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  1. Reseller accounts! on How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a reseller account with nocster, and it works out pretty cheap. I split it with one other person, we each pay $15/month. But the best thing is WE CAN HOST AS MANY DOMAINS AS WE LIKE. So I got 1 domain, he has a domain, and we share another one. Plus my little brother has been wanting to make a website, so a $8 DNS registration and bamn, he gets some space too.

    We get 1gb of disk, and 20gb transfer. This is the lowest option, you can get a lot more.

    Checkit out.
    www.wpidalamar.com - Personal web site

    Our joint-venture: www.geek4.com - public web site, like slashdot, but anyone can post, and then people can subscribe to various authors to determine what news they get.

  2. No OS is that great on Usability and Open Source Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no great computer interface, they all pretty much suck somehow. Someday we'll figure it out, but to say it's an open source problem isn't that fair. (Even if open source is sometimes behind some non open source projects)

  3. A bit short on William Shatner Replies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is one of the shortest replies we've had for a slashdot interview. Too bad, it could have been real great. I guess the myth might just be better than the man.

  4. Code Poet on The Poetry Of Programming · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The TRUE code poet... Someone needs to get this guy the Code Poet T-Shirt from thinkgeek!

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/27ac/

  5. Sun... on Sun vs. OpenBSD? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sun is one of the coolest computer companies out there... too bad they're being dicks here.

  6. Oh yeah... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If my fridge were to emit some cool Barry White, that's be pretty ... well... cool.

    First there was the "Brown note" ... now the "cool note"

  7. Re: Bad idea on X-Force Changes Vulnerability Disclosure Policy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but then that gets all the badies looking for the hole. It's a lot easier to find something if you know it exists. Without details, the good guys don't know exactly what to do to fix/work around the hole. Espically if the software IS critical.

  8. open source on X-Force Changes Vulnerability Disclosure Policy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this include open source projects? Aren't these the guys who released an apache hole a while back without telling them because they weren't a small cohesive group (or something like that?)

  9. Not all marketing research is bad... on Using Neuromarketing to Sell Products · · Score: 2

    If I can get JUST the ads that I might be interested in, that's a good thing. I would love to give out all kinds of marketing info if I would only get stuff that interests me. (assuming the total amount of advertising I receive would go down)

    I don't need to know about womens clothing (not into that), or vinly siding (I rent).

  10. Job Demand on An Interesting Look at the Video Game Industry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's sooo many people who would love to go into game development, there isn't really a need to specifically train people. Those who want it the most, will learn. It's hard enough to find a game job right now as it is, If we were spewing forth graduates with a BS in GD (Game Design) then what would happen.

    But I'm happy making educational software ... it's more fun than business apps, is mildly morally rewarding, and doesn't require 60 hour weeks like I'm sure a lot of game shops gave.

  11. heavy writer on The Copyright Fuss Revisited · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I was going to clean up my apartement, but instead I wrote a piece for Greplaw"

    wow... when I skip cleaning my apartment, I usually end up playing a game of BF1942 or perhaps watch a bit on the tube. This guy goes out and writes a rather long essay on intellectual property that actually reads fairly well.

  12. whimped out on Actual Costs for the Space Station · · Score: 2
    Congress has wimped out on the space program. When was the last time you heard a senator, congressman, or even the president say something like,
    We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.


    Right now, it's more like "Maybe we should um, do something else in space, maybe." Imagine you're working on a project at work that has lost all upper management support, it wouldn't go anywhere. Until "management" gets behind it again, NASA can't be as great as it was in the 60's and 70's.

  13. damnit on Spielberg's Taken · · Score: 2

    Missed it, maybe it's finally time for a tivo. But the last mini series rocked!

  14. TCO studies are worthless on Win2k Cheaper than Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Totally worthless... they will say whatever the company paying for the study want to hear.

    I'd like to see this study with 10 windows vs. 10 linux servers, or 100 vs. 100 ... one linux admin can handle WAY more linux servers than 1 windows admin.

  15. $200k in PLEDGES on Slashback: Drivers, Bodycomputing, Farscape · · Score: 3, Funny

    So... how many of those pledges are going to fall through when it comes time to pay up? Yeah...

    On second thought, never mind. I love that show. I'll pledge the other $600,000!

  16. Re:Excellent! on Real-Time Collaborative Mapmaking · · Score: 2

    but if you had the GPS... would you have been lost for that long?

  17. In other news... on Newsflash: Mac Users Love Apple, Hate Microsoft · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A recent survey also found that linux users prefer linux over microsoft, and that Be users prefer Be over microsoft, and that Hurd users prefer Hurd over microsoft.

  18. In other news... on Economic Predictions Using Web Usage Data · · Score: 4, Funny


    ComScore announces their predictions for this year based on web activity. You should take all of your money out of large cap stocks and invest heavily into p0rn!

  19. Quality games... on Shacknews Holiday Game Guide · · Score: 2

    Is it just me, or does there seem to be a lack of quality PC games lately. I used to go into my local Software Ect. and instantly find half a dozen games that I just had to have. And now when I head in I'm lucky if I find one. Maybe I'm just getting old. Kind of sucks... graduate college, get good job, can pay for more games than before, and don't want to.

    The funny thing is... my Fiance who *doesn't like video games* has found several in the past year that are good for her.

    Have there been any real good stratedgy / tactical games out lately?

  20. I'm a mass resident... on Massachusetts Appealing Microsoft Ruling · · Score: 2

    and I say go Tom! This is one guy I'll vote for ... (do we vote for atorney general? doesn't matter, Tom for governor!)

    Besides, if we can spend 100's of millions of dollars a day on the Big Dig (largest public works project ever) we can kick out some cash to fight microsoft.

  21. Re:A Whole Laptop? on ER1 Personal Robot Reviewed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Palm pilot controlled robot - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pprk/

    I built a similar one ... -
    http://www.wpidalamar.com/projects/robot/

  22. Armor and a weapon... on ER1 Personal Robot Reviewed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Lets add armor and weapons to these things and we got autonomous robot wars! Personally, I've always wished that those robot-battle type shows on tv were autonomous instead of remote controlled. Now THAT would be a challenge.

    I have heard of sumo challenges where robots try to push each other out of a circle. Anyone know any good info on those?

    But then again... Maybe I wouldn't be so quick to put my laptop in something about to face a 200 pound robot with a diamond tipped blade.

  23. Windows Trademark? on MS Asking Makers of 'Windows' Software To Rename · · Score: 2

    I thought the trademark was on "Microsoft Windows" not just "Windows". I mean really, if I trade mark something like "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." I can't go on and claim ownership to "Stuff that matters", or "Nerds" can I?

  24. 2 pieces of a solution on Hospital Brought Down by Networking Glitch · · Score: 2

    Way I see it, there are 2 things that need to get done.
    1) Policy change. Only production machines on a production network.
    2) Topology change. Make it easy to get a non-production network connection so people don't violate #1

  25. Re:performance info is useless on An Overview of the Boa Web Server · · Score: 2

    ah... but they use different test apps on each, so there is no valid comparison there. If they used the same testing program on both, it might mean something.