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  1. Hmmm.... on Music Giants Sue Baidu Over Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    Something tells me the PRC is going to tell teh racketeers over at RIAA to go play with themselves...

  2. At the very least... on Malaysians to Vote on First Astronaut · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the Malaysian government is considering this, then Malaysians must have been expressing an interest in a space program for some time now. I can see what would happen if NASA did it - nothing because no one really cares. :-(

    A: "Want to vote for the next cosmonaut?"
    B: "No, Kanye is whining in the mic how the gubbemint hates black people..."

    Weren't we supposed to be already colonizing Mars?

  3. Well.. on Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking · · Score: 1

    So much for my 15 year-old IBM Model-M (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Model_M_Keyboard ). :-).

    I still am proud if it, disregarding this basic hey-I-hacked-an-audio-subtitution-cypher. Certainly not losing any sleep over this. In the mean time, I can hear the keys even through the sound of trance pumping in my headphones.

  4. Re:They have decided on Microsoft Skips Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Considering the kind of re-engineering that has to go in the process, 'patch' is just not the appropriate word to use here. Try 'fork'. Btw, L4Linux, MkLinux are existing codebases that do what you want.

  5. Re:Scalix on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Scalix server-side is pretty neat. But just say no to -
    a) The scalix connector. Outlook is a piece of crap by itself, but the scalix connector is simply rancid icing on an already spoiled cake. It is slow. It is buggy. It crashes haphazardly. It consumes gobs of memory. It does not play nice with Palm conduits or HotSync. It does not play nice with out-of-office.
    b) The web interface. It looks good on paper. It is a trainwreck in practice. The web interface should be used as a case study of how *not* to design interfaces with Javascript. Slow, buggy and unresponsive.I've had less negative vibes getting my teeth pulled at the dentist.

  6. Re:Thank goodness... on S3 Graphics Comes out of Hiding with Chrome20 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that'll be great to play QT3, Doom GL, the original UT and (maybe) a slideshow of the original Counter-Strike in Wine/WineX/Cedega.

    Yeah.

    Don't count on jaw-breakingly smooth framerate in UT2004 or HL2 though.

  7. Re:kernel bug fixes on 2.6.13 Linux Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    What drivers suck, specifically? What network devices? What SCSI HBAs?

    Can you provide specific bugs and reports, or is this anecdotal evidence?

    Also mind you that all distributions modify their kernel (it's not vanilla), with some doing it more than they really should (RedHat, SuSE^H^H^HUSE).

  8. Re:Hmmmm on Apple Hedges Its Bet on New Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    I don't think the 8086 and 8088 (along with the 80186) actually *qualify* as processors.

    MCUs sure. CPUs? Eh...

  9. Re:Why couldn't they post this BEFORE the weekend? on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 1

    It does. It just requires a bit of input from you.

    After installing, perform the following to ensure you can boot from the 2nd disk... (assuming your two mirrored disks are hda and hdb and root partition is first, modify to taste).

    # grub
    grub> root (hd0,0)
    grub> setup (hd0)
    grub> root (hd1,0)
    grub> setup (hd1)
    grub> quit

    # reboot

    Voila.

  10. Re:WTF for? on Intel and Laptop RAID? · · Score: 1

    "Strange noises" is not "lots of warnings when they're going bad". Decent S.M.A.R.T. support is (this includes OS support too, M$ Winsuck!!)

  11. Re:Cute names slow acceptance. on Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain · · Score: 1

    You're right. Vista, Longhorn and Millenium and clearly better.

    Oh wait.

  12. Re:oh God bless them, those kooky spookies on New, Faster Attack against SHA-1 Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    That didn't do what you think it did. You just wiped out your cheek.

  13. Re:Serious question... on Bell Labs Unix Group Disbanded · · Score: 1

    *cough* - improved?

    Maybe C+ (Objective-C) did, but certainly not C++.

  14. Re:OpenGL, the open GL! on Windows Vista May Degrade OpenGL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought vendors already provided their own hw-accellerated OpenGL libraries - nvidia, ati, etc. In fact most FPS hacks involve using an opengl wrapper library that conveniently forgets to shade some vertices or something..

    I haven't RTFA'D (why would i want to do that), but this OpenGL thru DX likely only concerns MS's own library, which btw sucks, so i guess this is a good thing...

  15. Re:Best TCP/IP Stack? on Best TCP/IP Stack Implementation? · · Score: 1

    Clearly, in light of the recent Cisco vulnerabilties...

    [/sarcasm]

  16. Re:Nothing like... on Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot -

    VI vs EMACS
    GNOME vs KDE

  17. Uhhh on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this will really help with the rampant population of undocumented illegals. Right. Maybe, just maybe, one needs to properly *staff* the border first, and properly process any undocumented illegal found, instead of providing them with free healthcare, education, wellfare, etc.

    But no, that makes too much sense. Instead will just stick RFID on *legal* and documented immigrants. As if the suicide bombers are going to use the legal channels when they can just hop the border down south.

  18. Re:De-infestation on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 1

    Spyware? Linux?

    Lookup -o rw,remount option for mount =P

  19. You want security? on VoIP Security · · Score: 1

    ...Then create SSL VPN tunnels with OpenVPN (X509 PKI, TLS) between PBXs and enjoy.

    It's amazing what good design can do to improve security.

    "Oh you mean just setting up random SIP connections over the net is a bad idea?"

  20. Yup... on E-Mail Snafu Sparks Spam Attack On Journalists · · Score: 1

    Yup, I got the email too. Does this mean I am not invited?

  21. Re:FreeBSD on Why FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Yeah but he said rpm, not yum. Yum attempts to fix the problems with rpm, but in my opinion does a worse job than apt (whether it be apt4rpm or apt4dpkg)

  22. Re:Why did they choose Macs? on Mac OS X Drives Grand Challenge Entry · · Score: 1

    Actually his claim is much more valid than yours. Windows 3.1 provided system-level/"kernel" features that were not present in the MS-DOS "kernel" (cough) - like protected mode, the ability to run more than one program at the same time, a network stack, etc,

  23. Re:Think again, homies: on Full Debian ARM for Under $200 · · Score: 1

    -1 Fud I've installed Debian on my 6-yearold Thinkpad over the 'net using some no-name USB ethernet adapter - and that was two years ago. The scanner doesn't work because of a broken USB stack.The scanner doesn't work because SANE doesn;'e support it yet,

  24. Re:it's a shit industry on The Changing Face of Computer Science · · Score: 1

    No, I am not implying that. But maybe the people in question should have seen what was coming and jumped the boat while they still could?

  25. Re:Personal experiance on The Changing Face of Computer Science · · Score: 1

    Hint: maybe you should have done something beyond doing your classwork... like... um - research projects, OSS, finding a job in the field?

    This is so basic. Duh - yes you need experience. Instead of whining about it - go and get experience. You are correct - no one wants a fresh grad with a blank resume.