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  1. Re:Out of curiosity... on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well now come on, there's been embedded versions of windows for quite some time now My car's (Acura TL) navigation system runs Windows CE. Not that you'd ever know it, there's no hint of a Windows-type interface at all. I think all Honda nav systems are the same.

  2. Re:But will it... on A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything) · · Score: 1

    No, but I bet it will run NetBSD.

  3. Re:Agreed on finding a drive on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The really old ones (including the Commodore 64) connected via a serial interface.

  4. Re:But will it... on A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything) · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...blend?

  5. I know how you feel... on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 1

    I'm in EXACTLY the same boat...except without the wife & kids. But I need to be able to continue supporting myself, and contribute to my (non-traditional) household.

  6. Re:Evolution and Exchange Server on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    The user name does not match my e-mail address. It's the user name I log into the domain with. Note also I don't include the domain info.

    Hope this is helpful. AFAIK, my username (on our Exchange domain, which is completely separate from the domain I log into otherwise) is the same as my email address (minus the @ and everything following).

    And in exchange-connector-setup-2.22, it doesn't show me the option to choose Auth type. Any clue why that is?
  7. Evolution and Exchange Server on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    As a side note (knowing full well that this isn't a support forum!), can anyone give me any hints on how to get Evolution working with an Exchange server on Kubuntu 8.04 beta?

    I put in my username (with domain) and OWA URL like so:

    FOO\First.Last
    https://webmail.blah.com/exchange

    then I click "Authenticate", enter my password, and I get an error dialog:

    "Evolution Error: Could not configure Exchange account because an unknown error occurred. Check the URL, username, and password, and try again."

    I know I typed the URL and my username and password correctly.

    I'm running Gnome 2.22.1 (Kubuntu 8.04 beta, "out of the box", with all current updates applied). Where does Evolution put its log files? Maybe I can find something useful there...

  8. In other news... on Windows Update Can Hurt Security · · Score: 1

    Not eating can make you hungry.

  9. Prior art on Apple Sued Over Fundamental iTunes Model · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where in the hell is the prior art? How can there be any, if the patent was just issued? Why was the patent approved?

  10. Pay more attention... on FTP Hacking on the Rise · · Score: 2, Informative

    GP was talking about scp being implemented in 1995, not FTP.

  11. Re:Triple dipping into the jar might hurt Apple? on An App Store For iPhone Software · · Score: 1

    I really don't think it was a slashdotting per se. It was just a whole lot of people going to download the iPhone SDK when it was made available right after it was announced this morning.

  12. All I want to know is ... on NASA Plans Lunar Mobile Phone Network · · Score: 1

    Will I have to SIM-unlock my iPhone to use it on the moon?

  13. Re:GPL? on FTC Defends Ethernet From Patent Troll · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is, but shortly expiring a drug company will often release a new very minor improvement and do everything it can to discredit it's older product while pumping up the new one.


    Many times it isn't even a true "improvement", just a minor tweak; like dextro-rotating (or levo-rotating) the molecule, or producing a racemic mixture (e.g. Adderal vs. Dexadrine, the aforementioned Prilosec vs. Nexium), or making an extended-release version.
  14. Re:Not again on W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    When IE6 decreases to 10% or so, the last of the really non-compliant browsers will be history. Which shouldn't be a terribly long time:

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/21/0652248
  15. ASCII on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    Text-based adventures (Zork, etc.), then Rogue (an IBM-PC version of NetHack).

  16. Re:Neither... on Which eBook Reader is the Best? · · Score: 1

    Of course they're somewhat less useful in the dark AFAIK, all the ebook readers currently on the market use an eInk display, and lack backlighting; so it's a draw on this point between ebooks and dead trees.
  17. Re:2.4GHz: The Wild West of RF on Xbox 360's Jamming Wireless Signals? · · Score: 1

    IIRC, 900MHz cordless phones used to be the predominant (cheap) technology, but the frequency got so crowded that people were always able to hear their neighbors' conversations. So phone manufacturers had to come up with a fix; they switched to 2.4GHz. Now it looks as if 5.8GHz is the dominant technology.

    So if you can find a 900MHz phone now, it's probably a very good thing, since your neighbors will be on 2.4 or 5.8GHz.

  18. Re:this is incumbent upon the employee on Does Constant Access Shatter the Home/Work Boundary? · · Score: 1

    No Office, No Open Office even, no remote desktop, VNC, or other workarounds. That may work for you, but there are lots of folks (myself included) who actually have non-work-related reasons to use some of the software you named!
  19. Re:well, there is a simple solution for that on Postal Service Surcharge Could Slash Netflix Profit · · Score: 1

    you must view the site in IE on Windows That's a pretty huge limitation, especially for the Slashdot crowd! It certainly rules it out for me. Wake me it works on Mac OS.
  20. Re:Still Obvious on $360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail · · Score: 1

    Not that I think this patent isn't lame.

  21. Re:Still Obvious on $360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC, Vonage and AOL technically didn't "settle" the previous lawsuites; they paid Klausner licensing fees for use of the technology.

  22. Re:No on Verizon Wireless To Open Network · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For the iPhone to work on Verizon's network, one of two things has to happen:

    (1) Apple releases a CDMA version of the iPhone

    (2) Verizon changes their network over to GSM nationwide.

    (2) isn't going to happen. (1) might, but not until AT&T's exclusive on the iPhone has expired (2012?)

  23. Re:Ummm.... on Standard Web Fonts 'Updated' In Vista · · Score: 1

    I was wondering where the article link was. Thanks!

    (Someone please mod this +1 Informative!)

  24. Re:Shatner is out? on Paramount Casts New James T. Kirk · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or does Chris Pine look more like Captain Christopher Pike than James Kirk? Maybe it's just the eyes...

    http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Christopher_Pike

  25. Intellectual property? on Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore · · Score: 1

    Even if the ISBN could be considered IP (which I highly doubt!), it would be the publishers' IP, not the bookstore's.

    For some reason, I found it quite amusing that a Google search for 'ISBN intellectual property' returned a bunch of ISBNs for books about IP :)