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  1. Powder snow on Two Snowflakes May Be Alike After All · · Score: 1

    You get lots of powder in colder climes/high elevations. With those, it is likely for crystals to be alike.

  2. Already done on The Anatomy of Pump n' Dump Stock Spamming · · Score: 1

    Here you go: http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/

    However, once you start earnestly analyzing the market, you'll soon realize, that it is not necessary to gamble with penny stocks, since there are enough medium and high cap stocks to work with, for better returns and less risk.

  3. Re:SpamAssassin still works on Spam is Back With A Vengence · · Score: 1

    You should also use RBLs(Spamcop and Spamhaus), Greylisting, Razor and DCC. The result is that only the stragglers hit SpamAssassin. My mail server gets about 15000 connection attempts per day, of those, about 14500 are blocked before they reach SpamAssassin.

  4. Re:Right... on The Birth of Quantum Biology · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I'd like to see a precise model of the uncertainty principle...

  5. No - the Cat's Schrodinger... on The Birth of Quantum Biology · · Score: 1

    ...actually, a person doesn't own a cat, the cat honors one with his presence. Therefore, it is more accurately described as the Cat's Schrodinger and the whole conjecture should be reversed.

  6. Re:Street corner video camers only in london????? on NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video · · Score: 1

    and did the crime rate go up or down? Or was it only the sale of ski-masks that benefitted?

  7. Portable Apps on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1

    There is a new old trend to compile OSS applications with statically linked libraries, as a so called portable application, the way it used to be done on good old DOS, so that the application can run directly off a USB stick or CDROM. I use this method for personal schtuff - that which is inconvenient to access from my home server. The company machine has only company schtuff.

  8. Re:Encryption is the only real option on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1

    I hope you are also encrypting /swap and /tmp and pointing /usr/tmp and /var/tmp to /tmp, else your encrypted partition may well leak data elsewhere.

  9. Dual boot on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1

    My laptop is dual booting and the Linux partitions are encrypted, while the Windows partition is plain text. The border guards can search all they like on Windows...

  10. Re:Visio Competition Sadly Lacking on Is it Time for Open Office? · · Score: 1

    For a calendar at home, try Portable Sunbird. The real version may have trouble installing due to DLL Hell - the portable version just works. Google will find it in no time.

  11. Scrooge response will do it on Is it Time for Open Office? · · Score: 1

    Scrooge: 'Bah! Humbug! It's Free... So stop yer yammering, or I'll subtract the cost of MS Office from yer next pay check...'

  12. Re:Two years now... on Is it Time for Open Office? · · Score: 1

    Without wishing to start a flame war - rather install Kubuntu. Kde is almost exactly like the Windows implementation of CDE, so the transition for users will be almost painless.

    I am actually a Mandriva fan, since the Mandriva wizards are better, so it is far easier to install and maintain a Mandriva system than anything else, but from a user point of view, it doesn't matter what kind of Linux is underneath.

    For large users with thousands of Linux machines, Redhat is better, due to the Redhat Network Satellite Server. Nobody else has this.

  13. Re:Adequate but not great on Is it Time for Open Office? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I prefer Gnumeric to Calc. Gnumeric is almost 100% compatible with Excel.

  14. Re:Doesn't Matter on Investigating Online Office Suites · · Score: 1

    How does Notepad2 compare to Notepad Plus? Seriously, I do everything on Linux, but at General Dynamics, all the friggen desktops are Windows, requiring us Geeks to run Cygwin to get the job done - Aaaaaarggghhh... Can Notepad2 copy and paste culumnar (vertical) blocks?

  15. Re:Of course.... on Is it Time for Open Office? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly - it seems that the quickest way for a computer support shop to go out of business, is to install Linux desktops. Why? Because there is almost NO maintenance business for Linux. Nevertheless, I still install Linux for everyone I can convince to try it and I get 100% acceptance from those that do - not one asked me for a roll-back to Windows. Some have gone on and bought a couple of Apple Macs though. Interestingly, I get more support calls from Mac users than from Linux users. The reason seems to be that the much touted Apple task launcher finder thingy, is much more difficult to use than KDE menus and my solution to the problem is to create a bunch of desktop icons to often used programs. Very simple problem, with a simple solution, but it shows what kind of simple issues stump ordinary mortals. These users are NOT geeks and never will be and don't need to be. The computer is just a glorified typewriter to them. The other interesting thing, is that these Linux and Apple users end up giving me high quality referrals to businesses for big and complex support problems, that stumped other support people. So, I get better quality and better paying work, simply by installing a handful of Linux desktops here and there.

  16. Re:the hard part on Largest Ever Online Robbery Hits Swedish Bank · · Score: 1

    Yup, it is the bank's fault for allowing transfers to unaudited destinations. If someone would get into my bank account, all they can do is pay my existing bills with a handful of large corporations and financial institutions. The system doesn't allow transfers to random accounts.

    Schtooopidddttt bank. I hope the Swedes do a run on it and put it out of business/misery.

  17. Cool... on RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes · · Score: 1

    any action that reduces the amount of Rap music in the world must be good...

  18. Re:Radiation? on Deathblow To a Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    "Dammechien Peteersrotmensenpoepjespiestnaaktgeborenzeldenthus III"
    I sometimes miss the rough Dutch humour...

  19. Re:I hate grammer nazis on Netscape Restores RSS DTD, Until July · · Score: 1

    You forgot 'there' ==> "their" and "forget" ==> "forgot"...

  20. Re:My personal experience, again. on The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I think that if you went to a two day University sponsored, Outreach to Women in Biology event, you would have meet the same women - not only the same kind of women - the same women...

    Those kind of people are the politicians of the world and you will find them anywhere government funds are spent.

  21. Kill Canada! on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 1

    I just saw an old South Park last night - Vive le resistance!

  22. Re:General Information on Solaris 10? on Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs · · Score: 1

    Yes, it works on Sun machines in particular. Apart from that, it is very much like running RedHat Linux with Gnome desktop.

  23. Nice on Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs · · Score: 1

    I've used the Free version Open Solaris for a while on a 4 way box. Works very well and uses Gnome desktop. No serious bugs, except that dragging and dropping a file on the desktop can make Gnome lock up.

  24. Re:I've seen ball lightening on Ball Lightning Created In the Lab · · Score: 1

    So, what were you doing under the sheets?

  25. Re:Goodbye Software players on Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed · · Score: 3, Funny

    No software - so how are you going to display the DVD - graph paper and a pencil? That may take a while.