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  1. Re:The Truth on Youths No Longer Predominant on MySpace · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much of this is people putting their age/DOB wrong. Many profiles I've seen have an age of 99.

  2. USB power is cool on Outré USB Gadgets · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wish more devices used USB power to charge, then I wouldn't have to carry as many different power adapters around.

  3. Re:Bash fork bomb on The Apple News That Got Buried · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. Re:your sig on eDonkey Pays the Recording Industry $30M · · Score: 1

    Woohoo!

    factor 16057
    16057: 16057

  5. Did you talk to tech support? on Cheap Bulk Eraser for Hard Disks? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maxtor, Western Digital, and Hitachi all replaced drives that we'd sold into sensitive environments with little fuss. Hitachi needed a signed form faxed back, Maxtor & Western Digital needed the top cover of the drive.

  6. Re:Digitizers? on IBM Announces Wii Chips In Nintendo Hands · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Wiimote doesn't work like the light guns of the past; it uses the two bars you sometimes see in the pictures, one goes beneath the screen and one goes on the side.

    See this.

  7. I've wondered about Debian on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Won't the GPLv3 be incompatible with the GPL?

  8. The Scary OS? on A New Kind of OS · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're entering the sector of an filesystem adjacent to a partition, the kind of place where there might be a bootloader or some kind of weird Linux. These are just examples. It could also be something much better. Prepare to enter... The Scary OS.

  9. Re:Tofu? on Cloned Beef Coming Soon? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think he's thinking more like Bob's invention!

    http://angryflower.com/vegeta.gif

  10. Re:Scary! on The Keyboard That Could Phone Home · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if you had 40 USB keyboards plugged into one machine, and used a different one to type each character of the password, you wouldn't have a problem, correct?

  11. Murray? on Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System · · Score: 4, Funny

    Murray? Is that you?

  12. Did they miss the obvious? on How to Win on Ebay: Snipe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you bid more than once on an item, someone must be bidding against you, so of course your chances are reduced.

    If you only bid once on an item, it could be the only bid. I wonder if they controlled for that.

  13. I could have sworn that they already did this. on Microsoft Developing iPod, iTMS Competitor · · Score: 1

    Didn't I read a while ago about how they were doing this?

  14. Re:Another nod for Truecrypt on Fast File Encryption for Windows? · · Score: 1

    If the crypto is done right, shouldn't destroying the keys and maybe some random parts of the file be enough to completely remove any hope of recovering the data?

  15. Re:There is no Xbox360 shortage on PlayStation 2 Outselling Xbox 360 in U.S. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think Microsoft manufactured a shortage, or if they did, they horribly screwed it up, as you want a slight shortage right at release, and then blanket the world during December. (Did you notice how many more units are sold in December?)

    They finally solved the supply issue, and sales peaked, and went back down.

    But I don't think this is an Xbox 360 VS PS2 issue, but more indicative of a high priced next-gen console VS low cost current gen console; the PS3 will probably have similar issues as its price is even higher. The Wii stands to compete well in this range, however.

  16. Re:game on your honor on Lawyers Ordered to Play RPS to Settle Dispute · · Score: 1

    I read it as RPG and thought it was some copyright argument between two game companies.

  17. I already don't like the Font Picker. on 20 Things You Won't Like About Vista · · Score: 1

    In Vista, open Fonts. Under File, select Install New Font.

    Congratulations, you've found a NT 3.1 dialog box!

  18. I would pick LTO on Mid-Size Business Tape Library Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    LTO is the way to go, it has a current capacity of 400 GB per tape, and is available in autoloaders of all sizes, is made by four manufacturers, and has a roadmap clear through 3.2 TB per tape.

  19. Re:You'd be insane not to allow for doing that! on UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters · · Score: 1
    Even if it needed special codes to make the weapons work the plane itself would be a pretty dandy weapon flying at Mach 3 into a nuclear aircraft carrier or Saudi oil refinery.


    Uh, our enemies will be launching missiles traveling much faster than mach 3 at our aircraft carriers; if our fleet can't handle a single rogue fighter then we've bigger problems.
  20. Re:Neat. on NetBSD's Real-Time Network Backup · · Score: 1

    Well, the largest LTO 3 drives offer 400 GB uncompressed per tape, at 80 MB/s native transfer rate, which isn't too shabby.

  21. All I need: on How Does Your Personal Data Center Measure Up? · · Score: 1

    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 2.6T 814G 1.8T 32% /


    And:

    50 inch Panasonic Plasma.
  22. Heh, I read the title of this story wrong! on Open Source Forcing Shift in Software Buying · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought it said, "Linux: Open Source Forcing Shit in Software Buying"

  23. Re:What is a GM? on Lessons GMs Can Learn from World of Warcraft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That confused me, I though he was writing this to the Game Police of WoW, but no, he's telling Game Masters how to make tabletop gaming more like WoW, and therefore more fun.

  24. Something's wrong with your system on A Good Filesystem for Storing Large Binaries? · · Score: 1

    XFS shouldn't barf like that. I've run terabytes of data though it without a single hiccup. Currently I've about a terabyte of data on my home system. Even perfect software can't handle intermittent hardware failures, just warn you about them. I'd get your system checked out.

  25. SATA is fine on SCSI vs. SATA In a File Server? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SATA is fast and cheap; just make sure you spend a little bit more to get the "nearline" storage drives and not just desktop drives. Put them behind a 3ware 9550 and you'll fly.