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  1. A couple of sites... on Best Electronics Kits For Adults? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are into (or want to be) audio

    http://tangentsoft.net/audio/

    Else

    http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/

  2. Re:Power consumption? on Help Slashdot Test Our New Data Center · · Score: 1


    I have to build a datacenter and infrastructure to "fit" in a LEEDS Platinum building, so I care!

  3. Re:Bidding on Round 17 has closed.. on Spectrum Auction Could Be A Game of Chicken · · Score: 1

    BZZZT!

    Your wrong!

    1 New bid @ $4,713,823,000

  4. Re:Check out the FCC auction yourself! on Spectrum Auction Could Be A Game of Chicken · · Score: 4, Informative

    New bid, just went to $4,713,823,000...

    Open Access is good to go!

  5. Re:Movie Rentals? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    It's is pretty cool, but it's too damn expensive!

    I can rent from McD's for $.99, or get a netflix account and it works out to about $1.30 per. While is more "convenient", it's not $2.00+ convenient.

    And what the hell is with $20 for 5 apps for a touch? They should have been there in tghe first place, The price for a new one didn't go up.

    I'll have to "break" mine in about a week and get them for free...

  6. Re:A whole new market on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    @ $150 per year, I'd be willing to bet not a lot of individuals

  7. Missing? on Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse · · Score: 1

    I noticed that MS left off their "share", Or is it so minuscule as to not show?

  8. Re:It's called a consensus opinion. on Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the insightful comment Mr. Ballmer!

  9. Doesn't matter... on How Feds are Dropping the Ball on IPv6 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... The world is going to end December 21st, 2012.

    We should have enough to get us there...

  10. Re:Why vim on Hacking VIM · · Score: 1

    For those of us in the *NIX world, that's just ed

  11. Re:has it fixed the automounter and NIS? on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 1

    Why in the HELL are you still using NIS!?!

    LDAP is your friend!

  12. Re:I call BS on MS Moves R&D To Canada Due To Immigration Problem · · Score: 1

    Or use the other half of your dual citizenship :-)

  13. New Name on Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark · · Score: 1

    how about iPH (pronounced iF)

    or iPhod (pronoun ced iFod)

    Dunno, but I don't think this bods well for Apple...

  14. Re:Arrrg! Samba is not acceptable for macs! on A Look at FreeNAS Server · · Score: 1
    from the home page of the website (lower left):

    "The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on M0n0wall."

    It's not like they don't give credit...

  15. When I tried... on Google Calendar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Calendar is unavailable right now, please try again in a few moments


     
    ©2006 Google - Google Home

    Maybe later...
  16. Re:It didn't work for me on AjaxWrite to "Compete" with MS Word · · Score: 1

    It has problems in FF 1.5.01 on Mac OS X 10.4.5

    While the app loaded, trying to use a menu item (move the mouse down to a choice) jumped to the "file" menu. So all I can do is open/close/save as...

    While I like the concept, the implementation leaves a lot to be desired...

  17. Re:Possible? Yeah, but highly improbable on Torn-up Credit Card Apps Not So Safe · · Score: 1

    Look at the return envelope that comes with those applications...

    In most cases, there is s P.O. Box or mailstop, and that alone decides where it goes, and how it gets handled...

  18. Re:Possible? Yeah, but highly improbable on Torn-up Credit Card Apps Not So Safe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Working in the mailing industry, I'll call your bullshit, and raise you a scanner.

    Not only is it possible, but probable. While I would expect a lot of errors, or "bad" data from the scan, I promise you it was scanned...

  19. Re:Shrink Wrap Linux Software at Staples on Will Novell's Desktop Linux Catch On? · · Score: 1

    Horse and Cart...

    Maybe having the software at Staples, until they learn to get it from the net, is the bridge needed...?

  20. Re:Scaled cost as well as features on MS Unveils Office 2007, Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    Oh, as long as it's the left one, I'm OK with that...

  21. Re:Clue About How To Detect Whether You're Infecte on Kama Sutra Worm Could Make For A Bad Friday · · Score: 1

    You SOB!

    My linux system just rebooted....

  22. Re:How to report a brickified iMac to Apple on Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac · · Score: 1

    That has to be one of the worse analogies I have ever read!

    That compares with droping it off the emipre state building, or slaming down on a desk whil e it is running...

    Now, if you compared it to replacing the code on the cars computer, maybe while running, you might get closer...

  23. Manage what the search sites get on Search Engines Leech Value from Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Why not create your own index of content, with headlines, and/or little blurbs, so the search engines find that and only that throught the use of your robots.txt file?

  24. BT Mighty Mouse on The Odds at Macworld · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Personally, I'm hoping for a BT Mighty Mouse.

    He doesn't bring that up, or do most think it is so insignifigant, that it doesn't rate being mentioned.

  25. Re:It works on all the major platforms... on Dvorak Says MS Should Buy Opera · · Score: 1

    They aren't "allowed" to drop Office for mac, unless Apple starts selling a comparable product.

    Lookup the lawsuit history, and resolutions for more info...

    They could only drop IE, because Apple developed Safari... Legally speaking