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  1. Re:More info from Slashdot and POE site ... on New Computer Powered By PoE · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like anyone's ever gonna fall for that one again. ;-)

  2. Re:RAID on Turning a PC into a Firewire-Based SAN? · · Score: 1

    500GB? You're thinking of RAID0 then, where data is striped across disks. RAID1 is a mirror set, i.e. both disks contain identical data.

  3. Re:Tigger.. on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes and we all know how the BSD and KHTML hate it when other people use their code. Oh, wait.

  4. Re:The force is strong with this one. on The Darth Vader Blog · · Score: 1
    This is not Vader, just a mere replica
    I find your lack of faith disturbing.
  5. Re:Backup using Journal to CD? on Distributed DVD Back-up Solution? · · Score: 1

    I find your idea intriguing and would like to purchase half a kilo of whatever it is you're smoking.

  6. Re:Bandwidth required by this kind of solution... on Distributed DVD Back-up Solution? · · Score: 1

    FWIW, on my AXP 2600+ (1.9GHz), encoding runs at roughly half as fast as the run time of the video I'm encoding, i.e. 1 hour video = 2 hours' encoding.

  7. Re:Clusters on Distributed DVD Back-up Solution? · · Score: 1
    Yes it is losing 14 GB or 13 GiB to the file system [...] losing an average of 2 KB per file becomes significant
    To lose 14GB due to cluster overhead of (on average) 2KB per file, you'd need about 7 million files. Unlikely? Yep, just maybe.

    Sure there is some loss due to cluster overhead, but the real "loss" is just the fact that the marketing dept. decided that a gigabyte is a billion bytes, not 1,073,741,824 bytes.
  8. Re:This pales in comparison to... on First 500 Terabytes Transmitted via LHCGlobal Grid · · Score: 1

    Now THAT'S insightful, I WONDER why NOBODY else even THOUGHT of THAT? ;-)

  9. Re:I don't know abou this... on Microsoft to Launch 64-bit Windows on Monday · · Score: 1

    Regardless, when you're talking 1990 through 1999, 1993 does not fall in the half described as "late".

  10. Re:Balmer takes 5 years to change his mind on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 1

    Correct. How can you trust running Linux on top of a closed-source MS controlled VM?

    You can't.


    Why exactly do you need to trust it? Think Microsoft are going to detect Linux and make virtual hardware behave flaky to make Linux seem unstable?

    So let's see how that would work out for Microsoft... I run Linux on physical hardware and it runs rock solid. I run Linux on virtual hardware courtesy of MS' Virtual Server 2005 and then suddenly Linux is unstable as hell. Who in their right mind would blame the instability on Linux in that scenario?

    If you don't want to use Virtual Server, then don't. Use VMWare instead.

  11. Re:Are we learning yet? on DVD Truce Between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD? · · Score: 1

    I have a PowerShot A95 and it supports only PTP, not USB mass storage. So does the A85, according to Google.

  12. Re:Agreed... on DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera · · Score: 1

    It's not an urban legend. South African banknotes also have this feature, as of Feb 2005.

  13. Re:Whaaa? on Wikipedia Planning a DVD Version · · Score: 1

    1. The FSF sells Linux? When did that happen?
    2. It's GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod!

    </tongue-in-cheek>

  14. Re:Mpeg4? on Voom No More · · Score: 1

    "Digital Video Disc" came first but some of the companies wanted to call it "Digital Versatile Disc" . The official word is that "DVD" doesn't stand for anything now.

  15. Re:Simple... on Survey Shows Admins Avoiding SP2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is probably because of the restrictions MS has added to limit concurrent incomplete TCP connection attempts. You probably have a whole bunch of 4226 events in your system log.

    From technet article:
    The TCP/IP stack now limits the number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts. After the limit has been reached, subsequent connection attempts are put in a queue and will be resolved at a fixed rate. Under normal operation, when applications are connecting to available hosts at valid IP addresses, no connection rate-limiting will occur. When it does occur, a new event, with ID 4226, appears in the system's event log.

    See here for a fix.
  16. Re:It seems to me... on Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux · · Score: 2, Informative
    It seems to me that you are seriously misinformed. Anybody can read the PDF specs and write their own PDF-generating software if they wish.

    Quote from wikipedia page:
    PDF is an open standard, and anyone may write applications that can read or write PDFs royalty-free.
  17. Re:Heh on Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dear AC

    You don't have a clue how portage works.

    I suppose nvidia-kernel, openoffice-bin, etc. don't exist either?

  18. Re:Sandra Bullock says... on Sony Patents Matrix-Like Game Technology · · Score: 1

    Sandra Bullock as Lenina Huxley in Demolition Man.

    John Spartan: I was thinkin' we could do it the old-fashioned way.
    Lenina Huxley: Transfer of bodily fluids? Do you know what that leads to?

  19. Re:format C: on Free, Near-Foolproof Way to Evade Windows Spyware · · Score: 1

    nor find the format option in the menu and successfully slection the right options from the dialog box

    Not to mention that Windows won't let you format the C: drive using the GUI "Format" dialog. It probably won't let you do it from cmd.exe either, but I don't have the balls to test that theory. ;-)

  20. Re:Big 00000000 on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    Dammit now I have to change the combo on all my nukular warheads. Signed, Complete Tool

  21. Re:Like, render Slashdot the same way every time? on Opera Lays Down Acid2 Challenge · · Score: 1

    Probably because it's not so much an extension as a hack to work around a bug that appears on a single (?) site, and even then only for some people/some of the time. FF extensions are supposed to provide additional functionality, not fix bugs. If you can make use of the power of extensions, more power to you, but don't expect mozdev to care much.

  22. Deep Blue on Chess Master Kasparov To Retire · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, I guess now Deep Blue will need to find a new friend to play with?

  23. Re:Blog entry is gone already? on Microsoft Loses Key Engineer to Google · · Score: 1
    NT was the precursor to Windows Server.

    What? NT is the the server, and workstation line, even today.
    Eh? Server 2003 and XP are grandchildren of NT. They are not NT itself.

    Yes, NT was their precursor.
  24. Re:Odd-You thought you understood open source? on Cox on Torvalds and Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 1

    I agree. The AC ahead of me seemed to hold up GPL as some sort of crucifix that prevented scenarios like that.

  25. Re:Odd-You thought you understood open source? on Cox on Torvalds and Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 2, Interesting

    GPL + True dictator = much greater chance of code fork