I hadn't had any of the accounts I'd used, either, and wasn't sure which one it was. Still got the account back, give 'em a try.

I had cataract surgery on that eye two years before the retina came loose. I did know a couple of guys who had vitrectomies followed by cataract surgery, but the needles don't go through the lens, they go in through the whites (photos at wikipedia). I suspect that a vitrectomy involves steroids; steroid eyedrops for an eye infection caused my cataract.

It wasn't worth the effort, I just cut and pasted from the manuscript. It's bad enough posting journals, I take a bit more care with them.

Maybe, I don't see the use for u-racks anymore for a home data centers. I just use a desktop with four screens attached to it and one server with 64GB RAM acting as file server/firewall/router and running a bunch of virtual machines with qemu. XVNC or RDP for VMs running a graphical interface, ssh for others. I also have a UPS to keep everything alive for 6 hours if power goes out, about 20 hours if I shut the desktop down and use a laptop instead.

Well, except for the part where Linus isn't just writing code for the kernel - he's actually using Linux on his desktop to write said code. That's why he had such hard opinions on, say, Gnome 3.

1) I don't have anything to prove.

2) Learn to read between the lines ;-)

Cheers,

Interesting, the "shadow of the hype" is still hype. You seem to be underestimating me.

Apart from that, you are basically saying the same thing as I do and rest assured I have been following your recommendations for quite a while, especially the part about: "you could be making decisions for yourself based on the actual arguments and data involved."

Please watch the TV Show Manhattan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yet, back then, at some stage, almost the whole scientific community was hyped on ThinMan which ended up being trashed. Implosion prevailed.

All I am saying is don't jump to conclusions and follow the scientific community hype too easily.

Wisdom and Temptation:

http://www.ascentmagazine.com/...

I never mentioned large black holes and I was using the quote to demonstrate that we still do not know what is going on really yet.

Anyway, this seems recent enough ( April 30, 2014):
"Black hole atoms now join a long list of candidates for dark matter particles, from supersymmetric neutralinos, WIMPs and axions to warm sterile neutrinos and many more, Dokuchaev told Space.com. Verifying whether any of them is the real deal will require catching one first, he added."

http://www.space.com/25691-dar...

Do you need anti-matter for "annihilating the Milky Way's halo"?

Dark matter could be made of black holes:

"There have been many candidates for this theorized "dark" matter, and in truth it is probably some combination of them: hot or cold gas, neutron stars, white or brown dwarfs, exotic particles and, yes, even black holes!"

https://van.physics.illinois.e...

I was 16, you insensitive clod.

Slashdot needs to get out of the nineties and into the 21st century.

You can get your old account back if you can remember what your email address was. Send a note to help@slashdot.org.

I'd lost my account and they were very helpful about it.

As to your surgery, LISTEN TO THE DOCTOR!!! Helping that one person could prevent you from helping others in the future. Oh, and I empathize; I had a vitrectomy in 2008. Not the least bit fun.

There is a difference between common sense and privacy. University conditions specifically forbid private use anyways. It has to be for University related activities, like conducting research on security vulnerabilities for instance ;-))

Puberty, stereotypes, society ??? Important thing is I didn't.

Also, I remember signing up with a big telco where I live that advertised unlimited access. I phoned them and told them up front that I was going to be on 24/24 and they said; no problems, so I signed.

I quickly discovered that they would hang up after 6 hours. We had to dial-in again and they seemed to purposely change the IP address everytime, anyway, I never got the same IP twice in a row.

God what fun I had using dyndns short DNS records TTL and all kinds of "adjustments" to have something relatively stable. User knew the network would go down for 10 minutes everyday during a business day and they got used it.

OK, I have to stop. I am laughing my heart out.