. Re:Fully Modular on New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download · · Score: 1

    On what distribution? Most I've seen, any package that needs X libs depends on Xorg or XFree86. So while you could just copy the libraries, if you're using any package management system you're likely to have to install a full-blown X.

  2. Re:Fully Modular on New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hopefully it'll also mean we can install X client software on a server without also needing to install an X server and fonts too (kind of useless waste of space when you don't have a monitor, keyboard or mouse on the machine)

  3. Juniper is poisonous on Juniper Sues Message Board Posters · · Score: 1

    Use it only for ornamental or medicinal purposes.

    Or were we talking about some other Juniper? Some indication of what this company does? anyone?

  4. Re:How about a PGP phone? on The Future of Tech And NSA Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Skype.

  5. Re:Make Your Choice on The Future of Tech And NSA Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Seeing as the number of people killed by all violent crime, not just terrorists is dwarfed by the number of people killed in transport accidents annually, I'll take #1.

  6. Re:Nothing new here... move along. on The Future of Tech And NSA Wiretaps · · Score: 2, Informative
    "Now, by the way," he said, "any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap,

    Well, that's when you don't count the top secret warrantless taps, which they weren't talking about because they're top secret

  7. Re:Multi-tier on Core Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Fun things like (enforced) foreign keys, triggers, stored procedures, query analysis, etc aren't easy on any but the latest MySQL incarnations. But it helps to have taken a course or two in databases (mine used DB2, but I prefer PostgreSQL now as I'm now more familiar with it) so that you know that these (plus normalization) are good ideas.

  8. Re:Multi-tier on Core Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So what you're saying is... Don't use MySQL.

  9. Not great. on Core Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL · · Score: 1

    Most of the MySQL using code I've seen out there doesn't use transactions, but instead just trusts that changes will be independent and take effect. Jumping to an ACID compliant (by default) database won't make a huge difference if you're not using proper transactions anyways. Although the better multi-join query performance may help.

  10. Re:Personally I think Apple has... on Conducting a Unix Desktop Usability Study? · · Score: 1

    IMHO KDE (3.4) is better than Aqua. But that's for the tasks that I do. YMMV.

  11. Depends on Intended use... on Conducting a Unix Desktop Usability Study? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An occasionally used website (like an airline) or kiosk (photo stickers?) must be useable on first contact.

    A work desktop must be quickly learnable and facilitate productivity of intermediate to advanced users.

  12. Re:Correction to this slashvertisement on Seagate Pushes Hard Drive Platters to 160GB · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an innovative cooling solution, like the rotary engines in planes from the 1910's and 1920's, where the engine spins and the crankshaft stays stationary.

  13. Re:IBM only likes the "L" in LAMP on IBM Promotes Linux Partners to Highest Tier · · Score: 1

    Being an established, proven, effective technology does not make it not a buzzword.

  14. Re:Welcome To Hell on ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python · · Score: 4, Funny

    Visual Studio + lisp.

  15. Wrong. on Steam Hybrid Car from BMW · · Score: 1

    It will work when the exhaust gasses are hot. Which is right after startup, or the engine wouldn't be running.

  16. Re:Downsides - A few on Steam Hybrid Car from BMW · · Score: 1

    The ICE part is diesel, the CAT would probably be COTS, and would increase the efficiency, as it would complete the combustion (as per usual), but the energy from this process would not be lost. Presumably the steam generator would be after the CAT.

    The question though is: what about the fact that vehicle engines have a wide range of RPM that they're used over? Turbines have narrow RPM ranges that they're efficient over. Do they just accept the inefficiency (probably still more efficient than a non-heat-recoveing system), or do they have some mini-transmission on the turbine?

  17. Re:Real world value ... on Steam Hybrid Car from BMW · · Score: 1

    The big 3 US auto manufacturers are all headquartered in Detroit, in the north-eastern US, where they use large amounts of salt on the road. So they build the cars to last 2 years as that's how long they last before rusting out.

    Here on the west coast of Canada, a car is often considered relatively new to 5 years, I bought mine as a quality car at 16 years, and it's not uncommon to see 25-30 year old cars still going strong (especially Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo, or Saab). The real limits to car life are maintenance and traffic accidents.

  18. Re:IBM only likes the "L" in LAMP on IBM Promotes Linux Partners to Highest Tier · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Java is a buzzword marketroids know. Apache, MySQL (PostgreSQL!! get with the program, hosting providers), and PHP don't have marketing buzz in financial papers or stock analysis magasines.

  19. Re:So what about me? on EU Approves Data Retention · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm not in europe, but I was thinking of getting together with some friends to build a wISP. As far as I'm concerned our logs would amount to MAC address and what store they bought the access code in, Possibly what WAP they'd used first. We wouldn't be able to tell who a particular MAC was assigned to unless they signed up for an email address through us. Anything more would be pretty hard to do.

    We might be able to record every SYN packet, but that'd go out the first sign of a botnet doing a dDOS.

  20. No on Telcos Propose 2-Tier Internet · · Score: 1

    It's about the backbone, not the last mile.

  21. That's it! on Telcos Propose 2-Tier Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm making my own internet!

    I've got a spare linksys and two pringles cans; who's with me?

  22. Re:Oooh, shiny! on Under the Hood of the Xbox 360 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, it's good to [instruction cache miss...] step through [instruction cache miss...] every part of [instruction cache miss...] your code [instruction cache miss...] on every timestep. [instruction cache miss...] you'd never [instruction cache miss...] want to have [instruction cache miss...] different logi[instruction cache miss...]c in different [instruction cache miss...] instruction caches [instruction cache miss...], nor would you [instruction cache miss...] want different tasks [instruction cache miss...] to have different timestep [instruction cache miss...] granularity.

  23. Re:SIPRNet on Is the Cyberterror Threat Credible? · · Score: 1

    Canada has one too.

  24. Re:This is super awesome on Reduce Transistor Power Consumption · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Soon, they will run as fast as rats.

  25. Your sig: on Reduce Transistor Power Consumption · · Score: 1

    ummm... twins!?!?