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  1. sechs

    WinXP SP2 delayed until August

    "Microsoft Announces SP2 now called Windows XP Second Edition; peicing to be released later"
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    Favorite Quotes

    Do I advocate censorship? When that censorship is in the form of a violent act to silence someone a group doesn't agree with, then absolutely. And it's not... NOT... even in the same ballpark as pointing at a 'Natural Born Killers' and saying "That there movin' pitcher makes people kill!"...
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    IBM offshores 500 UK jobs to India

    I have to note that they are off-shoring outsourced jobs -- filled mostly by contractors.
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    Tsot, tsot Intel

    Isn't that copyright violation?
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    Favorite Quotes

    Q: "So, do you have any skeletons in your closets?" A: "No. Actually, I have DECstations in my closets..."
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    Favorite Quotes

    "I don't believe in conservation of mass because I violate it 90% of the time I'm in lab." - Rebecca Romoff
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    [NEWS] - The end of MBM

    Anyone here have suggestions for replacements?
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    Something Random

    And my point about PBS is that it's free, ubiquitous, and shows far more incredible musicality... all of the time. You don't need to dig up a link in a post; it's piped into your home once a month, if not more often. If you think that PBS is snobbish, then I doubt you'd watch it, even if this...
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    Something Random

    The song is irrelevant... a good musician can make a mundane song interesting. There's simply nothing special about playing blindfolded (especially when your hands never leave the console) or playing fast. Any 8-year-old pianist who put their mind to it could do these things. I don't see...
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    Apple 30" Cinema Display

    Apple's gone all open... PCI, IDE, IEE1394, USB....
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    Should Rumsfeld keep his job?

    I was going to see it opening weekend, but all of the theatres that were easy to get to sold out. I have a friend that I lent Bowling for Columbine to... he was dumbfounded by it. I'm sure we'll be seeing Fahrenheit 9/11....
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    Favorite Quotes

    "German is a great language, because no matter what word you say, it always sounds like millions of people are going to die." -- Vagel Keller, Natural Disasters in American History
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    Should Rumsfeld keep his job?

    What do the Irish care if they piss off our government?
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    Academic Programs and the GPL

    The GPL doesn't really cover copyrights; it's concerned with licenses. Anything that you create is automatically copyrighted to you. To enforce your copyrights, it's highly encouraged to register them. Nearly all GPLed software is copyrighted to the creator. If you wish to use copyrighted...
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    Something Random

    Hardly. Barely interesting, in fact. Maybe you should watch more PBS... you might find Live an Lincoln Center to be amazing, as well.
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    Anand RAID Test

    I've already seen two threads in other fora where this article is mentioned and some posters have dismissed it. One even pointed out how fast he can boot Windows, Ghost the array, and copy files to the array! Woohoo!
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    Anand RAID Test

    What will make them believe?
  18. sechs

    Favorite Quotes

    "It's nice to know why we're here, even within a factor of 10." Prof. Arnold Engler, Physics 3
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    Burned CD Safety

    I don't fondle them.
  20. sechs

    Anand RAID Test

    Do you think that people will believe us now?
  21. sechs

    Some Nocona 64bit lovin, first impressions.

    Tut, tut. Silly Intel.
  22. sechs

    Burned CD Safety

    I use AOL tins myself. The latex is not strictly necessary.
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    Favorite Quotes

    "A random variable is discrete if it doesn't tell other variables about its sexual encounters...<pause>...okay, now that you're all awake..." -- Joel Greenhouse in a very boring statistics course
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    An SF milestone.

    You don't know about Googlebombing? Try searching for "miserable failure"; it still works.
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    Why do wireless to wired bridges cost so much?

    Switches cost virtually nothing and competition is cut-throat. Therefore, prices are low on router/AP combos.
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    That is to what I was refering....
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    gmail invite

    I feel that I'm at a time-zone disadvantage....
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    Favorite Quotes

    I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover
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    Video Fun

    Do idiots still record themselves breaking the law?
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    Something Random

    You mean 1003.
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    An SF milestone.

    I vote for Ohio. It ends where it starts, with "O." Read into that what you will.
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    Favorite Quotes

    Are these the same ones that you posted on page one?
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    Getting Hard Drives out of Computers...

    So far, we've figured out that "high-end" and "remote storage" don't mix. Fibre Channel might work. Is there any iSCSI hardware?
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    Favorite Quotes

    I think you can sum up Greek life this way: sororities are a bunch of girls who hate each other, organized to travel in herds and fight over frat boys. Fraternities are a bunch of guys who love each other, organized to get wasted faster and cheaper and hook up with sorority girls. -- Dean...
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    unable to get laptops to connect to MY wireless network

    Really? I got this from my keyboard: Image 8)
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    Favorite Quotes

    Making files is easy under the UNIX operating system. Therefore, users tend to create numerous files using large amounts of file space. It has been said that the only standard thing about all UNIX systems is the message-of-the-day telling users to clean up their files. -- System V.2...
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    Justified?

    I guess that depends on whether you're a homophobe or just sexist 8)
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    This is what happens when you run a red light

    Are you supposed to stop walking if the signal changes when you're in the middle of the road?
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    Justified?

    So are you a homophobe or sexist? 8)
  40. sechs

    This is what happens when you run a red light

    Just another reason why people should not drive.
  41. sechs

    [NEWS] - Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough

    I'm pretty positive that they wouldn't allow that much onboard....
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    Favorite Quotes

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (The Times of London) Dear Sir, I am firmly opposed to the spread of microchips either to the home or to the office. We have more than enough of them foisted upon us in public places. They are a disgusting Americanism, and can only result in the farmers being forced to...
  43. sechs

    [NEWS] - Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough

    Methanol wouldn't be so bad, if it didn't go through latex gloves.
  44. sechs

    [NEWS] - Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough

    But methanol is such an unhappy chemical to keep around your house....
  45. sechs

    Need suggestion for good free web based email

    The spam filter only redirects about 75% of the spam that I get at my Hotmail account. This leaves the remainder to fill my inbox. Since I no longer actually get any personal messages at the account, all messages that I get there are spam. Hundreds daily. Let me tell you, when they counted...
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    Favorite Quotes

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Though it has long been suspected, seismologists have the first direct evidence that the center of the Earth is solid. That core is surrounded by a liquid, much like a candy with a nut in the center floating in a liquor filling.
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    Wireless SuperG PCI NICs

    In the wall, comes to mind, but on the floor, on the wall, and on the ceiling are all quite possible. Perhaps better placement of the computer is the issue. Going with wireless because it is "sexy" is, really, a pretty unintelligent reason.
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    Favorite Quotes

    Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a -- it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation. -- Vice President Dan Quayle when a woman at a hospital in Colorado Springs...
  49. sechs

    Wireless SuperG PCI NICs

    I've always been confused by wireless in desktop computers. Since they don't move around, they can use wires. Ethernet, HomePlug, and HPNA do, in fact work.
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