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  1. Re:Looks like a rumor to me. on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It looks like you didn't rtfa (I don't blame you, the original submitter of the article didn't either). Their not going to start charging for anything you can do free right now. They're introducing a new conference call type service which they will be charging money for. It's aimed more at businesses than the end user.

  2. RTFA, as usual on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article doesn't say anything about charging for video. AOL is introducing a conference call service (like a group chat, only for voice) that they will be charging money for. Now they say you'll be able to integrate video with these conference calls, which sounds cool, but nothing users can currently do free will now cost money

  3. Re:Couldn't this (the leak)be a good thing for val on Valve Announces Half-Life 2 Code Theft Arrests · · Score: 1

    perhaps you should check out The Torque Engine. Non-free, but for $100 you get the source + tools to build whatever type of game you want.

  4. Re:For More Machinima goodness... on First All-Artificial Feature Film Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dunno, looks more like a puma jumping contest to me.

  5. Re:Not to be pessimistic... on Mozilla's Mini-Me · · Score: 1

    Yes, Opera does come installed on the Sharp Zaurus actually.

  6. Re:Slashdot condones piracy? on Successful PearPC/Mac OS X Install Documented · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just playing devil's advocate here, but even if he didn't pay for Windows Server 2003, he could be running the 180-day evaluation version. I've got a machine running it on campus for one a group in the CS capstone course who insisted on testing their final project with it.

  7. Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 4, Informative

    Another great app is the creatively named Desktop Manager. You can set up as many desktops as you need (I think) and you can do the eye-delicious rotating cube effect to switch between desktops.

  8. Re:Lots of defense work in less urban areas on Tech Work in the Boonies? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've got to add St. Louis and Kansas City Missouri to your list. Both are fairly large cities with real country under a half-hour away. You can live on several acres of land, surrounded by no one, and still drive into the city on a daily basis for work at any number of tech places/defense contractors in both cities.
    Plus, life just seems to move a little slower/more relaxed out here than it does on the east coast.

  9. Re:A good reason to use encryption on Broadband Access Leading to Internet Breakdown? · · Score: 1

    Learn how to cryptographically sign your mail on Mac OS X 10.3

    Or you could simply download/install GPGMail and not worry about all that silly cert stuff.

    You DO have a GPG key allready, right?

  10. test, please don't mod either way. on Apple Plans to Grow to $10 Billion · · Score: 1

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  11. Re:Science or Fiction on Star Trek's Design Influence On Palm, New Tech · · Score: 1

    Yes, I've seen several comments in this thread bringing up the example of the QWERTY keyboard as a strange interface that allows you input information fast. What people don't remember though is that QWERTY was designed to slow people down because they kept jamming typewriters with the more efficient layout.

  12. Re:Is this book good for C++ programmers, too? on Pragmatic JUnit Testing · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd also suggest looking at unit++ for your unit testing needs in any c++ project. Very easy to use, and just seems like the c++ way of doing things. Some of the "ports" of junit to c++ still seem to javaish for my liking.

  13. Re:Google Calculator on Favorite Hidden Google Features? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Airspeed of an unladen swallow

    found through google of course.

  14. gaim on Audio/Video Conference with iChat and AIM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm glad to see that I can finally video chat with my windows using friends too. Anyone have an estimate on how long it'll take the gaim folks to impliment this addition so EVERYONE can videoconfrence?

  15. Re:Exceptions on US Govt Makes Times New Roman 14 Official Font · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it was the first post, and it wasn't a troll, so it'll get modded up without your help or mine :-)

  16. Re:Bank of America highly recommended on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    BofA really does kick ass. Along with all the billpay stuff and other nifty features that come with an account, they are really trying to support as many browsers as possible. They've even added Safari support recently!

    Oh, and so I'm not OT, IE still sucks :-)

  17. Re:The easiest way on Switching from Another Industry to Engineering/CS? · · Score: 1

    dude! the man/woman is a friggen M.D.! Screw plumbing. I agree he/she should keep his/her day job and do CS stuff on the side though, if only because the last thing we need is more competition :-)

  18. Re:Awesome on NVIDIA Drivers for 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know you were just trying to be funny, but for those who think you may be serious...

    No you don't need to get the 2.6 kernel to run these drivers. They still work with your old 2.4 kernel as well!

  19. Re:Honest Question. on Orkut Goes Dark, At Least For A Bit · · Score: 1

    if you try to log in it gives you the message posted in the article submission.

  20. Re:missed the vote on 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 4, Interesting

    rtfa. SCO "evidence" did get a dishonerable mention

  21. Re:What about these options... on End of Life for Red Hat 7.x, 8.0 · · Score: 1

    Brian, you misspelled slackware.

  22. Re:SCO Reiterates Ownership of Unix Intellectual on Novell Releases SCO Letters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was going to mod you up, but I decided to respond instead. Notice how everything in this SCO press release refers to previous SCO and Novell press releases. They don't mention a single contract, or anything else that would hold water in court. SCO knows press releases do _NOT_ mean anything in court. Hurray for everyone's favorite pump & dump scheme.

  23. Re:Widget Mania on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 1

    That's the idea bethind my friend's masters research. He's designing/implimenting a common API where the program writer calls something like draw_widget_common() and his api translates it to whatever toolkit the end-user prefers, be it QT, GTK+, wxwindows, whatever. There's a lot more to it then that, but it sounded really interesting when he explained it to me a couple months ago. Hopefully he'll log into his /. account and reply to this post describing it better.

  24. Re:SSIDs and WEP on Risk Management of Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    ars's 2nd tip is to turn off SSID broadcasting to "hide" your network. Anyone with a packet sniffer though can tell you that this really doesn't help hide you at all. In fact, as this paper suggests, it may actually harm the performance of your wireless network.

  25. Terminal fixed as well on Mac OS X 10.3.2 Update available · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can't find this documented anywhere, but they fixed Terminal.app as well! When 10.3 came out, they removed the "Use option key as meta key" checkbox from the Terminal Window settings. They've re-added in in 10.3.2! Now I can have multiple windows open in BitchX again and alt/option+# between them again! Praise jobs for restored functionality!