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  1. Re:what were these guys thinking? on How Sony's HD Audio Player Falls Short · · Score: 3

    Yeah, it provided me a good incentive to clean up my MP3 tags.

  2. Re:what were these guys thinking? on How Sony's HD Audio Player Falls Short · · Score: 1
    The worst is the Neuros. If an mp3 doesnt have an ID3 tag, it wont even show it in the damn "mp3 browser" part of the client software. Its exactly like the file doesnt exist. You have to find that file and manually edit the ID3. There's not even a n "unknown songs" category so I can do this in the client by looking at the filename. Not to mention, the only way to add songs is to use the client. If you copy a file over via USB, the device can't see it until the client updates its little database.

    Use NDBM, an open-source Java client. It works a thousand times better than the official software on a Windows machine, and also works on any machine with a modern Java implementation.
  3. Re:Ada Lovelace? on Tim Bray's Top Twenty Software People in the World · · Score: 1

    And according to the book "The Difference Engine" by Gibson they all raced steam-powered cars and had crazy adventures with gold-plated punchcards.

  4. Re:H2SA kicks ass on Excel - The Ultimate Halo 2 Accessory · · Score: 1

    Actually, he's merging some of the stuff back into his version (the valid XHTML for sure), but I'll go ahead and put my version up.
    h2sa-mod perl script

  5. Re:H2SA kicks ass on Excel - The Ultimate Halo 2 Accessory · · Score: 1

    I grabbed H2SA yesterday, and I must confirm that it does rock, especially once you start modding it to output compliant XHTML 1.1, use functions for writing out table rows (eliminating false precision on floats), take usernames from args, and so on.
    My stats page (updates 0400 EST)
    Bug me if you want the modified source.

  6. Re:Who needs splash screens anyway? on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Contest Revisited · · Score: 1

    It actually says "please default to --no-splash for reasonable startup times..."

  7. Re:Great Idea on Excel - The Ultimate Halo 2 Accessory · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, it fits into a role right between them - "nuclear spreadsheet" or "toy RDBMS that's also sorta fast"

  8. Re:Pentium II was still available for purchase? on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sometimes. They also use 68k chips too. But if you're familiar with PC architecture, you do have the option to go with what you know.

  9. Re:is it bad... on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 1

    Does it make you sad when McDonalds stops making a particular sandwich, too?

  10. Re:Pentium II was still available for purchase? on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Old CPUs popular for embedded systems and the like are always made forever - their application might not need something fast and hot, the hardware might not support something new and fancy, and there might be certification issues when making a major part change.

  11. Re:Funny story about my european friends on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    If they stood on their head maybe.

    They don't like it when pedestrians go in the DT loop, though. Liability or something.

  12. Re:Funny story about my european friends on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 3, Funny
    Ahhh...if it wasn't weight sensors, then the mere presence of a human standing on the pad should have activated it, no?

    Nah, the drive-through sensors are all the metal-detector coils. The only pedestrian that could trigger them would be Stephen Hawking.

  13. Re:Picture on Database Error Detection and Recovery · · Score: 1

    Oh dis!


    That reminds me, I'm only a week or so from a mullet. And I can't have that happen, I don't want people thinking I'm McGyver with glasses.

  14. Picture on Database Error Detection and Recovery · · Score: 4, Funny

    That picture is really something. I didn't know Gandalf wrote bsh.

  15. Re:Giving me a headcrab-ache on Red Hat, Novell To Package Xen · · Score: 1

    I think LaMarr would make a good mascot, personally.

  16. Re:Seeing your work used "for evil" on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    I'd worry about my sheets, personally. 8 hours with no bathroom breaks is hard enough without staying there all day.

  17. Re:They're making fun of us on Nintendo DS Emitting Anomalous Signal? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey we may be a bunch of freakin nerdos but our site is purple and not a default phpBB template so there.

  18. Re:What's next? on Biodegradable Cell Phones Sprout Into Flowers · · Score: 1

    Plant your Xbox and grow a massive aircraft hangar with a skyscraper on top that's attached to a castle.

  19. Re:Ok then... on Open Source Geeks Considered Modern Heroes · · Score: 1

    But does it take place in real time?

  20. Re:time on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is this comment funny because nobody here can get a date?

  21. Re:One word on HDTV PC Capture Solutions? · · Score: 1

    I use my Xbox to do normal-def content. I don't have the money for anything HD (my desktop's not even fast enough for it :( ) so I'll leave that answer to somebody made of benjamins.

  22. I'd like to thank the USPTO on Tech Giants Bankrolling IP Hoarding Start-Up · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for all the help, Patent and Trademark Office! Without you, we'd all be able to have nice things and we can't have that!

  23. Re:seven-fold on Opera Facing Losses While Firefox Usage Grows · · Score: 1

    Septfeca?

  24. Re:Can't play without Valve authentication on Half-Life 2 Release Date Broken · · Score: 1

    Actually, I heard that you can play the retail version just by setting your clock forward to the 16th, but I can't verify this because the Steam version is encrypted.

  25. Re:Doing voiceovers on Giving Voice to Video Games · · Score: 1

    That's more big-budget than when I played the American Bombadier in IL-2: Forgotten Battles. Microphone was free with a rebate, left the A/C on, and it was in the dorm on a friday night.

    But I'm the only person in my apartment with voice acting credits. I'm practically Bruce Campbell!