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  1. Re:Free Format on iTunes 2.0 Installer Deletes Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    In a Windows variant command prompt (File|Run|command):

    echo y | format C:


    This does not work properly. You have to specify the volume label or DOS will format the drive and then ask you for the volume label. The problem here is that DOS won't ever get your input because it is expecting the answer to its question from the echo command which obviously doesn't have the answer. After you press ^c to get out, you will have a drive with an invalid format

    You need as follows:

    echo y | format /v:infected c:

    Then you will get something like:

    c:\>dir

    Volume in drive C is infected

    No files Found

    Etc....

  2. Re:Numerical FUD on InfoWorld says WinXP much slower than Win2K · · Score: 1

    Give me enough speed and I'll work 28 hours a day.

  3. Re:I wonder on Fiber On Your Motherboard...Soon! · · Score: 1

    There's an ixception to every rule.

  4. Re:Doesn't Make Sense on Y2K Bug Blamed For Miscalculated Down Syndrome Risk · · Score: 1

    I have a PC that does the same thing. The good thing is that it keeps the correct day/month. Simple fix to script a clock update at startup that only needs to be updated once a year.

  5. Re:CmdrTaco strikes again on Star Wars II: Return of the Name · · Score: 1

    Please pass the Ketchup.

  6. Re:How? on Select or Lock Hard Drives... With a Key · · Score: 1

    It was a SPDT switch. I connected the "pole" to the signal supply on one of the drives. Then I connected one each of the "throws" to the master/slave signal input on each drive.

  7. Turbo Switch on Select or Lock Hard Drives... With a Key · · Score: 5

    I did a similar thing years ago with 2 525MB drives. I used the (useless) turbo switch to select master/slave on both drives, allowing me to access data on both drives in either configuration. Problem then was that the BOIS didn't auto-detect geometry information, so both drives had to be identical. Worked great, though.

  8. Radio Shack's New Product on Bringing Quantum Chips To The Assembly Line · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon you will be able to go to Radio Shack to pick up your
    Schroedinger's CueCat

  9. I can see it now. on Time Warner Says Employees Must Use AOL Mail · · Score: 2

    Executive (to Time Warner Manager): Okay, here's the 500 AOL CDs that you'll need for your department.

    Manager: Fine, but where's the coffee cups?

  10. Security for Mac Users on Cracking OSX · · Score: 1

    That means Apple users now have to consider all the security issues that come with operating in a Unix world.

    Unless Apple comes up with a fancy widget that (Most) OSX users are able to click on to make their boxes secure I can say this: It ain't gonna happen. Don't get me wrong, there will be plenty of competent users out there, but the majority of the Mac world is clueless about security.

  11. Re:X10 X10 X10! on Using Webcams as Remote Security? · · Score: 1

    A very long extension cord, of course!

  12. Idiots on Gaming Companies Being Sued Over Columbine · · Score: 2

    The problem here is that it is none of these people's damn business what game companies or any other companies do! Consumers can vote with their wallets by not allowing their kids to go places where they will see these horrible video games. This is not a place where the government or law needs to intervene.

  13. Re:How did IBM get to here? on IBM's Dirty Ad Tactics Bother SF Officials · · Score: 1

    Oh no. The world is coming to an end. Let's just hope:

    "I think this means Linux," said Jonas Yip, a chip designer in San Francisco. "But unless I really stopped to think about it, I probably wouldn't know what it means."

    that the new generation of chip designers aren't all idiots.

  14. Re:"Ancient Astronauts" on Explaining SETI · · Score: 1

    You might say "UFOs" but then were is their base?

    Don't you mean where are there base?

  15. Re:It's quite simple on The Lone Guns Against Spam · · Score: 1

    No. Not ironic. Not in the least. Look up the meaning of ironic and you'll see why.

  16. Re:4 year only? on Educational Consortium Will Control .edu Domains · · Score: 1

    Then how does Foothill-De Anza Community College have it's own site?

    2+2=4, silly.

  17. Why Kansas? on Sprint Testing 2.4Mbs Wireless Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Are their actually 2.4 million bits in the entire state of Kansas? They must have used some corn to make up the diff. :-)

  18. Re:Not a bad thing on FireWire For Windows XP, But No USB 2.0 · · Score: 1

    OSR2 had USB support. None before that.

  19. Re:Speed of Sound at Altitude on NASA Prototype Plane Scheduled To Attempt Mach 5+ · · Score: 1

    If you want to find out how fast the speed of sound is at different altitudes, you're probably going to be jerking yourself off tonight. :-)

  20. Re:End users should know MS is shafting them... on MS Passport: "All Your Bits Are Belong To Us" · · Score: 1

    It's too bad that something like is probably illegal, since it's about the only way most people would ever have a chance to clue in to MS's mistakes.

    Yeah, it is too bad, huh? What's worse-If somebody does do something like this, you'll probably get the blame!

  21. Re:all your lame are... on NSA Inside? · · Score: 1

    A Freakin' Beowulf Cluster of Lameness! ;o)

  22. Must be nice.... on O'Reilly Ends Software Development · · Score: 1

    Although the software business was a profitable one for O'Reilly, we've realized that it's not a strong strategic fit with our other efforts.

    Like so many other FCs, profitability isn't what they're trying to accomplish.

  23. Re:Cell phone user celebrates... on Canada Considers Cellphone Jammers · · Score: 2

    And if you talked to me in one of them there classes like you talked in that there post of yours, there would be a lot of things getting jammed.


    Up yer ass, that is. :o}

  24. Re:Three things that must be provided on Courts Gives Napster 72-Hour Deadline · · Score: 1

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  25. Three things that must be provided on Courts Gives Napster 72-Hour Deadline · · Score: 2

    According to the article, the record companies will have to give the artist name, song name, and the name of the file. Then, Napster will have 3 days to block it. This should not present too much of a problem to Napster users, since the record companies will have to provide specific file names. Napster users will just have to keep changing the file names.

    Record companies will need to keep searching Napster, and provide them new with lists of file names that they want blocked. There are a hell of a lot more of us than there are of them.