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  1. Computer says no on Computer Failure Disrupts British Air Traffic Control Systems · · Score: 3, Funny

    Computer says "NO"

  2. Re:This is true... to an extent on Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back · · Score: 1

    There are problems with the ipod itself. The gen5 video ipod i have has a good wolfson dac, but the analog part of the circuity is messed up. I first spotted this, when i connected my ipod to my h/k receiver. The sound was weirdly dull, not much, but audible. After that i took the same files and played them on a pc, connected a m-audio transit to the toslink port of the h/k and the difference was there. Some guys even modify the ipods to sound better, http://www.redwineaudio.com/iMod.html
    There is a list of problems with ipod analog circuity. But still, ipod is good enough when using erabuds.

  3. Re:I doubt it will be viable in notebooks on Ultracapacitors Soon to Replace Many Batteries? · · Score: 1

    No problem really, you can charge a123 cells at 10A. You could even do 15A, but that would shorten the lifetime of the cell. Look at http://www.a123racing.com/html/technology.html

    And then there is Altairnano, promising 10 minute charge time, http://www.altairnano.com/documents/NanoSafe_Datasheet.pdf. Sadly their batteries are not available in general retail. For a123 cells you can buy Dewalt 36V batteries and harvest them. They contain 10 cells and those cells are exellent for RC use.

  4. Re:The world actually needs more bogs on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are you sure you know what you are talking about? Bog conserves a lot of carbon in peat. Thus breaking down CO2, a pesky greenhouse gas. Peat is too seen as "fossil fuel". Only the fossils are some thousands of years old at most. But then again, i'm posting to slashdot, what do i expect.

  5. Re:You can attract more bees with honey... on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 1

    no, it's not secure :)

    http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmai l- bugs.html
    http://secunia.com/product/299/

  6. Re:Excellent System on FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 Now Ready · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FreeBSD is king on uniprocessor server or workstation. Even 5.0 SMP support is too young to be
    compared to Linux.

  7. Re:The immorality of Open Source on Operating Systems Are Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    china is so big, that they would be wery well able to make database sofware themselves. nothing would change for them, if mysql did'nt exist. they have ton's of people available...

  8. Re:Stupid name? on Reiserfs Released · · Score: 1

    useless post..

  9. Re:Mr. Becker's contributions on Dobb's Programming Awards · · Score: 1

    hmm, yes, he has contributed many good drivers
    to linux. Thanks :)