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  1. Packet8 on Ahead of IPO, Vonage Faces User Complaints · · Score: 1

    I use http://www.packet8.net/

    The price is great. The voice quality is good enough. Occationally I will get a blip in the conversion where it's like you lose the connection for a second.

    I am satisfied. Does any one else use anything besides Vonage?

  2. http://www.clamav.net/ on E-Mail Server Setup Advice? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I recommend setting up ClamAv with FreshClam to filter out virus/worm type email. I have found it performs very well on my server. I have also found they have a very fast responce to new viri as they appear.

    http://www.clamav.net/

  3. BD player emulator on Blu-Ray to Include New Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    The crack is quite simple....All you need to do is write a BD Player emulator that behaves exactly like the real player except that is sends the results to an unencrypted file. The keys will be leaked though some poorly made BD player software as before with CSS. The rest of the keys will come mathmatically as before.

    Oh yea...and only one guy needs to do this. The rest can use P2P software.

  4. Re:Power from a wall outlet ... how exciting on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Power Over WiFi is called a mircowave. It cooks food and if deployed over a whole building would cook all the people.

  5. Strict file system format should not be needed on Why Aren't More Distros Becoming LSB Certified? · · Score: 1

    I don't think the OS should be designed in a way that makes the file system format as strict as LSB makes it. You should able to have a folder called myOS.os or otherOS.os boot to it and it should work.

    Programs should be like they are on a Mac. You open myProgram.app and it runs a programs. No complex directry structure. Whatever the user wants.

    Libraries should have folder in the OS folder one per library.

    The linux standard base and what everyone else uses is more complicated then it needs to be.

  6. Re:I got it on Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Available · · Score: 1

    I got it and now iChat seems to be broken. Has anyone else seen this. iChat will not even start up. It just bounces and quits.

    Has anyone else seen this?

  7. Re:In depth technical analysis on 360-Degree 3D Imaging · · Score: 1

    I think you could really do this if you combined this which would allow you to put the dangerous spinning thing like this inside the mirrors and interact with the top part with your hands.

    The phyiscs web page is not a good picture but I have seen it work. Its really 3d and you can see it from 360 degrees around the xy axis but only about 100 degrees around the xz axis.

  8. Re:for those of us who value fair use backups... on Blizzard Stomps Bnetd in DMCA Case · · Score: 1

    You could go one step further and modify the installer before running it to change the agree button to a disagree button. You might even write a program that makes the disagree appear on top of the agree button.

  9. Anything _CAN_ be open sourced. on Open-Source Language Translator Opens For Beta · · Score: 1

    >>>> I want their control software to be OpenSource(tm)d, 'coz I won't trust Lockheed Martin.

    I still agree with the original statement. Even control systems for military hardware could be open sourced. A system that guides a missle to it's target could be similar to what might guide some self driven transportation device of the future. The open source model might allow for reuse and faster developement.

    You might think that there are dangers to giving Terrorist group X the software. I argue the materials and mechanical designs would still be secret and difficult to access. I don't think there is any greater risk then we already have today.

    Language software like any and all monsterous and small software projects is perfect for the open source model. Since the marginal cost of copying software is zero to the writer there is no good reason for him to charge the second person who wants the software.

    However, the closed model is the reason we have some of the technology we have today. Sometimes we are willing to share the cost of the first writing but no-one will do it for society. In the situation of the this software lots of people are willing to do it for society.

    Anything _CAN_ be open sourced.