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  1. Re:Promise TX2000 experiences on Mirroring Controllers - What have been Your Experiences? · · Score: 1


    However, they are far from perfect. I've had several W2K servers blue screen when doing a hot-swap


    Are you sure you had the disks on seperate IDE channels?

  2. Re:Why go back to the CLI on GTK+ TTY Port · · Score: 1

    bah, don't know wtf happened to my post.

    Here it is again:

    There is still a need for text based terminals (in embedded devices for example) and this will make it easier to write the interfaces for those terminals.

    Router manufacturers, for example, could support a text based gtk+ interface in addition to the standard command line interface.

    I can imagine plenty of other uses...

  3. Re:Why go back to the CLI on GTK+ TTY Port · · Score: 2

    *sigh*

    make it easier to write text based terminals.

    Try to think laterally. Not everyone uses computers on the desktop like you.

    There still need for text based terminals (embedded devices for example) and this will

    BTW, java has a has a text based swing (search for Charva).

  4. Re:How much power? on Silent Pump for Water-Cooled PCs · · Score: 1


    They could, but the flowrate doesn't look great - they say it'll suffice for ~120-150W constant power dissapation.

    Since the PSU is 300-400W these days, that's possibly 4 pumps that would be needed... and if each pump draws 75W, then you have a problem.


    WTF are you talking about? It can radiate 120W of *HEAT* per square centimetre.

    I don't know about you but my power supply has more than 0% efficiency.

  5. Re:Must be that new math.... on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 1

    Um no...stop making up excuses for them.

    The 40% wasn't for the total power bill. From the article:
    You could replace a 100-watt light bulb with a 60-watt LED, and get the same brightness.... You'd save 40 percent on power.


    The 40% is based on the fact that you use a 60-watt LED bulb instead of a 100-watt incandescent bulb. The "You'd save 40 percent power" was referring to the comment about replacing those specific bulbs. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that he was talking about total overall power.

  6. Re:this might be a long war on Our Solar System's Nomenclature Wars · · Score: 1

    Try reading the article Einstein.

  7. Re:this might be a long war on Our Solar System's Nomenclature Wars · · Score: 1

    The names are assigned to certain groups but they don't derive from the physical properties of the group. Does the name "rare earth" derive from the the number of protons? You've still got the same problem with coming up with the names in the first place.

  8. Re:this might be a long war on Our Solar System's Nomenclature Wars · · Score: 1

    And what does that have to do with naming?

  9. Re:this might be a long war on Our Solar System's Nomenclature Wars · · Score: 1


    Since in Chemistry the number of protons makes an easy periodic table, that wasn't much of a problem,


    Since when did the names of the all elements have any relation to the number of protons they contain?

  10. Re:Awesome Idea on A Fully Distributed Power Grid? · · Score: 1

    Yeast doesn't make ethanol from waste. It requires sugar.

  11. Re:Measureing a 5 year old on Japan's Proposed 30-Year Robot Program · · Score: 1
  12. Re:... until you look at it closely on A Fully Distributed Power Grid? · · Score: 1

    I suspect the effects would be less than the effects of the current pollutants we release into the atmosphere and oceans.

  13. Re:Awesome Idea on A Fully Distributed Power Grid? · · Score: 2, Informative

    And don't forget that hydrogen is lighter than air and tends to dissipate into the atmosphere quicker than other gaseous feuls. I'd rather be around a leaky hydrogen tank than a leaky propane tank.

  14. Re:Awesome Idea on A Fully Distributed Power Grid? · · Score: 1

    How about engineering bacteria to convert waste into hydrogen?

    In fact, can't fuel cells run on ethanol? If so, we could just engineer bacteria to make ethanol from waste.

  15. Re:SVG to XML convertor on Afterstep 2.0 Beta Includes XML Graphics System · · Score: 1

    If you're on windows then I'd be happy to write a simple shareware application that does this -- complete with 10 minute timeout nag screens (etc).

    Let me know...

  16. Re:The Heat Issue - The article is bullshit on The Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    Noone said diamond chips have to run that hot.

  17. Re:Big-endian/Little-endian on Slashdot T-Shirt Contest Winners! · · Score: 1

    Ahh. That's what I get for not testing it myself. I just assumed that someone writing text using 8 bits per char would not encode two chars with a 16bit number. Doh.

  18. Re:Big-endian/Little-endian on Slashdot T-Shirt Contest Winners! · · Score: 1

    Uh no.

    You're just talking about the order of the characters. The characters are *8 bits*.

    Endianess would only be an issue here if we had to know if the first 8 bits or the second 8 bits were the most significant bits in a 16 bit number. Since we're only talking about 8 bit numbers, endianess doesn't even apply. It's simple data stream ordering. Very little to do with endianess.

  19. Re:I don't get CLR on Essential .NET, Volume I · · Score: 1

    What kind of crack are you smoking?


    Actually, the CLR uses a Just-In-Time compiler to compile to native instructions.


    And so does Java. And it has been for years.


    On the other hand, Java uses a virtual machine to run inside a sandbox; no native code there, hence .Net apps are noticeably faster than Java apps


    So? .NET uses a "virtual machine" too. That doesn't mean that it doesn't generate native code. In fact, wth virtual method inlining and hotspot optimisation, Java's JITs are currently much more advanced than .NET's.

    But ofcourse you were trying to use as many technical terms as you could to cover the fact that you know fuck all.

  20. Re:What a waste on SETI@Home Publishes Skymap · · Score: 1

    Programs doing number crunching shouldn't crash your computer.

    Sounds like you have a poorly cooled (and probably overclocked) CPU.

  21. Re:No on Clock Ticking for Hubble · · Score: 1

    Um. How many space shuttle launches would it take to send up the parts and then build the hubble?

  22. Re:sweet on Mozilla 1.5 Alpha Available · · Score: 5, Funny


    tell me about it... I thought Firebird and Thunderbird was supposed to be integrated into 1.5a. That sucks. I guess we'll have to wait until 1.6.


    Why would you want to integrate a database into a webbrowser?

  23. Re:What's in store for a moderm C64? on Tulip to Relaunch C64 · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never read Compute!

  24. Re:Breaking the system? on Napster, Audio Fingerprinting, and the Future of P2P · · Score: 1

    What if you just encrypted it? Converted it to BASE64? Encoded it backwards? There's lots of ways to get around it.

  25. Re:Solve all voting machine problems on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 1


    Anyway, why stop at illiteracy. Why not require IQ scores of 145+ or high SAT verbals


    Yeah, next they'll be wanting to prevent criminals and minors from voting. Oh wait...