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  1. Re:quality engineering on British Town Worried About WWII Ammo Ship Wreck · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't, but the big lump of TNT should work just fine. Farmers still die from WW1 ordinance in France.

  2. Re:This reminds me of an old convo I had ... on Tuning Linux VM swapping · · Score: 1

    On linux, you can cap the size of the tmpfs file system, so that ram+swap-(/tmp max size)= a sane number.

    It is a trade off, but it can really speed some operations up.

  3. Re:This reminds me of an old convo I had ... on Tuning Linux VM swapping · · Score: 1

    Now why doesn't linux do this by default for /tmp? Or I guess why doesn't a distribution do this? I seem to recal there is some weirdness on boot that you have to work around.

  4. Re:Problem on Tuning Linux VM swapping · · Score: 1

    That 512MB is an OS/2 limit.

  5. Re:This reminds me of an old convo I had ... on Tuning Linux VM swapping · · Score: 1

    Just remeber that swap is also /tmp on a sun box.

    Anyone know a reason not to do this on Linux? Always seemed like a good idea to have /tmp on a pageable ram disk (thus on a file system that does not need to care about recovery).

  6. Pentax Optio 33wr on Cameras for Dark and Wet Locations? · · Score: 1

    It's imersable, and works nice. You are not supposed to operate under water, but it should work for your purposes, it has many exposure modes, including manual, I've really liked it. Takes SD memory, I got 256MB for $75 or so. Camera cost $267 on line.

  7. Re:Have a baby. on Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? · · Score: 1

    Buckminster Fuller did it too.

  8. Re:tramp on Distributed Filesystem for Disconnected Operation? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Use the tramp package, it automates grabbing files via ssh (through multiple hosts), so you edit localy. Very hand, I really liked it.

  9. p2p OS installls on PDTP - The Best of Both FTP and BitTorrent? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm waiting for boot disks that fire up a peer to peer client for installing your os, and updates. Debian would be a great start, it would hugely reduce the load of the servers. Also Fedora, the BSDs, etc.

    Yes, you can already do bit torrent for the ISO, but that is its own kind of wast and hassle.

    Some day.

  10. Re:Have you considered? on Testing Electrical Capacity of New Offices? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exactly, also, figure out what you need, cooling as well.

    Look at JWZ's experiences at the DNA Lounge with electricity for some pointers and stories:
    For one:
    http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2000/ 07.htm l#20

    here's a tiny url to a google search for all the related DNA stuff http://tinyurl.com/2msyt

  11. Re:Hyper Threading on Open Source OS Benchmarking Competition · · Score: 1

    The new core that Intel just now took the NDA off has a way to set prioreties in hyperthreading, so that no longer will your SETI client and Doom3 get equal billing, the processes can share evenly, or one uses just what the other has no use for.

    So with a good HT aware scheduler, things ought to be better for everyone. And the doubling of all the caches should help too.

  12. Re:Fishy company on A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems · · Score: 1

    You forgot the licence key, that is NOT included. $75 for XP Pro for the cheapest on PriceWatch.

  13. I want that, TO GO! on Experiences with DirecWay Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    http://www.satcomweb.com/mobile.htm is a phased array antena for your car for DirectTV and similar systems. Internet any where, well, anywhere in the satalite footprint if it they can all work together.

  14. Re:Odd title. on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No shit.

  15. Omega 3 fatty acids on Neural Feedback Training as Therapy for ADHD? · · Score: 1

    "inefficient conversion of ALA To EPA and DHA" may well explain part of why I take 900mg of EPA and 600mg of DHA daily (3 Trader Joe's Omega-3 Fatty Acids, best brand by far in my opinion, more concentraited (so fewer pills) and least bad smell, also, they seem to work better). I started for depression, before my ADD was diganosed, they really help me.

    Stratera helps, when I have a good nights sleep, or am on Adderal.

  16. Re:Sonic.net's Hotspot Bribe on Cringely Proposes New WiFi Plan · · Score: 1

    This is mostly what cringely is talking about, you set up a hot spot, and in return, get one free wireless unit to connect.

    If you just want the client unit, you pay, and that pays for the hardware.

    Authetication is done via the custom firmware, so very littly for the user to do after the initial set up.

  17. get the spam tool makers on Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam Patent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Up until now, all anti spam tech was aimed at the individual spammer, but this can be aimed at the much smaller pool of people who write the tools to spam. This could cripple spamers.

  18. faking it on PC World: Apple G5 Gets Trounced By Athlon 64 · · Score: 1

    These days, everyone is faking their registers, the real number is huge, even the RISC chips are doing it, just like x86 have since the Pentium Pro.

    So, two choices. Come clean, like the ia64 chips, with 128, and hope you guessed right about the number, or pick a good number to pretend to have. You don't really need 32, if the chip pretends for you, but you sure need more than 8. Thus the 16 that AMD went with. Internally, I would guess there are many more.

    We shall see.......

  19. learning vs employability on How Do Managers Rate On-line Universities? · · Score: 1

    Well, I have a wife, and two kids. If I want to learn something, I'll do it on my own. School (which I am thinking of doing quite seriously) is to get a piece of paper to further my employability.

    Yes, I'd look at it a bit differently if I was single, especially if I was young.

  20. Re:headhunter? on IBM Testing New Grid Technology with Quake 2 · · Score: 1

    Was that the head hunter mod?

  21. DIY on Designing and Making Custom Wedding Bands? · · Score: 1

    Mission College has a great jewelry making program, they are in Santa Clara, talk to the instructors, Ileen Hill was great 10 years or so ago.

  22. You were dumb enough to trust Microsoft........ on Cancelling your Passport.NET Account? · · Score: 1

    When they bought firefly, I deleted all my personal information, and pestered them until they deleted my account (well, it seemed to be gone).

    Given MS's track record, why did you trust them in the first place?

  23. Re:How about... on Mobile Phone Abuse and AbUsers · · Score: 1

    If the hospital does not have a parent or gardian they need a treatment authorization form, and how many people leave those with the sitter? With out one, they will save you kids life, but will not do more (such as try to reattach the severed limb, which needs to be done quickly).

    How about just forcing vibrate mode?

  24. LVM snapshotting? on Linux Equivalents for Novell's "Filer"? · · Score: 2

    Doesn't the Linux Logical Volume Management software do snapshotting? Ok, not perfect, but it ought to work.

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/x136.html

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_ba ck up.html

    Not really efficent for hourly, but perhaps it could be made to work, also look at rsync or some of the options for cp.

  25. can you say ecache data parity error? on Intel Itanium 2 Benchmarks · · Score: 2

    Sure Sun fixes problems fast. This one only got fixed if you had pull and screamed loud.

    Sun did change the error message in later versions of Solaris 8.

    I know a large company (you would know the name) who's production R3 system was off line for more than a day, mid week, because of this (crashed, and that trigered the problem that kept them down, thanks for the sucky support, EMC!).