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  1. Doesn't anyone here watch TV? on Sandals and Ponytails Behind Slow Linux Adoption · · Score: 1

    Or look at websites?

    Long hair and sandals used to be the cat's ass, but no more.

    Now if you don't have short little dreads you aren't shit.

    A black man with short dreads is the ultimate in coolness and hipness AND technical ablility.

    Any AOL commercial can confirm this.

    -ft

  2. Re:Try areca on Fibre Channel Storage? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where can you go to order these? I did a froogle search and got nothing and the "where to buy" section doesn't seem to have any websites to look at prices.

    -Fran

  3. Re:Here the problem arises. on The Problems with Broadband in America · · Score: 1

    Bravo.

    I was hoping someone would bring up the FCC and its castration of the entire CLEC data market.

    The telecom act of '96 just as well should be toilet paper, at least for data.

    And what a lot of people didn't see during the dotbomb was the huge build out by some of these CLECs and the results in the market. This was part of the foundation of the entire ascent.

    -Fran

  4. Re:So what is their business model? on Opera Reaches 1 Million Downloads Thanks To Google · · Score: 2, Informative

    Probably mobile devices. Deals with Nokia, for example, to license Opera on phones.

  5. Re:Rosetta on Speculations Intel's Next Generation · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting perspective.

    It seems like a lot of work to catch people who will leak this future technology, when the new technology will be linked to a new processor that could easily be tweaked to be different in the real Apple machines. This would make the leak a non issue at that point.

    Unless they have a different reason to worry about leaks that we don't know about yet.

    -ft

  6. Re:Rosetta on Speculations Intel's Next Generation · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that OS-X would basically stay the same and the chip would convert PPC instructions to micro ops instead of X86 instructions?

    This would be cool. But what would be the point of sending out developer machines that are X86 based? Why would they bother with the OS-X x86 port then?

    -ft

  7. Re:But will it arrive in time on Speculations Intel's Next Generation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think it will be. If this is the case, then Intel has been working on this for AT LEAST 2 years now.

    AMD has been doing way too well for Intel not to notice. They learned lessons with the p4 (don't listen to the marketing department as much) and I don't think that the best answer they have is lackluster additions to the p4.

    Things like process shrinks, more cache and slapping 2 cores together without much regard for on die communications are not revolutionary. These things can be interpreted as trying to stay in the game for now while working on a whole new plan.

    A plan that probably has been around around the same time Rambus took a shit.

    -ft

  8. Re:reduce the confusion? on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I say increase.

    I only looked at this story to leave your exact same comment.

    -Fran

  9. Re:The problem is the power supply from the Altena on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 1

    Couple of clarifications/corrections.

    1 hp = 746 watts

    While you are technically right about the 5+KW its more like 50KW at least, and that would only be 67hp so it's probably closer to 80-100KW.

    12A is not much for a normal car. Most modern cars have 80-100A alternators, depending on options like power seats, seat heaters, etc. Car Audio hobbyists routinly install 150A+ alternators on normal cars. Some folks will run two if needed.

    -ft

  10. Re:I would have no problem with this... on Creator of Sasser Worm Goes on Trial · · Score: 1

    Well put. The double standard has to stop. There is no way to demonstrate responsiblity enough to get adult privledges before you are 18, no matter what. As soon as avenues are formed to let children prove they are ready to be adults before time, then there should be no exceptions when it is a crime.

    Either they are repsonsible for their actions, or they are not. No special circumstances regardless of agenda.

  11. Tor on Web Proxies for Anonymous Scientific Peer-Review? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Basically an anonymous proxy network. The site owners will see the tor endpoints in the logs

    http://tor.eff.org/

  12. Re:booth babe insight on E3 2005 Booth Babe Hall of Shame · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does she have friends?

    Can you hook me up?

    -ft

  13. Re:I swear... on No Billboards in Space · · Score: 1

    Preach it.

    If this was a news story about how the FAA was going to allow this as opposed to banning it, all comments would be "Yet another US govt agency helping the corporations".

    I actually was surprised to read this because I would expect the opposite to happen, if you would have asked me yesterday.

    -Fran

  14. Simplest Solution on Hyperthreading Considered Harmful · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most machines let you disable it in the BIOS, which would have to be the simplest way of turning it off possible.

  15. Props on Convoy on Driver's-Seat Driving Game Controller · · Score: 1

    I broke out the old Sun KB and hit the props button for ya.

    Although the joke is probably lost on most folks. Hell even people old enough to remember don't, probably for a reason.

    -ft

  16. Go to the gym on Staying Healthy When Working 12 Hours a Day? · · Score: 3, Informative

    During the 3 days you have off. Or only go 2, or even 1 time a week. You will be surprised what kind of difference this will make in your general constituion over time. You will notice things like better mood, better digestion, better sleep and more strength and endurance.

    Now, before you give the standard nerd excuses like "I'm not a gym guy" or "I don't want to get all big like those guys" let me tell you that there are a lot of other things you can do there besides lifting weights. There are tons of classes, swimming, sometimes there's a heavy bag to hit, etc. I do lift, personally and recommend lifting over those other things, but that's my preference. As long as you exert some energy and leave there at least a little beat, you are doing a good thing.

    ft

  17. Re:Fram on Mac mini Dissection · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean it toward you. I should have put it in more of an FYI toward everyone format. Sorry bout that.

  18. Fram on Mac mini Dissection · · Score: 1

    Do not EVER put a Fram oil filter into any car. They are the worst of the worst:

    http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilterstudy.ht ml

    Read the above break down. I have also personally had a Fram ruin one of my turbo chargers, and have a friend who actually got Fram to replace a motor because the check valve in one of their filters backed out and lodged itself in the oil galley.

    ft

  19. Please direct your attention too... on U.S. Army to d00dz - We're Coming for You · · Score: 1

    RFC 1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths:

    (3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.

    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html

  20. Grinding curbs on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I fully know what thats like. I size up curbs and handrails all the time, but it's from real life skating as opposed to a video game.

    It's been about 7 years since I quit too. I skated from 13-23 years old. It becomes part of you as skateboarding back then wasn't something you did, it was some thing you were.

    ft

  21. Re:Learning by Tech Immersion on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims · · Score: 1

    I am certainly interested in your Palm Vocab action. I have a palm phone so this would be sweet for when I get bored and have to play with my phone.

    Please email me at slashdottemp@r1n.net

    Thanks,

    -Fran

  22. Re:Yes but... on High School Dropout, Self-Taught Chip Designer · · Score: 1

    You must be from Milwaukee.

  23. change the memory cache on Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Check this out:

    http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_me mcache

    You can specify how much RAM FF uses for its memory cache.

    I changed mine and FF is using 60M with 12 tabs open.

    ft

  24. Re:Virtualization on Red Hat, Novell To Package Xen · · Score: 1

    Can you go into detail as to why Virtuozzo is more like Vserver than Xen? I was under the opposite impression, albeit only from reading documentation as I have not been able to score a demo copy of Virtuozzo.

    Thanks,

    ft

  25. This is a good thing for the Skype network on Skype + Kazaa = ? · · Score: 1

    The way Skype deals with users who are both behind NAT is to find a third party who is running Skype without NAT and route the encrypted call through that users machine.

    Now when you think about the type of people who use Skype, I would imagine that there are a lot of them who are behind NAT, as I have not seen too many non technical types who even know what Skype is. I could be wrong about this buth hear me out.

    When you start thinking about the people who use Kaaza (everyone) I would imagine that a higher percentage of these people are on a decent circuit with their bare ass hanging out on the Internet. This provides a ton more relays for calls that setup and terminate behind NAT.

    Now I just wonder what traffic will be left over between the unchecked upload settings and the worms that a lot of these types have.

    ft