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  1. Re:We all know (from the movies)... on CIA Warns China Might Be Planning Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    My favorite mac movie moment was office space. When the actor shuts down his computer (that has a Mac-like interface), it goes to a DOS prompt!

  2. Re:I love CA*Net3 on Intenet2 Backbone Upgrades · · Score: 1

    I hear ya... at CMU we don't even have CAT5 in the walls. Really quite depressing.

    But it's funny... when our main gateway goes down, we can often only get to the web sites of other Interent2 schools.

  3. Re:Internet.... There are two??? on Intenet2 Backbone Upgrades · · Score: 2, Funny

    "They have the Internet on computers now?"

  4. Re:Variable Bit Rates... on Star Wars Phantom Menace 1.1 Editor Speaks · · Score: 1

    I haven't played too much with m3u's over slow connections, but it does buffer before the stream is started.

    It doesn't do chaning bitrates, since it's just streaming the mp3 information.

  5. Re:listinging on Star Wars Phantom Menace 1.1 Editor Speaks · · Score: 1

    Yup... you can use the .m3u format. Basically, it streams the mp3s over http. It requires no special server or client. Most mp3 players can access the streams (iTunes on Mac, WinAmp on Windows). You can set up playlists too.

    There's even a linux-compatible program, NetJuke, that creates custom playlists for streaming.

  6. Re:I don't particularly mind the 14$ tax.... on Slashback: IEEE, Liquid, Swings · · Score: 1

    Office XP and WinXP are both $10 at CMU =) 'Course I don't use 'em, but if you do its not a bad deal.

  7. Re:Mile High Club on 64kbps @ 40,000 ft. · · Score: 1

    You need 64k to cyber?

  8. Palm on $24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    But does it sync with my Palm?

  9. Wow.. on Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning · · Score: 1

    This seems ridiculous. I help my friends with programming all the time, never outright code sharing though. Another person can often see little errors that are causing bugs more easily than the coder. Helping my friends likes this has made me want to TA an intro-CS class next semester.

  10. Re:Jaguar Upgrades on Apple Announces WWDC Keynote Topics · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Spymac sucks... they're as bad as MacOS Rumors.

    Think Secret and As the Apple Turns are the only reliable (heh) sources for good rumors.

    MacMinute usually gets it right the day of the keynote.

  11. Re:Denver Art Museum on The Sexiest Metal · · Score: 1

    Please stay with the DAM tour. Mmmm National Lampoon.

  12. Re:And that's why... on The Sexiest Metal · · Score: 1

    So is mine. =D

    I also got titanium glasses to match my TiBook.

    I'll never find my laptop with a hole in it, unlike my girlfriend. Her plastic Compaq just acquired a hole on the side of the lid.

  13. Re:economic climate.... on PS2 Vs. X-Box: Winner Emerging? · · Score: 1

    But the XBox is a hardware product, one that took years of design and testing.

  14. Re:Analogy? on iPod on Windows · · Score: 1

    They are making bucket-loads of money with the iPod. And it's selling well enough that they introduced a a new, larger (as in capacity) model for $499 and kept the original model at the original price of $399.

  15. Re:Off the top of my head on Deep Algorithms? · · Score: 1

    Hurray for Lemepel-Ziz! The decompression is simply beautiful, especially compared to the hell that is compression. I stared at my decompress for well over six hours, and I never got it quite right working with a trie. When I switched to an array of Strings, it took five minutes. Like I said, beautiful. =)

  16. Re:So... on New, Flexible CDs Arrive · · Score: 1

    What's the point then?

  17. Re:greeeat on New, Flexible CDs Arrive · · Score: 1

    Double-sided tape is good too. I also put them on the front of my loft/bed. Heh, I also have old floppies there. A couple had Mac OS 6.0.7 in Japanese. =)

  18. Re:greeeat on New, Flexible CDs Arrive · · Score: 1

    You break them? I hang them from my ceiling.

  19. Re:Superdrive??? on Terra Soft Releases Rackable Dual G4/1GHz · · Score: 1

    Sure DVD-Video burning isn't real-time yet, but burning data DVDs from the Finder would be much, much faster. Apple quotes it as 2x. Not that fast, but faster than tape.

  20. Re:No sign of Jar-Jar on Star Wars Episode II Trailer Tonight · · Score: 1

    Maybe LucasFilm ran jar on Jar-Jar?

  21. Re:Missing innovation in iMac/Profile on iMac LCD Impostors · · Score: 1

    No, it probably wouldn't cost that much. But the keyboard and mouse need to be powered by something and plugging in your perpipherals every week to recharge them isn't the "Apple Way." Now, if it had wireless power....

  22. Campus networks on @Home Post Mortem: Who or What Killed @Home? · · Score: 4, Funny

    ISP going under? Go back to college! Sure it might cost a few more dollars a month, but you also get more bandwidth. =D

  23. Re:well both sides of the coin on Email (and Filters) for all Australian schools · · Score: 1

    that just opens the doors for future violations to online freedom

    I think you just are scared of your pr0n getting taken away.

    This has nothing to do with online freedom. They are trying to stop 12 year olds from looking at goatse.cx.

  24. Re:./ed on Mac Book Author David Pogue Interviewed · · Score: 1

    They've been having trouble with their server lately.

  25. Re:Porting Aqua on Linux and Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    The number of people familiar with GNOME and/or KDE is probably larger? I admit I don't have any numbers to back this up except for the fact that there are more machines out there running GNU/Linux rather than Macintosh, add to this that MacOS X was released not so long ago and I may just be right.

    Actually, because of OS X, BSD now has triple the desktop market share of Linux.