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  1. Re:Computer Myths on The Mythbusters Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Any monitor made in the last 5-10 years will simply say "Signal out of range."

  2. Re:An example of the advantages of the new windows on Debugging Microsoft.com · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So because AIM simply refuses to connect instead of giving you the useful info that the service is down (and thus don't bother trying to troubleshoot your computer/network) means that it never goes down?

  3. Re:Struggling beyond 10Mbit/s? on Debugging Microsoft.com · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What does a TCP/IP improvement to help high-connection-count low-latency scenario have to do with MS trying to solve the problem of a VERY high latency, single connection scenario?

    Or are you just replying to the 3 sentance summary without any information or knowing what you're talking about?

    Microsoft's problems were with the TCP specifications, which they adhered to TOO closely. From the paper, NOT specific to windows (specific to any fully compliant TCP implementation), "under a 10GBPS link with 100ms delay, it will take roughly one hour for a standard TCP flow to fully utilize the link capacity".

    This is due to how TCP is written to share the connection and not swamp it. MS provided a "workaround" for doing single, highspeed data transfers with high latency.

  4. Re:ldap schmel-dap on Fedora Directory Server 1.0 Released! · · Score: 1

    Ahh, got it. Shouldn't your ldap system handle password expiration/etc, and not your app, though?

    Maybe you had quite specific requirements, and I WILL agree that password stuff is NOT handled uniformly in LDAP, which is why I use the bind method.

  5. Re:ldap schmel-dap on Fedora Directory Server 1.0 Released! · · Score: 1

    Authentication in LDAP should be handled by a double-bind.

    First you bind as a read-only user to grab the user's DN from whatever they pass in (if they type an email address, you query that field to return their DN). Failure of this query means they entered an incorrect username/alias.

    Second, you take that DN and the password the user provided and attempt a second bind against LDAP. Failure to bind means they entered the wrong password.

    Was there a particular reason you couldn't use this method?

  6. Re:I also reviewed this machine on The Yellow Machine in Review · · Score: 1

    None of them should.

    Solaris doesn't.
    RHEL doesn't if you don't install the developer package (and why would you on a production server?)
    debian doesn't if you choose a "server" preset install.
    HPUX didn't last time I used it (4 years ago)

  7. Re:Isn't XML readable anyways? on Microsoft Receives Open Source VIP Blessing · · Score: 1

    Technically you shouldn't (SHOULDN'T, not CAN'T) be embedding bold/etc tags in your xhtml and should instead be using css...

  8. Re:The HSF solution... on Fix Your Crashing X-Box 360 With String · · Score: 1

    Why would you apply artic silver to plastic?

    Why do you think this would work within any possibility of making any noticable difference in the internal temp of the unit?

    Putting an old computer case fan blowing onto the unit is smart. This is just silly.

  9. Re:A Java mindset? on Inside Visual Studio 2005 Team System · · Score: 1

    All of that has existed in the .NET world, but as third party tools (mostly clones of java tools, like junit->nunit, etc). This is MS making an "official" version built into VS.

  10. Re:Simple Differences on CNN's Game Over On The 360 · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never tried to play online games on a PS2 to compare the difference between an obscenely cheap paid network and a "free for all" network.

  11. Re:Funny thing is... on Why Microsoft and Google are Cleaning Up With AJAX · · Score: 1

    It's IE only, so if you were using FF it's standard "refesh and pray" approach. They've had it since exchange 2000, and the 2003 version is QUITE sophisticated.

  12. Re:Really easy test to see if you're vulnerable on Trojan Using Sony DRM Rootkit Spotted · · Score: 1

    Your idea is quite good/clever, but the effort of downloading knoppix and burning it (if you don't have it) vs the annoyance of losing a 0kb text file on your desktop...

  13. Re:ALCEI claims rootkit is a virus on California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM · · Score: 1

    It doesn't replicate or spread, so it's technically malware, not a virus.

  14. Google is using it, MS is persuing? on Why Microsoft and Google are Cleaning Up With AJAX · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It didn't get any publicity at all, but most of the reason that IE has, and has had a while, the active X control to do XMLHTTP is because Outlook Web Access has used "ajax" since Exchange 2000.

    MS has been using AJAX for YEARS before the term was even invented!

    Now, they didn't use it in a cross platform way, but they did it using the same standard IE control that every other AJAX implementation uses and not some whacked out special outlook AX control.

    Admittedly in mozilla/firefox it was crap, using the old "refresh" methodology.

  15. Re:Maybe, but Motorola helped. on Did Apple Sabotage the ROKR? · · Score: 1

    Both NEC and Nokia make phones with 1.3mpix cameras. I own an NEC N410i and it even has a "macro" mode lens adjustment, as well as an LED "floodlight" (lets you take pics in darkness. They don't turn out GREAT, but they do turn out)

  16. Re:Sure they can. on Rejected Xbox 360 Prototype Designs · · Score: 1

    "Why do they say the Ford Expedition is huge? It's smaller than any MAC Truck I've seen!"

    Place a SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, N64, Dreamcast, Gamecube, and XBox all in a row.

    Place the controllers for each in a row (use both the original XBox controller, and the "S" controller).

    Then tell me the XBox itself, and the original controller, are not huge, and I will tell you that you are either lying or blind.

    The original xboxes were also QUITE noisy (new ones don't have any heat problems, and are nice and quiet).

    The "S" controller is excellent, and my choice of the "current gen" controllers, but the original XBox controller was HUGE. I'm a pianist with a 1 octave and a fourth reach, and it was honestly too large for my hands for extended use. The joysticks were WAY far away from the buttons, and 2/3 of the controller was just a huge xbox logo in the middle, seperating your hands uncomfortably.

  17. Re:US, UK, Canada on Child's Play 2005 Launch · · Score: 1

    I browse at +4. I saw a RE: comment at the root, which meant I wasn't seeing what the post was replying to. I clicked the link which says "Parent," and magically the parent post appeared on my screen. I then clicked "reply" to give my thoughts on said post.

    Hard concept to understand, but if you draw it out on a napkin it becomes easy to grasp.

    I will also run all future replies to 0 modded comments past you for acceptance.

    Why don't you browse at +BRAIN and -ASSHOLE?

  18. Re:US, UK, Canada on Child's Play 2005 Launch · · Score: 1

    I love the "if you can't solve every problem, solve none" approach.

  19. Re:I've been following this... on BBC Tells World About The Warden · · Score: 1

    Are you willing to sign a waiver stating that if you are in a wreck without a seat belt, public hospitals are allowed to refuse to treat you until they verify your insurance information and that you are able to meet your deductible?

    That could take a day or two once all the faxes go through.

    If not, then it does effect other people.

  20. Re:stored procs and triggers, finally on MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use · · Score: 1

    The parent post to this 100% shows the difference between a "coder" and a "developer."

  21. Re:And it won't work. on Banks to Use 2-factor Authentication by End of 2006 · · Score: 1

    You really don't get it.

    Current phishing site: Enter your bank login and password here!
    Then BOOM, they can log in as you at ANY time, usually a month down the road.

    With a rotating PIN from a secureid type system:
    Phishing site: Enter login and password!
    User: enters password + PIN which is only good for about 45 more seconds.

  22. Re:Stupid question for you: on Tivo Institutes 1 Year Service Contracts · · Score: 1

    I give you a 10/10 for proving the OP's point for him

  23. Re:MythTV questions on Tivo Institutes 1 Year Service Contracts · · Score: 1

    I agree with you in general, and AM setting up a mythtv, but reading your third paragraph is like reading a chapter out of the book of "why you should get a tivo".

  24. Demo this controller TODAY! on Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Go to fry's or any other computer store
    Step 2: Buy any "gyration" brand wireless mouse

    That's it.

    http://www.gamecubicle.com/news-nintendo_gyration. htm
    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1128548 ,00.asp

    Obviously the USAGE of this controller will be important, but the technology IS there, and it IS amazing. I own one of these mice, and it is EXCELLENT.

    I use it for a media center computer, and using it is like magic. Playing an RTS using a gyration mouse is hard to even describe.

    For under $100 TODAY you can play with this technology in an "unoptimized for gaming" way.

  25. Re:Disagree on Open Source Alternative for Skype · · Score: 1

    Skype is using their own variant of STUN though... the whole point of STUN is that you DON'T forward ports.