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  1. Re:bit thin on details on Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer · · Score: 1

    You can get modchips for $20 if you're good at soldering yourself. If you want one of the better ones, professionally installed, you're looking at ~$80

  2. Re:WP is flat out better on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 1
    I think you need to realise that you're quite alone in your view about Word being good. I've seend 10+ posts from you sofar in this discussion all basically saying the same thing; Word rules, I can do anything you can in WP in Word. There are no bugs in Word. Word rules


    It's getting boring. I know no one (including my tech-illiterate mother) who actually understands what Word does most of the time.

  3. Re:Death to PDAs! on Palm Ships With 12-bit Screen, Says 16-Bit On Box · · Score: 1
  4. Re:MS Wins on Palm Ships With 12-bit Screen, Says 16-Bit On Box · · Score: 2, Informative
    Microsoft? Are you nuts? ;)


    Sony Ericsson P800


    Symbian


    Tech people have been drooling over this one for a long time .. forget carrying two devices.

  5. Re:Jurassic Park on How To Clone A Mammoth · · Score: 1
    Thanks for the only truly informative post so far.

  6. Re:Horrible idea on NYC Law Aims To Ban Cell Phones In Theatres · · Score: 2, Funny
    At the premiere of Lord of the Rings at Royal in Sweden, they said before the film started that if a cellphone started ringing, they'd stop the film and put a spotlight on the offender.


    They also stated that the Tolkien-fans would probably take care of the rest.


    Not a single cellphone was heard throughout the film.

  7. Re:Deep Pockets and Deeper Affiliations on RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website · · Score: 1

    This what you get when you're on Bostream in Sweden:

    No web site is configured at this address.

  8. Re:Same price? on Lindows.com Hypes An Upcoming $199 PC · · Score: 1
    You're REALLY out of touch.


    XboxHacker.net and Xbox-Scene will update you.


    The X-ecuter modchip is one (tough) wire, 10 easy solderpoints (no wires, pcb to pcb). You boot the box with the Evo-X cdrw, after that you install what you want via FTP to the box (Evo-X includes an FTPd) and off you go, running everything you want from the harddrive (which you can switch for a new 120Gb if you want).

  9. Re:Microsoft loses money myth on Linux on Xbox One Step Closer? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Analysts are doing that all the time - $300 to $350 are the numbers they end up with mostly. Being user #2281 I fully expect you to be able to use Google to verify those numbers if you aren't willing to take my word for it ;)


    Sony is making money on the PS2 at $199, and Nintendo are breaking even on the GameCube at $149. [at this very moment, those two are more rapidly getting cheaper to produce than the Xbox]

  10. Re:I think it's time to buy a Gamecube on Sony Proudly Rolls Out Spyware/Restrictions System · · Score: 1
    Ports with no graphics enhancements often look the same.


    Maybe you should compare the DC games to .. I don't know .. GC games?


    *shrug*

  11. Re:Jon Johansen's Age on Jon Johansen DVD Trial Date Set · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  12. Re:Good luck Jon on Jon Johansen DVD Trial Date Set · · Score: 1
    I frequented the same private efnet-channel as Jon did when DeCSS was created. He asked me if I had a fast server to mirror decss.zip on - which I had. Apart from his own homepage, mine was the only mirror (on a 100Mbit connection, yes, there were lots of downloads)

    Needless to say, root@thatsystem got involved in some legal correspondance .. I'm root ;)

    Jon has an account on Slashdot if I remember correcly. *waving*

  13. Re:Jon Johansen's Age on Jon Johansen DVD Trial Date Set · · Score: 1
    Removing CSS from a DVD-image does not make it unplayable, where did you get that idea from?

  14. Re:It's not the Borgs.... on When Brains Meet Computer Brawn · · Score: 1
    "Borg? Sounds Swedish."

  15. Re:Schmoozing - the details on GRACE Exceeds Expectations! · · Score: 1
    GRACE will look up information on them and use it to engage the person in conversation.

    So, looking up me (my name is Troed, it's quite unusual - 7 of us in Sweden) she would start talking about:

    • Troedson Konsult AB (I know of him, but we're not related)
    • Lots of Waleish (?) towns
    • ... and finally my own discountinued homepage

    (What is Darksbane? Troed magic is far more sophisticated than human magic sounds interesting ;)

  16. Re:Security code has to do with the BIOS, not game on Xbox Security Keys Changed · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up, mod parent-parent down. The key changed is the RC4 key used for encrypting/decrypting the BIOS - NOT anything to do with the public-key crypto used to sign & authenticate executables.

  17. Re:That's not the issue! on Click-Thru Licensing on Open Source Software? · · Score: 1
    Then change the laws in the US - the only country were you can sue people for your own stupidity.

    Yes, we ARE laughing at you.

  18. Re:The controller on Borrowing ROMs · · Score: 1
    "Animal Crossing" - GameCube, from Nintendo

    11 NES games inside

    Possible to play both on TV and on a linked GBA - even while unplugged to the GC later

  19. Re:If you think the PS2 architecture is weird on More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details · · Score: 1
    I assume you're a teenager - since you actually seem to believe that a "Resident Evil"-type of game is more mature than "Mario" .. which is wrong :) You'll understand this when you grow up. I'm 27 - and I'm looking forward to Mario more than .. Eternal Darkness, as an example.

    (over 400000 GameCubes were sold in Europe in the first 2-3 days btw)

  20. Re:If you think the PS2 architecture is weird on More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details · · Score: 1
    Yeah - there are lots of them - and they buy PS2s ;)

    /me - 27 - GameCube owner

  21. Re:If you think the PS2 architecture is weird on More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details · · Score: 1
    Average age of GC-buyers in Europe, a few weeks after launch, 23 years.

    So, your post is nothing but flamebait.

  22. Re:That one is easy on Handspring Hides Flash ROM in Handspring Treo · · Score: 2, Informative
    Exactly. It's very common to use flash in the first batch of a product, since that's just the continuation of testruns that of course had flash so you could iron out all bugs. The second batch usually has masked roms instead.

    (Experience from developing for handheld computers and cellphones is behind the above statement)

  23. Booster rocket failure? on New Supersonic Jet Test Less Than Successful · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A booster rocket was supposed to take the craft up - and then the craft would glide supersonically down.

    It crashed a few seconds after takeoff - so it can only be the booster rocket that failed - right? If so - this might not be that devastating since it says nothing about the actual craft itself .. (more about booster rockets .. )

  24. Re:Used since 1996! on The Future Of The 2.0 Linux Kernel · · Score: 1
    I switched from Win95 to Win2K 8-9 months ago.

  25. I love Internet on The Chronoliths · · Score: 1
    I read this little review, went to an online bookstore in Sweden (Bokus) - ordered the book (in English, most translations are crap) and it'll be here early next week.

    I browsed with Mosaic in 93 (94?) when there was only a handful of webpages up - only universities and when no one really believed we'd be doing shopping like this in 10 years ..