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  1. Re:He did buy the uid on ebay on Not Enough Ads? Install Adbar. · · Score: 4, Informative
    Good god!

    He paid $115 for that ID! I guess he was sick of his current low karma

    LOL!

  2. michael, you tree hugger on Student Killed Driving Solar Car · · Score: 1, Troll
    this will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers.
    I've got a little piece of information for all of you tree huggers who are too busy worrying about Hummers, Excursions, and Suburbans. There are even BIGGER vehicles on the road! Semi-trailers, buses, dump trucks, garbage trucks... all of these vehicles are even LARGER THAN A HUMMER!!!! You are NEVER going to be safe driving your little puny 90 mpg 2-seater vehicle because these vehicles are all over the place!!!
  3. Re:Anticipation... on First Clip from Firefly Movie to be Shown at Comic-Con · · Score: 1
    It is if you understand the reference.

    You, however, have exposed yourself as NOT being a true Firefly fan.
    shoo!

  4. Re:hmph. on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    Some of the episodes, like 'Window of Opportunity' (The time ripple), 'Upgrades' (The super-arm bands)... are so damn good, and really funny.
    I've actually kept these two episodes on my ReplayTV because they are so, incredibly, immensely hilarious.

    If you haven't watched SG1 yet, make sure you watch one of these two episodes! You'll be hooked!

  5. Misunderstood... on Review: Elgato EyeTV 500 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Elgato makes PVR hard- and software for Macs.
    Did anyone else read that as "Elgato makes a hard-to-use PVR, as well as some Mac software?"
  6. Re:Um... on Jumping From Computer To Computer · · Score: 3, Informative
    It always baffles me why people use VNC... when most of the time, remote X would do the job just fine.
    That's like wondering why people use "screen" when "telnet" will do the job just fine.

    All of these programs let you access a machine remotely, but screen & VNC allow you to keep a particular session alive while you access it from different locations. With remote X (or telnet), if you want to access the server from a different location, you have to log in again, starting a new session. With screen or VNC, you are continuing an already opened session. Any programs that you were running are still there, unchanged. Read up on VNC a little more and try to understand the implications of this feature. It really is a nice feature, above and beyond what X provides.

  7. Taking aim... on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 1
    Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers
    Apparently, they are also taking aim at John Kerry: link
  8. Re:Always right....? on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1
    I once bought a TV at Worst Buy, and the last thing the clerk said to me wasn't "Thank you", it was "You realize that if it breaks you can't bring it back here."
    That's easy to get around. If it breaks, just go back & buy a second, identical TV. Then go back the next day & return the first TV using the second receipt. They accept returns within two weeks (IIRC).
  9. Here's what I want... on ViewSonic VP2290b Super High-Res Monitor · · Score: 3, Interesting
    At 204 pixels per inch this display has pretty much matched the quality you'd expect from a standard photographic print viewed at normal distances.
    Ok LCD monitor manufacturers, here's what I want:

    A 10 inch monitor with this pixel density.

    I don't care so much about have a big monitor. What I really want are lots of pixels. A 10" monitor with 200ppi would give me a 1600x1200 display! I would be very happy to have this in a nice, compact laptop! Or even as a desktop display!

  10. Re:I need a new DNS server on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1
    Why do you have to restart your bind when the VPN is up?
    Because BIND wasn't designed to do forwarding, and the feature is pretty broken. If I start BIND without the VPN being up, ALL DNS resolution fails, not just resolution of the VPN-related addresses.
  11. Re:I need a new DNS server on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1
    It sounds like that should work.

    I didn't see a download link, nor did I see a license. Kind of strange for what appears to be the official site to not have these things.

  12. Re:I need a new DNS server on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1
    That doesn't solve the problem.

    BIND is hosed for doing non-forwarding queries when it is started without the VPN being up. I know, you expected regular DNS queries to keep working normally, but they don't.

  13. I need a new DNS server on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1
    I'm currently using bind, but it doesn't work well at all for my current situation.

    I have a small home network. I also have a VPN to my work network. I would like to forward all DNS queries matching a particular domain or IP address range to the DNS servers at work.

    For all other DNS queries, I probably should forward them to my ISP's DNS servers, but I'm not too particular about that.

    My current problem is that my VPN isn't always running, and if BIND starts when the VPN is not up, then BIND doesn't work right. I have to restart it when the VPN is up, and then it is fine.

    So, any suggestions for a DNS server that can handle this situation?

  14. Re:Microsoft? on Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom? · · Score: 1
    It could have been an honest mistake. They say never to attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity, of course. But some of us remember a few years ago when MSN blocked all non-IE browsers from accessing their site, and even went so far as to redirect people to a page telling them to download their goat-kissing IE browser so it would render properly.
    This wasn't an issue of sending a different stylesheet to non-IE browsers. RTFA. The Opera folks tried changed the user agent string to some non-existent browser name, and ended up getting the same content as IE! So MS specifically targeted the Opera browser with the bad style sheet.
  15. Re:It Can't be steel on Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT · · Score: 1
    LOL!

    That was actually a good one, and not entirely expected! Kudos!

  16. Re:Dear God man on Websites For The Frugal? · · Score: 1

    You're not alone. I do this too. ;-)

  17. Bargainshare.com on Websites For The Frugal? · · Score: 1

    One of the better places to find bargains is Bargainshare. It was started by a group of the better bargain hunters who got a little sick of how Fatwallet was being run.

    And we're not talking about simple "save 10%" type stuff either. We're talking things like getting paid almost $200 after rebates to buy a brand-new color laser printer! You really need to check it out!

  18. Re:I'm more interested.. on How Many Google Machines, Really? · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm more interested in how they recycle their gigantic heat output...perhaps ... open up a homeless shelter next door, and put the hot air to good use for once.
    By cooking the homeless people?
    I guess that's one way to solve the homeless problem.
  19. Re:So what? Where's the shag carpet? on Exotic Wood Computer Cases · · Score: 1
    Why would such a simple "case mod" make the Slashdot front page? It isn't even a "case mod", it's a "case decal".
    You're thinking of wood laminate, which is the fake, wood-looking vinyl covering you see on really cheap furniture

    This is wood veneer, which means it really is wood, just cut into very thin sheets. This is not a partical board or anything like that. It can be difficult working with a wood veneer. Very easy to cause the wood to split if handled improperly.

  20. A little white lie about Froogle on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1
    If you click on the "what's new from Google" link from Google's main page, you'll see the following description of Froogle:
    If you're shopping for something online, start at Froogle. Search millions of products from stores across the web and sort them by price. And just as with Google, your results are totally unbiased since merchants don't pay to be included.
    This isn't completely honest, because Froogle implements affiliate links to many of these merchants. That means that the merchant will pay google some percentage whenever you make a purchase after following a Froogle link.
  21. Cool! on Microsoft Announces XNA Game Development Platform · · Score: 1, Funny
    Will it run on Linux?

    ;-)

  22. Re:Kinder, Gentler Children's Toys on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 1
    I took the toys apart and would find the right value resistor that would top off the speaker volume
    Wow, that's a lot more work than putting a piece of tape over the speaker grille.
    Kids will rip off tape pretty quickly.

    I prefer to simply cut the speaker wires myself. Or throw the toy away.

  23. Lawyers were Clinton's biggest $ource on Price-Fixing Settlement Checks in the Mail · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Clinton / Gore 1996 Contributors by Industry

    Lawyers were Clinton's second-largest contributor too!
    Guess who was the largest? It was "unknown" - maybe that includes the Mob & Chinese?

  24. Re:Robot TANKS I can understand... on Robots for No Man's Land · · Score: 1

    Then make the robots drive support vehicles - gas trucks, weapons carriers, etc. I just don't see the point of having a computer drive a personnel carrier.

  25. Robot TANKS I can understand... on Robots for No Man's Land · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Robot TANKS I can understand. You want to reduce the risk to your own people, and replacing humans with computers to guide such vehicles makes sense.

    But whey would you replace the driver of a PERSONNEL carrier???