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  1. Think and Grow Rich on Investors Value Yahoo's Core Business At Less Than $0 · · Score: 1

    The book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. He spends a fair amount of time discussing this exact thing. Wonderful read that everyone should invest a few hours in.

  2. I had problems once with a Gateway screen... on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    I had a broken screen that caused me all kinds of grief with Gateway. I finally (kinda) got what I had coming to me, though. You can read about it at:

    omnux.com/kvandivo/laptop

  3. Projector Mount on DIY Projector Plans Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Once you've gotten your spiffy projector built, you might as well attach it properly to the ceiling. I didn't build my own projector, but I did build my own projector mount. I have pictures and more details available. I've built the mount for a couple of different types of projectors, but the design can easily work for just about any projector. Total cost ended up being 2 or 3 bucks for the hardware. I had a couple of old pieces of wood lying around, so I didn't have to buy that.

  4. wrong user thing happened to me.. on Security Fears Over Google Accelerator · · Score: 0

    I went to my netbux account

    http://netbux.org/?r=107845

    and checked my stats and it gave my name as something else. Said that "I" had earned 8 bucks, and I knew that I hadn't actually earned that much.

    So, needless to say, I quickly turned off the accelerator and won't be using it again until I know it has fixed that. The 27 seconds it had saved me wasn't worth that.

    I need to be making my own money! :)

  5. Re:If work wants to use your personal cell phone, on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I'd mod this up if I could

  6. Re:emergency backup on Cable TV Versus Satellite TV? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    duffbeer703 says:

    >Go outside and take in the sunshine. Read a book.

    >If you are so dependent on TV that you need an "emergency backup", you have problems indeed.

    Says a person who's nickname is an imaginary beer from an animated series on television.

  7. Re:Verisign To Sell Network Solutions on VeriSign CEO on Commercializing the Internet · · Score: 1
    Yes, we know you are annoyed that your article was rejected, but had you bothered to check existing stories you would have noticed:

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/16/144522 7&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=187&tid= 95

  8. Re:Another simple problem with an elegant solution on Home-brewing a 1.2TB IDE to Firewire Monster · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.htm l

  9. Re:LOL! on Cable Boxes With DVD, MP3, Networking · · Score: 1

    Somehow I doubt you built this down to the letter. There are no HDTV tuners that MythTV support at this time.

  10. Re:mirror on RIAA Nightmare: Pro-level Portable Hard Disk Recorder · · Score: 1

    :) actually, I probably could have handled it, but I didn't clear it before doing it, and I don't want to be a pain for people around here.

  11. Re:mirror on RIAA Nightmare: Pro-level Portable Hard Disk Recorder · · Score: 1

    sorry.. too much traffic.. had to take it down..

  12. mirror on RIAA Nightmare: Pro-level Portable Hard Disk Recorder · · Score: 2, Informative

    in case micsupply.com doesn't last, purely for mirroring purposes....


    http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/micsupply/722.h tm

  13. huh? on Gameboy Advance SP vs Canon Powershot G3 · · Score: 1

    Really now, who cares about the hardware? It's all about the games!

    (Alright.. we care a _little_ about the hardware... but it's all about the games!)

  14. Re:Error every time on Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future · · Score: 1

    Some more details (showed up on the new Oregon post)..

    The browser doesn't actually hang indefinitely.. It just hangs for about five minutes and the status line at the bottom (mozilla) reads 'transferring images from images.slashdot.org.

    Anyway, thanks for the reply and it hasn't been an issue yet, since my "secret" posts have all been small enough that I haven't needed to 'read more' to get the whole story....

  15. Error every time on Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So,

    I just got sucked on and subscribed.

    For the last two 'red' posts, (Austin and China's CPU) every time I click on 'Read More' I got a hung browser with a title of 'Error'. Is this supposed to be working?

  16. Favorite quote from article on Professional Apache Tomcat · · Score: 1

    My favorite quote in the review:

    "This should be teaching granny to suck eggs for a book aimed at administrators, but it's only a few pages and completes the subject."

  17. Re:Parallel computing on 10-TFlop Computer Built from Standard PC Parts · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you need to be using NAMD to do your MD simulations..

    http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/

  18. Re:You can Make Websites Any Font You want.. on Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds · · Score: 1

    > There are several implementations in HTML that allow you to upload any font to a clients browser, so that you can display the page, as you intended it, instead of having the client browser pick a font at random for them. It's easy enough to do, just requires one line of code, and the font uploaded to the server.

    This is in a platform, browser independent way? Prove it. I want to see it.

  19. BBQ in Chicago on Inside the Cult of TiVo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Guiding this sorta back onto topic...

    TiVo-ites from the forums in the Chicago area (and beyond) are also planning to have TiVo BBQ this August.

    Don't know yet how many TiVo employees are going to show up but if you read the forums and are in mid-america you should show up. :)

    Information on the get together is at:


    http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread. ph p?s=&threadid=62906

  20. Re:GREAT! on DVD Format Changing Movie-making · · Score: 1

    You must not remember this post from back in November..

    Changing the rating on movies

    It takes care of exactly what you are wanting..

  21. Re:How much does it affect Battery life? on GBA Internal Light Ready? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're missing something.

    One of the FAQ items was: How does this affect battery life?

    and the answer was 30-40%. They have been seeing around 10 hours of life using the light all the time.

  22. Re:Could be an opening for Microsoft... on Adobe Considers Withdrawing from Asian Markets · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is all a big conspiracy BY Microsoft. Maybe they figure they can sacrifice their own product sales in that part of the world so that they can eliminate other companies. at the same time. Go MS Go!

  23. OpenOffice on Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is Sun moving to put more resources into the
    OpenOffice initiative?

  24. OOP can help parallel also... on Can OO Programming Solve Engineering Problems? · · Score: 1

    It just depends on how you look at it. There can be significant advantages in going OO. One is that it can simplify parallelization of the code if written correctly. Take a look at the molecular dynamics program NAMD and you will see what I mean.

  25. rtcw on Good Games For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Gotta be Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

    What's with it costing 60 bucks, though? Sheesh.