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  1. Re:Whoops on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    Aaron's neither checks your credit rating, nor reports to the agencies that determine your credit rating. At least not according to the paperwork my idiot brother has from renting nearly his entire home theater from them.

  2. Re:Not Dead on Arrival on RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, Unusable · · Score: 1

    I'm not excusing AT&T in the slightest. I'm a VZW customer and have been for over a decade.

    I'm not even a Blackberry user (Though I used to be, and I do occasionally miss the superior email handling and BBM) -- It's just that creating a device that relies on tethering, which most providers charge extra for, if they allow it at all, to do *what people will probably do most* is ridiculous.

  3. Re:Not Dead on Arrival on RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, Unusable · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's DOA because you can't use email, calendars or contacts unless you attach it to your Blackberry phone, which AT&T has already blocked via AppWorld.

    That was a boneheaded move by RIM, and unless they correct that feature then I can't see the Playbook doing very well.

  4. Re:-shrug- on The Ignominious Fall of Dell · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You apparently missed the other operator in the statement.

    (95% reliable + cheap) > (99% reliable + expensive)

  5. ubuntu joins apple... on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple did this with Snow Leopard, which makes me a cranky geek.

    Why can't the OS manufacturers pressure the hard drive companies to market their sizes correctly? =(

  6. Re:It's the best version of Windows I've used so f on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    For games that would run in WINE, I did so. World of Warcraft in particular, as I nominally prefer a *NIX based environment (this same desktop has in its history been a dedicated Ubuntu box, a Hackintosh, and a Vista/Ubuntu dual boot) -- maybe "gaming desktop" was a misnomer. It's really my sandbox machine that gets wiped every so often and is the most often used box in the house.

    Generally speaking, I like to use the right tool for the job. Work desktop? Ubuntu/XFCE. Dedicated server? Debian. HTPC? Mac Mini running Boxee. Home file server? Ubuntu Server. Laptop? Dualboot Win7/Ubuntu (for when I'm working remotely)

    I'm satisfied enough with Windows 7 that I made it my "primary use" OS, though I'm considering going back to the Hackintosh with a dual boot.

  7. It's the best version of Windows I've used so far. on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And I've used Windows from 3.0 to current, every version and every service pack level.

    It's replaced the linux partition on my gaming desktop even.

  8. Re:Why is either silly on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 1

    Why not? It's just an AAC file now, there's no sticky DRM on any of the music.

  9. Re:Need more stats on Netbook-Run Dice Robot Can Rack Up 1.3 Million Rolls a Day · · Score: 3, Funny

    THAC0 is deprecated as of the latest release. Please upgrade your packages.

  10. Re:Paging Ray Beckerman on ASCAP Starts To Act Like the RIAA · · Score: 1

    I never said not asking automatically made you a douchebag. Just most of the time.

  11. Re:Paging Ray Beckerman on ASCAP Starts To Act Like the RIAA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Parodies are not automatically fair use. Re-read the two live crew decision.

    Getting permission to make a parody just makes you not be a douchebag.

  12. Re:Paging Ray Beckerman on ASCAP Starts To Act Like the RIAA · · Score: 2, Informative

    Weird Al gets the permission of the people who he is parodying. I believe that this gets around ASCAP.

  13. Re:counter offer? on Ballmer, IBM Surprised By Oracle-Sun Deal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chances are the board owns between them a controlling share of the company, making joe blow stockholder's opinion rather valueless.

  14. Re:What's this "finally" shit? on Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 · · Score: 1

    Mostly it's hotel internet access that filters anything listed as a "common" tcp port until you pay an exorbitant fee. I could have gotten around that by putting SSH on a non-standard port and making a tunnel, but what's the fun in that.

  15. Re:What's this "finally" shit? on Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 · · Score: 1

    Or you can set up your MSA's on any random port, it doesn't really matter. My personal mail server accepts connections on SMTP, SMTPS, submission, and two other random ports just in case the above are blocked.

  16. What's this "finally" shit? on Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can set up port 25 SMTP to require authentication for relay purposes, without having to configure end user's machines for another port.

  17. Re:Congestion? on Comcast's Congestion Catch-22 · · Score: 1

    because it is easier to get right of way for the fiber, and you don't inconvenience everyone and their brother by having to rip up street or sidewalks and cause traffic jams in fairfield iowa than it is in say, atlanta georgia?

  18. Re:Taking a page from the xb360 RROD.. on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    RROD is covered under 3 additional years of warranty.

  19. Re:its not dell's fault on Recourse For Poor Customer Service? · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never dealt with APO/FPO addresses.

    Once the item is dropped off at your APO/FPO address, Dell's responsibility for the supply chain ends and the military's begins.

    APO/FPO mail is notorious for being delayed days, weeks or even months for just simple letters. Packages can vanish into smoke.

  20. Re:Are they nuts? on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 1

    $10-20/mo for cable/satellite, or $50-100 for a set of HD "rabbit ears" or a building mounted HD antenna for OTA.

  21. linux subsystems? on Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows · · Score: 1

    I can attest to the fact that Dell uses XP Embedded for Dell Media Direct, and always has. I don't know about Asus.

  22. Re:want tanks? fix blacksmithing on Blizzcon 2008 Wrap-Up · · Score: 1

    If a boss does something funny when it gets hit, just turn off autoattack and rely on RetAura, Consecrate and Holy Shield for threat. This worked wonders in phase 2 of Prince where he's a parrying beast of a boss. Granted I could use exorcism on every cooldown for extra threat, but you can do the same in Hyjal/BT for the most part.

  23. Re:want tanks? fix blacksmithing on Blizzcon 2008 Wrap-Up · · Score: 1

    Parrying as a paladin was never the problem, it was *being* parried -- where expertise came in handy to prevent it. Parrying yourself is a *good* thing, as that's more SoR/SoW procs.

    Crafted plate focused more on melee dps and holy paladins, which is, I agree, sad. However that's fixed in WotLK.

  24. Re:want tanks? fix blacksmithing on Blizzcon 2008 Wrap-Up · · Score: 1

    Uhm, purples with green "of defense" shoulders? Hopefully you didn't need that to become uncrittable, otherwise here are some good alternatives :

    http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29316 - Quest Reward from CoT

    http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27739 - Drop in Botanica

    http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30291 - Quest reward in Netherstorm

    Or just do gruul's once a week and pray for the t4 drop.

  25. Re:What Has Changed? on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some people actually want to debug something and find out *why* windows crashed.

    I have customers who insist on windows servers. When they crash, the customer wants to know *why* -- dump files are handy in this case.

    For a home user, however, I see your point.