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  1. Re:I think your estimates are way too high on Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? · · Score: 1

    Hell, I use a Pentium 166 (which I got for free, was about to be trashed by a local pawn shop), a cheap NIC that I had laying around, and a Linksys PCI card that cost $90 at the time, running Slackware and the 'hostap' kernel modules to function as my WAP. You can probably get such a card for ~$60 nowadays.

  2. Re:So? on Microsoft Retires Windows 98 · · Score: 1

    XP runs DOS apps under emulation, which they call 'compatibility' mode. Poorly emulated enviroment + Hardware Abstraction Layer = Slow
    Sorry :(

    I wonder if the linux DOS emulators would work better... probably :)

  3. Re:With Distances this great... on New Wi-Fi Distance Record Set In Utah · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that they were going to use different channels for each user (or having users broken down into small groups on different channels) to allow more bandwidth for each individual station.
    I wonder if they could multiplex the wireless signals to support more users... 802.11 meets xDMA. Hehe.

  4. I don't get it.... on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 1

    Does this mean we have to upgrade the firmware in our scales every year?

  5. Re:AS LONG AS YOU CAN TEST EVERY STATE... on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    If it's in memory and unneeded, it's a detriment to the system.

  6. Re:But... on More On Detecting NAT Gateways · · Score: 1

    We have bandwidth throttles here, too.

  7. Re:But... on More On Detecting NAT Gateways · · Score: 1

    One IP, one host in the eyes of the outside world. That's the way it should be.

  8. But... on More On Detecting NAT Gateways · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will ISPs use it against us?

  9. Um... on New Online Music Push by EMI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this mark the beginning of a major change in the music industry?

    No.

  10. Re:The more they change, the more they stay the sa on Strange New Keyboards and Mice · · Score: 1

    Could you imagine running an internal combustion engine that's almost 150 years old?
    Nope, I prefer reliability over that kind of newfangled bunk. I walk.

  11. Re:"Extreme" on Strange New Keyboards and Mice · · Score: 1

    Comfortable? If that's what you masochists call it nowadays...

  12. AmigaOS? on Hyperion to Bring IncaGold Games to Linux · · Score: 1

    Are you sure this isn't a repost from, say, several years ago?

  13. "Palm Maximum Memory Increased"? on Palm Memory Maximum Increased · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does this mean that I can write more phone numbers on my hand?

  14. I almost forgot... on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Godzilla has been just itching to get a piece of the Mozilla team (in the courtroom, of course).
    I hear that his lawyers can spit fire.

  15. What next? on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    Pontiac could jump in and get a piece, too...
    Perhaps a Phoenix will rise from the ashes, and file a class-action suit for creating a stigma involving it's race?
    Or maybe Thunderbird could get involved (you know, that really cheap wine that gets you bent). They sound alike, and after all, Windows... Lindows...

    Only in America, folks...

  16. Re:How is this an iPod clone? on Public Hardware Beta Tests · · Score: 1

    It's an Archos Jukebox clone, then! ;-)

  17. Re:Beta testing computers... on Public Hardware Beta Tests · · Score: 1

    Sure, although your drive may or may not work afterwards, or may suddenly find itself with DRM packages installed...

  18. Man... on FreeBSD Looking for People with Lots of RAM · · Score: 1

    And all this time I thought my 768 MB was a lot. ;/

  19. Re:"clampdown on free speech" on Have You Really Read Your ISP's TOS? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. We either call our president "dumb" or "a criminal", depending on who you ask.

  20. Marxism is a dying breed... on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    www.whyaduck.com says it all. 8)

    Not a plug, as I'm not related to the site -- There is a point here. I hope you can find it, because I think I've lost it. But, I probably lost it years ago...

  21. Imagine... on Oil-Cooling 802.11 Infrastructure · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A frying beowulf cluster...

  22. Re:Windows 200 on WiFi Woes With .11g · · Score: 1

    At'sa no carrier pigeon, at'sa duck, boss.

  23. "Click me..." on Appreciation For All Things ASCII · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Chinko momi momi momi momi momi.....
    KIMOCHI!!!

  24. Re:nice guts, bad user interface on Linux-Based Bar-Monkey · · Score: 1

    Quite frankly, once you're drunk, it don't much *matter* which drink you get...
    Hell, when you are trying to get drunk, it doesn't matter much, either...

  25. Re:Old news on Microsoft Shows Off Watch, Portable Media Player · · Score: 1

    Set your watch back. Maybe things will surprise you more.