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  1. Re:Reducing dependence on utilities on Blackout Was Good News, For Pollution · · Score: 1

    If you really don't want your state to have to build more power plants for a while, campain for LED traffic lights.

  2. Re:Heat? on Intel Plans for Dual-Core Prescott CPUs in 2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intel: You down with Entropy? (Yeah, you know me.)

  3. Re:4 CPU's on Intel Plans for Dual-Core Prescott CPUs in 2005 · · Score: 1

    There's a utility out there somewhere that lets you leave hyperthreading on for the OS, but only show physical CPUs to the applications. Can find a link though -- didn't realise when I found it before how important it might be. (I use AMD myself, but mostly because I like the nForce2 chipset.)

  4. Re:Windows Licencing on Intel Plans for Dual-Core Prescott CPUs in 2005 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why do they care? What possible legitimate reason would Microsoft have for reducing the number of CPUs that XP can run on, if it's based on code perfectly capable of running on more? This is the same crap you have to fight if you want concurrent sessions. MS's licensing is by far the worse thing about their products.

  5. Re:Yes, but will this be enough? on Bluetooth Gets Faster & Requires Less Power · · Score: 1

    And Bluetooth on my Fujitsu notebook is a joy, but the Microsoft Bluetooth Desktop specifically is a very incompatible product.

  6. Re:Yes, but will this be enough? on Bluetooth Gets Faster & Requires Less Power · · Score: 1

    You're lucky you got it to work. I couldn't get it running on two PCs, including the one it was bought for, before I finally got it to work on the third -- and because it's not compatible with anyone else's Bluetooth stack AND the BT stack only supports keyboard, mouse and modem I can't use it for any of my other BT devices, such as my N-Gage or headset.

  7. Re:No Mr. Enderle. on Is VOIP Over WLAN DOA? · · Score: 2, Funny
    The same people that don't change the default password on their Linksys wireless router?
    I thought we just found out that this was pointless anyway...
  8. Re:XP Concurrent sessions? on Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans · · Score: 1
    At that point, the machine becomes a server
    You can install Apache on XP, at which point it becomes a server and you don't need a server OS for that. I know that XP Pro is capable of multiple concurrent sessions. The only reason you need a server OS is because MS have purposely crippled XP, through both technical and legal means.
  9. Re:Use it to an advantage. on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Use it to an advantage. on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1

    Ironport facilitates known spammers, as a business model. If you didn't find that after the free clues I posted, then I can't help you. Saying it's Opt-in doesn't mean it is.

  11. Re:Use it to an advantage. on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1

    Start here. Search Google Groups for IronPort for more flavour.

  12. Re:Cry me a river on Are Mobile Carriers Slowing Down The Mobile Games Market? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Let's see; you can't easily switch providers because they all use different technologies, if you move outside the area where you bought your phone you can't get a service either because the standards are different or there's no roaming agreement with the service provider in that area.
    If our infastructure is so "poor", then why does 50% of the nation have wireless service?
    That's a pretty poor coverage rate.

    I don't know why you're so defensive. US mobile phone service is simply lagging behind many western (and eastern) countries because that's the way things happened this time. You can't be the world leader in everything.

  13. So, when will we see 3rd-party carts? on Nintendo Pokemon Mini LCD Game Hacked · · Score: 1

    Reverse engineering stuff like this is cool, but emulators are so common. When am I going to be able to buy these ROMs as a cart?

  14. Re:Use it to an advantage. on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1

    Ironport plays both sides of the war. There is no such thing as unsolicted bulk email that isn't spam.

  15. Cry me a river on Are Mobile Carriers Slowing Down The Mobile Games Market? · · Score: 1

    Mobile gaming is stalled in the US where mobile infrastructure is fragmented and poor. Online gaming is all but nonexistent in Australia where broadband is a joke. So what if you can't run game X on your phone? If all phones where the same you'd say there's on choice.

  16. XP Concurrent sessions? on Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any chance that we'll get the legal option to connect a thin client to an XP box without booting off the user on the console?

  17. Re:Use it to an advantage. on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1

    At that rate of spam I wouldn't be spending enough time online to download it all -- I only have dial-up. My solution was to pay for SpamCop (a service I no longer recommend since being bought by IronPort). SpamCop can pop mail off any POP3 server, filter it and either deliver to your choice of account, or become the new place where you fetch your mail from. It made my last year of my Yahoo mail address bearable.

  18. Re:Sega 32x - Doom on Is The 32-Bit Gaming Era The New Retro? · · Score: 1
    You want retro style from the 32X era? Hard to go past Virtua Fighter 1 and Virtua Racing -- these titles show how little detail is needed in a 3D game for basic enjoyable gameplay. Heck, the Virtua Racing for the MegaDrive with the (grabs cart, checks) Sega Virtua Processor is one of the most impressive products of the early console 3D era.

    Added Note: Disturbingly, the frame rate on 32X Doom is better than the Saturn version.

  19. Re:Use it to an advantage. on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1
    Only against the viruses that are already known. You are still vulnerable to the as-yet unwritten virus that takes advantage of the as-yet undiscovered vulnerability.
    That's true for any program. Eudora has had exploits too. Or are you one of those that believes that only Microsoft products have as-yet undiscovered vulnerabilities?
  20. Re:Use it to an advantage. on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Spam filtering at the client is not the solution. All my filtering occurs at the server.

  21. Re:Use it to an advantage. on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been suggesting Mozilla as the answer to IE-hijacking [ad/spy]ware. Works every time. I also recommend Eudora as the answer to Outlook-exploiting viruses, but patching Outlook works just as well.

  22. Cool on Contiki for Internet-enabled Apple II · · Score: 1

    Now, if they'd just fix the web downloader on the C64 port that'd be cooler.

  23. Re:Adsense is darn accurate, but sometimes funny . on Generating Revenue with On-Line Ads? · · Score: 1

    As an aside, you can see what adsense would come up with on your site by copying the frame address from another website then substituting your URL into the address. It was interesting running it over my personal site. I'd give you an example, but I upgraded my ad filter recently and it kills adsense now.

  24. Re:Yahoo? on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 1
    I'm curious to know if you've had a chance to use gmail
    You giving out invitations?
  25. Re:Yahoo? on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 1

    They've stopped accepting new accounts. I currently recommend SpyMac.