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  1. Re:Functional on Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? · · Score: 1

    How would you go about saving a file, or changing the position of a robot's arm, if all you can do is make calculations and return the result?

  2. Re:Mythical Creature... on Bjarne Stroustrup On Educating Software Developers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here you go.

  3. Re:Space cannon on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 1

    Never mind. I've just been informed that my patent only covers using a cannon for interplanetary communication.

  4. Re:Space cannon on Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky · · Score: 1

    And if anybody tries to patent it, I already have prior art.

  5. Re:Location, location, location... on Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should have Apple remove the BlowUpNow! app from the iTunes Store.

  6. Re:Swell plan on Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS · · Score: 1

    Maybe turning off the GPS is how they ended up in the middle of the desert...

  7. Re:Nothing new on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: 1

    If your network's backing up every file, then after you delete the history file, isn't it still on a backup tape somewhere?

  8. Re:not for second sale on Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up · · Score: 1

    I guess if you want to go there, the second sale would result in an asset being bought and then sold for a lower price, which is depreciation, and a negative capital gain, therefore lower taxable income. But what do I know?

  9. Re:running the OS from an external USB device .. ? on "FOSS Business Model Broken" — Former OSDL CEO · · Score: 1

    You know, the install program wasn't so specific about that. The part that boots the computer was on the internal drive. That 196 megabyte part. Only the largest part used the external drive. Presumably the part used for storing general files.

    I can understand the system crashing if the external device fails, but I think it would be just as likely that the entire system would fail if an internal device fails. The external drive did not fail.

    I tried booting Linux from the DVD again. It didn't exactly say what it recognized but it did use a graphical user interface. And all that interface does is install Linux. It doesn't list all available hardware.

    For Windows, there's a Program Files folder on the external hard drive. It works. But the system folder isn't on the external hard drive. If there is some part of Linux that can't load from an external hard drive, it would seem to me that the installer would put those files on the internal hard drive since there was space there. It has an option to automatically set up the partitions.

    There was a bunch of updates for ATI and bluetooth. Maybe they'll get around to my update. I also found my Fedora 9 CD. Maybe I should go back. Hmm. Maybe I should actually pay for the support and see if they could actually come up with a solution...

  10. Re:Cyberwar? on Is There a Cyberwar, and Is the US Losing It? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should install Norton Antivirus on all government computers...? What?

  11. Re:That sucks on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. While chemicals may explain the problems with other species, they are not what's destroying masculinity in human beings. The fact, that women tend to favor the guys with the most money, is what's destroying masculinity in human beings. And those are the words of a widow.

  12. Re:not for second sale on Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up · · Score: 1

    Maybe Costco should find some other sellers and they can all sell their products to each other for the same price, so all of them will be doing second sales. Or we can get some new laws so people don't have to jump through stupid hoops. Either way.

  13. Re:Whom is the better? on A Cheat Sheet To All the Browser Betas · · Score: 1

    Leather and ball gags can be good.

  14. Re:The internet is full of assholes... on Automated Scripts Overrun eBay Holiday Contest · · Score: 1

    No, there shouldn't be a law, we should be allowed to punch assholes for being assholes.

    That will only work if we can all agree on what makes a person an asshole.

  15. Re:got mu Open Source hardware blues .. :) on "FOSS Business Model Broken" — Former OSDL CEO · · Score: 1

    What hardware specifically

    That's a fairly difficult question to answer. An Inspiron 8200 with an nVidia GeForce2Go and integrated audio. There's an Adaptec AUA-1422, which is a PCMCIA card that adds USB and Firewire ports. Those ports are used for an external hard drive on USB and DVD burner on Firewire. The internal hard drive and external hard drive are both partioned so Linux gets a small piece of the internal one and a big piece of the external one. It appeared to combine them into a "Logical Volume" that I can only guess is some kind of raid setup. When I installed Fedora 9, all of this stuff worked. Then going from 2.6.26 to 2.6.27, the 27 one said hp_api_failure or something like that, could not locate all volumes, a bunch of other crap, and it would hang. 2.6.26 still worked. So I tried Fedora 10. Back to the hotplugging failure hp_api_failure but this time it actually loaded the login screen and Gnome. The hard drive showed up but the DVD burner did not. There's no sound, regardless of whether its set to "Autodetect" or any other option. The screen has the right resolution but it has no idea it's nVidia and installing the nvidia driver is another nightmare I'll save in case I want to get modded offtopic again.

    I could understand the PCMCIA card not being supported, but no support for a legacy nVidia or commonly used integrated audio? Never mind the fact, all this stuff worked with Fedora 9.

    did you try any of the distros on bootable CDs

    No. I needed to be able to save settings and files.

    what was the response when you posted to the support forums

    I didn't post to any support forums. I just went back to windows.

    how did you manage to achieve dual-boot?

    By installing Fedora on a computer that had Windows already installed.

  16. Re:simple on Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction · · Score: 1

    Oh they're not going to like you. My guess is your post will get modded Offtopic or Overrated, or whatever it takes to make it disappear before too many people read it.

  17. Re:Oh, no, Alien Comet! on Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wouldn't it be wild if an alien race was trying to send us a message, and instead of a message in a bottle, it was a message in a comet?

  18. Re:Why does nobody understand why this doesn't wor on "FOSS Business Model Broken" — Former OSDL CEO · · Score: 1

    Right now I can't get Fedora Core 10 to recognize half of my hardware. There's no way I'm going to buy Red Hat Linux to fix this. I just restart the computer and boot Windows instead. I think that's the eternal problem with selling support for open source software. Nobody's going to pay for help getting it working when they can pay for something that works in the first place. And the people who stick with open source tend to find ways to get it working without paying. It's like the repair shop can only sell printer parts to people who know how to fix their own printers.

  19. Re:Yes, Laughable Numbers. on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 1

    In that case, you have to also factor in people who set Opera to report itself as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Spoofing is probably more common on Opera than Firefox since Firefox gets more website support than Opera.

  20. Re:Stop It on Making BitTorrent Clients Prioritize By Geography? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think they've got it all wrong. The software shouldn't be connecting people to nodes in their area. It should be connecting people to nodes in regions that can't sue them for uploading.

  21. Re:and, just think of that! Firefox 3.0.1 couldn't on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 1

    The same thing happened to me, using Opera. I think it's a problem with Slashdot.

  22. Re:Pfft. on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 1

    If you were a government leader, you would be the guy in the second paragraph.

  23. Re:Windows != PC on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 1

    We might as well just use the terms, Mac, PC, & Linux. Everybody thinks PC means Windows. And when Linux gets mentioned alongside Mac & PC, people will get the impression there's a third one of these things out there. If we get that point across then it will be less difficult to explain how there are a fourth and fifth option, and so on.

  24. Re:Analogy on New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole · · Score: 1

    Did you know Windows has Wi-Fi?

  25. Re:Analogy on New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole · · Score: 1

    What if the choices are (Leave a gun in your yard) or (smash your television, audio system, and car). Because I just upgraded to Fedora 10 and lost all support for the Integrated sound, Nvidia, and my DVD burner. It's a choice between a security vulnerability and having half your hardware not working.