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  1. OpenSolaris / ZFS on SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Build it yourself and install Opensolaris. ZFS rocks.

  2. Re:Is Linux a hard requirement? on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    BS, It runs fine on my X2100 with 1GB and Solaris.

  3. Re:To expand on that on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    ZFS is available using FUSE albeit slow from what I hear.
    I use it on Solaris 10 for my twonkymedia server (twonkymedia on a Linux zone) and have yet to have a problem over many months. It is stupid simple to administer and expansion is as easy as adding a device and issuing a single command to add it to your pool. Run out of room, add another usb drive and keep growing. It's FAST and easy.

  4. Re:Ah Good on Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy · · Score: 1

    "So where are they suppose to get the extra couple grand it costs to pay for all the software that industries expect them to know? Think schools are handing out free copies of Office or Visual C++? I wouldn't know a tenth of what I know if it wasn't for downloading software."
    Yes, mine in fact does give out free copies. Office 2007 Enterprise, SQL Standard, Visual Studio Professional and numerous others all downloadable from the campus website legally.

  5. SImple on Airport Security Prize Announced · · Score: 1

    Everyone flys naked.

  6. Re:Mobile Development on Origin of the iPhone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A real sybian phone?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybian
    How exciting.

  7. Re:Wall building? on A Run Through Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Vegetable substitutes for meat on Award of $200M Supercomputer To IBM Proving Controversial · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    God gave man the ability to invent vegetable substitutes for meat.
    If only they actually tasted like meat you might be on to something.

  9. Re:Drive a Truck on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 2, Informative

    We now have air conditioning as standard. Many trucks today are more comfortable and have better amenities than most cars.
    http://www.freightlinertrucks.com/trucks/find-by-m odel/cascadia/default.aspx

  10. AMD + Apple = on Why Apple Should Acquire AMD · · Score: 1

    AMPLE - more than enough in size or scope or capacity (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn);

  11. Re:HOW the HELL can LIGHT scratch a disc ? on 360 Disc Scratching Serious Problem · · Score: 1

    I guess you dont have friggin sharks with friggin laser beams now DO YOU?

  12. Re:You are right -- for the moment on Philips Launching TV on Cellular in the US · · Score: 1

    This woman does not need to be watching TV on the bus. Tell her to learn to knit or some other easy task that could earn her some money.

  13. Re:"you need to move" on Philips Launching TV on Cellular in the US · · Score: 1

    Oh, so now she also has a son that in addition to working what? 10 hours a day? Commuting 6 hours a day. So she has how much time to see her child? 8 hours? Of which she is sleeping at least 7 hours, eating another 1/2 hour, showering, misc other tasks for 25 minutes... Now she has exactly 5 minutes in which to try and raise a child. Now that woman REALLY needs to either find a different job, move, or give her egg/sperm combination up for adoption.

  14. Re:TOOKIE WILLIAMS: MURDERER, NEGRO, PHP PROGRAMME on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So what, they had enough for two or three mice?

  15. Re:Solutions on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 1

    There is a solution to this. Don't "back up" this portion of the DVD. Either that or disable the anti-skip flag during back up.

  16. Re:Die Tookie, Die ! on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How ironic that millions of Christians do precisely the same thing about a man who died 2000 years ago and hasn't been seen since. Oh wait, that's ok because he commited suicide... for a reason.

  17. Re:Cisco's products on "24" were part of the story on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 1

    You don't think that's a little intentional? TV exec says to advertiser... "For only $2,000,000 that can could actualy say COKE instead of only maybe, possibly being COKE".

  18. Re:stupid on Philips Launching TV on Cellular in the US · · Score: 1

    If you're on the bus for 6 hours a day you really need to move.

  19. Re:Consumers will return them on Blu-ray Coming Out On Top? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't completely ruin the picture, it is watchable. Many people will just attribute it to crappy tv, player, disc, etc... From memory the picture just varies brightness constantly. Also as of a few years ago there were quite a few movies that had no protection at all and would play just fine.

  20. Quick someone throw them a rope on New Ocean being Formed in Africa · · Score: 1

    ... before they get stranded

  21. Re:What's the question again? on Computer Jobs -- How to Resign Professionally? · · Score: 1

    [0] Having spent the last year or so working for a US company (in Australia), I've also discovered their corporate culture has *serious* issues about giving more than 4 consecutive weeks leave, and/or giving unpaid leave. My erroneous assumption about these two issues meant the holiday I was hoping to take next year had to be *seriously* curtailed, even after volunteering to work for a week from our European office while I was there. Truly, Australian and US working cultures are worlds apart.

    4 weeks! I've never had more than a week off at a time in 13 years (worked at the same place). Having just resigned for another job that doesn't require me to work 10hr+ days, work 7 days a week nor answer the phone 24hrs a day I think that will be far better than any vacation. I don't think I'd feel comfortable taking 4 weeks+ vacation from any job.

  22. Re:It cant be any more dangerous on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard! · · Score: 1

    Locked in my holster, yes.

  23. Re:It cant be any more dangerous on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard! · · Score: 1

    No thanks, while my country is not ideal, I do find it better than most in almost every aspect. I have a feeling that if a large number started to imigrate to your country those oh-so-low crime stats would certainly see a big spike because it would destroy the homogeneous quality of your country.

    I'm not trying to argue that merely owning a firearm is in any way, shape, or form a replacement for training. The ability to own, carry and operate the right tool for the job is important. I do believe that you are over-generalizing those who own handguns in this country. I know you are thinking of a bunch of cowboys with a shoot first ask questions later attitude, blah, blah. There are a fair bit more than 4 million (295M+) here with a bit over 200 million firearms. We civilized, law-abiding citizens do not go around shooting our neighbors left and right. The ones who do carry at all times generally do throughout their lives without incident. Your solution will not work here and vice versa.

    Nice choice for target, I have a G21 myself and just sold my 17.

    I would think that far more homicides were commited with a motor vehicle than a pool myself.

  24. Re:It cant be any more dangerous on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard! · · Score: 1

    1. Unfortunatly illegal entry crimes in this country are far more common.
    2. Your "Gang of criminals from Eastern Europe" sounds more like a lost bunch of teenage hooligans than any actual real criminal threat. Must have been a very slow news day indeed.
    3. The passerby should be so lucky as to find a large stone to stop a rapist. You're not actually serious about this?
    4. I would suggest that when faced with a situation where you had to defend yourself with a firearm that accuracy would not be your first thought. I'm sure that your match grade, floated barrel, windage adjusted rifle will be very helpful in such situations. Perhaps as a large object to swing at the attackers head. On the other hand if I'm being shot at I am probably likely to run in the opposite direction of the gunfire, regardless if I am hit.
    5. You bring up a good point... Ban cars as they do cause many more times the damage of firearms per year.

  25. Re:It cant be any more dangerous on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard! · · Score: 1

    Good to hear that your firearm will be of good use locked in a vault when a theif does decide to break in. Do you even bother to keep ammunition on the premises?

    Certainly those who own firearms need to use common sense, nobody would argue against that. Common sense tells me that keeping firearms from the law abiding population does absolutly nothing to stop crime.