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  1. Re:Unsecure network ? on Wireless Hijacker Dealt First UK Punishment · · Score: 1

    So, he bought a product that allows computers to connect to his network wirelessly, and expects computers to not connect to his network wirelessly?

  2. Re:Not very smart on Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD, Eventually · · Score: 1

    Precicely. 640k ought to be enough for any... err, nevermind.

  3. Re:SCO Bankrupt on Novell Asks Court to Separate SCOsource Money · · Score: 1

    Well, it's tough to keep up with all the comings and goings in all the SCO cases, but from what i understand, Linux isn't involved in any of these cases. SCO vs IBM is about IBM putting code in their version of UNIX(AIX) and the Linux complaints are all dropped.

    I could be completely wrong, though.

  4. Re:Uh Oh. on Why FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Doh, just tried doing what I said, and it's slightly more complicated than that. I had to rename the file to .sh instead of .bin before it would run (due to security concerns) and then run the extractor, and THEN double click the rpm, which asks you for a password and installs.

  5. Re:Uh Oh. on Why FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Sure can. Just go download the java RPM which is available from the main SUN java download page, and double click it. It'll pop up a window asking for your password, and install it right there.

  6. Re:Wasn't this obvious? on Butterfly Unlocks Evolution Secret · · Score: 5, Funny

    Keep going... I don't think I've ever heard this one before.

  7. Re:Uh Oh. on Why FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    I'm not entirely sure about SuSE, but Mandrake has the option to use ndiswrapper in its graphical network setup wizard. I haven't used it personally, but I talked a friend of mine through installation over the phone. It asks for the driver disk, then automatically installs ndiswrapper with the windows driver. Simple enough that a non-techy could do it, albeit with some help over the phone.

  8. Re:Not black and white. on Congressman Seeks Scientists' Personal Data · · Score: 1

    Only because Linus pays us big bucks.

  9. Re:Jeez, I'm not sure what you mean... on Thompson Goes After Sims 2 Nudity · · Score: 1

    In the past, he's represented defendants who have been the victims of GTA-inspired crimes, including the triple homicide of three police officers by an 18-year-old boy in Alabama.

    No, he's talking about suing the killers, not the officers.


    But then he'd be the prosecution, not the defendant.

  10. Re:Oh yeah, that's why we threw their tea away on British Police Demand Access To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    I keep my encryption keys in a locked box. But the information is either there or erased, and the wavefunctions will only collapse when you open the box. So if you open the box and find my keys missing, then it's not my fault.

  11. Re:The other side of things. on Net Marketers Worried as Cookies Lose Effectiveness · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because IP addresses don't go that high, duh.
    (Although I completely agree with the general idea.)

  12. Re:That was certainly quick on Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Download and save enough images and the program eventually becomes unusable...

    Stop looking at so much porn, then!

  13. Re:Neither "multi-target" nor "for the masses" on Multiple-Target Hyperlinks for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Yes, because Firefox for Windows doesn't exist.
    ???

  14. Re:OSS on Band Invites Music Copying · · Score: 1

    About your sig...
    I've been seeing links to this video forever, but everywhere i go, it's been taken down. What exactly is it, and do you know where i can find a live copy?

  15. Re:Brisco County Jr on Salon Interviews Bruce Campbell · · Score: 1

    What horror films were Bruce Campbell in? I can't think of any. Just a bunch of gory hilarious comedies.

  16. Re:Alleged? on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    Of course. We should all be using ogg instead.

  17. Re:Great... on Jan 2009 Deadline for HDTV Cutoff · · Score: 1

    I apologize. I had just bought it (dirt cheap i might add) and i was in a HUGE rush to get home and scrape those bumper stickers off. Again, i apologize.

  18. Don't worry... on NASA Scrubs Launch Due to Faulty Fuel-Tank Sensor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still confident they'll launch before DNF or Longhorn are released.

  19. Re:Robots.txt? on The Internet Archive Sued Over Stored Pages · · Score: 1

    Okay, i'm confused. Doesn't the Wayback Machine keep copies of the old files on THEIR servers? Wouldn't any request of the old page go the the Archive's website and not go to the Healthcare Advocates' page at all? How would they get anything on their logs indicating the old pages were being requested?

  20. Re:If I had gotten the book early on Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked · · Score: 1

    If i got it early, i would be all about selling it on E-bay for a million dollars to some rich sucker.

  21. Re:drivers.. on Sneak Peek at ATi's CrossFire Graphics System · · Score: 1

    Actually, the last ATi card i owned was a Radeon 9700. And before that was an ATi Radeon Mobility in a laptop.
    The 9700 had issues locking up whenever i started a 3D app (fresh install of windows/directx/latest drivers from ATi) so I took it back, said it was faulty.
    The Mobility was just crap. Slideshow performance, texture issues, rendering in the wrong order so some things you could see through and some you couldn't. Luckily I wasn't using it for gaming much, but i was hoping to have something i could take to a friend's house for quick network play. I haven't tried anything newer than the 9700, and frankly i don't really plan to, as long as nvidia keeps me happy.
    I know everyone says that they're so much better now, but they said the same thing in the 9x00 days. It may be true, but i'm not about to get burned again.

  22. Re:drivers.. on Sneak Peek at ATi's CrossFire Graphics System · · Score: 1

    It's been that way for me as well. Every ATi I've owned (4 of them over the past 6 years) has given me tremendous problems. I even had a friend with an ATi card get his whole computer fried. He leaves his computer on all the time, and the fan on the card fell off. The card boiled and died, and the resulting surge took out every piece of hardware on his computer except for the memory. Hard drives, sound card, network card, and the motherboard all had to be replaced. Granted, this could have happened with any brand, but my friend still to this day won't buy ATi.

    Having said that, I know someone who won't buy nvidia, because he's had nothing but problems with them.

  23. Re:6? 7? 865789865 explosions? CNN says 4. on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    And CNN is always right.

  24. Re:A warning to audiophiles on BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download · · Score: 1

    They are two different ways of encoding an MP3 with a non-constant bit rate.

  25. Re:Newton should have hung himself on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 1

    Yes, because knowing methods of how to counterfeit in NO WAY helps you fight counterfeiters.