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First Commercial-Scale Tidal Power System Delivers

Comment in News (4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 07/18/2008
U.K... fuck yea! (see comment)
978

Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/14/2008
Just teach them 'The American Way' (tm). It seems to be working for the US Dollar. (see comment)
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Why doesn't Microsoft out-innovate Apple?

Comment in News (-7 diggs, 1 reply) - on 04/28/2008
What? Oh, you mean embraced & extended LDAP & Kerberos. *nix systems have had that for years. (see comment)
1395

Why 'no Macs' is no longer a defensible IT strategy

Comment in News (-1 diggs, 5 replies) - on 04/23/2008
And I'm sure you used the same quality of parts. Your memory is ECC DDR2 6400 I take it? I bet even the dual-core cpu isn't even in the same league (xeon 5400 with 12mb L2 cache) You didn't include Bluetooth, keyboard, mouse, dual-layer dvd writer or even … (see comment)
956

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Vista is 'a Work in Progress'

Comment in News (4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 04/18/2008
As well as crapping all over the idiots waving their pom-poms defending it. (see comment)
1481

Paypal to block 'unsafe browsers'

Comment in News (-24 diggs, 0 replies) - on 04/18/2008
That's a mighty high horse you've climbed on. Being offered it as an option does not equal 'insisting'. I mean it's not as if it would go ahead and install it anyway regardless of whether you have it selected of not, unlike a certain company in Redmond. (see comment)
952

Was Windows XP Microsoft's last good OS?

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 03/02/2008
I think they just got desensitized (see comment)
952

Was Windows XP Microsoft's last good OS?

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 03/02/2008
If it is so tied into backwards compatibility how come it won't access XP shares? (see comment)
952

Was Windows XP Microsoft's last good OS?

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 03/02/2008
You obviously don't try to access XP or Samba shares. What a piece of junk. (see comment)
2169

M$ lowered Vista reqs to help Intel sell incompatible chips

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 02/29/2008
FYI: it's PC6400 RAM. The 2008 Mac Pro's all have 800mhz FSB (see comment)
1491

Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500mi.

Comment in News (12 diggs, 1 reply) - on 02/29/2008
You would probably still only get 384k uplink speed :( (see comment)
2169

M$ lowered Vista reqs to help Intel sell incompatible chips

Comment in News (5 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/28/2008
Only if you buy it from Apple (and only a fool buys ram upgrades from Apple). As for Games, well after a day of editing/rendering/post-processing HD video, it's nice to be able to relax. And yes, it was meant to be funny. (see comment)
2169

M$ lowered Vista reqs to help Intel sell incompatible chips

Comment in News (-5 diggs, 1 reply) - on 02/28/2008
They should. They copied everything else. (see comment)
2169

M$ lowered Vista reqs to help Intel sell incompatible chips

Comment in News (-5 diggs, 4 replies) - on 02/28/2008
I don't know what everyone is complaining about. My Mac Pro with 2 quad-core CPU's, 16GB RAM, plus NVidia 8800GT plays games under Vista just fine. I'll admit it chugs at times, but that is just to be expected right? (see comment)
2000

Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 02/27/2008
Using tar this way seems a bit convoluted. rsync would be better. e.g. rsync -avl {dir} my_new_MP3_directory/ Or if you don't have rsync, you could do it old-school with cpio e.g. find {dir} | cpio -pdm my_new_MP3_directory Does anyone still use cpio t … (see comment)
1384

Doing on Linux that you can't do with Windows or on a Mac!

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 02/04/2008
Interesting. I've been using EmergeDesktop for over 12 months in a corporate environment (usual office apps, exceed, 3 monitor setup). I haven't found anything that has broken yet. I guess I must be special. (see comment)
364

How Animals Gauge The Weather

Comment in News (9 diggs, 2 replies) - on 02/02/2008
Damn, I love that movie... Damn, I love that movie... Wait, what just happened? (see comment)
973

Microsoft relents: Vista consumer virtualization ban lifted

Comment in News (-5 diggs, 0 replies) - on 01/22/2008
As you felt the need to make the same post twice, I'll do the same. Maybe this has something to do with it;- http://images.appleinsider.com/changewave-080117.g ... (see comment)
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Microsoft relents: Vista consumer virtualization ban lifted

Comment in News (-8 diggs, 0 replies) - on 01/22/2008
Maybe this has something to do with it... http://images.appleinsider.com/changewave-080117.g ... (see comment)
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Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks? [VIDEO]

Comment in News (-4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 01/10/2008
hey you've got a little brown something on the end of your nose. (see comment)
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