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  1. Re:PayPal's server... on Paypal Grinds To A Halt · · Score: 1

    Most distros have security patches backported.

  2. Re:Huh? on One Terrible Job: IT Manager · · Score: 1

    Here in Fort Myers, Florida, we have this standardized garbage bin that the trucks can pickup with a motorized arm.

  3. Re:Bogofilter on Stichting Spamvrij (spamfree.nl foundation) Closing · · Score: 1

    One still has to download the email.

    The filters in Mozilla, work pretty good, but I only have less than 5 valid emails a day out of 50. That is still a pain to have to download 50 emails to only read a couple.

  4. Re:Good to see. on Massachusetts Atty. General Forces Spammer to Pay · · Score: 1

    Is it a school provided email account?

    Determining if something is solicited is quite easy. Besides you write in the law that approval must be obtained after the law goes into effect.

  5. Re:Finally on Wardriving Worries Residents · · Score: 1

    What the giant two foot poster with instructions on how to do the easy setup including putting in a wep key is just included for decoration?

  6. Re:In other news on Wardriving Worries Residents · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone make this more complicated then it needs to be. The pass phrase is not some super secret crypto algorythim, but a simple asci to hex conversion. There is nothing random about it. If you prefer you can just enter 10 or 26 characters in the range of 0-9 a-f.

    I have set up hundreds of wifi routers and have not had a problem. Remember to enable broadcast SSID. It is trivial to find the SSID even if it is not broadcast and some OSes like WinXP will drop connections if the SSID is not broadcasted.

  7. Re:Consideration - Employee Resistance on AT&T Considers Mac OS X, Linux For 70,000 Desktops · · Score: 1

    Don't know. I have never tried IE 6. IE 5 worked, though it demonstrated how tightly integrated into the OS it was.

  8. Re:Consideration - Employee Resistance on AT&T Considers Mac OS X, Linux For 70,000 Desktops · · Score: 1

    Wine can run IE 5. If a Windows partition is not available you install 5.0 if you have a copy available. Alot of old Magazine demo discs or old AOL cds had it. So if Windows dll are available or have been installed, then they will be used instead of the Wine versions.

  9. Re:Consideration - Employee Resistance on AT&T Considers Mac OS X, Linux For 70,000 Desktops · · Score: 1

    Things like Wine can help. That and proper testing before the major roll out is needed.

  10. Re:Linux Desktop on Redmondmag on Dumping IE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nvidia is easier to setup in Linux than in Windows. New ATI cards are a pain, but old ones (9200 or less) should auto install.

    There are a lot of Databases that work well depending on need.

    Evolution, is very good for the Outlook crowd and there are several others for everyone else. I like Mozilla Mail myself.

  11. Re:ATI vs nVidia on Linux GPU Performance · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think it was either Icculus or Carmack that said the subsystems of Linux (primarily the kernel) were more efficient than Windows and all other things being equal, Linux would out perform Windows.

  12. Re:Two or Three a Week on E-bike E-xperiences? · · Score: 1

    Flimsy? You don't know what you are talking about. Helemets will protect you from most any head impact. I have never heard of a single head injury when they wore a helmet. Actually I know of one accident where he hit chin first and had a broken jaw.

    It is more of wear a helmet and you will live. My dad was it from the side by some jerk that pulled out from a side street. He had a broken leg and his helmet was cracked by his head was ok.

  13. Re:Two or Three a Week on E-bike E-xperiences? · · Score: 1

    Actually it is because that human body except the head is surprisingly tough. Impacts that might only bruise when done to the body will be fatal if done to the head. Combine with most bike design that a crash causes the cyclist to fly forward head first, and a helemet will prevent fatalities or head trauma that leaves a person a vegetable.

  14. Re:Back in my day... on E-bike E-xperiences? · · Score: 1

    It in part depends on the area of the country you are in. In Florida, with the heat and humidity year round, cycling is not an option if you don't want to stink.

  15. Re:how about a real bicycle? on E-bike E-xperiences? · · Score: 1

    Tough. Bikes have right of way over cars. Pedestrians have right of way over bikes and cars.

  16. Re: Why release a non-MP3 capable player at all? on Sony Japan to Abolish Copy Controlled CDs · · Score: 1

    Sonic Stage is basically an updated version of OpenMG, with a much better interface. It should work with the old players.

  17. Re: Why release a non-MP3 capable player at all? on Sony Japan to Abolish Copy Controlled CDs · · Score: 1

    All Sony players support MP3. Only Clies natively play MP3. Everything else currently converts MP3 to Atrac3 through Sonic Stage.

  18. Re:18-35 #1 ELECTION/VOTING REFORM: on Help Select Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    The Founding Fathers were elitist pricks. They felt that the common man could not decide on such weighty matters of state as picking the president. The Electors were meant to vote thier conscience and ignore the popular vote. If this was the case then we would not have had the mess of an election last 2000.

    I personally would recommend abolishing the Electoral college, apportion a number of votes to the states as they had with the electoral college. The electoral votes should be divied up on a per county basis. No longer would visiting a couple of cities gain an entire State's votes.

  19. Re:Yes, exactly on EWeek Details Linux to Windows Migration · · Score: 1

    About 10 minutes ago. Since MS switched to Win2k servers, there has been severe scalability problems.

  20. Re:Learn how civil disobedience works on Flash Mobs a Threat to Security? · · Score: 1

    The point is to get the people paying for the prisons to put a stop to it, besides the mob arrests would be putting a strain on the local jail, not the State Penn.

  21. Re:Why would this lure them away? on Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most use it becuase it is what is familiar and they have heard that everyone else uses MS Office.

    Most people do not have any idea how to save in a format other than the default. I have seen people insist on using MS Office because they did not want to learn how to use "save as" to save an essay for class in .doc in MS Works. I have seen idiots refuse .rtf docs because they could not figure out how to open them in Word. They would open in Wordpad if they double clicked on them.

  22. Re:Geeky mutant coolness on Amec Working on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Solution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A Phosphur coating like the inside of a CRT or Flourescent Light would do it. Only a small fraction of the radiation would be converted to light though so it would not be safe.

    If the phosphur could be combined with the soil so it was evenly distributed, it would make the whole thing a bit safer in so far as it would make it easier to to find all the shards if the glass breaks. "Hey Bob, there is some glowing dust on your butt, you better go through decon."

  23. Re:Need a different monitor on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    The very best LCDs only approach the quality of a mid rate CRT. Just as a LCD has a recommended res, so do CRTs. The difference is that the Maximum resolution is usually higher than the recommended on a CRT. As long as the res is kept to the recommended or less, a CRT will look crisp, but a lot of schmucks run thier crts higer than recommmended. Only the most recent have no noticeable lag for video. The orginal questioner seems to have something wrong with his system but on most LCDs there is a bit of motion blur. LCDs do not have the dynamic range of color and contrast and brightness of a CRT.

    There are a couple of things that LCDs do do better. As long as you get one that does a proper 4:3 or 16:9 ratio resolution, not 1280x1024, it will display perfect circles. It can be a pain to calibrate a CRT to display a perfect circle. An LCD uses less power. A digital LCD is cheaper than a digital CRT. Dual inputs on a LCD is cheaper than on a CRT. Lastly, LCDs take up a lot less room.

    Power and space are about the only things that most people are concerned with.

  24. Re:monthly/per track pricing? on Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads · · Score: 1

    By all accounts the copies are lawfully made in the country of origin so 602b does not apply.

    In reading thorugh copyright law I fail to see any distinction made between reproduction and distribution. I also fail to see anything meaningful said about digital copies.

    Your case law does not seem to be directly applicable.

  25. Re:monthly/per track pricing? on Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads · · Score: 1

    You are buying the file from some third party not located in thhe United States. That would seem to be an import. Importation of works for private purposes is expressly legal.