Slashdot Mirror


User: Drakin

Drakin's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
539
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 539

  1. Re:This isn't entirely Verisign's fault on VeriSign DNS in Trouble · · Score: 1

    Not all of use use credit cards to register domains. My first doman was registered prior to my having a credit card, and was paid by money order.

    Although, now, it all goes on my credit card... and all goes through godaddy now. simpler, cheaper, and less headaches if I want to change anything.

  2. Re:heat assisted? on Seagate Overcomes Superparamagnetic Limit · · Score: 1

    No, it just mean that Seagate will be partnering with AMD to make thier harddrives function as heatsinks for the CPU's.

  3. Re:Distributed Honeypots on ISP Bans RIAA to Protect Its Customers · · Score: 1

    Well, seeing this is an ISP setting out the honey pot, they have a range of IP's they could use... so in effect, the RIAA would have to ignore the entire group of the ISP's IP addresses in it's searches...

    Either way, the ISP wins. .it eather catches the RIAA hackers, or the RIAA hackers have to blacklist the ISP's IP range because they could all be potential honeypots... which would result in the RIAA being blocked if they attack...

    That is, unless the RIAA downloads a selection of files to check the validity of them...

  4. Re:What the hell are you talking about? on Star Wars Episode II DVD Release on Nov. 12 · · Score: 1

    The original publication of the Star Wars novel, entitled Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Published in December 1976 preceeds the movie, and if one reads the blurb on the back it states "Soon to be a spectacular motion picture|! From Twentieth-Century Fox!" which implies that the movie is based on the book... most times the books say "Based on the screen play "Blah blah" by "whoever".

    That's what's implied... but we all know that star wars was originally written as a screen play and Alan Dean foaster ghost wote the novel.

  5. Re:3.5" Floppy on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    Easy Coaster... er.. Cd Creater does this with the Direct CD program... handy really...

  6. Re:Very Very Bad^H^H^HGood on Karl Auerbach Wins Right To Inspect ICANN Records · · Score: 1

    Peanuts... lots and lots of peanuts thrown at him shall be his award... here's a handfult to start.

    888888888

  7. Re:Is anybody else... on Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine · · Score: 1

    Running a 1ghz Duron with a gf2mx based chip, hitting no lower than 58 fps... although, I'm running 2k... sounds like you've got a problem somewhere there...

  8. Re:TurboLinux? on Turbolinux Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Probably with the linksys router...that's were my copy came from...

    which never got installed. Mandrake works fine for me.

  9. Re:Interesting on Making Games Live Longer With Mods · · Score: 1

    I think it's a matter of the original coders doing something to spec "We need the engine to do this, this and this" while the mod comunity puts more though into "Ok, it does those things, but why doesn't it do this thing too?" and then make it do that thing.

  10. Re:Same thing Here But... on Wireless Internet Co-Ops? · · Score: 1

    You ever consider one of those trees that are in the way?

  11. Re:Which OS? on Talk To Xanth Creator Piers Anthony · · Score: 1

    That should be Operatring. I need to reread my post before submitting...

  12. Re:Which OS? on Talk To Xanth Creator Piers Anthony · · Score: 1

    WIZ-DOS

    William Irving Zumwalt Demon Osperating System.

    Sheesh... you're a geek and you haven't read Rick Cook's "Wiz" series... sheesh...

  13. Re:How do you know? on DishPVR 721 Review · · Score: 1

    Hmm... now, what's the shipping for a hard copy of the linux kernal...

  14. Re:What is really going on. on The Ideas Behind Longhorn · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I beleive the difference between Microsoft and Apple is quite differnt.

    Apple provides hardware and software as a package, all sold by itself. they are thier own copitions with their archatecture, for the most part. This isn't a monopoly, as they worked to prevent compeating products on the same archetecture. Yes, Apple hasa monopoly, however it's not one that's created and maintained by confusion and force. (of course, I could be quite wrong)

    Microsoft has a monopolly as well, but they simply distrobute the software, which means to maintain their monopoly, they need to use much more agressive tactics to bind users to thier operating system and software. This is the problem. They enforce thier monopolly by useing strongarm tactics, from OEM agreements, to useing bubblegum and bailing twine to hold all their produts together so they can't be removed.

    Myself, I think Microsoft should back off some and while re-writeing windows, sure, write the functionality in for inline previews of HTML (Windows Explore is actually nice... although I tend to have more use for the image previews (which needs to support more formats)) then code stand alone apps that can dip into this fucntionality, but can be removed withoutmakeing the system unuseable.

    What I'm saying I suppose is that Microsoft should make the OS contain liraries for decodeing audio and video, render HTML, and then make thier own products use those built in libraries, but removeing the product doesn't make a mess of things... that way, people can choose to use built ing MS libraries (which happens a fair bit as is) or create thier own faster/prefered program to handle the item.

  15. Re:But how do you make the mold on Printing Chips · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How long does a CD mold last?

    Really, it should last a fair bit of time, quartz is durable. Rather hard, fairly high melting point points to it being ideal for this use.

  16. Re:Alternative to cloning on Cloning Cows for Cuba · · Score: 1

    I don't thk that it was a cloneing issue that surplanted that technique, but actualy tinkering with the cells, genetic manipulation, that surplanted crossbreeding.

  17. Re:Geez I've already been modded down once on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 1

    What? Not hard to drive a manual and talk on a cell at the same time, as long as your wheel alighnment is decent. Done it many times.

  18. Re:holy shit on NASA Experiment Examines Fluid Flow · · Score: 1

    actually while it's thick, that's not the most common reason that it doesn't come out of the bottle.

    Most comon reason is people just turn the bottle upside down and expect it to dump out, but it gets a air lock and can't. Simply titlting the bottle at an angle gets ketchup flowing rather quickly.

  19. Re:wow on Mandrake to Come Preloaded on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 1

    I do know some Linux... enough to install/configure your standard box. that, and I can read manuals. Good combination, particuarly considering that of the 3 computer shops that are in town, 2 i know don't deal with linux. the other, I haven't delt with yet.

    now, as for walmart having food in it's teeth... damn right, considering that I'm *shudder* empolyed by wal-mart.

  20. Re:this frightens me. on Mandrake to Come Preloaded on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 1

    The same statement can be applied to anyone who purchases a computer with windows.

    Anything can be vulnerable when one things outside the way the original coder(s) thought. They didn't see something as being vulnerable, they didn't secure it as much as they could have.

    For Linux users, yes, Mandrake might be a poor choice, however, for a computer User, mandrake is a nice and simple way of doing things. i found it rather easy to set up myself, and the inability to easily create a root account means that it remains safer for the user.

    Likely there may be better distro's out there, but Mandrake's at least trying to slip into mainstream.

  21. Re:wow on Mandrake to Come Preloaded on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 1

    NO chance of Wal-mart offering support. only thing wallmart can/will do, as a company is
    1) Take it back, give refund
    2) Exchange it for a new one.

    If this were being done ithin stores, then one may have a chance of getting some support at the store level, but via the web, they'll refer you to the manufacture, or provider.

  22. Re:How is he surviving? on Fake Light Sabers Making Real Cash · · Score: 1

    Space Opera is not limited to movies... Can't remember the titles off hand but I'm quite certain that I've read some old "pulp" sci fi from Pre 1976 that contained energy/laser swords.

  23. Re:British lightsabers on Fake Light Sabers Making Real Cash · · Score: 1

    Luke and Vaders were Graflex... Obi's was actually made up of parts from several differnt things... including a hand gear from a british tap.

    However, Vader's saber in ESB or RotJ was actually based on a differnt flash handle.

    Yoda's saber was made from a Flash handle as well.

  24. Re:How is he surviving? on Fake Light Sabers Making Real Cash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    laser swords have been part of space opera for a long time. not sure where they started, but it wasn't with lucas. Most of his ideas are borrowed anyway.

  25. As others have stated... on 24/7 Notebook Power? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Inverter and a Deep Cell battery (a marine cell is one kind of these) would be your best bet.

    Don't go for a standard automotive battery, as they're not designed to be drained right down and charged up, a Deep Cell is.

    I can't think of any other solutions that would provide power for a lengthy time without being attached to a cord, beyond a generator of some sort... and I don't know of any that would produce enough power to run a lap top while at the same time provide disadvantages that one could not have in a setting that you're talking about.

    A car batter in't that heavey, particuarly on a cart... problem is of course, changeing them when they're dischrged