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  1. Soak it all up on Seeking University Jobs in Mathematics? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You said yourself you're trying to soak it all up. So why are you asking about how you can limit yourself?

  2. Read the damn articles on California City Issues Internet Cafe Moratorium · · Score: 2

    The articles are about gang violence spilling over into internet cafes because that's where people are hanging out.

  3. Re:Should ISPs provide email forward like USPS? on ATT Broadband Forfeits Mediaone Domain · · Score: 2

    That's exactly why I use sneakemail. Whent it came time to change my email account, I only had to do it in one place, Sneakemail's website. And of course the usual reasons about being able to tell where someone gets my email address from. Recently my mozilla address was gathered for spam. But it wasn't my real address, so it was easy to drop.

  4. Re:Are you sure? on Yahoo News Posts Advertisements as News · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree. I see a brief summary, with a link for the full article. That, and a lot of other links. And there's a banner ad at the top. So what's the beef?

  5. Lots of companies still use them on 9-Track Open Reel Tape Production Ends This Year · · Score: 2

    Many companies still use 9 tracks (I work for the phone company) to transfer data around. We also do NDM and cartridges. Hopefully this will make them modernize their equipment.

  6. MIT Suing Techs on Cornell University Sues Hewlett Packard · · Score: 2

    Its common enough, since MIT is suing tech companies over imaging software they've patented.

  7. Way to ignore every other culture on World Sousveillance Day · · Score: 2

    Excuse me, but there are plenty of other religions all over the world, plenty of which the US has no problem with. Not to mention all the people IN the United States who aren't Christian. Jews, Muslims, Buddists, Pagans, and Wiccans unite and smite down this ignorant fool. I'm not disputing that today was a poor choice for this event, but saying the other religions of the world are miniscule is slanderous.

  8. Depends on what kind of service you have on AT&T Caps Bandwidth On Former @Home Users · · Score: 2

    When I signed up for Comcast@Home, I signed up for 1500 kilobits/s down, 128 kilobits/s up. And that's pretty much what I get, depending a bit on the network itself. Now if my contract said 1.5 Megabytes/sec, then I'd certainly have issues.

  9. What do you mean not in service on Verizon's Solution to Terrorism: Eliminate Verizon Competitors · · Score: 2

    300,000 phone lines were knocked out, including severe damage to major telecommunications hubs. The kinds of repairs that are really needed, like a new central office, don't just happen! Especially if you can't just cut everything off to replace it. There's probably still water coming in from the World Trade Center as well. They were literally next door to ground-zero. Not to mention the billions it will take to rebuild. It wasn't too long ago that people on Slashdot were asking why wasn't there enough redundancy. As a regulated utility, the profits Verizon can make aren't all that huge. Economic factors are cutting into their money makers, like DSL and second phone lines. We know why lots of CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers) are really suffering: bad business plans.

  10. Re:I must be missing something on Review: SliMP3 · · Score: 2

    Get a black BookPC. Hook it up to the LAN, TV, and stereo. Control it via one of the many IR remotes out there, or over the LAN. Winamp has plenty of remote control programs as well. Its a little more expensive, but it also plays DVDs and visualizations on the tv. The only real downside is that it's not very quiet (power supply fan needs work), but if you're a hacker, you can fix that.

  11. Not the end of DOS on Win95 Lifecycle Draws to a Close · · Score: 2

    Just because Win95 has reached its end, DOS based games like Duke Nukem 3D work fine on Windows ME. After all, Win95 plus patches and bloat is what WinME is. This doesn't mean that Win 95 won't work any more, its just not going to be supported. There are still plenty of copies out there, its just not worth the money to support them any more.

  12. Show some confidence on Excite Could Go Dark On Friday · · Score: 2

    Comcast seems to have confidence that there will be no interruption in service. AT&T is buying Excite@Home's broadband pieces, so of course they won't be worried. Since Comcast and Cox are major shareholders along with AT&T, there's plenty of squabbling because no one wants their customers to go dark.

  13. Too easy to take advantage of on Would You Pay A Penny Per Page? · · Score: 2

    I visited one website this past weekend and it came with 3 popups. Each of them came with a few more. I soon had 20 windows opened. Closing some of them merely launched 3 more. You know what I'm talking about. Doesn't that just encourage them to bombard me with new pages to make money? How much do I have to pay for pages I never wanted? What if I'm only there for a moment to realize that it has no useful information? A penny per page has too many holes.

  14. Just for AMD? on XOSL, an alternative to Lilo and Grub · · Score: 1

    and the title sounds like its only for AMD?

  15. Don't forget to test it on Can Developers Work in a 'Locked-Down' Environment? · · Score: 2

    One thing my company seems to have overlooked is the ability to create shorcuts via the wizard. If I right-click and choose New Shortcut (on NT4), the wizard aborts and I'm left with a "New Shortcut" on the desktop. I then have to manually edit all of its properties. How about small applications that only a few people use? I distribute a database frontend made in MS Access. At least one of my users was unable to overwrite the old version. Heck, I can't even add printers myself.

  16. Microsoft? on Opposing Open Source? · · Score: 2

    Have you tried the Microsoft website? Are you forgetting their use of 'viral' when talking about OS?

  17. Office Updater on Holes in PowerPoint and Excel · · Score: 2
    For versions of Office 2000+: Office Update Wizard.

    Be forwarned, though, that even WindowsUpdate doesn't list ALL of the patches that are out.

  18. IIS 6 on Microsoft Attempts to Secure IIS · · Score: 3, Informative
    IIS 6 will have been through their Prefix program. Installing it will also have a wizard which will ask you what services you want.

    Interview about the "Secure Windows Initiative"

  19. Build your own on Rio Car (Empeg) Sounds Like History · · Score: 2

    I think their biggest problem is that the kind of consumer that would want mp3s in their car, aka Slashdot users, are often willing to build their own, for a lower price.

  20. There are more World Trade Centers on Our New Pearl Harbor · · Score: 2

    A quick Google search turns up quite a few. There was a bomb threat this morning at the one in Baltimore, Maryland. There was a bomb threat at the state capital, in Maryland. There was a bomb threat at my local mall this afternoon, shutting it down. Why are people wasting time on tragic days like this?

  21. Just as important on Linux Office Suites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just as important, the lack of EXPORT filters! If you're going to send a document to other people, they need to read it too.

  22. Not til mid 2002 on Cox And Comcast To Dump @Home · · Score: 4, Informative

    The partnership won't dissolve until June 2002, so do have time to get another ISP. Or, they could choose to make another deal with @Home between now and then.

  23. Re:mozillaquest in no way affiliated with mozilla. on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 2

    Well, now that we've spread some FUD, how about a nice official write-up of how Mozilla is progressing. Perhaps Slashdotters can submit questions, like "Why is 1.0 considered 1.0 if it will have known bugs?"

  24. Re:mozillaquest in no way affiliated with mozilla. on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 2

    Ah. I don't recall seeing a big disclaimer saying that the site was in no way official. Actually, I followed the link to the article from NewsForge. Sorry for the confusion.

  25. Re:Doubling bugs on Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe. · · Score: 1

    I was only making an observation from the graph that was on MozillaQuest. At no time did I bother to actually analyze the numbers. I just noticed what looked like a trend.