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  1. I wish I did this... on Opposing Open Source? · · Score: 1

    When I was in college writing papers...

    I always though that was what research was for - especially because I'd think it would be hard to cite a slashdot post.

  2. Re:sell licenses on Quarter-sized CD's? · · Score: 1

    Well at least I provided a link to read more about my claim - I've never heard this - I know a lot of japanese corperations work together a lot, but last I saw a Pioneer amp was considerably different then a sony amp.

  3. Re:sell licenses on Quarter-sized CD's? · · Score: 1

    This a load of baloney,

    http://ecoustics.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib. ph p?page_id=89&ut=3f6913ef480deffd - just brose through - while it is true that most models are made by sony I see sharp, aiwa, pioneer, kenwood. I've heard tascam, and some of those other pro dat/tape manufactures make them too.

  4. Re:People should try as hard to stop the SSSCA on LOTR Campout Begins · · Score: 1

    If I were only so lucky :).

  5. Cybex Autoview on Tom's Hardware KVM Roundup · · Score: 1

    I used the Autoview 200 - which you can get for 1500$ new, or sometimes around 100$ on ebay - which is how I got mine. They are soooo much better then anything I've ever seen for starters they have on screen controlls - second it simulates the ps2 ports when your away on another computer (I've had belkin kvm switches trash X because of this) - third you can do the most amazing things with it - it has a command line you can enter in commands to like output a single keyboard to ALL devices - and you can have two different consoles at the same time (displaying the same thing, or two of anything you like).

    It is by far the cadilac of KVM switches - and they do make modeles like the Autoview 400 - which support Sun keyboards, and USB devices along side PS/2 or whatever just about. Also if your not interested in 8 or 16 ports you can get ones that have 2 or 4.

  6. Re:It was a very good deal... on Sprint ION's $100/mo, 8Mbps Home Service Tanks · · Score: 1

    Thats why I like cable - I get 4 megabits of bandwidth for 20$ per month, and eventually there going to provide a digital phone server I can use over it as well (if excite@home gets sold).

  7. Re:Well... on Shuttle's Tiny PC Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Ugly? I thought it was cute! Seriously!

  8. Re:A Cure for Road Rage? on Sony/Toyota Developing Car With Emotions · · Score: 1

    Are you nuts? I'd never be able to go anywhere! Besides thats the kind of car you do not want to drive agressively.

  9. Re:Infomercials on Hucksters, Suckers, and the Cue:Cat · · Score: 1

    I never saw the ad, but this is all right along the same lines as every other bad idea.com where the business plan was - think of a piece of crap - put it online - try to make money - one of my most favorite ideas (now long since gone) was eappraisal.com (might have been eprailsel.com) and eantiques.com - both of which were antique appraisal companies.

    Didn't these guys watch the antique roadshow? Did they really expect people to send in antiques to be appraised?

  10. Re:IBM on Slashback: Drives, Errors, Copyright · · Score: 1

    Yeah - except their office is in the middle of an army base.

  11. Re:symbols on Hucksters, Suckers, and the Cue:Cat · · Score: 2, Informative

    not to mention it was hard to scan cue cat upcs. I got one and I played around with it - it was nifty, but eventually it ended up on the floor behind my computer (with all the other devices I never use) because I never really could actually use it for anything useful. 90% of the time you'd scan a can of pop right? And all it would do is take you to their website - think about it. I had to go to the fridge, get the pop, scan it just to view a website - where I could have just sat there on my ass and type in www.pepsi.com.

  12. Re:Get it? Get it! on AMD Athlon MP 1800+ Processor Review · · Score: 1

    Oh come on - I use a thunderbird and my games need it - not to mention it is absolutely brutally fast.

  13. Re:IBM on Slashback: Drives, Errors, Copyright · · Score: 1

    You know whats funny about this (and I mentioned it in the last article about ibm drives, but noone read my comment)) is that in my last job I had. I had to go down to Alexa once or twice where they store the internet on literally thousands of these 76 gig drives (well over 132 terrabytes worth) - they have apparently only lost like 3 drives so far - and there all BSD machines.

    We had a machine there too with 8 of these drives - it lost two of them - the rest have run okay for a good 3 years straight.

  14. Re:The VIA SouthBridge and IBM 75GXP Connection on Slashback: Drives, Errors, Copyright · · Score: 1

    I am (Abit KT7) - I think its a heat problem more then anything. The first 76gig disk drive I had died on me - they sent me a brand new part. One thing I noticed is that the new drive runs cool to the touch - where as the one they replaced would just about burn your finger if you touched it.

  15. Re:If businesses want to make their networks secur on £10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued · · Score: 1

    When is the last time you saw a CTO who knew how to use a computer?

    I think I've made my point :).

  16. Re:Hope people have read the Gartner report... on £10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued · · Score: 1

    Oh I dunno - I've worked in at least two environments where IIS was used in a enterprise solution (IE more then several hundred users). It seemed to me the IIS people were always running around looking over logs, they got hacked twice - despite the fact they were dedicated to keeping it up and staying updated.

    Just say install the hotfix to any nt admin and watch as they run away in terror. Probably because they have to all be reinstalled every time you update anything - and each with one reboot.

  17. Realism? on X-Plane Flight Simulator For Linux · · Score: 1

    I dunno - after I took off I was doing manuevers I'm used to in fighter sims with a British Airways Airliner - like aileron rolls, and cuban loops - and I'm serious. Although I've never flown a real air-liner I doubt one would do this as willingly as the game made it seem. I could pull turns that one would use to evade missle locks without even stalling.

    If I had a bit more power I probably could have pulled off the bell manuever (where you fly straight up - let the jet stall, and come straight down at some attack angel)

    Keep working on it guys :).

  18. Re:Yet another tool of terrorists... on X-Plane Flight Simulator For Linux · · Score: 1

    I have to admit the other day I was playing Flanker 2.5 (www.flanker2.com) and I wondered what it would be like if I dropped several high explosive, unguided onto a building....

  19. Re:Old news.... on Run Mac OS X On Those Old Macs · · Score: 1

    off topic? C'mon - I can show you dated articles that will show anyone how to install mac os x onto a older mac.... IT IS ANCIENT NEWS!

  20. Re:DSL for everyone... on Broadband Is Dead (Or At Least Very Ill) · · Score: 1

    I've seen lots of local companies make it - probably because they spend less on infrastructure (equipment) and marketing.

    Rarely do I see a local TV ad advertising dsl connectivity. Before @home went bankrupt they advertised all the time.

  21. Re:Cringely on Broadband Is Dead (Or At Least Very Ill) · · Score: 1

    Well thats why he's called a pundit - he's not right or wrong - he just makes you think about the issues.

    There is a strong case to be made dieing off in the US. I mean @home is selling me a broadband connection for 25$ per month - its only 5$ more then ATT charges for dialup - yet its like and often 100 times faster?

  22. Old news.... on Run Mac OS X On Those Old Macs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    C'mon - I've know about these install techniques for at least a month after OS x came out. I'd be more impressed if they had a story on how to make it run on a 6100/60 with G3 200 turbo-board.

    And before everyone moans and complains that its ancient etc - consider it can run linux, mklinux and bsd pretty darn fast right now.

  23. Re:Might explain my service outage... on Mobilestar Less Mobile; Excite@Home Less Exciting · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this has something to do with misconfigured dhcp servers on your subnet? I noticed I get a huge amount of people requesting IP's and so on. If it wasn't for my ipchain rules I'm not sure what it would do. I suppose nothing because I told dhcp to only look at eth0 (inside). However if someone had a windows 2000 server (which a lot of people do for some reason - on their desktops) with dhcp enabled it might cause this.

    I dunno - something to think about.

  24. I just got cable installed... on Mobilestar Less Mobile; Excite@Home Less Exciting · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I moved from DSL to Cable - mostly because of the price/bandwidth issues of DSL. Yes I have got over 441kilobytes per second - quite often too over cable. That much bandwidth on DSL would cost me (if I could get it - which I can't) anywhere from 240-400$ per month. I've purchased 7mbps dsl for a company I used to work for - and I've rarely seen it go over 300kilobytes per second and just the bandwidth cost 240$.

    I sure hope they don't shut down the cable networks - because I kinda like it here :).

  25. Dang - does anyone test these before release? on Kernel 2.4.11 Released · · Score: 1

    I tried to install it on my Sparcstation 10 - which I'd like to use as a firewall. 2.2.19 had some wacky bugs with the ethernet card (an ancient bigmac), 2.4.10 wouldn't compile at all (only let me know this after working on it for 4 hours), 2.4.11 compiled (still took 4 hours) but it hangs on startup when trying to free boot memory.

    Then again I guess there's not a whole lot one can ask for a 10 year old machine.