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  1. Re:Yeah right on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It can - I have a number of 32-bit Windows machines with 8Gb RAM.

  2. Re:It's "its"! on The Google Search Server · · Score: 1

    Surely "Slashdotters tend to live in their parents' basements."

    Unless there's just the one big basement?

  3. Re:Isn't this being done? on Europe Plans a New Type of Fusion Facility · · Score: 1
    I remember reading some moths

    I had no idea you could do that.
  4. Re:There is still progress left on Europe Plans a New Type of Fusion Facility · · Score: 1

    No, because it doesn't. You've imagined an A.

  5. Re:This is inertially-confined fusion on Europe Plans a New Type of Fusion Facility · · Score: 1

    ...and mutated.

  6. MOD PARENT UP on Supernova 1987A Decoded · · Score: 1, Funny

    Come on, give the guy some karma...

  7. Re:I feel so sorry for you! on Practical Method for Getting Oil from Oil Shale? · · Score: 1

    It's the same car as the Mitsubishi Colt (although it has a trick sunroof if you for out the extra for it).

  8. Re:But will it arrive in time on Speculations Intel's Next Generation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The bottom-end IBM eServer OpenPower is pretty cheap (and it's a POWER5 not this PPC970fx crap). Or as someone will no doubt point out there's always PegasosPPC.

  9. Re:Don't take your eye off the ball on IBM Donates Code to Firefox · · Score: 1

    Works for Microsoft.

  10. -1, redundant on How Much Bandwidth is Required to Aggregate Blogs? · · Score: 1

    Definition of whence: From where.

    So, you can say:

    Whence comes this discrepancy?

    but please don't use

    From whence...

    because it's redundant.

  11. Re:Far from certain on Linux Kernel Code May Have Been in SCO UnixWare · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know, that's why I used that phrase.

    They'll lose that claim because "methods and concepts" are not covered by copyright -- where they are protectable at all that's what patents are for.

  12. Re:Far from certain on Linux Kernel Code May Have Been in SCO UnixWare · · Score: 1

    The LKP is a Unixware module which traps syscalls when they're done the Linux way, changes the arguments around to meet the Unixware convention rather than the Linux convention and then calls the Unixware equivalent of the requested Linux syscall. It would, in my opinion, be a lot easier to write such a system from scratch than to try nicking bits and bobs from Linux. Since SCOs engineers aren't dumb they'll have done it the easy way.

    The only exposure they might have is if they had to add one or more syscalls to Unixware so it had an equivalent for every Linux syscall. Then they might have been tempted to copy "methods and concepts" from Linux to Unixware, but those aren't copyrightable so there are no problems there. Verbatim copying is unlikely as coding standards will differ between projects and the internals of Unixware are probably a bit different to those of Linux.

    I very much doubt that this is a problem for SCO.

    HTH

    Phil

  13. Re:Sure, if it's thrown straight at it on Robot Catches High Speed Objects · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since it's 1-1 in the series and McGrath is still out injured I think we'll do fine anyway. Perhaps the aussies should fit these to their bowlers' ankles to remove any stray balls before they stand on them?

    Phil

  14. Re:The narrator is apparently very popular on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 2, Funny

    Turgid carp are a part of natural history.

  15. No no no on Rackspace, Indymedia, and the FBI · · Score: 1

    Most filesystems have a command called 'dump' which allows a consistent image of a mounted filesystem to be taken. See this man page for one of them:

    http://dpobel.free.fr/man/html/affiche_man.php/759 /man/dump/

    Phil

  16. Re:song finding on Baidu Sued for Piracy on Eve of IPO · · Score: 1

    google for

    filetype:mp3 keywords

  17. Re:DIY 3d projection on View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection · · Score: 1

    You will need to project them onto a screen which doesn't depolarise the light. As far as I know, the only screens available which maintain the polarity of the incident light are fairly-expensive back-projection units, so you will need a lot of space and a fair amount of extra $$ even starting from what you have.

  18. It's "grammar Nazis", fool! on Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE · · Score: 1

    n/t

  19. Re:caffeine LIKE? on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech · · Score: 1

    Better for you than what?

    How does being a natural source of something make it intrinsically good? Humans need iron and pyrites are a natural source of iron, so by your logic I should be tucking in to a pyrite-and-basalt salad for lunch.

    Phil

  20. Re:First Prime Factorization Post on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech · · Score: 1
    What the hell kind of commie recipe is this!?

    The best kind, a recipe for beer...
  21. It can't be open source on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's already version 1.0.

    If this were in the true open-source spirit it'd be 0.99_rc3_beta1.1 at most.

  22. Re:Check for updates... on Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    That'll be 1.1.2 then...

  23. So... on Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    ...can it encode and decode rot13 messages yet? rec.humor.funny is that little bit less funny without this.

  24. Re:No on Google Moon Debuts · · Score: 1

    OMG that LA photo is nauseating. And not for the usual reason LA is nauseating either.

  25. Re:What the hell, I'll byte... on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 1

    You misspelt EVAR!!!111one as EVER!