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  1. The real question is.. on Still More Bionic Eyes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    how good the pr0n is at 10x10.

    Currently the technology is only able to transmit a 10 x 10 pixel image

  2. Re:radio waves? on Still More Bionic Eyes · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the article: Tests in animals have been successful, and the team would now like to test the device in a small group of about five people.

  3. Re:Use Cygwin! on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 2

    I agree. Use Cgywin. It's so damn easy to install, you'll be amazed.

    What I do is start up ssh. Create a session into localhost that is configured to run by typing scmd [super cmd] and I'm into my workstation, with all the wonderful unix utils.

    Everytime I *have* to be in a cmd prompt in NT, I feel so constricted!

  4. Re:2 reasons on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 2

    Hrm... will the Redhat sales rep come out and help you setup the box? Take you out to dinner... schmooze ya? Big business like big support.

    Chances are that if you have Exchange, you have everything else that comes along with MS. Volume discounts, premier support.. it's just not going to happen.

    Not that I don't like RH. In fact, my home server runs it fine and never crashes [only when my perl scripts go awry]. In my previous job, I had to setup a knowledge database for the support guys to share bug fixes and installation instructions. I setup a redhat box with Perl and MySql and had it running in less than week.

    When I tried to get the server in the datacenter, all hell broke loose. I had to convert the application to ASP, MS-SQL running on NT. The IT archeticture department admitted that RH is cheap and east to run, but the overall support of the application and lack of RH experts in the company were the deciding factors. Training is concentrated around ASP and NT. The question was "What if you leave tomorrow, who is going to support this server?". A valid question cause I did leave a few months later.

  5. Re:Other Groupware on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 1

    What a fucking joke. Someone defending Novell point for point. Dude, get out of the 90's. Novell is fucking dead and you're only digging your own resume ditch by working for a company that still uses it.

    I worked for a backwards ass company that had some serious assholes that would NOT give up Novell. A few years after I left, they finally saw the light. Hopefully, you'll see it soon too.

  6. How ironic.. on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 0, Troll

    .. that the thread is about getting rid of MS Exchange and right below the article is a BIG FAT BANNER for Visual Studio.NET "Get your free trial DVD from MS"

    Apparently, it's ok to bash Microsoft every 5th /. post, but it's ok to generate revenue by displaying their ads.

  7. Re:I also got some pictures! on Yale Students Capture Asteroid On Film · · Score: 2

    Not only did you take a pic of the asteroid, but there seems to be undeniable proof that UFO's do exist! Good work man.

  8. Re:Didn't /. already cover this? on Type With Your Eyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    if ( $news_queue eq "" && ($current_time - $last_posted_article) > 7200) {
    &get_any_old_article("Timothy");
    &post_it;
    }

  9. No mention of Sentinels though.. on Sen To, X-Men 2 · · Score: 2

    When the government decided to rid the world of mutants, they did it by using Sentinels That was the best part of the Saturday morning X-men cartoon.. I sure hope it comes to the big screen.

    Seeing X-men against humans is kinda weak.

    Also, has Sir Ian McKellan turned into the greatest fantasy actor of all time? Magneto and Gandalf.. wow.

  10. Re:Battery life? on Farthest Human-Made Object: First Quarter Century · · Score: 1

    No possession to a verb. Thanks!

  11. Re:Battery life? on Farthest Human-Made Object: First Quarter Century · · Score: 2

    I have a question, why didn't we power the Mars Pathfinder rover by nuclear? Were they afraid that if it crashed into the planet, it would cause some nuclear fall out?

    Looks like it was solar/battery http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/roverpwr/power.html

  12. Re:Battery life? on Farthest Human-Made Object: First Quarter Century · · Score: 4, Informative

    Assessing their key radio-isotope generators that power the on-board battery, Massey evaluates: "We don't run out of electrical power until about 2020", or at least for Voyager I, around 43 years towards its lifetime of some communication with its originating star, Sol, and its home planet, the Earth.

    Looks like the isotope's power the battery.

  13. Re:Ignorance is beaming on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 2

    Haiku hard to spell
    especially with the damn
    squiggly lines in Word

  14. My Haiku on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 2

    Me chinese poet
    me play joke on american fool
    but I say rike foor

  15. I t@pp3d your f1b3r.. on Securing Fiber Using Light Polarization · · Score: 1

    with an old school flava of R@y B@ns.

  16. Re:Worth learning LWP instead of doing it manually on Perl & LWP · · Score: 2

    I've done a whoooole lot of screen-scraping working for a company that shall remain nameless :)

    Unless you go to the link to my homepage and read the first paragraph? ;-)

  17. Re:Done long ago on Animated Ads in a Subway Near You · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but I bet he didn't have a degree in Astrophysics! Obviously, he must have been a rocket scientist though

  18. Re:Why in New Zealand? on Internet-enabled Robot to Mow Lawns · · Score: 2

    I would think it would only work if your backyard was in the shape of a circle though

  19. I don't need encryption... on Crypto Leash for Laptops? · · Score: 2

    ..because I use Windows xp and nobody can boot up and see my data unless they know my password.

    err.. or maybe if they just create an NTFDOS diskette.. damn.

  20. Allan Paull... on HyShot Scramjet Test Declared a Success · · Score: 2

    ... is mysteriously close to Paul Allen! Come on, who spells there name with all those extra L's

  21. Imagine Support on Lindows.com Hypes An Upcoming $199 PC · · Score: 2

    "Ok, your Lindows levice lrivers are not working with your ATA 44.5 HD and Wintellisense chipset... hrm.."

  22. Re:who cares? on Modern Day Search Engine Manipulations · · Score: 3, Informative

    True. But you can have the most related site and like the article states, unless the domain or pages match the content, most likely, you will not rank high.

    Let's say you had the best article in the world about installed redhat, but the link was to www.fperkins.com/tip.cgi?101

    Forget about it, you just won't get linked in the top 10. A good trick is to have your dynamic content create a static page which is, of course, dynamically created from the database. Then you would get something simliar to what allrecipes.com does.

    Ie their recipe for "African Chicken Soup" is not recipe_view.asp?id=100 but rather http://chicken.allrecipes.com/az/africanchickenste w.asp Not a great example, but you can understand my example, imagine something like "chicken recipe" etc.

    Smart. Notice how they even have a subdomain to chicken.allrecipes.com which can be setup really easily for most sites, especially those that can alias any subdomain to the main domain.

    Regardless, getting ranked in the top20 in Search Engines is some skill and knowledge and a lot of luck.

  23. Security Guards... on MIT vs. Las Vegas · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The guard doesn't seem to be bothered by the bulges under my clothes. He waves me through the metal detector, and I stumble toward my gate."

    Thank god he didn't try to hide the money in his shoes!

  24. Don't buy if you own a 2001 Accord on Cassette-Shell Sized MP3 Player/Recorder · · Score: 4, Informative

    I owned one and it worked great in my wife's Honda CRV, but in my Honda Accord, the tape deck wouldn't properly align with the heads on the mp3 player. I tried plugging the cassette adapter into one of those Sony cassette -> cd adapters and it worked fine. Of course, that kinda defeats the purpose of an MP3 player that can be used without an adapter.

    The only other thing I didn't like about it was the flimsy battery door. That would definately be a tape job after a few months of use.

    Here is my review of it on Amazon.com

    I was excited to see that the Digisette improved from it's orginal design and made a better tape like MP3 player. Unfortunately, on my Honda 2001 Accord, the tape deck won't align properly with the head in my cassette stereo, causing lots of static and distortion. It's not the player itself, because it works fine in my wife's Honda CRV. Actually, it works if I use an old Sony cassette adapter plugged into the mp3 player.

    Im not an electronic engineer, but I think if Digisette would make the head on the mp3 unit bigger, it would have worked fine. I compared the head of the mp3 to the Sony cassette apadter I had laying around and the Sony head is much bigger.

    Digisette support was very helpful and had me try a few fixed, but none fixed the distortion and static.

    As far as the controls and stuff, everything worked fine. Like I said, if you have a 2001 Accord, I wouldn't recommend it.

  25. Patel also stated.. on HP Marries Inkjet and Robotic Technology to Cool Chips · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. that the robot plays the Nelly song "It's gettin hot in here, go on and take off all your clothes" as he's going around cooling down processors.