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  1. Re:2+ TB Hard Drives on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    The MBR should've been tossed a long time ago. Extented partitions are an annoyance I have to deal with on a continual basis. On the other hand, I'm used to the MBR way of doing things. I setup a 6TB array the other day and kept trying to get fdisk -l to show me the size of my partition. What the heck... Every time I ran it I was annoyed that it was showing my 2TB. I knew from a technical standpoint that fdisk doesn't support GUID, but my fingers were so used to typing that command to see the partition size.

  2. 2+ TB Hard Drives on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is... why are hard drives stuck at 2TB? Did we reach some theoretical limit? Does the laws of physics start to fail at higher data densities? Don't get me wrong, I love my 2TB hard drive, but I want more!

  3. Re:Truly on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 1
    My wife got into the better SAT prep courses at her high school by forcing her way in (there was some entry test she didn't quite pass). I'm glad she did because she was national merit!

    Advanced classes should always be easy to get into!

  4. Re:first post? on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    I got one of those this time around... It took forever!

  5. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You really think the senate is going to do anything after the house passes their bill verbatim and the President signs it into law? The Senate may be many things, but they are most definitely not the House's lap dogs.

  6. Re:I've lost my idenity, can I have a new one? on Banks Accept Dubai Assassins' Stolen IDs · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, the US has very little interest in the Caspian Sea. It's the EU that gets its oil from that region.

  7. Re:Why put tabs in code anyway? on Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting · · Score: 1

    Good to know... I could've sworn that one of the older tutorials used to recommend tabs over spaces.

  8. Re:Why put tabs in code anyway? on Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting · · Score: 1

    For your second point...
    What happens when you put tabs after the start of the line to make columns? Spaces would stay lined up as long as you use a fixed width font. Tabs cause the column spacing to change (when you change the tab size) depending on how much text is in each column.

    I do prefer tabs for the other two stated reasons; also GNUmake forces the issue, and Python recommends the use of tabs.

  9. Re:I wonder .. on Programming With Proportional Fonts? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's not forgot standardized coding styles. I have a hard enough time with developers who use the wrong spacing for tabs in their editor window!

  10. X FTW on Tynt Insight Is Watching You Cut and Paste · · Score: 1

    Selection to alternate clipboard (or whatever it's called) doesn't suffer from this nonsense :D

  11. Re:Another networking module... great on DRBD To Be Included In Linux Kernel 2.6.33 · · Score: 1

    I think this does not mean what you think it means...

    make allnoconfig will answer "no" to all questions that can be answered no...

  12. Re:It's a trick question on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    when it becomes a possibility for me to become a "real" engineer without having to study mechanics, surveying, etc I will become one. Until then I will be proud of my fake engineer status with my degree from " ... school of engineering"

  13. Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    I've gotten a lot closer recently (it got less and less useful of course). Also, back in the day, you had a driver diskette to load after the kernel.

  14. Re:Raistlin99 on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1
    A couple other things (at least from a Christian viewpoint, but there still should be some crossover if you don't hold the same views I do)
    1. Find out what each other's "love language" is. Yes, it's full of Christian viewpoints, but his psychology is at least sound. Basically you find the best way to make your spouse feel loved and concentrate your efforts there. Website: http://www.fivelovelanguages.com/
    2. Make a consious effort to maintain intimacy. Physical and emotional intimacy are a huge part of marriage. Since you're doing research, I suggest The Marriage Bed. Once again, this is a Christian ministry, but they're not going to beat you over the head if you're not a Christian but want to have a good marriage.
    3. Don't underestimate the spiritual aspect of marriage. The tying together of souls into one person, while it may seem old and outdated, is a very powerful concept. Find a pastor/priest/rabbi/etc to help you understand what it means to be united with your spouse.
  15. Re:Interesting on New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    so... any BIND server would be down for a bit... anyone with a caching name server would still be able to surf.

  16. Re:Next step on Moblin Will Run X Server As Logged-In User, Not Root · · Score: 1

    that wouldn't really work. you still need (without kernel modesetting) access to the graphics hardware.

  17. Re:It's not just NT Greek on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    Most evangelicals see their beliefs as meriting a lifetime of study. Definitely those who get paid by the churches to study and teach should be able to at least pick this apart line by line. Having this resource available for free is amazing considering some of the doctrinal study tools out there cost a small fortune.

  18. Re:Symbian? on Google's Android To Challenge Windows? · · Score: 1

    Umm, you can now turn in your geek badge Mr. Anonymous. A/I wasn't the best movie, but it was excellent Science Fiction.

  19. Re:Sounds about right on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    The major problem is that a lot of GNU software is horribly a pain to cross-compile, especially if the project is less mature. The main goal of scratchbox is to hide the fact that your cross-compiling and to only expose the headers and libraries you need to compile in the "correct" place so the Make/autoconf/automake generated files don't have to be massaged too much. Part of this "hiding" is to also disguise the "arch" of the host machine as well, and it almost seems that jails would be equally suited to do this part.

  20. Re:Sounds about right on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    Just as a curiosity... Have you guys ever used jails for cross-compiles similar to scratchbox?

  21. Re:What kind of verbosity? on Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    haven't done much with c++ std libs, but should it be

    for(std::list * it...)

    or does std::list imply a pointer type?

    I hate typedefs that are pointer types. If I want a pointer type, I want to explicitly say *.

  22. Re:Other Pollution on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    be careful that you don't overstress your roof supports... If you're in an area that gets 2-3 feet of snow in the winter you should be ok, but if you're in the south you might have to add more load bearing beams to keep the roof from caving in.

  23. Re:Brazilian Ethanol [Re:Don't blame me] on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    nope... '02 F150 explicitly says in the manual to not run high ethanol gas. Also, when we made the switch in Texas at 10% ethanol, I lost ~ 10% fuel mileage.

  24. Re:Work Experience on Go For a Masters, Or Not? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, good luck getting a part time job in industry that's relevent to your field of study.

    My two cents: find a company that will pay you to get your masters degree. Work for a year and bust your butt so you get a promotion the first time around then go back for your masters. A lot of companies will give you an automatic pay bump when you get a masters in addition to paying for your schooling.

  25. Re:I can think of a few on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, would fiber have been easier/cheaper than all that shielded Cat5e/6 cable?

    Fiber is cheaper by the foot, but the connectors are extremely expensive.