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  1. Re:Perl Script on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 1

    is your sgi indy 32bit? if it isn't, thats why. Vax shouldn't be affected because it isn't unix, or is it?

  2. Re:Perl Script on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 1

    A completely up to date gentoo ~x86 world isn't (but i plan to have a 64 bit processor in the next few years anyway:

    Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
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  3. Re:The current disaster shows the possible scale on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 1

    The guns were probably incase the gates to hell weren't y2k compliant. damn religious nuts.

  4. Re:Don't be silly on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 1

    As long as people dont run 32-bit unix after that time, it'l be fine. Im sure 32-bit will be long gone by then, 33 years ago was 1972, fire wasn't even invented then, and we'll progress enough for 32-bit to be considered as useful to modern computing as a wrist watch is today

  5. Well on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 1

    Even my 80486 was y2k compliant (i checked myself), but anyway...

    Anything, anything worth running would have been running on unixtime anyway

  6. Re:Why does every distribution need to reinvent wh on Interview with Debian Project Leader · · Score: 1

    They'd do it the same way that opera or vmware do it i suppose.

  7. Re:So compromised keys make for faulty hardware? on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and all it would take for that is somebody to work out how the key dvd's work, infact taht would probebly be better in the long run

  8. Re:How is this gonna http:stop large scale piracy? on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 1

    microsofts product activation doesn't work because any pirate with half a brain cell got windows xp pro anyway,

  9. Re:Ladies And Gentlemen... on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 1

    I'd share my cycles for this if it was setup like seti@home

  10. Re:So compromised keys make for faulty hardware? on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 1

    Or get the keys from a few big name manufacturers at once, like sony, phillips, matsui, etc, release them all at the same time - there would be no chance the mpaa would want to exclude itself from people who own sony, phillips or matsui dvd players - thats just too much of the market.

  11. Re:broadband in india on Indian Consortium To Offer 2 Mbps At $2.30/month · · Score: 1

    India was part of the British Empire. It means they speak english. (Britain is where english came from).

  12. Re:I thought my Sempron... on AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset · · Score: 1

    It is, just with less cache (although my athlon-xp has only got 256kb cache anyway, my gf's athlon-xp has 512kb).

  13. Re:Alchemy on AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset · · Score: 1

    Could it be possible as a pci card or something? I'd love one of those, if its not too expensive

  14. Re:Some Notes on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 1

    I mean if microsoft were to stop developing office for mac because apple decided to compete with them - not because they thought they would lose but to prevent people from using the apple operating system, using their monopoly on operating systems to keep their office software dominant.

    All i'm saying is that its not fair that microsoft can use office as a barganing tool with apple.

  15. Re:not sir on Sir Peter Molyneux? · · Score: 1

    SuperDooperMegaAce-Most Excelent

  16. Re:Having found Opportunity's heat shield.... on Spirit Rover is One Year Old · · Score: 1

    Beagle and odyssey were eaten by a monster from mars, nasa sent this chap no where near it, as they didn't want anbody else to find out

  17. Re:Direct3D on Linux? on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: 1

    if your replying to my comment i was just quoting the minimum requirements as i remembered them

  18. Re:Some Notes on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't apple be well within their rights if they sued microsoft for discontinuing MS Office support for OSX?

  19. Re:Are your crazy!? on Energy from High-Altitude Kites · · Score: 1

    You were joking weren't you, its just, youve been modded +3 insightful

  20. Re:call me stupid on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    winelib (from the wine project) does something like that

  21. Re:Direct3D on Linux? on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know this isn't what you asked, but apparently the minimum specifications of doom 3 on linux are much lower than those on windows (doom3 plays great on my linux box, not tried it on windows)

  22. Re:Upgrade on Comparative CPU Benchmarks From 1995 to 2004 · · Score: 1

    setup a framebuffer console with the boot logo penuin - she wont let you get rid of it then

  23. Re:So, who's responsible? on Computer Viruses Broke 100,000 In 2004 · · Score: 1

    The ISP's would save money in the long term if they issued modems with built in optional (default on) NAT.

    Obviously some would turn it off or enable port forwarding, but the ISP would save money in the long run due to less zombie traffic.

    Blocking ports at the ISP is not the answer, as some people run their own mail servers.

    Its not as if the modems issued my ISP's are expensive anyway

  24. Re:Could we have a distinction here? on Computer Viruses Broke 100,000 In 2004 · · Score: 1

    because she's really cool and installed apache from portage?

    if you ask me, i recon all distro's will/should end up with package systems like emerge/apt-get with central repositry's. It would make software much more accountable, especially if her (graphical) package management system does hash checking (i didn' say md5 checking because of the recent article about it).

    obviously its not impossible to add your own packages to your local portage and emerge it, or to compile it yourself, but for all that effort, i think grandma would rather not see britney spears naked.

  25. Re:Reminds me... on Microsoft Compares Windows And Linux · · Score: 1

    usable over any tcp network, only slower than locally.

    YEAH!!! SoIP (sex over ip)