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  1. Re:Are you fucking nuts? on Online Brokerage With API? · · Score: 1

    Eddie Murphy - profanity = not funny

    This guy - profanity = funny, but not informative.

  2. Contact your local Lions Club on Monitors for People with Poor Eyesight? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Contact your local Lions Club odds are you'll find people there who have went through what you are going through and know what worked for them. Also their experiences may be of use in other non-technical topics also (such as optometists, business opportunities you might qualify for as visually impaired, etc)

    You probably much better off asking there than on /. Different vision problems need different solutions, size isn't everything sometimes contrast means more.

  3. Re:Are you fucking nuts? on Online Brokerage With API? · · Score: 2

    Wow, your intelligence is matched only by your couth. Great just what we need the Eddie Murphy of slashdot.

    I take it you've never heard of using an API which supports authentication? Start an secure connection, here's my name, here's my password, ok well here's a token good only for this session now communicate to me using this token over the secure connection. Duh.

  4. Oh just lovely on Virtual Keyboard a Reality · · Score: 4, Funny

    The picture on the homepage shows a virtual keyboard projected on a car dash and the driver typing while driving. Don't we have enough ways for idiots to kill themselves (and others) by distracting them while driving?

  5. Re:Oh my goodness no! on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Umm... so where is your linkage?

    Not saying I'm on any side. It's just if you're gonna play URL poker you gotta ante up.

  6. Re:disable system services on startup on Linux Tuning Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Oops, yeah sorry, my bad. Of cours the K scripts do not run at boot as I said. Must be a result of too much time using Windows clouding my mind.

  7. Next up "Mood" PC's on Analog Tachometer PC Mod · · Score: 1

    Figure out a way to give the case of heat sensitive coating and see how warm your box is by it's color.

    But for the CPU utilization an Amber Vu Meter would look so much cooler, for retro factor, than a Tach.

  8. Re:disable system services on startup on Linux Tuning Tricks? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Renaming them to K##xxxx is not necessarily a good idea. Instead of just not telling them to start, you're telling them to Kill off the service if it's running. This will slow down your boot as you try to kill of things that never started.

    I always preferred what my predecessor used of renaming S##xxxx to _S##xxxx. This keeps things clear as to what the system *used* to do.

  9. Couple options on How Can You Straighten HDD Pins? · · Score: 1

    For straightening get a pair of smooth jaw flat nose pliers. And as someone else said just squeeze the pin, don't bend.
    For the pushed in pin unscrew the controller board and see if you can push it back from the other side (don't pull on it!)
    If that doesn't work go the replace controller path, then DR service.

  10. Re:More work than it's worth on Split Print Job to Color and B&W? · · Score: 1

    I'm missing the point because, the task is pointless. Even if you automate the printing you still have to manually collate the two copies back into one. Which would be simplified it you just have to match the color pages to the b&w pages.

  11. More work than it's worth on Split Print Job to Color and B&W? · · Score: 1
    Assuming that:
    • The B&W printer is signifcantly cheaper than printing black on the color printer and
    • There really is very little color printing to be done
    Why not just print everything B&W and the print the individual color pages to the color printer?
  12. Re:Having your cake and eating it too on Cheap Software Languages for NT? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever noticed that whenever someone says something in 100% legal, it never is? Just because you do not get caught does not make it illegal. Just because you are stealing from what you consider an immoral company does not make your actions moral. This ain't Sherwood Forest and the above is a really, really bad idea. Even if you have no morals against stealing software do you really want to put your own head on the chopping block to save the company you work for a few bucks?

  13. Re:Misleading headline (and then more misleading) on ACPI Forced On & Option Disabled in WinXP-Certified Motherboards · · Score: 1
    Sorry didn't catch the fact they were saying that according to Soyo it had to remain enabled. As there is nothing on the MS linked site that supports that claim. MS says give it as an option but not that you have to use it. In fact my "Designed for Windows XP" MSI mother board has an option of:

    IPCA Function

    This item is to activate the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface) function. If your operating system is ACPI-aware, such as Windows 98SE/2000/ME, select Yes. Available opetions: Yes and No.
  14. Re:Misleading headline (and then more misleading) on ACPI Forced On & Option Disabled in WinXP-Certified Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Try again, the headline should be:

    "ACPI Forced on Designed for WinXP Mobos"

    There are differnt levels of MS certification for a product. Designed for is the strictest, which basically says we built it the way MS said so if it doesn't work with their software it's MS's problem.

    More of stuff being blamed on MS just to bash MS. ACPI can be disabled, so what's the big deal if it's there? It's not like MS saying it has to be there and must remain enabled. They're just saying that if you want our logo on your box you must give this option, which ultimately is supposed to make configuring your computer easier.

  15. Re:That's nice. Hope you don't love slashdot... on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually as long as the ad image is still pulled across and just not displayed, the advertisers shouldn't know any different. Unless /. goes to click through. *shudder*

  16. Re:Sorry to stir, but on New Candidate For Oldest Living Thing · · Score: 1

    Simple, they just argue that carbon dating is inaccurate.

  17. Re:CELESTE. on Name The MySql Dolphin · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately if you go the anagram route you could also use CETERA for Create. But sorry the world doesn't need any reminders of Peter Cetera (sp). But it still beat something like Cartesian.

  18. Re:CELESTE. on Name The MySql Dolphin · · Score: 1

    Drop the e at the end and make it Celest (or possibly even CELESTe) and you have an anagram for select.

  19. Re:External on Delaying Hard Drive Power Up? · · Score: 1

    Interesting link, too bad he specified IDE and these are all SCSI except the single IDE connection for a CD-ROM.

  20. Works ok now but... on Pictorial Passwords · · Score: 1

    I went through the RealUser demo and it seemed easy enough to remember the faces (and presumably any other image based system would be about the same). But I'm only remembering one unique series of faces. As soon as any system like this grows to the point where you have to remember you set of work computer faces, home computer faces, online computer, ATM faces, etc, etc, ad naseum. Not even to mention when work face #3 looks like one of the faces that's a choice for home face #3 but isn't. As soon as a system like this becomes commonplace it would become unusable.

  21. Definitely a bad idea on Water Cooling and Fishtanks? · · Score: 1

    The impurities in the water would wreak havoc on the cooling system. Additionally as others have said you would have to worry about over heating the fish. So you'd have to have a large enough tank where the heat from the water cooling rig was just a supplemental heat source and not enough to cook the fish to begin with.

  22. What manufacture date Dreamcast? on Dreamcast as a Web Browser? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The newer ones (I don't know date off-hand) will not run Linux or NetBSD last I heard.

  23. Re:Danger! on Review: SliMP3 · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm... must be their ESD protection.

  24. Re:You're gonna kick me... on Favorite NNTP Client? · · Score: 1

    Nope. It still just a basic newsreader. But at least it is adequate for a basic newsreader.

  25. Re:You're gonna kick me... on Favorite NNTP Client? · · Score: 1

    Umm.... Tools... Newsgroup Filters. It's in OE 4.72 and probably before that.