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  1. Re:Blasphemy! on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    my problem is not keeping a laptop for when I need to configure the controllers. it's when the customer asks that a laptop be supplied with the job.

    surely you're not suggesting that i buy a bunch of used laptop and resell those back to customers, are you?

  2. Re:Blasphemy! on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    yeah, bummer. try that spiffy usb-crap to serial converter with old DOS applications.

    the programming applications for HVAC (heating, ventilation and A/C) systems are often still DOS, and when they do have windows version they're half bugged and don't support nearly all the functionalities of the DOS ones. i've bought a few laptops for contracts, and had to return them due to no serial port!

    say no to usb

  3. why does his name... on Jack Valenti's Views On The Digital Age · · Score: 1

    sounds like that of a bad guy out of Max Payne?

  4. Re:Lossless format on FLAC Joins The Xiph Family · · Score: 1

    actually, he has a point. that is if you look at lossless compression as a "don't throw anything out" point of view. if you think about it, if you really didn't throw anything out, you would'nt get any compression

    it doesn't hold its ground in the sense that we usually look at lossless compression. merely, "don't throw anything out, unless you can recover it exactly"

  5. Re:UFOs on Slashback: Intentia, Ephemera, Restoration · · Score: 4, Interesting

    as long as you don't equate UFOs with aliens, all is fine with me. i'm sure there are quite a few unexplained phenomenoms, but i also think they are likely to be rare physical manifestation that will be explained later on by scientific theories and even reproduced in labs

  6. Re:Who did this I wonder????? on MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc · · Score: 1, Interesting

    you guys just dont get it, conspiracy theorists that tries to get anything out of the numbers....!

    personally i think it was george w. bush, in a maniacal attempt to force feed us with laws to protect the internet from terrorists!

  7. Re:Well... on Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire · · Score: 0

    except that it didnt actually happen... the guy that did it has an explanation floating around the net somewhere (it was 20 or so pages).

    no one got killed, and the car crashed into a mine off from a railroad

  8. Re:Try 7 years, not 72 hours. on Cryptome Log Subpoenaed · · Score: 0

    according to our lawyer, we have to keep log for at least a year here (canada), he might be wrong... but who's gonna challenge him?

  9. Re:sadly, they are not the world's fastest anymore on Opera Gives That C64 Feel · · Score: 0

    slow engine? let me laugh. and next he's gonna argue that mozilla isn't slow *shrugs*

  10. Re:How much is spam free worth? on AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 0

    haha nop! but then i don't see where you see 666 :P

  11. Re:Customers to get their share? on AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 0

    25% of the SPAM was sent by this one particular, not 25% of the total emails are spam :P

    of course, it could be much higher than that. on my own mail server i'd say about 60%+ is spam (4500 users)... and none reaches my mailbox!

  12. Re:How much is spam free worth? on AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 0

    no, because i ALREADY have a spam-free email account. not because i don't receive any, but because my filters are actually GOOD (www.sf.net/projects/spamprobe)

    i'm not involved in any shape or way with spamprobe developement, just a very happy user with a spam-free mailbox

  13. Re:"it can pulverize ... jelly fish" on Tornado in a Can · · Score: 0

    so now every girls can have collagen lips cheap! woot!

  14. Re:FUD R US on Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats · · Score: 0

    i bet he just didn't turn on DMA mode on his disk teehee! (which should be on by default, but for some reason isn't)

  15. Re:bash? csh? i give my users... on Red Hat Nullifies Differences Between Bash, Csh · · Score: 0

    actually, it's different for all return values in linux (shell return values that is), 0 means success everything else is usually an error

  16. Re:Standards change too fast imho on Tackling AGP 8X · · Score: 0

    sorry to break your bubble, i have a few 486s SX 25 here with PCI slots

  17. Re:Wow, weak server. on Unmaking The Game · · Score: 0

    first off, it does NOT cost 100k+pp to get a 200+ blacksmithing skill. after they did the first blacksmithing overhaul, i got mine to around 215 by putting in maybe 7-8k (ok, this was with an erudite wizard with 220 int, but you can get your int to around 180 pretty easily)

    second, i know a few peoples who have been doing this for a while, selling plat in bulk on all major servers

  18. Re:Done...but too late! on When Do You Really Need a Lawyer? · · Score: 0

    outlook express might not be meant for the corporate environment, but until i find a mail client that has better IMAP support, i'm forced to use it.

    OE's imap certainly isn't perfect, but as far as im concerned it's closer to RFC conformance (and as such, works reasonably well) than ALL the others (both windows and linux) i have tried, including outlook 2000/XP, netscape, mozilla, kmail and a bunch of others

  19. Re:Please on Online Auctions Patented, eBay Sued · · Score: 0

    considering someone patented the wheel... it's not that dumb of an idea if you want my advice

  20. HQ on GM's Billion-Dollar Fuel-Cell Bet · · Score: 0

    hydro quebec (the dominant power corp in quebec) had a similar project a few years ago, to make motor wheels and batteries for a car... i believe they had a working prototype (with a few glitches of course)

  21. my picks on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 0

    paul oakenfold
    paul van dik
    dave clarke
    george acosta
    kai tracid
    mauro picotto
    mistress barbara
    jack de marseille

    ooohhh yeah!
    on a side note, anyone else into liquid? (lightsticks swinging)

  22. Re:Why? on Trade in your Junk Mail for Spam · · Score: 0

    compulsion :P

  23. Re:Interesting on Trade in your Junk Mail for Spam · · Score: 0

    or better yet, pipe it to a distributed anti-spam like Razor (http://razor.sf.net) and DCC

    give back to the community :P

  24. stop it on Blizzard removes Orcs from Warcraft III · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    can we stop it with the stupid april fools already? atleast some years they're actually fun..

  25. Re:Cost v Speed on Google Prefers DRAM to Hard Disks · · Score: 0

    the last time i heard, google used just over one PETABYTE of storage (with all the redundency) and that was a few months ago. bet they've got some pretty neat discounts on that ram eh?