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  1. Re:When will someone address laptop DC jack weakne on SMK Toughens Up Those Tiny Micro-USB Connections · · Score: 1

    If it didn't cycle, the battery would last even less time. If you leave MBs plugged in all the time, the battery dies quite quickly.

  2. Re:Android respects freedom 0 for apps on RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' · · Score: 1

    Do you understand how these applications are installed so that you can't uninstall them? They are installed in the root filesystem which is read only. The root file system is read only for security reasons, if you root, you can remount the root filesystem and delete the apps, but generally, it is a bad idea to run the root file system as RW.

  3. Re:Android respects freedom 0 for apps on RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' · · Score: 1

    Please direct me to a source of unbranded Verizon compatible phones. I would love to hear your input on that.

  4. Re:My Picks on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    Or fired....
    Or forgets his password...

  5. Re:Asus rt-n16 on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Ahh, I see my error. Operating frequency shows as 2.4~2.5 and I miss read the second number as that is not the usual way it is listed. My bad.

  6. Re:Kinda interesting though on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    I did not suggest throwing anything away. However ADSL (as far as I know) has no need for speeds over 100 Mbit, so it is unlikely you will find a router with those features as it doesn't make sense. You can keep searching for a router that has that, but I doubt you will find it. So, the easy solution is to buy a real switch and use that for the switching of high speed traffic.

  7. Re:Asus rt-n16 on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    RT-N16 lists that it does both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, is this simultaneous or choose? This is so hard to figure out from the spec sheets...

  8. Re:Apple Airport Extreme and Cisco E4200 on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Can you explain to me what the difference between these routers is?

    Linksys E2000-RM (not dual band simultaneous??) 33.99 (refurb) on Newegg
    Linksys E3000 (not gigabit WAN maybe?) $129.99 on Newegg
    Linksys E4200 (seems to do everything...) $159.99 on Newegg

    It seems to me from the vague specs, that they are all identical, but the specs so rarely list what it can't do, except to not say the item, so the above is my assumed difference.

    If the E2000-RM can do real dual band, than it works for all purposes I currently have as I will be disabling the WAN to use my FiOS router.

  9. Re:Apple Airport Extreme and Cisco E4200 on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Wow, that FritzBox is expensive, though I am sure it is worth the money for those high speed connections we dream about in the US.

  10. Re:Anecdotal Evidence on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Or gas...talk about sticker shock...and that price is for half a Gallon (approx...)

  11. Re:Anecdotal Evidence on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, where can I get that 800Gbps connection...god damn that's fast...

  12. Re:Kinda interesting though on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should be looking for a Gigabit switch, hooked to the DSL router. There is no reason for any DSL router to handle more than 100Mbps, you can just hook it to one port of a Gig switch, and the internet traffic will run over that just fine.

  13. Re:first poster has no problems with dlink on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Frankly, from my experience, of all the consumer brands, Linksys is the best. Netgear, even their commercial equipment is junk, D-link, I have never had something from them that didn't fry within a year.

  14. Re:first poster has no problems with dlink on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this line from the TFS might help enlighten you:

    with a very fast Internet connection (100M with the possibility of 200M in the future)

    I doubt you can push enough data through G to make having a connection like that worth it.

  15. Re:first poster has no problems with dlink on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    So than, you are saying that this router isn't extreme, isn't N, or has very little memory?

    http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=663

    I can't see its memory, but everything else looks right.

  16. Re:Light pollution on Stunning Time Lapse of the Earth From the ISS · · Score: 1

    The government was able to take a pretty good picture of you from those sats. They ask that in the future, you wear a hat.

  17. Re:Awesome Lightning on Stunning Time Lapse of the Earth From the ISS · · Score: 1

    More like 45 minutes worth of video. The ISS orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, and this is about a half orbit.

  18. Re:Unused cables on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    The kids will learn, and then want to buy the organizer when they are older :)

  19. Re:Replaced the noisy tower with an iMac on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    That sounds like someone who needs to open up the iMac case and reseat the Mic connection...

  20. Re:i must be missing something on Maine School District Gives iPad To Every Kindergartner · · Score: 1

    My kids, who are now 9 and 11, came out of Kindergarten reading some, writing some, and doing addition and subtraction. Things have changed quite a bit from when we were kids.

  21. Re:Which is also part of the reason they are out n on NRO Declassifies KH-9 Satellite · · Score: 1

    Except aliens... :)

  22. Re:Resolution on NRO Declassifies KH-9 Satellite · · Score: 1

    There isn't quite that much difference as to be considered a fraction. Washington DC is more than just Washington DC (600k) it includes Arlington and a few other burbs (MSA 5.5M) whereas Washington state (6.6M) is just huge, the pop isn't terribly larger, and actually when you compare sizes it is practically empty.

    Sources:

    https://encrypted.google.com/search?rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=population+of+washington+state (nice graph at top of search)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Metropolitan_Area
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

  23. Re:A complete bullshit on CRTC Tells Rogers To Stop Throttling Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    I figured it was a nicer way of saying it than "pics or GTFO" but I guess it didn't work :)

  24. Re:A complete bullshit on CRTC Tells Rogers To Stop Throttling Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    You look like a man? hmm, I will have to reassess my image of you in my head :)

  25. Re:MP1 on Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa · · Score: 1

    The could afford numbers back then? Back in my day....

    I was making an assumption that the first version of something does not have a version number, but did not feel like looking up the actual name as it wasn't that important. Thank you for informing me :)