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  1. exabyte? on Benchmarking XFS, ext2, ReiserFS, FAT32 · · Score: 2

    1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes
    1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes
    1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes
    1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes
    1 petabyte = 1024 terabytes
    1 exabyte = 1024 petabytes

    Data Powers of Ten

  2. or... on Low-Level Radiation May be Mutagenic · · Score: 1

    or it will turn us into Radioactive Supermen like I saw on Futurama.

  3. Re:Commander Keen on Rockets of Doom From Carmack And Friends · · Score: 2


    It was developed by id, and published by Apogee.

    http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory/

  4. and the response was... on NASA Contacts Pioneer 10 · · Score: 2

    All your...

    Ahhhh... forget it

  5. Thats why there's Triangle Boy! on Chinese Government Perplexed By Internet Cafes · · Score: 4


    Triangle Boy is a free peer-to-peer application that bypasses firewalls and other mechanisms that attempt to block access to SafeWeb. Users who are currently blocked from directly accessing SafeWeb (or any other site) will be able to access it indirectly through any other computer running Triangle Boy.

    https://triangleboy.com/

    SafeWeb allows you to connect your computer to the Web through a secure, private pipe. SafeWeb encrypts all data sent and received, making it impossible for anyone to pry into your online activity. In addition, since your computer does not connect directly to any servers other than ours, no Web site you visit can obtain information about you that you do not specifically allow to pass through our SafeWeb server.

    Yeah, yeah, it sounds like marketing stuff, but it's all I could find to cut-and-paste. :) Try it! You'll like it!

  6. Not 3 days, thats 3 hours! on Tito In Space · · Score: 1

    Not 3 days, thats 3 hours!

  7. basis for concept that clones are monsters on Send out the Clones? · · Score: 2

    Sure there is! :)

  8. Tribes2 supports 255 on Spectator Gaming, Multicast Style · · Score: 2


    I've been in Tribes 2 games with about 75-100 players, but I've seen some servers listed with a capacity of 255.

    To see the current high, go to http://gamespy.com/stats/ and look at the Current Most Popular Game Server near the bottom of the page. This number fluxuates quite a bit throughout the day, so it will be much higher during prime-time.

  9. Prior Art on Worlds.com Patents Quake-like Games? Kinda. · · Score: 1


    3D Chat with Avatars?

    Sounds a lot like the OnLive Traveler (which is now part of DigitalSpace).

    I'm pretty sure this was around before 1996.

  10. Re:Well, the reply-to argument is at rest... on New Mail RFCs Released · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this use the "Sender" and "From" addresses?

    Look at the second example in Appendix A (section A.1.1).

  11. Re:Just need the right terminal on Rack Mount Solution for Desktop PCs · · Score: 2

    You just described an iMac.

  12. What is SMAC? on Loki Offers 50%-off Discounts to LUGs · · Score: 1

    What the heck is SMAC? The only thing I could come up with is Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, but thats the wrong acronym.

  13. 7 days isn't very old on Tribes2 and Alpha Centauri for Linux · · Score: 1

    Tribes 2 just came out for the first time on any platform one week ago. That's not very old.

  14. Re:Peer to Peer works with a list of servers on Does Peer-to-Peer Suck? · · Score: 1

    If they *do* shut down the web pages then it will just use your instant messenger contacts list or something else and query those. The point is that you only need to know the address of of any one peer on the network to be connected to them all.

  15. Peer to Peer works with a list of servers on Does Peer-to-Peer Suck? · · Score: 1
    All you need is a web page with a list of servers. Once you connect to one server on the network it tells about its peers, and they tell you about their peers, and so on, and so on.

    Maybe they'll shut down one web page, but they can't get them all at once.

    Couple of links to check out:
    Gnutella host caches
    Clip2 Super Peers

  16. Re:Funding... on Northpoint DSL Warns Customers of Shutdown · · Score: 1

    The funding will come from the 'partners' that the customers will be migrating to. This is just another form of customer acquisition. If Acme Corp wants Northpoint's customers, then Acme Corp better give Northpoint enough money to stay afloat long enough to migrate the customers over.

  17. Don't you mean subscription model? on Avoiding The Content Apocalypse? · · Score: 2

    Don't most adult sites use a subscription model rather than an advertising model?

    (Not that I would know, or anything.)

    When was the last time you saw an ad on an adult site for anything other than another adult site? Who is paying them for these ads that you say are generating revenue?

  18. Re:Problems with Encrypting Email on Is Crypto Solely for Criminals? · · Score: 1

    You can get free personal certificates from Thawte (who was recently acquired by Verisign).

    Just go to http://www.thawte.com/certs/personal/. Its quick and easy, especially with MS lookOut Express.

  19. Freenet's biggest problem... on Running The Numbers: Why Gnutella Can't Scale · · Score: 1

    Freenet's biggest problem is the lack of a simple search function. If Joe Blow can't do a search on "Metallica MP3" and have the entire works of Metallica returned then he ain't gonna use it.

  20. Re:Um... Is everyone missing something? on Holographic Storage For The Masses · · Score: 1

    It said square inch, not cubic inch... seems kinda strange, but there you have it.

  21. Open Packages on Cross Platform Packaging: A Dream Or Something More? · · Score: 1


    How does this relate to Open Packages?

    I know that Open Packages is a Unified BSD Package Collection, but how do these compare?

  22. So how do we send a signal back? on Looking For Aliens In All the Wrong Places · · Score: 1

    Project leader Professor Paul Horowitz, of Harvard University, said: "Using only Earth 2001 technology, we could now generate a beamed laser pulse that appears 5,000 times brighter than our sun, as seen by a distant civilisation in the direction of its slender beam.
    "In other words, interstellar laser communication is altogether practicable.


    So we can communicate by shooting a really strong laser at nearby stars?

    I can just see it now... "We come in peace!" ZAAAAAP!

  23. Isn't that a little arrogant? on Where Should Company Loyalty End? · · Score: 2

    -- if I bail ship, the company will likely either fold or have to transform itself immensely, quite probably at the cost of the jobs of my friends Isn't that a little arrogant? What makes you think that they won't find a replacement? The world (and that company) don't revolve around you. Life (and the company) will go on without you.

  24. webcams on Pinball 2000 + Ethernet = ... · · Score: 3


    Now, to make it complete, you need to add webcams to this setup!

    We should be able to SEE you get that high score!

  25. what if the machine doesn't have a net connection? on Whistler "Anti-Piracy" Tools Tie OS To Machine · · Score: 1

    What happens if the machine doesn't have a net connection at installation time? or ever?