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  1. Re:It will look a lot like Linux in 2002. on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    Fun.

    Don't forget fun.

    Linux is the old motorcycle of mainstream OSs (by that I mean Win, OSX, and Linux). It can be a cruiser, a crotch rocket, a weirdass glowy purple trike. It's fun! It'll still be that.

    The carb will still be easily removable for cleaning. It'll still be easy to understand what's going wrong just by the 'feel' of it. It'll still just have that bigass '?' on the fairing to tell you somethings a bit screwy, and to look at the really easy to parse logs.

    Just like it was well before 2002, when I started using it.

  2. Re:Here's a game on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1

    Nope, It's a 0xF4

    Bug Check 0xF4: CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION

    The CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION bug check has a value of 0x000000F4. This indicates that a process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated.

  3. Re:I'm speechless on R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 · · Score: 1

    s/USNET/BBSs

    Welcome to 1995.

  4. Re:WHAT? on R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 · · Score: 1

    In bash.org.

    I still use Usenet with slrn and a very large and comprehensive killfile. The only thing that bugs me about it is the slow loading of messages due to the large and comprehensive killfile. I see nothing from Google Groups, nothing crossposted to more than two groups, and nothing from a wide variety of retards and troll wannabes.

    At any rate, Usenet will die only when the ISPs decide to drop it. I won't enjoy that day. I'm in touch with many interesting and intelligent people there.

    I work in a brewery and run servers at home. Sometimes I think I'm living an XKCD panel.

  5. Re:Neck cramps on Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild · · Score: 1

    That's what happens during times when a movie costs more than 20 bucks and the gas to get there costs more than the movie. Piracy baby!

  6. Re:first post on Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I'm in your court. At 38 years old this year, Tron was a cinematic masterpiece that deserves a masterful sequel. If it's anywhere near as good as the original was in its time, it'll kick serious ass!

  7. Re:Whats the point? on Post-Quake, China Cuts Access to Entertainment Web Sites · · Score: 1

    No, but people in the vicinity who don't have the choice of sitting down in front of a computer and surfing will work through the struggle instead of burying themselves in whatever the computer has to offer.

    OK, I'm done playing devils advocate now.

  8. Re:Only douchebags on Slashdot on Post-Quake, China Cuts Access to Entertainment Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Hey sport, douchebagorama here. Someone mentioned 9/11 as that's how they relate to huge catastrophes. During that time I owned and ran an Internet Cafe. I implemented a 30 minute maximum on computer usage and cut prices in half because there was a lineup around the block of people who communicated through IM and e-mail to their relatives in the zone of destruction.

    Communication is a GOOD THING! The Internet is a GOOD THING, and plenty of the folks here help run it, so shaddap. We play our roles and kick ass when it comes to facilitation of communication with those who, through Gods, Allah's or who/whatevers grace, still walk this ball of dirt we call home.

  9. Re:Whats the point? on Post-Quake, China Cuts Access to Entertainment Web Sites · · Score: 1, Troll

    Not to mention that the less people are able to sit and watch TV or surf the net, the more people are available to remove the rubble and rebuild homes and businesses. In at least that POV the decision actually makes sense!

  10. Re:Long Answer? on How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers · · Score: 1

    I have my taskbar at the top and have only used Mac hardware for the purpose of installing Linux on it. I can count on one hand the number of times I've used a Mac, but having it at the top just works.

    Should I have capitalized that?

    To be honest, I have one at the bottom too, but that's for the multiple desktop switching thing. Screenshot on request.

  11. Choose carefully... on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've just recently (one year ago) left behind IT after more than a decade. I was tired of running into MCSEs that insisted that Windows Server 2000 had no Small Business Edition a scant hour after I had installed it on a customer machine. I was pissed at having to be on call 24/7/365. So I sat down in the sun on the back porch and started thinking of some other field that interested me, and it hit me like a swig. Brewing! I like beer! Hefeweizens are cool! Hops are neat! Think of all the different grain combinations!

    Three months went by with me washing buckets and reading books to prove that I was actually interested. Another nine went by and now I know all sorts of stuff about yeast, hops, worts, grains, bittering agents, and boredom. There isn't that much to it. Where is the excitement that you get when you finally nail that complicated formula or scripting problem? The problems aren't really there, and if they are, they aren't unique. It's all been done.

    Besides, the pay is crap.

    I'm getting back into IT now, and if anyone out there needs a Linux/Unix sysadmin ar LAMP admin, let me know. Please.

  12. Re:Denatured alcohol on Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End · · Score: 1

    You've got it backwards. Alchohol isn't a "sin",
    it is infact a poison.

    Humans are just stubborn enough to use this poison
    for "sinful purposes".

    Plenty of stuff that grows naturally, or might be
    part of a suburban landscape plan, is quite
    poisonous to humans and not something you want to
    even consider eating. Yeah, like those "Nightshade" plants. Pesky bastards. I'm continually finding tomatoes and red peppers in salads when I go to restaurants. What are they trying to do, kill me? I think we should tax the crap out of them IMHO.
  13. Re:Taxation of dangerous products for welfare on Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End · · Score: 1

    Yaweh tells us that it is a mans duty to satisfy his wife.

    Oh, hangon, the Rabbi talked me out of Judaism on his second try. Crap.

    Anyhoo, enjoy that healthy sex. I cant, I didn't pass the 'I wanna be Jewish' test ;).

  14. Re:Fascinating on Mining the Cognitive Surplus · · Score: 1

    Two words. Carol Burnett. The enjoyment of a live broadcast of serious talent is different from that of a choreographed and well produced modern soap opera, but in my world, better.

    And yes, Heroes, Lost, and Battlestar Galactica are modern soaps.

  15. Re:What can be done now? on The Inside Story on Norway's Yes to OOXML · · Score: 1

    It's Norway. What happens now is more Black Metal and a few Microsoft offices getting burned down.

  16. Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE on .su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh come on now Mods, that was funny!

  17. Re:Yeah, Heston! on Charlton Heston's Impact On Sci-Fi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When Stephen King kicks off and a bunch of folks say "Y'know, he was a really great writer because..." will you ask us why we're celebrating a writer instead of the actors that brought the story to life on the silver screen? Many actors enter a state where they _believe_ the story (or lie, as you put it) in order to create a more believeable representation of the original writing. It's a skill!

    As for people trying to sell stuff, most of humanity does that every day. Create, show people you're creation, get paid a little, eat. Circle of life stuff in a neat little package that took centuries for mankind to make up. It's a game, enjoy it!

  18. Re:pyhrric on ISO Approves OOXML · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps because OO wants to keep as much MS Office compatibility as it can.

  19. Re:So who is the current #1? on Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline · · Score: 1

    I agreed with this the moment I stopped my Yamaha bike and my Harley boots hit the ground.

  20. Re:For heaven's sake... on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 1

    Some of us don't have a hardware abstraction layer. ExcuuUUUUuuse ME!

  21. Re:Seriously, OSS can learn from Microsoft on How Open Source Has Influenced Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    - Ms. Exchange?

    I would kill to see this happen

    - MSDN: Seriously.. we need MSDN-like website for Linux. Running around the web for some API, and stuff in Linux. While on the M$ side we can get everything from Win32, .NET, SQL Server, and some other Microsofties in one place (and maintained properly)

    Sourceforge, anyone?

  22. Re:Crazy World on German Court Abolishes German Snooping Law · · Score: 1

    We have plenty of those in Canada. We call them pubs.

  23. Re:FTC on FTC Offput by Offsets · · Score: 2, Funny

    Too bad there isn't a 'Justified' mod option.

  24. Re:Don't they have anything better to do? on Facebook Photos Land Eden Prairie Kids in Trouble · · Score: 1

    It's a lot easier to control kids than it is to teach them Discipline is something that needs to be taught, is it not? I think you might be confusing control with that.
  25. Re:THUS on Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year' · · Score: 1

    Even better, my motorcycle, my main mode of transportation, will be eligible for vintage plates next year. 24 years of get-up and go that's fun and makes all my family supporting work possible. Not only that, it doesn't run Windows, Linux, or any firmware whatsoever. It's straight mechanical and easy as pie to fix with a few simple tools kept in a tiny seat compartment. Sometimes old tech is the best tech.