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  1. Re:Dumb. PC==Mac. Mac==PC on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 1

    It's all branding, so why care? Do you get in a huff when people say "ping pong" instead of "table tennis", or "kleenex" instead of "tissue"?

  2. Jack Bauer? on FBI Agents Don't Have Email Access · · Score: 1, Funny

    I dunno about this, because Jack Bauer definitely has a nice PDA. It apparently can hack into computers, control terrorist remote bombs, and self destruct the memory card. These sort of things should be standard issue!

  3. Heating problems? on 11 Design Mistakes of the Xbox 360 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is the author even trying to venture a guess into the overheating problems of the 360? He makes wild assumptions about what's going on inside and then ventures some random "20% increase in fan speed" as to the fix of it. Unless you have a spec sheet in front of you, don't try and make an "educated" guess about things like this.

    I haven't had one crash with my 360 related to the heating of it. I had a scratch on my PDZ disc that caused it to freeze up, but got a new copy and everything's been clear sailing since. Saying there have been constant problems is a little bit unfounded. If there was something *seriously* wrong with the console, they would have recalled it a long while ago. Maybe MS's 3% figure is a little low, but it's not 99% like the author wants to believe...

  4. Redundant Heat on The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers? · · Score: 1

    I slapped the "Dual Bios" sticker from one of my older motherboards on the side of our thermostat. Just in case one of the BIOSes breaks down or something...

  5. Uhhh on Where are the Prosecutors? · · Score: 4, Informative
  6. Netgear Storage Central on Budget NAS Solutions? · · Score: 1

    I just got one of these today: http://www.netgear.com/products/details/SC101.php

    Pop in two IDE drives in either RAID 1 or 0 and you've got a simple NAS device. I call it the hard drive toaster :)

  7. Re:NNTP? on Yet Another Bulletin Board 2.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a PHP script, not a network server.

  8. Re:Not for Deer Park on Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta · · Score: 1

    You can force it to the compatible with the Nightly Tester Tools. However, at least on my system, it broke the ability for form fields to have that little drop down with saved information. Unfortunately, that killed this extension for me, so I'm using the A9 toolbar instead (and as a bonus, now I have a small discount at Amazon).

  9. And the top album is... on UC System Chooses Mindawn Download Service · · Score: 1

    Frameshift's "Unweaving the Rainbow"?

    Yes, I already can hear the mouses at UC clicking furiously to download their copy...

  10. Re:What makes a Mac a Mac? on Will You Stick with Apple, After the Switch? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's the rampant zealotry!

  11. Re:Patenting a _word_? on Apple Making a Spreadsheet? · · Score: 1

    So, Google, Windows, Office, and Apple are all fine?

  12. Apple's started a trend! on Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fedora's switching to Intel too!

  13. Linux? on PalmOne Releases 4GB PDA [updated] · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The LifeDrive runs Palm OS Garnet on a 416 MHz XScale processor.

    Last I checked, Palm OS wasn't Linux...

  14. Simple solution on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    IANACE (I am not a cryptography expert), but would it be possible just to provide two hashes on the same file or file portion? You would then have to find a collision of both types of hashs simultaneously. I would think that would be much harder to do. You can get a single collision easily enough, but finding one that works for both algorithms would be much harder.

    As an alternative, you could set up a system where hashes are provided on variable sections of the file. So, it's unlikely that a colliding file would have the same hash for some subsection of the file, as well. And by setting it to hash on a random portion of the file, you should not be able to create a collision for every portion of the file (at least not in a reasonable amount of time for these networks, anyways).

  15. quite simple on Easy, Fast, Cheap Way to Generate CPU Load? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    `yes`

    A little hack someone showed me a while ago. Just set that in the startup script and away you go! Eats up memory and CPU time, so you'll end up with a very very high load and disk activity to boot.

  16. And how to bring down your own site? on Bringing Down A Copycat Site · · Score: 1

    Link to it on Slashdot!

  17. That is soooo last year on FairUCE - the Smart Email Proxy · · Score: 1

    I've had this working with Exim for a long time now. It's actually just a tickbox in cPanel. I actually think it's on by default for any host using cPanel, which are quite a few.

  18. Re:Google makes minor change to website - news at on Google Index Doubles · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just me, but I'd call the doubling of information available for me to search a pretty significant improvement. Especially when the last update was only a 1b increase ("only" is a relative term, of course...).

  19. And it's all for SPAM on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 1

    Up to today, Weiss has signed up 52 million users in countries - a number which he wants to grow significantly to be recognized as record: "We would like to be included in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's largest mailing list," he said.

    Well, count me out. This is obviously a grab for attention, not to provide a legitimate service.

  20. Re:Awesome... on Successful PearPC/Mac OS X Install Documented · · Score: 1

    Actually, the graphic elements are done by the video card, which means if they can get a properly done graphics system, then there shouldn't be any slow down at all. Quartz Extreme is good stuff :)

  21. For those that need more proof on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Full file listing with sizes: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~mortehu/files.txt I suggest mirroring ;)

  22. Re:An Inside Perspective on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok, so lets say I SSH tunnel to an offsite server and do all my stuff through this tunnel. Sure, I may use a lot of bandwidth, but it's all encrypted and you have NO proof what I'm sending is non-academic. Hell, I could be transferring video files for a presentation for class. How could you tell?

    I think you'd have a hard time prosecuting in court without proof of what was actually being transferred...

  23. Re:More on Review of iTunes Music Store · · Score: 2, Informative

    And here are my notes on the iTunes sharing protocol ;)

    Anyone want to help make an online sharing service? Aka, the file-sharing service Apple didn't know they made available...

  24. Re:On the other hand... on Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod · · Score: 1

    > or an Apple.

    Better go to that grocery store then :)

  25. Re:Did anyone see.. on Half Life 2 To Appear At E3 · · Score: 1

    WHAAAT???

    I can't hear you over that fat lady's singing!