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  1. Re:Standard US pattern on What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lg is the old GoldStar from Korea. LG=Lucky GoldStar. Still crappy TV's!

  2. Re:"One Linux operator can manage 45 computers whi on Linux in High School Labs · · Score: 1
    I think your are confusing 'lack of features' with 'easy to use'. How did you limit size of uploads on your FTP server? adjust maximum connections speeds, and bandwidth per connection for your web sever? filter out Ip address so they could surf but not ftp? Etc, etc. IIS is 'easy' because you have no control over it. I agree Linux/apache is more complex, but IIS would be as complex if it had all those options too.

    For managing a buttload of user desktops and apps, MS wins hands down.

    Actually Netware winds that hands down.

    JON

  3. Re:20 Msample/sec on HDTV via GNU Radio · · Score: 1

    A 100Mbits 12bits on a PCI card? In your PC?

    Certainly faster sample rates are avaialable, and are often controlled by a PC, but this thing actually takes up a PCI slot IN your PC. I still say "wow" to that!

    JON

  4. Re:Good And Bad on HDTV via GNU Radio · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 20Mhz is the killer thing here. That is some Serious converting. Your Cd player converts DA 16bits at 44khz. A high end studio type- audio card does 24bits at 96khz, in either direction.

    This thing is doing 12bits at 20,000khz. Holy crap. That is hauling ass, hope your damn good with a sauldering iron !

    JON

  5. Re:Is it Just Me... on .edu Expansion Blurs The Lines · · Score: 1

    Actually UoP has several domain names, but they primarly use

    uophx.edu and phoenix.edu.

    Student email address are

    studentname@email.uophx.edu

    So UoP is already full EDU. No changes here.

    JON

  6. Re:Don't worry... on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    It sounds like what's happening here is that Sun's Java people, realizing how many more people are using Java on Linux and Windows, aren't putting as much effort into support for Solaris.

    Huh!? Which of the following key points of the memo are specific to Solaris, again?
    1. The [Java] support model seems flawed
    2. The JRE is very large
    3. Extensions do not support modularity
    4. [Java] is not backward-compatible across minor releases.


    All of them. The whole point of the memo is to improve the way JAva is developed internally on Solaris. The memo-writers (As it were) want it conform to SUN's own specs for languages, not be 'special'. Apparently the renegade JAVA guys think they are so important they can ignore fix request, etc especially as they pertain to Solaris.

    Read it again, and this time pay attention. It's not just about JAva, but the process of creating java that bothers the authors, and java support on Solaris specifically.

    JON

  7. Re:IMHO on E-commerce Sites to Collect Sales Taxes Nationwide · · Score: 1

    On my way home from work I drive by a wal-mart when I am two minutes from home. Are you saying I should drive home and walk back?

    just a possibility. And here in Los Angeles, people drive to their neighbors house across the street!

    JON

  8. Re:Unix on IBM Calls Linux "Logical Successor" To AIX · · Score: 1

    That's a bootable demo CD - NOT an installable OS and no source code. Ever run an OS off a bootable CD? Just a little slow.

    These 'demo' CD's are not the SUSE distro - the only way to get that is to buy it you can not download it.

    JON

  9. Re:Um Bellville ? on Sun Opens First Linux Competency Center · · Score: 1

    It's BellEville. I am from there, currently living in Los Angeles. Right now I am in Chicago, just wrapped up migrating a critical hospital system to a shiny new Oracle server. Did the same thing last week in Rochester, MN and the week before in Burlington, VT.

    I remember doing my co-op placement at Loyalist at .NetReach, still the dominant local ISP, where I got my first hands on with Linux as it runs the whole ISP. It was kernel .99 back then. So if they had over 500 clients (yes) I guess they had 500 linux users, right?

    Quit bitching, and open your eyes fool.

    JON

    P.S. netreach used to give shell accounts if you asked....
    p.s.s and yes the BBS scene was very strong!
    p.s.s.s. looking forward to moving back...

  10. Re:My take on TurboTax Activation Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Wow, so technically the whole country could use one copy by transfering the software from person to person, right? Perfectly legal?! This blatant stealing is exactly why intuit has the new licensing scheme...thanks a lot! Your buying the right to do YOUR taxes. So if you give the software to your wife, she can do YOUR taxes with it, but she does not have the license to do her own taxes.

    Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us.

  11. Re:Eh? on Radeon 9700 Pro: ATI Ahead · · Score: 1
    Even worse was the fact that the 80487 was actually a FULL CPU+FPU, and not just an FPU. Upon startup it would disable the main processor and do everything. What a waste of power....

    Actually you took OUT the SX and put in the DX, so the CPU and FPU on the DX are both working. It was not an add on chip, but a replacement. So the SX gets tossed. Quite a business model intel had going there. I only remember because Autocad 9 ran 4 times faster with DX then the SX.

    JON

  12. Re:same thing at microlandusa.com on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, the bios in the server won't take an IDE drive larger than 34G. It's an older dual P2-450. Suse 8.1, Oracle 9i r2.

    JON

  13. same thing at microlandusa.com on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed · · Score: 1

    met them at comdex, ordered a few two weeks ago. Very very cool, and about $20 cheaper than the reviewed ones. Adaptec 2940UW now has two 80G ide's on it - and the 4 4.3G SCSI too!

    JON

  14. Is this a new low for slashdot? on More On Airplanes And Internet · · Score: 1

    The number of people replying who have obviously never flown in a plane is just astounding.

    "can we use a laptop?"
    You can use electronic devices once the plane is over 10,000 feet. The captain will announce it. On an Airbus the light over your seat will com one, you know the one that says "approved electronic devies..." That includes laptops, CDRom, radios what ever.

    "what about battery life! no one thought of that! I am so smart!"

    plug in you laptop using the power port under your seat. Virtually all long haul (57,67,77, A3x) planes have these.

    The cell phone thing has been explained, although they do work, same deal for two way pagers BTW.

    Oh yeah, Perth is pretty boring, although King's park is cool.

    JON

  15. Just rode it at comdex on Segway HT Starts Selling · · Score: 1

    extremly cool. a razor scooter for adults. I see them on yachts (good bye 50cc moped headaches!) big motorhomes, campgrounds, large malls...

    Replace car? no. replace soooters/mopeds/3 wheeled bikes? in lots of cases, yeah? If a company can cut a min wage mail delivery boy by putting someone on a segway, they'll do it...

    Yes, comdex is really small it does NOT even fill the LV convention center. ouch.

    JON

  16. Re:Where do programmers go? on Dan Gillmor Shares His 'Insider's View' of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Yes, bail now. Why be dilbert when you can be the pointy haired boss? You don't have to be good at managing to be a manager, heck make up numbers if you want, everyone else does.

    This 30 yr old will have his Business degree before he turns 31. Can't wait!!

    JON

  17. Re:Blah blah blah... on Design Philosophy of the IBM PowerPC 970 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And as for Mac OS always being 8 years ahead of Windows, well, I'm no lover of Windows, but Windows had preemptive multitasking years before Mac OS (Windows got it in Win95, Mac OS didn't have it until OS X).

    Windows NT/2000XP had real pre-emptive multitasking before the half bit crappy win95 implementation. 1993? Think NT 3.1 and Nt 3.51. Those OS's, much maligned then are now the foundation for MS future OS's...

  18. Re:NOT a 1.8 in. drive! on Another iPod Competitor · · Score: 2, Informative

    listed size is
    3 x 4.43 x 1.0 inches

    Ipod is 2.4 x 4 x.75 inches

    Wider, shorter and a bit thicker.

  19. Worked for me on Laser Vision Surgery for Developers? · · Score: 1

    Had it done Monday september 20th, 1999.

    paid $5000 for two years of unlimited support at Duke UNiversitsy Center for Aesthetic learning. yes, they consider it 'cosmetic surgery'. Duke is part of the study to finally get the procedure approved. For two years they do everything they can to improve your vision. Reburns, prescriptions, follow up visits, everything all included. Serious doctors, not a franchise operation.

    It was the deal of a lifetime. I have never woken up and thought "gee, I wish I could wear my glasses today".

    I took 3 months off over y2k and went surfing in Hawaii. Can't do that at -6.5,-6

    JKL
    P.S. the little indents in you skull over your ears slowly fill in over the next two years or so

  20. Re:What about Palm? on iPAQ 3800 In Photos · · Score: 1

    My 3 year old Palm V is half the thickness and shorter than any of the new pocket PC's. Putting the ipaq beside it, it's hard to tell which is newer. I use it to replace my calendar, address book and take notes. I have a few small utilities (Ip subnet calc, chmod calc, some FAQ's, etc) and that's all.

    I sync it with my laptop with the IR port, and the batteries last months w/o recharging so I already travel cable-less.

    It doesn't run Linux, or play Mp3s.

    I admit, as someone who travels for a living, and relies heavily on my Palm for business use, I don't understand what the Ipaq is for. Too big to carry in your pocket, too small to replace my laptop.

  21. Re:CANADIANS: ORGANIZE "COPY PARTIES!" on Slashback: Equivalence, Toilets, Hundredth · · Score: 1
    Section 80 does not legalize (a) copies made for the use of someone other than the person making the copy; and (b) copies of anything else than sound recordings of musical works. It does legalize making a personal copy of a recording owned by someone else.

    What part, in bold, don't you understand?

    You can't make copies for your friends. but they can make copies themselves using you CD for their own use.

    Next time read the web page, and try to minimize your US-centric arrogance in the future.

    JKL

  22. Re:Pardon my excitement, but on HP Buys Compaq · · Score: 1

    Dell has a canadian line with canadian orders, shipped from canada and all prices in CDN dollars.

    try www.dell.ca for starters

    So they only reduced their comp by one.

    JKL

  23. Re:So, basically what you're saying is on Pentium IV study · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the power supply on a PIV? It's a totally different MB, RAM, and power supply.

    AMD uses the ATX PS, at least my K6-2 does. What's to regret? Upgrade you K6-2 by swapping in a PII, PIII, DURON, TBird M/b. Can't say the same about the P IV...

    MAX

  24. Re:Anyone else notice this? on Pentium IV study · · Score: 1

    If an american pilot crashed his F-15 into a slow moving Chinese spy plane, he probably be court martialed and likely not fly in the Air Force again.

    Further, the chinese crew would be treated very well, proably taken to some toursits site for photo ops and the chinese government would have full access to them. The crew would be returned in a few days, tops, and the Chinese would be welcome to pick up their plane anytime. That happened when the russian sub caught on fire off the east coast. I remember they fed the russians mcdonalds.

    In the news today: A chinese man on a jet-ski ran into a cargo container in Long Beach harbour. He is suing the ship captain for not moving out of the way, and wants an apology for 'making him crash'.

    MAX

  25. Re:Seed making costs money! on Can I See Your License for those Plants, Sir? · · Score: 1
    If Mc Donald's built a new restaurant next to yours put up a huge sign that said "McDonalds" and your bunsiess increased because people mistakenly thought you were Mcdonald's - You would have pay Mcd's 'damages' for 'using their sign'. Either that or expleicitly prove that each and every customer (Seed) came you NOT as a result of the new sign.

    Good luck!