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  1. Re:Suggestion on Theologian Attempts Censorship After Losing Public Debate · · Score: 1

    Crucifixion's too good for 'em.

  2. Two men enter. on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    what viable solutions will enable us to survive on this increasingly crowded pale blue dot?

    Thunderdome?

    Decimation?

    J.

  3. Re:Easy. on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    Or eBox (now called Zentyal). This is based off of Ubuntu (10.04 currently) and is designed to fill the same niche as Windows Small Business Server
    Zentyal
    Zentyal HTTP Publication module doco
    J.

  4. Re:Gas is the cleanest fuel source. on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    You also have lots of solar falling on lots of desert.
    And we (UK) have lots of tidal energy to harvest.
    Libya could power Europe through exporting solar.
    Isn't it a shame that nobody just gets on and builds it?

  5. Re:well... on Could Assortative Mating Explain Autism? · · Score: 2

    So, put enough geek boys and and enough geek girls in a room and you produce Shakespeare?

  6. Zentyal, we love it. on Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives? · · Score: 1

    Falling off a log easy to set up, we love Zentyal (formerly eBox)

    Basically, it's what happens when your easy-peasy home router and a fully fledged business server had a baby.

    http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Features

    Personally, I use it as a windows file sharing server, VPN, DNS, DHCP and gateway.
    At work we use it to build routers and VPN servers.

    Regards,

    J1M.

  7. Re:Let's hope for another radical GUI change! on 9 Features We May See In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    Can I just take this opportunity to VERY LOUDLY AND ANNOYINGLY TELL EVERYONE HOW MUCH I LIKE THE NEW UNITY INTERFACE.
    Just because the people who like Unity and it's design changes are quietly sitting at home just using their new OS doesn't mean there is universal hatred of 11.04
    Remember that only the people who hate it get riled up enough to post smart arse comments on forums.
    Not that the OP is bad, I've seen worse, but as every single post on this thread (except me) is by a hater then what difference does it make where I post?

  8. Re:Am I the only one... on Project Icarus: an Interstellar Mission Timeline · · Score: 1

    If you play the Brian Fox commentary (he was the advisor on the scientific valididity) you would have noticed him saying something like "I told them Boyle wouldn't freeze, because one of the problems in space is losing the heat you generate. You have nothing to lose it to. I also told them to keep it in the film, because it looks good. Combined with the burning at the moment he leaves the safety of the shield it displays the hostility of the environment outside of the ship perfectly".

    Don't you mean Brian Cox?

  9. Re:Gutless? on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    Further to all the other replies, ECU remaps for Diesels are something else. Try up to 25% increase in horsepower, torque AND mpg. Just remember to service it and not use cheap Diesel. (Google Bluefin)

  10. Re:We have quite the same right on Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Yes, because you're closed loop car manufacturing arena does *soooooo* well... .
    You're not "sharing" idiot. You're competing. Or failing to.

  11. Re:Or for something far far cheesier on Tetraktys · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the one with Sandra Bullock? ?:\

  12. ICARUS on Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man · · Score: 1

    Icarus Is Looking For You
    Icarus Is Looking For You
    ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU

  13. Re:Drivel on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    I think the Iranians hate who they are told to hate.

  14. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    That'll be Flight 140 in 1994.
    Imagine being the pilot when this happens to you!

    http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19940426-0

    For the record, I'm in favour of the computer over the plane driver.

    J1M.

  15. I built a Beowulf cluster on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    For my undergraduate dissertation I studied conservative lookahead algorithms in parallel and distributed simulation of discrete event systems.
    After reading about Beowulf clusters I networked 8 Pentium 90 boxes and installed Red Hat, wrote everything in Java and ran some experiments.
    It was the stupidly hot summer of 2001 and I lived in an loft room with little ventilation. I wrote most of my paper in my underwear.
    J1M.

  16. Re:Message queuing on Internet Communications While At Sea? · · Score: 1

    It said converted cruise ship. Maybe one of the casinos is now a library?
    Also, who says they don't have a digital library? A few TiBs in a server with a computer room (which it almost certainly has) and your done.

    J1M.

  17. Re:last sentence on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Yep.
    UT3 is coming.
    Proper manufacturer driver support.
    Manufacturer supported free and open driver initiatives under way.

    We even have companies beginning to see open source programs as good me-too marketing.
    First ATI, and others rumbling or following suit.
    I've always thought it would only take one one to break away and trumpet the fact that it did.

    J1M.

  18. Re:I for one welcome... on Ethical Killing Machines · · Score: 1

    And they absolutely will not stop?

  19. XML and C# on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    For XML I use W3Schools.
    For C# I use MSDN Online, a lot of The Code Project and just Google for the rest.

    J1M.

  20. 66% of the cost of the Large Hadron Collider on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    I here people complain that we're "wasting" money on the LHC, between 6 and 9 billion dollars. Ya know, "they're not curing little kiddies diseases and stuff". Bet they wouldn't blink at MS spending 6 billion. Of course, it's private, not public money. But regardless of that fact, which sounds like the bigger waste to you?
    Who created the bigger black hole? CERN or Microsoft?

    J1M.

  21. Re:I'm guessing... on IT Internship In the US For a Foreigner? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the advice, any idea where to find the SF and LA foreign classifieds? ;)

    I'm not interested in staying, I just don't want to spend the rest of my life sitting in Portsmouth. Or even England.

    My partner and I have a vague plan to nation hop west all the way around to Hong Kong (so far), staying a few years in each place. She's going to have to complete her Vet Nurse training first and then we should have a valuable skill set to earn our way round on.

    Regards
    J1M.

  22. Re:I'm guessing... on IT Internship In the US For a Foreigner? · · Score: 1

    Canada ey? That's a bloody good idea! All this time my grand 20 year plan of work-round-the-world was stalled because you can't get into the US, but I can bypass it with Canada? Brilliant! 8D
    J1M.

  23. Re:I'm guessing... on IT Internship In the US For a Foreigner? · · Score: 1

    Any advice for me?
    I'm a CS graduate (2001) with 7 years experience in lots of Microsoft languages and tech.
    Rather than spend the rest of my life sitting in England working the same job I thought it would be fun to go and work myself round the world, starting with a few years in the US (and the onwards, further west)
    There's that H1B visa, worth the effort?
    Thanks,
    J1M.

  24. Re:Nice loophole on Open WiFi Owners Off the Hook In Germany · · Score: 1

    Profit?

  25. Re:lopgo vs python on Forty Years of LOGO · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah?? Then what was GOSUB and GOTO for then? Eh, smart alec?? Yeah... Told... ;)
    Actually, it had PROC. Wasn't it DIM PROC somethingsomething.. too long ago.
    LOGO rocked.

    J1M.