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  1. Re:Is It Manufactured In Hungary? on IBM DeskStar 75GXP Hard Drive Failures? · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. Maxtor lisences their tech from IBM. CHeck out the reviews at storagereview.com, as well...

  2. Re:Firmware upgrade on IBM DeskStar 75GXP Hard Drive Failures? · · Score: 1

    from dell's recent firmware upgrades:

    Deskstar 60GXP (A46A)

    Made some modifications to improve vibration robustness when mounted with
    rails in the chassis.

    Deskstar 75GXP (A69A)

    Corrects a read error found during a specific sequence of
    events.

  3. Re:Office XP on StarOffice 6.0 Beta Available · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The MSKB had over 400 "issues" upon release of Office XP. It's now well above 2000.

  4. Re:It's a hard battle on StarOffice 6.0 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    That's weird, because Office 2000 uses the same doc file format as XP, and 97. How is Staroffice screwing up documents? If it's in the html customized stuff, it shouldn't matter, as 99.99% of businesses really don't use those features in Word Documents.

    The only real issue is WYSIWYG compatibility, tables, and format coherence. Then the migration begins. I'm all with you. Cost of licensing per year for our firm is around 10K.

  5. Re:"Nifty"??? on Structural Damage to the Financial District · · Score: 1

    c'mon... the statute of limitations for sorrow and loss has passed. Time to throw random words around again!

  6. yes fun is there on Are There Any Fun Tech Jobs Left? · · Score: 1

    Just work for a "non-tech" company. I myself work for a law firm where technology itself is used quite healvily, but it's not the main focus... so you can work with tools and toys where actual applicable needs of skills is very ranged. Plus you deal with people with an alternative viewpoint.

    Not a boring day of work, and I plan on working it for life. I have no threat of losing my job, since I am a Net admin, DB admin, Tech support, basically CIO all rolled up into one, and the staff loves me.

    Highly recommend small to mid-sized businesses that are ramping up on their tech needs. No corporate feel, great people to work with, and you learn so much!

  7. best of luck with 802.11b on HP Introduces A Bluetooth Printer · · Score: 1

    Many vendors will only support it to a nominal distance. Dell, for example, only supports wireless transmissions from 15 feet or less, in the same room, on wireless products sold with their consumer lines. Go ahead, try and call them on a support issue, and tell them you can't get a transmission at 20 feet.

  8. Re:Any How-to Doc on how to secure your wireless L on Exploiting and Protecting 802.11b Networks · · Score: 2, Informative

    read the article:
    http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,apn%25 3D 7%2526s%253D1024%2526a%253D13880%2526app%253D5%252 6ap%253D6,00.asp

  9. Re:this is what freenet was made for! on MS Security: On A Path As Clear As It Is Reliable · · Score: 1

    And your e-mail logs (On MS, you foo') will reveal the location of the original programmer. Slick move, Slick.

  10. Re:It's not safe to install IIS while on a network on Code Red Back For More · · Score: 1

    Not true. You can install the hotfixes before you install IIS and you'll be fine...

    In fact, with W2K on the internet with no firewall, no file and print sharing, and netbios over TCP/IP disabled, you should be relatively secure...

  11. Re:Fight your techno-geek addiction... on The Joys of HDTV · · Score: 1

    I would love to own a honda insight or a toyota prius. First year models of that kind of technology is worth any hassle...

  12. Re:I'm not worried yet on Digital TV Restrictions Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Man that is funny as hell... thanks for the link...

  13. Re:Absolutely no excuse for this. on MS, CNET On 7-Day Messenger Outage · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never had a fire/earthquake/tornado/godzilla hit your offsite storage facility. Until you do you have no idea what you are talking about.

  14. Coca Karma on What's the Best Online News Story You've Read Lately? · · Score: 1

    http://www.guerrillanews.com/cocakarma/

    I've spent the last week reading into this article and it's supplementary links, and I thought some of you might get a kick out of it. Suffice to say it's difficult to summarize, but it's one man's fight against a force known as Coca-Cola, his right to a fair trial, copyright and trademark issues, a lack of SEC investigations, and maybe even an entire Federal Circuit Court gone corrupt.

  15. Re:669 days on RC5-64 Project Teeters At The Halfway Mark · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. The rate of CPU's cracking will only increase over time, so theoretically, the crack will be found faster. Apply Moore's law, the average rate of new people cracking, the increase in computation speed, and you get a *very rough* guess.

    *very*!

  16. Re:The Deal with the Fiber (redone) on Fiber Optics Come To Rural Washington · · Score: 1

    Like pretty much all other ISP's, it's probably not within your means to re-sell their services. If they set everything up right, and because you guys aren't "Amish," they likely have equipment to tell whether you are doing this or not...

  17. Re:Terraforming Mars? on NASA Wants To Invade Mars With Glowing JellyPlants · · Score: 1

    Read the green, red , and ?blue? mars trilogy. You can't get a better in depth look at mars policy that that work of excellent fiction...

  18. Re:All PKI suffers from this on Don't Trust Code Signed by 'Microsoft Corporation' · · Score: 1

    Excellent post. You saved me three paragraphs verbatim... ;)

  19. Re:I would love this feature if it was improved on Earthlink's Extra HTTP Header · · Score: 1

    I believe Lynx is still free. Give it a shot!

  20. Re:Nice tech, but too late on Broadcasting HDTV On Analog Bands · · Score: 1

    Excellent summary.... I was looking for a way to catch up on the past 10 years... You summed it up nicely ;)

  21. Re:Saving people the trouble: on Copyright.net Springs Into Action · · Score: 1

    Think someone took your advice... it's down... ;0

  22. Check yer own numbers! on Napster Helps RIAA Again; RIAA Still Ungrateful (Updated) · · Score: 1
    (Hell, don't even trust those numbers -- they don't add up. I was silly enough to type them into a spreadsheet, and someone over there has some problems doing simple arithmetic. I'd like to see an explanation for why the revenue totals for 1992, 1995, and 1998 are off by tens of millions of dollars.)

    Actually all those years added up properly for me. Better check your Processor for the Pentium Floating point bug... ;)

  23. As long as they are filtering malicious content, on FCC Seeks Comment on Internet Filtering Rules · · Score: 1

    can they add everything from adbusters various .ini ad lists?

  24. Re:Wired has stop using CueCat on Slashback: Pronouns, Acronyms, Abbreviations · · Score: 1

    The solution is:
    Print is dead?

  25. Re:Nothing new on Whistler "Anti-Piracy" Tools Tie OS To Machine · · Score: 1

    ah, Autocad 2000 can use the same activation code on multiple machines, over and over again... Architecture firms are pretty bad about copying this software, as it's very very expensive...