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  1. Re:umm, price?! on What's the Point of Building a Home Theater PC? · · Score: 1

    For $200 in parts you will get a shitty video card and poor sound quality.

  2. Broadband on Indian Police Demand Internet Monitoring In Bombay · · Score: 2, Informative

    I went to India late last year for a visit and found out that two or three of the medium sized cities that I visited to my surprise had cable modems available to the general population. Pricing was at par with the US taking into account currency conversion rate and cost of living. Not many people subscribe though because computers are not common except with the tech savvy people.

  3. Re:Ark Linus is the best, except on Recent Apt-Gettable Goodness From Ark, Conectiva · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think Linus has forked three little binaries if I recall correctly :-)

  4. What I like about 'man' on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 1

    You can generate postscript output for printing like this for example:

    man -t ls

    Don't know if this can be done with info?

  5. SELinux on Northwest Gives Personal Data to NASA · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NSA needs it so that they can be sure people comply with the GPL of SELinux.

  6. Re:Pentagon TIA on Reliable, Affordable Online Backup Providers? · · Score: 1

    The only problem with the TIA "backup" system is the recovery part.

  7. Kickstart on Automatically Installing Linux from Bootable CD? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can do this with Redhat Linux (or Fedora.) It is basically a utility called kickstart that creates a configuration file that you can place onto the cd or a floppy. Then when the install takes place, it will automatically make choices based on the configuration file.

  8. Playing on a TV on DISCover 'Drop And Play' PC Games For ApeXtreme Discussed · · Score: 2, Funny

    That means you 640x480 resolution with free full screen anti-aliasing!

  9. Re:rm ... I did this once on What is the Worst Tech Mistake You Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    I had my windows partition mounted under a linux directory. I decided to move the mount point to another location so tried to delete the current mount point. I forgot that it was already mounted and ended up deleting the entier windows partition.

  10. Excel subverted to run pacman on David Byrne Subverts PowerPoint · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/

  11. Re:Bob Young on Groklaw Outlines More SCO Linux Contributions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not to by cynical but if I had millions of dollars and didn't have to work I could stand to be more vocal about how I really felt about things too.

  12. It still happens to me on Game Feedback Gets More Intense With Electrodes · · Score: 1

    Any 3D game I play for more than a few minutes spinning around will give me motion sickness. I've been told that playing in a well lit room and staying far from the monitor will aleviate this problem but I don't play games much more anyway to try.

  13. Re:Ya know what? on Best Shareware Games Of 2003 Explored · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't understand the reasoning. Shareware implies that you can try before you buy. And if the game is not really good then people wouldn't want to pirate it. If it is good, then your argument breaks down and they shouldn't pirate the game.

  14. Re:How gullable can people be? on Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    These criminals go to great lengths to trick people using cleverly parsed URLs, links back to the original website, etc. They also will have a plausable reason for entering the information. In one case, it was for ebay which I haven't used in a year. The email said that I haven't used the account in more than a year and they wanted to reregister and confirm my information. I almost bought it hook line and sinker until I realized that they asked for a lot of personal information such as back account and credit card number details all at one. I think this is were these guys get discovered... they get too greedy in trying to get your personal information and blow their cover.

  15. Inefficient use of space on More Looks At Far-Off 'Longhorn' · · Score: 1

    One bad trend that Microsoft has been having is inefficient use of space in a window. Look at the following example where half the space is for menus and icons and the rest of the actual folder view.

    http://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhackered/longho rn build4051/explorer.jpg

    The same problem exists to a lesser degree in XP and Windows 2000.

  16. Re:I hear MS is making a system like this. on Openfiler Storage Management Software GPL'd · · Score: 1

    Then the KDE project will make a clone of this called KDEfiler.

  17. Spelling out the email address on How Do You Fool Spam Bots? · · Score: 1

    There are some people who spell out the email address as "john at domain dot com" as if the spam harvester hasn't heard of regular expression and wild card searches. All they need to do is search for a pattern "* at * dot com" or something similar. Then they can do a lookup on the domain name to be even more confident.

  18. Wouldn't it be better to post it outside the US? on Swarthmore Students Keep Diebold Memos Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Would make it harder for Diebold to fight back...

  19. Cheaper solutions on VIA-based Mobile Robot Design For Download · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you don't want to spend the $500 and want a more affordable solution, try buying some surplus hardware. For example this page has stepper motors and controllers at reasonable prices.
    http://www.alltronics.com/stepper_motors. htm

    And instead of a VIA board you can get a cheap
    80186 board for $69 from http://www.jkmicro.com/products/flashlite186.html

    Okay you can't run Linux on that board but with 1 MB of memory and 33 MHz you can do lots with a robot.

  20. I'm sure cracks will we available soon... on Adobe Makes Products Harder to Use, More Expensive · · Score: 1

    so the only people who suffer are legitimate users.

  21. Re:Why not a teacher? on 2003 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners Announced · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think in California, already more than 50% of the state budget goes to education. How much more do you think should got to education at the cost of other needs?

  22. How about... on Birth of a Motorized Surfboard · · Score: 1

    a Mortar-ized surfboard?

  23. In other news on HEADSUP: Change of Makedev() Semantics on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    the second parameter to the kmalloc function has been changed to an unsigned int allowing for increased memory capacity. Users everywhere hail the dawn of a new age where more memory can be allocated.

  24. Re:Armageddon on Meteorite Strikes Indian Village · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enought the F/X channel is playing Armageddon today.

  25. Re:oh Gawd.... on MS Psychologist on How We Read · · Score: 1

    The interesting this when trying to translate this sentence was that I first tried to parse it one character at a time I had a real tought time. My five seconds of patience was about to give up when glanced at the whole thing at once and the translation came immediately to me. Kind of cool how the brain matches patterns.