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  1. Re:My time costs more than the apple tax. on HardOCP Spends 30 Days With MacOSX · · Score: 1

    Maybe his time is free, but mine isn't.

    What do we owe you for this post, then?

  2. Re:Keyboard Error: on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 1

    If it's a Compaq, there is a program called NOF1 that will flip some bits in the CMOS so your computer will start up even w/o a keyboard, at least until your CMOS battery dies. It's from the 386 days but I have used it on machines as new as PIIIs (don't have any newer Compaqs to try it on.)

    As usual you will need an icky DOS boot disk or something like it.

    ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp0501-1000/SP066 7.ZIP

  3. You still have time... on Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban · · Score: 1

    to build a cell phone-jammer-jammer! Get to work!

    Be forewarned though, they may have thought of this and could have cell phone-jammer-jammer-jammers available.

  4. arrrrr? on New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet · · Score: 5, Funny

    It be declared a planet.

    Given the relative scarcity of larger bodies of water there, I did not realize that New Mexico had any pirates at all, let alone some in the legislature. Good work!

    Also, pi = 4. Or maybe 3.2. The government has spoken, let it be written!

  5. recursive business on The Economist Magazine Looks Outside For Insight · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should start a business consulting for other groups who want to go into business but can't quite figure out what business they want to be in...

  6. Re:on a related note on Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did that IP resemble 169.254.x.x by any chance?

    No, it was a valid, unused rfc1918 address in the correct subnet. MAC address was the one on the card in the computer in question.

    My home shorewall box correctly drops 169.254.x.x made-up addresses, and my ISP does not forward traffic from IPs not assigned to it. I know, I configure the routers.

    But really there's no point trying to find technical explanations when the obvious one is at hand - you can't read a sniffer trace for shit.

    Having the ability to install Ethereal does not magically confer on you the ability to interpret the results correctly.


    tcpdump, actually. I know what I saw, and I get to practice my sniffing skills on several hundred DSL & T1 subscribers daily. :)

    And I agree with the ne2000 thing, I think it was a card that worked with the ne2k-pci driver on linux (an old linksys maybe?)

    anyway, creepy and very real.

  7. on a related note on Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is kinda old, but some years ago my neighbor got a new Win ME (!!!) machine, and I helped him put in a NIC and put it on our little neighborhood network. I was curious if it was going to phone home, so I had a sniffer running on my router...

    The damn thing picked/guessed a valid (NATted) IP address, netmask, and gateway without using DHCP (arp tricks?), and sent a load of mystery packets to an address in a Microsoft IP block. Only then did the computer do the "new device detected" routine, but could not find a driver for the NIC and I had to go fetch one on another machine.

    W T F ?

    Unfortunately I have since lost the pcap dump.

    Moderation: -1, no proof

  8. there are free utils to patch this on Microsoft Charging Businesses $4K for DST Fix · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a free patcher here that I've used on a few 2k machines and one NT4 machine and nothing has blown up thus far.

    First link under "freeware downloads".

  9. simple on The Future of Packaging Software in Linux · · Score: 1

    I prefer a discreet brown paper bag...

  10. that paragraph on Supercruncher Applications · · Score: 2, Funny
    Did anyone else picture this story's text blurb being read by fast-talker John Moshitta, or is it just me?


    bah weep grana weep minibom

  11. Re:Goodnight sweet prince on The Death of Clippy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard he was found almost completely straightened out, stuck in the emergency eject hole of an old 4x CD-ROM drive... he'd also been receiving emails threatening that someone was going to "f***ing kill" him, yet they're calling it a suicide!

    He will be interred next to his cousin Bob in the solid-gold family crypt.

  12. apple on The Economist, DVD Jon On Apple's DRM Stand · · Score: 3, Funny

    >It should not take Apple's iTunes team more than 2-3 days to implement a solution for not wrapping content with FairPlay...

    Yes, but that doesn't include the six months needed to design the new icons...

  13. how do I get one? on Bionic Cat Eye Implants Aid Blindness Research · · Score: 1

    mememe!!! I want a bionic cat eye implant, where do I sign up?

  14. Re:LASER weapon? on China Tests Anti-Satellite Laser Weapon · · Score: 1

    The "vehicle" in question was a shark with... oh, you know...

  15. $ not £! on Harrison Ford Turned Down Han Solo Role · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Harrison Ford is American, right? So I assume that he spends most of his time in the USA... So what the hell is he going to do with £20 million British pounds in America? Maybe he's do it if he were to be offered some spendable American dollars... duh!!!

  16. Re:Not sure what consoles you are referring to. on Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Try disabling FF's "find as you type" autostart by putting this in your prefs.js:

    user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart", false);

    If that doesn't work, try disabling f.a.y.t. completely:

    user_pref ("accessibility.typeaheadfind", false); :)

  17. Re:I think they left out the biggest one on Top Ten Apple Rumors of All Time · · Score: 1

    You're expecting it in about 10 years, then?

  18. !!! meow on Near-Complete Cure For Diabetes In Two Years? · · Score: 1

    A cure for diabetic mice? My cat's diabetic, you insensitive clods!

  19. a likely story on Seeing the Earth Almost Live · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "Also, only region receiving light can be seen, which explains why no recent pictures of Thailand are available"

    Riiiiight... Has anyone ever seen Thailand and Envisat together? Didn't think so! One minute Thailand is right next to you, then you turn around and there's Envisat, but where did Thailand go???

    I think any decent person can see what I'm getting at here.

  20. or does the water get him instead? on MySpace CoFounder Says Purchase Was A Scam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Therefore, we can conclude that the fair value of Myspace was 100x or more what News Corp. paid!

    Or can we conclude that they paid 100 times too much for IGN?

  21. search referrer bux on Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian · · Score: 1

    Do the distros change the referrer info that is sent along with Google (and other) searches performed from the browser search bar? Some speculate that Mozilla Co. makes some pretty good cash this way--are there any distros that change this and get a piece of the action?

  22. Re:passport? on Helping Surfers Sidestep Site Registration · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know it's weird, but...

    I love the way you say "passport".

    C'mon, won't you say it again?

    mmmmmm.... passport... it's just such a beautiful word...

    passport...

    passport!

  23. see also... on Sharp Develops Triple Directional Viewing LCD · · Score: 1
  24. yeah, right... on NASA Administrator Mike Griffin to visit China · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's not really China, it's actually a movie set in the middle of the desert...

  25. Re:your file server structure? on 3 Terabytes, 80 Watts · · Score: 2, Informative

    backuppc rocks!