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  1. Re:Effects on Battery Life? on Killer Mobile Graphics — NVIDIA's GeForce 8800M · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, one important part of newer PowerMizer designs (>3.0 maybe) is that parts of the GPU are *turned off* when not in use. Other parts run on decreased voltage.

    That effectively decreases the number of proce3ssors and of course saves a *lot* of Watts.

  2. Re:I agree on Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    I bet it would be faster, to boot from the Breezy live CD, and use it to download Gutsy in its entirety, and then install from that.

    Yeah, wish I could do the same in Windows....

    Seriously - this kind of convenience is one of the major benefits of using Linux.

  3. Re:I'm starting to get what they say about ebayers on Watchdog To Represent eBay Seller In Autodesk Suit · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, YOU represent WatchDog!

  4. Re:How can it not work? on Universal Offers iPod-Resistant Music · · Score: 1

    On a related note, does anyone know of a player that dies have SPDIF output? I'd like one so I can feed my home amplifier.

  5. Re:Idiots on National Archive File Format Time Bomb · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Not true! NeoOffice! on Sun Joins Mac Open Office Development · · Score: 1

    Your reply is simply hilarious! (Sorry, no offense) And, yes, I did understand what you were saying...

  7. Re:Not true! NeoOffice! on Sun Joins Mac Open Office Development · · Score: 1

    ...OSX's problem with weak binding (this is X.1 and X.2 we're talking about) and OOo using multiply defined symbols in their plugins and requiring dynamic weak binding. X didn't have that problem, so only the X version was released.
    Someone else has a naming issue...
  8. Re:How would I know if the HDD failed... on Dell Releases Flash-Based Laptops · · Score: 1

    From what I've heard, writing fails first. Thus, unlike platter-based HDDs you can still read the data.

  9. Re:Why does it have to be Dell? on Helping Dell To Help Open Source · · Score: 1

    Dell.com > type "linux workstations" in the search box. If that's "nigh on impossible", then you need a brain transplant, buddy.

    He did say "navigate". Searching is not part of my definition of navigating.

    There's a total cost for configuring and testing an OS with each of their boxes

    So, what's the cost of testing a system with no OS? How can that *ever* be more than with windows installed?

    And, calm down.

  10. Re:The article does not say what the summary says on UK Lab Traces Polonium To Russian Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Huh?

    The bloomberg article certainly contains this: "'Scientists at the U.K.'s Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, west of London, have traced the polonium 210 found in London to a nuclear power plant in Russia, the capital's Evening Standard newspaper reported today. Officials at the establishment didn't return calls.'"

  11. Re:Further clarification on UK Lab Traces Polonium To Russian Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Smoking is one way:

    "The alpha emitter polonium-210 is suspected of playing a role in lung and bladder cancer related to tobacco smoking."

    And as the article mentions: "The amount of polonium 210 found is of immediate concern as a risk to the man's health, rather than a lower dose that may pose a latent cancer risk"

    So exposer to lesser amounts is still potentially dangerous. When it comes to smoke detectors, the amount must be way too small to pose any danger, plus you don't swallow it, and the radiation won't reach you.

  12. Re:A question I have about the poisoning? on UK Lab Traces Polonium To Russian Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Alpha radiation is always dangerous.

    "Because of this high mass and strong absorption, however, if alpha radiation does enter the body (most often because radioactive material has been inhaled or ingested), it is the most destructive form of ionizing radiation. It is the most strongly ionizing, and with large enough doses can cause any or all of the symptoms of radiation poisoning. It is estimated that chromosome damage from alpha particles is about 100 times greater than that caused by an equivalent amount of other radiation. The alpha emitter polonium-210 is suspected of playing a role in lung and bladder cancer related to tobacco smoking."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle

    See also

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium-210

    Note that Polonium-210 is *also* a chemical poison, which is not true for all alpha sources. I do believe the alpha radiation is the big issue.

  13. Re:the second is wrong on Plastic Packages Cause Injuries, Revolt · · Score: 1

    It seems you forgot yourself.

    (It should have been "\(that was funny:\\\)\)" :\))

  14. Re:Solutions to stop phishing & trojans etc on Defeating Virtual Keyboards and Phishing Banks · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've had such a device, when I had an account in the Swedish bank Swedbank. Works pretty well, but much less convenient than the certificate-based solution I use now in Skandiabanken.

  15. Re:Community Broadband 'Mesh' on Communicating Even When the Network Is Down · · Score: 1

    No. In their case, there might not be a working path through the mesh. So packets will have to be stored hal-way through waiting for a way forward to appear.

  16. Re:I can get to a printable version... on Communicating Even When the Network Is Down · · Score: 1

    It's not linkable, sorry.

  17. Re:NEWSFLASH - BBN re-discovers SMTP !! on Communicating Even When the Network Is Down · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if SMTP really can to the same thing. Sure, it allows you to wait for the destination host (MX record) to become available, but what about the nodes in between? if parts of the network between sender and destination goes down, this approach might still be able to get the packet through.

  18. Re:Hmm, a... DARPA-net? on Communicating Even When the Network Is Down · · Score: 1

    See posts above, such as http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=207000&cid= 16877742 In short, ARPANET assumes there is at least one path. In their case, packets will have to be stored half-way through waiting for a way forward to appear.

  19. Re:What, AGAIN? on Communicating Even When the Network Is Down · · Score: 1

    See posts above, such as http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=207000&cid= 16877742 In short, ARPANET assumes there is at least one path. In their case, packets will have to be stored half-way through waiting for a way forward to appear.

  20. Re:Wait a minute... on Communicating Even When the Network Is Down · · Score: 5, Informative

    "But all that breaks down when the network ruptures because of repeated disconnections and long delays. BBN has developed a network protocol and code that moves information from node to node as connections become available, and can hold information in persistent storage until a connection is available. " They are solving the case when at each point in time, there is *no* end-to-end path. ARPANET assumes there is at least one path, though the path can vary over time.

  21. Re:Appearance is everything on DoD Wary of That "Open" Word · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The all-time most popular swedish military plane was the "J29 Flygande Tunnan" - Flying Barrel.

  22. Re:But it's not a "copy control" mechanism on Pro-DRM Law May Be Coming To Australia · · Score: 1

    Is this really true? I thought pressed DVDs had extra tracks containing the keys that do not exist on DVD+-R disks...?

    Thus, a player that does not rely on cracking the key will not work with copied DVDs. Or am I wrong?

  23. Re:More freedom ? on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1
    Ummm? Are you trying to deliberately misunderstand?

    Of course the freedoms to the original code cannot be taken away. But the GPL talks about *all* users of the code, modified or not. And surely, a user of the Microsoft product cannot fix any security issues at all. And that is an important freedom that the GPL stops you from taking away from users. Developers may get a bit less freedom, but users get more, for that very reason.

  24. Re:Sad and "unethical", but nothing illegal on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    Right, he's not doing anything illegal himself.

    However, he most certainly is *not* releasing all under CDDL - if that were the case we'd have a different situation. Instead, he's mixing CDDL and GPL in the same program, making it illegal for anyone else to redistribute the program. Of course, he's still free to distribute as much as he wants, it's just that Debian (and Fedora, and SuSE, etc.) are not.

  25. Re:Joerg's position on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    Well, if SuSE uses his unmodified source, they certainly *are* using it illegaly, as the licenses are incompatible and thus non-redistributable... :-)

    I can't get over this guy's idea of "if you use my code acording to the GPL, and patch it, according to the GPL, and you introduce bugs, I will sue you for slander of my good name". He should just sue himself for slander of his own name...