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  1. Re:Indoor humidity level? on Homebrew Air Conditioning for Under $25 · · Score: 1

    RTFA. This is not evaporative cooling, just a radiator-style heat exchanger, which has more akin to the cooler on your CPU.

  2. Re:To be pedantic... on Homebrew Air Conditioning for Under $25 · · Score: 1

    An evaporative cooler uses the evaporation of water to cool the air. That's not how this thing works. This is just an elaborate transfer of heat from the air to a stream of cold water.

  3. Re:It should be "advice", not "advise". on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    My point exactly. The article post has "advise" where it should be "advice".

  4. Re:Tell them on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    The only machine I'd trust is my own laptop and a mobile phone with (relatively) reasonable GPRS roaming rates. I did this in Canada, and Virgin Mobile UK don't charge a roaming surcharge for GPRS access.

    (That was until I found a bug in a local operator service.. ;-)

    Needless to say everything ran over an SSH tunnel.

  5. Re:It should be "advice", not "advise". on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Advise: a verb.
    Advice: a noun. ...and yes, I'm in England.

  6. Re:naturally... on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 1

    Funny you should say that - yes I do. Makes finding an orchestra to play with damn hard.

  7. Re:naturally... on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I'm a violin-playing geek with perfect pitch, who is trying to learn a language where pitch levels and shifts are critical.

    So, where did I go wrong?!

  8. Re:Microsoft is not the problem on Security for the Paranoid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the figures were somewhat different, but taking those ones in the parent, that only tells you that 40% were too dumb to invent a bogus password for free chocolate.

  9. Re:think of the latency! on Snails Edge Out ADSL · · Score: 1

    http://www.escar.go.com: Connection timed out.

    High bandwidth, but could any TCP session survive the latency?

  10. Re:Linus' new RCS name: 'git' on Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's okay. Linus gives us a new git, and FSF - an old git.

  11. Re:Previous Slashdot discussion on Is Obtaining a Windows Refund Still Difficult? · · Score: 1

    That's beside the point. The OP was asking what the current situation is.

  12. Re:a/s/l ::: you have NO life on What Ever Happened to 'Toothing'? · · Score: 1

    seriously. If somebody unplugs the cable, youre dead.

    The trick is, of course, to get to the exit first.

  13. Re:Why is it Slashdot... on iCopulate Romances iPods, Executive Pong · · Score: 1

    The groundhog was late this year.

  14. Re:Nah on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 1

    There are reasons why MailStripper releases never happen to a schedule. They just happen when they happen.

  15. Re:Amiga Icons on A History of Icons · · Score: 2, Informative

    RiscOS supported multiple sized icons up to 256 colours - in 1988.

  16. Re:Almost useless on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, I don't. I got this information because my new Maestro card wasn't a Chip & Pin one and I had phoned up the bank to ask why...

    (It's one of those with a mugshot burnt into them that Royal Bank of Scotland do.)

  17. Re:Almost useless on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not quite true. The shops are held liable if they haven't got the means to take the new Chip and Pin cards (and maybe, if a customer requests signature if they don't know their PIN). The shop is not liable if they have the hardware, but the customer has an old-style card.

    (This is from advice given to me by my bank.)

  18. Re:ugh on EU Software Patent Directive Adopted · · Score: 1

    Actually, they have more like 7 (according to en.chinabroadcast.cn, and those two are possibly the most widely spoken two.

    I'm learning Cantonese.

  19. Re:ugh on EU Software Patent Directive Adopted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it's just as well I'm already learning to speak Chinese...

  20. Re:DOJhood! on Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood · · Score: 2, Funny

    Arise, Sir Hackedalot, I mean, erm, Sir Hackedtobits.

  21. Re:Cou de Gras? on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 3, Funny

    Coup de grace, please! It has nothing to do with being fat.

  22. Re:Amen on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. As I drive a Renault (2002 Scenic) I find this a bit alarming. I seem to have the last of the line before they went and stuck an arse on the Megane and went keyless ignition - I have regular manual transmission, normal handbrake etc. I honestly do not want these new things that my mum found when she took delivery of her Espace...

  23. Re:Speed: defense of 9600 baud on One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles · · Score: 1

    ssh over the 9.6Kbit line, and tunnel IMAP. Works rather nicely on my GSM phone.

  24. Re:And I'm getting 14,400 bps on my HSCSD mobile on One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles · · Score: 1

    Are you on Orange? They now do a £4 bundle which gives you 4Mb inclusive then £1/Mb after that.

  25. Re:first post on One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles · · Score: 1

    Yeah right. I had a 14k4 modem connected to an analogue cordless phone in 1997. Got 2400bps over it and a PPP session ;-) Slashdot was slow, but workable...