User: mattmatt

Re:Do we really need more advertising?

On: How The THX Noise Was Created

I'm getting pretty sick of the loud pretentious dolby ads at the front of movies.

But just think how much more they would suck if everybody had to turn around to see them.

Re:pfft ... 20k lines of C

On: How The THX Noise Was Created

It's called "humor", Gavin...

Or, more often, "humour".

Re:To be honest...

On: Preview Google's New Search Results Page

Synergy is a perfectly cromulent word.

Re:Is it good search engine?

On: Boxxet, a Tool for Automatic Webpage Generation

What, there's another meaning for caning?

Re:Lifetime of immortality?

On: A Solution for the Ten Letter Acrostic Puzzle?

"Lifetime of immortality" - You will spend your entire life without dying.

Re:Ubuntu?

On: Linux Desktop Deployment Postmortems?

Works with Firefox, except for the 'change password' function (at least in my particular setup).

Re:I D I O T S

On: Why FreeBSD

Heh.

Convergence?

On: Effort to Create Virtual Brain Begins

"But there has been a convergence of the biological data and the computational resources," he says.

Eh?

Re:The Worm Turns

On: Wormholes Unstable (BBC)

If runways allow vertical travel, their length is nearly irrelevant.

Re:Hmmm, I have a new business idea..

On: Chase Deploying "Touchless" Credit Cards

Oh, by the way, am I the first post?

No.

Re:More poorly spent money...

On: Rice Contracted to Provide NASA's Quantum Wire

(the capped ends are two halves of a fullerene, iirc)

Halferenes?

Re:Half of Users Already Know Windows Costs Too Mu

On: The Truth About Linux and Windows

Concepts like mounting drives, Finding the print driver for one of the many possible print servers, best ways to share files, Samba or NFS?, Dealing with RWX RWX RWX based permissions, and groups, writtig shell scripts, the CronTab, Finding drivers and worse installing them, knowing where the logs are and how to read them.

If a sysadmin doesn't understand, or cannot quickly pick up these concepts, then they have no business being a sysadmin.

Re:Questions???

On: Brain-Implanted Chips Allow Control of Technology

Imagine a Beowolf cluster of people???

Borg, anyone?

Re:Solution

On: Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware?

Better yet: after searching for said files, delete them.

Re:Freedom, Internet, Tibet, & Chinese Tyranny

On: Contrabandwidth

After all, both CNN and FoxNews have web sites.

As do sites which could provide factual information about the outside world.

Re:yawn

On: Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out

"married lactating grandmas doing their first anal with an underage donkey!" Why does that sound familiar?

Re:Puppy does install to the hard drive

On: Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD

Surely if you wanted to install Linux onto a hard drive, you wouldn't do it with a liveCD.

Re:Any way to see the video without Real Player 10

On: One Giant Step for Humanoids

My bad.

Re:Any way to see the video without Real Player 10

On: One Giant Step for Humanoids

I haven't tried this particular file, but Media Player Classic plays Real stuff ok.

Re:Rule #1

On: New Rules Proposed on Electronic Evidence

Nor Word .doc format.