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  1. Re:Wireless nodes.. on Toronto, The Naked City · · Score: 2

    Ok.. I did a 360 at York / Adelaide and saw both a StarBucks, Timothy's, and if you look hard you can see a Tim Hortons.

  2. Re:Verify? on First Commercial Moon Mission Approved · · Score: 3, Funny

    You think thats air your breathing, here in this place?

  3. Re:Applications other than climbing on Scientists Discover What Makes Geckos Stick · · Score: 2

    Hands with non-slip grip. (To add this feature to your future child, select option 567B on the manipulators submenu. Special price of $433.34 for the next 10 minutes.)

    Great.. kids already run on walls, now they'll be on the ceiling too!

  4. Re:Overnight to England takes Three Days on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 2

    Of course it takes a long time for overnight service. Day staff is much faster than night staff, and you're only allowing the package to be shipped during the night hours.

  5. Re:MySQL will rule on MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors? · · Score: 2

    Yup.. And I seem to choose the second one before either choice is popular.

  6. Re:Sounds familiar on Going Up? · · Score: 2

    No reason we couldn't be driving flying cars now. Most of the tech is there, and if really wanted we could have figured out the rest.

    That said, people have problems driving in 1 dimension (straight road). A good portion of drivers have problems with 2 dimensions (corners ;).

    Could you imagine what would happen if they were in the air? Until we have computers to the point where they can fly in emergency situations with no assistance (we're very close -- I can think of 2 problem areas) we'll not have flying cars. The human factor isn't ready yet.

  7. Re:Terrorism vs. Cars on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 2

    Probably less than you think. Only a small portion of gas sold in the USA is from the Mid-East.

  8. Re:case insensitive sorting in apps on Should "B" be the Same as "b"? · · Score: 2

    End result, any dialog that lists filenames in the manner you propose is also useless.

    Use the proper collation, sorting, etc. based on the users locale. You'll notice sort does what you want if you're in the 'en-US' locale, but also does what I want in my locale.

  9. Re:Flame-baitey topic on Should "B" be the Same as "b"? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    End result, having l == L isn't right either. You're just going to piss off people in a non-en locale.

    What you really want are unicode enable file naming with colation patterns applied appropriately per locale the users locale.

  10. Re:Phone theft on Your Skin Is Your Password · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its cold here. Some of us wear gloves.

    This isn't going to work very well.

  11. Re:All I want for Christmas... on MySQL 4 - Is it Stable? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Regarding performance:

    Postgresql starts out slower in comparison, but the curve degrades much less when you throw more people at it.

    For ~10 simultaneous connections or less, MySQL will be faster in simple situations (simple tables, few joins, few updates / deletes). After ~10 connections Postgresql starts to shine.

    After about 200 to 300 connections Postgresql seems to be a touch faster than Oracle, but the difference in speed isn't enough to make either a choice over the other.

    Anyway, great to see a MySQL release coming up. We regularly use it for batch analysis (dedicated machine, single connection, large record sets, selects only) but are debating moving to BDBs for speed reasons.

  12. Re:Vantive? Use old text based menu helpdesk progg on Cross Platform Help Desk Applications? · · Score: 2

    Don't forget their webbased interface. Works perfectly fine in Galeon.

  13. Re:I guess I'm missing the point ... on May I Have Your EULA Please? · · Score: 2

    I always tried to read a good chunk. So, after a while I gave up buying all software. Cost too much in time to install.

    It's one of the reasons I dislike the GPL. I know exactly what the BSD, Apache, X, etc. licenses say. But I only have a general understanding of the GPL, so given the choice I use and produce BSD licensed code.

    Ahh.. for the good old days, when if you screwed someone over they'd simply linch you -- not claim license violation. Much simpler.

  14. Re:Fancy shit on AGP4X vs. AGP8X · · Score: 2

    Don't forget those triangles.

    To hit any kind of realistic graphics in complex scenery they need to handle a minimum of a million triangles per frame. 3 or 4 would be better (think individual points on maple leaves on a maple tree).

    The math is easy (points * fps * number * 4bytes).

    Once we hit 96x AGP (and a GPU which can crunch it) we can start getting some games which could be confused for a photo.

    It's still pretty easy to tell them apart at a glance. Movies are certainly getting good, and stills we've pretty much mastered depending on the artist -- so maybe 2010 or so games will be able to start concentrating on physics improvements (hardware) than graphics hardware.

  15. Re:Old... on Chip a Playstation, Go to Jail · · Score: 2

    So that you can use half an OS on it (OS/2) and be quarter productive.

  16. Re:why does subversion exist? on Subversion Hits Alpha · · Score: 4, Informative

    The parent is almost a troll. If you look up who maintains CVS and who maintains subversion you'll find alot of the same people.

    After a decade (has CVS been around longer?) some things just need to be restarted from scratch as every hack possible on the base has already been tried.

    In the case of CVS, it's the storage format that is causing the largest problems -- and the reason for the term 'repo-copy' which is one of the most annoying things I can think of (repo-copy then check out an old version -- look, duplicated stuff!).

  17. Re:If they build it, will they come? on More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details · · Score: 2

    It's bait.

    Sony is trying to bait Microsoft into trying to 'copy' what they're doing (knowing what they say doesn't make any sense). Sony can then create the good stuff, while Microsoft has a really expensive toaster, gaming machine, vcr, and program which downloads patches automatically -- until someone comes up with a codeblue for the patch downloader.

  18. Re:non multisync monitor? on Two Lackluster Reviews For LindowsOS on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 2

    My Bios (AmiBios) is SVGA based. I'm going to make the assumption since it's 2 years old most of the others are too.

    SVGA is a similar standard to VGA. 800 x 600 x 256 colors?

    But much like EGA and CGA aren't around on most video cards (driver implementations now) VGA will probably go the same route.

  19. Re:Naaah on Are You A Friend of Gnome? · · Score: 2

    You complain about Gnome being too heavy then say Mac has done a better job?

    I think you may wish to double check that comparison on equivelent hardware -- that is, compile X and Gnome2 on Darwin. Gnome's a little snappier, but Apple sure has a nice looking interface.

  20. Re:ntp.nasa.gov on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 2

    Yes, I can see how that tenth of a second can make a huge difference. I could be late for a meeting by that much -- it wouldn't be good.

  21. Re:non multisync monitor? on Two Lackluster Reviews For LindowsOS on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Given a good chunk of video card manufacturers are considering removing VGA and lower from the cards themselves (gets back a large portion of ROM space and some freedom I suppose) the 640x480x16 color standard VGA mode won't exist in a couple years.

  22. Re:How many can Slashdot users account for? on One Billion Computers Sold Worldwide · · Score: 2

    Hmm.. I've got 15. 20 if you could rackmount.

    That said, I only have 2 over the last 3 years -- given Gnome 2 I think I can keep it at that for another 2 years.

  23. Re:Six years to double??? on One Billion Computers Sold Worldwide · · Score: 2

    Keep in mind that PCs have been for sale since when? Mid eighties?

    Those first 10 years may not be huge, but still take a little time to catch up to.

  24. Re:Somewhat Simple -- perhaps non-obvious. on Efficient Use of Network Load-Balancing w/ SSL? · · Score: 2

    Like you said, they're cheap.

    If he has 2 load balancers, then he'll get two of these possibly each with their own cert.

    That said, 2 load balaners, 4 switches (infront and behind nat'd load balancers / firewalls), N webservers and probably 2 netapps of somekind isn't cheap -- so 2 crypto boxes probably won't make a dent as they can be fairly lightweight.

  25. Re:Somewhat Simple -- perhaps non-obvious. on Efficient Use of Network Load-Balancing w/ SSL? · · Score: 2

    I'm going with the assumption the links between frontend and live webservers is on a safe network (private IP space, restricted access, etc.). Ie. Load balancers are doing nat, etc.

    There is more SSL traffic than a single box can handle, and load balancers are already involved so it's probably a pretty valid assumption.