User: joe_garage

Re:OT: Whatever happened to Quantum ?

On: Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate

"In April 2001, Maxtor Corporation acquired our hard disk drive division..."

Re:What did they spend the $40-50 million on?

On: NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How?

This is a trend -consulting fees, otherwise how did the CND gov spend 1.5billion$ on the federal gun registry to register maybe 7 million guns (that really no one wanted anyway) .....

Re:So who is really behind this search engine?

On: DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service

nah - this smacks of the Ohio State Police

Re:Holy crap!

On: China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles

this is a typical drive in toronto on the DVP or 401 -- it SEEMS like 9 days

Re:Not a very good way to date a painting...

On: Ancient Cave Art May Depict Giant Bird Extinct For 40,000 Years

I drew a dinosaur - therefore they still exist Oo O Oooo O O O OO o o oo

Re:Looks like the discrediting is well begun

On: WikiLeaks' International Man of Mystery

AYBABTU

Re:Hey, wait a minute

On: Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea

according to that graph - a cursory look at it indicates in times of major conflicts there is a temp spike upwards.... so ......... well that will never work anyway .......

Re:How about a free option?

On: How To Play HD Video On a Netbook

codec packs are really never required and often just crap up your system .. Media Player Classic Home Cinema http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/ has built in EVR renderer and plays 1080p files (at at least up to 40mps bitrate) on ION netbooks and ION 330's using the GPU instead of the CPU .. also - XBMC has two different branches out now that use GPU acceleration for perfect 1080p playback hardware like above ...

Re:Suprise surprise...

On: Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes

computers ARE magic to 99% of the population (if they own one or not) --- i fear that also goes for 'those in charge' (of us?)

Re:Could be one of the best HD DVRs out there...

On: MythTV 0.22 Released

Rogers signal quality and compression of HD channels -- don't get me started !!

Re:What about INSTEON?

On: What is the Current State of Home Automation?

as a dull mater of interest - the control4 system runs on a linux kernel