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  1. Re:Great product bloodlines on A Versatile and Rugged MIDI Mini-Keyboard (Video) · · Score: 1

    This *is* the second iteration – this is a consumer (features removed) version of the QuNexus http://www.keithmcmillen.com/p...

    The QuNexus also has control voltage outputs for directly triggering analog/modular gear.

  2. Re:Before April 2009 on Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's cool, but there should be salting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)

  3. Re:As a certified "young person"... on Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android · · Score: 1

    ... because they can't figure out how to post to Facebook with a Droid, obviously!

  4. The "Occupy HTML" isn't a giant flash website? on Occupy Flash? · · Score: 1

    But it still has the problem of not being able to link to the internal sections. Good job!

  5. Re:20/20 rosy view? on How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way · · Score: 2

    I think that Apple's expressed lack of interest in native apps in the first iteration of the iPhone OS were to discourage people from waiting for a feature and to maintain a competitive edge via secrecy.

  6. Re:Couldn't I just do this with a RAM cache? on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 2

    Quick Google says:
    64GB SSD = $86
    64GB RAM = $2000

  7. Re:will they have a real reboot on Windows 8 To Feature 'Fast Startup Mode' · · Score: 1

    If you need to actually reboot your machine, you can always run Windows Update.

  8. private-browsing features can't stop them on Zombie Cookies Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    Can't you setup browsers to prompt to create local storage?

  9. Re:heavy + bulky + expensive == better! on Cisco's Tablet Act Like a Desktop · · Score: 1

    Inferior specs and capabilities never stopped any Apple product from being a runaway success, so I'd say it has a chance.

    Uh Apple desktops in the 90s

  10. Re:Cross Platform on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 1

    ExFat doesn't work on all versions of 10.5, making it essentially useless for real cross platform use.

  11. Re:Cross Platform on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 1

    Only FAT filesystems are truly portable between Windows and Macs & FAT is a terrible file system no big (> 4 or 2 GB) files. Totally useless for many tasks.

  12. Why is this news? on Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I understand "big changes" in Linux distributions that have a day to day impact on all users like switching to X.org or Unity are important events. But most people spend about 10 seconds tops interacting with Gdm every day. It's just not that important for most users.

  13. Re:uh oh, talking out of channels on Creating the Software Art In Tron Legacy · · Score: 1

    DVD? With DRM? Stallman?

  14. Did /. become CNet? on Google Launches New Assault On Microsoft Office · · Score: 0

    How is this news for nerds? More like News for Office Drones!

  15. Re:Hoopla on Apple in Talks to Improve Sound Quality of Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    All those old Beatles and Rolling Stones albums? Keep the best CD version you have, more bits aren't going to make a difference.

    Many CD versions of those records were poorly mastered.

  16. Re:Should anybody really be supprised... on Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    WikiLeaks may think they are trying to expose corruption, but so far, I haven't seen the corruption they think exists.

    How about the top story there right now?

    Confidential documents related to the World Health Organization Expert Working Group on innovative financing for research and development surfaced today, revealing the group's thinking as well as pharmaceutical industry thinking about the WHO process. The documents immediately raised concern about possible undue access to the process by industry; the WHO told Intellectual Property Watch the industry group was not supposed to have the documents.

  17. Re:They are also kiling Altavista on Yahoo! To Close Delicious · · Score: 1

    The real tragedy here is the destruction of the community. Altavista has no more value to me, but with delicious I know I can bounce over and check out what my friend Bob bookmarked about Ruby in 2006 or look at the history of annotations to a URL. That data will become inaccessible to me & I'll likely loose contact with some people I only follow through delicious.

  18. uh on Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised · · Score: 1

    Anyone have any experience changing all their low priority passwords at once? Thoughts?

  19. Re:What the hell is the point? on Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site · · Score: 1

    Exactly, if they really wanted to hurt them, wouldn't an attack on something that would cost them real money (like a RIAA-blessed streaming music service) be more damaging?

  20. Re:fdisk on OpenBSD 4.8 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    IIRC you can suffix a quantity with M or G to specify size in megabytes or gigabytes.

  21. Re:Sorry guys, can't resist on Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe? · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Google analytics on How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web? · · Score: 1

    Uh, I'd wager that the majority of web users have urchin.js in their browser cache already.

  23. on a less formal/intense level: higher ed dns on Case of the Great Hot-Site Swap · · Score: 2, Informative

    The alternate nameservers for many Universities are often at other schools. Not the same thing, but interesting to note:


    mtnBook:~ $ whois rochester.edu
    Name Servers:
          NS1.UTD.ROCHESTER.EDU 128.151.2.1
          NS2.UTD.ROCHESTER.EDU 128.151.7.6
          SIMON.CS.CORNELL.EDU
          DNS.CS.WISC.EDU

    mtnBook:~ $ whois cornell.edu
    Name Servers:
          BIGRED.CIT.CORNELL.EDU 128.253.180.2
          DNS.CIT.CORNELL.EDU 192.35.82.50
          CAYUGA.CS.ROCHESTER.EDU

    mtnBook:~ $ whois ucsb.edu
    Name Servers:
          NS1.UCSB.EDU 128.111.1.1
          NS2.UCSB.EDU 128.111.1.2
          KNOT.BROWN.EDU



    There's a bunch more NYU/UCBerkeley, WUSTL/ULA, etc.

  24. Re:Just a thought on China Treats Internet Addiction Very Seriously · · Score: 1

    Can you explain / elaborate?

  25. Re:Looks like I'll stay with Tiger then on Apple to Charge for Boot Camp? · · Score: 1

    Those aren't wrappers around the same libraries as Windows Media Player as QTAmateur is around QT