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  1. Re:Preupgrade on Fedora 11 Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    Please reply back with results. Never used preupgrade, but would be interested in seeing how well it goes for you.

  2. Re:Resume? on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 2

    Indeed I did, as it would let you put your resume AS WELL AS anything else you would want on your site. If you're in IT, more than likely you have little or no free time. I've found Plone useful in this situation, so I suggested it. Feel free to have your opinion on it's complexity.

  3. Re:Resume? on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 1

    THIS! And if you want to make things easy, use Plone: www.plone.org

  4. Re:How is this unreasonable on Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    I'm not paying tax on bits that move around any more than I'm paying tax on the air I breathe. The taxing authority can go suck it, and come try to collect on data I've pushed through a VPN.

  5. Re:Conservation (of electricity) is a red herring on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 1

    Conservation is futile in the presence of geometric population growth. Do you propose regulating reproduction as well?

    Hate to tell you chief, but reproduction will be regulated. Not by us, but by physical laws. There's only so much energy and land to go around. Reproduce all you want. Trying to survive will be the fun part.

  6. Re:High-efficeiency incandescent bulbs on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 1

    Of course I'm assuming the watt is cheaper to save than increased generation. This is why utilities subsidize energy conservation programs (recycle your old refrigerator, subsidize the purchase of CFLs, will pay rebates for new/upgraded insulation). Almost always cheaper than a new coal/nuclear/etc. plant or new high voltage transmission lines.

  7. Re:Conservation (of electricity) is a red herring on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 0

    There's only so much sunlight hitting the earth, therefore there is a limited amount of renewable energy to harvest. Eventually, we will run up against that wall. Conservation isn't a red herring, it's mandatory.

  8. Re:High-efficeiency incandescent bulbs on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 1

    You're assuming CFLs are just thrown in the garbage, a fallacy.

  9. Re:High-efficeiency incandescent bulbs on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and the best way to create one right now is to tax coal and subsidize alternative power sources.

    And to subsidize efficiency increases. Every watt you save is a watt you don't have to generate.

  10. Re:Too late on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 1

    Bingo. And they're much easier to make than having to shoot a powerful laser at a tungsten filament.

  11. Re:AT&T's UVerse also excludes their own conte on Time Warner ToS Changes Could Mean Tiered Pricing, Throttling · · Score: 0, Troll

    As someone who has run large ISP/hosting networks, this is entirely possible to do. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

  12. Re:Great! on China and Japan Covet the Same Rare-Earth Metals · · Score: 1

    That was pretty much my point to OP.

  13. Re:Great! on China and Japan Covet the Same Rare-Earth Metals · · Score: 2

    Japan is a puny island with a huge industry.

    Geography isn't always the best power indicator. Japan may be small, but they have a great deal of control in the world economy. China won't let them at rare earth metals? They'll find a way to use metals that *are* available to them, or to get the metals they need.

  14. Re:L0phtCrack 6 Consultant - $1195.00 on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 1

    Seriously? If you're a security consultant, you're charging between $125-$250/hr. Tool pays for itself within 4-6 hours of work. Fucking moron.

  15. Re:Not a Good Thing on SourceForge To Acquire Development Portal Ohloh.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I could picture was the SourceForge accountants dragging a couple of barrels of pennies to the front door of the Google office in Mountain View, and a Roomba calling security.

  16. Re:Ethanol is just stupid on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    Any cost savings the military can get makes sense, as they're the largest consumer of petroleum in the world.

  17. Re:One application I would go for on What to Do With a $99 Wall Wart Linux Server · · Score: 1

    You don't even need the phone company to provide service to the line to get 911, so you could cancel said service if you'd like.

  18. Re:One application I would go for on What to Do With a $99 Wall Wart Linux Server · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd suggest keeping the FXO interface, and have your Asterisk routing table set to forward all 911 calls to it.

  19. Re:One application I would go for on What to Do With a $99 Wall Wart Linux Server · · Score: 1

    You can either a) Use PSTN cards, which connect to the standard analog phone line in your house b) use ISDN as you did c) use a voice T1 or d) use SIP to a termination provider like Voicepulse (just an example, there are hundreds of SIP termination providers out there).

  20. Re:Improved Version Coming Next Year on Energy Star For Servers Falls Short · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're not the target market. My employer purchases tens of thousands of servers a year. One of our primary considerations is power efficiency. You know, total cost of ownership and all that jazz.

  21. Re:One application I would go for on What to Do With a $99 Wall Wart Linux Server · · Score: 1

    Get a SIP phone (Cisco/Polycom on the high end, various lower-end phones, or even a Wifi phone). And yes, Asterisk works incredibly well on underpowered machines as long as it doesn't have to do lots of transcoding.

  22. Re:Mirror it quick on US Federal Government Launches Data.gov · · Score: 1
  23. Re:too (abstract) on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1
    *Alex Trebec Voice* I'm sorry, but your response was not in the form of a car analogy.

    Seriously though, excellent explanation.

  24. Re:Good. on Craigslist Fights Back, Sues SC Atty General · · Score: 1

    My co-workers are wondering why I'm wiping Fanta off my laptop screen. Well done.

  25. Re:How long until... on Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server · · Score: 1
    "iPhone Storage Vault"

    *Homer Simpson Voice*: PATENT PENDING! =)