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  1. secret options on Finally: Broadband for the Commodore 64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not in manual but let me reveal:
    you can connect an original arcade(r) stick to the internet adaptor. By wiggling it left-right really fast you can help the adaptor process packets, thus upgrading its speed.

  2. yay even more heat on G5 PowerBook "Challenge" · · Score: 1

    I've been using a g4 400mhz powerbook with gentooppc for a couple of years(osx is way too slow), I must say that I love it, it's challeging sometimes to get a certain thing working on a ppc and the design unmatched.
    When I watch a movie in bed with my girlfriend none of us wants to put the laptop on the lap, because of the amount of heat it produces, the amount of pain it produces is based on the amount of frames it decodes I guess.
    I don't even want to think about what will happen if I put a g5 2ghz machine on my lap for more than .2 seconds, probably the whole room will spontaniously lit.

  3. Re:I have a cunning plan... on Spammer Hangout's Membership Roster Left Exposed · · Score: 1

    you don't have to bulk mail it, just mail the guys from the hosting provider with a fake spam email. it will be 20 emails tops. they will think, if they get the spam email many others must have gotten it too.

  4. importing one on Self-Parking Car Available In Japan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Be carefull if you want to import one, in Japan they drive on the left hand side.
    I imagine when you try to autopark in a right hand side country it will park in the middle of the road instead of the sidewalk.

  5. get it: on One Last New Episode of Futurama · · Score: 1

    I got it from usenet yesterday from alt.binaries.multimedia.futurama

  6. Re:Wrecklessness on July 6th - Website Defacement Day? · · Score: 1

    oops.. better prepare my webserver

  7. Re:Who else misses the old IBM keyboards? on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1

    you could order an Omnikey Customizer board from http://www.pckeyboard.com ; they sell new keyboards made to the original Model M specifications, and this particular model (sometimes referred to as "Linux 101") puts Control where it belongs - and as a bonus, also moves Escape to a location where it's far more accessible for touch typists.

  8. mousebuttons on Apple Marketing Hypes New PowerMacs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hopefully the new g5 powerbook will have two mousebuttons instead of one. It's pretty annoying to using the f12 key as a second mousebutton under linuxppc

  9. it's confusing on Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So when you use a dail-in account with a sprint-network, everything will be converted to packages first, then send to your provider over the internet, converted back to analog, converted to digital and then you have your connection on the internet?

  10. how about: on Kazaa Says On Track to Be Most-Downloaded Program · · Score: 1

    things like lilo, grub or bash, surely they must have been downloaded a lot, maybe even more times, though perhaps easily not measureable, because I suppose most distros include them.

  11. I tried some counterfitting on Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets · · Score: 1

    It was not money though, but it's very hard to get the colors right when they use colors that are blacklight sensitive (bright yellow, orange, green). The printer cartridge of my printer can't produce those, empty cartridges would be the solution (you'd have to fill them up yourself with a custom ink), but I couldn't find them for sale online (anyone knows where?) for my hp(just companies that buy your empty ones).
    To finish the story, about a month later I got my parking permit, so I didn't had to resolve to such desperate measures.

  12. for non-gui users: on Martian 'Happy Face' Crater · · Score: 2, Funny

    the happy face in the pictures look like this:

    : )

    (rotated 90 degrees clockwise)

  13. Re:test is flawed on Six Monkeys And An Old Saw · · Score: 1

    Well, actually some scientists teached a bonabo chimp to play pacman (saw it on a documentary on national geographic channel) and the chimp was quite good at it as well.

  14. old program on Searching for the Oldest Running Application · · Score: 1

    I had to hack a program a while ago, which was the main database program of a psychologist my father knew. The guy who made the program died right after the first rerun of dukes of hazard.
    It took me more time to access the 180kb 5.25" disk than it took me to fix it using a hex-editor and changing the values for their adress and phone info.

  15. Normally they send it on monday on Gentoo Linux Rethinks Package Management System · · Score: 1

    Normally they send the gentoo weekly newsletter on mondays, I was actually wondering where it was yesterday.
    They must have waited for an extra in order to tell the blisfull news.

  16. I know, on Games on Demand · · Score: 1

    I believe they call it usenet here

  17. Re:Consoles on Cheating Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    It would make it a bit more difficult, however, you could for instance use another computer as gateway between the internet and the console and capture/modify the packets that flow between the server and the console, and thus work out somesort of cheat

  18. will it be only for Japan? on Groovy Wristomo Cell Phone Announced · · Score: 1

    Sice NTT DoCoMo announced it, does it mean it will only work on the Japanese phonesystem? Or will there be a version that is compatible with the GSM systems used in other parts of the world?

  19. Re:It's about time. on Self-Assembling Networks · · Score: 1

    First of all, I bet there's a logical explanation for that, watch the new terminator movie (it's supposed to be released somewhere in june) and there's no such thing as skynet ofcourse, you are safe.

    Where's the AI that's supposed to do all of the thinking for us, so we can actually get some free time?

    the problem is that everytime ai comes up with a new findings it's quickly adopted in all kinds of automation processes, people don't consider it ai anymore when they know how it works: "hey, that's not ai, it's just a mathematical formula that does things this way or that way". Many people don't realise how broadly ai is being used, for instance consider a heart-monitor used in hospitals, it's being driven by a state of the art (knowledge based) ai system

    There's a lot to be learned from selforganising systems like the behavioural processes of ants, bees and other insects (in the core it's all just mathematics evolved over millions of years, so there must be something good about it, right), it's really nice to see how people copy and adapt certain ideas.

    this comment was auto-generated by skynet 3.0

  20. yeah! on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    C'est arrive pres de chez vous / man bites dog .

    some film academy students follow a serial killer and make a documentary about him for their endproject, soon they get involved themselves. it's very dark and very funny.

  21. Already old news on 56k Times Five: Myth Or Moneymaker? · · Score: 1

    There are some proxy projects that do those kinds of things already, for example:

    WebCleaner is a filtering HTTP proxy. It can disable animated GIFs, compress documents on-the-fly (with gzip), add/remove HTTP headers, and remove unwanted HTML (adverts, Javascript, etc.). It can be customized to your needs.

    Only thing you have to do is install it somewhere on a faster system and let your dail in connection use that proxyserver. I also saw a proxy server that could degrade the quality of the pictures a bit, thus saving even more bandwidth, could be this one, but check freshmeat if you're really interested.

  22. daylight and the screen on Military Grade Laptops · · Score: 1

    When I use my powerbook in daylight I hardly see anything, ofcourse they must have found something on it, since their notebook is made to last outside, but I wonder how they managed that.

  23. real virtual pc software on Virtual PC 6 Review · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use bochs on my mac which runs linux.
    It emulates the x86 processor and hardware so you can not only run windows but also other x86 operating systems and it's free. Here are some screenshots .
    It's not that fast on my 400mhz powerbook though. But it works fluently.

  24. It's called usenet on Discovering New Music? · · Score: 2

    I like loungy and electronic music, so I try to download all albums that are posted on:

    alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance
    alt.binaries.soun ds.mp3.electronic
    alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.house
    alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.lounge

    I even trade on it, what I don't like I delete, and I never download those artists again the others I try more of. if you cannot find more on usenet try to find it with http://search.ftphost.net/indexer/search.htm

  25. yeah.. on William Gibson's Latest Novel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Apparently, reviewer copies have been making the rounds on ebay and the word on the street is that it is his best work in years.
    Perhaps because it's been his only work in years, wasn't diamond age his last?
    (it reminds me of those cheap movie advertisements that go like: probably the best comedy ever.)