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  1. Re:Does it work properly/completely with Opera yet on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1

    I've had cases of Firefox crashing - this is because you have somewhere old gecko libraries installed... Clean it out - suddenly Firefox becomes snappier and doesn't barf-out on random occasions.

  2. Re:Safety First on Rehabilitating Damaged Laptops · · Score: 1

    Funny, my senior year (last year) at IMSA (http://www.imsa.edu/) we literally had a section of the Old Caf corded off with hazmat dudes hunting down mercury that dripped from a turned-over barometer. So dumb... its mercury salts that are poisonous... (hence the "mad hatters"), not mercury, *sigh*

  3. Re:Bungie doesn't exist on Halo 2 Ready to Ship · · Score: 2

    Uh no buddy. "Ensemble Studios" created Age of Empires and AoE:RoR. M$ bought Ensemble Studios, but its still Ensemble Studios that makes those games - AoK, AoK:TC and AOM, no banana-boy Ballmer and his loser troope of codemonkeys.

  4. Re:Boycott Kodak on Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    Uh buddy, python is byte-compiled. What do you think all those .pyc files are? Python droppings?

    Whenever you start a python program, "python" first checks if there is a byte-compiled version of the program. If there isn't, it compiles it - and the next time you start the proggie, the startup times will be smaller. If you bothered to look around, you might have even noticed such projects as the optimizing python compiler (which tries to optimize the Py bytecode), or IronPython which targets CIL/.Net instead of pycode/Python-VM.

  5. Wow on Review: Juvenile Felis Catus · · Score: 2

    While I found the "Felis Catus" section on Dan's Data very entertaining, this hardly qualifies as *NEWS.* Heck, it was *exactly* a year ago when I read that page.

  6. Mkay on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 1

    Wow, didn't I read about this like *two* days ago on MeFi?

    Anyways... I think its a perfectly reasonable action. The generated pirate keys were never assigned to anyone, so the only way you could *stumble* upon it is through actually looking for the S/N. The author's kind jest in wiping out the homedir takes care of the d00d-werez-my-0day-S/N lamers.

  7. Re:Cooking v1.0 for nerds on Cooking for Engineers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thats if you are using Intel syntax, bud. If you use AT&T style.. well.. then. That and most processors don't have memory to memory mov ops.

  8. Re:What kind on Theora Codec Ported to Java · · Score: 1

    Gee... why don't you try it on your ten-year-old Quadra 840AV, running Mac OS 8.1, just to better gauge it.

    I guess I shouldn't talk... with my UMAX dual 604e clone, GNU/Linux...

  9. Re:SenderID is overhyped on OSI And Microsoft Negotiating Over Sender ID · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am sure that Miguel de Icaza will be the first to release a beta gclippy...

  10. Re:Look at his method for solving this!!! on Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Hey, it got me through my High School discussions. I kid, I kid... but I like your BS generator.

  11. Re:He'd post AC on Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be an Erdos number of 1. And btw, holy shit thats awesome. You have an Erdos number of 2.

  12. Re:Not exactly a freebie, but.. on The Changing Face Of Campus Tech · · Score: 1

    Good trade my ass. In three years that laptop either falls apart or is antiquated enough to warrant the need to buy a new one. A car, in three years, no matter how you mistreat it (well... collisions non-withstanding), is still a car you can get around in.

  13. Re:Three Mile Island? on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Surely you are kidding?

    Ever heard of the town of Pripyat?

  14. Re:Options? on A C Compiler For The HP49g+ · · Score: 1

    Exactly - you are a part of a /real/ education system, where in 4-5 years you get a masters... unlike the shit diploma-mill system I'm stuck with, whose sole purpose is to shear as much money from me as inhumanely possible. You know how long it would take for me to get a Masters? Well, if I were a complete newb, it would take me about 8 years. 8 fucking years. Un-fucking-believable! Of course, even with cutting corners by trying to evade all the bullshit courses and taking proficiency exams instead of classes where I can, it will still probably take me around 6 years. God damn it.

  15. Re:So close... on Movie Playback From 1TB Holographic Disc · · Score: 1

    Yeah really, considering the the LD recorded the video as a Pulse-Width-Modulated analog signal. I doubt sufficiently-fast and cheap Analog-to-Digital conversion technology and video processing even existed for "most" computers in the LD years...

  16. Re:Easy 90% fix. on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 1

    Ah, nothing like not posting as an AC.

    Btw, Kiely DID give you a very low grade on that... probably out of pity...and generosity.

  17. Re:Trouble is... on Interview - Jim White of the Darwine project · · Score: 1

    Don't worry... the qEmu project will get there eventually. And its pretty fast :-).

  18. Re:Network bandwidth? on Gosling: If I Designed a Window System Today... · · Score: 1

    ...and we already know of a protocol that does just that... RFB (err... VNC). Anyone who thinks RFB is the future, needs to get off his soap-box and get a stick of clue passed on to him.

  19. Re:Requirements on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    There already it - its called autoconf.

  20. Re:Mozilla as it's own OS has a competitor on Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2 · · Score: 1

    I'm working on it... ;-)

  21. Its just a theory... on Nvidia Releases Updated Drivers for FreeBSD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But I think I know why the (new) FreeBSD drivers are better than the linux ones released some time ago.

    Simple - nVidia is trying out something new, and in order to get some testing they choose FreeBSD. If the drivers backfire, there will be less noise from the user-land. They can then always claim -well, its just some problem we encountered on BSD. Think of this as a beta-test. The new linux drivers should be just around the corner :-).

    But hey, nVidia has succeeded in making me give FreeBSD a test-drive.

  22. Re:some conditions.. on Running a UDP Remote Console with Linux 2.6 · · Score: 1

    Interrupts are used to *receive* - i.e. they provide the kernel with the notification that *something* happened to the NIC.

  23. Re:you forgot the biggy on AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention *how* widely used - The water pipes.

  24. Re:Consequences? on SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken · · Score: 1

    I think you need a refresh on your definitions of "encryption" and "hash."

    Cause otherwise I think you're up for a Nobel Prise, if you figured out a way to compress any-sized files into a 2048-byte chunk.

  25. The irony... on Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    My Athlon XP 2400+-based computer has both a floppy drive and a 19" CRT. I don't think these two are going anywhere.