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  1. Re:how does it know what i'm listening to? on Audioscrobbler (Anyone Remember Firefly?) · · Score: 1

    It goes by song name, so it should work for any media you can play, I'm not sure how it tells the song name from the song name, but its worked for everything I've tried.

  2. Re:psst... on Audioscrobbler (Anyone Remember Firefly?) · · Score: 1

    hey buddy... ummm... what sort of bribe would it take to get an iTunes version?

    Read his site, they are working on it.

  3. Re:Well, what goes around... on Jobs Earns More Than A Buck A Year · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, Apple probably wouldn't be here today if Microsoft didn't keep giving them money to prop them up enough to claim they have some viable competition.

  4. Whats next? on Google buys Pyra Labs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hope they buy ebay soon. I'd love for google to own ebay, paypal, half.com and all the other parts of the ebay empire.

    Maybe some day in the not so distant future, google will be big enough to buy microsoft.

  5. Cool. on Google buys Pyra Labs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I already use livejournal, but I could see blogging at google considering 80% of the time I am going to google.com and then looking up other stuff.

    If you are going to be at google to look up other site, pictures, catalogs, etc. might as well get your daily blogging needs taken care of as well.

  6. the backquote? on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    And my PC keyboards all waste plastic on a backwards-apostrophe key and a scroll-lock (+ LED!)

    The backquote? If you've ever written a shell script, you'd realize how useful the backquote is. Besides, its not really wasting a key since its also the ~ key which is also highly useful in the unix environment as a reference to your home directory.

  7. umm no.. on Crack Windows XP With... Windows 2000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    An attacker can boot up XP and start the Windows 2000 Recovery Console which allows them to operate as any user, even Administrator, without requiring them to enter a password.

    Speaking from experience, the win2k recovery console makes you enter the admin password before it will let you do anything, unless they are using some version of the recovery console other than the one that comes with windows 2000 professional.

  8. Re:I love this on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 0

    man, you people need to drop the conspiracy theories..

    Its not fraudulent that msn doesn't render in opera. Its not even an intentional thing, seeing as the msn pages render perfect in every version of opera accept for the newest ones. Microsoft just hasn't updated their opera specific code yet.

    It's not childish or silly at all but fraudulent. There is a general understanding that your web site will make a good faith effort to be readable by every browser out there, not that it will pick out a competitor's product and break it on purpose. MSN users are being defrauded out of the superior experience they were promised. It's a small fraud on MS' usual scale but at what point do you stop cutting them slack and start enforcing the law against lying to your customers?

  9. Re:Google has done similar things lately... on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is definitely intentional on Google's part, as the offending referer spammers have no relation to the SPAM-oriented pages (and certainly are not mentioned or linked there). It's like a digital middle finger to the referer spammers.


    No, most likely what happens is that a lot of people link to the sites saying things like "this site supports spam etc. etc." and then when google starts indexing it, it relates spam to that site.

  10. Re:I love this on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not an Opera user, and I'm now aware of the problem!

    Yes, but do you care?

  11. stupid.. on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 1

    what a stupid idea..

  12. Google, where you at on this one? on Democracy in the Dark? · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that google could quite easily with most of their existing infrastructure and software break into this market and be extremely competitive.

  13. Re:No kidding on Democracy in the Dark? · · Score: 1

    so are you saying that the library should have access for this service, even though the business has not been offered enough compensation for the service?? next time you speak with your cable provider, tell them you want your service for half price. now, as nice as that would be, it simply wouldn't happen. why should you expect a company to lower their rates 'just because'?

    They libraries aren't expecting a lower rate, they want to pay the same rate that universities full of 10,000+ students pay. They problem is that the services don't want to sell to the libraries under any circumstances, not because the price isn't right.

  14. Re:memo on Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL · · Score: 1

    There has been a GPL game engine released! [sourceforge.net] Consider it your top priority to make our next release of DirectX incompatible with this new viral-licensed package.


    Luckily this viral-licensed package uses opengl instead of directx

  15. Re:Hmm on Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL · · Score: 1

    (i swear even the first cool boarders looked better than that!).

    You obviously don't remember the first cool boarders game very well then.

  16. Re:Hmm on Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL · · Score: 1

    One of those cheesy OpenGL "render the entire gameworld as polygons and let the video cards horsepower deliver the framerates because its way easier than only rendering on-screen action"


    You obviously don't know what you are talking about.. hell one look at the system requirements ought to tip you off if common sense doesn't considering this is designed to run well on 300mhz computers with 64 megs of ram and any card that is capable of displaying opengl

  17. what is sdf? on Slashback: NWLink, Vivendi, Gatherings · · Score: 1

    perhaps ive not being reading /. as often as I should, but wtf is sdf?

  18. Re:Without apps it's useless. on Review of BeOS Developer Edition 1.1 · · Score: 1

    There's no decent office suite besides Abiword, and that doesn't cut it.

    Wrong, there is Gobe Productive which is on par with staroffice if not better. Really the only thing BeOS lacks is a decent photoshop type program. There may be a version of gimp for beos (not sure), but gimp isn't really a substitute for photoshop except for people who haven't used the former.

  19. Re:What the hell is the status of BeOS? on Review of BeOS Developer Edition 1.1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    BeOS Personal Edition is the free-as-in-beer version of BeOS that you could download from Be. There are still mirrors of it and AFAIK, you can still legally put it up for download. It requires a Windows or Linux installation to work.

    Wrong, it requires that you are smart enough to burn a boot image and a disk image to a cd to be able to do a full install.


    The BeOS Developer Edition above is apparently a release of BeOS Max Edition. This is basically BeOS Personal Edition with patches applied, new drivers and various open-source contributions. It's maintained by volunteers.


    No BeOS Developer Edition has been out for a long time (basically since palm bought be and be stopped hosting the downloads for pe and making updates), Max Edition is basically the same thing (the free version of BePE plus some updates) done by another group.

  20. Re:fyi on Review of BeOS Developer Edition 1.1 · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't know much about beos if you think the free version can only sit on linux or windows. whats even worse is that someone modded you up.

  21. same heat as normal heatsink on CPU Convective Water Cooling · · Score: 1

    I built a simpler cooler, able to dissipate the same heat flux of a normal heatsink."

    So it works as well as a regular heatsink? whats the purpose then?

  22. leech.. on Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No p2p network that is primarily interested in legal filesharing is going to put min share limits on the clients. This sounds like this guy wants to be able to download illegal stuff, but in return share legal stuff to dismiss his fears of being arrested for sharing all illegal stuff.

  23. so what.. on Don't Eat The White Snow Either · · Score: 1

    The waste is converted "through a three-step purifying process of UV light filtration, ozonation and ultra-filtration", and they say it's "even cleaner than that made from nearby creek water." I think that says more about the creek than it does the waste."

    So what.. what do you think happens to your waste water in general? It doesn't disappear, it gets purified and pumped back into whatever river or lake you get your drinking water from. People in bfe just pump it into the ground where it filters through the dirt and seeps back into their wells.

  24. I wish i went to duke.. on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 1

    I'd sign up for all of these guy's classes.. Un/fortunately, we don't seem to have a rash of grade inflation at WIU, atleast not to the extremes that are depicted by the media about other schools.

  25. Had these in america for 30 years on Potato Bazookas · · Score: 1

    We've had these in America for atleast 30 years or more. I can understand that it takes a little while for our trends to make it to europe, but come on this isn't news. Next thing you know, they'll be an article about how 80's pop music is just now becoming popular in europe