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  1. Re:It's about 15 years too late on Eddie Izzard As ... Doctor Who? · · Score: 1
    "It's about 15 years too late ...the Dr. Who loving baby boomers are toooooo old to be interested."

    No, we aren't.

    Of course it'll probably be another 15 years before PBS or somebody actually shows the new episodes in the states. :-)

  2. Re:Good, but not "plug and forget." on Are Consumer Firewall/NAT Boxes Really Secure? · · Score: 1
    "How do you find out what the OEM is?"

    Do these things have FCC ID numbers? If so, check it out at fcc.gov

  3. Re:Easy. on Cleaning Your Mice Wheels? · · Score: 1

    Don't use rubbing alcohol to clean tape heads--too much water. Use de-natured instead.

  4. Re:I would assume... on How Reliable is 900Mhz Wireless Internet? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If the bandwidth is 14MHz then the center frequency above and below which the carrier will vary would probably be 907 MHz. However 14Mhz is wide enough for about 2 and 1/2 regular television channels, so for a telephone call, which only needs 0.0027 Mhz of bandwidth, I expect that only a small part of that 14 MHz is used with the rest available for other cordless phones in the same area.

  5. Re:Higher voltage, same wattage = lower current on Switch On For Powered Data Networks · · Score: 1
    "Also, would this work in situations using coax cable, where there is no other pair?

    Actually, Dallas Semiconductor(now part of Maxim) came up with what they call the One Wire protocol..."

    Does it differ significantly from other (generations old) phantom power implementations other than the signal being digital rather than analog? Have they figured out how to avoid having to use blocking capacitors?

  6. Re:new? on Switch On For Powered Data Networks · · Score: 1

    Don't expect them to stop at a new adapter. For years we've been paying for 8 copper wires (in Cat5)and an 8 conductor plug and socket when we only needed 4. Do you really think they're going to let us finally put those other 4 wires to use instead of having to buy more wire? I'm expecting a new, not quite compatible with RJ45 jacks, plug that uses a special cable with 22 or 24 gauge wire (2 pair) for data and 20 or 18 gauge wires for the power (bigger wire, less wattage wasted heating it). This cable, of course, will be different in some way from any currently existing mixed gauge cables so that no one will be able to use anything for which they've already paid.

  7. Re:something wrong with your Athalon system? on Teach An Old Athlon New Tricks · · Score: 1
    "I've had an Athalon box running 24/7 for over a year now.

    That's not an athalon, that's an ath-a-lete!

  8. Re:Grammar police! on To Allow or Not Allow E-Mail Attachments? · · Score: 1

    The way I heard it, virus came from the Latin for "slime" which is sort of neither singular nor plural, therefore there is no "correct" Latin plural of it.

  9. Re:JB Weld is far better on Duct Tape Goes Minature · · Score: 1

    Duct tape is for holding stuff together while the JB Weld cures.

  10. Re:Duct and Duct Work on Duct Tape Goes Minature · · Score: 1

    There are some situations where heat shink tubing can't be used. If you're going to use electrical tape use something good like Scotch 33+.

  11. Re:siht si ts agnir??? I don't think so! on Learning Reverse Engineering · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your confusion is quite understandable as ringa was only recently canonized.

  12. Re:What I do on Shipping Hardware Cross-Country? · · Score: 1

    Jethro was a Bodine, not a Clampett.

  13. Re:New Kind? on Scientists Discover A New Kind Of Lightning · · Score: 1

    Gee, two different 'troll' mods, you must have enemies. Nevertheless, you are quite correct; unless God has been revising the laws of physics lately there likely aren't any new kinds of naturally ocurring lightning, but, at best, newly discovered forms that have been occuring all along and have only now been noticed.

  14. The PS2 mouse is the invention of Satan on Making Mouse Wheels Work w/ a KVM? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Why is it that KVM switches have so few problems with PS2 keyboards and so many with PS2 mice? Why is it that you can hot swap PS2 keyboards but not PS2 mice? Was there anything wrong with serial mice that couldn't have been solved by adding another serial port on IRQ12? If not for PS2 mice many KVM switches could be the much less expensive passive type instead of the more expensive active types.

    Can you tell that I have strong negative feelings about PS2 mice?

  15. Re:Come on, come on... on Three LindowsOS PCs Reviewed · · Score: 1
    "Well, it's all Greek to me".

    I thought Slashdot was supposed to be all Geek. :-)

  16. Re:I Prefer to think of him as my own personal jes on Bill Gates, Entertainment God? · · Score: 1
    I thought I remembered it from back around the '60s "Folk Revival", and with a little googling found that it had been published in the folk music magazine "Sing Out" back in 1964 and apparently had been around in various forms for several years before that, as a sort of spin off from a black (then called "Negro")spiritual, although the spiritual seriously addressed reliance on the "original" Jesus rather than poking fun at those who attach religious signifigance to what is otherwise the equivilent of a tourist's trinket.

    Although the "original" version of "Plastic Jesus" was a satiric comment on what's arguably a form of idolitry, more recent versions are probably more of a jibe at the religious figure rather than at the figurine.

  17. Re:I Prefer to think of him as my own personal jes on Bill Gates, Entertainment God? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that song around before Depeche Mode were born?

  18. Re:Google's Cache to this story .. on Barbra Streisand, Miss Vermont, And Your Website · · Score: 1
    ...she could "market me to the right seller".

    Wouldn't you be better off with someone who can market you to the right buyer?

  19. Re:Google's Cache to this story .. on Barbra Streisand, Miss Vermont, And Your Website · · Score: 1

    As hideously cutesy as her site is (at least the parts I saw before I could take no more), at least there's a comparative "innocent charm" when viewed in contrast to his. About the time I got far enough down this egotist's page to be sure that it was painfully obvious what the rest of it would be like he mentions his law school alma mater. Why am I not surprised that he's a dookie?

  20. Re:Con Edison on Media Monopoly: Thomas Edison to Hillary Rosen · · Score: 1
    "True, fire which burned down Tesla's lab was attributed to Edison even though nothing was ever proven."

    As ready as I maight be to believe most any old bad thing about Edison, I'm inclined to doubt this one. The stuff Tesla worked with was probably more than capable of starting a fire with the least bit of carelessness or inattention and, having been involved in at least one fire himself, I suspect Edison would have hesitated to use that particular dirty trick against anyone else.

  21. Re:FUD on DirecTV takes on PirateDen.com · · Score: 1
    "Sometimes it is cheaper to build New York city inside Vancouver than to halt New York for 10 minutes to film Scully chasing an alien in a pickup truck."

    Okay, now I'm confused, is it Scully or the alien who is in the pickup truck?

  22. Re:I'm purchasing the Kenmore 15,100 BTU on Keeping Your Apartment Cool in the Summer Time? · · Score: 1

    There's usually a way to run the heater's fan without running the part that generates the heat, although you might have to get somebody who knows about heating systems to do some thermostat surgery and/or run some additional low voltage control wire back to where it's convenient to have a switch (local codes permitting).

  23. Re:I'm purchasing the Kenmore 15,100 BTU on Keeping Your Apartment Cool in the Summer Time? · · Score: 1

    If you have a heating system that involves a fan and duct pipe running to registers in each room, find out how you can run just the fan (without the heating part) and this will help distribute the cool air from the AC evenly throughout the house or apt or lean-to or beaver mound or whatever.

  24. Re:storage? we don't need no stinkin storage on How Do You Store Your CDs? · · Score: 1

    An alternative to toothpaste as a fine grit polisher is Wright's Silver Creme, intended for polishing silverware (like forks, spoons, etc.) but I used it successfully to resurrect several Karaoke CDs when I was DJing for a local bar. Polish radially (from center out to edge) and rinse clean with warm water.

  25. Re:SCA! on Is the Seeking of Lost Skills/Arts a Hacking Analog? · · Score: 1
    What are

    The US Republican Party
    The US Democratic Party
    Microsoft

    doing on a list of "groups that exercise any freedom of thought and originality"?