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  1. Re:No knee jerk responses needed on Bill Gates: Windows Patched Faster than Linux · · Score: 1

    --You *do* know that you can (re)compile the kernel and modules on another machine, and copy them over, right? (Unless you compile on an AMD and try to use it on Intel, that doesn't work in my experience.) That little tip might help you cut back on downtime.

  2. Re:Well, did you know... on Miyazaki's "Nausicaa" Dub Updates · · Score: 1

    > Not only that, it would sound really strange too....kind of like operas in English (yes, I know some can be decent, but let's face it, opera is better in Italian, Spanish or French, perhaps even German)

    --You have not seen opera unless you see it done in the original Klingon. :b

  3. Re:Patrick Stewart in Nausicaa? on Miyazaki's "Nausicaa" Dub Updates · · Score: 1

    At least it was a HELPFUL post. (Helped me anyway.)

  4. Re:I'm still letting the media costs decide . . . on Choosing Between DVD+R and DVD-R? · · Score: 1

    ...Got a link?

  5. Re:I wonder... on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 1

    +1 Funny
    - .5 Funny But Seriously Wrong
    ==
    + .5 Funny But Feeling Guilty About Laughing

  6. Re:Torvalds, 33, looks like a supply clerk. on Wired Interview with Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    +1 M.A.S.H. reference

    --Why is it that Alan Alda couldn't *buy* a good role in ANYTHING after MASH even if his life depended on it?

  7. Re:I misread the headline as... on China Sends First Taikonaut To Space · · Score: 1

    Check this out:

    > The menu for his flight included freeze- dried shredded pork with garlic sauce and fried rice, and he brought along a sleeping bag for naps, state television said.

    --Damn, that sounds good - now I'm hungry for Chinese food...

  8. Re:netcat? on Sending Files w/o Sending Clear Passwords? · · Score: 1

    --You should also have the ssh session properly set up, i.e. with -2 -c blowfish for fast encryption.

  9. Re:More platforms to come... on New Commercial Word Processor For FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    (sympathy) Ah. Well, then. (/me shuts up)

    HAND.

  10. Re:The iPod tastes like fluffy caramel. on iPods are for Audiophiles · · Score: 1

    A m00se once bit my sister...

    We apologize for the interruption. The person posting this post has been sacked.

  11. Re:Serving his divine shadow on Boot a CD and Make Your X-Box Join the Cluster · · Score: 1

    +1 Lexx reference
    -1 Posting AC
    ==
    0 (me with no mod points)

  12. Re:IKEA on How Do You Store Your Media? · · Score: 1

    How to make a multiboot cd in Linux:
    http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue85/sipos. html

    (Sorry, it's kind of a hack since he uses 1 DOS program, but hey it's free advice. :)

    --Alternative:
    http://www.newfreeware.com/utils /972/

    --Best of luck. :)

  13. Re:Do slide rules count? on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    You should upgrade to Sliderule v2.1. You get a free Pi sticker with 7 digits after the decimal point and an extra digit of precision; that way only the 4th digit will sometimes be off. ;-)

  14. Re:This is prime PHB material, but... on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1

    John Spartan, you have been fined one credit for not knowing how to use your computer...

  15. Re:The question is on Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    What, are you crazy? With that amount of storage space you back up to tape or DVDs at the very least.

  16. Re:Personally... on Maxtor's 300 GB Monster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    ' hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hdX '

  17. Re:Flexibility? on Martial Arts Robots · · Score: 1

    Hmm... Could be we have a new saying here:
    "Build a better kung-fu robot, and it will beat a path through the world."

    (Apologies to those who are building better mousetraps.)

  18. Re:Ice Pirates on Martial Arts Robots · · Score: 1

    --Man I really liked that movie, but it's impossible to find in the rental stores these days.

  19. Re:Flexibility? on Martial Arts Robots · · Score: 1

    --I would love to see these robots doing some Soul Calibur (Dreamcast, not the crappy xbox too-fast version) moves someday. I can imagine a robot Kilik doing a demo for spectators in a secure ring.

    SHINDUGGA!

  20. Re:I, for one... on Martial Arts Robots · · Score: 1

    (obligatory) In SOVIET RUSSIA, old jokes beat YOU into ground! :b
    (/me likes Lucy Liu's freckles.)

  21. Re:You're just supposed to take my word for it.... on Samba Beats Windows IT Week Labs Test Results · · Score: 1

    --You've gotta stop experimenting with those JATO units, man... ;-) That tricycle is gonna end up embedded in a cliff one of these days.

    http://www.rocketcarstory.com/

  22. Re:Let the job market sort it out. on Non-Technological Ways to Combat Cheating? · · Score: 1

    --Don't be foolish. I *could* honestly sit here and substantiate all day and night, but a) it wouldn't faze you or be a productive use of my time, and b) this isn't the place for that kind of discussion.

    This thread is ended. So saith the Wolfrider.

  23. Re:The count above is wronng on Ten Years Of The Linux Counter · · Score: 1

    Yah, the Linux Counter fell quite a bit in my estimation when they went thru a reorg a couple of years ago and *lost* my # (108844.) Who needs them anyway, I still have the .gif on my tripod site.

  24. Re:More platforms to come... on New Commercial Word Processor For FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    --So install it on ONE, and export with NFS... Unless your 250 aren't networked together.

  25. Re:Let the job market sort it out. on Non-Technological Ways to Combat Cheating? · · Score: 1

    --This is the book I'm using, and yes indeed I looked it up:
    http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?pass age=R omans+10:9-10