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  1. Re:How about some actual facts from a LibLimer? on Small OSS Library Project Battles US Corporation · · Score: 1

    Is it possible that you had a noble and worthy goal and went about achieving it in, shall we say, a less than optimal manner?

  2. Re:The sad truth. on Small OSS Library Project Battles US Corporation · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it's not the "businesses" that hire those lawyers who are really to blame?

  3. Re:Pentium 350? on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other words you had a waffle iron and a 266.

  4. Re:Renewable or infinite? on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 2

    "...but who says you have to use fresh water?"

    Those aware of the corrosive effects of salt water?

  5. Re:It's only a matter of time. on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "You don't buy Pentium or Core, you buy Intel."

    The more technically aware perhaps, but people like the dudes who got Dells (i.e., the ones who had no idea that there were any OS'es besides Windows) knew they wanted a Pentium even if they didn't know if it was made by Intel or Mat-tel.

  6. Pentium 350? on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 2

    What happened to the Pentium 5 through 349?

  7. Re:Cool! on Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium · · Score: 1

    I thought that was the video sweep on color NTSC sets.

  8. "All hail our tea- and biscuit-powered..." on 60 Years of Business Computing Started With Tea Shops · · Score: 1

    So then, considering what the British mean when they say "biscuit", would these have been the first computer cookies?

  9. I know of a guy who might know on Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? · · Score: 1

    Go to dealdatabase.com and seach for comments by omikron.

    An additional parameter for your search could be "prom day".

  10. Hey, Google, it's "different from! on Google Street View Moves Indoors · · Score: 1

    When things differ, they differ from one another.

    There's no such thing as "different than" or "different to".

  11. Re:Sounds like a Slashdotter on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer that they had fewer.

  12. Re:Even rational models are unstable on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    Peter de Jager was heavily vilified (by people who didn't really know what they were talking about), both before and after 1/1/2000.

  13. Re:Publish the submission but change the source? on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 1

    There's nothing showing up on the main page except the story title, with the vulture logo attached.

    It was the vulture logo (which I already knew as that of theregister) which got me to load the story.

    I load the story and get

    ddfall writes "After a recent update, Avira's anti-virus software reports its own AESCRIPT.DLL file as a trojan or spyware. From the article: 'The dodgy AntiVir virus definition file was quickly pulled and replaced with a new version – 7.11.16.146 – that resolves the problem, as explained in an official post on Avira's support forum.'"

    Since I didn't mouse over the links (at least not at first), I'm left wondering what the connection to ElReg is, at least until I find your comment.

    I'm not sure if what they did to you counts as plagarism or identity theft, but in effect they've made it appear that you said something which you did not say and did not intend to say, and if not for your post I'd still be ignorant of h-online.

    I hope there's an innocent explanation, but I'm not going to automatically assume so.

    Perhaps you could get h-online to ask them why they've been denied the credit.

  14. Re:Even rational models are unstable on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    Sort of like what happened with Y2K.

    People warned about it, the media hopelessly garbled the warnings, responsible people running IT actually fixed what needed fixing, crisis averted, everybody thinks the people who originally warned about it were just a bunch of scaremongers who didn't know what they were talking about but wanted their 15 minutes on the talk shows.

  15. Re:xp or die on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with German ancestry, per se, but as far as I know I don't have any.

  16. Re:xp or die on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    "...it was her who paid your way through medical school".

    Apparently no one paid for grammar lessons for the father.

  17. Single best WRT54G hack ever... on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    A little off-topic, but...

    If you have a WRT54G (the original, stackable version), and/or a BEFSR41 (same case style, no wireless), get a fan like an old 486 or socket 5/socket 7 Pentium heatsink fan, and 4 plastic motherboard standoffs.

    The part of the standoffs that stick up through a motherboard are the part that'll go into the fan's screw holes.

    The other end of the standoffs has a broad flange and a part below that that hooks into the mounting holes on the case.

    Saw off that part under the flange, leaving the flange attached to the standoff. That flange will be the standoff's "foot".

    Use a very little RTV (Room-Temperature Vulcanizing) silicone sealant (one version is called aquarium sealant) on the bottom of the flanges and position the fan over the main IC.

    Probably best to have the fan blowing up to avoid building up dust on the top of the IC.

    Somewhere near the power input of the Linksys you'll be able to find a couple of solder pads with ground and +12V DC. It varies from version to version and with which model, but after some diodes and capacitors it should be +12V DC even if the secondary winding of the wall wart starts out feeding in AC to the jack on the back of the Linksys.

    Keeping that main IC cooled makes a world of difference in stability.

  18. Re:Since when is this news for nerds? on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    Somebody didn't take notice that this is in the "Ask Slashdot" section, i.e., the section specifically designed for "...someone asking for advice and opinions....".

  19. Re:Price Spikes on Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the retailer who is at the mercy of the wholesaler (who is likely at the mercy of someone further up the supply chain).

    When wholesale prices go back down, if the retailer doesn't lower his, the retailer across the street will.

  20. Re:Price Spikes on Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices · · Score: 1

    Movie theaters do that because about 90% of the ticket price goes to whoever they've rented the print from, i.e., the movie's distributors.

    What they really are is a popcorn store that uses the movie as a loss leader to get you in the door.

  21. Re:Price Spikes on Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices · · Score: 1

    Not really. It's like when gasoline prices go up.

    You've got to charge enough to be able to afford to replenish your supply which is going to be more expensive than what you're selling right now was, or you won't have any to sell next week.

  22. Re:Price Spikes on Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices · · Score: 1

    Just tell them "If you don't have off-site backup, you don't have backup".

  23. VIPR is allegedly not... on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    "VIPR is allegedly not a response to any particular threat."

    Except maybe the threat of cuts to their budget unless they catch a bunch of "hillbilly heroin" smugglers?

  24. Re:Poor understanding of English on French Court Orders ISP To Block Police Misconduct Website · · Score: 1

    Considering that Delage's statement was probably translated from the original French, it could well be that it was integrity in the sense of being whole and unbroken, i.e., unharmed. In other words, he may have meant physical security and safety of individual officers and their families.

  25. Re:Everyone's going to accuse on RSA Blames Nation State For Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    So you're the one that got symbolset knocked up 5 times?

    It's so neat to meet your baby where the algorithm action is.