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  1. Re:How about a computer equlivent of here: on Where Does Google's Hardware Go to Die? · · Score: 1

    You mean something like the Computer History Museum in - surprise - Mountain View, CA? And yes, they exhibit Google hardware...

    http://www.computerhistory.org/

    Specialist

  2. Re:Windows Beta site getting hammered on Windows XP SP2 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Nope! ;-) That's why I check the Authenticode digital signature of the service pack executable before applying the service pack.

  3. Re:nothing new at all on German Court Fixes Book Prices On Ebay · · Score: 3, Informative
    According to the article this does not affect people who sell used books and collectibles?

    Exactly. The German "Buchpreisbindung" is only in effect for new, but not for used books.

  4. Re:why bother on eyeBlog · · Score: 1
    I am often able to sense eye contact without any sensors at all. Anyone else?

    This is /., remember? Social interaction is unknown to many regulars... *g*

  5. Re:VNC not a great solution on Does a DVI KVM Solution Exist? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I've found that VNC, at least the "official" release, can have major performance issues on the server machine. It eats CPU like crazy

    While still not being an ideal solution, Ultr@VNC should solve the resource usage problem as it ships with a ring 0 based display driver removing the requirement to continuously poll for modified screen contents as it gets notified when a portion of the screen changes.

  6. Re:Good news and bad news on Does a DVI KVM Solution Exist? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the OmniView SOHO seems to work with my German PS/2 keyboard. Unfortunately, the VGA (analog, not DVI) bandwidth is really crappy, so I cannot recommend their VGA version KVM switch.

  7. Re:Too many choices on Gaim Forks To Get Voice And Video Support · · Score: 1
    I'd like to see support for all of those protocols and H.323.

    s/H\.323/SIP/;

    While not being an ideal solution either, SIP is much more NAT-friendly than H.323 and has an increasing number of hardware phones available.

  8. Re:Source Safe on Windows Source Control for the Lone Developer? · · Score: 1

    Nope, didn't know that, but it doesn't matter anyway as I am just finishing the migration from VSS to subversion using this migration script as a starting point. ;-)

  9. Re:Source Safe on Windows Source Control for the Lone Developer? · · Score: 1
    Comes with Visual Studio, and will do just about anything a group of 1-5 developers could want.

    While VSS basically works if you don't have any special needs, simple things such as branching and merging becoma a nightmare - let alone the lock philosophy preventing parallel work on the same file.

  10. Re:Java? on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't Just-In-Time compilation speed up the process to an acceptable level? Sure, the memory footprint will still be larger than for an equivalent C or assembler program, but speed shouldn't be an issue if you are using a current JRE.

  11. Re:Reduced lead? on Intel To Make A Greener Microprocessor · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Next step: reduce power consumption

    This is definitely a necessity as the major ecological impact of modern consumer and IT products occurs during the utilization phase and not during the production or disposal phase.

  12. Re:Where's the source??? on Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net · · Score: 1
    And it's downloading freaking SLOW.

    So we managed to /. SF.net? *g*

  13. Re:Nice on Build Your Own iPod Battery · · Score: 1
    But obviously a rechargable pack is the optimal solution because it's way cheaper in the long run.

    Not really. If you aren't very careful, the 9 V batteries will be empty way before the 1,2 V because of the different capacity. If any current is drawn from the accu pack after this moment, the still not empty 1,2 V batteries will actually start to charge the 9 V blocks with inverted polarity destroying the 9 V accumulators.

  14. Re:Kerberos?? on Jabber Takes On MS Passport · · Score: 1

    My impression was that it is nearly impossible to deploy Kerberos outside an Intranet. Has this changed or is my information incorrect?

  15. Re:Requires a client plugin - for web services? on Jabber Takes On MS Passport · · Score: 2, Insightful
    GET http://www.webserver.com/webpage.html HTTP/1.1
    Authorization: JabberTicket 54yudvjhssa76dta6sgdst78r4sadsfjdhs...

    [...] its obvious that this needs client-side support. With browser rollouts being mindnumbingly s l o w, that means they are probably targeting web services, or non-browser clients, or must be building a browser extension?

    Not necessarily. I didn't RTFA, but a proxy (which could even run on the end-user's computer) could handle the authorization part without the need for new browsers, which understand the JabberTicket authorization method.

  16. Re:MSDN on Forums for Windows Admins? · · Score: 1

    Actually, MSDN is focused on developers. TechNet migth be better suited for an admin.

  17. Re:Not naive at all on IBM Patents Method For Paying Open Source Workers · · Score: 1
    And guess who makes the biggest competitor to the Pentium?

    AMD?

  18. Re:Anyone got a list? on Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS · · Score: 2, Informative
    AMI BIOS: umm.. I don't think anyone uses them anymore

    MSI uses AMI, even on their recent mainboards...

  19. Re:AppleCare cost/benefit advantage on iPod Users Get Official Battery Replacement · · Score: 2, Informative
    What's more, they'll replace your iPod's battery if it is at least 50% depleted under AppleCare.

    Given that rechargeable batteries are considered defect from a technical point of view if they have lost ~ 25% of their capacity, that's a bad deal for the customer.

  20. Re:Why rely on email? on How are Your SMTP Timeouts Configured? · · Score: 1

    While the protocol used for sending faxes has confirmation capabilities, the receipt only confirms a successful transmission and not that the fax has been printed correctly by the receiving fax machine...

  21. Re:Javascript mailto links... vulnerable? on How are You Preventing Mailto-Link Harvesting? · · Score: 4, Informative
    There are e-mail harvesting bots which use the Microsoft HTML ActiveX control, so they can and will execute any JavaScript present on the page.

    Wait... this provides some nice opportunities to cause them a major headache by including malicious JavaScript code on a page only seen by a bot not following the robots exclusion protocol (to prevent a "real" search engine spider from visiting the page) by linking to that page using some hidden link from your home page...

  22. Re:Use a Form on How are You Preventing Mailto-Link Harvesting? · · Score: 1

    More importantly, this technique will prevent spammers from abusing your form mailer to send out spam to arbitrary recipients...

  23. Re:VeriSign class action - 404? on Slashback: VeriSign, Balance, Manifestation · · Score: 1

    Just in case you are looking for the document I was referring to in the parent posting: Here it goes...

  24. VeriSign class action - 404? on Slashback: VeriSign, Balance, Manifestation · · Score: 5, Insightful
    After quickly scanning the class action document against VeriSign, I am shocked about the incompetence of the plaintiff's lawyers: Their argumentation about 404 error pages has nothing to do with VeriSign's DNS change.

    Is it that hard for a "high technology" law firm to understand how DNS works?

    A s/\"404\"/NXDOMAIN/g; would definitely improve their chances to win the law suit. ;-)

  25. Cherry Keyboards on Have Keyboards Gone Crazy? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Are there any geek-friendly keyboards out there that combine decent action with just the keys I need to hack and no more?

    I am not sure if these are available in the US, but I can definitely recommend Cherry's G81-3000 keyboard.