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  1. Re:the usual suspects on Any Teachers on Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    John Nash (if the movie was right).

  2. Re:Gah! on Analog Tachometer PC Mod · · Score: 1

    Yes, but then when you say "1 RPM," you're gramatically incorrect (1 Revolutions Per Minute). I tend to let RPM = Revolution Per Minute. Referring to RPM as its own unit, I then pluralize it, leading to RPMs.

  3. Re:Why do we WANT portable MP3 recorders? on Hardware Review: Rio Receiver · · Score: 1

    Your statement is entirely accurate. I own a nomad now. I have used it for recording... but only for band rehersals. The pre-amp only has a little headroom so it distorts somewhat quickly. If it had S/PDIF, geez, it would be an industry killer. Mine was $300. You can get them now for a lot cheaper. Add a 20GB hard drive, and S/PDIF, and an eco-charge battery/charger system, and a bag of granola, and you're set. One more thing- USB 2.0 or IEEE 1394. Reason: Using USB takes a long time to transfer all those WAV files. The idea of taping say... all of Gathering of the Vibes with no tapes drives me giddy.

  4. Re:Element names work well for a small low-order n on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    Yea, I was thinking, "isn't Carbon 12.011" and lo and behold... One must remember weights are based off of the Carbon 12 atom (isotope), not the fact that the Carbon has weight 12.

  5. Re:Element names work well for a small low-order n on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    EXCELLENT IDEA! I think I might steal it. I started using the English spellings of Greek letters. Theres something funny about a box named mu.

  6. Re:...and more on Sun Files Suit Against Microsoft for Anti-Trust Violations · · Score: 1

    Yet, Apache uses that nice little TCP/IP stack that, shock, horror of horrors, is INTEGRATED in the kernel. And yes, KDE also is integrated with Konqueror, which happens to be the file browser as well as the internet browser. Gee, that sounds familiar. Personally I like it, keeps my browsing consistent. Kinda like how it's nice for IE to browse the internet and local directories.

  7. Re:Only one choice: the HP-01 on Watches for UberGeeks? · · Score: 1

    Now I'd be all over this if it were RPN. Granted, an algebraic system is probly more convenient on a watch. But, I'm much too accustomed to using RPN. Using any algebraic calculator takes me too much time.

  8. Re:dead tree books on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 1

    For those of you actually browsing at 0, the parent of this comment, which I wrote, was NOT redundant as the phrase "Concrete Mathematics" occurs nowhere else in the entire discussion.

  9. Re:dead tree books on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Humor can make a great book even greater. In the margins of Concrete Mathematics (Knuth, Graham, Patashnik), theres actually somewhat of a "discussion" on two pages:
    "It seems a lot of stuff is attributed to Gauss- either he was really smart or he had a great press agent."
    "Maybe he just had a magnetic personality."
    "Actually Gauss is often called the greatest mathematician of all time. So it's nice to be able to understand at least one of his discoveries."
    I mean, come on, it doesn't get better than that. Here's a couple more:
    "I see, we get 'real' functions by using imaginary numbers."
    "Why is 'Euler' pronounced 'Oiler' when 'Euclid' is 'Yooklid'?"
    "You know you're in college when the book doesn't tell you how to pronounce 'Dirichlet'."
    "(The formula {0 or 1} stands for something that's either 0 or 1; we needn't commit ourselves, because the details don't really matter.)"

  10. Re:Um, dude... on Constructing a Home Recording Studio on a Small Budget? · · Score: 1

    Hey, didn't you get a CTD 8000 working with the audio dat software for solaris under linux? If so I'd like to know if you had to patch the code to do it. -Thanks

  11. Re:Um, dude... on Constructing a Home Recording Studio on a Small Budget? · · Score: 1

    And those are cheap Neumanns. LOL. KM184s or something similar I take it?

  12. Re:how to make bombs on Raisethefist.com Raided · · Score: 1

    So where do you draw the line? Am I allowed to put up firework making information but not allowed to put up bomb making information? Is the difference between innocence and guilt whether I say "pipe" or "paper shell"? You tell me because I'd sure like to know.

  13. Re:Hey! Don't slashdot this site! on Raisethefist.com Raided · · Score: 2, Funny

    Darn. He wanted to be heard. He got it.

  14. Re:Abuse over wireless networks on Free Wireless Networks at Airports · · Score: 1

    Hrmph. That's quite interesting. It makes sense that they can do it... I just didn't realize it was possible to monitor one client with multiple stations.

  15. Re:Imagine... on TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick · · Score: 1

    Woe, I said non-lego components, not just people. Anything non-lego is a no no.

  16. Re:how do you trace the cracker? on Free Wireless Networks at Airports · · Score: 1

    Let's assume he's an idiot and doesn't change the MAC address thats being used for the (R)ARP requests. What are the odds you're gonna find that same exact MAC address on another public wireless network? Are you gonna monitor every single one in the world in order to catch him? No. The address would have to be captured before it hits any router. You're not gonna be able to "trace" the MAC address back to some guy using 802.11 in his house.

  17. Re:VPN on Free Wireless Networks at Airports · · Score: 1

    How can you "still use it free"? You can't. You still need a physical layer, data link layer, and network layer connection upon which your VPN can operate. This is how they make their money.

  18. Re:Abuse over wireless networks on Free Wireless Networks at Airports · · Score: 1

    Not likely they could triangulate you. Confine the search area to a radius around an access point? Yes. As far as I know you can't be connected to more than one access point at once so it really depends on one access point.

  19. Re:Imagine... on TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick · · Score: 1

    Nothing used to anger me more than when people would put NON-Lego components in Lego buildings, cars, etc. It bothered me to no end. Come to think of it, it still does. Grrrrrrr...

  20. One thing you don't wanna do... on Bad eBay Experience Spurs Internet Manhunt · · Score: 1

    One "market" you don't want to try to defraud on ebay would be the survivalist/hunting/etc niche. Think about it. Imagine doing this to a group of 10 ex-marines who have weapons permits. Not my idea of a good time. Last thing I want at my door is a bunch of guys in BDUs grinning at me. On another note, a good thing to have here would be a friend who's a judge. Have him get you an arrest warrant and then have a bunch of bounty hunters execute it. Bounty hunters (usually ex-military guys) are literally above the law when it comes to finding people who have warrants out for them.

  21. Re:And how do they propose to do this? on Comcast Gunning for NAT Users · · Score: 1

    And how does having the ability to restrict the number of layer 2 addresses per port help the cable company. They see one and ONLY one MAC address when you're NAT'ing. That MAC is the MAC of the device doing the NAT'ing.

  22. Re:These questions are getting old... on How Unix-like is MacOS X? · · Score: 1

    I understand your point. However, that doesn't exemplify the majority of Ask Slashdot posters. There are many resources you can exhaust before coming to Ask Slashdot. Only then should you write in. The RTFM attitude is helpful to everybody. It teaches you to read a little better and it keeps people with knowledge from having to waste their time answering petty questions that are already documented.

  23. Re:Hypocritical on AOL Time Warner Files Anti-Trust Suit against MS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's a difference between a legal monopoly and an illegal monopoly. AOL Time Warner isn't actively trying to make itself the ONLY news source. Microsoft is actively trying to make itself the only EVERYTHING. Don't make comments when you don't accurately understand the difference between legal and illegal monopolies.

  24. These questions are getting old... on How Unix-like is MacOS X? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uhm, I mean seriously. Did you really need an Ask Slashdot to figure this out? Apple has a website. I'll leave finding it as an exercise to the reader. Look up about MacOS X, you'll find its core is Darwin. Darwin is BSD based. What more do you want? Go to [insert chain computer store here] and play with a machine. Stop asking stupid questions you're too lazy to figure out on your own.

  25. Re:Quel terrible! on Warnings to Red Hat about AOL Buyout · · Score: 1
    I would hate to be seeing Linux be eaten by the AOL corporation. Such a melange does not sit well with my stomach. The Linux communitie has a histoiry of innovation and openess which stands starkly in contrast to the average Americain grande corporation. It would be a pity to see that openness be suppressed.
    Um, two things. First, you're implying Red Hat is Linux. This is not true. One should not say things about Linux which do not neccesarily apply to Red Hat. Second, Red Hat is a company just as much as AOL / Time Warner is a company. Just because they are a Linux company doesn't mean they aren't a company. They want to make money like everyone else. If Red Hat falls, personally, I could care less. GNU/Linux will survive with Red Hat alive or dead. Red Hat means next to nothing as far I'm concerned. And if you take the opinion that GNU/Linux development will take a considerable blow with no "real" companies backing it, you're wrong because that thought is disproved with counter examples. OpenBSD has no commercial backing really and it thrives.

    Disclosure: I have a stake in AOL / Time Warner.