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  1. Source code? on Help Break Original Enigma Messages · · Score: 1

    The posted source code doesn't match the posted sha1sums and aren't valid gzip archives.

  2. What about the reverse? on Skype With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think it would be much more useful to be able to use your cellphone to make outbound phone calls. Coupled with a POTS VOIP gateway you could have normal phones in your house that used your cellphone to dial out when you were there, and when you wern't you could take your cellphone with you.

  3. If you want crap, pay crap, if you want quality... on Are Printers What They Used To Be? · · Score: 1

    If you want quality you have to pay for it. It was at least a couple hundred bucks for a good ink jet 5 years ago, and they lasted a while. Even before that 10 years ago a DeskJet would last for 5 years , easy. As computers have become more popular the prices of devices have dropped and quality has tanked as the result.

    Now, if you really want a good printer, then don't buy the $40 ink jet from Walmart, so you can buy $30 cartridges and have a printer last for a year. Go and buy a "business/commercial" inkjet. Sure they are $250-$350 but they actually are built better and the cartridges are cheaper.

  4. What does your driver show off anyway on GPL Issues Surrounding Commercial Device Drivers? · · Score: 1

    Really, most drivers don't to much more than copy bits to a card or setup DMA so the cards can do it themselves. On startup they do a little initilization. Really, if you want to know what commands are sent to your device you could hook up a PCI analyzer to the bus and watch everything. The only other thing special you could be doing in your driver is some kind of packet mangling to send the packet to you hardware. If there is something really cool that you do in your driver now, I would guess your company has patented the idea. So there really should not be much harm in telling the world see how to initilize and use your card.

    It's not like we are not talking about some propriatery device that only a select few make. But rather a network adapter which recently everyone and their particular dog have made. There really is not much you could not find in another driver.

  5. Stargate SG-1 on Best Sci Fi Currently On Television? · · Score: 1
    Stargate SG-1 is great! It is a continuation of the movie Stargate, but they explore numerous worlds and have well developed characters. Stargate Website

    The current season is shown on Showtime and the previous season on FOX.

  6. Re:Writing Style on Post-mortem of a DOS Attack · · Score: 1

    Possibly it will also be clear to everyone reading this that we can not have a stable Internet economy while 25 year old MSCEs can't actually administer the machines they are supposted to be taking care of. The same also applies to Un*x admins. Administering a machine does not mean installing an OS and plugging it into the patch panel.

  7. Re:While we're at it ... on Gaming Companies Being Sued Over Columbine · · Score: 1

    I have got an idea... Next time someone gets sued for something as similarly frivolous in nature as this they should sue the lawer and his clients for making people think that frivolous lawsuits are an acceptable practice.

  8. X-33 Web Site on US Military May Resurrect X-33 · · Score: 1

    Nasa's X-33 Website: http://x33.msfc.nasa.gov/

  9. Re:The internet corrupts people on Yahoo! To Start Selling Porn · · Score: 4
    How about you worry about regulating your children and the rest will worry about ours. It is not any government's job to teach your children what is right or wrong but your own. If you can't find time to do this then perhaps you need to reprioritize your life.

    The Internet is a place for expression of ideas. Some of those ideas you might not care for. Likewise someone else might not care for your ideas. Who says your ideas are correct and everyone else's are wrong.

    If "innocent websearches" are turning up mountians of porn then perhaps you need to use a good search engine(http://www.google.com) or stop using, "britteny spears pictures" as a search sting.

    Your children have not been "safe" on Yahoo since the begining. It always has had a search engine and a listing of adult sites.

    Do you want to say that Blockbuster video is the most famous place to rent videos. They rent what some people would call softcore pornography. Should the government regulate them too?

  10. RT on Web-Based Helpdesks? · · Score: 1

    Request Tracker is a very useful web tech support program. It is available at: http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/index.ht ml

  11. Re:IMHO Cybex works well... on Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) Switches · · Score: 1

    At work I have used Cybex switches with almost complete reliablity. They are really great and the ones I have used did not use propritary cables, they used cables exactly like the belkin KVMs. At Home I have a Belkin KVM and it is pretty good, I do see some image quality reduction and the switching by hitting scroll lock twice is a bit annoying. The Cybex also have some very cool features if you want to spend the extra money, like their OSCAR(tm) techonlogy so you can connect upto 64 machines to 4 different consoles.

  12. Re:Where on earth did you get those specs? on Convert a Boeing 727 Into a Home · · Score: 1

    Bah... Largest plane on earth. Obviously you have not looked at military aircraft or for the commercial arena what about a 777. The engines are as big as a 727 fussilage.

    Try again.

  13. Re:Ahh yes; on Creative Labs GPLs dxr2 DVD Decoder Drivers · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if the DXR2 drivers work with the DXR3 decoder?

  14. Re:Thats Spiffy on iBook boots Linux · · Score: 2

    It uses a ATI Rage Mobility chip. You can get more info about it at: http://www.ati.com/ca_us/showcase/mobil ity/