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  1. Re:Well, I have it on a phone on Tulip to Relaunch C64 · · Score: 1

    I have also played a bit with it on my 7650, it has IRDA but I got a bluetooth USB adapter like this(40$). Which works much better since the phone just needs to be somewhere in my office. Which is also great for sync. to Notes.
    Only problem is that the drivers crashes both w2k and XP desktops when I try to use the serial connection. Works fine with file transfers though. Seems that this USB device is a rebranded device under different names, the drivers seems to be rebranded Megabit(or some name like that). So I am looking for a more stable bluetooth device with better drivers.

    Aaaanyway the C64 took me a bit of work to get running but once I did, it has been great fun. :)

  2. Not going to read it on Review of T3: Rise of the Machines · · Score: 2

    Ah, this is one article I am not going to read or any replies of the replies. I fear that T3 will suck, but I have a small hope that I won't. But I always like to know as little as possible about the movie before I see it.

  3. Re:So what kind of stickers... on dB Drag Racing · · Score: 1

    "I run XP and all I got was this lame Honda Civic"

  4. Re:Hate the sin, Love the sinner on On The Trail Of Super-Zonda · · Score: 1

    Well, The good thing is that I am not forced to listen to spammers and every spam source gets the entire ip subnet blocked in my routers.

    In the beginning we first deleted spam, when people tried to exploit/find holes in smtp servers, http servers, proxies and the directory attack then got blacklistet real fast. From "the 3 strike and you are out" it's now "first strike" and you are blocked if I see any of the mentioned attemps, they are blocked.

    I simply does not have time to deal with them and today many nets are blocked specially Worldcom / UUnet. And the entire DialTone internet.

  5. No that's Hyundai on Honda Crash Detection System · · Score: 1

    Nope, that would be Hyundai. I mean, what's the point owning a Hyundai if you can't brag about it.

  6. Because we use more power. on 42-Volt Autos · · Score: 1

    It's because we use more power in the cars today. It's not just for lights and the engine anymore. Take a look at all the things that are put into cars today. 12v is a problem and you have to run thick cables to all these things. It is not very practical anymore. Fx some cars have eletric AC (for non-tropical locations).

  7. can YOU turn off SMS? on SMS SPAM to be Banned Down Under? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't get SMS spam and I ever use SMS. If SMS spam became a problem, I would just turn SMS off. But I have never had a phone where I could disable incoming SMS. Does anyone has such a phone?
    Of course, one could just let the inbox fill up the memory but thats not a great way to solve it.

  8. not always on SMS SPAM to be Banned Down Under? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Until recently you could send a email to my phone which I would recieve as a SMS(my adr. was phonenumber@sms.phonecompany.com). It has worked for about 4 years I think but was discontinued early this year. Mostly because they couldn't bill anyone for it and why give anyone something for free. Of course they could bill the reciever(me), but I could imagine the problems you could run into if someone was angry at you and decided to send you 10000 mails.

  9. What do you think? on Roswell Declassified · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the release of these documents will deter the conspiracy theorists.
    What do you think? Will people who write stuff like this or list Alien UFO Base Locations will think that is the truth?
    I think not. :-D

  10. wear your UNIX DIAPERS with pride! on Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark · · Score: 1

    wear your UNIX DIAPERS with pride while listening to music through your UNIX SOUND SYSTEM and rub on some of that GEL-UNIX to prepare for the xray.
    Trademark Electronic Search System

  11. Re:Actually, I've got 2 airports at my house on Implementing WiFi in the Real World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Was wondering about that as well, but maybe there is some low end access points who does not have this feature. I have not played with "home-edition" wifi hardware so I don't know

  12. II can typer fast too. on Why Johnny Can't Handwrite · · Score: 1

    I too had calassesso that i could leaersn to ype relaly fast.
    I'ts great becasue you cantype long letters really faset.

  13. Re:HAH! :) on Novak Loses petswarehouse.com, Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I agree, suing people who just wrote they didn't like his store is f**ked up, he should have paid them for all the worries and expences they got from him being an idiot.

  14. pfth give me a tseng et2000 card on More 'Application-Specific' Optimizations in NVidia Drivers · · Score: 1

    You can talk all you want about your fancy graphic card, but I'll stick to my tseng et-2000.

  15. Re:Slashdot won't like this but... on Justin Frankel Resigns From Nullsoft · · Score: 1

    Well, it sure is serious when you talk about quitting. If things get fixed then it is good, but if not then you have to quit.(or stay and show that you just yell empty threats). You shouldn't say a thing like that unless you are prepared to do it. So I would say he have made his choice by the time he wrote it.

  16. but trust me on the sunscreen! on What Kind Of Computer To Bring To College? · · Score: 1

    but trust me on the sunscreen!
    Don't know why that just popped into my head.

  17. killing unmetered bandwidth DSLs on Kazaa/Altnet To Pay Users For Trading Content · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now if p2p applications didn't make it hard enough to keep unmetered DSL lines alive, this must be the final touch.
    The question is(as I am not going to install Kazaa and all it's junk on my pc), how much bandwidth would you need to provide in order to make 1$ - power bill.
    And I gues it wouldn't make the job for admins easier at the misc, education institutions. :)

  18. Re:Wow on TiVo To Sell Customer Data · · Score: 1

    You have 100 hours of archived Dr. Phil, and you don't think that's embarassing?
    Naah, however, asking for a torrent file to download the lastest show would be.

  19. Re:Short mobile phone market history on Nokia 5100 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    My first mobile was a Nokia, then I got one of those 696 or was it 969 :) anyway one of those with the tiny display. First the cheap version which lasted 3 months, then the expensive version with irda, seemed to be better quality. But what sucked about the Ericsson was the user interface. It was a pain. A simple function like keypad lock, was too complicated compared to the Nokia and not user friendly at all.
    Then I got back on the Nokia track again, I have been happy about the phones, except from that I always have had that "Insert SIM card" problem on all of them. Which a small, single piece of paper between the simcard and locking seems to help.

  20. Not changing. on Nokia 5100 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    It's a tool that every home handyman needs!
    It's a jigsaw! It's a power drill! It's a wood-turning lathe!
    It's an asphalt spreader! It's 67 tools in one!

    I'd love a new phone, but as long as my 7110 is still working, I am not going to change. Not because I am wild about it, but having to install a new cat kit sucks. It's a bitch to install. Why can't the coordinate it at bit so you at least doesn't have to change the entire car kit everytime you change phone, at least in the same brand dammit.

  21. Go text! on fvwm Turns Ten · · Score: 1, Funny

    There's this new thing out called text screens. Even Windows XP has it!!! You can find it in XP under start->programs->accessories and it's called "command prompt".
    And, get this. Instead of trying to figure out alle the menus and graphics you can just TYPE commands to it! It is my understanding the most UNIX and Linux systems has extended version of this features. One of my friends even saw a machine running TEXT ONLY!! I am sure that once Microsoft wrap their heads around it, they will be all over it. In fact, I would not be surprised if the next Windows would be developed for text use, with backward support for those old graphic programs. Oh, btw, I managed to get the ENTIRE screen in XP to be ALL text!

  22. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong, but CBQ anyone? on Application Layer Packet Shaping on Linux · · Score: 1

    Well it takes more cpu power. :)
    If one chooses to use packet switching for load balancing fx. your webserver or anything else. It's fastest to keeep it as low level as possible, for example on the port level. Create a virtual IP and redirect all port 80 request on to several webservers. But maybe you want different webservers serving diffent things, fx. one serving up HTML another graphics and a third doing non-static pages, like search pages. You can do this by having a sub domain for each type like www.mysite.com graphics.mysite.com and search.mysite.com. But you can also do switching in the application layer and redirect all pages based on the url, a cookie or something else so that all *.gif|*.jpg goes one place, and all /cgi-bin/* goes another place.

    Another place you might want to do layer 7 is if you need some sort of auth. to the webserver/application. If it has not been programmet to scale, loadbalancing might not work since you would only be auth. to one server. This can be solved in different ways, one solution is to still do port switching but making the loadbalancing "sticky" so that once user is loadbalanced to one server, he stays there and the allocation only runs out after a certain time of inactivity. Of course this could give some timeout problems so you could choose to do the loadbalancing on layer 7 based on the url or cookie and you would get a better intregration between the loadbalancer and your application. Then there are the cases of handling p2p application which does not confine their use to one port and are often these days user configurable. Then you would not know which port they are running on and need to look at the application layer and the actual traffic in order to determine what is going on, this is much more complicated as you can guess since it's not just about redirecting ports anymore. But dealing with the traffic based on the actual data, gives you more control but also more so maintain
    Ok, I could go on for hours here so I better stop. :) But it's hard to say why just this solution would be better without looking at a specific problem you need to solve.
    But as I said, try to get down to a low level as possible.

  23. Re:What?? on A Good Summer Read? · · Score: 1

    yes you are right, I read it on every summer vacation. And the the people around me still give me a strange look when I quote something from the book I think is funny.

  24. Not a bad idea on Sony Announces a Super Playstation 2, the "PSX" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think it is a good idea, I would like a combined console, sat. reciever, tv recorder in one package. One could fear that such a box would be too expensive, but couldn't that be solved by making it so you could upgrade it with the diffent features.
    Another problem would be the TV recording feature, I fear that it would not be available in my country to get tv listings for it. It could be solved by having a subscription service that was independent of the manufacturer of the box. But I guess they wouldn't do that unless the company that makes the box got a percentage of the subscription fee. Well, the possibilities are endless..

  25. Cell phone, on Broadband Barrage Balloons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so, they might as well throw in a few cell phone antennas while they are at it. Oh and a few of those video surveillance cameras that they are so fond of over there.