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  1. Re:Checking for unexploded ordinance on WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Online · · Score: 1

    Belgium has it bad. I saw a program on UXO in Belgium.. they gave the statistic that if they never found any more UXO and chemical weapons, it would take 20 years to dispose of those which they've already found and have in storage.

  2. Re:For Apple Laptops on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Kudos for finding it.. but you know iBooks and powerbooks use the same hard drives as every PC laptop on the market, right?

  3. Re:Why stop there? on Linus Sighted At LCA2004 · · Score: 1

    I once had some beers with some FBI and DOD agents while I was underaged in the US (I was 19 though).

    Ahh where did my misspent youth go.

  4. Re:Awesome! on Linus Sighted At LCA2004 · · Score: 1

    Just don't try out-drinking Hemos. The man can hold his drink against the best of us.

    H. Peter Anvin (SYSLINUX) on the other hand.. ended up in hospital after LCA2003. Heh!

  5. Re:Adelaide Alive on Linus Sighted At LCA2004 · · Score: 1

    .. 10 years ago? :)

  6. Re:Why stop there? on Linus Sighted At LCA2004 · · Score: 0

    3 years ago when that was posted, Trent was 13. How were you with Unix permissions when you were 13?

    He's a speaker due to his knowledge of ipv6, which is to say the least, extensive.

  7. Re:how ironic is this on HP Licenses Apple's iPod & iTMS · · Score: 1

    bzzt (sort of). The Stylewriters were rebadged Canon BJ's. Some of the laserwriters may have been Canon (some of the personal laserwriters were Lexmark) but most were HP.

  8. Re:Mac version DOES have this misfeature on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 2, Informative

    % pwd /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS/Adobe Photoshop CS.app/Contents/MacOSClassic

    % strings Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS | grep -i banknote
    $$$/Open/Alert/Level1=This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images.^r^rFor more information, select the information button below for Internet-based information on restrictions for copying and distributing banknote images or go to www.rulesforuse.org.

    So it's definately in there, but does it work? I don't know.

  9. Re:Did anyone else notice? on Mini-iPod Mystery Drive Unveiled? · · Score: 1

    I live in Australia and have an ipod I keep in my backpack. After walking around outside on a summer day, the buttons don't function for about 5 minutes. Too hot :)

  10. Re:Windows will rule in Iraq on Iraq's Open Source Possibilities · · Score: 1

    limiting piracy accusations to the far and middle east is a little bit discriminatory.. aside from copies that come with computers, most people I know pirate OSes in North America, Europe and Australia ;p

  11. Re:Still too much where I come from on Red Hat News: Edu Prices, Progeny Support for 7.X · · Score: 1

    MSDNAA representin' ;)

    It's a great program from IT administration's point of view.. it's cheap and provides great access to MS's resources..

    on the other hand however, it's a lot like crack dealers handing out the first hit free. Students use all of MS's crap at university and then when they hit the real world, they want to keep using it, thus it works as a marketing tool for microsoft that the university ends up paying for.

  12. Re:Power outage on Need... More... Power... · · Score: 1

    Hehe.. well done :) I'll have to remember that ;)

  13. Re:Wireless security? on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    As a university network admin, one of the main concerns about AP's running without WEP is idiot tech writers war-driving and then writing up about "University X having wide open access points / doesn't know how to secure their network /etc" and associated loss of face amoungst the pointy heads.

    My university has wireless campus wide, with a WEP key for that reason.. and it's "12345". To actually get anywhere, you need to run a VPN client :)

  14. Good idea on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    "As3deyt#$seKJ34" is probably a bit too difficult, but your idea of a CD-key type arrangement for the initial SSID/wep key us actually a pretty good idea..

  15. Re:And the problem? on 'Operation Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests · · Score: 1

    Who is dispensing with 'innocent until proven guilty"?

    Those who assume that because someone has been arrested, they will be tried and convicted, and thus should be counted in the same group as those who have already been convicted.

  16. Good to see.. on 'Operation Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good to see that finally they're stopping hiding behind the whole innocent until proven guilty thing.. I mean, arrested and convicted.. same thing, let's lump them in together, right? :)

    "Seventy indictments to date have led to arrests or convictions of 125 people"

  17. Re:The question is on Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Marge: Homer, I don't want guns in my house! Don't
    you remember when Maggie shot Mr. Burns?
    Homer: I thought Smithers did it.
    Lisa: That would've made a lot more sense . . .

    Simpsons - 5F01

  18. ObCliche.. on China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD · · Score: 1

    In communist China, DVD makers pay you...

    Ok, sorry.

  19. Re:Experiences with Norton Ghost on Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? · · Score: 1

    Have you rebuilt the sysprep.inf file using /bmsd and the associated additional stanza in the first generated sysprep.inf for "BuildMassStorageDevices?

    Regarding joining domains, I just type in the username and password manually, so can't help there. Sorry.

  20. Re:Experiences with Norton Ghost on Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? · · Score: 1

    Well, they don't necessarily, but yes, there is an unlimited clients option to them. But the original poster's surprise is not that unusual. Your Ghost Enterprise Edition needs a license for every machine you use it on. In my case, the license per machine is only about US$10. It's well worth it.

  21. Re:Experiences with Norton Ghost on Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? · · Score: 1

    In as much as this seems wrong talking about Enterprise systems deployment involving hundreds of thousands of systems, "me too" :)

    We use Ghost to deploy about 100 lab systems every few months, dual-booting Linux and Windows, and we do pretty much the same thing. Lab machine broken? Get out Ghost, 40 minutes later, all good and only took me about 5 minutes of time to do.

  22. Re:Full Price? WHY?!? on Factual 'Big Mac' Results · · Score: 1

    Apple also offer bulk purchase deals for 25 or more machines, so while they paid "list", "list" from Apple on 1100 machines is probably about 40% off retail :)

  23. Re:No, make that.. on Factual 'Big Mac' Results · · Score: 1

    If you have > 50 macs, apple will license it to you for about $25 per seat :)

  24. Re:Powerbook premium on Apple Updates iBook Line With G4 Processor · · Score: 1

    The original two white ibook revisions only have 8MB video. 4MB per screen does not a happy mac make :)

  25. Re:FYI: Gerard Beekmans... on SCSI vs. IDE In The Real World · · Score: 1

    That as may be, but he should stick to what he knows and leave reviewing technologies to people with both a technical cloo and some knowledge of writing :)