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  1. Re:I'm willing to bet.... on Memory-Tech, Toshiba Develop DVD/HD-DVD Discs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was boxing with Evander..I was going at my own pace..looking like a bulldog with my schwunched up face.

    Things got kinda rough, he butted me in my eye.
    Suddenly I got hungry and his head looked like a pie.

    So I bit his ear. Yeah I bit his ear, I bit his ear.

  2. Wow! on Toyota Demos 'Partner Robots' · · Score: 1

    So how long before this is the future?

    "It is post-World War III. War is outlawed."

    War is outlawed, that statement is priceless.

  3. Re:Eh on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 1

    No OS is ever fully patched, you must mean patched against the well-known vulnerabilities.


    But let's compare...

    Windows: Create network connection, File sharing and administrative shares shared by default.

    OSS (In most cases): Create network connection, services YOU chose to install are listening.


    While IE/Outlook are to blame for a lot of garbage getting in, Windows opens itself up to all sorts of stuff by default. Maybe this is much better with XP-SP2, I don't use XP so I don't know.

    Anyone connecting ANY desktop (securing your servers is another topic), be it Windows, Linux, BSD, etc.. directly to the internet via high-speed line is crazy. Use NAT at the very least! FREESCO fits on a floppy, runs on 486's with 8MB of ram, you have no excuse.

  4. Keep business with businesses on Verizon-Pushed WiFi Bill Becomes Law in PA · · Score: 1

    Some cities want to operate like businesses, but the primary sale of services should be for real businesses.

    Let municipalities wholesale the service and have business actually sell it and support it.

  5. No problems here in Washington state! on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 1

    Here on the Olympic Peninsula, I have 100Mbps FTTP provided by Clallam County PUD and Noanet. The only sewage problems I have are those of spam coming into my mail server.

    And BTW, the fiber is strung up on the power poles here.

  6. US Postal Shipping Centers on ATMs Susceptible to Windows Viruses · · Score: 1

    If you are around for the nightly maintenance cycle in your local post office that has a automated shipping center machine. You'll see a "down for maintenance" screen come up, and a minimized application running.

    It runs windows for sure, free postage anyone?

  7. Back in my day... on Learning PHP 5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We would learn PHP from the php.net documentation alone!

    And we liked it that way!

  8. Re:Flashlight or gun? on Doom Movie in Production For Aug 2005 Release · · Score: 1

    Not even this flashlight?

  9. Re:Finally this topic! on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    Wow, that looks great, Thanks!

  10. Finally this topic! on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone know of a open source project to control a Fuel-Injected engine? I have been thinking about how to set it up, and am not sure of the off-the-shelf hardware that would be needed. But since most engines just use a simple collection of sensors that return a given voltage it probably wouldn't be that hard. And feedback is done by sending X volts to device Y.

    So anyone who knows of USB/PCI/Serial devices that can communicate this way on many (30 - 40) lines. Post them here, please!

    I'd ideally want an embedded solution, but why not a PC-based solution. You'd just have to wait for the PC to boot before you could start the car.

  11. Transparent firewall to the resuce! on Online Gaming Ad Network Launches · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. Dig an old PC outta the closet

    2. Install two NICs

    3. Install OpenBSD

    4. Setup a bridge.

    5. Create a pf rule to block all outgoing connections to the Ad servers IP block.


    It's transparent to all ethernet devices and you can tweak the ruleset as needed.

  12. Re:Oracle tried moving the datacenter to Red Rock on RFID Drivers' Licenses Debated · · Score: 1

    I'm a geek and probably live in the "sticks", I have 100Mbps Internet to the home.

    As for sushi.. I'd rather have my fish in an aquarium or pond.

  13. Re:Yoda? on 2.2 inch LCD Display featuring VGA Resolution · · Score: 1

    "I am puppet...Yesssss"

    Thumbwars

  14. Re:Why TVs? on Slack LCD TV Market Means Cheaper Phones And Monitors · · Score: 1

    Typically you would mount the projector above and behind where you sat. And if you have a small living room and have to sit so close that it looks grainy then that is sure not the best option for you.

    For optimal image quality you are supposed to use some sort fo screen. I've projected onto white walls and didn't think it was bad at all.

    For fun: Project onto white plastic horizontal blinds, mirror the image, go out and sit in the yard and watch TV on your blinds!

    I think you can get HDTV, but it'll costs ya :)

    I guess I just see it differently, becuase a big TV that take up 15+ cubic feet of space is the waste of space and ugly in my eyes.

  15. Why TVs? on Slack LCD TV Market Means Cheaper Phones And Monitors · · Score: 1

    I don't quite understand buying a big bulky TV for television/movie viewing.

    Why not just buy a projector for about the cost and you can get a screen size that makes your 60" TV look pathetic! Situate the projector even just 10 feet back from the wall and you can produce a large (6 foot+) "screen".

    Projectors...

    *Are small, and light
    *Project a massive screen size
    *Cost as much as a nice TV
    *Take just about any input Composite/*GA/S-Video/DVI

    So what you have to replace the lamp after many thousands of hours of use. The cost-to-screensize make it worth it, to me.

    It will take up very little space in your entertaining area, compared to a mammoth TV.

    Plus, if your setup allows, it can double as your primary computer display. I've not written code on a screen that size, and I probavbly would not want to..but for games or movie viewing it is nice.

  16. Re:Firefox is coming along nicely on Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future · · Score: 2, Informative

    What version do you have?

    As of the latest PR, they added a more visible pop-up blocker interface. And the "Open new tab in background" has been around for a while.

  17. Re:I only take my routers three ways... on 3com to Compete with Cisco · · Score: 1

    Nope, just slow old 100Mbps.
    What do you have at home?

    I was surprised to see a P133 w/ 32MB running FREESCO, transfer a solid 35Mbps.

    I had to download OpenBSD from about 5 different mirrors at the same time (with ~4 simultaneous downloads per-site) to get my bandwidth use up that high.

  18. Re:In the army (in Finland) on One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles · · Score: 1

    Wait..did you say Finnish Army?


    Stop reading /. and go see a doctor. :)

  19. I only take my routers three ways... on 3com to Compete with Cisco · · Score: 3, Informative

    Purchased

    Free

    Secure


    Any combination of the above three.

  20. Re:Just great. on Your Car Is Reading Your Email · · Score: 1

    Well it won't call you Dave...but..an 84 LeBaron (and other Chryslers from that era) will tell you all sorts of wonderful things:

    "A Door Is Ajar"
    "Please Fasten Your Seatbelt"........"Thank You"

    Ahhhh..a car that really cares!

  21. Re:Okay, one thing not listed in the headline on Ebay Buys Into Craiglist · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh, you mean Ashley Madison
    You must be canadian, or live on the border and get CA broadcast television.

    Canadian TV is a little looser with what they let go on-air. I think 10 PM is too early for softcore porn to be on TV, I guess they like to raise kids differently up north.

  22. Re:VR helmets on 3D Monitor · · Score: 1

    So how many times did you watch Lawnmower Man?

  23. Anything is better than... on Northface University - Computer Science in Half the Time? · · Score: 1

    These schools

    They made their teachers be on-site sysadmins for no additional pay.

    Deceitful recruiters and poor courses.

  24. Re:Any thoughts? on FCC Allows Mix-and-Match Wi-Fi Antennas · · Score: 1

    Ever used one of these knives before? I thought not..

    All the ones I have seen have a resistance release trigger..meaning that the blade will "go limp" if it meets enough resistance before it fully opens. ~Point-blank into an empty soda can is enough resistance to trigger it. The spring is not nearly strong enough to send the knife into flesh.

  25. Re:Never in Washington on Verizon Announces FTTP Prices · · Score: 1

    I got a 100Mbps pipe from Clallam County PUD.

    Never say never.

    And never will I never have to wonder if the slow download is on my end again, it never is.