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  1. What the hell are you using, Windows for Workgroup on Open-Source Software and "The Luxury of Ignorance" · · Score: 1, Informative

    How about you join this century?

    On Windows XP on the machine the USB/Parallel Printer is attached to.
    Start | Printers and Faxes | Select Printer | Right Click - Properties | Share Tab | Share this Printer | Type in a name, press OK. A little hand appears under the Printer Icon to show that it's shared.

    On the Windows XP Network Client.
    Start | Printers and Faxes | Add a Printer | Next | A Network Printer, or Printer attached to another computer | Browse for a Printer
    Select the machine the printer is on, select the printer.
    Driver get's installed automatically, test page prints, and it just f*ing works.

  2. Really? on MS May Be Forced To Sell Stripped-Down OS In EU · · Score: 1

    I can count the number of WMV movie trailers I've seen on one hand. Almost without exception they're released in Quicktime format, on Flash enabled websites.

    Most streaming video and audio I find on the internet is Real Audio/Video, second is ASF/ASX.

    The vast, vast majority of video content is released in MPEG2 format on DVD's.

    I'd really be curious to know where they're getting these stats if they're saying that most media companies are releasing movies and audio in Windows Media formats only.

  3. Ummm, not thinkin' are ya? on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 2, Informative

    In order to do its job, Anti-Virus software must be able to intercept File and Memory calls; therefore it must by definition have elevated privileges.

    If they have elevated/system level privileges, and they are poorly written (especially considering they're fucking around with the memory of executing programs) there is the potential for a critical failure/kernel panic/BSOD.

  4. It was probably the hardware... on HP Dumped Napster for Apple · · Score: 4, Informative

    HP decided they wanted to sell rebranded iPod's, so they went with iTunes.

  5. It will be printed on black paper... on Paranoia RPG Returns in New Edition · · Score: 3, Funny

    in black citizen, as befits your infra-red security clearence.

  6. It's actually... on Space Station Slowly Falling Apart? · · Score: 4, Informative

    part of the explosive restraining bolt assembly, that keeps the solar panel stowed during launch. Once it get's into orbit, the bolt's are blown apart, and the solar panel's deploy, so they're not needed once the Progress is in orbit.

    The pieces of the bolt are supposed to stay secured to the spacecraft with restraining wire (so that you don't have bolts and stuff tumbling around in the same orbit with you). The article says they're going to move the Canadarm into position to check to see if one of these restraining bolts is missing.

  7. Yeah, well, the article says it's a russian piece. on Space Station Slowly Falling Apart? · · Score: 4, Informative

    the article says the piece was Russian, and is most likely part of one of the explosive bolt assemblies that holds the solar panels in the stowed position during launch.

    They're going to move the Canadarm into position to take a look at the solar panels on the Progress that recently docked, to see if the part is missing.

  8. Trademark on Lindows becomes Lindash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trademark, not copyright, but you're correct.

    All they want is the name changed, they're not trying to stop them from selling it.

  9. If you're burning the Ethanol... on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    If you're burning the Ethanol in a combustion engine, then you're using 1.1 gallon to grow a gallon of ethanol.

    But if you use the Ethanol in this plant to produce hydrogen for fuel cells, it's 3x more efficient than burning it in engine, so you gradually convert your farm equipment and distilliation equipment to run off of fuel cells, and very quickly, you're producing more ethanol than you're using to make it in the first place.

    Sort of changes the equation, doesn't it?

  10. Re:Winsock API Included. on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 5, Informative

    Rumor is GNU style Makfiles (which isn't illegal) and parts of gnu autoconf (which I suspect is illegal, if they actually include it in the OS).

    Of course there are. This source code leak came from a company who ports Windows software to Unix.

  11. Yeah, cause there are a lot of birds... on Preempting Hailstone Formation To Protect Cars · · Score: 1

    out for a leisurely flight in the middle of a hailstorm.

  12. Holy cow, you're being obtuse on purpose, right? on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 1

    The code BSD originally released is still there, available for anyone to use however they wish.

    Microsoft incorporating that code into their own FTP.EXE didn't magically make the original BSD released code disappear.

    You can still take that the original code, and do whatever you want with it, just as Microsoft was allowed to take the original code and do whatever they wanted with it.

    You can't take whatever Microsoft added to the BSD released code, unless they released it under an OpenSource licence. But that's their right, they are free to licence their own code however they like.

  13. The code BSD is still freely available.. on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 1

    No matter what Microsoft does with it to use it as the basis for The Microsoft Win32 ftp.exe, BSD's code is still there for anyone to use, in any way they see fit.

    You can never lose the code you released under a BSD Licence.

  14. Yes it does, because the BSD FTP Code on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 1

    is still free for anyone to use however they like, provided they comply with the BSD Licence. Your (BSD's) Code is still there.

  15. Only if your website was also. on USPTO Grants CA Lawyer Domain-Naming Patent · · Score: 1

    http://bmgoldne.artsci.wustl.edu.

  16. By Crop plane... on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 1

    or by clearing a small strip of land through a suspected field. But then, that would require reading the frigging article.

  17. Because they're really shipping it with no OS. on Dell Offers FreeDOS With New PCs · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's intended for Businesses who have a volume licence agreement for x number of Windows Installs. This let's them buy new workstations without having to pay for a Windows Licence they already have.

  18. This sounds a little too much like... on Kazaa to Sue Movie, Record Companies · · Score: 1

    This sounds a little too much like the warnings on old-school Pirate BBSes with warnings on login saying that you couldn't use the site if you were a member of a Law Enforcement Agency. Those didn't hold water then, and I doubt this clause of the EULA will hold water now.

  19. They do NOT sue them for violating licence... on Kazaa to Sue Movie, Record Companies · · Score: 1

    They (RIAA) do not sue them for violating the licence agreements on their media. They are suing them for garden variety copyright infringement. I have never seen a licence agreement on a DVD or CD I have purchased covering the media files (There may have been licence agreements for things like DVD Player software, or video players on mixed mode CD's)

  20. It has Hibernate and Suspend. on Boot Windows Faster, Using Linux · · Score: 1

    You should use Suspend, because the scheduler can wake the machine up out of suspend mode to record a show you have scheduled. It can't wake the machine up from Hibernate.

  21. You really should seperate the RIAA and MPAA on Arrest in Caridi FBI Investigation · · Score: 1

    Their approaches to internet copyright infringement and illegal copying have been quite different from the get go (largely, I suspect due to the volume of piracy each industry is experiencing).

  22. Did you read it? on Wal*Mart continues push for RFID adoption · · Score: 1

    The RFID tags the guy I responded to above are for Wal-Mart's 2005/2006 rollout, which is warehouse tracking, per case as stated in the summary and article.

    They want to go to per item RFID tags when the prices come down, and they see adding the tracking to cases for warehouse inventory control NOW as a way to bring the prices of the technology down.

    So the $0.30-$0.40 quoted by the guy I replied to, will be per CASE at present time, because they're only rolling out Warehous eInventory Tracking, PER CASE/PALLET! They are not sticking $0.40 cent RFID tags on $1.29 razor blades, they're sticking a $0.40 tag on a CASE of razorblades.

  23. It's per case, dumb-ass, not per item. on Wal*Mart continues push for RFID adoption · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's $0.30 - $0.40 per CASE, not per item.

    It's for warehouse inventory tracking, not shelf stocking.

    You'd think people would at least read the article summary.

    "Wal*Mart is continuing to push for vendors to add RFID tags to cases of products for easier tracking through their warehouse distribution system. Most vendors have until 2006 to comply, but their top 100 suppliers must have the tags in place by 2005.

  24. Contrary to the photographic evidence I take it? on The Dirt On Mars, In Words And Pictures · · Score: 2, Informative

    The moon doesn't have enough gravity to walk on...

    Contrary to the photographic and video evidence of Apollo astronauts walking on the surface of the moon, and indeed, driving lunar buggies around on the surface?

    I don't know how someone can say something like that with a straight face.

  25. Welcome to just about every PDA on the planet. on Spotlight On Windows-Powered Gadgets And Gizmos · · Score: 1

    Most modern Windows Mobile devices provide some (Up to 10MB) of the 32 MB of Flash RAM for user data, since the current OS Footprint is aproximately 22MB. Of course, ALL Windows Mobile devices either have an SD or CF Slot, and it's trivial to store data or app's on an SD or CF Card.