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  1. Re:My three picks on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    Did you like High Fidelity?

    It's obivously not a John Cusack 80s movie, but still one of my favorites.

  2. Re:I want my two dollars!! on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was born in 1982. I can't explain why I like the movie so much. I guess it's just the totally bizarre humor.

  3. Better Off Dead on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    I showed Better Off Dead to my friends a few years ago. They hated me for it at the time. I think they still hate me for it.

    Personally, I love the movie. I bought the DVD when it came out.

  4. Re:My pet iPod-peeves: on Apple iPod Update Increases Battery Life · · Score: 2, Informative

    - Said remote-controls connection is finnicky. I have to press it into place a bit too often if I have it in my pocket

    It sounds like you have the same problem I did. Until I read iPod: Remote Buttons Do Not Work.

  5. $2600 for 17-inch PowerBook? on Apple Ships 17-inch PowerBook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A couple of the shipping notices in that thread say that the total price was $2639. The Apple Store states a starting price of $3299. Can anyone explain this discrepancy? I didn't think the student discount was that deep.

  6. Re:Browser Tabs on Hyatt Discusses Tabs · · Score: 1

    Yes, the Web sessions will expire. Somewhat frustrating, but I rarely leave myself logged into Web sites.

  7. Re:Browser Tabs on Hyatt Discusses Tabs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even better idea: What if cou could undo that accidental close?

    You mean like Galeon's concept of a session? Galeon remembers what tabs you had open when you exit, and they appear next time you load the app. Great feature that's missing (IIRC) from Mozilla, Phoenix, and many of the other tabbed browsers.

  8. Re:Browser Tabs on Hyatt Discusses Tabs · · Score: 1

    You can customize when XP combines one app into a group by going to your start menu preferences. You can have it combine after a certain number, or turn it off completely.

  9. Re:Not that new.. on Cornell Implementing Bandwidth Charges · · Score: 1

    To access the 500mb grace, a person had to logon to a pesky resnet port authentication page to request the grace quota. What is funny is I have no idea how they expected people to do as such without access to the net. Hooray for public terminals.

    Chances are that when the audit scripts disabled a port, they really just disabled that port's Internet connectivity. In other words, the student was still allowed to connect to the local network and authenticate using the (local) resnet page.

    If they didn't do it this way, then yeah, that's pretty stupid.

  10. Re:Necessary, but stifling on Cornell Implementing Bandwidth Charges · · Score: 1

    Having authentication system (whether backed by Kerberos or Active Directory/LDAP) does not mitigate the need for WEP or some other encryption. Do like my university and set up a VPN.

  11. Mysterious Future breaks article table heading on Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future · · Score: 1

    This new feature seems to break the table background image on the Apple section articles. The article titles used to have the Aqua-style image in the background.

    Or am I missing something?

  12. Re:A quart of water into the monitor on Your Most Damage-Resistant Hardware? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This past week, I was walking from the parking lot to class, which takes 10 minutes on my campus. My umbrella was giving my upper body some protection, but it did not cover much of my backpack.

    When I got to class, I opened my backpack to find two inches of water in the small pocket. I knew Jansports weren't waterproof, but I did not expect to find 2 inches of water in the small pocket. Well, guess where my iPod was? Right, in the small pocket. I ran to the bathroom to get paper towels, but I was pretty convinced that my iPod was fried.

    I let the sucker dry out for the whole day, using a space heater turned on to low. That evening, I turned it on to find that nothing was wrong. All the condensation under the screen cover is gone, and I haven't had any problems playing MP3s since.

    I have a poncho now for when it pours....

  13. Re:ME 2 on Why Does a Screen Re-Draw Make Noises? · · Score: 1

    p.s. My girlfriends, roomates computer talks all the time, no lie, she has a tv card hooked up to cable and ALL the time you hear a low wisper of the the TV comming through even if arn't watching TV at that time...

    That's not too surprising. She's put a huge RF receiver in her computer case. The shielding on most TV tuners is not all that great, meaning it will interfere with other components.

    I got in the habit of muting the line input to stop the hissing.

  14. Re:Not Simpsons related, but..... on Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday · · Score: 1

    You can't tune into two radio stations at the same time. For the same reasion, a TV tuner chip can't tune into two TV channels at the same time. You know, circuits and all.

  15. Re:You get what you pay for on Illicit Leaky Capacitors Killing Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Well, when the motherboard is over half the cost of a complete system (motherboard, CPU, memory, graphics card), I'd say $300 is expensive.

    What kind of desktop systems are you buying?

  16. Re:Errr... on Next OmniWeb to be based on Safari Engine? · · Score: 1

    The code is LGPL, not GPL. Plus, they are thanking the KDE project:

    (fwd) Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer
    Fwd: Our changes to KHTML and KJS

  17. Re:Funky Colorscheme on XPde: Cloning the XP Interface · · Score: 1

    Most people I know use the Luna Silver theme, actually. A few ASP.NET programmers still use the Windows Classic theme, but they are an exception to the rule.

    I was pretty surprised that the XPde guys weren't porting the Luna theme.

  18. Re:Here's what's wrong with MP3 on 24 Hours Of Beethoven's 9th Symphony · · Score: 1

    If you're going to post that on your website, at least credit the original source.

  19. Re:Hu hu HOSED my user! on Apple Posts Security Update 2002-11-21 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It sounds like your Desktop preferences file was corrupted somehow. Try opening the file /Users/ellem/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop .plist (there's no space in that filename) in a text editor (it's just XML). If it looks messed up, you should probably just delete it and let the Finder regenerate it for you, using the defaults.

    I was going to post my plist for you, but Slashdot won't let me.

  20. Re: [OT] pixo os? on Neuros - Portable MP3 player, FM radio, Digital Recorder · · Score: 1

    The iPod uses RTXC, as detailed here.

    But you're right, the Neuros OS looks similar to the iPod's.

  21. Re:Reads DVD-R at 2x. on Sony DRU-500A Review · · Score: 1

    CD Burning speed of 24x is nice tho.

    But nothing to really shake a stick at...there are CD burners that write CD-Rs at 44x now.

    I don't think I'll be buying a DVD writer any time soon. The prices are coming down, finally, but it's pretty rare that I need that much space on one disc.

  22. Re:Oh great on Windows Longhorn Screenshots Available Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is available in Windows XP as a PowerToy.

  23. Re:Speed? on Phoenix 0.4 Released · · Score: 1

    It's called a joke.

  24. Re:Evolution.... on Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Really?

    It may not run in Aqua, but Evolution does run on Mac OS X.

  25. Re:Doesn't any READ ? on OpenBSD Gains Privilege Elevation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Same goes for X, which now no longer needs to be run SUID.

    Does this mean X will run slightly slower compared with an suid installation? It seems like there would be more code running behind each syscall to check the configured policy, but it's probably not a significant amount - at least, not for current systems. I'm merely curious.