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  1. Re:Encrypt everything. on ISPs Using "Deep Packet Inspection" On 100,000 Users · · Score: 1

    Sure, they won't know exactly what you read, but if you visit Erowid, I'd call it a good bet you don't want recommendations on a cheese to go with dinner.
    I don't want recommendations suggestions on ANYTHING in the form of advertising.
    I wonder what sites I should be visiting to achieve that goal? ;-)
  2. Re:Other Similar Systems: Signal Pre-emption on 14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set · · Score: 1

    Except that depending on traffic and circumstances, the emergency vehicle might then get stuck behind a bunch of cars at the red light, and it would take a few seconds at the very least (and probably a cascade of honking) before the driver at the head realizes what's going on and makes way.


    I live in the Dallas area and this is exactly what I see happen at intersections where the emergency vehicles cannot force the light green in their direction of travel. The emergency vehicles can sit at the back of a pack of cars at the red light and honk their horn all they want, the drivers at the head of the pack won't move until the light changes.
  3. My favorite on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1
  4. Re:I don't know about Galileo, but GPS needs help on US GPS, EU Galileo to Work Together · · Score: 1

    I agree. The 60CSx has very good sensitivity. That and topo quads allow navigation just about anywhere. That's what I use mine for. The price has come waaaay down too. I paid nearly $700 for mine 18 months ago.

  5. Re:For the Bogglers on Attempts to Count Linux Users Remain Pointless · · Score: 1

    It's not a daemon, but if you want to be counted,
    you could start here: http://counter.li.org/

  6. Re:Or a complete non-techie on Watching My Neighbors Watch On-Demand TV · · Score: 1

    I never knew about the HDHomeRun until someone posted here it the other day. This was just what I was looking for, and I ordered one immediately. I thought it was a really good idea. I have an extensive MythTV setup, but what I plan to do with this box is locate it where the cable comes in, (near the TV) but locate the MythTV server much further away. This will allow more flexibility as to where the server goes by using the existing LAN and eliminating the long coax runs that feed cable to the tuner cards in the server.
    I haven't received my unit yet, but if I were to speculate, I'd guess it is probably contains DVB style tuners with an Ethernet PHY for the interface instead of PCI. It is probably a design similar to (Warning, PDF) this but with two tuners and no Wireless Ethernet.

  7. Re:On linux... on How Long Does it Take You to Tweak a New Box? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Windows - Tweaks for about 4-6 hours and spending about $400 on extra applications
    OS X - Tweaks for about 1-2 hours and spending about $600 on extra applications
    Linux - Change desktop background. Done. Priceless!

    There. Fixed it for you.
  8. Re:2.59/battery, anyone? on Scientists Powering Batteries with Soda, Tree Sap · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The spent fuel is biodegradeable so you can dump it in the sewer.
    If one person does it and it is biodegradeable, it isn't a problem.
    If 300Million people do it, you have an environmental disaster.

  9. Re:non-PE Software Engineers are OK in TX on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1
    IAARPE :-)
    It might be OK as long as the services offered are within the regulations. The specific guidelines are part of the Texas Administrative Code, Title 22, Part 6, Chapter 137, Subchapter A, Rule 137.3
    Rule 137.3

    Excerpt:
    ... (6) Pursuant to 1001.301 (f) of the Act, a person who is a regular employee of a business entity that is engaged in engineering activities but exempt from the licensure requirements under 1001.057 or 100.058 of the Act may use the term "engineer" on business cards and forms of correspondence made available to the public providing the person does not:

    (A) offer to perform engineering services to the public;

    (B) use the designation outside the scope of 1001.057 or 1001.058 to convey the ability or willingness to perform engineering services or make an engineering judgment requiring a licensed professional engineer.

    ...
  10. Re:Silly article: on Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok? · · Score: 1

    in the 1970's we used to use $7 snow sleds to pirate HBO.

    I built some of those...
    2GHz band, MDS receivers.
    I probably still have some of that hardware around.
    I knew those that built the sled type antennas.
    I made coffee-can Yagi antennas with a threaded rod and washer directors.

  11. Re:PVR on Via Launches New Line of Mini-ITX Boards · · Score: 2

    Thanks. :-)

  12. Re:SLS on An Old Hacker Slaps Up Slackware · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah yep. 386DX machine with a whopping 8 megs of RAM, IIRC.

    Ah, the joys of manually calculating X modelines.



    Eh. You probably even had color displays.;-)

    I ran Slackware 3.0 on a 386SX-16 w/4MB RAM with Hercules monochrome video. X windows is real interesting in 720x384 monochrome. Kernel compiles took around 4 hours.
  13. Re:twisting on New Data Center Standard · · Score: 1

    I should have included this link too. It shows a comparison of the specs for CAT 5 through CAT6:

    http://discountcablesusa.com/ethernet-cables.html

  14. Re:twisting on New Data Center Standard · · Score: 1

    Here's a link that discusses the measurements done on CAT cables:

    http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gc i1059969,00.html

  15. Re:A simple solution on Hacking the Fluorescent Light · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, I know marketing and sales people who think and work just like this, and it's scary. It's like deja-vu.

  16. Re:Natalie's Restaurant on Whose Burden is it to Recycle Computers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You ought to at least credit Arlo Guthrie for
    writing Alice's Restaurant http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml

  17. Re:ID3-TagIt on Organizing MP3s and Other File Collections? · · Score: 1

    For Linux, I prefer EasyTag http://easytag.sourceforge.net/

  18. Re:Longer than the copyright protection on How Long Do You Want Digital Media To Last? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You might have actually hit the nail on the head here. If the archival media doesn't last longer than copyright, the material may never enter the public domain. We're already seeing this loss with film and books.

  19. Re:Good read on Skin Effect on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1



    Unless you're just looking to spend big bucks on Monster Cable or other 'audiophile' cables, avoid _anything_ labeled as 'speaker wire'.

    Everything I've seen is usually just cheap wire with a high price.

    I always use a good grade 16ga lampcord from the hardware store (Home Depot and the like). It's usually a fairly high grade copper, stranded, extremely flexible, and the jacket is marked for polarity. The DC resistance is only about 0.005 ohms per foot.

  20. Re:surely this is unnecessary? on Build Your Own TV Without Broadcast Flags · · Score: 1

    It also doesn't mean that manufacturers couldn't 'voluntarily' implement it in the meantime...

  21. Re:Paranoid? on SysInternals Releases RootkitRevealer · · Score: 1

    Just think. If Palladium or Trusted Computing is implemented and the vendor has root, I'm sure some advertising company will dangle enough money in front of your vendor so that you'll get vendor mandated^Wapproved spy^H^H^Hmonitoring software installed with your next Service Pack. Even if you can even figure out it's installed, you couldn't remove it.

  22. Globecom Jukebox on Rolling Your Own Jukebox System? · · Score: 1

    At home I use Globecom Jukebox: http://gjukebox.sourceforge.net/
    I started looking for a jukebox solution about 3 years ago. I've got ~15000 tunes online and of all the ones I looked at, this one seemed to be the most scaleable.
    It is written in PERL, and uses a MySQL database backend. It has a themeable Web based frontend driven by Apache and PHP. You can use any browser to search for songs and manage the playlist. I went with one of the very simple themes (not the default) and then customized it to my own liking. It will import songs from an existing directory and make them searchable by album, artist, song title, all taken from the ID3 tags. It normalizes the volume level on import too. It is works with MP3, OGG Vorbis and other formats. It supports multiple users (with separate accounts if you want). It supports voting for songs. In random play mode, songs with more votes get played more often than those with fewer or negative votes.

  23. Re:Interesting implementations on World's Shortest P2P App: 15 Lines · · Score: 1

    A simple google search shows the postscript webserver is available: http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/pshttpd/

  24. Re:This is why... on Another Format War: DVD -R9 v. +R9 · · Score: 1

    Bah... all this new fangled stuff.
    DVD, CD, 3.5", 5.25"....
    Ya'll can beta test all you want.
    I'll stick with my 8" floppies :-p

  25. Re:Cloners on Jakob Nielsen Talks About Usability in FOSS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't see an easy solution, because if you don't clone, then reviewers and users complain that the app is missing feature X, or that it works differently than in Microsoft Office, and therefore the app unuseable or unsuitable. If you do clone, then the critisism is about perpetuating the bad UI. If you offer the feature, but change the UI, then the complaints are that the learning curve is too high.

    Which is the better of the evils?