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  1. Fax Revenge on Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you ever want to get revenge on a spammer and they have a 1-800 number just get yourself the following

    A piece of blackpaper
    Sellotape

    Place the blackpaper into the fax machine and sellotape to make a tube.

    Enter the number and hit send

    All the other end will receieve it page after page of black printout. It might be an urban legend but apparently there was one type of fax machine that would overheat and catch fire if this was done to it

    Rus

  2. Mini-DV on Cross-Platform Video Capture Cards And TV Tuners? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the actual DV you might want to look at Kino as its a stable editor for raw DV footage

    Rus

  3. Target marget on Make More Mistakes · · Score: 1

    One of the things to remeber is that the people you are aiming for might not be techincal. Just because product X can do "this nice geeky thing" most people won't care. They want something that works quick and well.

    Also any websites should be about the person, what the product can do for them. Not about the company.

    Rus

  4. WLAN on Japanese Firms Create Home (Appliance) Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great instead of war driving there will be war cooking

    Rus

  5. Re:Bad link. on Stop Christmas-Gift PCs From Feeding Worms · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.homepc.org/ looks like a dynamic DNS service. I bet all the requests caused the user to get dumped.

    Rus

  6. SCO's impact on New Survey Finds No Linux 'Chill' From SCO Suit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well from a few friends who use to work at SCO in the Dublin call center is that quite a few people have walked out over the Linux/SCO fiasco. So it looks like its hurting sco as well

    Rus

  7. The sad thing is... on SCO Gets More Desperate; Sends More Letters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    there stock price is going up, they will most likely make a profit and all for lying.

    Rus

  8. ROTK on Visual Effects Oscar Shortlist · · Score: 0

    For me it has to be ROTK. In all the other films there were a lot of stages where the effects looked wrong. In ROTK the only scene I thought that was where Frodo was running into the enterance of mount doom. Beyond that you couldn't tell (within the reasons of physics)

    Rgds

    Rus

  9. Re:Sure, offer me $200... on Mitnick Calls for Hacker Stories · · Score: 1

    Give the location of the currently rooted box and the access method?

    rus

  10. I've got a story on Mitnick Calls for Hacker Stories · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well d00d I got this l33t tool called t3ln3t. I connected to other people computers and got things like "SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.7.1p2". The 0th3r kidi33s were like. "D00D!!". I was like w0ah. I am so l33t

    Rus

  11. Hot Air on Scientists Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does that number take into the account the amount of hot air the delegate might spew out

    Rus

  12. Cutting Edge on Cheap, Rugged, Multiplayer Gamepads for Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not trying to be flamebate but is there any reason someone has taken time to write new drivers for hardware that is 6 years old. I can understand legacy code, which is why linux will still boot on a 386 however this just seems a bit off. Is this bit of hardware really that good?

    Rus

  13. Re:gaming on linux: on Cheap, Rugged, Multiplayer Gamepads for Linux · · Score: 1

    Well there are also the Genesis Emulators, SNES Emulators and um more emulators. Of course not sure if there have been any major game releases apart from things like Quake3. Ever since Loki went under its been a bit quiet

    Rus

  14. For people round a monitor? on Cheap, Rugged, Multiplayer Gamepads for Linux · · Score: 1

    Its going to get a bit friendly unless you've got a big monitor on a low res allowing everyone to see. Of course 4 person TuxRacer would be fun but I don;t think its supported

    Rus

  15. Quality on Cable Box Piracy Ring Busted · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But was there anything worth watching on cable in the first place?

    Rus

  16. Re:Will the result be the same? on RealNetworks Sues Microsoft Over Antitrust Issues · · Score: 1

    Netscape was revived with opensourcing. Prehaps Reak will extend their program and allow there formats to become more open and maybe get deeper market penatration

    Rus

  17. Baggage on RealNetworks Sues Microsoft Over Antitrust Issues · · Score: 1

    After having the hell of actually installing Real and finding it dug itself deep and made the system about 20% slower I just went pack to WinAmp 2. Smaller, lighter and it works

    Rgds

    Rus

  18. Sunglasses on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    Well I guess this means the prices of sunglasses will go up so invest in raybans now

    Rus

  19. Aww... on Blinkenlights Reloaded - The Matrix Returns · · Score: 2, Funny

    they love us. We *heart* you to :)

    Rus

  20. CD Images on Company Claims Patent on CD Writing · · Score: 1

    Well looking over the patent it doesn't seem to cover ISO images so if worst comes to worst all you have to do is get an ISO image and then distribute that via FTP or similar. On the client side just have a cd emulator that opens it and read it

    Rus

  21. Great on Donkey Konga - Nintendo's Drumming Oddity Analyzed · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now I've got an excuse to dance like my dad does.

    Rus

  22. Unlimited on Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits? · · Score: 1

    I've only come across one truly unlimited ISP and that is Demon in the UK. Using their Premier Plus for a signtificant monthly fee you do get 24x7x365 access on ISDN only.

    Its not cheap but you do get your moneys worth for those who can't get broadband

    Rus

  23. Re:Nice to know... on Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hes an engineer so he will, like most of us spend 20 hours writing something when he could do it in 10 with someone else code or in 5 if doing it manually

    Rus

  24. and like every Linux geek.. on Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to say "Where the ogg version?" :)

    Rus

  25. Commerical on FEMA Opposes Broadband Over Powerlines · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well there are commerical ventures in the UK which are selling broadband over powerlines

    news report

    Rus