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  1. well i guess its important.. on iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If we are going to keep up with every point release of apache, bsd, linux kernel, etc.. we might as well start keeping track of point release updates of quicktime and itunes as well..

  2. I can see the headline on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linux 2.6.0 kernel, Now with more SCO IP!

  3. Re: Booble on Spidering Hacks · · Score: 1

    Now, if it had the image search option that google has, it'd be great.

  4. Re:Get a new box on Rewiring Your Home Phone System? · · Score: 1

    If all you have is an old-style connection on your house, call up your telco's repair line and request that they replace it with a new network access box. The new box will have a wonderland of easy-to-wire connection options for your extension needs.

    For brownie points, call them up and tell them you need a new NID (network interface device) thats what the box is called... unless you get an old school technician who will call it a demarc.

  5. Re:First mistake on Rewiring Your Home Phone System? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if you want that jack to never work as an RJ-45 jack again. The plastic ends on an RJ-11 plug will damage the outermost pair of contacts on an RJ-45 jack by bending them so that they won't make contact on an RJ-45 plug anymore.


    They make jacks that are notched in such a way that its hard to mess up the outer pins by using a narrower plug, but the pins can still get bent if you wiggle the narrow plug around instead of plugging it straight in.

  6. Re:federal case? on Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming · · Score: 1

    To be tried in federal court, you have to break a federal law. If all he broke was a VA law, he can only be prosecuted in VA.

  7. Re:Kudos Virginia! on Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming · · Score: 1

    ...for doing something that they won't legally be able to do in just 2 weeks.

    Why won't they be able to do it in 2 weeks? the upcoming federal law? So what, states are free to make and enforce laws that exceed federal laws.

  8. Re:They say they want to discourage tourism... on Australian Pilot Stranded In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    So that's it - either you give him the gas, or the Queen will intervene.

    Hahah.. I can just imagine the Queen calling them up demanding that they sell him gas.. the Queen is like 80 years old right?

  9. its amazing.. on SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's amazing that they are only DoS'd during their employee's working hours.

  10. what's the deal with the os? on Emachines 64-bit Athlons Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    So does it ship with 32 bit winXP and then you need to pay to upgrade?

  11. Re:First look on Ten Years Of Doom Celebrated · · Score: 1

    This is how Doom looked like when it was still at alpha stage.

    Awesome, I had no idea that doom originally implemented some of cool HUD features that many modern games have.. It's a shame some of that stuff didn't make the cut.. Although, the maybe in the long run the game was better without them.

  12. Re:No matter how we try to bash it on Ten Years Of Doom Celebrated · · Score: 1

    Redefining multiplayer is understating it a bit. At least for me. I will never forget the first time I played multiplayer Doom. The whole concept of playing while linked up with someone else totally blew me away. I was young, impressionable, and I completely fell in love with mulitplayer FPS games. Thanks, Doom.

    I agree, perhaps its because I was so young, but doom made an impression on me that few FPS and few games in general can hold a candle too.

  13. Windows is easy.. on Dealing w/ Codec Hell Under Multiple OSes? · · Score: 1

    Open the video, right click on it and figure out which codecs it expects to have have, search google for the codec name and download one of those huge codec packs that includes it.

  14. ask yourself why.. on Management Tools for Computer Labs? · · Score: 1

    ask yourself why you need to monitor this information.. most likely you don't need to treat your users as criminals..

  15. Re:The STOLEN FUNCTION on SCO Ordered to Produce Evidence · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be pretty damning evidence seeing as that won't compile.

  16. Re:cast aluminum is the only way to go on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 1

    For those that want up-to-date materials, etc., cost isn't the issue, and power coating has already replaced anodizing.

    I'm not really sure that is true, anodizing and powder coating tend to have different uses. You just can't powder coat as thinly as you can anodize.

  17. Re:Earth is a proper noun.. on Dusty Disc May Mean Other Earths · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sol is the proper name of our solar system, just as Alpha Centauri is the proper name for that particular solar system.


    No, Sol is the name of our sun. The system of our sun is the Solar System.

  18. Re:The way i did it on Recovering Deleted Files on ReiserFS3? · · Score: 1

    The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).

    The keyword there is consumer-level.. don't make assumptions.

  19. Earth is a proper noun.. on Dusty Disc May Mean Other Earths · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Earth is a proper noun, no amount of dust is going to result in other earth's. Maybe earth-like or m-class or whatever you want to call them, but other earth's doesn't make sense in the same way other solar systems doesn't make sense.

  20. cool hack.. on Caching Torrent files in DNS · · Score: 1

    It's cool hack not withstanding how useless it is. I suppose if you were on a closed network that needed to propagate a lot of torrent files for some reason it would make since, but still it's a cool hack.

  21. not handy.. on Javascrypt · · Score: 1

    I'd find it hard to think of anything that was javascript based as being handy. Javascript has caused way more problems than it has solved.

    I work for a company that uses javascript to do a few things for their web based apps, and it doesn't even work correctly for the few things it needs to do between browser revisions. Supporting the customers often involves having them upgrade or downgrade their browsers.

  22. Re:Exploding kernel on OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign · · Score: 1

    Urm... That is a beaker. As in a Lab environment.

    Close, its an erlenmeyer flask.. a beaker doesn't have a tapered neck, a beaker is the same width all of the way up and has a little beak on the rim.

  23. leave the mpaa.. on MPAA Sued Over DVD Screener Ban · · Score: 1

    if the member of the mpaa don't like the fact that screeners aren't sent out, they should consider leaving the mpaa and sending screeners out independantly.

  24. oh well.. on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    They'll just abreviate it m and s and claim it stands for some other words.

  25. Re:In defence of single-spacing... on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Moreover, setting up an automatic change from .[sp][sp] to .[sp] on-the-fly isn't exactly difficult, and similar things are already done by programs like Microsoft Word to convert en- and em-dashes, ellipses, etc. You could even have an option to ignore double spaces after punctuation to ensure consistency; if memory serves, some programs already have this, though I can't remember which ones off the top of my head.


    IIRC, there is a checkbox in word for that already. Most people that use word never bother to learn what options are available though.