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  1. Mac equivalent of the Cobalt Qube on Intel Flaunts Mac mini Knock-off · · Score: 2

    Have a look at the Mac G4 Cube here:
    http://www.cubeowner.com/photopost/showphoto.php/p hoto/674/sort/2/cat/501/page/1

    If you stuff an upgrade card into one of these, you'll have a neat looking machine with plenty of power. This site is the place to go to learn about about the G4 Cube.

  2. In other news... on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 3, Funny


    ...Ashcroft's statue was seen disrobing upon hearing of his resignation!

  3. Re:damn on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Ok, how long does everyone think we'll have to wait until "Contract with America, Part Deux" is unveiled?

  4. Is AST a Linux convert? on The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's some interesting information from a previous Votemaster comment:

    The attackers have tried repeatedly to break in, but the server is a rock-solid Linux system which has stood up to everything they threw at it and hasn't crashed since I got it in May.

    The full Google cache of the page is here

  5. Re:And unfortunately, a site that won't load today on The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think there was a lot of anticipation since he announced last week that he would be revealing his identity today. I started trying to load the page at 8:30AM (Eastern US). It was out of date until just before 9AM, and then the site got really, really slow.

    I was certainly surprised to learn the Votemaster is AST. I started using Minix back at version 1.3, so I'm very familiar with him over the years.

  6. Gates looks good! on Halloween Fun · · Score: 2, Funny

    The funny thing is, they didn't have to change the hair or skin tone much to make this mask...

    http://images.forbes.com/media/halloween/gates.jpg

  7. Who's going to register this domain? on Google Acquires Keyhole Corp. · · Score: 2, Funny
    $ whois gkeyhole.com

    Whois Server Version 1.3

    Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
    with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
    for detailed information.

    No match for "GKEYHOLE.COM".
  8. In other news... on Hilary Rosen Loves Creative Commons · · Score: 1
  9. Re:NYU underrated on America's Most Connected Campuses · · Score: 1

    That shouldn't affect your tuition - they probably got all of those chairs from dot-com asset auctions a couple of years ago!

  10. Re:Why? on The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives · · Score: 1

    I think it's because most folks claim they want to get away from it all, but when push comes to shove, they can't survive in the wild without the cell phone, sat dish, laptop, coffee machine, Blackberry, TiVo, hot showers, etc., etc., etc. So why not add a jackknife with a USB drive into the mix?

  11. Federal job growth numbers on IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs · · Score: 2, Interesting
    If the job growth numbers continue their current trend (http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/06/news/economy/jobl ess_july/?cnn=yes), then IBM's additions will soon be a significant portion of the month-to-month job growth.

    Go IBM, we're counting on you all the way!

  12. Re:Are These Outsourced Or Here on IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Based on the article summary: 18800 * 2/3 = 12533 non-US jobs

  13. SMTP protocol fix? on CAN-SPAM Is A Bust · · Score: 1
    Is anyone seriously working on a fix to the existing SMTP protocol that prevents spam or superceding SMTP with something else that directly addresses the spam problem?

    I'm concerned that there is no way to cut all of the SMTP servers out there over to a new mail protocol, even if one is invented. As an example, how easily did the transition from individual hosts files to the DNS system proceed back in the day?

    In the mean time, I have been looking at implementing SPF http://spf.pobox.com/. Has anyone else tried that, and has it worked well? I'm wondering if it's going to work very well until more folks start adding SPF records to their DNS servers. I guess as long as the big guns (AOL, etc.) have started doing so, that might reduce the amount of forged messages to a manageable level. Thoughts?

  14. Apparently not needed in old houses on Anti-Wi-Fi Wallpaper · · Score: 1
  15. Amazon is censoring its reviews? on Katie Jones Interviewed · · Score: 5, Informative

    What is Amazon doing now - monitoring the traffic it gets to certain books and then removing reviews that contribute to a less than average rating? How do we explain the reduction in reviews from 300+ to 81 and the boost in the rating?

  16. What operating system? on Disney Enters PC Market · · Score: 1

    Please don't tell me it's M$ Bob!

  17. Re:How configurable is the SP? on Microsoft has Delayed SP2, Again · · Score: 1

    I'm getting there. :) A Mac G4 with OS X (BSD) is hooked to a KVM switch with the XP laptop. All of the servers are Linux and FreeBSD - no more Windows there. It'll probably be another 3-6 months before the Mac (really, it's UNIX!) is my primary machine.

  18. How configurable is the SP? on Microsoft has Delayed SP2, Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I read in the paper this morning that SP2 will be doing things like turning on the WinXP firewall by default and gawd knows what else. Does anyone know if we'll be able to easily see all of its proposed "helpful" actions and disable the ones we don't want? For instance, I already have a hardware firewall, so I don't need the software firewall to be enabled.

  19. I'm in the wrong business! on SCO Spreads Rumors About IBM Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Funny
    Didja ever get the feeling that you should give up what you're doing and become a lawyer?!? Has anyone calculated the amount of money they are making off of the train wreck that is SCO, both on the offense and on the defense? My guess is that it's larger than the GDP of a lot of countries!

    Oh well, back to the code... :)

  20. Re:Lawyer Wars on Lawyers In Space... · · Score: 1

    I liked episodes 4, 5, and 6 of this movie, but episodes 1 and 2 sucked!

  21. Huh? on HP Releases Linux-Based Notebook · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From the article:

    Fink said the launch is a test "so that we can see the take up we get for this particular product."

    Soooo.... if the "take up" is insufficient, then the test failed? Where is the customer left in that case?

  22. Not helping... on McBride Says No More Lawsuits From SCO · · Score: 3, Funny
    News like this really isn't helping Darl's attempt to become more evil than Satan.

    Darl vs. Satan

  23. Subject rejected - looks too much like ASCII art! on CPAN: $677 Million of Perl · · Score: 1
    Can the tool also figure out how much of the CPAN code looks like line noise in a terminal window?

    [Ob. reference: I love Perl and use it all of the time, but a programmer I met years ago said it was the only language where the source code reminded him of line noise]

  24. I don't get it... on Daleks Exterminated From New Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    C'mon, I'm supposed to be scared of a thing that looks like a giant salt-and-pepper shaker? Someone, please explain....

  25. What about the birdies? on Moon Rocket Scrubbed and Blown Dry · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to know is what's to become of the birds and other small animals that call the rocket their home? Is it time to give PETA a call and sic 'em on NASA?