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  1. Bloat on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If everything has no dependencies, then all of the dependencies must be included in the install. I wounder how many copies of each low level program would be on a given machine.

  2. Similar in Philadelphia on Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times · · Score: 1

    Some of the highways around Philadelphia now have a similar system, but I believe they may use the EZPass toll collection RFID tags to get travel times.

  3. Re:A Modus Operandi from American manufacturers on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 3, Informative

    GM always owned Saturn.

  4. Re:How Many Times on Microsoft Wants To Nix Data Center Backup Generators · · Score: 1

    If you are only generating electricity central systems are more efficient, but if you use co-generation and use the waste heat for other uses such as cooling, you end up being more efficient overall.

  5. Re:No shit on Adobe Changes Its Tune On Forcing Paid Upgrade To Fix Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    No matter what Adobe says CS5.5 is just CS5 with Acrobat 10 instead of 9 and all of the patches applied to the other software. They were not going to release a new CS with Acrobat 10 until CS6 but a lot of people bitched about it and they came out with 5.5. So since there is no real difference between PS 5 and 5.5 they should support it.

    E.

  6. Re:I try so hard to like the ribbon on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    So how did you find these tasks on the menus. They were task centric and you had to figure out which menu to look under to get the right selection.

  7. Re:Listen to the kernel! on Linux Kernel 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    But is it running Linux 3.0?

  8. Re:base-12 base-10 on The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second · · Score: 1

    But what's the point of dividing a day into three or six parts? I can see 2 and 4 (half and quarter day) but I don't know many people who think in third or sixth of days.

    The standard work day is 8 hours, 1/3 of a day. Most shift workers think all the time in third and sixths of a day.

    Eric

  9. Re:I agree on Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way · · Score: 1

    I have always wondered how users of the Autobahn handle heaver congestion where a faster drive does not have a real chance to move right after passing as the next car to pass is coming up. This would lead to the driver running in the left lane, but always passing.

    This seems to be one of the reasons some Americans do not move right as they are always passing slower vehicles.

  10. Re:Princeton has very short leases. on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that was my reaction as well. While they've done a good job documenting the bug (and it really does sound like Android's DHCP client is broken), they sound like they're missing the forest for the trees. Why does Princeton assign such short leases, you ask?

    "Shorter leases allow us to recover unused IP addresses rapidly, in turn permitting us to assign globally-routable IP addresses to clients without requiring Princeton to impose a NAT between wireless clients and the Internet."

    So my smartphone can have a globally-routable IP address! You know, for the servers I'm going to run on it.

    You do realize that devices other than phones use the wireless network. I would imagine that 90% of the wireless devices used on campus are laptops and other full computers.

    Part of the problem is that Princeton has its entire wireless network as a single subnet so that roaming on campus is seamless. I think this makes it a bit harder to manage all of the devices that are connected to this segment.

  11. Re:Nice flamebait article on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At this point, one has to wonder what Princeton is doing on their network that they keep uncovering such bugs.

    Princeton's network was for the longest time very old. We had shared 10mb over cat3 cable to most of the campus. To keep things working, the network was heavily monitored and anything that did not belong was promptly disconnected.

    Fast forward to now. We have a modern network that can handle some problems, but the motioning form the dark days still continues. Because of this heavy monitoring IT can see problems with devices that probably no one on earth sees.

    Yes the iPhone and iPod both had the same issues, but Apple fix them eventually. I hope the Google will do the same.

  12. Re:Clean...for why? on Discovery Heads Into Retirement · · Score: 1

    The clean suits in this case is to keep toxic materials from getting on the people. Also I would think that they have not other work clothing available. Eric

  13. Re:Jesus Flipping Christ... on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 2

    And don't forget that Google built on WebKit, which Apple had already made many advancements in by the time Google decided to use it.

  14. Re:I'll bet ... on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    Also you do not need to match the sine wave exactly either. The three main grids in the US are connected via some DC links so that frequency matching is not necessary.

  15. Free 411 on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think if a phone company wants to stop delivering the White Pages they should be forced to give free 411 calls to people asking for numbers that would be covered by the missing phonebook.

  16. Re:I'm American on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I missed that. I guess I should not post when I am tired.

  17. Re:I'm American on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    An A(n+1) page is what you get if you cut an An page in halves.

    If additionally I tell you that all An pages have the same shape, and an A0 page has an area of 1 square meter, you now can calculate what A4 looks like.

    <pedatic>No I can't. You did not specify the aspect ratio.

  18. Re:The Server of Amontillado on Finding Lost IT With RFID · · Score: 1

    This happened back when everything was connected via hubs for the most part. Try finding out what switch port it is on will let you know what 1/48th of the network it is on. It wasn't long ago that my university finally got switches installed in all of the data closets instead of hubs.

  19. Re:Just give them something? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    But what about the encrypted disk size versus the the size of the contents. It would point to there being a second volume if it was of a considerable size.

  20. Re:Only 16 weeks? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    Except good law enforcement groups work on copies of the data not the originals.

  21. Re:But it's hard to remember... on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    But is it the same crime, or another instance of the class?

  22. Re:Yes on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 4, Informative

    We have implemented this at Princeton University. Port 25 blocked, unless you specifically ask for it. All users who were using outside email services also had to change to use port 587 to connect to their mail servers.

    We are trying to be good net citizens an not have mail bots running from our network.

  23. Re:What a crock of shit..... on Security Guards, Alarm Companies Object to Australia's National Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    What is your address. I have this cell phone jammer that I need to test out.

  24. Re:Quantum on Inertial Mass Separate From Gravitational Mass? · · Score: 1

    My thoughts are that what we do not know about Physics is more than we know. It may be possible to do all of the stuff that is presented in Sci Fi.

  25. Re:i have two of these 26" suckers: on One Video Card, 12 Monitors · · Score: 1

    Not when she is lying down.