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  1. this is going to be a field day for lawyers on YouTube Filtering Is On-Line · · Score: 1

    this is going to be a field day for lawyers

  2. Re:Deep Color on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    what are these deep colors you speak of? Can you show me a picture saved in gimp and one saved in photoshop that uses deep colors?

  3. all you need is: on Choice Overload In Parallel Programming · · Score: 1

    fork(), pthread_create(), and MPI_Init()

  4. thank god they don't use Apple XSAN on World's Five Biggest SANs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    because if they did they would crash daily and corrupt their data.

  5. lustre on linux PPC on Sun Acquires CFS/Lustre, Becomes Windows OEM · · Score: 1

    anyone know if it's possible to run lustre on linux ppc? OSX just plain sucks as does XSan and we need to do something with these expensive xserves other than sit there and look like works of art. Their NFS performance is terrible compared to much slower linux systems on much slower processors and they crash because of bugs in the O/S (confirmed by apple support).

  6. Re:Lunix machine failure on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    So you're telling me that all computers and parts (video cards, mobo, psu, cpu, ram, hdd) are warrantied for 5yrs, even Dells or supermicro superservers with 3yr warranties? If it fails within 5yrs I can initiate a small claims court summons and always win? Don't these guys have lawyers who have thought about this? Where is this "common law" writ anyways?

  7. Re:install windows on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    Couple of days ago we had this happen on a dell dimension (we're only purchasing precisions from now on, better support) where winxp came with the box. It was annoying because if one goes to the support page for the particular service tag number, one of the choices for O/S (e.g. drivers, bios, firmware) is RHEL4. The problem is that we used online chat. Usually it helps to call the person. Don't mention what OS it is and if they ask just lie. What they are doing is illegal anyways.

  8. MSOffice Install and Run on Wine 0.9.44 Released · · Score: 1

    Call me when I can Install and run at least MSOffice 2k3 using wine.

  9. Re:Atmospheric vortex engine cooling on Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor · · Score: 1

    Now of course there is the minor problem of having a tornado by the tail near a nuclear reactor

    Read http://vortexengine.ca/AVE_FAQ.shtml#control_vorte x_size

  10. Re:Atmospheric vortex engine cooling on Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor · · Score: 1

    I think this is a great idea and definitely solves the problem of what to do with both the waste water or perhaps the incoming water. Does the AVE cool the water as it leaves?

  11. heartbeat on Baby Mammoth Found Intact · · Score: 1

    Dude what the hell are you trying to listen for ..there is no heartbeat it's been dead for 10,000+ years

  12. I for one ::tab:: on DARPA to Raise Robot LANdroid Army · · Score: 1

    LANdroid army ::tab::

    incidentally how does one include strings in gt/lt brackets without the /. parser recognizing it as html.

  13. Re:will ZFS serve as a replacement for Xsan? on Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX · · Score: 1

    We're not asking it to replace the hardware but become the FS for the SAN. This means all the snapshotting and nice features are part of the SAN.

  14. Re:will ZFS serve as a replacement for Xsan? on Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm curious about this as well. We just purchased lots of raid boxes and SAN switches to setup several TB in XSAN. Will ZFS be used in the XSAN as the new filesystem or will XSAN slowly be deprecated in favor of some sort of ZFS setup?

  15. Re:debugging, anyone? on Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal · · Score: 1

    So is GDB/softice/pice and any other disassembler considered a hacking tool in .de and as such considered illegal? This is as stupid as making hammers/cars illegal because these could be used to kill people.

  16. apple xsan + eonstors on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    We're going with an apple xsan + infortrend's eonstor solution. 2 x apple xserves running xsan, one qlogic sanbox (with sfp's), 2 x 4gb FC HBAs for the xserves, and 2 x 16 bay infortrend eonstors supporting 4GB FC with 750GB SATAII enterprise class seagates (single RAID controller, redundant PSU's) all for $38K. Unfortunately infortrend has not yet qualified the 1TB drives, otherwise we would have saved even more money. If you have a bigger budget you can get eonstors with redundant RAID controllers.

    The nice thing about xsan is that we can keep adding eonstors to the racks or use larger drives in the eonstors and increase our storage. This is great since we're growing at about 2-3TB yearly.

  17. what happened to the protoss battle cruiser on StarCraft, Nothing But StarCraft · · Score: 1

    What happened to the protoss battle cruiser with all the crazy miniature fliers. Those units would also cause lots of confusion and could attack from very far away.

  18. it would be very funny on Treadmill Workstation · · Score: 1

    if the treadmill powered the LCD or the computer such that if you stop running / walking the system turns off. I had an idea to build something like the FPGamerunner ..might get one for myself to play UT2K4!

  19. blocks look like those used in sprog on MIT Media Lab Making Programming Fun For Kids · · Score: 1

    those blocks he puts together look exactly like the blocks used in the graphics perl programming environment called SProg

  20. Re:Can't say I blame them on Qantas Ditches Linux for AIX · · Score: 1

    I've been having no problems with 2.6.19.5.

    The hal/dbus with kernels > 2.6.14.7 will break on RHEL4. You won't be able to autodetect and configure USB/firewire drives (if you enabled firewire support) under /media/usbdisk. So unless you fixed hal/dbus or never use the autodetection and configuration feature for usb drives then it's ok, otherwise in a desktop/workstation environment you might get complaints.

  21. what happens if the source or dest host crashes? on Linux Kernel 2.6.21 Released · · Score: 1

    With KVM 1.5 what happens when:

    1) A VM has migrated its process to another VM and the source VM crashes/system dies?
    2) A VM has migrated its process to another VM and the destination VM crashes/system dies?

  22. Re:Why wouldn't it be? on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    It is the responsibility of the hardware vendors to provide OpenGL drivers, and if you have an NVIDIA or ATI video card

    I heard this is still ok in fullscreen mode but not in a window, which is how most scientific programs work (e.g. with control panels windows, etc).

  23. Re:Why wouldn't it be? on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 1
    • The scientific community hates it more than they hate Windows. It doesn't have full opengl support or hardware stereo support and uses up CPU power for what could be used to do number crunching.
  24. AMD still in the game! on AMD Reports $611 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    For CPU's which consumers may actually purchase see this article http://www.legitreviews.com/article/490/1/ , the 5600+ at the same price point (with mobo) as the E6300 does better, and where it does worse it loses by 1 or 2 points (5%).

  25. RIAA's fishing expedition on RIAA Wants Student Deposed On School Day · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The defendent's attorney said:

    The subpoena is being used for patently improper purpose, namely as a fishing expedition by plaintiffs'

    That sums up the RIAA's entire strategy.