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  1. Re:Well thank goodness on Some Soft Drinks May Damage Your DNA · · Score: 1

    Beer is all-natural too! (water, barley, yeast, & hops). Skip the big name swill like Bud or Coors and check out any local breweries. It's my beverage of choice instead of going for a coke.

  2. Re:the keynote crashes quicktime on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    There were some reports the Divx quicktime plugin messes up Quicktime 7. try removing it if you have it installed.

  3. Where Is.. on Time Picks Top 100 Films · · Score: 1

    Pink Flamingos? Or at least Female Trouble......

  4. Pains me to say this on Is Ubuntu a Compatibility Nightmare for Debian? · · Score: 1

    I've used Debian since I picked up on Linux some 6-7 years ago and it has served me well. Especially on the server side. But as far as desktop's go, I tired of Sid breaking every week. The bugs were relatively easy to fix for a seasoned Debian user like me, but I tired of configuring stuff manually. Ubuntu is the most polished Linux distro I've used, bar none.

  5. Re:Not really $20 savings like people are saying.. on Apple Backing Away From FireWire · · Score: 1

    the problem is the iPod firewire cable has a proprietary connection that goes into the iPod. So you *have* to buy the cable from Apple.

  6. Re:serious Mini Mac design flaw on iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife '05, iWork · · Score: 1

    duh, just buy a usb hub (20$). also my M$ keyboard has two extra usb ports on it.

  7. Re:Usability concern on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    well, theres always USB hubs tho' there'll be more clutter....

  8. Re:Its beautiful but on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out.

  9. Re:Personally... on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    There's this new technology called Firewire that lets you use external drives fast&easy. Put your secondary optical drive in a Firewire enclosure and it shows up automatically in OS X. It's included with the new iMacs.

    And despite losing your potential sale, these puppies will definetly sellout immediately when they are released.

  10. Re:OS X hate ram too... on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    OS X is unix so it's automatically going to use up all the RAM and use virtual memory (unlike OS 9 where you had to check a box t use vm). Browse to /var/vm and check out the swapfiles. I have the exact same setup as you, too.

  11. Re:ick on Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC · · Score: 1

    ehhh.. I think it's slick looking and looks good with the G5. OF course, these are just our 2 cent opinions....

  12. macs w/serial port on Modem Success Stories With Linux? · · Score: 1

    the XServe does

  13. Re:leave additional storage space OUTSIDE on 2.8TB in a Power Mac G5? · · Score: 1
    There was a benchmark on barefeats.com that said Firewire 800 on a G5 was WORSE than the ones on a G4 Powerbook.


    Check out this page for the benchmarks:
    http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html

  14. Re:Painful Widget Sets on The GNOME Roadmap · · Score: 1

    There is some truth to this problem. Sometimes I let the mouse button go for not even a quarter of a second and then I drag the mouse, it *does* drag a menu item. Then I usually have to press the Escape key and restart over again.

  15. but more importantly.. on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    does it play OGG Vorbis?

  16. Re:what about all 3 major OS's on Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that OS X can only READ DVD+R and DVD+RW dvds, forget about writing. The only option is to shell out for Toast. Windows and even Linux can write dvd+rw dvds with no problem.

  17. Re:SMB/OSX question on Samba 3.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Nah.. it's a Mac OS X problem. Sometimes I forget to unmount samba shares when I leave the office and I have to wait about 10 minutes for OS X to time out connecting to the share. During this, the whole UI hangs. This is somewhat fixed in Panther (it prompts you to disconnect from missing shares).

  18. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    you're right.. I'd only believe it if I saw a demonstration with my own eyes. I'm not going to fully trust some random person on /.

    anyways, there's an ssh update for Debian so I guess that this exploit is for real.

  19. Re:install base on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're running a webserver with ssh installed, then it's your responsibility to keep up with the latest patches, upgrades, etc. Of course with a 0-day exploit like this, it's going to be hard to fix quickly. I'd give the linux/bsd distro's a day to come up with a fix.

    What you can do in the meantime, is set PermitRootLogin to No and firewall off ssh cept for a few hosts you login from.

  20. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 2

    What proof do YOU have? You're just as credible as the post above who you're trying to say is giving out wrong information. A demonstration would be nice.

  21. Re:Windows already does this... on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But you can change your browser in Windows.

  22. Re:I don't want my ISP to filter anything on Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall? · · Score: 1

    sign up with a local ISP and make friends with them

  23. Re:so is everyone copying BeOS on 'Storage' to Replace Traditional Filesystems? · · Score: 1

    do you really think BeOS was the first company/person to think of a filesystem as a database? They just wrote ONE implementation of that idea. So it's not copying (and how can Storage copy BeOS's filesystem when there is no src available for BeOS...?)

  24. Re:eye candy? on Xr Renamed to Cairo · · Score: 1

    Mac OS X definetly uses pixels, instead of vectors for the icons.

  25. Re:Is this reverse engineering? on Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver · · Score: 3, Informative

    This guy lives in Italy, safe from terrible US IP laws.