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  1. Re:Obligatory, #2: Laws of Physics on Ikea Unveils Furniture That Charges Your Smartphone Wirelessly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Translation #3, you don't know about the QI charging standard.

    It has a command channel for the device to let the charger know it should be charged.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_%28inductive_power_standard%29

  2. Job postings on Ask Slashdot: Working As an IT Contractor In a War Zone? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a good source for IT work in places that would dictate high pay? I know a guy looking for a contractor for Afghanistan but it is a sub contract on a sub contract of a contract and everyone is guarding who they work for. I'd love a place that listed dangerous jobs that pay real well.

  3. Re:But do you need multiple monitors? on Running Video Cards in Parallel · · Score: 1

    I've been using 2 monitors for years now and I have to say that once you've used them for a while you won't go back.

    Right now I'm posting to slashdot on my secondary monitor and playing eve-online on my primry. While I've used the two monitor set up for web design and programing you will find uses beyond the standard CAD/programming argument really fast once you've got it in front of you.

  4. Re:Need for concern??? on ISS May Have A Leak · · Score: 1
    I dont' think so, everything that is needed to live is stored in one module I belive, so there is only on bathroom, one fridge....some things can be ignored for 24 hours but I don't think the station is capable of just closing a part of it for a day and peeing in a cup. :)

  5. Get over it on Windows 98 Phased Out · · Score: 1
    I know alot of people aren't happy with 98 being retired but really, what do you want from them? Windows 98 sucks, sure some people think it's good for gaming or some sort or mission spaciifc task but it has sooooooo many problems.


    You can't really expect a company to support something that has so many basic problems. It just can't work in an open network without problems. If you don't need it in an open network then fine, you don't need updates IMHO. Sorry to sound cruel but windows 98 was fixed, it's called WindowsXP. :)

  6. Re:So, how does it compare? on Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? · · Score: 1

    heh, it's a gift, we'll find out on dec 25th

  7. Re:Me too on Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? · · Score: 1
    Your right that I'm playing Dell's game rather than Apple's. I was looking at the larger MP3 player market rather than the Ipod market. Dell is alot like Apple in making hardware but there is one diff.


    If I buy an Ipod from one of the number of stores that sell them everyone has them at the same price, there is no price diff. Dell DJ can only be bought from dell, one retailer one price, I'll deal. At the end of the day they are playing the same game by controlling their market but the dell device is about the same but is significantly cheaper.

    I didn't get the ipod because it's to much and I couldn't get the price down to the other HD based MP3 players, while I can't get a deal on the dell player it's price is competitive with some of the others.

  8. Me too on Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? · · Score: 2, Informative
    I ran into the exact same problem, it looks like Apple is doing thier best to control the price while they think they are on top. In other words just cashing in as long as they can. In the end I bought a dell DJ for my brother, it's the same in almost every regard ( cept geek value, and it doesn't matter to him he's high on jock value) except it's price (lower at dell) and it's battery life (twice as long). In the end Dell won out and it's already here.

    If you don't like apple's game do as I did, don't play it.

  9. Re:Bittorrent link on Half Life 2 Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1

    This tracker is taking a beating, just keep trying and it should work.

  10. Bittorrent link on Half Life 2 Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.wireless-central.net/suprnova/torrents/ 382/hl2_src-rar(1).torrent

    happy downloading

  11. Re:Able to operate in a residential area? on 20th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post · · Score: 1

    bad bad man.

    Disk coruption happens

  12. Re:50 million numbers, not people on U.S. Court Blocks Anti-Telemarketing List · · Score: 1

    Your right it not being 50 million people, but how many people live at your house. My two numbers service a house with 5 people.

  13. Re:Dave Barry on U.S. Court Blocks Anti-Telemarketing List · · Score: 1
    Look at what dept this story is posed from....then use google to search that number

    :)

  14. Re:Why would he do that? on Sen Hatch Would Like To Destroy Filetraders' PCs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You still emphasised the wrong part.

    Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah

    Don't fool yourself and think it's only the republicans.

  15. My setup on Home-Grown TiVo Stories? · · Score: 1
    WindowsXP (don't flame me pricks)
    Radeon 8500 AIW
    Athlon XP 1700
    512 MB DDR Ram
    2 x 80gig segate baraccuda IV
    Wireless remote included with radeon
    Software: snapstream http://www.snapstream.com/
    Snapstream is network aware I guess you would say, I can watch tv from any computer in my house, or from the tv that snapstream is on. Screen shots at the link below


    http://www.snapstream.com/products/sspvs/screens ho ts/


    and on a side note I had an uptime of 90+ days with this setup before the power went out.


    Bewarned that Snapstream is very Microsoft dependant for the most part, I'm dealing with it because it works. Software was the hardest part for me to decide on.

  16. Re:When do you listen to radio? on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 1
    I have XM, and you willn't get local traffic but:

    CH 125 The Weather Channel

    6 TV news channels other than TWC that do weather and morrning show for your "jokes"

    CH 150,151,152 Comedy, stand up for famly and uncensord dick and fart jokes

  17. Re:Eldred's Question Time on Slashback: Eldred, Cruise, SOAP · · Score: 2
    This is par for the course, the judges do this to everyone. I think the election problems of two years ago was the only time they let some one record them, check it out and hear them, but the questions flow like that both ways. Read olsons turn, they do the same to him.

  18. Re:Beowulf Joke, the Next Generation! on Western Digital Announces 200 Gig Drives · · Score: 2, Informative
    Or NIC card... god that pisses me off.

  19. Re:Military intelligence? on Slashback: Armed, Cracked, Cables · · Score: 2
    "whys he an idiot just cuz he wants the army data secure"

    This simple fact is that the army doesn't have any secrets. The army has no super secret weapon, that hasn't been seen before( we do have some I'm sure, like some sort of ray gun, but it hasn't been on CNN yet so I don't expect to see it in the game). The real power in our army( note that I'm not saying navy or air force, they have lots of secret shit) is the training and support of our troops. Our boys ( and girls) WANT to be in the army and spend billions of dollars training every year, they have strong tech support and solid weapons. I don't think we are going to see anything in this game you can't read out of a Jane's book or watch in a TLC show. Basic army tactics are mostly unchanged since Vietnam just my $0.02

  20. Re:PuTTY on SSH, The Secure Shell · · Score: 2
    I use Cygwin/and rxvt/openssh at work all day and love it, but your right it's a bitch to download everything when compared with Putty's 20 sec download and configure time. But damn, putty sucks when it comes to copy and pasting commands. Just MHO
    I just add this line to my .profile in the cygwin home dir and it works very much like putty.

    rxvt -bg black -fg grey -cr white +ls -sr -sl 10000 -e /bin/bash

  21. here is where you went wrong on Disconnecting · · Score: 3, Insightful
    " A veteran of too many of these conversations to recount, I asked to speak to a supervisor immediately."

    As someone in tech support I can say that you lost the guy at that point, from this point on he did not want to help you. NEVER ask for a supervisor unless you have no other option. Plus the "supervisor" you talked to was just the guy in the next cube over.

  22. Re:Apache went gold a long time ago on Apache 2.0 Goes Gold! · · Score: 1
    It was a long way to go for the +1 funny moderation.

    no distance is too great for a "+1 funny", I'm usually out of breath and my fingers in pain by the time I get there.

  23. Re:Apache went gold a long time ago on Apache 2.0 Goes Gold! · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure if you where joking but thats not what they where saying

    a program goes gold if it has been finished and a master "gold" cd is made to make copied of, so that more copies can be made and sold. going gold is just saying that they think thier finished.

    I guess you knew that but I thought it should be said for anyone that doesn't

  24. cool on Distributed Computing Program Hidden in Kazaa · · Score: 1
    You got to love the company name

    "Brilliant Digital CEO Kevin Bermeister says compa........"

    every CEO wants to be know as a "Brilliant Digital CEO".

  25. Re:sorry, it's your problem on Are SPAM Blacklists Unreasonable? · · Score: 1
    " Sending out spam is no different from any of a number of other activities that give your business a bad name"

    But he wasn't sending out spam, his server wasn't configured correctly. It's not his problem any more, he fixed the problem.