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  1. Re:Bah on Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No. Corporations exist to make their executives money. Tell what you just wrote to the stockholders of WorldCom, Enron, ....

  2. Re:Snort as part of Henwen on Intrusion Detection with Snort · · Score: 1

    I haven't used Snort all by itself, but HenWen provides a GUI interface for a lot--if not all--of its configurations, including establishing new rules. It's also very easy to install. I just copied it to /Applications and start NDIS and it takes care of launching during reboots. The Snort manual is included as part of its Help facility so you can use it as a reference as I had to do to specify a non-standard mask for my dual-ethernet equipped Macintosh. Logging is written in /var/logs/ and the permissions are set so that only root has access to secure.log and the snort subdirectory's contents. There was a vulnerability in Snort and Nick was very quick in providing an update (currently v2.0). Actually, I don't know how quickly he did it, but when I went to the website, there was a new version of HenWen along with a newer version of Snort (exiting beta cycle). Henwen Webpage

  3. Re:My experience with a Pioneer A04 on DVD Recording - Is There a Winner Yet? · · Score: 1

    Strange how you're suggesting that one reads the forums and you don't even know that Firmware Flash forums has a thread which shows you how to downgrade the Pioneers' firmware.

  4. Re:Shit... on FutureMark Confirms nVidia's Benchmark Cheating · · Score: 1

    FutureMark hasn't reached any conclusion about ATi's result yet, so it's premature to say that they are cheating.

  5. Re:Where did all the stars go? on Pictures of Earth From Mars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is also explained in those moon hoax debunker sites. Basic photography. If you can see stars, the planets would be overexposed. If you want to see the planets, you won't see the stars.

  6. Re:Fake fake fake Jupiter full/Earth half image on Pictures of Earth From Mars · · Score: 1

    Guess all those "we didn't land on the moon" folks will say that the full image with Jupiter will say it's a fake, too. Why is it that one planet is half-full while the other is full? Space.com says since Jupiter is beyond the sun. The orbital diagram helped, too.

  7. Re:Fix the installers first on Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View · · Score: 1

    Actually, I do like the fact that Firebird is installed by copying a folder to anywhere on my hard drive under Windows. Very Mac-like and very simple. Only problem is the profiles. That aspect should be automatically when it launches and finds a prior version of a profile. But I'm willing to live with it for a pre-release.

  8. Re:The biggest difference on Why Panther May Tear Up Longhorn · · Score: 1

    The second and third video short look more like bugs. Or like the other parent article, IE popups v2.

  9. Re:Guilty of WrongThink on T-Mobile Dumps MS SmartPhone · · Score: 1

    Something like the Kyocera 7135? Says it's Palm OS, but not what version. I saw one in real life but it is too big. PC Magazine had a writeup on it and it looked fine, but the thing is just too wide. At $499, it's not a very good deal. People switch phones once a year or once every two years or so. What about PDAs? Maybe once every 2-3 years. Once you buy it, there will be new stuff out in 6 months. If I were a gadget freak, I would want the best phone or PDA with no compromising products that included both.

  10. Re:mac problem on OS X Hacks · · Score: 1

    You'd need XPostFacto to get pre-beige G3 PCI Power Macintoshes to run Mac OS X. Your older Macintosh requires a G3 or better to run Mac OS X 10.2.

  11. Not really hacks on OS X Hacks · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or do many of these appear to be tips rather than hacks? A tip is some obscure way how to do stuff. A hack is modifying binary files to do something. For instance, I consider this, and this to be tips, with the latter bordering on a hack; but this is a hack in my book. Of course, this is an "easier" hack than some, like taking out copy protection and the like. But we then border on a crack.

  12. Hmmm... on ATI Radeon 9800 Pro vs. NVidia GeForce 5900 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If both cards perform relatively the same but the nVidia card takes up an extra slot, my vote would go to ATi. I get the sense ATi and nVidia would just continue to one-up the other and continue to produce products at a furious pace. Will they get enough revenue to continue with their new product release. $400, $500... $600... where will it end? Sure they can push the state-of-the art, but if less people can justify buying these expensive parts, does it matter whose product is better?

  13. Re:Higher resolution like Bleem!cast? on Play PSX Games On Your Xbox · · Score: 1
    have you tried it out, it emulates psx at 100% full speed without any or much noticable glitches, works better then bleem..

    I don't know. I have the Gran Turismo 2 Bleempack for Dreamcast and it works quite well. Fry's Electronics had a display demo a while back where they had a PS2 and a Dreamcast running GT2 and the graphics improvement on the DC was quite obvious. There were no noticable slowdown on the DC, and when I played it on my console, but it was nice having a PS2 to do a side-by-side comparison at the store to confirm.

  14. Re:The both copy each other... on Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back · · Score: 1

    To someone who feels a middleground is a good starting point for purchasing music via the 'net, I think Apple's policy is consumer friendly and not at all a joke. To someone who wants free music with no strings attached, however; Apple's policy is not very attractive. In fact, I feel those types of music fans will complain loudly even if there are no DRM at all and it's $0.99/song. They would want 44.1Khz/16-bits (no, make that 96Khz/24-bits), $0.10 (well, maybe $0.01), no watermarks or DRM--according to the responses to the iTunes Music Store threads here in slashdot. Exaggerating a bit but that was the impression I got. Well, you can't please everyone, but if Apple/music labels can please the majority of the fans out there and can make money, that's all that matters to them.

  15. Higher resolution like Bleem!cast? on Play PSX Games On Your Xbox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Site is slashdotted, but I'm curious if this emulator will play PSX games at a higher resolution like Bleem! for Dreamcast.

  16. Re:Excellent!! on Prince of Pop-ups · · Score: 1

    Actually, I do have it selected, but does not work on the American Express Privatepayments site. beta 2 v73.

  17. Re:Excellent!! on Prince of Pop-ups · · Score: 1

    I also hate sites that resize your browser's windows. It's a good thing Mozilla/Firebird can prevent those resizes. If only Safari can do the same...

  18. Re:Mice lifespan on Common Cold A Cure For Brain Tumors? · · Score: 1

    I personally feel 4 months is too soon to start discecting these mice. What about the drug keeping the cancerous cells in remission but may reappear later? Or did the scientists figure that the 100 days is equivalent to x-human years? Guess this is a good first step.

  19. Re:Better value than PS2, Cube... on Is The Dreamcast Undead? · · Score: 1

    Actually, my intention was not to denounce you as a warez pirate. Only the threads that had the word "backup" in a those forums and a lot of other DC websites refer to them as warez. I do appreciate your help and am open to ideas; however, I have never heard of people who were successful in using normal PC CD authoring programs in producing bootable commercial DC GD-ROMs ever since I have owned my DC since mid-2000.

    You say the DCEmu has a lot of information; however, their focus is in-house software development on the DC, not copying/backing up of commercial DC games.

    Currently, with the various DVD backup software that's available, I would say it is a lot easier to backup DVDs than DC GDs.

  20. Mice lifespan on Common Cold A Cure For Brain Tumors? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article said 60% died in 140 days vs. 20 days without treatment. Is this their normal lifespan?

  21. Re:Better value than PS2, Cube... on Is The Dreamcast Undead? · · Score: 1

    OK, whatever you say. If it works for you, great. Never worked for me nor everyone who has legitimate GD-ROMs. Probably is why every topic on "backups" on that site results a topic closed along with people who state "no warez" and such.

  22. Re:Does size matter? on 60G Nomad Zen vs. The iPod · · Score: 1

    They're quite close; but unless you're in Japan, where small is "king," it's not enough to make a really big difference, in my opinion. Now if you're talking about something like the Archos Jukebox, then it's a different issue.

    Probably the deciding factor becomes how is the controlling software. Never seen the Nomad, but I really like the intuitive nature of the iPod's software as well as the animated menus. I normally detest animated menus, but in this case, the way the menus move left or right gives good feedback where you're going relative to the hierarchy of menus you're traversing.

  23. Re:Yes, you are missing something on Apple Sells A Million Songs in Debut Week · · Score: 1

    If you just have an iPod, you won't be able to buy music with it. You'd currently need a Macintosh running OS X.

  24. Re:Hooray on Apple Sells A Million Songs in Debut Week · · Score: 1

    Actually, I do recall these quotes; however, the "Outland Regions, and the mastermind of the Death Star project" are something that was not said in the movie. And I don't recall "Grand Moff" being said in the movies either.

  25. Re:Better value than PS2, Cube... on Is The Dreamcast Undead? · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the following GD-ROMs I have: F355 Challenge, Vanishing Point, Unreal Tournament, Tokyo Extreme Racer 2, Test Drive: Le Mans, and a few more that I cannot recall. They're all original and you cannot use something like WinOnCD, DiscJuggler, Nero, CDRWin, etc. to copy these files, because the real data is in a section outside the first which is what most CD-/DVD-ROM drives will read. If it is well documented, I would appreciate a link because it would like to back these up!

    The well-documented startup procedures are for homegrown software, not software you buy, or at least all titles I've purchased cannot be copied through "easy" means.