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  1. Re:I disagree on Linux Can't Kill Windows · · Score: 1

    Come to my house and put it on my system at home then. It's an AMD 2100+ that I built myself, works perfectly when I boot into Windows XP.

    When I boot into Suse 9.2 Pro though I have MAJOR issues with 3D acceleration (Ati Radeon 9700 Pro) and my SB Audigy.

    Suse 9.2 Pro also hates my HighPoint RAID controller.

    Before you go spouting off at the mouth about how all is great and groovy with *nix driver support you should come out to the real world, where things DON'T always "just work". Mandrake or no...

  2. Re:one thing that always bothered me on Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I'm riding my motorcycle across the U.S. and I would like to listen to the radio report?

    I can give you any number of perfectly valid reasons to want an AM/FM radio in an MP3 player.

    Quit being such a snoot and recognize that not everyone uses things the exact same way that you do.

  3. Re:This story is very likely made up.. on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 1

    Uhhhhh wow. You are certainly sure of yourself. You are WRONG of course, but at least you have conviction.

    I have personally witnessed, in the last three months, a reputable brand name large chain hotel take a CC# OVER THE PHONE for a party who was checking in. The name on the card given and the name of the party checking in did not match.

    Strike one for your "fiction" theory.

    I don't know what kind of hokey CC company you have but my CC companies (Discover, Bank One, local issue Debit Card) will show purchases within 60 MINUTES...complete with details. How much, what store and in some cases what items. My wife does it to me allllll the time. :-) Whoever you talked to at your CC company doesn't know how it works.

    Strike two for your "fiction" theory.

    The final nail for your coffin is that this guy is a known person in PERL circles. He isn't some nameless, faceless teen-something trying to feel important.

    Strike three, 'yer out.

  4. Re:Looking at this from a different angle on Build Your Own Cell tower · · Score: 1

    You are talking about Packet Radio. I hope you can squish 5,000 employees voice calls down into 9600 Baud. :-) (fastpacket)

    http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/pktf.html

  5. Re:Yay. on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 1

    Round robin thunking actually, simple load balancing for dual core processors. :-D

  6. Re:Yay. on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thunk thunk thunk...

    (That's the sound of 32 bit code on a 64 bit processor...or was that 16 bit code on a 32...I forget...)

  7. Re:Arrrrg! Fear the /. dittohead! on Reuters On Telephone Cultures · · Score: 3, Informative

    Evertime any topic about $foo penetration comes up I have to bust out these same stats. It appears that they are not teaching you Europeans how damn HUGE the United States is!

    The whole damn European Union (post 2004) is less than HALF our size! You also have almost twice the number of people!

    It doesn't take a Mathematical Genius to figure out why Cell Phone / Broadband / Product DeJour penetration is higher THERE than HERE.

    Read the stats and get educated...or didn't they teach you how to do that in prepatory school?

    European Union Landmass: ~4 Million Square Kilometers (http://www.dfat.gov.au/ani/chapter_8.html)

    United States Landmass: ~ 9.6 Million Square Kilometers (http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/world_statistics_by _area.htm)

    EU Total Population: ~ 454 Million (http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.europe.html)

    US Total Population: ~ 295 Million (http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html)

  8. Re:WOW! on Publishing Exploit Code Ruled Illegal In France · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Actually, the "Old Europe", as the present Administration like to talk about, are the European countries whose democratically elected Governments listened to the overwhelming majority public opinion."

    While you are busy breaking your arm patting yourself on the back consider these two words:

    Software Patents

  9. Re:Mathematics on Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    LOL!

    Let 'em mod you down.

    I have a BSEE and am back in school now for my MBA.

    The MBA *is* proving much easier than my "hardcore" EE was.

    Technical work is a passion, but I'm tired of being micromanaged by idiots...it's my turn! :-)

  10. Re:next we know viruses are patented on Symantec Patents Multiple File Area Virus Scanning · · Score: 1

    I had the exact same thought, the only problem would be not going to jail for the virus you patented!

  11. Re:Easy solution - some standards on Attempt to Apply Decency Standards to Cable/Satellite Television · · Score: 1

    Pearls & Swine...just stop. You cannot win, not here, not in this place.

    If you were any other religion, such as Buddhist, Taoist, American Indian or even Muslim that post would have brought you praise for your tolerance and vision.

    However, my brother, you represent the hated Christianity and so you will be shouted down no matter how fair your words may be.

    Even Jesus left a place to it's own devices when he became convinced that he was wasting his time.

    If you want to post in a looney liberal leftist place like this, check your religion at the door...unless it is one of those new age "trendy" ones.

  12. Re:Whats next? on Short History of Cellphone Ringtones · · Score: 1

    I have that one on my Samsung SPH-I700, it sounds like the rotary phones I remember my parents having in the early 70's. It never fails to get a chuckle out of people when it goes off, at least once they've figured out what the heck it is. :-)

  13. Re:Too bad it still doesn't fix the RAM problem on Firefox 1.0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    On my Win XP SP2 box, viewing this thread FF consumes 23Meg. That's it.

    If yours is using 48 you might want to investigate your system a bit.

  14. Re:A lot less invasive on California Wants GPS Tracking Device in Every Car · · Score: 1

    Onstar

  15. Re:Bugs in car computers - my own experience on If The Problem Persists, Reboot The Car · · Score: 1

    Interesting how your mechanic was right huh? Evap code is for fuel system pressure leakage...exactly what your family mechanic told you.

    I like how you disparged him in public...for being right.

    Replace your gas cap, see if it quits.

    Wanker.

  16. Re:bandwidth or bugs? on No More Players for World of Warcraft - For Now · · Score: 1

    What is saddening to me is that you had to explain this...on /. Gone are the days...

  17. Re:Representatives of the People, Indeed on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1

    They are using the same definition they have for "illegal alien", where "illegal" (apparently) doesn't _really_ mean "against the law".

    Fscking Kalifornia, what a joke of a state government they have.

  18. Re:The fly in the ointment: Games on Firefox Reviewed in the Globe and Mail · · Score: 1

    Vertical application integration is easy, use Terminal Server with Citrix Metaframe.

    Take your MS compatible apps, load 'em up in Terminal Server and use Citrix to publish them as an app.

    Poof, you have *nix environment complete with file/print servers and desktops and the only time your TS gets used is for those biz apps that won't run in *nix.

  19. Re:Mozilla suite vs Firefox/Thunderbird on Firefox Reviewed in the Globe and Mail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Whaaaa?

    I'm using Suse 9.2 Pro and my FF and TB installs can DEFINETLY "crossover" as you describe.

    When I click a mailto link in FF it spawns TB for me.

    When I click a URL in TB it will spawn FF and open the page for me.

    The best part is, I didn't do anything special to make it happen...it just did it.

  20. Re:The U.S. equivalent of this project... on Indian Consortium To Offer 2 Mbps At $2.30/month · · Score: 1

    Dude,

    This is in the US? Mannnnn, I thought all the ISPs who operated like that went out of business a lonnnngggg time ago.

    FWIW, you have my sympathy!

  21. Re:Make it illegal. on Spamfighting Since the Death of MakeLoveNotSpam? · · Score: 1

    Alas, I would kill a small forest of trees and spend several hundred dollars at OfficeMax if I were to print out every spam I've recieved in the last week. (1200+)

  22. Whoooeeeeeee on Universal Software Radio Peripheral From GnuRadio · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope the equipment they sell holds up better than their server! ;-)

  23. Re:Who's counting? on U.S. World's Foremost Spam Nation In 2004 · · Score: 1

    I think I can shed some light on "what the fuck that editorial comment meant".

    I think the editor was referring to the fact that a new "study" on this topic seems comes out every two or three weeks, and every study isolates a different area of the world as the problem.

    It's impossible to know which one to believe!

  24. Re:Programmers: Please note. on Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a "two way mirror" normally be called a window? ;-P

  25. Re:who else? on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1

    Okay and thanks for the list of available channels. I've configured Kopete and joined all of the ones you listed but I have no idea how to actually get it to cough up a torrent list. Yes, I'm a helpless n00b! :-)

    Would you be so kind as to throw a FAQ or some documentation my way so I can figure out wtf I am doing?