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  1. Actually, it would be cooler to keep it simple on Endless Liquid Refreshment · · Score: 1

    Make an old-style soda counter, then you only need a single siphon for soda, which would be much cleaner than beverage.

    Then one enters a pump full (in the old style soda counters) of syrup, and fill with soda water.

    Then a vanilla Coke is a shot of Coke syrup, and one of vanilla. And one can make root beer, floats, black cows, etc.

    Less hardware, more varities.

  2. Re:STOP!! on FreeBSD 4.8 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is silly, all you need is the floppy image, and MFS disk image, and then it will fetch the rest over the net.

    Why DL an ISO image, when you can be up and running in the time that takes?

  3. Re:isn't bsd dead on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Status Update · · Score: 0, Troll

    BSD will stay dead, no matter how may times we gotta shoot it.

  4. They would stop working on AI in Sci-Fi · · Score: 4, Funny

    being on strike for back pay and benefits.

  5. Shameless plug on Creative Uses for 5.25" Drive Bays? · · Score: 1

    www.cyberguys.com has lots of cool things for your computer.

    Best is probably a port bay, bring USB, media, etc ports out to the front panel. (item #202 0710)

  6. Game development tools on Are We Not Ready For 64-Bit? · · Score: 1

    Not the games themselves, but the tools used to create the graphic worlds and environments for those games.

    Lack of 64 bit for the user means fewer mods and maps.

  7. What it is April already? on What if Microsoft went Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Must be the first of april.

  8. Re:Methane wasted at many facilities on Cow Manure --> Electricity · · Score: 1

    And Milorganite, which is the result of Milwaukee's sewer system, valued over the years by groundskeepers. Dried, and ground into small pellets and packaged.

  9. Re:Length = boring? on Reason on IP Protection and Creativity · · Score: 1

    That is our way of saying "i got lost half way through it".

  10. Re:VMS on OpenBSD Gets Even More Secure · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it defaults to a much looser config.

    As a former VMS admin, you don't enable things you don't need. We didn't have the horsepower of today.

  11. Re:mostly satire but point #9 is valid ... on Is Windows Ready For Joe Longneck? · · Score: 1

    You mean like back when MSDOS included an assembler and linker?

    One of those features that have been removed from the OS.

  12. Re:Error Prevention on Large File Problems in Modern Unices · · Score: 1

    The next significant problem with time will come in the year 9999, when the four digit field that lazy programmers have used for thousands of years overflows. Didn't they learn their lessons the first time around?

    Digital took a bug report on this for Vax/VMS and promised a fix, some time in a future release.

  13. Re:Ants? on Ants... In... Space · · Score: 1

    Some action helps attract kids attention. Not to mention that ant farms have been kids toys for generations.

  14. Yo it what it is on Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spinning wheel of mylar?

    That is a floppy folks, not a hard drive.

  15. Link to Freshmeat on FreeBSD 5.0 Available · · Score: 1

    Open source software which is featured on a /. story should link to the Freshmeat entry for the program.

    This would allow folks to find out what a program is, and then the mirror list, saving the author's homepage some the /. effect.

  16. Good for oil tankers on Electromagnetic Ship Docking System Debuts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While the magnetic field would be bad for general cargo, something like oil wouldn't, so this could be used quite easily at an oil terminal.

  17. Re:Here's a list of several state's DNC lists on 160,000 Join Massachusetts Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 2

    And the one they are proposing has a $5 fee to sign up.

  18. No problem Sir! on Cryptome Log Subpoenaed · · Score: 3, Funny

    We store our logs on /dev/null, about 2Gb per day. You interested in how many days worth?

  19. Time for Internet II on Deliberation of "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" · · Score: 2

    It is time for the InternetII to take off. The feds should start building some of their own network, IP6 based, to take advantage of the security and QOS features.

    The increased demand will help private industry adopt it as well. And if the networks themselve are different than the current ones, that is good as well. Light up some dark fiber.

    Again, the use the original DOD Internet as the model.

  20. Yes to Lego blocks on Low Tech Toys? · · Score: 2

    One can buy Lego blocks in bulk, this is due more to the people who use them for artistic purposes rather than toys.

    There is a set (Mechanix?) that is similar to the old Erector sets, I think it is more popular in EU.

  21. Moving right along on Phoenix To Change Name · · Score: 2

    Call it Tucson, just down the road.

  22. Server speed on Broadband's Unintended Consequences · · Score: 2

    Boosting the transmission speed by a couple of times, doesn't increase the speed of the server at the other end.

    Given how many sites are database driven these days, the processing time of the host may be a significant factor in the time it takes for a page to load.

  23. Interesting response on Hospital Brought Down by Networking Glitch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That this happened in a teaching hospital, rather than a large corporation, makes their response much different.

    They have been open about the problem, in a way that a for profit corporation could never be. This allows the rest of the world to learn from the experience.

  24. Data has value on RadioShack Stops Being Nosy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember a few years ago, when Radio Shack was the talk of the takeovers and such. The customer data base was valued as much as the rest of their assets combined.

  25. DecMate word processor on Bringing Back the PDP8 · · Score: 2

    The PDP-8 had a long life as the Decmate word processor, the 12 bit word did very well, as it could handle text, with bold, underline, etc directly.

    The 3rd party service man at a VAX site I worked at in the early 90's had a PDP-8 (W/ RK05's!) still under contract in a big milling machine at a local heavy manufacturor.