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  1. Re:okay... I must have failed Nerd history 101 but on Trojan Coffee Room Machine Returns · · Score: 1

    After looking at your post, I decided to look at the (much beloved) fishcam again. I looked at it and it appears to say, "JavaScript Fire Department" behind the machine.

    Well, gald to know it's still working.

  2. Re:You think you guys got it bad..... on Broadband In Australia Just Got Slower · · Score: 1

    Where I live, we have a similar service. 3GB, bandwidth limited to 512 kbits/sec down, 128 kbits/sec up in the cable modem. Luckily, they don't block P2P networks, as they are the only broadband provider in our area.

    There is really no way to tell how much bandwidth you've used. Either use Linux with IP masq and look at the stuff it /proc or give up. There's not even an online meter.

    However, there is a good side to this. I'm administrating the network at the local community technology center, and he agreed to give me 512 kbit symmetrical service and remove my bandwidth limit. That's especially good for me because I downloaded 3 CD images (Debian m68k and Red Hat 7.2 [2 CDs]) this month. Unfortunately, you probably can't do something like that at a major broadband provider...

  3. Beowulf Cluster of Oregon Supreme Courts on Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case · · Score: 0

    Could you imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Oregon Supreme Courts?

    Convicts people for innocent activities even faster than before...

  4. Re:Pirates beware on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1
  5. 1xRTT on 3G Network Coming to America · · Score: 1

    This still doesn't answer my question. I won a 1xRTT (Phase 1) phone (the Ericsson t60c). The TDMA alternative (the t60d) has been released, but the t60c isn't even on the "Coming Soon" page. I've read that 1xRTT may be delayed into mid next year.

    1xRTT isn't even really 3G. It's closer 2.5G (I've seen people classify it as both), at rates of only 153kbps. Now hopefully someone will get off their lazy ass and finish the standard!

    Santa, say it ain't so!

  6. Mailing List! on Giant Black Hole Found · · Score: 1

    God has a (private) mailing list to coordinate announcements of this nature so that religions can receive updates, but the scientists broke the schedule and released this before many religions had updates...

    Oops, wrong story

  7. Re:Why Linux PPC? (A: The GIMP) on Two Shots In The Arm For PPC Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    The GIMP runs rootlessly on Mac OS X. (Install using fink or gnu-darwin.) I bet getting xchat to work wouldn't be too much of a chore.

    BTW, I agree that on older machines Linux is much, much faster (I have a server running LinuxPPC)

  8. Re:Apple is offering to reimburse users on Slashback: Solidity, Sneakiness, Recovery · · Score: 1

    I can understand how this would be uncommon among testing systems. Most testers probably don't have multiple hard drives with names like "Disk", "Disk 1", and "Disk 2". The only real combination I could think of anyone having is "MacOS" and "MacOS X".

  9. Apple is offering to reimburse users on Slashback: Solidity, Sneakiness, Recovery · · Score: 2, Redundant
    According to this page Apple is offering to reimburse users who lost data from iTunes 2 for Norton Utilities and data recovery services.

    It's nice that they're doing the right thing.

  10. Player and encoder matters on What Sounds Better, MP3 or Ogg? · · Score: 1
    The player you use also matters. I found that QuickTime and iTunes for Mac sound noticably different. Also, Arboretum Realizer has made a difference in quality. Equalizers can help also.

    Also, I've found that particularly at lower bit rates, the LAME encoder produces noticably better MP3s than the Fraunhofer encoder.

  11. Re:Face Recognition on RSI, WIMPs and Pipes; What Next? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is much more expensive than this. At the nursing home my grandmother lives at there was a man using this software. The man is since deceased, but let me explain the technology.

    It used very complicated software that was first developed by the military for targeting start bombs. At the time, it required a separate 486 (from his Pentium) to run just the input recognition. However, it worked. It would probably run on a newer machine, but it was a very expensive system and may not be effective for regular consumers.

  12. Remember... on MAPS and Experian Settle Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some times blackholing can indeed be inappropriate. Above.net (which may be owned by MAPS, I don't remember and don't quote me on that) blackholed sites like macromedia.com and ORBS.

  13. Apple directly competes with MS... on Huge security hole in Internet Explorer for MacOS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple does work on non-MS office suites! AppleWorks! It's non-MS and it's actually a very good product...one of the first OSX native applications. I ran it all the way back on the public beta...Also, Apple worked on Mail, which competes with OE.

  14. From Netcraft on Netcraft Survey Updated · · Score: 1

    Forgot to add that that's from the survey page...Wouldn't want to plagurize

  15. Regarding Gartner Group Effect on Netcraft Survey Updated · · Score: 0, Redundant

    At least 150,000 active sites spread over 80,000 ip addresses worldwide running Microsoft-IIS have been taken down since the Code Red II worm was released. Superficially, it might be inferred that site managers had already pre-empted the advice published by Gartner to the effect that running Microsoft-IIS on the internet is more trouble than it's worth, and opens up a window of opportunity for attackers to cause disruption, data loss, and worse.

    However, the implications for Microsoft are better than one might initially expect. Of the 80,000 ip addresses no longer running Microsoft-IIS, only around 2,000 are now running a competing web server. Notwithstanding the fact that when a web server is replaced, the replacement will not necessarily be on the same ip address, it does seem that in most cases sites have been taken down, or port filtered as part of a general tightening of security in the wake of Code Red, rather than the Windows disks being formatted and replaced with Linux/Apache.

  16. Glad on Are There Any Fun Tech Jobs Left? · · Score: 1

    Glad I'm not old enough to have a job.

  17. Fake 3D on Review Of 3D Web Browsers · · Score: 1

    What about things like QuickTime VR? Although it's not quite the same experience, it's pretty easy to create a multi-node QuickTime VR panorma and it's much truer to the original.

  18. Encrypted Email on Net Taps Without Warrants? · · Score: 1

    I created a simple system to encrypt email in PHP in a way anyone with a browser can read.

    Source is coming; http://ssl.simonster.com/ncrypt/

  19. Re:Lets do the math... on Full-Screen Video Over 28.8k: The Claims Continue · · Score: 1

    It's possible...The videophone on CNN must do something close. Figuring that they have to make a direct call from China or somewhere rural to the CNN offices, it looks pretty good for where it's coming from. Those lines must be pretty bad. Of course, the video itself is pretty bad too, but if you had a 28.8 connection to a local office rather than a far, far away one it would probably be better.

  20. Re:Bad news for the MPAA - Here comes DVDster! on Full-Screen Video Over 28.8k: The Claims Continue · · Score: 1

    Taking a look at the sorensen 3 algorithm (QuickTime only), this seems possible (and sound could be added if you wanted 160 kbits/sec using the ultra-low-bandwidth QDesign codec). I compressed video at 128 kbits/sec. That's not quite 28.8, but the video looked okay. I wouldn't want to watch a movie in it, but for some things it's fine.

  21. Work Anywhere on The Ultimate Cubicle · · Score: 1

    Why not just make a wireless cubicle? You put wireless access points around the city with PGP (not WEP) encryption. Then, The employees can work wherever they want. If they want cold soda they can go to the convenience store. If they want coffee they can go to the coffee shop. If they want to work they can go to the middle of nowhere, provided no other co-workers are there. Then you wouldn't even have to worry about the boss finding you.

    Simon

  22. Re:How long.... on A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York · · Score: 1

    Well, then, it's perfectly legal to run a base station off @Home, because the cable modem is "connected" to the base station, but it could be said that the clients themselves are not connected to the cable service. Also, the coaxial cable is another thing it is connected to, which in turn connects it to the cable modem at @Home. That is off of the customer's premises. Therefore, it could be said that all @Home service is illegal. Then again, I am not a lawyer...

  23. Re:How long.... on A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York · · Score: 1
    Then couldn't it be said that it should be illegal to surf any websites other than those provided by @Home? That could also mean that you can't move the cable modem.

    It also matters how you define connect...

  24. Mac-on-Linux? on Terrasoft Selling Non-Apple PPC GNU/Linux Systems · · Score: 1
    There's a piece of software called Mac-on-Linux which allows you to boot the Mac OS from Linux. I don't think it uses a physical ROM, just the ROM software that comes with the system. Now, in theory, these YDL boxes could run the Mac OS. This is included in the Yellow Dog Linux distribution.

    I'm curious to know if anyone has tried to operate Mac-on-Linux on one of these boxes, and if they have, what kind of speeds they're getting.



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  25. Re:You need to reword that. on Slashback: Shelter, Panic, Intrusion · · Score: 1

    Hmm...I'm in the current directory on my web server and it doesn't seem hacked.

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