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  1. Capella? on Equatorial Mounts For Budget Astrophotography? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can always try the Capella plans from the link below. I built it and it works fairly well. I find the friction required to get a proper static/stable lock on anything insufficient. Could be my implementation of the plans. I'm modifying the concept to use a couple of worm gears to stabilize everything. I've purchased some worm gears for garage door openers with 0.5" shafts. They are sturdy enough to keep a lock on an object. Probably not accurate enough to track an object over an extended period of time but, this is just for fun right?

    have a look see: http://solar.physics.montana.edu/larson/Capella/index.html

  2. That Darn XBOX on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you are experiencing your problem: at work or at home?In my case, my son's XBOX USB WiFI dongle was periodically trashing my home WiFi. Finally gave up, ran a wire and poof WiFi problem is now gone. Any consoles on your Wifi network active between 8and 10?

  3. GPS on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    Oh, and they'd never use it to track someone's movements based on their unique GPS device. Nah, never happen!

  4. backup backup backup on How Do You Justify the Existence of IT? · · Score: 1

    well. you back up your boss' database right?
    how many times do you restore for your users? How much is that worth? How much does downtime cost? Do you have a web presence? how many hits per day? What's that worth. How much is downtime worth if your users get wormed/trojan-ed? Any intellectual property there? What is that gets walking?
    Its a good exercise to do. You'll pay for yourself twice, then ask for a raise :-)

  5. XCD has this covered: The Ballmer Peak on Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer · · Score: 1

    This is NOT new.It is known as the Ballmer Peak! check out: http://xkcd.com/323/

  6. Re:OSVDB on TCP Vulnerability Published · · Score: 1

    also, check out: http://www.ocipep.gc.ca/opsprods/alerts/2004/AL04- 006_e.asp

    What me worry?

  7. Re:HA Clusters on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 1

    Nah why settle for a failover cluster. Do it the proper way like VMS and Tru64. Get that into Linux and have a real cluster. Share the same disks, share a proper cluster IP etc.

    Failover is "nice", sharing in realtime is the way to go.

  8. Re:LDAP!!!!! on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 1

    Dear Santa! YES! LDAP!!
    Especially cross platform.

    I've spent two weeks trying to get RH 7.2 to PAM/LDAP to NDS for single login. Too many dead ends. Too mayny rebuild!!!
    Please make it a paper book I can random-access as my thoughts start to click! Thanks. Let me know when you have a hot one, I'll buy two!