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  1. Chrono Trigger on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger

  2. Rocks Cluster uses a modified Centos on Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Distro For Computational Cluster? · · Score: 2

    Centos is modified to be the base OS for the ROCKS Cluster.
    http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/

  3. cassette to 8 track adapter. on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    cassette to 8 track adapter.
    http://technabob.com/blog/2008/04/08/betamax-to-hd-dvd-converter/8track_cassette_adapter/
    I bought one of these for my Grandparents once.

  4. WII Lanparty on Nintendo Announces Wii Wireless Router · · Score: 2, Funny

    WII Lanparty in the works.

  5. Shapefiles on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    Shapefiles use a dbase file along with the shp file. Tons of software can read the dbase file and you have the added feature of storing the UTM locations of the access point and graphing it.

    There is a c library called shapelib http://shapelib.maptools.org/ that allows for you to write the files easily. The c code can be compiled and run on vista and almost any other OS.

    How about that.
    W3rdna

  6. Coupons expire on Scammers Exploit DTV Coupon Program · · Score: 5, Informative

    The real issues is the coupons expire after 90 days. So delayed boxes effectively become available fo r the early order of coupons. If they process them ahead of time then they will not expire before delivery... The second part is once used, coupons can not be refunded or transfered to a different retailler. Thus you are locked into where every you processed the coupon.

  7. Re:Evolution doesn't produce perfect solutions on Mother Nature's Design Workshop · · Score: 1
    In fact, with a changing enviroment many traits are neutral or even a negative. Most people are familiar with the idea of adatation but a never the ideas presented by Stephen Gould with regrad to spandrels and exaptions. quoted from http://www.goodbyemag.com/apr02/gould.html :

    "Another important word was "spandrel," a concept borrowed from architecture. Where paleontologists had traditionally treated every trait in an organism as though it had evolved for some purpose, Gould held that many structures existed merely as a logical consequence of the way an organism is put together. For instance, a high forehead may be necessary to encase a large brain - the brain being the object under selective pressure, the forehead being a necessary consequence but not selected for.

    A related concept (but a rare stumble by Gould in the catchy-coinage department) is "exaption" - the idea that a structure that evolved for one purpose may become something that serves a quite different purpose. It is often posited, for example, that feathers functioned as thermoregulators before they were used in flight; and the human earbone is the descendent of the jawbone of a long ago ancestral fish."
  8. Digital Camera on Digitizing a Large Amount of Photos? · · Score: 1

    One of the real problems with scanners is the speed. I have a Digital rebel that I have setup controlled by my computer to take a picture of the document/photo. It can be crun directly from the computer and lets you quickly see what you get. For slides you can take pictureers of the displayed image on a good bead screen. This is by no means the best quality uou can achieve but probably better than tha $40 scanner and alot faster.

  9. RVM backup to large raids using rsync on Terabyte Storage Solutions? · · Score: 1

    This project is working on backups to large raids using Rsync. I think his test system has 3tb.

    Werdna

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/rvm/