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  1. Re:Seemed pretty obvious this was the case on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    Yo, dawg. I heard you like password managers

  2. Re:TinytinyRSS! on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    Try this alternative mobile interface:

    https://github.com/mboinet/ttrss-mobile

  3. iSCSI boot combined with LVM snapshots on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests? · · Score: 1

    It might be overkill for the OP's situation, but here's an interesting solution:

    http://www.thogan.com/blog/windows-xp-vista-7-iscsi-boot

  4. Re:It's not the security I'm worried about.... on Web Surfing in Public Places Is A Way to Court Trouble · · Score: 1

    The Apple store on Michigan

  5. Re:R. Keller at Legoe Bay Wireless, LLC on Continuous Partial Attention · · Score: 1

    But he made the cover look just like Catcher in the Rye

  6. Re:Gaim support for SIP as well on Zoep Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    Reposted, since I accidentally posted as AC:

    You don't need an asterisk server to use iaxComm. Peer to peer works just fine. I _think_ I put instruction in the online help, but they're also on the web page, and in the QUICKSTART that comes with the source

  7. Re:I want an RFID tag on TiVo Plans RFID-Aware PVR · · Score: 1

    I think that RFID wouldn't have the range you're looking for. Most seem to have a range of less than 30 cm.
    I'd love to see something that was *cheap* and could tell I was within 20 feet.

  8. Re:Possibly dumb question 8) on Virtual Private Asterisk · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are any number of SIP softphones, but I recommend using a softphone using asterisk's native IAX protocol. Check out the iaxcomm softphone for win32, linux and OSX: iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/index.html

  9. Re:Asterisk is also a gateway on New Open Source VoIP PBX · · Score: 1

    The Sipura SPA-3000 has both FXO and FXS interfaces

  10. iaxComm is a Cross platform softphone on Cross-Platform VoIP Software? · · Score: 1

    iaxComm runs on Win32, OSX and Linux. It uses Asterisk's native IAX2 protocol. You can use it peer to peer, or with an asterisk server.

    http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/index.h tm l

  11. iaxComm on Cross-Platform, Simple Voice Chat Software? · · Score: 2, Informative
    iaxComm is a crossplatform softphone that uses the IAX protocol. It works on Win32/Linux/OSX platforms. While I wrote it to connect to an asterisk PBX, you can use it peer-to-peer.

    IAX is firewall-friendly, just open port 5060 or 4569 for UDP traffic.

    Precompiled binaries, screenshots, etc, for Win32 and Linux and Mac OS X are here

  12. Not a headset, but cheap on Wireless Headsets? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I got an AT&T model 6100 "VOIP Phone" off eBay for about $30. They usually go for under $50.

    The base station plugs into the wall for regular calls, and into your sound card's mic and spkr jacks.

    The handset has a "phone" button to use just like any other 900 MHz phone, and a "VOIP" button that connects to the sound card.

    It is headset ready, but you're gonna have to carry the handset around with you.

  13. Re:ACC on Science Fiction into Science Fact? · · Score: 1

    YM Venus Equilateral by George O Smith

  14. Re:What's the difference? on Criminal Libel, Free Speech And The Net · · Score: 1

    And slander laws exists exist to protect the mute? We need to pass some new laws to protect my grandmother who own neither a printing press, nor a computer, lest she be unable to defend her reputation to her computer using friends.

  15. Re:Not news and not competative with Webgear! on Lucent to Offer Cheap Wavelan Cards · · Score: 1
    By the way, if you go looking for these Aviator 2.4 packs on the CompUSA shelves, forget it. You have to ask at the parts desk for some crazy reason. And make sure you get the Aviator 2.4 and not the nasty old parallel-port 900MHz Aviator.
    So that's what happened! I got a pair a month ago, love them and went back last week to get another pair. The clerk found three in stock on the inventory system, but we couldn't find them anywhere on the shelf.
    While I'd love to get 11 MB/s, these are a great bang for the buck.
  16. Re:Cat Herders! on But What About the Commercials? · · Score: 1

    From "Politically Incorrect" last nite: "This was the same amazing technology they used last week in Iowa for Al Gore!"

  17. Re:How to jump on the color bandwagon and make $$$ on IBM's Colorful Notebooks · · Score: 1

    How long ago did Nokia start doing this?
    IBM's PC-110 palmtops had these color panels years ago.

  18. Re:Yet another proof US courts are a joke on Nintendo Sued Over Pokemon Gambling Addiction · · Score: 1

    Do you have a cite for this?

  19. Re:Disclaimers on No Harrier Jet for Pepsi Points · · Score: 1
    Howcome americans insist on putting disclaimers on everything?


    Not on everything. Only on the things that need them. You see, we have this naughty personal habit called honesty. It seems a senseless anachronism in today's fast-paced world, but we kinda like it.

    For sufficiently small values of "need."

    I thought that my printer was shipped with snacks until I noticed that the dessicant said "do not eat."

    If the sun screen I got for my car didn't tell my otherwise, I wouldn't remove it before driving.(And I would leave the "Emergency, call police" side visible.)

    I'm sure that someone, somewhere needs to be advised that hair curling irons are for external use only.

  20. Re:No, people are that stupid... on No Harrier Jet for Pepsi Points · · Score: 1

    While the average reasonable person isn't expected to know that a Harrier normaly sells for US$23M, the average reasonable person can be expected to know that is costs much more.

    I would have guessed US$10M. My lowball guess is still an order of magnitude higher than $700K.

    I'd suspect that when he recruited investors he advised them that the value of the jet was much higher than $700K.

    Let's assume for the sake of argument that Pepsi really was offering the Harrier. Who's gonna drink 7M bottles of Pepsi?

    Pepsi was making an absurd joke about the Harrier. Once they knew that someone was pretending to take it seriously, they amended their advertising. There no intent to make an offer on Pepsi's part. The plaintiff's raising of money for legal fees is evidence that he knew that there was no actual offer.

  21. Re:Respond on Ask Slashdot: Linux Fax Servers w/ WinTel Clients? · · Score: 1

    With all of the readers weighing in with Hylafax, I thought I'd just add that mgetty+sendfax and respond works great.

  22. Re:kind of silly on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part Two) · · Score: 1

    No, Katz is saying that a parent may decide that her children may see South Park, but they may not decide that her children may not see it. The latter decision will be trumped by Katz, and those who agree with him.

  23. Re:Take a *geek* kid to a restricted movie? on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part Two) · · Score: 1

    Because by using the work geek, and (improperly) referring to MP3s, it somehow makes it on topic for /.

  24. I need my sarcasm detector recalibrated on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part Two) · · Score: 1

    because I keep rereading this, and it looks like he is serious when he suggests that we violate copyright law, and serious when he suggests that adults expose themselves to lawsuits filed by children's parents.

    It is not a decision that parents and children should be making for themselves. It is a decision that the parents should be making. It is most definitely not a decision that Katz should be making.

    These sorts of antics are the reason why the theaters feel the need to resort to the "tyranny" that Katz describes. If a teenager tries to sneak into a movie theater, that's civil disobedience. If Katz takes my child into an R rated movie, that's actionable.

    My daughter is an intelligent, well-balanced 7 year old. I may delegate to her the decision to see more adult movies when she is older, yet younger than 17. It will be decided by my wife and I, not Katz.

  25. Re:Don't know what to say... on Feature: Ticket Booth Tyranny (Part One) · · Score: 1

    I may be jumping to a conclusion, but I think that Katz' point isn't just that it should be up to the parents.
    Is tomorrow's installment ("take a Geek Kid to a Movie Day) going to be about (1)asking a parent if they want you to take their geek kid to a movie, or (2)asking a geek minor if they want to see the movie with you?
    On an offtopic note: Pretend you are the mother of 5 kids. A lone stranger holding tickets for "Eyes Wide Shut" offers to take your boys in to see an R rated movie. "Okey-dokey!" is not the first response that comes to mind.