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  1. Re:No, it's a Mac case mod. on MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose · · Score: 1

    I never could find an appropriate LCD for this, but that was pre netbook era so maybe things have improved. My hang up was wanting better than 800x600 in that size. I almost went with a CRT instead as you can still find old high res VGA displays from sales terminals in 8" but never pulled the trigger.

  2. Re:One major issue with it on Fusion-io IoXtreme's Consumer-Class PCIe SSD — Impressive Throughput · · Score: 1

    I've got to try this again, but back in the day you could install on a drive that Windows had a driver for, but the BIOS couldn't boot as long as you had a small NTFS/FAT partition on a drive the BIOS COULD boot to hold the bootloader and driver... So you primary drive/OS would live on the SSD, and that legacy pile of junk hanging off your ATA port could be a tired piece of CF for all Windows could care.

  3. Re:Put in denyhosts... on The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing · · Score: 5, Informative

    The nice thing about denyhosts is you can participate in the global shared DB, so one failed login on your machine, one on mine, etc, we all report the same IP, it gets flagged in the global DB, so we all block it. Machines that IP hasn't hit now won't allow login attempts from it.

  4. Re:Put the damn thing in neutral! on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    Except that with a Toyota style 'HSD' hybrid, there is no neutral, there is only the ECU being nice and not powering the two electric motors in the planetary gear setup to force motion. If the ECU isn't cooperating, shifting to 'N' isn't going to do anything to alter the car's behavior.

  5. Re:Put the damn thing in neutral! on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    Ok, that explains it then. I couldn't come up with a reason for that behavior, in my mind, the ECU knows it's in neutral or full brake, so why waste the gas, now I know.

  6. Re:Put the damn thing in neutral! on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With Toyota Hybrids, the gearshift lever is just a switch for all positions other than park. Flip it all you want between R, N, D, B and all you're doing is asking the ECU to alter what it does with the 'synergy drive', it doesn't change any gears.

    I've played around a bit with my Highlander Hybrid, it does some odd stuff... Put it in Park or Neutral, give it gas, and it'll fire up the gas engine and rev it a bit? Floor the brake pedal, give it some gas, and again, it'll rev the gas engine but not transmit any power to the wheels?

  7. Re:too old on Installing Linux On Old Hardware? · · Score: 1

    http://www.x386.net/about.html

    There's my resume, lets talk. (What exactly did I just apply for?)

  8. Re:Forgive me if I'm wrong but on Brian Aker Responds To RMS On Dual Licensing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, there is. The problem RMS is pointing out, is if Oracle basically shutters MySQL after acquiring it, as the owners of the primary license they can prevent MySQL from ever having a GPLv3 release, or any further closed source releases to fund further development. MySQL forks at that point will be locked into GPLv2 without the option of closed source releases to help fund further development.

  9. Re:Or 120GB for $54.99 on Xbox 360 Update Will Lock Out Unauthorized Storage · · Score: 1

    The minor exception being that for the most part, you can't run what you want on said external memory cards... there is potentially executable code stored on MS memory cards, hence why MS is being paranoid with it.

  10. Re:Oh yes, you can! (It just costs money) on Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, doing that makes much more sense to me. It really only works between those sites, but it actually functions correctly that way.

  11. Re:Oh yes, you can! (It just costs money) on Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? · · Score: 1

    And they all work like crap...

    If you want to truly multi-home, get an ASN and do BGP.

  12. Re:it's not ethanol itself on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    They are also not putting anywhere near the run time on those dragsters as street cars, and tend to replace parts more frequently just to keep in top form. IE, they don't compare directly to regular daily drivers.

  13. Re:Say It Ain't So on The Real Reason For Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Ok, so now you've got to speak IP at some level over your USB link, AND make sure you don't conflict with the existing IP setup on the client machine, ever. Plus, because you're emulating a network link, you've got software firewalls to worry about as well.

  14. Re:Say It Ain't So on The Real Reason For Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Using FAT means they can present the file system directly to the host machine for updates/etc. Much easier than having to run an internal file system, and establish a custom communication protocol to handle pushing and pulling files.

  15. Re:Where have you been? on DragonFly BSD 2.2 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    OS X (Which I love as a workstation) isn't doing BSD any favors... they still don't have threading right...

  16. Re:his eyes are fine on Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided · · Score: 1

    Or, you could read the article, which points out that the retina sends signals to both the visual cortex AND some sub cortical areas. While his visual cortex was inert, the sub cortical areas were not, and based on this research they've determined that they can function independent of the visual cortex, and it appears they also perform some specialized visual functions such as facial expression recognition. This has been demonstrated in other animals, this was the first time it was confirmed in humans.

  17. Re:I've been bricked before on Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS · · Score: 1

    Not according to Apple's Eula, they make sure to specify Apple branded SYSTEM, which excludes home brew builds from scavenged and adapted parts like my frankenmac.

  18. Re:I've been bricked before on Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS · · Score: 1

    Good news, my franenmac WAS a PPC, yes I DID buy a boxed copy of Panther for it.

    http://www.outofspec.com/frankenmac/

    The OP didn't say if he was running Tiger or Leopard... Leopard is available retail, so again, he may not have pirated it.

  19. Re:I've been bricked before on Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS · · Score: 1, Troll

    Who said he pirated anything? I bought a boxed copy of Panther for my frankenmac.

  20. Re:Good products on VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host · · Score: 1

    Lots of people are having issues with VBox and FreeBSD under load. I can replicate just by trying to complete a buildworld on 6.x, 7.x or -current. I don't have the bug id in front of me, but there is an open one tracking the problem (been present for a long... long time with vbox).

  21. Re:IP and Hardware addresses on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    That's not 100% true... the network addy is normally considered tabu for device assignment because in the past, it was also the broadcast address. Nowadays with an all 1's broadcast it's the last ip in a range that's 'off limits' leaving the network addy viable. If you assign it as a /32 for a point to point connection, it's also valid. (I manage a few dialup pools, and have had to explain to more than one person that x.x.x.0 is in fact, 100% usable.)

  22. Re:Another great /. post. on Intel Core I7 Launched, Nehalem and X58 Tested · · Score: 1

    The linked article showed a Core i7 running at 4.15ghz with stock air cooling.

  23. Re:Server uptime is not the issue. on Google Apps Gets a 99.9% Guarantee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gee... you don't think I haven't brought it up, multiple times, with data? I pointed out the pitfalls before we jumped in, and we got bit. If I had control we'd be off GMail, but it's not my final decision.

    That doesn't make my observation any less salient.

  24. Re:Server uptime is not the issue. on Google Apps Gets a 99.9% Guarantee · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a commercial user of Google Apps, I have observed this not being the case. GMail does go down, and the cause is not our connectivity. What's worse is when there is a problem, all the 'phone support' does is tell you to post on their forums... not impressed.

  25. Re:Upgrade on Hubble Repairs Hindered By Antiquated Computer Systems · · Score: 1

    Hell, FreeBSD 7 runs great on a 386, once you tweak the kernel to id it as a 486, or use an upgrade cpu that ID's as a 486.

    http://www.x386.net/about.html