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  1. Re:"French amateur radio operator" on Hand-Made Vacuum Tubes · · Score: 1

    I can't see him being an amateur. That was amazing.

  2. Re:Old news on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    I avoid braking and downshift, figuring that brake lights cause a panic anyway. If I don't need to brake and just down shift then the guy behind me won't panic on my brake lights and brake. If the guy is too close then he might have to brake hard to keep from hitting me, but then it is his fault for driving too close.

  3. warren miller on Flying Humans · · Score: 1

    Got some really cool video of this being done at the Iger or Jungfrau in Switzerland I don't recall. It was in his movie 'off the grid' I think. What was really cool is the sound the guy made going past the camera, sounded like a jet. Pretty crazy.

  4. Vic 20. on Commodore 64 Still Beloved After All These Years · · Score: 1

    Is what I had, my cousins had the 64 which was so much cooler than mine.

  5. Stuck in traffic. on Aqua Teen Art 'Terrorist' Describes His Ordeal · · Score: 1

    Because the boston police force freaked out over something that looked in no way like a bomb. I felt bad for the guy, I knew they couldn't stick him with any terrorist charges.

  6. Re:A found PC on $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart · · Score: 1

    I love recycling old systems, I have a 486 laptop that I use as a wireless bridge to get connectivity to my basement. Runs Debian slowly but passes packets back and forth pretty well. diabolic:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 4 model : 8 model name : 486 DX/4 stepping : 0 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme bogomips : 49.76 diabolic:~# uname -a Linux diabolic 2.4.27-3-386 #1 Wed Dec 6 00:38:33 UTC 2006 i486 GNU/Linux diabolic:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 26120 25436 684 0 2456 8144 -/+ buffers/cache: 14836 11284 Swap: 40152 3328 36824 diabolic:~#

  7. Re:Can you use it to upload mails? on Free IMAP On Gmail · · Score: 1

    I have had this setup for months, I noticed the option under account settings a while ago. Did they just formally announce it?

  8. Re:Let's whiteboard this people on Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed · · Score: 1

    Hahaha! You made my day.

  9. Re:Ubuntu drive partition on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 1

    I did this on a new laptop with vista, it now boots Ubuntu and linux, it worked just fine. I do admit I have been a Unix admin for 13 years now.

  10. Re:I for one ... on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 1

    I Rarely go to the movies anymore, my wife and I would rather rent a movie, eat snacks without taking out a small car loan first and then listen to a group of obnoxious high school kids fondle each other in the back row. Which would be fine with us, if they kept quiet about it. I have just really lost interest in paying $10.00 a person plus $20.00 for two drinks and some M&M's only to be annoyed throughout the movie. I'd rather wait and pay 3.99 to watch it at home.

  11. Re:Prior Art? on Linked List Patented in 2006 · · Score: 1

    I think the first thing I did was add a third pointer after I learned about doubly linked lists in my data structures class.

  12. Re:A very simple *nix test on Linux Systems and the New DST · · Score: 2, Informative

    zdump -v US/Eastern |grep 2007

  13. Re:Kind of radical, but I hope it works on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    So essentially we are reverting from using AC to DC, which was what Edison wanted in the first place.

  14. Re:Killed?? on Woman Killed In Wii-Related Competition · · Score: 1

    Thats a funny sig! thanks for the laugh.

  15. pennies on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    So the $45.00 worth of pennies I saved since I was 7 is now worth like $80.00? Neat, now I can retire =P

  16. Great another chick flick. on Jon Katz To Be Played By Jeff Bridges · · Score: 1

    Thanks katz.

  17. Yay gates for president on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 1

    So my gas will be $9.99 a gallon if I buy a minimum of 10 gallons?

  18. Win98 boxes on How To Manage a Security Breach? · · Score: 1

    He might want to dig deeper into which worm he was infected with and what types of docs it steals, this may help determine what data was indeed stolen. If his company wants to investigate this further he should notify the FBI. If they want to keep quiet well their isn't much he can do about that with out possibly losing his job.

  19. Re:Hey, this is Slashdot on How To Make Your Friends Call You More · · Score: 1

    These look like the directives to a robot. How about be yourself and if you have no friends maybe your an asshole.

  20. This is old news. on Sys-Admins Reading the Bosses Mail? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I already read it in cmdrtaco's inbox. Seriously I bet a good number of IT people own the T-Shirt, "I read your email". We aren't kidding.

  21. Well time to change banks. on Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements · · Score: 1

    They have been pissing me off since the fleet merger. Time to see how TD bank north is I guess.

  22. Re:Only morons on Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up · · Score: 1

    Your a professional fighter though, they are not. I'd rather fight with a sane Black belt (yourself) than an insane programmer who is going to try to cause bodily harm. You'll hit me once, I'll go down we will shake hands done. Those guys will try an maul the other person. Crazy.

  23. wait..didn't someone else do this? on Windows Live Goes to College · · Score: 1

    like philip morris?

  24. Stupid stupid stupid. on U.S. Investigating Sale of Snort as Security Risk · · Score: 1

    So we let a forgien company control our ports with no worries, and concern ourselves with
    the proliferation of tcpdump -vv -d -s 1500 | grep 31337 ? Dumb. I think I will buy that little house on PEI.

    Not to say snort isn't good software, but the technology is pretty obvious.

  25. Re:Videos on First Military Exoskeleton Reaches Prototype · · Score: 1

    Maybe if that kid was in shape he wouldn't need robotic assistance to carry stuff. Sheesh is that what our military looks like today? A 19 year old pork chop? geeez.