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  1. Here at the UW we use large flat-panel LCDs on Health Consequences of CRT Monitors? · · Score: 1

    Some Swedish studies have shown that for some reason, there might be negative side effects to having large electromagnetic guns (aka CRTs) aimed directly at your head and upper torso.

    But the CRT manufacturers swear you're safe. Just like all the SUV manufacturers do.

  2. The only thing I don't get about the new Star Trek on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Save Enterprise · · Score: 1

    is how they're going to fit those sweaters on the buff teenage boy dolls that are Ensigns First Class (Postage Due) ...

  3. Great news, guys, they accepted my Theme Song on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Save Enterprise · · Score: 1

    admittedly, I was surprised that they did, but they've heard great things about Seattle song-writing, so the new theme song is:

    "Noone Expects The Canadian Space Mounties"

    [sung to the tune of "America", from their prior film Team America: World Police, which is probably why they liked it.

  4. Re:Best whack idea yet. on GeNToo - Gentoo on the NT Kernel · · Score: 1

    Don't you need to emerge sys-tools/apt first? Or is there an rmp for that?

    Good point. However, the GenNToo variant of this is called ramp - apparently there's an NT kernel program called rmp that it conflicts with.

    Naturally, you can always just issue the native command:
    let -dOwN -ur shield -s

    This will enable remote patching of the OS by the Net, and broadcast the message [on port 69]:
    IaM -rdy 4 -hack -ng

    Then MSFT will find your kernel and fix it for you, within generally four business days.

  5. The Vatican is beta-testing GenNToo already on GeNToo - Gentoo on the NT Kernel · · Score: 1

    They say that the white smoke generator addition has a few bugs in it, but they haven't had to reboot in over three weeks.

  6. Re:Best whack idea yet. on GeNToo - Gentoo on the NT Kernel · · Score: 1

    No graphical subsystem. We do not provide X11. This requires major work, and is not likely to change in the near future

    Just use apt -get Xapr11

    should be live now.

  7. The current alpha of GeNToo has a few flaws on GeNToo - Gentoo on the NT Kernel · · Score: 1

    First, if you carefully read the splash page, you'll notice that it incorrectly has a Copyright 2005 Disney Corporation notice above the Copyright 2005 Microsoft Corporation notice.

    I think this is due to their addition of the unstable Hillary Duff song module to the platform, which as we all know has a required royalty payment, and is thus incompatible with most Open Source implementations, unless you're using a Sony DDR memory stick for data transfer, which includes the patch in its kernel. It's hard to access, though, so you have to mount the DDR with the mount -xpladocious parameter or it won't work.

    Once you get past that, you'll see that they also had to bundle in a flawed version of GIMP that only includes man pages up to version 0.8.5 - not too hard to fix, but a bother nonetheless.

    I think I'll wait till they get this release a bit more stable. Like maybe next year, is my guess, when they should go live on 1-Apr-2006.

  8. SQL Server on Linux is codenamed Pope Mobile on Microsoft Porting SQL Server To New Platforms · · Score: 1

    It's a dark horse candidate. Most of the Database group that interviewed me for the SQLServer add-ins subgroup are actually being used on the other project, codenamed White Fish, which is to port SQLServer to the Cray, for use in designing Paul Allen's fleet of spaceships that is underway in Seattle, construction to be in Plano, Texas at his commercial starport.

    I figure it has about a 25 percent chance of successful implementation, once they finish the contract with Linus Torvalds, who is insisting on 10 percent of the net proceeds in MSFT stock options.

    But don't count out ORACLE - Larry Ellison still has his own project underway to port ORACLE to the Cray, and it's said that Paul Allen might still be convinced, provided Larry's version is ADA-compliant and he gets to crew in the next America's Cup challenge.

  9. Re:The Horse on Microsoft Porting SQL Server To New Platforms · · Score: 1

    It's dead, Jim. You can stop beating it now.

    It's only a flesh wound.

    It's feeling better now.

    Do you have any spare coconuts, sire?

  10. All your database are belong to MSFT on Microsoft Porting SQL Server To New Platforms · · Score: 1

    Resistance is futile, your code will not compile until you pay us cash.

    Lots of it.

  11. Enough already with the April Fools jokes! on Microsoft Porting SQL Server To New Platforms · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Right, like MSFT would ever port SQL server to another platform without first claiming a patent on every piece of software on that platform first ...

    How gullible do you think we are?

    Now, if you had said IBM was porting DB2 to the Palm OS, that I might have believed, but no, you just had to push it ...

  12. RFID tags in drinks have a metallic aftertaste on Google Moves Into Drink Market · · Score: 1

    They should rename the Google drink to the Big Gulp, because it's really hard to swallow.

  13. It's sad how many kids will get hooked on this on Google Moves Into Drink Market · · Score: 1

    Just the latest PC fad, with a lot of empty calories. Always in search of the next thing, never questioning how real the pages on the Net that Google finds are, just like this drink.

    But, more importantly, will it come in a BSD-compatible version?

  14. Re:Announcement from the White House on First PC Virus Spreads to Humans · · Score: 1

    President George W. Bush: "In response to this human catastrophe, I am calling Kuala Lampur right now to recall the ambassador to Malwarlaria."

    Sadly, that doesn't just work on April 1st. It works any day.

  15. Easy solution to this virus on First PC Virus Spreads to Humans · · Score: 1

    Unplug your keyboard.

    Unplug your telephone.

    Pull out the battery to your cell phone.

    Pull out the battery to your beeper.

    Take a deep cleansing breath and think about fluffy bunnies in a verdant field of flowers.

    Say "I wish it was April" five times while walking widdershins around your Hybrid Car.

    And you're cured!

  16. Executve Pong on iCopulate Romances iPods, Executive Pong · · Score: 1

    I think it's appropriate that the add-on for Executives is mispeld.

    But is it available on BSD?

  17. It's obviously the Red Hat thing on Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Paris always poses with hats and a man's shirt ... and nothing else ... in issues of Vanity Fair.

    It's official, Linux is so Hot it's Not.

    I'm looking forward to the Victoria's Secret preview of their new Red Hat Lingerie.

  18. That's It, I'm Moving to Outer Mongolia on Scientific American Gives Up · · Score: 1

    at least they're more sensible there.

    Intelligent Design my azz.

  19. Re: didn't adobe sue macro for trade dress? on Hack turns GIMP into Photoshop Look-alike · · Score: 1

    didn't adobe sue macromedia for trade dress? macromedia imitated adobe's use of panels, though macromedia countered with another suit and they both settled and cross-licensed certain aspects of each other's technology.

    Riiight ... just like all music downloading stopped when the music industry sued all the hundreds of millions of music file sharers ... NOT!

    Well, gotta go, balancing .egg files by their {End} extensions for April 1st celebration in Fremont ...

  20. As a Bioinformatician working on malaria on How Much Respect Do You Get? · · Score: 1

    I get tons of respect.

    As a tech database geek, I was just one of thousands here in Seattle.

    It's all context-sensitive.

    You're either doing well - or you're doing good. It's better to be doing good, because money ain't all that useful IMHO.

  21. Re:what a job on Microsoft Drops Blaster Author's Fine · · Score: 1

    now he makes almost as much as gates does

    No, he's making $2200 an hour.

    Gates makes that much every millisecond.

  22. Re:Spam with trigger words in the pictures on Spam Kings · · Score: 1

    yeah, read and send all your mail in plain text format..

    Doesn't everyone have WebPine? It makes it oh so easy to avoid spam.

    Especially when you run it inside Firefox 1.0.2

  23. Yet they can get $20 million in tax breaks on Microsoft Drops Blaster Author's Fine · · Score: 1

    I think it'd be great for this guy to get out in the sun and clean up graffiti! Maybe it'll build his character enough that he'll realize that making worms to smash Microsoft PCs isn't a cool thing to do- or is it?

    Well, Paul Allen just got $20 million in tax breaks according to The Stranger (local weekly paper) and The Weekly (other local weekly paper), so ...

    However, if they want to clean up graffiti, we have an underpass at Bridgeway N that can be repainted to remove the graffiti over here in Seattle.

  24. Re:What's a TLD? on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 1

    *sigh* A TLD is a Top Level Domain.

    If you had read my post, you'd see it was using the

    Is it something like www.ihate.tv

    coding structure. In other words, .tv may be a nation-specific domain (as Tuvalu sinks beneath the waves), but it's really a TLD in practice.

    Got .net?

    [hint, that was irony too, with a triple-entendre thrown in ...]

  25. What's a TLD? on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You mean those fake extensions to web domains like www.ihate.tv?

    Sheesh, yeah, maybe they'll encourage everyone to upgrade to 56k modems too, day late and a dollar short, while I post on the Gigabit Internet.