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  1. Re:Ergonomic "M" style? on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 1

    This one. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22628029@N00/ Obviously they're no longer made. What these pictures don't tell you is you can physically separate the two halves, permitting a trackball to be placed in-between. The halves are also tentable via three legs per side.

  2. Re:Odd that we're seeing this again on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 1

    The Model-Ms and close siblings have their letters injection molded into their caps so they never wear out. The same kind of thing (though different techniques) were done on old HP calculators.

  3. Re:Laziness Rules on "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs · · Score: 1

    But unfortunately the FF developers used SQLite in such a way that I dread having to open my history pane.

  4. Re:SSDs get slower the more you use them on AnandTech Gives the Skinny On Recent SSD Offerings · · Score: 1

    exFAT is designed for flash-based drives. It was introduced in Windows Vista SP1. Supposedly it can be back-ported to Windows XP through a hotfix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

  5. Re:Amazing Article on AnandTech Gives the Skinny On Recent SSD Offerings · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you took 5 sec. to search his credentials you'll find he graduated from N. Carolina State with a CE degree.

    His site has been in existence for quite some time and I find his articles are among the better ones on the net, but you may want to read others and compare. The reason why I like his articles over others is the depth of his articles. He describes the underlying architecture and provides thoughts on why he thinks a company chose a path with followups that either reinforce or refute a theories.

  6. Re:I just bought an 8core Xeon w/64GB RAM on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    No. One does services while the other acts as a file server. Not exactly identical machines performing similar functions, which is what the original reply implied. Maybe he could divide up the services among both machines and have one act as primary and the other secondary (or dev/itg and production) of services for easier failover.

  7. SSDs and forensics on Long-Term Performance Analysis of Intel SSDs · · Score: 1
    This guy presented SSDs and they're are laid out. Seems like quite a bit of unknowns now.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcO7xn0wJ2I

  8. Re:NoScript makes the web useless. on Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore · · Score: 1

    Some sites won't work without scripts, that's true. For instance, web boards that have hide tags that are shown using js. So for those, I issue temporary permissions. Slashdot is another example that doesn't work without scripts if you don't login. But I login and have my preferences set at minimal and it works. Most sites display properly for the most part but some can't display video or flash without permissions. A little annoying, but it's something I put up with even though some sites will never display properly.

  9. Re:Plato on The Universe As Hologram · · Score: 1

    Guess that's why a Ph.D stands for doctor of philosophy?

  10. The part that leaped out on The Backstory of the Kaminsky Bug · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "...a complete description of the exploit appeared on the Web site of Ptacek's company.... The DNS community had kept the secret for months. The computer security community couldn't keep it 12 days."

  11. Re:rsync on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Careful about syncing lots of files. Rsync will run over per-process memory allocations in those situations. But other than that, yeah, rsync is great.

  12. Edit your commands in visual mode on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    I like doing the following while writing quick loops (which I often do) in ksh/bash. I prefer vi...

    Press ESC to get into command line edit mode or just after I recall a command, then press v to edit my command. The only disadvantage is I can't place this edit "process" in the background. Which is the reason why you should install screen or just open another window.

    PuTTY has been something I've grown to like as a terminal under Windows. While it has problems with long buffers, it's nice to be able to double-click on long filenames that wrap around the screen.

  13. Re:grep and awk on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    I also prefer grep, cut, sed, and awk over Perl. But if I need something a little more powerful, I prefer Python. Mainly because you can create and run your scripts interactively. But the indentation is a little bit of a pain if you want to copy your interactive script to an editor.

  14. Re:It's still 1000x cheaper on AT&T Begins a Trial To Cap, Meter Internet Usage · · Score: 1

    Great to hear that. Continue living in 1990.

  15. Re:Not bad on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    That's interesting. The trouble is I just place my palms on the palmrest and don't touch any keys or trackpad. I just tried it and tapping any of my corners do nothing.

  16. Not bad on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    I installed the beta and have been regularly updating the system via Update Manager and it has slowly updated each component to what appears to be the release version. I noticed the kernel went from development to non-dev a couple of weeks ago.

    A couple of glitches:
    1. My Atheros based wireless doesn't connect to my AP 90% of the time. I have to keep reconnecting and maybe on the 3rd or 4th try does it associate. I turned on my system today and it associated on the first try 2x in a row (after another round of updates)!
    2. Sleep doesn't work quite right when it wakes up. Borders around windows have technicolor in place of shadows.
    3. The Synaptics touchpad is much more sensitive than when running Windows. Driver adjustment doesn't seem to help. Probably due to old hardware, but sometimes, I would get the effect of a right-button click in Terminal (really weird).
    4. Partition manager during install didn't allow me to use an empty partition. I remember the choices were use the entire active partition (Windows) or use a part of the current active partition. I had to choose custom.

    Some surprises:
    Sound works. Hibernation works. Lock button recognized and works. Screensaver lock "shakes" the dialog box if the wrong password is entered is reminiscent of NeXTstep--too bad the main login screen doesn't do this.

  17. Re:Again on Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Chinese will do it right and just put a shoddy non-working chip into its citizens' passports. The first time when DOA is a good thing.

  18. Re:It happens every year on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The public outcry is being squashed by the right-winged media. Speaking against the way means you're "unpatriotic" or "soft against terror." Liberal reporters have been scared/pressured by "news" networks like Fox or Limbaugh to keep silent. Look what happened to individuals who planned on demonstrating the RNC. The FBI raided/arrested individuals before they did anything.

  19. Re:I can see they fixed the big problem with Vista on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    I hope all the minor glitches in classic mode have been fixed. I've read here (but now can't find the link) about classic mode having inconsistencies with icons lining up etc which makes it annoying.

  20. Re:Perfect for scaring people on Locate Any WiFi Router By Its MAC Address · · Score: 1

    The folks (non .gov address) who "help" individuals get their DTV converter boxes does this. They have a form where people input their name, real/email address and subsequently sell that entry to companies that spam the email account.

  21. Re:Bathtub Curve on There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure because of potential bad capacitors out there.

  22. Re:Maybe OT... probably not on Mozilla Experiments With Site Security Policy · · Score: 4, Informative

    What you've described is an RSA SecurID one-time-password. It may appear that your father's fob communicated with the remote server, but the truth is each fob has a unique seed and a clock that creates one-time-passwords based on the value of its clock and an optional salt (PIN). The remote server that validates the OTP knows the seed of your father's fob and is able to authenticate each password it receives. After each valid authentication the passcode is discarded and cannot be used again (within limits of the passcode length). The system allows for clock skew between the fob and the validating server. Current system functionality may have changed as this description is quite old.

  23. Re:Actual Release Notes on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 1
    There was a post at http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=556146&cid=23445228 which referenced the RC1 changes but that hasn't been updated for RC2. But you can edit the link for trunk checkins' dates to see what has been committed after May 12.

    My question is more along the lines of is it worth it to install RC2. The portable version of RC1 has been quite stable.

  24. Re:Buy another Linksys and link them. on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to replace the onboard memory with denser ones?

  25. Re:They forgot something in their calculations on Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit · · Score: 1, Troll

    You mean something like this? http://i7.tinypic.com/5z6vt4n.jpg