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  1. Oh, really? on KernelTrap Interview With Rusty Russell · · Score: 1
    Oh wait, it's a dynamic kernel, it doesn't need to be replaced.

    Ah... so Windows 2003 is running the same kernel as NT 4.0?

  2. Wait until the marketing people get into it... on KernelTrap Interview With Rusty Russell · · Score: 1

    ...then you'll have "steaming hot buttered pluggable CPU support, with real strawberries!"

  3. Ya never know... on KernelTrap Interview With Rusty Russell · · Score: 1

    ...he might have fitted it with a split system, so the box itself is actually cool - it's only the other half of the split, sitting outside his (glass) window, that's radiating like fury.

  4. Patch here on Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch · · Score: 1

    enjoy. (-:

  5. Ah, so you /like/ big sparks? (-: on Galileo, Consumed by Jupiter · · Score: 1
    on the Cosmic scale, the universe is always throwing sparks at things

    Like this one. Flat bottom, paired damage, steep sides, right-angled crossings, almost ignores surrounding terrain... doesn't fit anything except arc machining. A good one to watch from a long way off. Notice also the paired craters scattered all about.

  6. Surface 6-10,000K, Coronoa 1-2,000,000K == hotter on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, your maths works differently to mine.

  7. Roll up, roll up! on Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Getcha free chains here! Bondage! Suffering! Leather gear, only the hottest from Microsoft! Trade-ins on unwanted liberty a specialty, test-whip today's amazing offer!

  8. I didn't pay my ISP to download Mandrake 9.1 on Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO · · Score: 1
    I fetched my ISOs from a WAIX-enabled mirror (thanks, Ben!). WAIX traffic is free to most WAIX-connected ISP users (exceptions being greedy so-and-sos like Eftel). ArachNet, my ISP, is one of the ungreedy, responsive, helpful ones (they do have a jab at iiNet and the other megaISPs in their on-hold tape: "You'll notice that your call was not answered by a machine...").

    I won't pay to download the ISOs of Mandrake 9.2 either, when it arrives. I will send money to Mandrake (and some of the FOSS projects that they wrap) because I think they deserve it, not because they threw me over a barrel and demanded it. Yes, even if some of their advertising references someone other than MandrakeSoft now.

  9. A Faraday cage around the transmitter... on Galileo, Consumed by Jupiter · · Score: 1

    ...seems more appropriate.

  10. The save-the-Darwinism fund? on Galileo, Consumed by Jupiter · · Score: 1
    It's gotten to the point where Darwinian selection needs all the help it can get.

    Well, there's always Neo-Darwinism or the New Synthesis, and when that starts looking too silly there'll be some variant of Punctuated Equilibrium raised, you can be sure. Darwinism is important to a lot of people - their religion is based upon it, <irony weight=crushing>so they won't let it die off naturally, as it should</irony>. (-:

  11. This is gunna sound very when-I-were-a-lad, but... on Galileo, Consumed by Jupiter · · Score: 1

    ...because it's /. I naturally feel compelled to say it anyway. If the accretion theory is true (and there's lots to say that, like so many other astronomical theories, it's largely imaginitis), Jupiter has been hit by many objects larger than the Moon. Jupiter is many objects larger than the Moon.

  12. The noonday brightness of human genius... on Galileo, Consumed by Jupiter · · Score: 1

    ...also built the defunct high-gain antenna. (-:

  13. What makes you so sure? on Galileo, Consumed by Jupiter · · Score: 1
    There is no constant in the universe but c.

    Bet? (-:

    Or if you prefer something less radical, consider that there are a number of other constants tied to c; in other words, they are as constant as c is.

  14. Dead, but still twitching. on Red Hat Posts Its Best Quarter Yet · · Score: 1

    Subject says it all.

  15. Nah, go for Debian... but if you want it slack, on Red Hat Posts Its Best Quarter Yet · · Score: 1

    go for Mandrake. Too easy. Too many instant experts, just add mouse. (-:

  16. Not exactly... well, to be honest: the opposite on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1
    Sunspots are not "holes into the Sun". Sunspots are cooler than their surrounds because magnetic fields in the region slow the convection which brings hotter matter up from the interior.

    They are indeed holes into the Sun, but "only" a few thousand km deep. The patch of Sun underneath the sunspot and the layer of turbulence below it is hotter than the surrounds... but it still begs the question about the Sun in general being cooler under the surface than on top.

  17. Oops! on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1

    missed the link by one line.

  18. As it turns out... on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1
    ...stars are quite different to how even current theory predicts them to be.

    There is a very thin, very hot wrapper of plasma around a relatively cool main body, but if you read any science textbook they'll tell you that the inside of the Sun is hotter - and then blithely skip over the obvious conundrum that sunspots, holes into the Sun, are cooler than their surrounds. There are stacks more electromagnetic effects than there are supposed to be, and in fact our own Sun acts like a bloody great anode.

    The Dark Matter/Dark Energy hunters might want to speculate about whether in fact they're looking for Dark Cathodes, and some elliptical galaxies are just very positive. (-:

  19. s/funny/fun/ on Plasma Comes Alive · · Score: 1

    Try it sometime. (-:

  20. The ti99[9?]5 and friends were pretty good... on S3's DeltaChrome Graphics Chip · · Score: 1

    ...for their day. If their remappable memory-based register set had been cacheable, they would have been a winner. Or a reasonable DecSystem-10 emulator, anyway... (-:

  21. All fifteen bazillion... on S3's DeltaChrome Graphics Chip · · Score: 1

    ...slightly incompatible versions of it and the GX and the Trio[64[+]]. Which is one reason that the XFree86 drivers for most S3 cards suck.

  22. I've had this car as wallpaper for about 2 years, on Tzero Electric Car: 0-60 in 3.7 Seconds · · Score: 1

    ...so I hope it's better than that by now.

  23. Nah, the plastic case cracks too easily... on State Of The Simputer · · Score: 1

    ...when you use it as a shovel. But they do make neato roof tiles if you have enough of them.

  24. D'ohl found the Monolinux! on Lunar Composition Examined By X-Ray · · Score: 1

    "My God, it's full of money!", he said, shortly before going insane with greed.

  25. not the correct spelling (-: on SCO Volleys to Red Hat · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm (note the apostrophe) not naive (note the correct speling).

    Er... was this supposed to be funny?