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  1. GSM or CDMA? on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm interested to see how this will work. Currently there are two big cellular standards: GSM and CDMA. GSM seems like the more viable choice, as it is used globally (three GSM nets in US, also), but many americans use CDMA carriers like sprint/verizon/alltel/etc. For either, I assume it would be just like hitting a roaming partner and associating with their network, but I wonder how they will prevent people from just using land-based carriers, assuming range permits this.

  2. Re:What's so hard? on VoIP Solution for Faxing? · · Score: 1

    any idea what the make/model of such a cell phone is?

  3. Re:Serious proposal... on Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Where do you find a large communication node in the middle of the ocean, smarty pants?

  4. Canada! on Australia May Adopt DMCA-Style Copyright Regime · · Score: 1

    Come to canada ! No DMCA here (at least not yet!)

  5. MOD PARENT UP! on Using Anthrax To Fight Cancer · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod this one up mods, it's a funny one :)

  6. Re:Playstation version.... on Tux Vs Clippy - New XBox Game · · Score: 1

    It probably wouldn't work without some modifications to the code because XBox uses x86 architecture and PSX uses RISC iirc.

  7. Schools/Offices after business hours on Paying for LUG Meeting Space? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Our lug, MLUG or the Montreal Linux Users Group's venue is a room provided by a local college (Vanier) after hours to us free of charge. The downside to this is that even though they teach computer programs here, they won't give us access to the labs. What we used to have though, and when we dont hear from Vanier, is an office of one of our members which, though it accompanies less people, is fully equipped with ~15 computers, most of which run as thin clients to an LTSP server which provide all your basic internet needs and some other stuff as well. That worked out good for a while, but then people actually started showing up and we grew out of it :( So if any Montreal, Canada slashdotters here are looking for a cool lug to join, cruise down to our website and read up on the information. We also invite you to join our mailing list where we discuss Linux/Open-Source issues as well as group stuff.

  8. Hail StreamRipper!!! on Audiogalaxy Returns as Pay Service · · Score: 1

    they better hope they don't use MP3 streaming cause they're gonna find out real fast that its succeptible to stream ripping.

    Even if the stream can't be ripped directly -- it's been said millions of times - if you can hear it, you can record it.

  9. Re:Hm. on Convert Unneeded VRAM Into A Storage Device · · Score: 1

    What about using it for Linux games like Quake 3 Arena that runs natively among others, and ported/emulated games from Loki or CodeWeavers?

  10. Re:Also look at the speed of VRAM vs. RAM on Convert Unneeded VRAM Into A Storage Device · · Score: 1

    Well you're sort of right... AGP 1x ran at 66mhz, like 1x66mhz, but now in its current incarnation of AGP 4x, it runs at 264mhz. Soon we'll have AGP 8x, so it'll be double that. Still not fast enough though. I'm pretty sure the vram on the board isn't made as much for running to the CPU but to the GPU to which it has a very fast pipe.

  11. Re:Heh, on Tattoo To Monitor Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Pain? Like the pain from a needle?

  12. Already Slashdotted on KDE Gets The Hat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    5 posts and already its MySQL DB is 0wned!

  13. Re:Be careful! on Running Linux On Your Swimming Pool · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe you should run BSD on your pool. Chuck would keep the pool nice and warm for ya :)

  14. Re:grammar nazi bait on Cool Linux Tricks With Atlas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think its linuces. Like the plural of a vertex is vertices and plural of matrix is matrices

  15. Re:Obvious question on Filing a Domain Name Dispute? · · Score: 1

    or get kdhx88.fm

    that would be nice..

  16. subscriptions? on Slashdot Updates · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Taco, you gotta get off the crack man. Do you really expect that people are gonna pay for this? News for Nerds my ass! If anything, you might have a few people paying, a few people just tolerating the ads, and a VAST majority just filtering them so what good does it do you anyway? I personally don't mind the standard-size ads on the top of the page, Hell, i even click on them quite a bit because they're interesting. Those big ads in the middle of the page like some news sources are just downright annoying. Thats the kind of thing that drives me away from them, Especially when they advertise windows XP or the annoying shits like X10 that have a "pop-under" ad that just appears "under" your main browser windows so it catches you while you're closin it. Royal Pain. I Realize i'm rambling on and on, but whats next? popups? click-the-banners to enter like on warez sites? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.

  17. Re:Continuity on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    Well actually, the original series wasn't completely "instrumental" even if it didn't have lyrics. I dont think i know of an instrument that sounds like "oooo oooo oooo oooooo..."

  18. Re:LINT on A Kernel With Everything · · Score: 1

    Well if they used the stuff from the FreeBSD Kernel they wouldn't be able to have the GPL License on this linux kernel anymore.
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  19. command prompt under bash on What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like? · · Score: 1

    my prompt on my freebsd boxen that i admin is usually like this:

    PS1="(\u@\h)[\w]% "

    or like this for root:
    PS1="(\u@\h)[\w]# "

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  20. Re:Hacking? on Boeing to Have Net Access on Airliners in 2002 · · Score: 1

    thanks for the flamebait shithead. but what do you think about the netbios?
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  21. Hacking? on Boeing to Have Net Access on Airliners in 2002 · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever thought that considering most people have NetBios enabled in Windows and don't even know about it that its a considerable risk to people considering i can just scan the subnet on the plane for open samba ports. Like someone else said, it wouldn't be reasonable to pay $20 to use the internet at 56k speeds. I pay about $30 a month for cable modem at home.. mmm 700 kBytes/sec. Someone would probably be running linux/unix and setup ipmasq/nat for all his friends hehe.
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  22. CyberPimps on A Valentine for your Box · · Score: 1

    In reply to the poster who said boxes can get laid and we can't, They need us to get hooked up! We're a bunch of computer pimps that are getting are boxes hoooked up with other ones :)
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  23. Re:Already?! on A Valentine for your Box · · Score: 1

    Yep, the mofo's down.
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  24. Re:Montreal High Speed Internet on Florida Court Overturns AT&T Cable Ordinance · · Score: 1

    yo dude, i'm running winme right now no problems. win2k works fine too.

  25. Re:Montreal High Speed Internet on Florida Court Overturns AT&T Cable Ordinance · · Score: 1

    yeah, the company's name is Videotron.