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  1. Re:Finally!!! on iTunes For Linux, Thanks To CodeWeavers · · Score: 1, Informative

    One caveat of this system that you do not take into consideration is compilation albums. I have Soundtracks for example that have various artists; and I do *not* want iTunes breaking these into artist folders, when they are sound tracks, or other compilations.

  2. Re:It's like the auto industry. on Windows 98 Phased Out · · Score: 1

    "good luck hexediting a patch for a security hole..."

    http://openwares.org/index.php?option=com_remosi to ry&Itemid=&func=fileinfo&parent=folder&filecatid=1 7

  3. Led Supply's 'EverLED' is pretty sweet. on Which LED Flashlight Do You Use? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a couple of the EVER-LED flashlight kits (I think LEDSupply.com is the only vendor so far). I bought them after seeing a friends blindingly small flashlight (a typical 2 aa shell) that he said lasted days. I have one in my car, which has been more than powerful enough to use at night to fix small problems with my car, yet small enough to get in tight places (try getting a D cell light in your engine bay to push a belt on!!). I have owned a couple other cheapy LED flashlights, but they seem to never be very impressive (light wise), and don't last very long. While they were rather expensive, I am *VERY* happy with my Everled flashlight. It doesn't ever seem to die (I left it on by accident all night and it is still working..). They are definately worth the extra money. My favorite part is that they are just so damn bright.

    They are easily as bright as the halogen head lamps that some people have (not car lights, the headmounted ones..).

  4. Re:And the answer is.... on Pioneer 6 -- Still Alive At 35 · · Score: 1

    Care to enlighten the rest of us?


  5. Re:Still a bit vague on one thing.... on Barcode Maker Responds After Forcing Drivers Offline · · Score: 1

    That, and did anyone else notice that:

    a.) you 'payed' for the :Cue:Cat. (I have a recept for it, abit $0.00, but I still 'paid' for it ;)

    b.) there is no license for use anywhere in the packaging materials.

    c.) you have to agree to their license to use their SERVICE. You dont even need a cuecat to use it.

  6. Re:open source advocates hypocricy? on Are 'Server Emulators' Legal? · · Score: 1

    And windows is free?

  7. Re:Whatever.... on DVD/DeCSS: MPAA Wins In New York · · Score: 1

    It also means open source players cannot be included in official Linux distributions.

    It means rather, that DeCSS can not be included in United States distros.. Btw.. did Linus at some point make a list of "official" and "unofficial" distro and I just missed it?

  8. Re:GUI Telnet?? on Microcontroller Linux · · Score: 1

    SecureCRT 3.0 for Windows, while not a text based cli app, allows alt+enter to go full screen.

  9. Re:Sybase is just plain cleaner on 30+ GB Databases On Unix? · · Score: 1

    burton:~ # ps aux | grep mysql
    root 232 0.0 0.0 1904 0 ? SW Jul20 0:00 [safe_mysqld]
    root 246 0.0 0.1 11244 48 ? SN Jul20 0:00 [mysqld]
    root 254 0.0 0.1 11244 48 ? SN Jul20 0:00 [mysqld]
    root 255 0.0 0.1 11244 48 ? SN Jul20 0:00 [mysqld]

    Whats your point again?

  10. Re:Three words on Microsoft's 'Freedom to Innovate' Brochure · · Score: 1

    Yeah, ok, but I'd rather talk to a troll than an uninformed non troll. A patch-y webserver is just that, Rob McCool's HTTPD (from NCSA), with a bunch of updates and patches.. Whicked innovation.. Microsoft buys other peoples programs, the Apache group snagged HTTPd's source.. So if Apache is innovation, how is what Microsoft does not?

  11. Wired? on Rosetta Disk For 10K-Year History · · Score: 1

    This *ALMOST* wasn't in last months wired. Atleast they had pictures.

  12. Re:look at Philip and Alex's guide on E-Commerce Tools For Students, What's Required? · · Score: 1

    'In any case, don't run the db server on the same machine as the WWW server -- remember the example set by CDUniverse.com, who lost many credit card numbers to a cracker.'

    Or the fact that thats how Apache.org was hacked/cracked/smacked.. Misconfigured mysql deamon running as root (iirc) on the same box as their httpd deamon (IIS4 iirc... ;)

  13. Re:Because no one will pay $129.99 for a CD! on Software Packaging And The Environment? · · Score: 1

    Windows 2000 Datacenter comes with its own Borg-sized box. It even has a 1/2mile^2 hologram on it.

  14. Re:Windows again. on Is The x86 Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    "For that you can thank Microsoft's amazing track record at porting to different platforms. "

    Nt4 runs in Alpha, PowerPC, x86, and SGI (hardware atleast.. i know its a x86). Thats most of the major consumer cpus anyways.

  15. Anyone want a video of it? on Myst - In Realtime? · · Score: 4

    http://www.cyan.com/arachnid/sneakpeek. html has a video (though in Quicktime) of realtime Myst. These are older videos, and the image quality of it may have gotten better... but there is some kinda idea what it will look like.

    http://www.cyan.com/arachnid/jpgs/scre en.jpg An older screenshot of it.

  16. Re:As Long as It's Not Played off the Disc on Myst - In Realtime? · · Score: 1

    Thats probably why they released it on DVD afterwords eh?

  17. Re:Other factors on Myst - In Realtime? · · Score: 1

    Um. What are you talking about? Myst came out when 486/100's were all the rage. Of course it needs more memory and hard drive space

    Prerelease specs are something like:
    Pentium 450
    64+MB ram
    3D Accelerator (duh)

  18. Re:You anti-M$ers crack me up on Linux Now Supports Ultra ATA/100 · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that there is no possiblity that NT detected that the CPU didn't have a F0 0F bug and simply didn't enable the 'feature' ?

  19. Re:Does Tom have any credibility? on Why Dr. Tom Dislikes Rambus, Inc. · · Score: 1

    Although, they are better in supporting non-win platforms, NVIDIA hardware is better.

    True, 3DFX has OSS linux drivers, but they are massively inferiour to the Windows drivers. The binary only NVIDIA drivers on the other hand are usually within 2% of the speed of the Windows drivers. Remind me again.. Who has better support?

  20. Re:Definitely on At Last And At Length: Lars Speaks · · Score: 1

    Umm.. do you not understand what 'lossy compression' is? Take a 100mb jpg. Compress it 99% so you have like a 100k jpg. Do you SERIOUSLY think that you can take that blocky POS 100k jpg and recreate the 100mb jpg perfectly from that 100k copy? You cant.

    The same holds true for mp3s. Even at 192+ kbps, your losing some data from the original cd.. You cant ever create an exact bit by bit copy of a cd from mp3.. not matter waht the bit rate.

  21. Re:whats wrong with selling it? on French Court To Yahoo!: Dump Nazi-Related Auctions · · Score: 1

    Its war memorabilia, do you think the people who buy it walk around wearing swastikas and saluting the fuhrer?

    Skin-heads what?

  22. Re:Article on French Court To Yahoo!: Dump Nazi-Related Auctions · · Score: 1

    Fair use clause of the Copy Write laws say that you can copy stuff if you intend to debate it.

  23. Re:They should get rid of it. on Mozilla Junkbuster-like Feature Removed · · Score: 1

    How do you think Slashdot makes money?

    BUYOUT.

  24. Re:Loophole? on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks · · Score: 3

    Heres a good loophole. Install Winrar, right click on the icon and select OPEN WITH WINRAR, extract the file. Whats a license? I never saw one..


  25. No Palm & Office 2000.. what to do? on Followup on the Hacker's Diet? · · Score: 1

    I dont have a palm (feel free to send me one :-), and I only have Microsoft Office 2000 (it came on the machine.. sue me..). Does anyone have any idea (besides pen & pencil) I can do this? Has anyone modified it for Office 2k?