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  1. Re:Nonsense on Crime Expert Backs Call For "License To Compute" · · Score: 1

    Score greater than 1% on www.top500.org perhaps...

  2. Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    Without the restraint that it must be syntactically correct and compile! The fact that it doesn't 'compile' can generate work for another lawyer who discovers the errors.

  3. Re:XP? on The Death of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I always thought it had been SCO Unix for many years?

  4. Re:Maybe Apple should... on Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So which windows version came before the mac?

  5. Re:Maybe Apple should... on Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari · · Score: 1

    On a Mac use Command-Shift-N

  6. The rules of cricket on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 0

    Found somewhere online ages ago:

    You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that's been out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who are all out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

  7. Re:Naming? on PCWorld Says Firefox is Strong, Vista is Weak · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always thought it was an acronym - Virus Infections, Spyware, Trojans and Adware

  8. Re:lookin good on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use Command-H (Hide) rather than Command-M (Minimize) and then when you cycle through the window will be function as you want. Drove me insane too until I found it,..

  9. Re:And yet will all those gadgets... on Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record · · Score: 1

    The BMW M5 was previously the fastest production sedan in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M5/

  10. Re:hmm on Nasdaq to Delist SCO Sep 27 · · Score: 1

    Would you believe it was not Agent 86,..

  11. Re:Compiz is...? on Compiz Gets Thumbs-Up for Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    I beeive the point made by the parent post was that you do not require the latest hardware in order to far surpass that offered by vista. I have seen compiz run on old hardware and to be honest I was amazed (coming from solaris/linux text based experience, and not having seen the desktop side for years). To see how badly ms implemented similar features that require so much horsepower truly showed how far behind the game they really are. The general verdict amongst those I work with toward vista was 'big deal - linux does more on half the hardware'.

  12. Bath Time on AMD's Plan To Recover From Its Perfect Storm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perhaps it is just bathing time? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bath/

  13. Re:wtf? on Computer Date Glitch May Limit Next Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    Debian has had a trip on the shuttle http://www.debian.org/News/1997/shuttle1/

  14. Re:Site stats on IE Market Share Drops to Lowest Level in Years · · Score: 1

    Firefox 2 on OS X does use the default key mappings, and if it's eye candy you are seeking try the GrApple theme from here - http://takebacktheweb.org/

  15. Re:wouldn't work on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1
    Doesn't
    Preemptive first strike
    = attack
  16. Just use the source on Microsoft Vista User Interface Guidelines Published · · Score: 1
  17. Re:There will be an iPod killer on Dell Quietly Leaves MP3 Market · · Score: 1

    Position in this market seems to be based on more than both the design and delivery of hardware and software. Apple had credibility, or at minimum an established position, with those who controlled the content. Both of these contributed to their ability to enter and effectively take over the market, IMHO. Right company, right time, right place.

  18. Re:Possibly.. on What Makes an OSS Class Work? · · Score: 1

    My mistake - read it as how to teach an OO class

  19. Possibly.. on What Makes an OSS Class Work? · · Score: 1

    by following procedures

  20. Has benefits possibly on Oracle Continues Warming Up to Open Source · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Personally I will watch this and download Oracle (DB) for a play. The environment at work is MS internally, yet I was given free range on the server and we are running Apache + Tomcat. The apps are based on Hibernate and Spring (handles ALL the plumbing that you previously had to do by hand, but that is another subject). Due to the attachment to MS there was a lot of political pressure to buy SQL Server. Yet now my boss is beginning to see the benefits of open-source (now 60-70% Linux), and has openly stated that the purchase of MS-SQL was perhaps a mistake - given alternatives such as Postgres and the fact that I develop using HSQL. Oracle was considered initially, and if it will work easily with our web frontend then it certainly becomes a contender. Particularly as there are absolutely no plans to update MS-SQL 2000 to whatever it is that comes next (2005?). At the end of the day I will be there for another year or so, therefore ongoing support becomes an issue. Widely supported software has its' benefits such as a steady market
    of experienced people, and given that I am in Tasmania this is one of the primary concerns.

  21. Re:My Super-Bad Computer Speakers on 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know · · Score: 1

    PMPO = Peak Maximum Power Output

  22. Astaro Security Linux on What is the Best Firewall for Servers? · · Score: 1

    IIRC it is free for non-commercial use, and based on Linux + IPTables. Inbuilt IDS using Snort. All with the added advantage of being almost painless to implement. Other than stupid logic mistakes, but that is another story..