Slashdot Mirror


User: hpavc

hpavc's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
493
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 493

  1. Re:"They won't waste time and resources" on NASA Still Wants Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    I would rather rebudget the cash into education and raise our base up significiantly. Sadly this isn't simcity.

  2. Re:Nipples for Great Justice on Rethinking the Thinkpad · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed, I love it as well. I couldn't go back. When I think of switching to a Apple, the keyboard is what stops me.
    IBM has a great keyboard especially with the trackpoint + trackpad setups. The synergy features are great.

  3. Re:One question before I try this out... on Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives · · Score: 1

    i upgraded and adblock () and adblock filterset work just fine for me.

  4. Re:The only way... on Can Anyone Beat WoW? · · Score: 1

    You speak the truth.

  5. Re:Ackthpt's Theorem on Bloggers 1, Smoke-Filled Room 0 · · Score: 1

    Results based government? Sounds good.

  6. Re:Rubberhose. on Possession of Violent Pornography Outlawed in UK · · Score: 1

    Didnt work for people like Mitnick. How long do you want to stay in custody hanging around. Not to mention the legal bills.

  7. Re:revolution indeed on Hardware Headaches Inevitable? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think the downfall of the cards is the SSL standards, the card is tricked out for a small subset of calculations. So it can do IPSec + VLANS (in the case of that Intel server cand) and the cypto cards can do SSL for webservers and VPNs (but the implementation would be whatever the card did, not what apache could do -- though I assume apache could fall back).

  8. Re:While I agree, it's for other reasons. on EBay Sellers Seek Management Change · · Score: 1

    Their search sucks (Searching for something your overrun with accessories for that something) and the website is like a myspace of crap until you finally get to the list. Many of the items for sale are non-function, use place holder graphics, are a shipping scam, etc.

    This 'confusion' makes people weary of buying on ebay, or think 'maybe he will list it better next time'.

    I think the 'store' was a good idea for sellers, but a crappy idea for buyers in that it created even more selection confusion. Its great for buyers once you find a guy that has the goods you want repeatedly.

    Also the number of account hijacks on a daily basis is amazing. If your account was hijacked and someone listed a few hundred items as you (the same cheap sunglasses) your unlikely to continue with ebay.

  9. terminal services on Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs? · · Score: 1

    terminal services forever, leave all the mass install / deploy stuff on that end of the world like office, acrobat, outlook, etc. with a citrix like install you can have the apps appear rootless and its just a joy to run that way for the tco.

  10. Re:Mom, the leapard leaked on the carpet! on New Version of Mac OS X Leopard Leaked · · Score: 1

    The time spent dealing with windows annoyances is easily worth it in savings to me. Doesn't take long for the price difference of osx+mac to win+vendor to weigh out - especially with support.

  11. Re:The differance on Google to Continue Storing Search Requests · · Score: 1

    and dont forget google adwords to boot

  12. 210 days on Apple's Growing Pains · · Score: 1

    Still they have gotten to the migration 210days pretty slick. Quality and customer support should be a higher concern. They could easily lead in that area.

  13. I quit on 40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted · · Score: 1

    After two unsuccessful tries I finally quit WoW. It was very hard, know I look at the news like this and sneak a peak at the blizzard website and laugh a little. I two boxed a lot of keep the boredom down and made it a little game within a game for myself. I wrote addons and did a lot of website and dkp shit for the guild.

    I think its really hard for people to quit when they are heavy vent users, WoW was my first game that used that and I see a lot of other people that use Vent for the first time and suddenly are using it and are not even playing at the same time they are so hooked.

  14. Re:I've got one on What Happened to Media PCs? · · Score: 1

    Its not only not a PVR, but its not even a tuner right? Its just a media player and a service widgets.

  15. Re:Gotta consider on What Happened to Media PCs? · · Score: 1

    Yes, a MacWorld is where we would expect a consumer item like a mac-mini+tuner device. But the marketplace wants apple to provide a solution or a rebuttle. So they present these things. For example all the "What about a Apple Tablet PC, boy I am sure they would have a creative 'done right' solution" ideas.

  16. Re:Old Idea on What Happened to Media PCs? · · Score: 1

    That timer a very limited scope of what tivo does.

  17. DNS on Cameroon Typo-Squats all of .com · · Score: 1

    so how does an admin cname all of .cm to .com?

  18. Re:Allow me to be the first to say... on Apple Partners with Ford · · Score: 1

    Hope its not like the Honda crappy model review here ... http://youtube.com/watch?v=hc3pcDM_JV0

    You would think you could control it by some normal means just like you could a CD player or a radio ... nope.

  19. Why now? on Microsoft Invites Black Hats into Vista · · Score: 1

    ... Just wait until its released and break its face upon release.

  20. Re:Pathetic on Mozilla Partners with Real Networks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fire fox is just being bundled with their some of their downloads. It has nothing to do with firefox and video players. If the VLC or MPlayer people wanted to bundle firefox likely they could go ahead and do so quite easily.

    Looking at your post though it seems like your asking why real isn't bundling vlc and mplayer though.

  21. Pre DVD crack DRM on Apple's DRM Is Bad For Consumers and Business · · Score: 1

    Remember when DVD's were not cracked? Man that sucked. I don't seen Apple's DRM anywhere near something like that. Infact it has not ever been a problem for me functionally.

  22. Re:One Trick pony on Stephen Colbert Wikipedia Prank Backfires · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sadly his satire, and that of the daily show, is spot on and correct, while pappa bear's message is completely wrong. They spoof everyone and everything. They actually hit CNN hard every chance they get, but your two deluded to notice. I bet they pound on CNN directly once a week for a screw up they make.

    Everytime the Daily Show displays an indecision2006, the brink of the brink of war, a mess-o-potamia, etc they are making funny of news reporting, big business, talking points, and the polical administration.

  23. Re:Bologna! on Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise? · · Score: 1

    The big point is ... your for sure not going to switch to redhat from debian or ubuntu.

  24. Re:Literally exploded? on House Passes Ban on Social Site Access · · Score: 1

    We should just shutdown the Internet in the US right now, cause frankly Canada is looking mighty good and I don't care anymore. So if a few network engineers would please do the honors, now would be a good time. Just "shutdown" those interfaces on the fancy management consoles and lets go and see whats going on up there.

  25. Re:Literally exploded? on House Passes Ban on Social Site Access · · Score: 1

    This is crazy, if amazon is on the list, google (has answers/groups), gmail (has chat), slashdot (has chat), digg (has chat), most news sites (even their fox) because of its 'comment below' juts like amazon's, the list goes on ... all of them banned? Are Wiki's banned for them being chatlike in '.. document collaboration ...'?

    Only thing not banned will be raw image sites like most porn.