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  1. Re:Will the Google project resume now? on CoreCodec Apologizes For CoreAVC Takedown · · Score: 1

    I agree. Shouldn't the company go to the project team with their notice and have them respond before sending to Google? I feel ISPs or hosts should respond to the takedown notice with "what have you done to work this out with the other party?" If this is your last resort, then fine, we'll take it down.

  2. Re:Will the Google project resume now? on CoreCodec Apologizes For CoreAVC Takedown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I were the ones working on the project, I'd make sure I would not host it on Google.

  3. An alternative perspective on The Science of Iron Man · · Score: 1

    This article indicates that not everything is correct. http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2008/04/ironman_physics

  4. Get a anti-glare film on Laptops Screens, Glare or Matte? · · Score: 1

    Can't you buy one of those 3M anti-glare films? You would be able to get the best of both worlds.

  5. Re:Difference between Unix and Windows in security on Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users · · Score: 1

    Why do you have a low id and don't understand the difference between a Linux/UNIX distribution and wc -l /etc/group?

  6. Re:What a bunch of convoluted nonsense on Why "Vista" Nick White Left Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You'll love the Oxford definition.

  7. Re:Credit where credit is due on How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7 · · Score: 1

    That guy obviously subscribes to the check-list mentality. The more of something the better.

  8. Re:Downloading .exe files? on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 1

    Looks like my problem is solved by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416683#c8 under Windows. Tying the ability to download files to Internet Options settings on Windows is new behavior for beta5.

  9. Re:side by side install with FF2 on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Downloading .exe files? on Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have trouble downloading exe files? I get a "Blocked: Download may contain a virus or spyware -- sourceforge.net". I'm trying to download the portable version, and 3b4 actually had trouble downloading it as it had trouble with some downloads where it would remove the file as soon as it's done with the download. 3b5 is worse in that it appears all exe files are blocked. Doesn't seem to be fixed if I toggle browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone to false. The message comes up immediately and nothing gets transferred. Perhaps it's not working quite right with Symantec AntiVirus Corporate?

  11. Braziliantech of A7V BIOS fame on Creative Vista Driver Modder Speaks Out · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I didn't recognize the name but "Braziliantech" did ring a bell. He did some pretty good mods for Asus's A7V BIOSes.

  12. Re:Partition Filesystems on Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    Based on the Wikipedia entry below your response, it appears wear leveling will take into account the whole disk and will swap entries regardless if they're "in-use" or not.

  13. Re:ahoj on Microsoft Tries To Prevent Further Discovery · · Score: 1

    Ballmer clearly has another personality when it comes to his emails. I expected a lot of !!!!!s and sentences using all capitals.

  14. Re:And older firefox versions do better too on IE 5.5 Beats IE6 and IE7 On Acid 3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Windows 2003: 2.0.0.12 = 51%; 3.0 beta 3 (portable version) = 58% here.

  15. Re:Well duh on IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready · · Score: 1

    Do these new viable sources offset the peak of oil production in 1972?

  16. Re:Bluetooth replacement? on "GiFi" — Short-Range, 5-Gbps Wireless For $10/Chip · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't its wattage be a problem on a handset? Current cellphones transmit at 100mW.

  17. Re:Good idea on Time Warner Cable to Test Tiered Bandwidth Caps · · Score: 1
    Yeah, well, didn't they get the $/incentive to do that but did nothing?

    http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm
    http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm

  18. Re:How about "Phoning Home" and DRM? on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    Looks good at first glance, but people have experience various problems with the H4000 http://www.helios-labs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=72 even after people have applied the latest firmware.

  19. Re:2o7.net *Not* 207.net on Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They probably go to the same company:

    Pinging 192.168.112.207.net [216.52.17.207] with 32 bytes of data:
    Pinging 192.168.112.2o7.net [216.52.17.136] with 32 bytes of data:

  20. Cookie management on First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    Is there a setting in v3 where I can see what cookies were last modified/accepted? I have Firefox ask me each time it encounters a site that wants to save a cookie and sometimes if I decline and the site doesn't work without cookies, I want to go back and have FF save its cookies in a session. But FF sorts cookies but name and that makes things difficult to find.

  21. Major Faux Pas on OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Flip-flopping like this won't help ODF/CDF's cause. Better compatibility with OOXML? Why not say ODF will give up and sell itself to OOXML? Someone at ODF got a big chunk of change or something? If CDF is compelling, why not fold CDF into ODF instead? Sorry for all these questions.

  22. Re:Of course it's slow on A Run Through Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    You're correct: default install doesn't have accelerated drivers. But you should get acceleration by running the installer in XP compatibility mode. For example, ATi drivers.

  23. Re:Time speeding up on Time Dimension To Become Space-like · · Score: 1

    If we're within the black hole's event horizon, why don't we see/measure the singularity? Is the cosmic background radiation the remains of whatever radiation that came through from beyond event horizon? Will we hit the black hole in 2012?

    I'm definitely no physicist.

  24. Re:Autorun and Autoplay on Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks · · Score: 1

    It's interesting. I recently installed VMWare Player 2.0.0 Build 45731 and my Windows 2003 installation now have autoinsertion on but autoplay off. The disc information and custom icon are refreshed automatically within Windows Explorer.

    Prior to using 2.0, 1.x totally disabled autoinsertion and autoplay (the normal behavior). I ran a Microsoft utility (Autoplay Repair Wizard) that verifies the sanity of autoplay registry and it re-enabled autoinsertion and autoplay (some inconsistencies were corrected [HKLM\...\Services\cdrom\Parameters!Autorun = 0x01]). That was the state of my autoinsertion/autoplay when I installed VMWare Player 2.0. Perhaps it is a combination of running the wizard and VMWare Player?

    HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Explorer!NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 0x91
    HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WIndows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Explorer!NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 0xff

    Tried to reproduce this on my notebook running XP SP2 but it didn't work. Custom icon doesn't change nor is the disc information updated. But if I were to open a window in front of Explorer or I drag it outside the current window and drag it back, the disc information is updated--but not the icon. This behavior existed before I upgraded VMWare Player. VMWare Player 2.0 apparently creates HKLM\...\Policies\Explorer!NoDriveTypeAutoRun = 0xff.

  25. Re:As BTTF says... on What's Keeping US Phones In the Stone Age? · · Score: 1
    "All the best stuff is made in Japan."

    Is the W41CA unlocked? My assumption is all GSM phones sold outside the US and with a few exceptions in Europe are unlocked. I noticed the photographs indicate it's also CDMA. That's a cool phone.

    My take is the incumbent phone companies will charge whatever the market will bear using their network locks as leverage. You know, supply and demand, "free" (700MHz spectrum auction) market and all that. I admit that I get a phone-only device and use it until it dies, having no need for a PDA, music player, FM tuner, video player, etc. My last phone was a Nokia 3100b used for 4 years and only recently was it replaced with a free RAZR V3R (whose address books sucks and Bluetooth functionality isn't even close to the Sony/Ericsson T616). The RAZR's only saving grace is quad-band GSM. I very much appreciated the service provider unlocking it immediately.