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  1. Re:Is this really good though on TiVo to support HDTV by "Year-End" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah...and... The TiVo that they have now, doesn't have an HD tuner, or any way to connect it to an external tuner. So you'd be limited to the analog out of an external tuner, which isn't HD, and doesn't require more bandwidth and storage.

    So, yes, of course you'll have to buy an HD enabled TiVo if you want to record HDTV.

  2. Re:agent identification for Safari on All-New PowerBooks, Web Browser Featured at Macworld · · Score: 3

    Well if they are using Gecko they must have stripped out a lot of the CSS code. I've tried Safari on some of my sites, and it doesn't come close to rendering them as well as Mozilla and brethern.

  3. Re:"or more often during heavy traffic" on Cryptome Log Subpoenaed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the log files were deleted all along that is okay, but if they deleted the logs after the subpoena they were destroying evidence. I know some of the machines I maintain generate 2GB of logs in a week. So I don't doubt that a higher traffic site like that would be rotating their logs out often.

    Logs are useful. I'd also think like with a site like that, they may get some DoS attempts and the like, so it is useful to see where things are coming from.

  4. Re:Yes. on Linux Kernel Code Humor · · Score: 2

    You can disable this check by passing --without-sense-of-humor to ./configure.

  5. Re:Preemptive methods on The Spam Problem: Moving Beyond RBLs · · Score: 3

    I have several domains, which I host myself. When ever a company asks for my e-mail address, it is always "company"@mydomain, if it is being passed through a 3rd party billing company, it is "billing"-"company"@mydomain.

    This works well, if someone sells my address, I just kill that alias.

    But what happens is some idiot I know in real life will do exactly what you said above. Or just add me to their address book, and get infected with some virus which starts sending stuff out with my address. Or what ever, my address slips out.

    So I go and kick them in the head, tell them how stupid they are.

    I also run SpamAssassin, which does catch a lot of the stuff, so for the most part my inbox is pretty bareable.

  6. Re:Wow that is good... on The Joystick Is The Root of All Evil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I played video games all through out school. My reports cards were almost all "C"s, even in Math. While I love math, physics, chemistry, etc., I hate homework. So I would do the minimum that if I got "A"s on all my tests I could squeak by with a "C".

    I loved how teachers would say to me. "You are so smart, look how well you do on your tests, if you just turned in some homework you could have straight \"A\"s."

  7. Re: An enormous grain of salt on Re-examining the Port Chicago Disaster · · Score: 2

    I observed a mushroom cloudish shape in my back yard when I set off 10 lbs. of solid rocket fuel. (I also later observed that my hair and eyebrows were covered in a white ash and melted together.)

    I think the fuel was so hot and made so much smoke (it had a smoke tracer in it) that the initial updraft pulled the smoke with it. As it cooled the cloud took a more traditional cloud shape.

  8. Re:Physc on What's Your Earliest Memory? · · Score: 2

    Someone else mentioned reading. I told the story of seeing Alien when I was 2. I didn't learn to read until I was 5.

    I think one thing is that we may remember things early in our lives, but there is nothing to connect the memory to an exact time, so we just think they happened later.

    Sure everyone starts forming memories at slightly different times, just like people start to walk and talk at different times.

    I also didn't start talking until I was 18 months old.

  9. Re:Well... on What's Your Earliest Memory? · · Score: 2

    I was born in January of 1977. I remember going to see Alien (1979) in a drive in theater. My parents were driving a blue station wagon then. My dad got a cardboard box that I and my younger (by a year and a few months) brother could sleep in while the movie was playing. The cardboard box had pencil shavings in it because it was sitting below a pencil sharpener my dad had hung in the kitchen earlier (I remember him hanging it, and using it for the first time, but those memories aren't as vivid). He just turned the box upside down and beat on the bottom of it, dumping the shavings down the basement stairs, my mom yelled at him for that.

    I sort of remember the trip to the theater, once we got there, my mom and dad helped my brother and I into the back of the wagon, and into the box. We were told to go to sleep. I slept for a while, and then woke up. I remember trying to see out of the windshield to see what was going on. But my dad told me to go back to sleep.

    Later in my life, I told my parents about that memory, but they couldn't recall all the details that I could. So I don't think I was feed that memory from anyone else. Then again, I remember little details about so many different things through out my entire life.

    I struggle to remember back farther than that. I'm sure I do have some older memories, but they aren't tied to any dates. As some other poster said in this thread, I could have sworn that I was older than two in these memories, but just because I could fix the date with the release of Alien I know my age. No, it wasn't Aliens either. My parents had sold the blue station wagon by 1986, and the drive in theater had closed.

  10. Re:no more Xmas :( on 16x DVD-R Drives Planned for 2004 · · Score: 1

    Maybe you can get one for Christmas 2004. When the come out.

  11. Re:Boy it's time for an upgrade!!! on 16x DVD-R Drives Planned for 2004 · · Score: 1

    There are no dual layer DVD-Rs. Cut your numbers in half.

  12. Re:Diamond Chips = Thermal death on Japan Developing Diamond-based Semiconductors · · Score: 1

    And what is that magic smoke that escapes from my hard drives when I touch the molex connector up backwards? Or any time I smell that sickingly sweet smell.

    The same problems with over heating and bad power supplies also applies to silicon. I would suspect that diamond is actually a little more tollerant. I have no idea.

  13. Re:higher electrical resistance? on Japan Developing Diamond-based Semiconductors · · Score: 1

    I have found that with enough oxygen and heat most things are flammable. >:)

  14. Re:Family/Friends on How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation? · · Score: 2

    There's the computer post.

    I'm working on my car. Or at least the throttle body. Damn brass screws won't budge. Soaked them in so much PB Blaster that my head is killing me now. I'll just drill to buggers out I guess.

    I'm removing the secondary throttle plates, which were there just to keep you off the throttle when the engine is cold, and for the automatic transmission kick down. I'm smart enough to not floor it when it is cold, and there's not going to be an auto in the car when it is done. So off with their heads.

    I don't plan on restoring the functionality of this throttle body ever, as I'm filling the holes where the rod that holds the plates in place is with JB Weld, so not like I'll need the screws in one piece.

    So who's working on their house? :)

    Happy holidays to all.

  15. Re:Nice to see the correct name on 1.5 TB DVD by 2010 · · Score: 2
    How about from this page? http://www.flemingmultimedia.com/FAQDVD.html


    What does DVD stand for?

    Originally, DVD stood for Digital Video Disk. As the standard evolved to include additional capabilities, its meaning was changed to Digital Versatile Disc. This didn't translate well into every language, so now DVD doesn't stand for anything -- it's just DVD.


    I've found lots of other pages stating the same thing.
  16. Re:Nice to see the correct name on 1.5 TB DVD by 2010 · · Score: 2

    Actually the DVD consortium has said that DVD doesn't stand for anything. You just call the discs DVDs.

  17. Re:case for external ide drives... on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed · · Score: 2

    How many devices would you want in this case? Remember IDE only supports 2 devices per cable, where SCSI can do 15.

    Most SCSI cards also have an external connector built in. I don't think I've ever seen an IDE controller with one.

    Of course you could just get a round IDE cable or two and fish them out through an expansion slot.

  18. Re:Just to put this clear... on UCE Fallout - Newsletter/Mailing List Confirmations are SPAM? · · Score: 2

    ISPs log what user/phone number logged on at what time and was assigned which IP.

    Some proxies (like the ones provided by ISPs) also log the IP making the request along with a time stamp.

  19. Re:When /. Sysadmins Go Bad? on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've noticed that /. has been slow or broken the last few days. Anyone have any details as to what is going on?

  20. Re:Conglomeration on EA As The Next Disney · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, syphoned up, and used for the one game that they wanted (Ultima Online), and then dismantled.

    I don't have any problem with people compairing EA to Disney.

  21. Re:DECSS on ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I can finally safely comment on your signature. :)

    echo sfsdfsdfDsdfsdfsdfdsfMsdfsdfdsCsfdslkfdsfAdfgdfg | sed -e s/[a-z]//g

  22. Re:Hokeyspokes on Geek Christmas Gift Ideas · · Score: 2

    I had seen in the Noah's Ark fun house in Kennywood Amusement part something similar to these mounted on a wall. It was just one vertical row of LEDs. They were blinking seemingly randomly. I looked at them for a bit trying to figure out what it was. It wasn't until I turned my head that I saw what it was doing. The persistance of vision as I turned my head painted a picture in the air.

    Has anyone seen these wall mounted LED things, and know where I can get them?

    I guess I could look into building my own.

  23. Re:What Athlon SMP problems? on nVidia Posts First Linux Graphics Drivers for Opteron · · Score: 2

    I missed the 3rdly in my post, it wasn't chrisd that has the dual 2400+, it is Brian Stretch.

  24. Re:chrisd read this on nVidia Posts First Linux Graphics Drivers for Opteron · · Score: 2

    He didn't say Athlon XP, I just finished building a dual Athlon MP 2400+ myself. The mother board is a Tyan Thunder K7X Pro, power supply is an Antec True550 EPS12V, and memory is 4 sticks of Corsair's 1GB 266MHz ECC registered memory. I also have Adaptec's 0 channel RAID controller, and 8 18GB Seagate 15K.3 RPM SCA drives. Using built in ATI RageXL video and gigabit LAN. All in a Lian Li PC-626SCA case.

    The machine is rock solid from what I can tell, and blazingly fast, and I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it.

  25. Re:It took me a few minutes... on RPG Codex - Articles On Video Game Design · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was the other way around for me. I was half way through a semister of an RPG class, when I finally asked when we were going to roll our charaters.