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  1. Re:Improve on symlinks? on Vista To Get Symlinks? · · Score: 1
    1) ...Why doesn't the mv command move these too?
    Not a problem - Windows doesn't do mv.

    2) /usr/tunes => /usr/local/tunes. Later /usr/local/tunes/YMCA.mp3 => ~/my_favorite_song.mp3
    "Chkdsk found 1,953,642 lost chains. Convert chains to files?"

    3) ...chrooted file systems , especially ones on a different underlying filesystem...
    This is Windows. You must be new here.

  2. Re:New strapline? on Vista To Get Symlinks? · · Score: 1
    I understand that SP1 is to support the following:

    find / -noleaf -follow -type f -name "foo*.c" -exec grep -iH "crispy" {} \;
  3. Re:Obligatory... on Linux Kernel 2.6.14 Released · · Score: 1

    And your point would be?

  4. Re:I'll switch when on Ergonomic Mice Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I disagree. One of the guys in my office uses one of thise on his laptop, and I find that my thumb is too spastic on its own to use that thing properly. I can use two or three (index through ring) fingers on the Marble FX to move the pointer, and that gives me the stability my poor twitchy nerve-damaged fingers need.
    If you want to sell your Marble FX, contact me.

  5. Re:Rama II on Robots Might Allow For Space Surgery · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are.
    "Appendicitis" is a condition (swollen/inflamed appendix), an "appendectomy" is a surgical procedure to remove an appendix.

  6. OK, but on Robots Might Allow For Space Surgery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think I'll get excited about this when they start using it locally as a superior technology to regular surgery. I mean, if this is such a great option, why aren't they using this as a replacement for an 8-inch incision?

  7. I'll switch when on Ergonomic Mice Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny
    You pry my Logitech Trackman Marble FX trackball from my numb tingly fingers!

    Seriously, I'm a Model M keyboard nut, and I'm just as comitted to my trackball. These things are like gold on eBay (no relation to seller). If you haven't used one of these (set the upper white thumb button to dounle-click), you haven't lived. This is the best pointer device I've ever used.

  8. It's like the flight attendants always say on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1

    bye. buh bye. bye. bye. bye. buh bye. buh bye. bye. bye. buh bye.

  9. Re:I want a comparison with 2-megapixel CAMERAS on Two Megapixel Cameraphone Shootout · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Being that the diameter of the lens on the camera would be an order of magnitude greater than the lens on the phone, I don't there's much question.

  10. Re:The pervs are happy on Two Megapixel Cameraphone Shootout · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Next up: SHOECAM!!!

  11. Paper maps on Internet Plays A Large Role For U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does anybody make (or buy) maps of small towns anymore?

  12. Re:Folding on Price of Power in a Data Center · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is about data centers.
    Trust me, the cost of a roomful of PCs running Seti is nothing compared to keeping a 20-ton Liebert running 24x7.

  13. Re:Again? on Microsoft Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
    - Last words of General John Sedgewick at the battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.

  14. Re:Bland ambition? on Microsoft Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    "A terabyte of pr0n" can be the "Cowboy Neal" option...

  15. Re:Ma Bell? Yo no entiendo on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 1

    Plain Old Telephone Service. i.e.: landlines

  16. Re:I Wonder ... on Microsoft Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) Black helicoptors
    2) "Re-education"
    3) ???
    4) WORLD DOMINATION!!!

  17. Re:It'll never catch on... on Microsoft Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah. Googling for something is to search for it, but microsofting something is, well, lets just say anally painful...

  18. Re:Western Electric on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 1
    > Western Electric made telephones you could drive nails with.

    Exactly my point. They put up satellites with MTBF in the 50 year range, neighborhood switch enclosures that would stand up to a small truck, and a million windowless buildings that would survive The Bomb.
    And the switching stuff Bell Labs did: whoa! Remember, Penzias and Wilson were working for Bell Labs, too.

  19. Re:service mark on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 5, Informative
    HELLO?? MODS?? PLEASE TRY TO KEEP UP.

    "We're the phone company. We don't care, we don't have to." is a famous tag-line from comedianne Lilly Tomlin from the old "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" TV show. She played a phone operator (Ernestine) with a plugboard and did things like calling Richard Nixon's White House and asking "Why do you have 162 extension phones?...Well, if they're so silent, why do you need 162 phones?".

  20. Re:Ma Bell? Yo no entiendo on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, this one is a little better.

  21. Re:service mark on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 1

    Everybody hates TPC

  22. Cool on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we have Western Electric and Bell Labs back too?

  23. Re:What? on Looking Back On Looking Forward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    More like Access Denied.

  24. Re:Cost of porting, uncertain future of the servic on Lights On But No One Home At Sun Grid · · Score: 1

    Nah. This was for short-term high-CPU demand projects, like genome sequencing and protein folding.

  25. Re:einstein hoax on How Darwin Managed His Inbox · · Score: 2, Funny

    Somebody forgot to take their Wellbutrin.