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  1. Ultimate Boot CD on Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware? · · Score: 1

    http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

    This is pretty much the best free tool there is to test and diagnose a system. It also has a bunch of tools for partitioning and the like as well as password resetting.

    I've had this in my arsenal for many years now, it's a great tool.

  2. $ 0.00 a month on All-You-Can-Eat College For $99-a-Month · · Score: 1

    What does the US have against free colleges?

    Norway has free universities. Norway has had this for a long time and it works great. The universities work just like any other university except they don't provide living quarters. This though is provided by large student organizations at reasonable prices for students.

  3. Re:Not surprised, however... on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 1

    Cattle are however given growth hormones. These hormones don't just disappear from the meat when you kill the animal. This is considered one of the many reasons for the western worlds obesity problems.

  4. Re:History on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    TextMaker

  5. Re:History on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    If anyone cares. The software for Windows CE by Softmaker was called "Textmate" and "Planmaker", for word and excel (in that order).

  6. History on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One of the coolest things about german Softmaker is the software they made for the old Windows CE platforms like my old HPC ïHP Jornada 680. This included Word that could actually edit MS Word files and Excel that did something more than just display data.

  7. Ads Disabled on Unlocking Android · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Unfortunately this doesn't disable stupid book "reviews" (otherwise know as ads).

  8. Re:The Inanimate Carbon Knob! on Stuck Knob Causes Serious Window Damage To Atlantis · · Score: 1

    James Grundsfeld (previously known as James May).

  9. Re:24 songs is about 2 CDs? on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This isn't really about stealing the music, but distributing it. RIAA is saying that they lost 80 000 $ per song because of the illegal distribution.

    This is just a bit much considering that the music industry make about 50 cents per song (from iTunes), which would mean that they lost 80000/0.5 = 160 000 customers. Seeding a song of 3 mb to 160 000 people would take 185 days per song, or 12 years for the entire collection if she seeded at the usual rate of 30 KB/s.

  10. Re:apple on Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    Atleast on osx everything is standardized. Let's see....one sdk, one language, only a handful of compatible hardware.

    If they really cared they'd be done by now!

  11. Tada on Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's why there are so few "I can to everything" applications and so many "I can just do this one thing". Especially when it comes to creative work with multi-media.

  12. Torrents on Dot-Communism Is Already Here · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about torrents?

    Torrents are after all based on share to get. If you upload you get to download.

    Communism at it's best.

  13. Recession on Mr. Bezos Goes To Washington · · Score: 1

    First though it's expected to plummet by 500%.

    Yes I just made that number up.

  14. Atom on Energy Star For Servers Falls Short · · Score: 5, Informative

    Intel is releasing an Atom cpu for servers. It's not very powerful, but I reckon it has the highest power per watt of anything out there.

  15. ISS bug on Microsoft Downplays IIS Bug Threat · · Score: 1

    Nasa downplays ISS bug.

  16. Re:Slashdot Borked? on DIY Google Street View Project? · · Score: 1

    Swine influenza?

  17. My project on DIY Google Street View Project? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I used the panosaurus panorama head to take panorama pictures of Red Cross Nordic United World College.

    http://www.fluffyelephant.com/pano/village.php#menu

    http://www.fluffyelephant.com/pano/campus.php#menu

    It turned out pretty well.

  18. Re:Awesome on The Pirate Bay Seeks Interesting Route To "Pay" Fine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I live in Norway (country next to sweden). And the way banking works here is that it doesn't cost ME anything to transfer money. But companies have to pay for every little part of their banking, so they have to pay to send/receive money.

    As for the "reversed false payment". That's a law that says if someone accidentally transfers money to someone and then makes the recipient aware of the mistake, then the recipient is obliged to return the money. There was an interesting case where a woman had made a typo in the bank account field and transferred a large amount of money to a total stranger. The total stranger then used all the money on gambling. Once the mistake had been found out it was too late (seeing as how all the money was gone), so the woman took the total stranger to court and won.

    I'm not sure how applicable this is seeing how the amount of money is so small, but i guess it might still be valid.

  19. Jailbreak on Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want torrent you can always jailbreak it.

  20. Astronomer on Space Shuttle Atlantis Will Carry Basketballs Into Space · · Score: 1

    Astronomer: "If I'm not mistaken that up there looks like a flying....." just about to say before he was hit by a flying basketball.

  21. Re:It's a laptop on Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves · · Score: 1

    barebones are barebones, once you've made your choice (which usually doesn't include everything you'd like) all you can really customize is the cpu, ram and harddrive.

  22. Re:Cars on Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves · · Score: 5, Insightful

    alas...my point was that the big companies don't make any profit of a second hand laptop, so they make life difficult for end user. Whether it was stolen or not it beside the point. You can't assume something was stolen just because it was bought second hand.

  23. Cars on Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Imagine if the same was true for cars: Guy fixing your car: "Sorry mate...can't fix this....seems like you bought it from another human and not from a huge company".

  24. Re:When your code kills someone on Should Developers Be Liable For Their Code? · · Score: 0

    I'm just proposing this for specialized development where if something were to go wrong it would have potential lethal consequences. It's not really going to affect any small software development shops. And of course you'd exclude ridiculous use of software, like using windows 3.1 in a missile guidance system.

  25. Can apple afford it on Apple Eyeing EA? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is apple actually big enough to afford to buy EA?