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  1. Re:Somebody had to say it...might as well be me on Linux the Tortoise to Microsoft's Hare? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've found Windows to be very stable when you get the box it comes in and use it as a book end

    Rus

  2. 20 years uptime on Satellite Celebrates 20 Years Working in Orbit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now if we had hardware/software that could do that you could truely run a business with 100% SLA. Of course if you had a bewoulf of these... ...I'll get me coat

    Rus

  3. Content Blog on More Online Publishers Inching Toward Paid Content · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Someone should check the facts.. on Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66 Billion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Disney is one of the world's biggest and best known media companies, and is responsible for everything from Mickey Mouse cartoons to blockbuster movies such as Toy Story."

    But Pixar made Toy Story, Disney just published it and Pixar have just dropped Disney. Almost like rats (mice) leaving a sinking ship

    Rus

  5. Last time I asked on The Useless Meeting Wack Jobs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this redundancy, they said no its a strategic realignment of the workforce to provide maximum efficency and flow. Then they made me redundant... Of course you can always play Bullshit Bingo
    Rus

  6. Re:What will the companies do? on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 1

    From a business point of view I can sort of understand. A cable provider only has so much bandwidth and if everyone used all of it at once the network would die. Of course they can ad more bandwidth but someone has to pay for it, and in this case it would be customers

    Rus

  7. Re:Is this right? on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 1

    If everyone else is doing it should you? If you best friend jumped off a cliff would you follow?

    Rus

  8. Re:confused on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 1

    I remeber the day of 14.4K and we were happy. It took forever to download things and when we finally got that low res porn we wondered why we had bothered

    Rus

  9. Increasing Speed on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of course you can always setup a compressed SSH tunnel to speed up the text part of web browsing. I've found you get get upto 400% increases which is nice :)

    rus

  10. Jumping off points on A Brief History of the Space Station · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why doesn't NASA just go one step further and establish something on the moon. Surely that would be an even better jumping off point.

    Rus

  11. XFS/NFS on Meet Linux Kernel 2.6.2, 'Feisty Dunnart' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well with any luck this should include the changes which means that XFS on an NFS server doesn't suck royally

    <nathans@sgi.com>
    [XFS] Seperate the NFS reference cache code out from xfs_rw.c to simpli
    fy management of different kernel versions.

    Hopeing that fixes it

    Rus

  12. I would want to know.. on Tickets For The World's Biggest Computer Party · · Score: 1

    ..who pays the power bill for running all those computers?

    Rus

  13. just wait.. on GameCube-Powered Webserver · · Score: 1

    till they port 2.6, overclock the CPU, put on water cooling and cluster it :)

    Rus

  14. with 64 bits... on Windows XP 64-Bit Customer Preview Program · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suppose it means windows will take 1/2 the time to crash and at least twice as long to write out dump files

    Rus

  15. Surname on Stallman Goes to India · · Score: 2, Funny

    has no one else noticed the surname of the author?

    By Sandeep Dikshit

    I would almost say a this is a troll article if it wasn't so positive

    Rus

  16. Commercial Customers.. on UserLinux Will Support KDE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ..wants something that works and is supported. As both KDE and Gnome are supported thats a good thing

    Rus

  17. Microsoft boxes on SCO Offline · · Score: 1

    So how long before the Virus gets intside MS and attack all there servers internally. I would of thought anyway that if all the virus are using the same packet type/port that the upstreams could just filter out those types of packets

    Rus

  18. Internet conneciton on What's Inside the Mars Rovers · · Score: 4, Funny

    And it can still send back at 128 kbits/sec which is faster than my connection can managed. Just waiting for it to start getting spam advertising pr0n and viagra.

    Spirit Rover: Staying up longer and harder

    Rus

  19. Binary Packages? on FreeBSD 5.2 Review · · Score: 4, Informative

    So what does pkg_add -r packagename do then? I thought it downloaded the pre-compiled binary

    Rus

  20. Nastyness on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 1

    Well with all the DDOS and extra bandwidth from bounced mail today has been a bitch. Spam filters have been running overtime and the internet has slowed down. Now as much as I don't like SCO over their action this is just to extereme

    Most people live in a democracy so why not try ot use tha tinstead of random acts of cyber violence?

    Rus

  21. Damn,, on Full X11-Based Distro For PDAs · · Score: 4, Funny

    after seeing those screenhosts my first 2 geek reactions are

    1) Must by gadget to run Linux on
    2) Must get a copy of Lemming and run on GnuBoy

    Damn you slashdot for spending my money and filling my time.

    Rus

  22. Mini-ITX on TiVo Buys Super Secret Strangeberry · · Score: 1

    It looks like a mini-pc with a built in TV tuner to me..

    Rus

  23. Male/Female Ratio on Orkut Goes Dark, At Least For A Bit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have to wonder what male/female ration there is. You can't help but think there are much more men taking the typical geek is expected to be a male

    Rus

  24. Connections on Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great the probe has a faster connection than I have. Now I've got to go live on mars

    Rus

  25. Its was a public secret.. on DVD CCA Drops Case; DeCSS Not a Trade Secret · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ..like brittany spears lack of talent/virginity as orignally pushed :)

    Rus