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  1. Re:[OT] Meensa == smrt on Benchmarking the Scalability of BSD and Linux · · Score: 1

    Loose still holds second place to viola and walla being used in place of "voila". Though I have given up all hope as I've recently seen "anyways" and "that's a whole nother thing" used in would-be serious posts.

  2. Re:Meaningless.. on SCSI vs. IDE In The Real World · · Score: 1

    Then I guess IBM's old ESDI is like the Goatse guy?

  3. Re:There is no continuity flaw on AI Sues for Its Life in Mock Trial · · Score: 1

    This 5 paragraph summary of Ray Kurzweils "The Age Of Spiritual Machines" is brought to you by Budweiser. The King of Beers.

  4. Re:Whining Socialist.... on Watching You · · Score: 1
    Yet again, people don't even read the articles they post:

    The documents do not show any evidence Bush directly aided that effort. His position with Union Banking never was a political issue for Bush, who was elected to the Senate from Connecticut in 1952

    So what this article really says is: Bush was associated with a bank who had something to do with funding the Nazi party Prior to 1938. Fritz Thyssen, whose family controlled the bank on whose board Bush sat, believed the ultra-conservative government preferable to communism. He was ultimately jailed by the Nazis, these guys obviously weren't members of the inner circle

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    "72 Virgins, where do I sign?"

    Bill Clinton

  5. Re:Uhh... on Watching You · · Score: 1
    1 in 500 14 year olds don't get abducted as sex slaves by religious maniacs though.

    No, the Catholic church is almost always done with them by age 13, the 14+ figure is for Gene Simmons and the Kiss Army

  6. Re:Uhh... on Watching You · · Score: 1
    Poll: 75% of Palestinians support Haifa restaurant attack:

    Well, I personally don't think a restaurant should be allowed to attack anyone.

  7. Re:That's amazing on Watching You · · Score: 1

    That's not his girlfriend, that's his wife. She makes him perform their "Duty to the party" every weekend, but from what I've heard, nothing has taken root as of yet.

  8. Re:consider cost capacity as well on SCSI vs. IDE In The Real World · · Score: 1

    Evidently, IDE is for people who are not rich, but simply dumb, as documented by his ability to do RAID1 with 3 or 4 IDE drives. Care to explain how to do RAID1 with 3 drives?

  9. Re:Real world on SCSI vs. IDE In The Real World · · Score: 1

    This is about as scientific as my ass. The original post said the test compared speed, not cost. The point was to take two drives with similar specs and compare performance. The idea of taking $500 and doing anything is at best a bang-for-buck valuation and is valid for about a week until prices change. This test would have wanted to have said: Given SCSI drive X and IDE drive Y, both with N megabytes total storage, and N megabytes buffer, and N RPM rotational speed and with non-caching, non-raid controllers, and both tested in the same PCI slot of the SAME system, with exactly the same hardware configuration (except of course the drives and controllers), running the same OS, configured the same way, running the same tests, performance of drive X was greater. The actual tests he did held constant for almost nothing, and the IDE drive could just as easily have been 20x faster than the SCSI setup for exactly these reasons.

  10. Re:Stuff efficiency - I was there today! on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sure you hate Fireworks, Football Games, and those noisy hinges on the bathroom door as well. Now go to sleep Granpa, the children will be home soon, and we all know how cranky you get when you haven't had your nap......

  11. Re:Concorde II on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1

    We *Are* sitting pretty with oil and natural gas reserves for several centuries. The Al-Gore-Smog-Sniffers constantly subsidize research that concludes the contrary, don't believe it.

  12. Re:Concorde II on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1

    Not likely.

  13. Re:LEO on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1

    Yes, Al Gore invented them...

  14. Re:Windows, hands down. on Building A High-End Gaming Workstation · · Score: 1

    Or goto redhat and get Cygwin, where you can really run zsh, ksh, etc, and X-windows with KDE. It all runs great under recent windows versions and interacts with the local filesystem in a cool, logical way.

  15. Re:I wonder what they could do with a WHOPPER arra on Big Mac achieves around 14 TFlops with 128 Nodes · · Score: 1

    We need to beef up security around the Whopper.....

  16. Re:802.11 + VoIP == disaster in the making on VoIP + 802.11 = Bad News For Phone Companies · · Score: 1
    Does it work when you start talking real fast?

    At first it did not, but we tied a knot in the cable between the AP and the switch, looks like the 90 degree bends slowed the packets enough for the AP to process, sounds fine now....

  17. Re:I use VoIP on VoIP + 802.11 = Bad News For Phone Companies · · Score: 1

    Or you could use ACLs to block the unwanted traffic, like you've done for the last 10+ years.

  18. Re:who cares if it performs on Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Right. If you care about performance use a some U320 SCSI disks with a 64MB caching RAID controller. People who want a 300GB disk for $350 prioritize maximum pR0n storage per dollar above raw performance.

  19. Re:Why Dragonfly? on IRC Forum with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD · · Score: 1

    So does all this mean that MP FreeBSD machines will be able to do all the funky science shit I see on two out of three pages of "Linux Journal"? 860 node BSD clusters in our future? That sure would help me out in the next Usenet pissing contest. Plus I could justify taking W2k off my 4 way xeon box. Matt should be elected to high public office.

  20. Re:Over-hyped on Virtual Grid Supercomputer Goes (Partly) Online · · Score: 1
    And they treat you like crap and think you're stupid if you can't speak English


    This is largely because most of the Americans treating them like crap are part of the first, second, or third generation of immigrants who came from another country, worked hard, and found a way to fit in. Now, people come from other countries, change the road signs and the schools, then apply for some government aid. All of which is funded by the tax dollars of the "crap treater" who sees none of the benefit, and imagines the larger picture of his country being harmed by it.

    When I was a kid, my father wouldn't *allow* us to speak Spanish out in public, now in parts of Miami you can go days without speaking English. Doesn't bother me, but I can see how it could bother a lot of people.

  21. Re:Why should they? on Linksys Still In Violation of the GPL? · · Score: 1

    It was *BZZT* not "BZZT" you dumb shit. BTW, the arrogant prick was right and you were wrong.

  22. Re:What's the big deal, anyway? on Linksys Still In Violation of the GPL? · · Score: 1
    Just because the copyright is not held by a large corporation, does not mean that they can get away with breaking the licence

    This remains to be seen.