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  1. Re:Tape on Volunteers Recover Lunar Orbiter 1 Photographs · · Score: 1

    you must not have much important data. my "crucial data" of over ten years has grown to just over 1GB, I'm not going to put that on 850 floppies. Why aren't you burning that to archival quality optical disk and keeping live copy on spinning storage?

  2. Re:xp does the job well on 83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 · · Score: 0, Troll

    KDE was a terrible mistake, but it was no big deal because I tossed that shit into /dev/null and installed a working competing window manager. No need to stay at 8.04. Maybe someday the KDE unfutz their garbage, but no biggie if they don't

  3. Re:Seriously? on Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers · · Score: 1

    I don't live in a democracy, I live in an oligarchy called the U.S.A.

  4. Re:The plan is known by the colloquial title: on FCC Seeks To Improve US Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    you gotta be kidding, in this country, the hillbillies are starring in the porn. with broadband they can all have webcams and post on trash tube sites too. ew.

  5. Re:hilarious on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    you are too idealistic, civilizations aren't judged at all. they rise and fall, most commit horrible things, and most are structured to benefit a privileged few at the expense of the many. Western civilization certainly is designed that way, you are a serf and your work and economic transactions are done to benefit the lords, and your pious words will do nothing and mean nothing.

  6. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    eh, we kill mass murderers in our country too. it's just taking out the trash.

  7. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    I have watched his execution, what's the big deal? so a mass-murdering thug gets killed by traditional means by his own countrymen after a reign of terror.

  8. Re:I have little to contribute on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    but just five years later from ten years ago Linux use started to really blossum: just over ten years ago we have redhat 5.2, I still have the CDs for it and if someone had a Perl 5.005 or C app on it there would be plenty of folk out there who could provide paid support and even mods. So if someone were on THAT I think they would be in good shape for being useful for another five years as a non-internet application platform. Some low-end industrial grade PC from 1998 would be fine hardware platform for it too.

  9. Re:Cisco Sun on IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    in another post you've mentioned your on 2.4 kernels, much has changed in later 2.6 kernels, with right hardware you can hotplug CPUs now and with right drivers plus hardware hotplug disk and tape even on copper scsi.

  10. Re:Cisco Sun on IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT · · Score: 1

    haven't had that problem with HP Proliant and HP's perversion of qlogic drivers and boards. only issues is with hot-plug scsi and sas, some cciss drivers good and some stinky at rescan

  11. Re:Cisco Sun on IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT · · Score: 1

    that doesn't work with all scsi device drivers though, with some you'll even see new (hot-plug) disk but not tape drives, while for example in HP land some cciss drivers do it and some don't for tape drive. But yes, if someone wants the feature and plans their hardware purchases and device drivers, can do many hot-plug tricks with all manner of devices.

  12. Re:Cisco Sun on IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT · · Score: 1

    if someone has the money to spend, similar features are supported by the Linux kernel on expensive hardware for several architectures.

  13. Re:Cisco Sun on IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT · · Score: 1

    big (data center/enterprise grade) Linux installations use fibre SAN, and adding a tape drive and rescanning can be done on-line, even with copper scsi if presented to fibre SAN via storage router.

  14. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1

    won't be harmless, but won't be unified either, they would be weakened in potential, by the nature of concentrated-at-the-top power structures having sudden vacuum. The right kind of "strong man" could back them down from a totalitarian state, it has been done a few times in last 60 years in other places.

  15. Re:Open source goverment, no thanks! on Data.gov To Launch In May · · Score: 1

    er, because those mismanaged open source projects mass murder people on the scale of hundreds of thousands and embezzle money on the scale of billions? they line their pockets and project their power with the blood of soldiers and the misery of the people? yeah, your governments are much better than any half-assed FOSS project.

  16. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1

    north korea is supported by external donations, and power held by less than two dozen key men. the amount of might "to take it down" would be very small indeed. then let the 600,000+ soldiers on the border sit for orders that never come.

  17. Re:This confirms my theory of human behavior on Coders, Your Days Are Numbered · · Score: 1

    true, but each of those four types can be of either of two polarities, the creator or the parasite. For example, the parasite bean counter is your basic banking/megacorp cartel scumbug who has brought our economy to near ruin and taken away our real wealth with his paper pyramid scheme bullshit.

  18. Re:Maybe we should test it first? on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 1

    distance effects for blast roughly scale as inverse cube of yield. 1000 times the yield lets you multiply your distances by 10. That's why almost all nukes have small yield, most of the energy is wasted in the big ones.

  19. Re:Too late FBI on FBI Seizes All Servers In Dallas Data Center · · Score: 0

    You need a comma before "you dolt" and a question mark afterwards. After "sake," you need "it is" and KNOW and THEY'RE both should be surrounded by quotation marks.

  20. Re:Do Not Want on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    isn't that still in prototype stage as ppc is? maybe IBM has something up its sleeve for when it (probably but not certain) acquires Sun next week

  21. Re:Maybe we should test it first? on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 1

    and I live in the midwest, so let's talk about tornadoes. those over water are called waterspouts, they don't last long because lifting water drains their energy quickly, and they are usually 50 - 100 feet in diameter, largest ever was maybe 250 feet. No F-6 tower of death with two mile wide path of destruction going for tens of miles, sorry.

  22. Re:Maybe we should test it first? on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 1

    hahaha, write some movie scripts. You have some exaggerated ideas about what nukes can do. Meanwhile, back in reality, the most powerful nuclear device every made by man has a pathetic yield compared to the energy it takes to make a tsunami, off by a factor of 100,000! And see what happens to a large fusion devices yield when done at the surface of the ocean, the ability to destroy get severely dampened (U.S. tests against battleships were downright disappointing.) The real kind of killer EMP is made by detonation 200 miles up near ionic layers, that from your usual ground/water burst isn't going to do much tens of miles away against even conventional motors and electronics in cases and conduits. And we're talking about farms scattered over thousands of miles of continental shelf-line, even the Russian Tsar bomb would be useless to get them all. Any terrorist with such a thing (very unlikely) would just get near or into port near large city, who gives a shit about a windmill farm out of two dozen or more?

  23. Re:The GPL prevents Linux from "winning" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    but those things are done for any Unix installation too! for example, there are qlogic fibre HBA cards that have to have their firmware downgraded to work with Solaris 9 in an Oracle 10g configuration with EMC, HP EVA, Hitachi Thunder....

  24. Re:The GPL prevents Linux from "winning" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    it says you're clueless, there is no reason to run strace, clients don't do systems programming and development on their production Oracle boxes, there is no good reason to put strace there.

  25. Re:Maybe we should test it first? on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 1, Interesting

    how are the terrorists going to take out dozens of square miles of windmills and undersea HVDC cables, even a large nuke is too small for the job. We have the small attractive targets NOW with our current way of producing half the nations electricity.