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Comment Re:Obligatory quote (Score 1) 359

by minvaren on Thursday July 02, 2009 @06:36PM (#28565517) Attached to: Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World

The heat in many attics will cook the tape just as much.

Use aluminum tape or mastic on any ductwork you want to stay connected, no matter heat or cold.

Comment Re:Energy prices are unstable (Score 1) 541

by minvaren on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @06:13PM (#28446289) Attached to: Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later

However, nearly 25% comes from natural gas, according to the chart you linked - and has more than doubled in the last decade...

Comment Re:C64 didn't use a 6502 (Score 1) 238

by minvaren on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @01:05PM (#28441087) Attached to: The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S

Now there's a flashback. It took disassembling some code to figure out how they did some of the color-change tricks on various demos. Good times.

Comment Re:I think we're missing the point here... (Score 1) 867

by minvaren on Monday June 22, 2009 @08:59PM (#28432535) Attached to: Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs

Correct - the same thing the article states about wind could easily be said about solar.

Comment Oddly enough... (Score 3, Insightful) 121

by minvaren on Saturday June 20, 2009 @11:59AM (#28402353) Attached to: The Origins of Video Game Names

...they left out the origin of the "Jack" character in Jack Attack.

(I appear to be showing my age here... Hold on, there's some pesky kids out front...)

Comment Re:No problem. Just find some smart badgers. (Score 1) 418

by minvaren on Thursday June 18, 2009 @10:11PM (#28384439) Attached to: Univ. of Wisconsin's 30-Year-Old Payroll System Needs a $40 Million Fix

Send them to Kenya, of course.

Comment Re:We use AVG (Score 2, Interesting) 359

by minvaren on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @07:11AM (#28359637) Attached to: Central Anti-Virus For Small Business?

AVG was lightweight until version 8.5. Now the footprint is as bad as McAfee or Symantec (around 100MB of memory used by each).

Comment Re:Microsoft seeking a patent... (Score 1) 567

by minvaren on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @11:50PM (#28357455) Attached to: Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops

Chair. Drunk at the chair.

Comment Re:Cash Cow (Score 2, Informative) 485

by minvaren on Monday May 18, 2009 @08:58PM (#28005637) Attached to: Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher

When I need to run PC apps, XP does everything I need with the least overhead.

As long as you don't need more than 4GB of addressing space...

XP : now in 64-bit flavor (Newegg link as they appear to be willing to still sell it, unlike Microsoft).

Comment Re:Not like it's going to make a difference (Score 1) 390

by minvaren on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:22PM (#27946865) Attached to: Craigslist Kills Erotic Services Ads, Will Launch Adult Section

You mean law enforcement is a growth industry?

Comment Re:Exactly (Score 1) 455

by minvaren on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:13PM (#27581845) Attached to: Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP

Corporate users have been dealing with things like this for a year now, without even an acknowledgment of the issue by Microsoft. However, the same issue was fixed in Vista 6 months ago.

Stick with SP2 until they release a couple more fixes.

Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM 526

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @08:51AM from the there-can-be-only-one dept.

gandhi_2 writes "Sun Microsystems soared in European trading after a report that it was in talks to be acquired by IBM. The Wall Street Journal, quoting "people familiar with the matter," reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy the company for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than 100 percent over the company's closing share price Tuesday. Officials of Sun and IBM could not immediately be reached for comment."

Comment A bit behind... (Score 1) 77

by minvaren on Thursday March 05, 2009 @12:35AM (#27073897) Attached to: DNA-Radio, Tune In To Your Chromosomes

The Shamen did this with their song S2 Translation almost 15 years ago. Granted, it was a segment of a protein instead of the full genome, but it sure sounded better.

Comment Re:Cool (Score 3, Insightful) 305

by minvaren on Friday February 20, 2009 @08:22PM (#26936971) Attached to: Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala

Everything is different, but the same... things are more moderner than before... bigger, and yet smaller... it's computers... San Dimas High School football rules!

Comment Re:Can we stop calling it the "God Particle" yet? (Score 1) 397

by minvaren on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:59AM (#26885695) Attached to: Race For the "God Particle" Heats Up

It's because we stoned everyone calling it the "Jehovah particle."

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