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  1. Re:To rephrase the question: on PlayStation Home And Porn - No Problems · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haha, reminds me of this Something Awful article:

    http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari /mtv-virtual-worlds.php

    He seduces a "lifeguard" (who's supposed to be keeping the game PG-13!)

  2. Re:What is the registry in Vista? on Mark Russinovich on Windows Kernel Security · · Score: 1

    Nope, the registry is still a bunch of binary files, located in the same folder.

  3. Red tab? on Married In Oblivion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did anyone else notice that the background color of the "tab" for the story on the front page was red? Next refresh it was back to normal gray again.

  4. Slow inventory screens? on Current Top 10 Oblivion Mods · · Score: 1

    Has anyone else noticed after installing BTMod (or maybe some other mod..), inventory screens, such as opening containers or shops take about 5-10+ seconds to show up? It's quite a pain in the ass to have to stop playing for 10 seconds when looting bodies. Also, viewing the map (the detailed zone map) also makes the game pause for a pretty long time, but once that area's map is viewed it shows up pretty quickly.

  5. GPU Fans... on Roundup of Eight Horizontal CPU Coolers · · Score: 1

    How about the fans on video cards? I'd rather replace them -- they're a lot louder than most cpu fans are. (the high end ones at least, mine's a 6800 gt) And with the card being right next to my cpu heatsink (I have a huge HSF.. the Thermaltake Big Typhoon), I'm gonna probably need a pretty good video card HSF replacement.. can anyone suggest one?

  6. Re:Postgres tcp/ip too difficult to configure on Oracle and PostgreSQL Debate · · Score: 3, Informative

    They aren't. You configure postgres to listen on a TCP/IP port on postgresql.conf, and allow specific IP's to connect remotely/locally in pg_hba.

  7. Re:Perfect... on RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College · · Score: 1

    To wank with? :)

  8. QuickTime on Windows x64? on Elder Scrolls Panorama Shots · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else running Windows XP 64-bit and able to run the iTunesSetup.exe? I'm getting the error: "The image file iTunesSetup.exe is valid, but is for a machine type other than the current machine."

  9. Re:Gnome Terminal speed improvements on Gnome 2.14 Released · · Score: 1

    I wish Konsole could display bold. Minor inconvenience but at least aterm and gnome-terminal can show it.

    Also, Konsole scrolls text differently than gnome-terminal, kinda hard to explain though.

  10. Re:Or this? on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    It's not any faster than PostgreSQL.

  11. Re:No newbie guides on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Chapter 1 of the docs is a tutorial (although it can be confusing if you're using Windows), and all the more in-depth chapters following that are still good reading for newbies.

  12. Re:Why it gets dismissed where I work. on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    There's an case insenstive data type in the contrib folder that you could use. I can't remember the name right now.

  13. Stupid question? on NBC To Live Stream Olympics Event · · Score: 1

    This may be a stupid question, but I don't see any explanation in the summary/story or any comments here.

    Why's the rest of the world not allowed to watch this? Isn't the Olympics an international event?

  14. Re:It looks good but have they addressed: on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    It actually doesn't snap until you actually hit the edge. So that means you can drag the window one pixel away from the edge without it snapping.

  15. Re:Seriously, have you heard of google? on Code Profiling on AMD Systems? · · Score: 1

    Didn't you notice he mentioned CodeAnalyst in the summary and said it didn't come close to other tools?

  16. Re:PotgreSQL... on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1

    I meant stored procedures and triggers in languages other than C/C++.

  17. Re:PotgreSQL... on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1

    Handy SQL extensions?

    Like being forced to write C/C++ to make your own functions? That's more handy than PostgreSQL allowing you perl, python, php, tcl, sql, pgsql, just to name a few? How about triggers in those languages? Or aggregates? How about custom types? User-defined operators?

    I haven't been keeping up with MySQL lately so please tell me if a few things I've mentioned are already implemented in the latest version.

    And what enteprise features are you talking about?

  18. Re:is that the way... on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1

    If Sleepycat doesn't license BerkeleyDB to be used commercially by MySQL, then it'll only be available with the GPL (or whatever the free one is) version. And "enterprises" would probably be using the commercial one.

  19. Re:whats wrong with ye olde mouse wheel for zoomin on The Ultimate Dual-Hand Touchscreen · · Score: 1

    You can't really select what part of something you want to zoom in with the mouse wheel, just the whole thing.

  20. Re:uhh on Upcoming FPS Titles In 2006 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, I think it should be "first blood!"

  21. Re:More errors on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The guy probably looked at the size of the Azureus.exe file, but not the Azureus2.jar file... Azureus.exe is just a wrapper to run java Azureus2.jar.

  22. Re:Never use single CPU on What Would You Want to See in Database Benchmarks? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, maybe I misunderstood your RAM question, sorry.

  23. Re:Never use single CPU on What Would You Want to See in Database Benchmarks? · · Score: 1

    1x dual Opteron

    It'll spend too much time task switching. Better to have 2 "less than half" slower CPUs, than 1 really fast CPU.

    Sounds like he meant dual core.

    16G ram,

    Could you put the 16G into one of the 2x boxes?

    Why not? 4 memory slots of 4GB sticks, per CPU.

  24. Re:Intermediate level? on The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 · · Score: 1

    I think you and the people marking him down missed the joke.

  25. Re:Purchase PostgreSQL? on Oracle and MySQL -- Good Move or Bad Bet? · · Score: 1

    Also, don't forget that each core PostgreSQL developer works at a different company. It'd be really hard to damage the core devs just by damaging one company.

    See http://www.postgresql.org/developer/bios