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  1. Re:Brilliant! on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have several and it really varies from manufacturer to manufacturer as to how bright they are when they turn on and how long it takes to turn on. Some are instant on with about 75% of thier max brightness and only take about 15 seconds to reach thier full brightness. I believe the brand was NuVo, I know I bought them at Home Depot. A real cheap set from Big Lots, take a good minute to reach thier full brightness and take a half second or so to turn on. The rest fall somewhere inbetween. The real good ones will cost you about 4x as much as a good bulb, but they last 8-10x as long and cost about 1/4-1/6 as much to run.

    There is a secnod bonus to CFL, they produce less heat. This is particularly important in Southern Climes where your cooling bill is considerably higher than your heating bill. Even those areas where it is frosty outside, electric heat is very inefficient so you are still better off.

  2. Re:RH pushing EL on Fedora Legacy Shutting Down · · Score: 0

    Bullcrap they are not sponsored by Red Hat.

    Http://fedora.redhat.com

    Says right on thier main page sponsored by Redhat and they are parked on RH's domain. RH says jump and they say,"How High?"

  3. Re:Accurate != watchable on What Movies Got Computers Right? · · Score: 1

    And Office politics, never forget office politics.

  4. Re:It has a bios, doesn't it? on HP's Windows Bundle Trouble · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What Windows only hardware? NIC? Video Card? Multimedia Card Reader? DVDRW? Sound? Modem? TV Tuner?

    Modem just require a proprietary driver or HP flexing a little muscle. TV tuners will require a bit of selection or again a bit of muscle. HP is big enough to require thier vendors to provide a Linux driver.

  5. Re:All I have to say is... on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    Are talking about Christmas taking multiple pagan traditions? Christmas tree - Germanic, Yuletide- Celtic, giving gifts- Greek/Roman and Jewish, Candles- Jewish, Midwinter's Feast- many traditions.

  6. Re:What's a "progressive Christian"? on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Basic answer, Jesus supercedes the Old Testament, so Christians follow the New Testament, and regard the Old Testament as inspirational stories, but ignore most of it. It comes down to: Follw the Golden Rule, "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you." and the corrolary Silver Rule, "Do not do onto other as you would have them not do onto you." The Golden rule takes precedence over the big Ten, but try to find a situation where that would apply. The strictures against homosexuality violate both the Big Ten- do not murder, and the Golden rule.

    Much of Leviticus made sense way back when, where eating pigs would make you sick and unbalanced diet of meat cheese would lead to heart disease (that one still makes sense), procreation between men and women was required to maintain population levels. Most of the prohibitions made sense from a secular view for the time.

  7. Re:What's a "progressive Christian"? on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    New Testament supecedes Old Testament. Many just follow the Ten Commandaments and the Gospel. Paul/Saul was a loon, Revalation at our most generous is allegorical. I won't even get into the fact that there are a couple of versions of the 10 Commandments in the Bible.

    Basically, follow the Golden and Silver rule and believe in Jesus.

  8. Re:Don't blame the iPod on iPod Alternatives for Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    Creative Muvo uses AAA, but is a builting flash player.

  9. Re:You try to do it on Wii Games Go Online, Lose Happy Clouds · · Score: 1

    That's why you should use shielded network cable. Did you really think it provided better throughput and data integrity?

  10. Re:In reverse... on Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want · · Score: 1

    UnSuggestions for The red badge of courage by Stephen Crane produces an odd list as well: Vampire books, Lisp programing, shopping, and knitting. Seems pretty wierd.

  11. Re:Thumb Drive on USB Drives — Recovery? · · Score: 1

    An Ultimate boot CD is a great tool. I have a regular Cruzer with Oo.org, 7Zip, PuTTY, and Firefox. Even though it is only plastic, it is solid. I also have an old Sony Microvault that has been through the wash a few times. Most flash drives are pretty durable.

    The most sturdy of the card readers I have seen was the sony Memorystick Microvault. It was both a flash drive and a card reader. Most card readers are pretty flimsy. besides, you still can only have at most 4 GB, so why not just get a more durable flash drive?

  12. Re:Small Aminals? on Acoustic Levitation Works On Small Animals · · Score: 1

    Depends on the spider. there are some species that are best described as frickin' huge. Or maybe just a shriek.

  13. Re:Clearly this is posted by ... on Are College Students Techno Idiots? · · Score: 1

    Google use boolean logic, but does not use the typical operators. It uses + and - to mark required and not allowed words. Google, automatically uses a NEAR search. Just about every website has been hacked and has the potential to be hacked at some point so it is not reliable, but then nothing in life ever is. Some web sites are relatively reliable.

  14. Re:competition? on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    From all accounts, the only thing inferior about Neanderthals were that they were more peaceful, and less aggressive.

  15. Re:You mean... on Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Exactly. the signature on the back of your card is not there to validate your signature in the store, it is to show that you accept the Credit card contract.

  16. Re:PSP is NOT an iPod Killer on iPod Killers For the Holidays · · Score: 1

    http://connect.com/ Who do you think is behind Atrac? I'll give you a clue, the PSP natively supports it.

  17. Re:Nothing can kill the iPod on iPod Killers For the Holidays · · Score: 1

    I have a Muvo TX 1GB. It is a fantastic little player. I already had a number of rechargeable NiMH for other devices, so it worked out perfectly. About the only downside is that often forget to turn it off during my morning commute, so if it was already drained a bit, it won't be available for the ride home. I find I get 15-18 hours from a NiMH battery so it works out pretty good.

  18. Re:Editing on Google Office To Get an API · · Score: 1

    Except, grammar checkers suck in English. Something that could check contextual spelling, would work pretty well. Especially, as most things that one would think a grammar checker should fix, would be caught by a good contextual spell check. (ie There, thier, they're)

  19. Re:SSN on Does Your Employer Still Use SSNs? · · Score: 1

    The US is big and overall sparsely populated. The US has a fairly mobile society. There is no national ID card. We have individual states the size of Norway. California, one of the most populous states, has areas that are a 100 miles from nowhere. Many things like opening accounts at the bank are done by mail or internet. All of this leads to a big mess not easily so solved as it would be in a smaller country.

  20. Re:3 valuable lessons? on The Forgotten Failure of Apple's PowerTalk · · Score: 1

    SMS and VOIP is where they are looking to make money, plus text adds in Gmail which lets one use as a chat client.

  21. Re:What if you're the network admin? on Limiting Bandwidth Hogs on Public Wireless Nets? · · Score: 1

    Setup QoS. If using something like DD-WRT, fairly easy to do it on the router itself to throttle everyone.

  22. Reboot the router on Limiting Bandwidth Hogs on Public Wireless Nets? · · Score: 1

    Go and unplug the router. Most likely, anyone using bittorrent is leaving the computer unattended so, dropping thier connection will likely keep them from reconnecting, particularly if the hotspot is using nocatauth.

    Though it it was properly setup, they would just have QoS set on the router, so no one person could be a hog.

  23. Re:The danger for users on Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think Slackware does have an apt tool, called something silly like apt-slack.

  24. Re:Problems for Namesys? on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hans is that important to Namesys and Namesys is the only group really working on ReiserFS. It is possible for some other group to pick up the project, but Hans aggravated alot of other developers, so...

  25. Re:The danger for users on Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, urpmi, apt-rpm, Yast, and several others all function basically the same as apt-get and one assumes that talking about apt-get in a generic way without mentioning Debian, they mean all similiar tools. I am not aware of any major Distro that does not have some sort of auto install dependancy tool. Gentoo is sort of an exception as it is an auto-make tool and would take a while to install, hence the joke.