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  1. Re:If there is one lesson that I have learned on Network Solutions Advertises On Your Sub-Domains · · Score: 1, Insightful

    going on six years here. from before their switch from linux to microsoft and no problems either. so far.

  2. Re:Unlimited? on Unique Broadband Over Powerline Project Planned For Mosques · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    funny. i dint hear that kind of remark when the church in indonesia opened up their own isp!

  3. Re:Unlimited? on Unique Broadband Over Powerline Project Planned For Mosques · · Score: 0

    insightful?? thats a troll remark!

  4. Re:wrong on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 0

    Meeting someone you are going to be interested in for the long-term, as opposed to one night of sex, means seeking out those qualities that might initially turn you off. you mean like the library?
  5. Re:Very cool! on Geist Creates His Own Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 0

    enlighten me. why would that sentence make them hang up?

  6. umm on All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated · · Score: 0

    note my lack of ignorance due to the fact that i m not an american citizen but .. cant somebody like d2l sue the uspto for their performance?

  7. Re:star wars on Rings Discovered Around a Moon for the First Time · · Score: 0

    how come that is redundant? its a reference to the death star for crying out loud!

  8. Re:ha ha on When Should We Ditch Our Platform? · · Score: 0

    omigod! i understood everything you said! i need a break!

  9. Re:What the hell? on SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM · · Score: 0

    i m sorry but where does it say saudi in the article? it says arabian

  10. Re:Limited issue on Critical VMware Vulnerability, Exploit Released · · Score: 0

    what? shared folders in a production environment? thats like begging for trouble

  11. Re:Wow on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 0

    thats nothing!
    my htc phone thinks i m in namibia!

  12. Re:Not in Australia on The Starbucks/AT&T Deal To Change Perception of Public Wi-Fi? · · Score: 0

    ack! in egypt, mcdonalds, beano's, celantro and other notable coffee shops have offered free wifi for almost 2 years now. i dint realise we had it good compared to others.
    but then again. an unlimited 256k dsl connection is only 95le per month.

  13. of course! on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 0

    i saw the headline "Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws" and automatically i thought that's coz nobody is using it!

  14. Re:@_@ on Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 0

    brain dead! i agree .. i had a support personnel come over to help us on his software and was asked the question "what languages do you understand?" he replied with "english, french, arabic and a little german"

  15. Re:So, here's your answer: on How Would You Make a Distributed Office System? · · Score: 0

    my wife used citrix in her branch office. over 256k dsl. the dsl went down. the branch went down. the dsl slowed to a crawl the office slowed to a crawl. in the end they bought pcs for each user in the branch. did i also mention the citrix server was 3000 km away from egypt? in italy too.

  16. sold on IBM Won't Open-Source OS/2 · · Score: 1, Informative

    moderate me a troll but i could have sworn ibm sold os/2 to a german company that makes POS solutions: http://www.ecomstation.com/

  17. Re:Oracle is a bigger evil than Microsoft. on Oracle Buys BEA · · Score: 1, Funny

    ora-0600: that does not compute!

  18. Re:More Raskins on UI Designers Hired by Mozilla · · Score: 1, Funny

    mmm.. mind if i follow your corollary?
    george w bush is george bush's son. the kid has been living and breathing presidential quality his entire life. looks like the people of america picked a good one.

  19. Re:And other things.. on Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday · · Score: 0

    i believe he was referring to the amount of money spent as being out of proportion
    for example you say the US donated 1billion for the victims. other sources say the US has upped the military budget by as much as 100billion a year.

    of course, with the tsunami it is an act of god, where as the iraq and afghan war was an "act of economics" (C)(R) (patent pending)

    dig?

  20. Re:How is this new? on The Economics of Chips With Many Cores · · Score: 0

    hear hear
    we have an ibm p570 lpar that can even partition each core

  21. Re:Google is OSS on Microsoft's Biggest Threat - Google or Open Source? · · Score: 0

    are you sure innovation has died at ibm?

    lets assume it has which leaves us with what? i use the pseries and if that is outdated technology then WOW! they dont need to be innovative coz their "ancient" machines are waaaay ahead of their competitors. they do HARDWARE virtualisation from the way back when. ask any as/400 geek. ask any AIX geek.

    the word is LPAR. imprint it on your forehead. LPAR - Logical PARtitioning of the hardware. CPU and memory can be allocated on the fly. of course some software can take that kind of innovation (see oracle and memory) but AIX can. and hot pluggable pci slots. yes slots.

    and SMITty. that way years way ahead of YAST2 or system-config-* - logging everything that you do in the control panel in such a way you can copy, paste into a script????

    did i mention they were the original innovators of the blade systems? 14 boxes in a 9U chassis!

    never mind .. i just realised i m talking to an ignoramus!

  22. Re:adaptation? on Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever · · Score: -1

    so if i threaten you that makes me a muslim?
    if i dont threaten you does it make me a non-muslim like you? i should hope not!

  23. its friday on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 0

    the weekend has started and the spammers are on holiday till monday, by when the spam levels go back up to thursday's levels.

    thank you for nazi spell-checking my one-liner!

  24. Re:Keep those wishes coming on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 0

    Back up XBOX 360 games to Windows PC
    isnt that against that drm thing?

  25. slashdotting? on NBC Direct Launches With Free Downloads · · Score: -1, Redundant

    the question is:
    will their servers handle a slashdotting? }:)