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  1. Re:Transformers have used oil... on Want a Cool and Quiet PC? Dunk it in Oil · · Score: 2, Informative

    Transformers, breakers, 500KV transformers in fact just about every piece of utility equipment use transformer oil.

    So did the Heathkit dummy load. A 1 gallon paint can to be precise. It used an SO-239 connector gasketed to the top.

    With the proper gasket and connectors this will work well. Actually I might suggest a vertical Pelikan case not too different looking from an ammo case. As for fires that is generally 20 year old oil in overloaded transformers. So when was the last time you fired up your Apple II ? Just do not use cooking oil!

  2. Industry Excuses Getting Old. on After Brief Respite Music Industry Slump Deepens · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I will no longer buy their "TOP TEN" I do not listen to AM or FM radio. I am more likely to listen to PRI, CBC or BBC. I own all my albums not one is pirated!

    I like to listen to Bruce Cockburn which is only available as a hard CD used. Although last year he released a brilliant CD it certainly was not even in the shops. However go look on iTunes on Folk 101 there he is first entry.

    Hastings and many more outlets are going mostly Used CD's.

    So what use do we all have for the music industry any more? They have not adjusted to the new Paradymn so they will be replaced.

  3. Another Profit center for Social Work and Lawyers! on Hooked On The Web · · Score: 1

    I am Shocked and Appalled. In this case the media is not the message!

    All the vices mentioned are normal targeted vices in DSM4. I had an Ex-Wife who tried to say my Software Engineering at Early hours in the morning made me a drug user. I would say absolutely, Caffine! Satan was the Marketing Manager who said the product was going to be released in three months then collected his fat bonus.

    Well that didn't fly but this positioning is dangerous. Someone is trying to say what I am doing right now, engaging in social discourse is an addiction.

    Well to that I say BUNK! I am doing what we have always done in essence writing a letter to the editor. Or as the title of the book best sums up "One Hundred Years of Shocked and Appalled" Letters to the Editor....

    We cannot allow this to be put forth in an upcoming DSM or our whole work ethic will go down the drain. Lawyers and Social Workers will become rich and all remaining things will be MADE IN CHINA!

  4. Re:Vista with new Sieve Security Technology on Windows Vista Leaks ... Again! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually Mark Shuttlesworth's Community Ubuntu 5.10 is released *Ahead* of time.

    Go Breezy! http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.10/

  5. Flash with Drive on ATA or SATA Controller. on Samsung HDD Merges Flash, Conventional Storage · · Score: 1

    The point is an old one. It's the buffer silly. iPod's do exactly this for power and jog proofing reasons for 25 minuites. I am *surprised* to not see an integrated drive from Hitachi Travelstar not chucking the ram buffer away and putting in a 256MByte 1 chip flashdrive available today for PCMCIA flashdrive (and today the sweet spot *is* 256MBYTE). HP should love this for PDA's and Laptops. Sure beats Centrino for power savings. Using the internal HD controller for this manipulation resolves dependancy on a Journaling File System. Or the old battery backed up ram.

  6. Linksys Network attached storage for USB drives. on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like a good job could be done automatically by changing the application code for the Linksys NSLU2 which as we know has complete Linux source available and also has a substantial following.

    http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

    1) Format to EXT3 deleting all partions.
    2) DOD wipe. Format to Desired End state.

    Mail if you are interested. Cheers!

  7. Hyndai, Samsung, Kia or LG on S. Korea Considers Using Armed Robots Along DMZ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually if I were the South Korean's I would do this. You have a buit in test site. You have a incredible industry. You have a business opportunity! You now get the 5 tigers into the arms business and further diferenterate yourself from the Chinese. And who in North Korea (or for that matter South Korea) can complain!

    Honda, Sony look out!

  8. Re:They're not very convincing? on Fun With Transparent Screen Backgrounds · · Score: 1

    Neither was the advanced technology warefare demo of "seethrough Camo". But it did passingly good for a Harry Potter'esk invisibility cloak. Actually someone viewed "Preditor" or "Alien vs Preditor" and copied it. Consider this the Alpha 1 prototype.

    Author C Clark invented Geosyncronous communication's satellites. He did not get the implementation dead on but could have gotten the patent claims right!

  9. Who Cares about Napster? on Napster To Campaign Aggressively Against iPod · · Score: 1

    Napster flunked out of Target and Walmart selling CD's and is about to take it's last hurrah before plunging into the swan dive of oblivion.

    Don't buy their stock!

  10. Grass Varieties Banff on Genetic Engineers Barking Up the Wrong Trees? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Few People realize this but a Grass varient called Banff for the meadows it started from has been established by Agriculture Canada.

    Yes I once had a full lawn of it and it does grow to 2 1/2 inches and pretty much stays there. And it is a pretty, fine wonderful barefoot grass to boot!

  11. What do the Microsoft Millionaires do? on New and Improved SETI · · Score: 1

    It's my view that as they have taken on the system and won, Microsoft (substitute any large agressive organization) and the grubbing for money seems less than what these people wanted in life. Certainly less than what they wanted to be remembered for. They cannot help but see Linus will be remembered for "Linux" (he didn't give up his ethics). Now, Paul Allan will be remembered for Space Exploration and "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" will be remembered for charity. If I could make my own job I might fund FTL drives and/or wormhole research, wouldn't you?

  12. Re:OCR-Line on Tin Foil Passports? · · Score: 1

    My Canadian Passport is OCR-B readable as are all EU passports except some British one naturally to CE standards! One problem Database alteration!

    In the realm of Hightech Lowtech instead of seeking the highest cost implementation why not put biometrics on a pitted Aluminum foil inside cover of the passport. Yes Will Robinson you read it just like the CD business cards with a circular rotation laser and a cheap feed. If memory serves this is a slightly modified CD burner / reader! All passport covers are blank and burnt at you freindly neighbourhood passport office with of course pgp and thwate digital signature of the issuing office! ..... What problem!

  13. IT Stress and your life on Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Quite frankly I have been lucky enough to have a job as an Embedded Firmware Engineer for 25 years. Remember the catch phrase"Intel first from the begining" I was there. Beta'd the 8051, 8086, 80186, 29000, 29020 and the list goes on.

    This led to marrige breakdown of two marriges something that happened to a lot of my co-workers.

    My advise is simple. Try and make your family first and advise work your family / life / health comes first.

    When picking a mate try and find someone who would partner with you at work and shows a genuine interest. This might be an artist that does books as well for web sites and the graphic artist can rise in them. Anyway you get the picture.

    And finally try and work towards a end that you can live where you want run your own business and the work comes to you. All you need is that high speed connect. Work when you want. Go fishing or ? when you want.

    That's what 25 years tells me. And no I didn't, I wish someone had told me.

    Regards John

  14. XP is not the problem Ignorance is the problem! on Windows XP and Incompatibilities with Multi-Booting? · · Score: 1

    We now have of all things incompaitabilities with Cisco Routers leading IT departments to forbid XP installs. Now we have the Lack of Partionions. Personally I think we should turn the equation arround. Boot Linux standardize on Lilo make the /boot partion reserved and run Micro$oft in a Virtual machine if we must. Cisco, IBM, Redhat please gang up with LPI and let's just get rid of MSCE and its certified weenies that I have NEVER found to know anything. IBM, Sendmail and Sun lets run ads like certain green circled softdrinks to get the truth out that Microsoft Exchange is a Virus to make everone run NT/XP even as poorly suited as it is for Oracle and DB2. And unfortunately thats true! Courts don't work, inteligence doesn't work, lets just make it unhip to run Microsoft products! Microsoft is a drug!

  15. Re:Talk about making retailers mad.. on Red Hat 7.0 Beta Is Out · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately you are already correct. Retailers now are only "bringing" Red Hat in as orders from Ingram or Mirasel. They do not stock and go to Red Hat. So you get CD's two weeks later. Why am I not just downloading all the time????? P.S. The Best way to get Red Hat is to ask Jan Carlson (or his clone) to copy off the latest patchs applied RH6.x+ (soon to be 7.0+) distro. http://www.tlug.org/ So why does someone not put together the patched RH of the week distro (beside Jan). Could be quite the business.

  16. Larr's is travelling up the learning curve. on At Last And At Length: Lars Speaks · · Score: 2

    It's obvious from what Larr's is saying that he is on the learning curve and not scared to say it. Now that you have his attention perhaps you can offer him this bully pulpit to speak from every 6 months or so. It would be interesting to hear how his thoughts progress because he is something we all treasure, a outspoken but intelligent newbie with a obvious sense of fairness in his perceptions.

  17. Re:Just a Qube on Has Anyone Played With Gateway Micro Server? · · Score: 1

    It's my belief this was announced on Slashdot a few months ago. The deal was certainly announced on "The Register". Of course I think the "Cube" is cute but really I have no use for it's price neither the price of the "Netwinder". A cost study I did proved the network PC case a PC CHIPS all in one Super Socket 7 motherboard with onboard Ethernet, Modem and Video (winmodem btw). The lowest cost AMD P6-3 and a Hard Drive could be built for $300 CDN and naturally will mount any Linux Distribution some will run with experimental winmodem drivers.

  18. Re:News Release...Field Failures! on 3dfx Delays Voodoo5 Schedule · · Score: 1

    Obviously 3DFX has seen the Fiasco Intel has had over their RAMBUS(C) Chips and observed that Intel could pay out over $600 Million. Judging by user comments regarding AMD, PC133, Rambus and power supplies quite rightly they have decided to duck and cover. If I was their shareholders I would rather ship bad software than bad hardware and bad hardware is what they have seen in beta.

  19. Re:YES! on New LILO Breaks 1024-Cyl Limit · · Score: 1

    But I thought your 27TB Crystaline drive presented a 1024 cylinder image on boot? Really we all seem to be too PC centric in our thinking.

  20. How To Market I Opener on Meeting With Netpliance · · Score: 1
    This should be a straight issue.

    1) Offer the unit with service contract at price 1, without contract and IDE flipover connector at price 2. Advantage 1 unit to stock.

    2) Offer as per 1 and a web order of unit with IDE connector and hard drive preload the harddrive with Linux (I suggest Corel may give them the best deal) pre-install their service and add a secure web page to their site to get your credit card for the service. Nothing in this stops you from installing any service, any distribution or Windoze.

    3) Offer both units of 2 through distribution. Still allowing for a Web order for non-standard configurations. The advantage to this is you say it's a complete Linux machine with loading of Corel Office 2000 or Star Office.

    I suggest this offers the best advantage to the company, brings up the penetration and the volume to drive down prices.

    And best of all makes them a real LINUX company to fuel a IPO or pop their stock.

  21. Re:Read Isaac Asimov on Bill Joy On Extinction of Humans · · Score: 1

    Asimov's laws of Robotics will not be used. You will note that some of the "best" software systems are used for Nuke Guidance. Including "ARPANET" (Did you notice Asimov's laws in IPV4/6). As for the Matrix it is a real exploration of SF creating a believable world based on technology that could happen. It even has a "back door". Remember A. C. Clarke was laughed at when he invented geosynchrounous satellite's that broadcast all over the globe.... CNN anyone!