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  1. listing error rates on Hot-Rod Your CD-RW Drive · · Score: 1

    I've had problems in the past and I was wondering
    if there are any cd burners/roms out there that
    could actually tell the OS how many errors there
    were on the cd? I would be interested in checking
    out the number of errors of any system backups I
    made so I could duplicate the ones that didn't
    come out so good.

  2. Re:Time for my VCR on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 1

    Too bad for a while the VCR was picking up a channel the cable company must have been getting from another time zone and ways always off by an hour.

    I naturally went back to manually setting it.

  3. not another refresh based technology on Hello MEMS, Goodbye Monitors · · Score: 1

    When I ditch my crt display I want to be able to replace it with something that doesn't have a refresh rate. LCD's are great for this, I don't want another scanning based display that will keep on flickering on me. My display runs at 85Hz and it isn't fast enough.

    The other great thing about LCD's is the image isn't distorted. OLED's like LCD's would have both properties, let's not take another step back when we get something new.

  4. bad classification on Next Windows to Have New Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Anyone want to venture a guess as to why this wasn't posted under the Microsoft classification?

  5. RealPlayer clip of the opening ceremonies on Net Still Not At Olympics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.univrel.auburn.edu/tiger/video.html Ok so it is only a clip of their bird flying, but it is clearly from the NBC feed. It appears there are ways to get clips on the web after all.

  6. good enough for desktop, good enough for server on Why Linux is About to Lose · · Score: 1

    I expect that is the reason microsoft was able to get in the server business in the first place, and that is the reason Linux has to get in the desktop market. When bosses are running windows on their desktop they think, if it is good enough for me it is good enough for the server, after all they sell a server version. That is why we need to develope as a desktop, so they have Linux and they decide that is what the sever needs to run also.

    This guy claims if people weren't doing desktop development it would be a better server. I disagree. The reason people are doing desktop development is because they think they can improve something. If they had windows on their desktop they would be programming windows or but not a Linux server.

  7. Toshiba Portege, ~70 min on Laptops with Decent Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    The manual says '3.8 hours on low power, 2.6 hours on full power'.

    I normally get about ~70 minutes if I'm luckey. Once I got 2hr 50min with the LCD off. It is really annoying because it goes from about 60% to 2%.

  8. close on Affordable Wearables May Arrive By Christmas · · Score: 1

    They should have included two Compact Flash slots. How am I going to get a 1 gig IBM MicroDrive and a IEEE 802.11b wireless lan card in there at the sime time? $2000 Wearable $400 Microdrive $200 twiddler2 $35 twiddler2 USB option gives you a small system with a big price tag $2635 but otherwise you are left with too little memory only a mouse input with the base system. It has potential we'll see.

  9. number on Antibiotics and Nanotechnology · · Score: 1

    How are they going to possibly count the number of bacteria floating around your system? Give the person too few and they don't get better, too many can't be good either.