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  1. Re:Hey Taco on On Stemming Nintendo's Exclusive Game Drought · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There have already been a few articles this year from reputable sources saying Nintendo isnt on solid ground and needs to watch its step.

    I haven't seen any reputable sources say this.. but what I have seen is reputable sources say Nintendo has over 6 billion dollars in the bank and they aren't going anywhere.

  2. Re:Stop spam, how? on Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam · · Score: 1

    Until it is illegal to send someone email i cant really fathom how you could stop spam?

    Easy.. MS plans to replace every mail server in the world with Exchange.. then the mail servers will be so bogged down with sending viruses, spam won't be able to get through! Ingenious!

  3. Re:Somebody here on Slashdot nailed it... on Mars Rover Spirit Back Online · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember in the last thread about the rover, someone opined that it was bad memory, then proceeded to give a half dozen reasons why. Totally nailed it.

    Yeah, in the future NASA should just submit an Ask Slashdot whenever something goes wrong..

  4. Sweet! on Congressional Committee Approves Database Bill · · Score: 1

    I'm going to copyright my phone number and sue any politician who calls me!

    (they're currently excluded from the Do Not Call list)

  5. Re:MYTHTV does this allready! on Build Your Own PVR · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps it is a hardware problem. What TV card are you using? We were using a haapauge WinTV PCI card. We've never had problems with it before under linux, but maybe MythTV doesn't like certain cards.

  6. Re:MYTHTV does this allready! on Build Your Own PVR · · Score: 5, Informative

    mythtv has a lot of great ideas, but it is way too buggy right now.

    Watch a half hour program. then mythtv crashes and locks the device so you can't even restart it without rebooting.

  7. Re:Gnome is more then creating a desktop on Ars Technica Interviews Robert Love · · Score: 1

    aRts predates GStreamer by years and the maintainer of aRts offered the Gnome project to use it as their multimedia framework pretty often.

    Um, no. The first version of GStreamer came out in May 99, aRts started out in 98 as ksynth, a MIDI synth program.. aRts couldn't even play WAV files until mid-99

    So they basically came out at the same time... and word on the street is that KDE is dropping aRts and using GStreamer in the next version of KDE.

  8. Re:Gnome is more then creating a desktop on Ars Technica Interviews Robert Love · · Score: 1

    m talking about this from a developer perspective - debian makes it as easy as 'apt-get install liborbit2' but if you're building things from source it is complete and total insanity.)

    That's why Red Carpet is such a badass program. If you want to compile a package from source, just download the SRPM, and open it in redcarpet. It will automatically get all the -devel packages required to compile it.

    With Red Carpet, package management in Gnome is a breeze... I don't even think about it. I just pick the apps I want to install and RC handles the rest.

  9. Re:Yeah, and the sky is red when you're not lookin on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 1

    does it much matter if it's made from silver or the bones on zombies?

    Bones of zombies? I thought that was Powdered Milk

  10. Re:Overclocked... on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're telling me a site on overclocking has to cut off the user limit? Their servers aren't overclocked enough to handle it?

    If only the thermal paste they used had real silver in it, they would be able handle the traffic.

  11. Re:I want to speak to the manager! on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't forget Girl Scout cookies.

  12. Re:Cost of Silver? Copper an alternative? on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 1

    Actually no. Gold has the highest thermal and electrical conductivity of the natural, elemental metals, however the cost difference when you need a large chunk of it is fairly sizeable.

    I'm not an overclocker, so I really don't have any idea how thermal paste works, but wouldn't gold melt if used as a thermal paste?

    Again, I don't know how thermal paste works, and maybe it is supposed to stay a liquid.. I always thought it dried like glue.

  13. Re:Is it dead yet? Guess not. on FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE Review · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean much.

    $ cat /etc/redhat-release
    Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
    $ uptime
    22:03:00 up 150 days, 23:30, 3 users, load average: 0.51, 0.87, 0.96

    See, didn't everyone go on and on about how RH9 is a .0 release?

  14. Re:Bad choice of passwords on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1

    Maybe the "technician" set the password to "liberal" for the Democrats and "conservative" for the Republicans?

    No, he set the passwords for the republicans to be "limit government spending" and for the democrats "spend like crazy"

    Obviously, given the current administration, the republicans were just confused.

  15. Re:Well established on 'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky Problems? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dolphins have the ability to shut off parts of their brain when they're not using them

    Humans have that same ability during election years.

  16. hmm on Martian Rock Found In Morocco · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Martian Rock found in Morocco, Classic Rock found on radio

    "The Classic Rock would have been blasted out by Red Planet FM (103.1) and may hold clues to Music's rockin' past"

  17. Re:What I don't like about Mac OS X Server 10.3 on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 1 · · Score: 1

    The thing I don't like about Mac OS X server is the fact that so many software updates require reboots.

    Ooh, a point upgrade for quicktime came out, reboot!

    The uptime for OS X servers is crap. With both Solaris and Linux, the only thing that requires a reboot is a kernel update. Even driver updates don't require reboots (just unload and then reload the driver).

  18. How ironic on Cell Phone Is The Most Hated Invention · · Score: 1

    My most hated invention is The Survey.

  19. Re:Does it boot with... on Gamecube Linux Port Announced, In Progress · · Score: 1

    Well, Tux is definitely the Party Star.

  20. Re:Boycott is the best method on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 2, Funny

    If CNN does it, my default news page will be Fox, etc.

    Oh the humanity!

  21. Re:My Grandma just got confused on KDE 3.2 Release Candidate 1 Debuts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You want people who know what they're doing to test it out, as they'll have a better chance to identify problems.

    I'd rather have people who don't know what they're doing test it out.. that way you'll be able to identify usability problems.

  22. Re:"Open" Labs? on MIDI Keyboard/Computer: Neko64 · · Score: 1

    And, yes, "open" has a lot of meanings. Open source, open store, open marriage, open secret.

    So you're saying that it's "open" to interpretation?

  23. Re:Hubble Schmubble on The Future of NASA · · Score: 1

    Hubble is a Cracker Jack toy compared to whats on the books right now.

    So is the computer I'm using right now.. that's no reason to throw it out.

  24. Re:That just takes out all the romanticism on The Future of NASA · · Score: 1

    I mean has anybody here not dreamed of being an Astronaught someday?

    It'd say that for people who are agoraphobic and claustraphobic, an astronaut is their worst nightmare.

    They'd be afraid of both the tiny little shuttle they're stuck inside, as well as the vast expanse of space all at the same time.. they'd probably just explode.

  25. Re:Sleeves and Smell on On Early Game Packaging Treasures · · Score: 1

    My favorite artwork has got to be the SMS packaging. Nothing says quality like a white background with blue grid lines on it.