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  1. Re:Thinnest? on Sony Announces Superslim T415 · · Score: 2

    Technically, .4 is anywhere between .35 and .44 (if I remember my .5 rounding rule properly).

    .40 on the other hand would definately be thinner but .4 may or may not be.

    Did palm round from .41 or .42 down?

  2. Re:The huge difference between the two on Microsoft's Future · · Score: 2

    They're doing a good job of coming up with good harddrive tech -- and after selling the technology they make pretty good harddrives too!

  3. Re:heh... on Ellison's ID Card Plan Gets More Attention · · Score: 2

    AGENT #1: What were you doing on that plane.

    TERRORIST: Nothing...

    AGENT #2: Are you a Terrorist?

    TERRORIST: Yes... err NO. Shit, I always get that one wrong.

  4. Re:What the hell for? on Ellison's ID Card Plan Gets More Attention · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hello!!! 4 guys who were known terrorists (or had watches on their names) did buy tickets on the same airplane and were allowed to do so without questions, comments, or concern.

    Having an ID card won't accomplish anything unless someone actually checks the data.

  5. Re:Playlists on Winamp Alpha for Linux · · Score: 2

    The real trick is to click on the icon representing your playlist. Now, holding the button down DRAG it overtop of the XMMS controls.
    Now, once the arrow is overtop of XMMS, release the mouse button.

    NOTE: For those with unsteady hands, you may require both. One to click and hold the first mouse button down (most left) and the other hand to move the mouse.

    If you don't like the UI, then don't use the UI. A good portion of the players out there use the same playlist format (straight text by the way) and your filemanager works perfectly fine to search through those lists...

    Otherwise, make an HTML page of your playlists and let the browser fire up the player. Lots of ways to approach this.

  6. Re:reminds me .... on £10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued · · Score: 2

    The person who launched the DOS wasn't very bright. Sure, a DOS may give a ton of false positives but you're not really getting anywhere.

    Surely they were doing more than just pinging the box to try to get the contents of a file.

  7. Re:Contests like this are stupid on £10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued · · Score: 2

    I can see how it would be impossible to hack a linux box. A kernel doesn't really do anything by itself.

    Now, hacking a Linux distribution (Linux + userland) is a completely different challenge.

  8. Re:lasers could push 150Mbps vs 2 on Wireless along the Maine Coast · · Score: 2

    The big issue here is that you drop a ton of packets everytime a bird flies through :)

  9. Re:Honestly on Wireless along the Maine Coast · · Score: 2

    Don't know about the US, but in Canada your not a city unless you cross the 100K mark and greator area doesn't count. I also believe Ontario raised that marker to 150k not all that long ago (last year?).

    Does that mean Maine doesn't have any cities? Or do americans bench their cities at a different mark -- like 50k?

  10. Re:Triple? Quadruple? on Scientists Double Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity · · Score: 2

    Best you can get in openair is about 4 polorizations at any given frequency.

    horizonal, vertical, left circular, and right circular. They're a bitch to collect all 4 at the receiving end though.

    I doubt that fibre could handle the circular modes -- but I'm not a fibre person.

  11. Re:Optics explained... on Scientists Double Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity · · Score: 2

    If only we could coax fibre to work like waveguide. Then we could have a ton of 'sweetspots' for given multipcations of a base frequency.

  12. Re:80Gbps already implemented on Scientists Double Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity · · Score: 2

    The fact that they've just doubled it to 160GBps in your case.

    It's not DWDM that they're using -- but (from what I can tell) it also doesn't negate using DWDM along side.

    Kinda like satelite transmissions using horizonal, vertical, left circular and right circular polorizations at the same frequency. Then for kicks they start using many channels in that manner.

  13. Re:So how long until we can have fiber disks? on Scientists Double Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity · · Score: 2

    If you could make the cable dense enough to fit in a space the size of a normal harddrive -- and made it low power (already solid state) that would rock my world as a swap device.

    I'm willing to accept an average of 1msec seeks (600km of fibre) to double capacity.

  14. Re:Cool on Scientists Double Optical Fiber Transmission Capacity · · Score: 2

    You folks are using NetBeui as your filesharing system aren't ya?

    Switch it to NetBeui over TCP/IP (if you wish to avoid NFS) and you'll cut the heartbeats to 1/10th.

    Microsoft products and NetBeui are very chatty with the 'are you still there?' crap.

  15. Re:Consoles in the bathroom, eh? on Slashback: Equivalence, Toilets, Hundredth · · Score: 1

    HAHAHA

  16. Re:FreeBSD/Linux and the Desktop... on Matt Dillon On FreeBSD 5.0 VM System And More · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The fact that good admins wipe out anything pre-installed and go for their Network installed image isn't surprising.

    But, thats not different on OpenSource than it is for commercial OSs. First thing we do is wipe the Sparc and load from our own trusted (if they can be described as such) disks.

  17. Re:Speed of light on Intel Promises A Cool Billion (Transistors) · · Score: 1

    Hate to break it to you, but theres no reason for a signal to travel the entire length of the CPU just as when you send a packet of data from NY to LA you don't have to wait until it would reach Amsterdam -- incase you need to send something that way someday.

  18. Re:Imperial vs. Metric: SERIOUSLY OFFTOPIC! on Biking @ 80 MPH · · Score: 2

    Thats a lie. Canada isn't metric -- or imperial for that matter. Theres so much confusion between the two at the moment everything is time based.

    It's an hour to so and so's place. 15 minute walk to the beach, 10 second run to the finish line...

    Someday once the majority have been brought up metric (by schools) we'll start using it :) For now its strictly signs -- not the population.

  19. Re:Could this be used against me? on Patch Maker -- Mozilla Hacking & Patching Made · · Score: 2

    You say that now, but wait until its included as an email attachment that patches Mozilla to look like IE.

    It'll be the first email virus Microsoft promotes and will send to you on request.

  20. Re:Now what? on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 2

    Giving the northern alliance power in Afghanistan isn't exactly going to help anything over there either.

  21. Re:Whose war? on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 2

    Didn't read the link so I don't know whether its Clinton (behind the scenes) or Bush -- the new guy.

    P

  22. Re:I wish I could say I was surprised.... on Wind River lays off FreeBSD developers; Q&A · · Score: 1

    Bah, on the side of the box (16 user license) it has a big BSDI on it. It's the front that says BSD/OS.

    Now, bookshelves hold stuff sideways -- so I always see BSDI.

  23. Re:Well written article. on Micromachines in Modern Use · · Score: 2

    I also believe the suits caused the dot-bomb crash. Afterall, if it wasn't for them none of those stupid companies (and the select few good ones) would have been in a position to crash in the first place.

    I'm going to sell furniture on the internet. No, we don't deliver -- costs too much to do that. No, you can't sit on it first to see if it's comfortable. Yes, it comes in many colours.

    What? We need a warehouse -- but it's virtual why would we need a warehouse?

  24. Re:This can't work on Mouse Gestures in Mozilla · · Score: 2

    The sad part is that I ran the mouse under your subject line, highlighted the comment -- then read it.

    Apparently your not the only one who may have issues with this type of feature.

  25. Re:oh my god on A Computer Display in Ordinary Sunglasses? · · Score: 2

    Too bad that leaves him about 3 Million short of covering the design, licencing, legal and production costs.