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  1. Re:question for /.ers on Sorting Through the Analog to Digital TV Mess · · Score: 1

    "Does anyone out there have a set-top box to recieve over the air digital TV signals?"

    I do, I'm one of those early-early adopters. It's a Samsung and they no longer make it.

    I've heard that the HUMAX Digital ATSC TV Tuner is the best out there.

    I spent a fair amount of time messing with mine, and the enormous Channel Master Crossfire 3678.

    Works well now.

  2. Re:Logic Unit Failure - Please Replace, k thx on Serenity Opens Today · · Score: 1

    oh oh name calling too?

  3. Re:Logic Unit Failure - Please Replace, k thx on Serenity Opens Today · · Score: 1

    Then why not stick to the facts?
    Can you refute the three examples?

  4. Re:Logic Unit Failure - Please Replace, k thx on Serenity Opens Today · · Score: 1

    BTW marxism is not socialism.
    look it up.

  5. Re:Logic Unit Failure - Please Replace, k thx on Serenity Opens Today · · Score: 1

    "I can't think of a single dictator that wasn't a socialist since the mid 19th century."

    Cant think of any? I can think of three off the bat.

    Idi Amin

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin

    Augusto Pinochet

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet

    Francisco Franco

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco

    I can go on but whats the point?

    All three were tyrants.
    None of them were socialist.
    All three had wonderful killing fields. (one was a documented canibal)

    "How you go from economics to theology is a mystery. Clearly logic isn't one of your strong suits"

    If you can't win any other way personal attacks allways work right?

  6. Re:Great movie with free market touches on Serenity Opens Today · · Score: 1


      Let me see

    Stalin was a tyrant, but socialism was not the cause.

    Pol Pot was a tyrant, but socialism was not the cause.

    Mao was a tyrant, but socialism was not the cause.

    Kim Jong Il, Ho Chi Minh, I can go on if you like.

    Pope Alexander VI was pope and a Christian.

    Ivan the Terrible was devote Christian.

    Bush is a Christian.

    Hey I know... They were all brunette, are you brunette too?

  7. mod up! on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 1

    I agree completely.

  8. Re:The end of Ogg support? on Rio Brand Closes Doors · · Score: 1

    Get one of these?

    http://onlinestore.cowonamerica.com/index.asp?Page Action=VIEWPROD&ProdID=149

    When and if my karma dies I will cry, it's a great product.

  9. www.hxdef.org on Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel · · Score: 1

    This might be a site worth looking into.

    www.hxdef.org

    Don't go there with IE

  10. Make it work, make it right, make it fast. on GNOME 2.12 Previewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

  11. Re:Two hugely flawed assumptions. on Asa Dotzler on Why Linux Isn't Ready for the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Have you ever used it?
    I'm running about a 10% success rate. Moving a user from one box to
    another is a bit of a nightmare. And yes I'm a windows Administrator.

  12. Re:SHADDUP FUCK FACE!!!! on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    Um... you don't have to be administrator to create a share.
    Take a look at power user as a example.

  13. Re:Speed up the interface a bit! on Just a Phone? · · Score: 1
    You wouldn't decide not to buy a car simply because it had too many gadgets, would you?

    As a matter of fact I would. when I bought my car, I specificly looked for less features not more. I had just had a Audi where every other bell and whistle was broken. And fixing it would cost more then I wanted to pay.

    So I bought a good car without almost a bells and whistles, a Acura Integra. still running and it just pass 200000 miles. and everything works.

  14. Re:What I asked on MS Invites Security Questions · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "They are trying. Clearly the previous OS's didn't make it easy to not run as admin, but it is possible in XP, 2000 and 2003 Aaron Margosis, despite a few jumps and hoops."

    If this was true ms would have their *regular users* not running as adminstrators. The receptionists run as administrator!

    I just don't see Aaron Margosis comments anything but lip service. Microsoft don't even try!
  15. What I asked on MS Invites Security Questions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why does microsoft not eat it's own dogfood? As a network administrator
    I'm contstatly struggling with rights on workstations. I know that MS
    gives admin right to all of it's own users. (I live in seattle I've seen
    it.) But I can think of no security hole larger then giving out rights
    to users who *SHOULD* not need them.

    There is a laundry list of applications written *by* Microsoft that do
    not work properly without additional rights.

    This has been true sense NT 3.51. How did this happen? Upgrading to
    longhorn it not a soulution. If I worked for Microsoft this would be
    my first priority. Take away rights, fix existing applications.

  16. Re:Slashdot history! on The Linux Kernel Archives · · Score: 1

    I think it was a alpha.....

  17. Re:load average 1024??!!! on The Linux Kernel Archives · · Score: 2, Insightful


    sure;
    The proccessors could actualy be doing very little other then waiting on the disks.. I'd be more interested in output from vmstat.

  18. Slashdot history! on The Linux Kernel Archives · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This was a great article! I can attest the there is quite a difference with the new hardware, I got a 500KBps download last night while downloading rc3-mm2.

    Can we please have the same kind of article about slashdot hardware?

  19. Re:CD Quality? on Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    from some informal testing it's still about 20% smaller then FLAC.

  20. Re:CD Quality? on Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    I do my rips with oggenc -q 10 most people scoff at this. 499 bit rate I think....


    Two comments
    * disk space is cheap. All of my cds amount to about about 70 gigs. (And yes it is all mine.)
    * Oversampling, I like to make regular mix cds oversampling helps to keep sounding good.
    even on a real stereo.

  21. Re:Aww c'MON! on Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker Replies · · Score: 1

    I love the obligatory Dr. Strange love quote!

  22. Re:quote on Juiced · · Score: 1

    I would not rule it out....

    Think about it, a IQ near 300 if it added a additional 60.

    Quality of life issues are important, but you might just contribute back to society in the proccess. Is that not noble?

  23. quote on Juiced · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Baseball players will take anything. If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins but might take five years off his life, he'd take it."

    I had to ask myself, if I could take a pill that increased my IQ by 60 points, but might take five years off my life would I take it?

    Yep.
  24. Re:Splash Screen Movie on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Contest Revisited · · Score: 1

    Thanks!
    There are some great images, I wonder why people get so wound up about a little bit of marketing?

  25. Re:that proves I really need one 8) on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 1

    A awesome spell checker is spellbound, works great for me. http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/