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  1. Its easy to quit when it quits for you. on Windows Vista and XP Head To Head · · Score: 1

    In my case I knew Windows was going to BSOD at me until I reinstalled the OS.

    Thats when I plunged into Linux.

  2. Re:Sucesses? on ISS Loses Orbit-Boosting Options · · Score: 1

    Now, with a picture of the ISS with wind streaming around it, that'd be a buy.

  3. Re:How about we just go back to pong. on Comparing PC Game Physics · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, I'm gutta hit that with my paddle and cause spin which will alter its post-collision trajectory. nyah!

  4. Re:Oh great on Apple's All-Seeing Screen · · Score: 1

    Ummm, "Quick, cover the screen!"

  5. Re:RIAA has some learning to do on RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College · · Score: 1

    And the Emergency Command Hologram is nowhere to be seen?!

  6. Re:Forget the 30th birthday... on Apple's Fruitful Future · · Score: 1

    And Apple could invite them on a cruise and ditch them in the sea of holes, or whatever.

  7. Re:Please Don't Interpret this Incorrectly on 60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter how much of it gets rewritten, its Microsoft doing the rewriting, and for as big and gosh darned impressive they are, they have a history of writing impressively bad software. They've gone as far as dedicating themselves to securing/not-making crap for years on end, with no appreciable change.

    They can rewrite all they want, I'm steering clear of their products.

  8. Re:More expensive than normal DVD's. on Download-to-own Films Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    BitTorrent translates Japanese?

    Sugoi!

  9. Re:Would you copy a car? Anti MPAA message. on Download-to-own Films Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget, the car automagically stalls on a randomly defined half of the roads, because those roads don't support DRM (or the right kind thereof).

    It of course showed no signs of that on the show floor.

  10. Re:System Pages, RAID, Tail Blocks, and Addressing on Changes in HDD Sector Usage After 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Reiser user here. I agree, defragging has its uses.

    I've seen many cases where growing a handful of files in parallel causes remarkably reduced read performance on those files.

    Further, in the case of a heavily used filesystem, I imagine straightening out the unallocated space would also still be useful.

    I don't support the line that I should have to keep a large chunk of my storage empty to maintain my filesystem. (though I typically have 40% free)

  11. Re:Uhhh.... on Exploring Active Record · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess the answer for that is "works great on IE!"

  12. Re:Did I miss something... Math perhaps on HD DVD to Screw Early HDTV Adopters · · Score: 1

    You apparently missed the part on dimensionality. Both numbers participte to determine resolution. Divide one by half and you get half, divide two by half and you get half a half (or a quarter).

    Simpler still: (1920x1080) ÷ (960x540) = 4

  13. Re:We were encouraged... on Professor 'Packetslinger' Assigns Questionable Task · · Score: 1

    it is ok to collect your own data, unless you don't trust yourself...

    Or if it is against your own policies.

    Probing is active: you actually send packets and analyze how the remote system is reacting. So it is more like knocking at doors and checking if windows are locked.

    Probing can be harmful for the target if it is not designed to handle the kind of data you send. Also on big systems probing will trigger an alarm, so it will bother the sysadmin as well. Quite rude.


    Web browsing is also active: you actually send packets and see how the remote system is reacting. This is similar to most protocols on the internet.

    If a system reacts poorly to messages it was set up to recieve across the net, a large portion of the blame goes to whoever set it up that way. If the triggering was not malicious, it may become a situation where flaws were learned and the system is made more secure or robust. Rest assured if all the good intentioned people stopped causing this, the bad intentioned ones would have alot more to work with and likely do alot more harm with it.

    Re: big systems and their sysadmins. Guess who set unusual traffic up to be annoying and how much they're getting paid to do it. Woe are they who have jobs, so rude to validate said job and help identify points where improvement can be made.

  14. Re:I wanna know what happened to on Samsung Steals the Brain Behind the iPod · · Score: 1

    You might be more surprised to find Samsung includes over a quarter million humans and aliens in each Z5. 1,600,000 milliounces of not-spinning metal, all alone on your desk.

  15. Re:"If your software's free... on UK Government Confiscates Firefox CDs · · Score: 1

    "But we need options so we can make decisions!"

    Okay, here are two options:

    1. Implement sensible direct solution.

    (slams banana onto the table)
    2. Do nothing and eat a banana.

    Now you can make a decision.
    We've got more bananas if you don't think you have enough options.

  16. Re:We were encouraged... on Professor 'Packetslinger' Assigns Questionable Task · · Score: 1

    If the assignment was to put a sniffer on the student's network adapter and watch the packets passing by, then it would do no harm. But probing is not passive, it is active, and it can be harmful to the target server. You might compromise a service without knowing it.

    So, collecting data including plaintext logins and conversations is okay. But looking around the neighborhood is bad, because shit might blow itsself up?

  17. Re:Food-as-fuel on Kids Build Soybean Fueled Sports Car · · Score: 1

    But you need fuel to transport the goods. Or are we just going to pump that out of the ground or something? :->

  18. Re:Stop the versioning! on Space Race 2.0 has Begun · · Score: 1

    I imagine McDonalds revisions count down from version 1.0

    Judging from the fries, they're at about V0.2 now.

  19. Re:Terrible Summary on Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia · · Score: 1

    No, no. God created kane toads in his own image. :-)

  20. Re:very pretty, but what does it do? on Novell Makes Public Release of Xgl Code · · Score: 1

    What does it do?

    What did blitter hardware do for framebuffers way back when?

    This means we won't be that far behind Vista.
    I think we're pretty late nonetheless.

  21. Re:Gentoo Linux anyone? on Linux Patch Management · · Score: 1

    I'd give him ten bucks for a 300MHz machine if he needed a faster system...

  22. Re:What about existing customers? on VMware to Make Server Product Free (as in beer) · · Score: 1

    If you spend $1400 because you think you need to. It doesn't mean you're always happy about it. That is ALOT of money.

  23. Re:Most Important /. Question on Phones And Skype Get Together · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd think Speex was the better one to ask about here...

  24. Re:Inside the Courtroom on Court Date Set for Google Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    The Force (tm) Beta, you mean...

  25. Re:Who to believe? on MacWorld's iMac Core Duo Benchmarks Debunked? · · Score: 1

    And Linux has a penguin that just sits there looking happy with a gut full of fish.