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  1. Re:I think I will pass on All-In-One Interface For All Your Retro/Legacy Drives · · Score: 2

    Well, I have answers to all three....

    1) burn these to a cd

    2) You don't have to throw out all your floppies (i have no 5 1/4s left (let alone a drive for it) and I have less than 30 other floppies left (my father still uses the PC that I have upgraded about 3 times over the last decade)

    3) Your install cd could help here (last time I tried to uncompress the kernel from a floppy it took forever)

  2. Re:Interesting on All-In-One Interface For All Your Retro/Legacy Drives · · Score: 2

    Show me the numbers baby!

  3. Re:Interesting on All-In-One Interface For All Your Retro/Legacy Drives · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Macs tend to last twice as long as PCs for functionality (wait and see with the new OSX though). The resale value for a mac is significantly higher than a Windows PC.

    Maybe Macs are better?

  4. I think I will pass on All-In-One Interface For All Your Retro/Legacy Drives · · Score: 2

    I don't even have a floppy on my computer, funny I never thought I could survive without the things. I got rid of 500 to 1000 5 1/4s about 5 years ago, and just got rid of most of my 3 1/2s just recently.

    Buy sweet Macintosh Apples, they taste good and go down easy (look good too).

  5. Re:Stargate Cartoon on Stargate SG-1 Gets A Seventh Season · · Score: 2

    Lets say it together "Saturday Morning CARTOON" other than a lot of kids not getting the better writing so easily, most of them do. Writers just don't get it....

  6. Re:Question about SG TV series on Stargate SG-1 Gets A Seventh Season · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would say that it isn't as well planned as Babylon 5 (not that there really could be that much planning in another series [with exception of Jeremiah]) but the things get done. For example B5 didn't deal with so many things that were close to home, Shadow War, Earth War, Centari-Narn war, etc. SG-1 is faced with more direct threats to their survival. First season was being shut down (base being shutdown), then the attack of earth by Aphophis, then the Tok'ra taking over Carter (main character). All this in a three episode span. Eventually it is the replicators, system-lords, a planted asteroid, big bombs that can go through walls, the thing that can destory the stargate, etc. Need I say more? I wouldn't really compare it to star trek though.

  7. Man, switch banks on Online Banking And Browser Support · · Score: 2

    TD CanadaTrust is easily supporting alternatives. I have used both Chimera and Opera (IE masquerade) succesfully.

  8. How are we going to cool the thing off? on Water Computing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will we use electricity to cool it? Well water is a very effective cooler on electronics, so why not do it the reverse when your water is your 'electronics'?

    ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPppp pp pppppppppp

    YOUCH!!!!!

    DAMN ME!!!!! THAT !*!@# HURTS.

    Scratch that idea.

  9. Re:Catherine Bell is a Scientologist. on Geek-Chic Power Houses · · Score: 3, Funny

    You unfaithful dog! By the holy clarics (lawyers) of the Holy Church of Scientology you will be silenced!

    All non-believers will be converted or silenced forever!

  10. Not to troll, but... on Folding@Home Reports Success · · Score: 2

    If we all donate our computer time for this and then we help figure out how {whatever the target is} works - what will stop the medical companies from patenting and sucking our wallets for treatments later on?

  11. O'Reilly Safari on Free Books: Under the Radar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Looming on the horizon instead, with every prospect of success, were the "anti-books:" electronic books encumbered with {odious licensing terms} and {restrictive digital rights management technology.[2]} You wouldn't be able to loan such a book to a friend, public libraries couldn't acquire it, and if you stopped paying your rental fee, it would expire and become unreadable! "

    That sounds exactly like Safari (which I am currently a member of). The {} may or may not apply. The only digital rights management there exists is that which will make it very inconvenient to say print the entire book out. I believe Safari is a success and does not include only O'Reilly books. It is a lot cheaper than buying a book, for access to a few.

  12. Re:the right direction on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 2

    That is either a very funny idea or just plain trolling

  13. Re:About Copyrights and Other countries on Copyrights/Patents are Public Domain? · · Score: 2

    What about cuba? They nix the states every chance they get.

  14. I rarely see spam anymore on Spammer Fined $2,000 Plus Costs in Washington · · Score: 2

    What I tend to do now is just use Mail.app in Jag and the junk mail feature really WORKS!

  15. Re:Locking up official records on Eldred Transcript, Bookmobile Experience · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How can they legally do that to public records that must be available to everybody {american} who wants them?

  16. Re:Anyone figure out how to zoom in? on Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's · · Score: 2

    In chimera I selected what I wanted then pressed enter when the focus was still on the option box.

  17. Batman, where are we? on Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's · · Score: 2


    And after batman and robin travelled back in time to the 16th century, carrying with them their printed off map. "According to the {VERY ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF NORTH AMERICA} we should be on land right now, but we are in the middle of the ocean Batman!"

  18. Re:486 160 mhz? (History lane) on AMD Talks About Internal Benchmarks for Opterons · · Score: 2

    I got one of those 133mhz chips to go upto 180mhz on a tomato board (pci :-) by trying different jumper configurations. Stable? Wouldn't know, didn't run it long enough.

  19. About Copyrights and Other countries on Copyrights/Patents are Public Domain? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I will take this opportunity to ask a burning question:

    If a work is created in the United States and the copyright is valid for the 75 magic years, what happens in another country where the copyright is only 10 years after the work is created?

    Can it be used in that other country?

    What happens if a work is created in that other country - can the US Copyright Padlock be used for the full 75 magic years (in the US) or is the originating country authoritative on the length?

  20. I have said goodbye to windows but... on Smaller Than The Mini PC, The P4/2400 Micro PC · · Score: 2

    I like the size of those sort of things. I bought a mac laptop. It is nice, but a desktop wouldn't be too bad, just not one of that towers. Like a few other posts I don't think that towers are that good anymore. I am thinking on getting an xbox beast so my computer won't be a gaming machine (to save me money :-) So I guess what I am saying... APPLE PLEASE BRING BACK THE CUBE! So many others copied it anyways so why not?

  21. Re:jam camcorders? blargh, start with mobile fones on Camcorder Jamming Devices Announced · · Score: 2

    i wouldn't mind them jamming mobile phones in cars that are moving, and the person using the phone is the driver.

  22. Re:good on Security as a Profit Center? · · Score: 2

    Windows almost annoyed me for the last time, I have been using a mac for a few months too. I hate to say it but the mac is almost as apple's marketing says - about not getting in the way. But onto the real beefy stuff. Mac is a platform where you find Otto Matic and EV:Nova. You will not find either of those games on the Devilish Windows Monopoly Platform (DWMP). EV:Nova is actually being ported to Windows ;p. You may never have heard of those games before, but they are just as good as any windows games I know of.

    My ibook can play quake3 freeze good enough. But what am I going to think about now is getting an XBOX, specifically for doom3. It may be that these things should be separated. For 'business' I don't need a powerful graphics chip, but for gaming you do. A gaming platform in a computer can be quite expensive. My windows computer would have to have at least $1000 of upgrades before it can even run Doom3. But the XBOX wouldn't cost half that.

  23. Not to jump to conclusions but... on Laptop Fuel Cells Approved For Air Carriage · · Score: 0, Troll

    Could this be the result of a payoff?

  24. Re:not official name on New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto · · Score: 2

    I think that if they found it they should name it. I think it is a good move naming it for something not of the 'old world'.

  25. 128bit WEP easy on WEP Keys in Mac OS X? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You need to enter the key with a $ prepended to it and using the hex. Think of hex and pascal. I have never tried 64 bit WEP.