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  1. MTU Maybe? on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    If you have the mtu wrong, you will get about 1/2 the rated speed of the connection...this sounds like what his problem was.

  2. Re:The problem of nerve impulse conduction on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    Yea, that was just another scientist talking out his ass. They are constantly trying to find problems with the way things are...personally I think our designed works pretty well. He is exactly the reason genetics and stem cell research need to be closely monitored.

  3. Forking and Replacement Code on Oracle Boss Says OSS Needs Big Business · · Score: 1

    I see a lot of changes in the licenses of these projects to help them adjust to the new found home. I see a lot of the code being taken at the pre-oracle assimilation point and splitting off into new code under the old licenses when possible, and total replacements being coded when it is not. Or maybe I am just paranoid, I certainly cannot read the future, but I don't believe it was all done just to help support open source. I am hoping they bought them just so they would not have to adhere to the licenses themselves, ie where they could use the technology freely in their own code. Only time will tell.

  4. Thats funny its still there on ATI Claims HDCP Then Covers Its Tracks · · Score: 2, Informative

    This makes the article look suspect, maybe it does have support after all and the web site monkeys just pulled it down until they knew for sure, the web page they use an an example http://www.ati.com/products/RadeonX1900/specs.html still has HDCP ready on it...not just the google cache as they claim # Flexible display support * Dual integrated dual-link DVI transmitters o DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready

  5. Walmart and Google on Google PC to Hit Walmart? · · Score: 1

    I bet walmart will sell a gaggle of googles.

  6. Re:I knew it. on Narwhal Tusks are Sensory Organs · · Score: 1

    I think a copper mesh hat is the way to go, with a wire leading down your back to ground plates on your shoes, ie a partial faraday cage of sorts. Of course in the case of lightning, you might become a premium discharge point.

  7. Re:In unrelated news... on The Lego Brick Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think you are taking about the orginal storage tower?

    http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures /display/0-4-Google.htm

  8. Re:One word... on New VAIOs Made of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    The av feature is nothing new of course, my several year old laptop has that feature (minus the movie part, it dont have a dvd player though), the only thing new is the carbon fiber body

  9. Re:The simple question EVERYONE is asking on Datels 4GB Hard Drive for PSP Reviewed · · Score: 1

    You are correct that sony invented the memory stick I believe. But I am going to have to question your intel examples.

    I think you mean intel invented RDRAM, not DDR. They fought against DDR for quite a long time. Also ieee1394 was primarily invented by apple as firewire, not by intel.

    Intel examples are PCI, RDRAM.

  10. Re:On a serious note on Company to Settle and Mine Mars · · Score: 1

    Um this is a company of the USA, and in case you haven't you heard or live under a rock, the USA only humors the UN and its opinion only counts when it does not rub against the USA own policies. I am from the USA, and have no problem with this company selling stuff that belongs to no man or every man however you look at it, possession is 99.9% of the law you know.

    On a more serious note, they can shore this up as payment for delivering the goods from mars, ie delivery charges on the goods, not the price of the goods themselves if actually ever becomes a problem.

  11. Re:PHP5! on Perl 6 Now by Scott Walters · · Score: 1

    I am not sure this troll even knows what perl is. I suspect he thinks its just for web pages in cgi and the like, which is as far from the truth as it gets.

  12. And with it I can hack the gibson in 3 seconds ... on Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh nevermind

  13. Well yes and no on Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated? · · Score: 1

    I have firefox set to delete cookies on exit, so I guess a little fox is doing it for me

  14. Re:Ummm on More Mac OS X on Plain Old x86 Boxes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I would think they would port bsd drivers to OSX, since OSX is just bsd with pretty stuff on it

  15. Re:SourceForge must be hating this article... on U.S. Government Crafted OSS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sourceforge aint crying, but their mirrors might be...

    > The "o" and "r" directories have 23K files
    > each in them. Bizarre.

    Not really odd at all, a quick look told me that the o directory contains the object files derived from compiling the source files in the r directory (.m aka mumps or M database files) ...

    Mumps is what vista is based on which is a database system that is available for free or commercially see http://www.mcenter.com/ for links to the free (go to link for m development committee) and commercial versions of MUMPS aka M compiled database. GT M is the free linux mumps compiler that comes with openvista.

  16. Wings? on Carter Copter Breaks Mu-1 Barrier · · Score: 1

    I suspect the wings on that "helicopter" provided the lift during "mu-1" flight instead of the rotors.

  17. Um on Aquarium Full of Oil For PC Cooling · · Score: 1

    I ran it through babelfish, and it says its vegetable oil, not mineral oil:

    http://www.markusleonhardt.de.nyud.net:8090/oelrec hner.htm

    -----snip----
    yes! it's really A computer completely into vegetable oil!
    ----snip----

    .

  18. Version 4 on windows still best on Adobe Reader 7.0 Coming to Linux · · Score: 1

    I still run version 4, it opens everything I attempt to read fine (though it says its too old to open some documents) and loads oh so much faster then the latest bloatware from adobe.

  19. Most likely on BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? · · Score: 1

    They are most likely doing this to save their bandwidth, many p2p sessions will kill even a fairly robust network. You should talk with them and find out if the real problem is their bandwidth being killed by p2p and them, they may be using the legal problems as an excuse. If so you can promise to limit you peak usage bandwidth/and or the time to late at night. Also you can suggest to them a hardware solution such as those by Sandvine (http://www.sandvine.com) so they can trim down the bandwidth used by p2p instead of killing it off totally. If you show your concern instead of being an ass, and show your willingness to help their situation, you will be surprised what kinda of exceptions the IT department might make for your usage as long as you let them know you are concerned about your usage and how it effects the network.

  20. Re:Shielding? on 1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    I suspect the metal shielding is there because of this more than for protection

  21. Re:Nonsense on Vonage's CEO Says VoIP Blocking Is 'Censorship' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I know this is gonna hurt some folks sense of what the internet is, but...VOIP is not a customary internet service, in fact its quite new almost an infant technology. Customary services are FTP, SMTP, and Gopher (pre www browsing) and these traditionally make up the internet. All the new services have been allowed for various reasons (ie HTTP to make it prettier, DNS to make remembering addresses easier, then much later HTTPS for security, etc), but those are the main things people customarily got on the internet for in the beginnings. So if a company offers FTP, SMTP, Gopher and throws in the use of DNS/HTTP/HTTPS traffic, they are allowing what the internet is expected to provide at a bare mininum, everything else you can do is gravy.

  22. Re:This is really extrange on When Should You Quit Your Job? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I find the same to be true. Most younger programmers are brought up on web scripting and visual basic being taught in schools now, and they take years to develop real programming skills on real world development platforms. Old programmers not only are good at their current platforms and languages but quickly and readily learn new ones mostly due to the number of languages and platforms they have already mastered. Older programmers generally have better project throughput and are less apt to get the itch to move when they are treated well by a company. Due to this older experienced programmers are very sought after in the software industry, especially when follow through on the project is really needed.

  23. Not the first program records for sure on Software Distribution By Vinyl · · Score: 1

    I don't think they can call themselves first...

    I used to get those paper/plastic (perhaps thin vinyl???, if so they can't even claim first vinyl program record) records in an atari mag. They contained programs you could dub off to tape and then use the tape to program your atari.

    How is this different?

  24. Waiting anxiously on SCO Possibly Delisted from NASDAQ · · Score: 1

    I am waiting for it to become $0.02 stock where I can buy up 51% of the stock and make them publicly appologize for lying before I liquidate them :P.

  25. Download flash on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer · · Score: 1

    from http://macromedia.com, and install for firefox, it worked for me