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  1. Rolling My Own on How to Set Up a Gift Website? · · Score: 1

    I ran into a similar predicament and decided to roll my own. So far I have Stories, Comments, Events, Accounts and and a calendar. I think I have maybe 12 pages of php. Sites based on Nuke just have too much legacy code clutter.

  2. DScaler TV Tuner on All-in-Wonder 9600 Pro Review · · Score: 1
    DScaler is a wonderful TV free (as in beer GPL)TV tuner. Deinterlacing, full screen, the new Alpha version 4.0 has all the bell and whistles.
    DScaler

    A good Media player that I like is Core Media Player. But media players are getting to be a dime a dozen. Video Lan Client isn't too bad.

  3. Been Bitten By This on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    I encountered this particular deal. Bad enough to get a scripted response, but unintelligible English is just too much. Last weekend the same thing happened to my Dad trying to call DirectTV. The phone tech spoke unintillible English with a Mexican accent. For almost an hour I heard my dad trying to talk with the guy, "Could you repeat that slower, I can't understand you".

  4. Vote With Your Feet on More on the University of Florida · · Score: 1

    If arttendance was down 20 percent next semester I bet there would be a change in attitude.

  5. OLAP Services on PostgreSQL 7.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Can anyone comment on PostgreSQL OLAP? Does anyone use it for day-to-day business operations? How well does it integrate with mainstream OPAL analysis and repoting applications? Hyperion? Congnos? Business Objects?

  6. Lame Proprietary Crap on First Sony PSP Pictures Revealed · · Score: 2

    I wish Sony would quit with the proprietary media. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who looks at this and thinks, "neato, but if I can't use the disc elewhere slese it is just eyecandy"

  7. Should Have Used CVS on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everyone knows commies prefer CVS over Subversion!

  8. Davis -Never Met A Job on California Tries Spam Ban · · Score: -1, Troll

    Davis never met a job he didn't want to destroy.

  9. Re:maybe, maybe not on Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see that picture. Pigs with antennas. Then again maybe thats where they got the idea for Bloop.

  10. WiFi? on Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Do any of these studies include WiFi effects? I just went wireless in the house and the last thing I want to do is cause brain bleeding in my kids. Seriously.

  11. Name Besmirched on More on SCO Code Snippets · · Score: 1

    For the rest of my life I'm going to be prejudiced against SCO employees and anyone named McBride. Kind of sad.

    I'm doubly suprised we havn't heard more from prior SCO employees. At one point I was kind of impressed by the Open SCO program and their release of old Unix code. I know McBride will make a bundle off this either way. If you see him in person remember to call him a pigfucking thief to his face. Especially if he's in front of his family.

    Oh well, my belief that greed is the central human motivator is reinforced. That and 70% of the population is made of of mindless cows. Mooo.

  12. Re:Adding to that record. . . on Project Censored 2003 Underreported Stories · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I've been exposed to much more of the world than 99% of the population. At one point I even lived a could of years in a Shiite village in Bahrain.

    As far as that "pompous air of knowledge" I'd take the Popeye approach. I am what I am. As far as fulfillment goes I've always been pretty self actualized. I always seem to have a bunch of ongoing projects though.

  13. Motorcycle on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Buy a decent motorcycle and use have the gas while having 10 times the fun. Or buy three really good bikes for what that hybrid is gonna cost you.

  14. Just For The Record on Project Censored 2003 Underreported Stories · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    #1: Responsible, logic-minded people already control most of the planet.
    #2: Laws that disobey the Constitution don't last very long and for the most part I trust the guys and girls in law enforcement to protect us from the baddies (even if they bend the rules a teensy bit.).
    #3: UN reports are 99% bullshit just like the UN itself.
    #4: Rumsfeld like many members of Bush's staff actually had better, higher paying jobs outside of politics.
    #5: Unions are making themselve's extinct by being so corrupt at the top and not standing up for workers.
    #6: IT is more free(er -Bushism) today since the citizens of at least two new countries can participate(Afghanistan and Iraq).
    #7: Clinton signed a bunch of bullshit in his last year he was too much of a pussy to sign when he would have had to live with the immediate consequences.
    #8: Depleted uraniumim is FUCKING DEPLETED URANIUM and the actual chance of harmful effects (impact aside) is small.
    #9: Afghanistan is the same dusty shithole it was 100 years ago. Afghanistan never was nor ever will be a paradise but is a least a little better off today.
    #10: Africa is a shithole no-one with a brain would want to colonize.
    #11: Talibs are nutcases and madrassas should all be bombed into extinction.
    #12: Corporations need a death penalty for bad behaviour just like other bad citizens. Corporate death penalty should be viral unto the corporate officers.
    #13: The US Military is mostly doing UN and NATO work.
    #14: Refugees -listen to old Sam Kennison improv tapes.
    #15: Venezuela: coup failed because US left it alone. The people of Venezuela need to try a little harder to get the crooked bastard out of office.
    #16: Panama should be annexed.
    #17: Clear Channel will not exist in 50 years.
    #18: Charter Forest Proposal - beating back tons of unreasonable legislation a little.
    #19: U.S. Dollar vs. the Euro -Uhhh, whatever. Think EU civil war within 150 years.
    #20: For-Profit Military -I wish. ............

  15. Done In Advertising on Cubism For CG And Movies · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does your favorite actresses' boobs look a little large in that magazine or tv advert? Her waist a little thinner? It is already a mainstream business practice to make products and people more appealing to audiences. I've even heard they did it in the Charlie's Angel's movie to make Drew Barrymore look thinner.

  16. US Legal System Sucks on SCO's Open Letter to Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    The US legal system sucks. Basically we have no rights to propect our good names. McBride can repeadly publish lies and there is little to be done to stop him. Worse yet, the publications he uses to spout these lies are bought and paid-for by advertising dollars OS developers and vendors can't hope to match.

    Seriously I can see where people go nuts because of frustration and do crazy things in retaliation. Gheesh, could someone at least post a HS picture of McBride with a pimply face?

  17. Ex-Nukes on World Nuclear University Launched · · Score: 1

    It is interresting to see how many Ex-Nukes like me are in the IT field.

  18. Error: Bluetooth "ready" on New iMacs (and iPods) · · Score: 1

    Most models have slots for the wireless adapters, but not the actual adapter. Lamo.

  19. MPIO's Got Linux Support on Samsung Yepp YP-55V Review · · Score: 1
    I picked up an MPIO FL-100 for around $110 with FM and 128MB ram. An extra 256MB SD was $50 (Dell). Plus is has Linux support. Not to mention that they actually keep improving their firmware. BTW, the FM receiver rocks for such a tiny device.

    You iPod lovers should take a look at the new HD-100.

  20. Myst With Action on Games and the 'Geek Stereotype' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just gimme a game with the backstory of Myst and the graphics and interactivity of Quake/Doom/Unreal. I want to explore, not pile up bodies.

  21. Block E-Mail on Handling User Grown Machines on a Large Network? · · Score: 2
    1. Block POP3 and SMTP access.
    2. Block trojan ports.
    3. Provide webmail access. (Even allow them to connect to their own email accounts elsewhere)
    Outlook and Outlook Express are the two largest vectors for virii.
  22. Natural Selection on Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability · · Score: 1

    I consider the point moot since the market is likely to choose one predominant GUI/Window Manager anyhow.

  23. Break Down Costs on Learning to Say No in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    When they propose a task tell them how much it will cost them and ask about prioritization of existing tasks.

  24. Talking Trash Can on Walking Animatronic Dinosaur At Disney Park · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Last year I was at Disney and they had this talking trach can that I assume was radio controlled. It looked like all the other trash cans except it would more around and talk. It really shocked the hell out of people. This dinosaur should be a riot!

  25. Apple Information Minister on Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Benchmarking results brought to you by the new Apple Information Minister.