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  1. Re:Idea for new Slashdot section on Cringley Thinks Apple & Intel Are Merging · · Score: 1

    I for one wouldn't mind seeing ev7 revived on a 65nm process with a modest speed increase...

    Wheeeeeee!

  2. Re:Admiration on Microsoft's Slap at Samba · · Score: 1

    I don't. Gas is cheaper by volume in most places than Milk, which I consider by far, much more important...

    Hard to make smoothies without it. :-D

  3. Re:Win2k vs WinXP on Final Windows 2000 Update · · Score: 1

    Remote control is definitely something new that's been migrated to the "end-user desktop" but's been around the whole time in the server product.

    You've ALWAYS been able to set permissions on Registry trees, since NT 3.1; pre-XP you had to do it with the old Registry Editor (regedt32). You also had to use regedt32 if you wanted to edit multi-value strings (something that royally pissed me off with regedit).

  4. Re:Farewell, old warhorse... on Final Windows 2000 Update · · Score: 1

    Vmware Professional is $200, $250 tops. That's cheap money for virtual machines. If you have 3 virtual machines replacing 3 servers running around 100-150 watts, you'll recoup your costs in electricity alone in less than a year.

  5. Re:Forget it. on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: 1

    Compared to the daily bombings and missile attacks coming from across the English channel, a dirty bomb would have contributed little to the fear that the average brit lived under. If they'd started lobbing them into France once the Normandy invasion began, that might have been a different story.

  6. Re:IBM? Apple??? on Basics of Modern Intel CPUs · · Score: 1

    You can either have a decent-sized pipeline, or you can have more instructions, memory usage, and largers caches by using smaller instruction ops. The RISC/CISC war is over. The answer was a hybrid approach.

  7. Re:If only it was backwards compatible... on AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Chips Released · · Score: 1

    Do you use external SCSI->ATA bays? I'm looking for decent converters.

  8. Re:I'd just like to see even support on Integrated Graphics from NVIDIA Back In Style · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it's true 1600x1200 and not scaling? Just curious.

  9. Re:jedi council on Creating a High-Tech Meeting/Conference Room? · · Score: 1

    Convenient bits left out: what happened to the rest of the Sith?

    Surely Palpatine, Darth Maul and Dooku couldn't have been all there was?

  10. Re:wouldn't need to on McVoy Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Care to elaborate? I'm looking for something that doesn't require a full-blown implementation of a CMS, or improving the SSI support in apache...

  11. Re:Limitless use of the world unlimited on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Yea, whoops. Wrong book, forget to check your links. Blind Man's Bluff, that's it... Good read.

  12. Re:Limitless use of the world unlimited on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2, Informative

    If I remember correctly, he was also the guy who sold the Navy on using guassian distribution techniques to find the S.S. Thresher when it went missing, and the lost nuclear bomb off Palomares Spain.

    He was written about extensively in the book Silent Service (author eludes me right now).

  13. Re:Announces?! on Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Week and a half, maybe? Not sure about rail, but shipping a container by truck across the country takes at least 4-5 days (less than a week). A boat doesn't have to obey mandatory sleep periods while on the highway. It get's an extra days worth of travel for every 3 days a truck is on the road. Speeds are less, but it adds up.

    I initially thought so as well until I started adding up the costs and time involved. It's also why a land-bridge between the North America and Asia will never be economically successful. It takes less than $6000US per 40' container to get from China to Boston. It would cost $2000 just to get that same container from Boston to Juneau, Alaska by truck. Now add an extra 3000 miles on icy roads, sparsely populated arctic zones... never happen.

  14. Re:Announces?! on Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Going through the Panama Canal to Boston. :-)

    Cheaper to keep our containers on the boat than shift them to rail or road, and only save a week. We've thought about setting up a distribution center in Dallas, but that only saves us a week, and costs us more in warehouse space (which we're still a little too small to support). Either way, cost of good to the customer would be higher, even taking into account the extra shipping costs Boston->CA vs Dallas->CA.

  15. Re:AJAX also good for... on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    Any good guidance on perl/java libraries?

  16. Re:AJAX also good for... on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    I never said server-side validation was not required. Only that calling javascript client-side validation "useless" was naive.

    What I want is an engine that I can use on client and server to generate validation templates that work on both. I hate rewriting code...

  17. Re:Relational Filesystems on Beyond Relational Databases · · Score: 1

    Accessing files like so:

    \\server\%%Quarterly Reports%% sucking down every document in server with a permutation of that string, or said title?

    I could see filesysetems benefitting from such syntactic sugar. Simplicity in design, however. Should be something supportable by existing applicatioins. Simple, extensible, repeatable.

    I cannot commit to the development of such a system, but I can see something very simple based on wildcarding would be beneficial. Here's hoping someday, someone, somewhere, can deliver such a solution. There are management problems associated with operating sch a system, but things like offline retrieval and metadata storage lend themselves fairly nicely to such a solution without having to be grafted on like 5th wheels.

  18. Re:Announces?! on Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Three weeks from China, Taiwan or Japan to California where most of the tech will get shipped out of. Four weeks to get into the channel.

    Takes me 6 weeks to get product into the channel for my family distribution company in Massachusetts.

  19. Re:Correct me if i'm wrong but... on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    Which AJAX library is this?

  20. Re:AJAX also good for... on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    Putting validation on the client isn't a waste at all. You save a round-trip for the vast majority of clients who aren't poisoning you. This improves the user experience. There's a bit of me that wants to be able to reuse the javascript code on the client side on the server side for validation... Not sure how to go about that however in Perl/php.

  21. Re:AJAX also good for... on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    I don't get it either. I've been doing things like this with zero-height frames since before I discovered the existence of IFrames. XMLHttpRequest is something fairly new to me tho.

    I guess it just took someone building something with mass-market appeal to show the world what the rest of us have known about for a long time.

  22. Re:AJAX will also kick your ass on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    Yup, but MSDN only works (well) in IE. Sucks to be a Mozilla user. :(

  23. Re:Thank you Microsoft on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    Why is using a client-side activeX component any worse than using the same component built into IE? In the case of a segregated component, you can concentrate on building a featureful application that does what it needs to (and no more) without worrying about whether it breaks the master controller (IE).

    In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the Javascript engine in IE 6 is still using the ActiveX object under the hood. Why bother making such a complex integration when you can just alter your JS interpreter.

  24. Re:Well ... Insightful? Hammer geeks unite ! on Windows Cheaper to Patch Than Open Source? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I hate to tell you, but there *ARE* hammer geeks out there... note that said geeks (blacksmiths) are usually building tools to do certain tasks, but they certainly are modding hammers... :-)

  25. Re:"Processors", not "power supply" on Human Blood For Electrical Power · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But the movie took it from the POV of the liberated humans. Without a good relationship with the robot overminds, they couldn't know that the possibility exists that the robots built the matrix for the survival of the human race, that the machines were acting as a child might when a parent has violent schizophrenia.