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  1. Re:In 2008? on Smart Car Coming To the US In Jan. 2008 · · Score: 1

    I was in Weatherford, Texas recently and noticed a dealership exclusively devoted to selling Smart Cars. Their website suggests they are modified imports.

  2. Re:Digital Cable on MCE - HDHomeRun on Vista Media Center Plus CableCard Equals No TV · · Score: 1

    Here in Dallas with TWC I receive Discover HD unencrypted.

  3. Re:I have two solaris oopsies. on Big Red Button Disasters? · · Score: 1

    You mean you don't set KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable in /etc/default/kbd?

  4. Re:UltraSPARC IV is the replacement for UltraSPARC on Sun Cancels UltraSPARC IIIi+ · · Score: 1

    The V490 is 5U, not 4.

  5. Re:The Windows Registry is at fault on Best Buy 'Geek Squad' Accused of Pirating Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's probably the same genius that came up with the wretched ODM in AIX.

  6. Re:why "build" your own array? on Fibre Channel Storage? · · Score: 1

    Hrmm, I can use VxVM which has been out for 10 years and is rock solid OR I can use ZFS which Sun just released in the latest Solaris Express; it's not even shipping in a supported product!

  7. Re:why "build" your own array? on Fibre Channel Storage? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Plus you get a free Veritas license, at least on Solaris (sparc). Don't know if it works on x86.

  8. Re:Total Annihilation, Neverwinter Nights. on Games That Keep You Coming Back? · · Score: 1

    I love Total Annihilation; been playing for 8 yrs now. Too bad more people don't play it, it kinda sucks playing against the computer all the time. I can't wait for Supreme Commander.

  9. Re:Full quote... WTF? on South Park Turns to Xserve for Storage Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I'm paying about $0.60/gigabyte for HDS 9585 FC storage, how now brown cow?

  10. Re:Agreed... on Great Hacks and Pranks Of Our Time · · Score: 1

    During the last few months of my senior year at Texas A&M, a friend and I took over #aggies on Efnet. It just so happened that one of the bots we were using resided on a computer on the campus network. Various people tried to get me expelled for abusing University computer resources, fortunately I was acquitted.

    It's amazing how worked up people get over a friggin IRC channel. We received threats of physical violence and people were constantly trying to exploit splits to retake the channel. We finally lost the channel a week later when someone started a ping flood and our ISP shut us down.

    The best part of the whole deal was when we printed t-shirts stating "I 0wn3d #aggies and all I got was this stupid t-shirt" and wore it to the LUG meeting.

  11. Re:Sounds similar to my experience in Dallas... on Refugee Radio Station Blocked by Red Tape · · Score: 1

    Bitch, bitch, bitch. You make it sound like the Red Cross's top priority is to serve the wannabe volunteers rather than the people affected by Katrina. They're a charity for chrissakes, give them a break!

    As a fellow Dallasite who actually lives near Reunion, I'm doing my part by staying out of the way .

  12. Fixed link on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:More trouble on Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes? · · Score: 1

    You call that a four-digit ID?

  14. Re:Linux And The BSDs on Why FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Bah, Linux is a toy compared to Solaris. A typical "large" Linux system is what, 4-8 procs? My low-end Sun boxen are 4-8 procs...

  15. Re:There is a place in an NFS environment on Is There a Place for a $500 Ethernet Card? · · Score: 1

    We found performance to be so abhorrent with our Filers and Sun boxen, that we are making the switch to SAN. Of course, my company cheaped out on their NAS implementation so maybe that's to blame.

  16. Re:Cisco on Microsoft Dumps Cisco for WiFi · · Score: 1

    We just bought some Cisco MDS switches to replace our off-lease Brocades. Big mistake. We're having all sorts of problems with our tape SAN because the Cisco doesn't support first gen LTO drives. We have to upgrade to Gen2 or 3 LTO to "fix" the problem.

  17. Re:India likes OS software on Indian Government Keen on Open Source · · Score: 1

    I just got back from Bangalore. My driver could speak english, arabic, hindi, kannada, tamil, and 5 other Indian languages. I found it peculiar that the only language he could write in was english.

  18. Re:Not really the first store on Apple Opens First Canadian Store in Toronto · · Score: 1

    This article seems to suggest the contrary. Granted, the store doesn't have the same amount of polish as my Apple Store in Dallas.

  19. Re:Not really the first store on Apple Opens First Canadian Store in Toronto · · Score: 1

    Here in Bangalore, India there is a store in the local mall called Apple Centre.

  20. Re:*sigh* on Does launchd Beat cron? · · Score: 1

    Sun has done the same thing with a feature called SMF in Solaris 10.

  21. Re:Some old hats ... on MS to Trade Passwords for 2-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I remember doing that with those login screens that featured an IBM logo in ascii art. After getting the password, we'd bounce the machine with some COM program we'd found, =).

  22. Re:Selfish request: Usenet on What Can Yahoo Do To Compete with Google? · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, they should adopt an interface that doesn't suck. I miss Dejanews...

  23. FreeBSD on Linux Support for Wireless Laptop Internet? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm able to connect to T-Mobile's GPRS service in FreeBSD 5.3. It's about as fast as a 56k modem, but it works well when you have little choice. The FreeBSD Handbook has a nifty Bluetooth section which among other things explains how to use the Dial-Up Networking service profile.

  24. Re:T-Mobile on Linux Support for Wireless Laptop Internet? · · Score: 2

    I'm posting this over my T610 as we speak, but I've noticed that T-Mobile cracked down recently on what ports you can access. With the $5 tzones plan, I can only do HTTP/HTTPS now whereas a month ago I was able to do SSH as well.

  25. Re:What impact? on Buggy Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    How low can this go?