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  1. There was a company on Starting a Cable Company? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was a company here in Utah that was doing somthing just like what you are asking about. They were running cable of their own design to the houses etc... Now I think they are doing regular ethernet and using some sort of Fiber to the home thing. I havn't looked into them in a while because they weren't in my city. They became a utility so they could use the easments and other things like that to get to the neighborhoods. Last I looked they were offering 10mbit connections for like $40 a month but that was 3 years ago.

    Here is their website if you want to see what they are doing now. http://www.airswitch.com

  2. Re:What IP? Re:How I install mplayer on Mplayer Adds Sorenson v3 To the Linux Roster · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is where his packages are now.

    http://marillat.free.fr/

  3. Re:AT&T on Phonelines: Not Just For POTS And High-Speed Internet? · · Score: 1

    In my area AT&T reran all of our cable in our neighborhood back when they bought out TCI Cable. After that they began offering Digital Cable, Local phone Service, and Broadband internet. Nothing like the video on demand. I know USWest was going to offer TV stuff over VDSL in like Arizona or something but I don't know what happened with that.

  4. Re:The other part of the question... on Build Your Own PowerPC? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I seem to remember with the first iMacs and the G3 towers OpenFirmware loaded a ROM image file from the harddisk it was in the system folder. Is that still how MacOS X works. I don't have much experience in it.

  5. Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us! on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am a little confused but is this Hepatitis B vacine the same one that I just got a booster for about 4 years ago I didn't know it was banned and then why is it still being used every where?

  6. Re:Come on /. ers on Boeing Bird of Prey Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1
    How about something about Boeing running their webserver off of a Bird of Prey and the fact that we are ./ing them?

    Because it said there was no computer in these.

  7. Re:No way did they pull the Radon out of the Cube on Apple Punishes ATI For Leaking The Cube? · · Score: 1

    Well I didn't go with their pre-set configs I config it how I would like it on the Apple page and then went to Dell.

    One thing to remember though is that the highend Cube most likely had Gigabit ethernet on the MB I don't even know if that was an option on the Dell.

    Karrots

  8. Re:Old Macs as Macs on Old Macs As Terminals · · Score: 1

    Actually what I also wanted to say was that up to System 7.5.5 will work with a Mac Plus but it needs to have at least 4megs of ram. But I would stick with 6.0.8.

    Karrots

  9. Re:Old Macs as Macs on Old Macs As Terminals · · Score: 1

    System 6 will work on Mac Plus's. You can download it from apple. I would suggest 6.0.8.

    <a href="http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support _Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-Nor th_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/">
    http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Are a/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_Ame rican/Macintosh/System/Older_System/</a>

    Karrots

  10. Re:No way did they pull the Radon out of the Cube on Apple Punishes ATI For Leaking The Cube? · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is I went and priced a Dual Proc PowerMac and a Dell PC with the same features. Same amount of ram, HD space, Firewire, etc... and the prices came out only about $20 different.

    So I don't know about having to be a multi-million or billion dollar company.

  11. Re:Various options on Finding the Right Online Credit Card Merchant? · · Score: 1

    In part of PayPals new business account they now offer webpay which you can put buttons on your site for people to pay for things. I am pretty sure you don't need to be a paypal member to make a payment with webpay.

    Check it out there receiving money fee is 0.6%.

    Jonathan

  12. Re:Luxury hotel in space. on First Privately Funded Manned Space Mission · · Score: 1

    In response to your reason number 3.

    I am sure it could make an unmanned landing but you have to put it in space first. There shuttle never flew.

    Don't forget the Russians just land there capsules in the snow not he ocean like we did.

  13. Re:Possibly destructive! on Play Region 1 DVDs On A Japanese PS2 · · Score: 1

    Actually you would have been able to play any DVD. Mine worked but then I screwed it over so now it only plays region one DVD's. Somthing about my chipset and my Drivers made the DVD stop picking up disks so I removed the RPC2 jumper and put in a region one disk. That didn't help then I found that it was the drivers and uninstalled them. All was fixed but now I am stuck with region 1 DVD's.

  14. Re:Not very realistic? on X-Files FPS Episode · · Score: 1

    I have fallen in one of my dreams. I was climbing a tree and fell off one of the branches. When I hit the ground I really hit the ground. I actually fell off of my bed. It was kind of freaky.

  15. Re:Is it compatible with Visual C/C++? on Borland C++ Now Free-as-in-Beer · · Score: 2

    Has any one here other than me used CodeWarrior???

    CodeWarrior 5.3 is very ANSI/ISO compliant infact they boast that they have the tighest compliance. Earlier versions of the Windows IDE did lagg behind the Mac IDE but now they are pretty much in par with each other.

    Plus they are a better deal. The Academic version is only $120 and its not crippled other than with the liscense. You can't make commercial apps with it but thats fine with me. If I want to make a commercial app I will buy the full version. Plus the acidemic version includes both the Mac and Windows IDE's while the Full version is only one IDE but it can still cross compile and remote debug.

    Karrots

  16. Re:MD storage. on Are there MP3 Players that use Minidiscs? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't ATRAC do variable bit rate encoding?

  17. Re:Challenger on The 20th Century: Loser Style · · Score: 1

    In fact, there are two rubber O-rings that go around the entire rocket at the (each?) join

    Now there are two o-rings at least on the outside part. Before the accident there was one. If I remember correctly (my dad isn't here to ask who works at Thiokol) they also added some sort of heating element around each joint.

    The day of the launch was one of the coldest that the shuttle was ever launched on. The cold temperatures meant that the rubber reacted slower than "normal". They failed, obviously.

    Yes you are correct on this one also. IIRC there was ice on the SRB's!

    Karrots

  18. Re:G4s in clusters... on Choosing the Right Cluster System · · Score: 1

    CodeWarrior Pro 5 supports AltiVec.

  19. Re:China invading the US on Detecting Stealth Planes · · Score: 1

    Can we say Pearl Harbor????? The US radar people SAW the PLANES on there radar but did they do anything about it nope. Must be a glitch or birds.

    Ya right. oops there went most of the US naval fleet.

  20. Re:So they're getting closer... on Combining New/Old Approaches for Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    Well maybe if Three Mile island never happend we would have orderd more.

    There haven't been any new nuclear power plants ordered sense the thing at Three Mile island.

  21. Re:Wrong, wrong, wrongitty wrong wrong wrong! on U.S. is "Just About OK for Y2K" · · Score: 1

    One word: BeOS. Their time_t is 64 bits, and it always was.

    MacOS also uses an unsigned 64-bit variable for their dates. Always has.

  22. Re:Y2K -is- a problem - for Gnu Software and other on U.S. is "Just About OK for Y2K" · · Score: 1

    Gotta love sideeffects

  23. Re:I got it on SuSE Coming on DVD · · Score: 2

    Don't forget to flip over the DVD after he gets the first side.

  24. VFC on Creative Labs GPLs dxr2 DVD Decoder Drivers · · Score: 1

    My PC-DVD decoder card from them uses the VGA feature connector on my video card. It works quite nicely. Why not just do it that way.

    Now I just wish they would opensource the drivers for my PC-DVD card

  25. Re:Older folks need big pixels on Basic Linux Systems for the Home User? · · Score: 1

    >Anybody remember the old single-pixel HFS indicator on the Mac Finder?

    I do it was the single pixel on the seperator at the top of the window. It was inbetween the double lines.