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  1. Near future: US Gov't sues typosquatting porn site on Typosquatting Held Illegal · · Score: 2

    Will the US Gov't now sue whitehouse.com b/c of whitehouse.gov???

  2. How does one switch to journaling file system? on Benchmark Madness · · Score: 1

    Ok. I have a Linux system. How do I make the switch? Are there any HOW-TOs or FAQs that address this?

  3. We don't simulate it, we are a crisis center on Do You Have Your 'Crisis Week'? · · Score: 5

    We don't bother with simulating an IT crisis, we simply allow people to log into the network and do their daily tasks.

  4. Sorta like the hair club for men... on Displaced Techies Find Sex Sells, And Pays · · Score: 1

    I am not only the owner, I am a customer as well!

  5. Use VMWare as a work around on Document-Destroying Copy Protection System · · Score: 1

    Here is another way around the system. "receive" the file onto a virtual machine and store it on a virtual disk. Then, make many copies of the virtual disk. Now, you have made many copies of the file and can open it as many times as you want.

  6. Simple, just use another OS to read them on Document-Destroying Copy Protection System · · Score: 1

    Why could not someone just try opening the document under another operating system like Linux? The bits within the document must exist somewhere and one must be able to to read them and then attempt decrypt them at that time...

  7. Re:YHBT. YHL. HAND. on Pluto Mission Apparently Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Define useful. The theory of evolution has not really been "useful" although it has explained the past...

  8. Re:RIAA should clamp down on netbios! on Peer-To-Victim File Sharing · · Score: 1
    Actually, Netbios is an IBM hack. According to "The Linux Network" by Fred Butzen and Christopher Hilton:

    The first networking cards for the IBM PC were devised by IBM itself. This was in the mid-1980's whne TCP/IP and the Internet were confined to universities and laboratories. To manage networked PCs, IBm invented its own protocol: the Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS)

    Over time, IBM's networking cards were pushed out of the marketplace by cheap Ethernet hardware but IBM chose to use its NetBIOS protocol as the basis for networking under its OS/2 operating system which it commissioned Microsoft to write. As part of that deal, Microsoft licensed NetBIOS technology from IBM. Microsoft then used NetBIOS to implement networking for its Windows line of products including Windows for Workgroups, Windows 9x, and Windows NT.

  9. Make world? 6 days of course on Building The Fastest Desktop Possible · · Score: 1

    :-) On the seventh day, he overclocked...

  10. Its been done on Changing Earth's Orbit Proposed · · Score: 1

    Superman did something similar in order to reverse time...

  11. Dr. Feinman and Nuclear Powered Jets on GeoWorks Patents Wireless Web Browsers · · Score: 3

    Reminds me of a portion of the book "Surely you must be Joking Mr Feinman" where he recalls his bosses requesting that all persons attempt to describe patentable ideas involving nuclear reactions. Dr. Feinman gave a few examples like (and I paraphrase) "put a nuclear reactor in a boat, make it boil water to spin a turbine and drive the prop. Poof, nuclear powered boat. Do the same thing with a sub, poof, nuclear powered sub. Or, eject heated air out the back, poof, nuclear powered plane." Years later, Dr. Feinman was asked to join a company working on super-sonic jets b/c he obtained the patent on nuclear powered jets...

  12. SMP Support on Ask Kevin Lawton About Plex86 · · Score: 1

    There are two issues here. First, the current build of Plex86 cannot run on SMP systems. What are the problems that need to be addressed? Secondly, suppose I boot a virtual Linux box on my dual processor Linux machine. Are there plans to allow the virtual Linux box to act as if it is running on both processors and get the power of both processors?

  13. OS/2 support/problems on Ask Kevin Lawton About Plex86 · · Score: 2

    VMWare supported OS/2 in a beta and determined that it was not cost effective to release and maintain a version which supports OS/2. What are the technical issues for why OS/2 support is difficult and do solving these issues reduce performance/functionality for more common OSes like Windows and Linux?

  14. Someone has to say it on Wired Homes of the Rich · · Score: 1

    Sure wish I had a beowolf cluster of these!!!!

  15. Re:Speed is not the primary goal of emulation on X86-64 Simulator - now available (Linux only) · · Score: 1

    What you want is already available in open source: bochs

  16. Is the Foil the Filters Contest page filtered???? on Foil-The-Filters Contest · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many filters filter the "Foil the Filters Contest page"

  17. Encrypt the database with reversed cue:cat? on CueCat Goes After Online Barcode Database · · Score: 1

    What about reversing the cue:cat "encryption" and store the UPCs in the database using the encrypted values. Then the users can query the database using the actual autput of the cue:cat. Is this a nice way around their complaints?

  18. Wrong graphic for story on CueCat At It Again · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the graphic for this and any further CueCat stories be changed from the news icon to the humor (Monty Python foot) icon?...

  19. Ha ha! on Intel Recalls 1.13-GHz P-IIIs Due To Glitch · · Score: 1

    In my best Nelson voice...

  20. Re:This is UTAH on Utah About to Sign Library Filtering Law · · Score: 1

    Denver public library, Main branch has copies of Playboy. The current copy is kept behind the desk of the periodicals section.