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  1. End of Mac OS X ports on Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I fear that the availability of Windows on Mac hardware could cause companies like Adobe or Macromedia to quit there Mac OS X application ports and in the long run harm Mac OS X.

  2. Google Cache on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 0

    Search for "Fear of Girls" on google.com and use the "Cached" link. Worked for me, I'm from Germany.

    Wonder how long this will be possible.

  3. Re:That would have come in handy ... on New Twist on Power Walking · · Score: 0

    Why is that post off topic? Are you kidding? That thing would definitely be useful for the Linuxbierhike.

  4. Re:Another Simple Idea on Getting Open Source to the Dialup Masses · · Score: 0

    Are you related to someone known as Dr. Evil?

  5. Re:You can even close explorer.exe... on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 0

    Ah, I remember. I did that to in the past. Later I wrote a 4K Win32 assembler program that only showed a OpenFile Dialog that let you choose *.exe files. The cancel button was the switch to shutdown.

  6. Re:Not 1.0? on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 0

    That'S so right. An extreme exampleof a 'less than 1.0' releases in my opinion is Wings3d. It's now for years 0.9X.

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=33028&package_id=25098

    But, of course, it's the developers choice whenever to go 1.0.

  7. Re:Overclock on Japan Wants to Build 10 Petaflop Supercomputer · · Score: 0

    I doubt that a 3.06 Ghz Pentium 4 can reach 12 Gflops using HPL (High Performance Linpack). I once measured an AMD 64 3000+ and reached barely 2 GFlops. I also measured a Celeron 1400, as expected the performance was very bad, 0.4 Gflops. I build a 'cluster' out of the two machines. I was hoping to reach 2 Gflops that way, but I didn't know that one get only the performance of n times the lowest single machine performance. I used the HPL Benchmark on Windows/Cygwin with MPICH and the ATLAS Library. That was a funny week with lots of frustration.

  8. Re:Hobbyist OS ? on yellowTAB's Zeta 1.0 Reviewed · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess it's a special offer he got via email. "ch3ck our very l0w pr1ces!"

  9. Re:Son of iPod? on Bill Gates Swears Vow Against 'Son of iPod' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Son of a bitch?

  10. Nigeria? on Nigerian Scammers Brought to Justice · · Score: 1

    Nigerian scam is so 1999. In the past years I received more scam emails from Russia, especially since the owner/CEO of Yukos Oil is arrested. On the second place is the internet lottery. I win there two times a day, must be billions already.

  11. SPEC CPU2000 Benchmark on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    If you search on the SPEC CPU2000 Benchmark for "Advanced Micro Devices", you will see that AMD uses the Intel compiler. If the Intel compiler is that bad, why do they use him?

    http://www.spec.org/cgi-bin/osgresults

    I personally compared Intel C++ 8.1 Compiler, gcc (MinGW and Cygwin) and Visual Studio .Net 2003 using the stream and the SPEC CPU2000 on AMD Opteron and Athlon 64. The benchmark result while using Intel C++ 8.1 Compiler was a bit faster than gcc and much faster compared to the VC++ Compiler with -O3 Optimization. Same thing than using the auto vectorized option and enabling SSE2.

    May be programs could run even faster if the Intel Compiler would be fair, it's still the fastest Compiler.

  12. It's a live insurance on Apple's 500 Million Songs · · Score: 1

    People actually kill for ipods, so with 10 ipods you can save your live 9 times and you have still an ipod.

    But seriously, I think it is meant to give the nine ipods away as gifts to your friends. Indeed, to do that you need some friends in the first place.

  13. Fewer Open Relays on The Book of Postfix · · Score: 1

    It should be obligatory to read such a book for everyone who administrates a mail server, because hopefully it helps to decrease the number of open relays out where.

  14. Re:And let me guess...... on Microsoft to Release AJAX Framework · · Score: 1

    "People who do (AJAX development) are rocket scientists," Fitzgerald said. While I do feel that the intellect of rocket scientists is greatly overrated by the general public, I don't think he was commenting as to the simplicity of AJAX here. Simple in Microsoft terms means, that you can use some fancy wizards to create your applications.

  15. Re: on Home Networking Simplified · · Score: 1

    That's not funny! A few months ago, my mom called me at night just to ask me if she did the right thing than she ordered a wifi router. She had no clue about networks, but because a colleague of her, who bought a wifi router himself, persuade her that wifi is a must have.