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  1. Re:Funny story from Chemistry lecture... on Sodium + Private Lake = Fun · · Score: 1

    Corret... It is most often stored in Kerosene or just in a air tight container.. My chem teacher in high school would often do a demo of it at the begining of the year.. One year they got the dry sealed container without the Kerosene.. My teacher nearly blew his face off because of how much faster it reacted than the stuff coated in Kerosene..

  2. Re:Easy way to do this on NIST Advanced Technology Program Awards · · Score: 1

    You can use a hot mirror filter that will get past that.. Its not cheap but it should work.
    Saw it on this page where a guy tried to take color pictures with a BW gameboy camera, some filters and photoshop.
    http://www.ruleofthirds.com/gameboy/process.html

  3. Re:What's the point? on Nokia 6650, Super 3G Phone · · Score: 1

    Might be handy to store digital photos directly on a network connection instead of a dinky memory card

  4. Re:Where's the link?!? on Xiph.org Releases Theora Alpha One · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that UT 2003 uses Ogg as well. I think developers like any format that looks good, sounds good AND lets them cram more on a CD.. Notice that game develpers still don't use DVD as a format.. Yet they keep trying to cram more sound and video into thier games.

  5. Re:Fan Site? on Firefly Premieres Tonight · · Score: 1

    40hrs if he had the help of 40 trained webmonkeys to help with the different sections ;)

  6. Re:Old news ;) on Enterprise Season Premiere Tonight · · Score: 1

    There are only 3 Time travel plots I have enjoyed.. 1) ST the voyage home 2) STNG: The one where Datas head falls off 3)STNG: First Contact
    There where a few others that where not bad but for the most part the plots seem to be work arounds for killing the crew or srewing up and having no problem bringing them back or fixing the problem.
    There was NO NEED to ANY time travel in Enterprise.. unless they did it by accident by flying around a star really fast ;)

  7. Old news ;) on Enterprise Season Premiere Tonight · · Score: 1

    It was on last night on one of the local networks.. Time cops are the worst thing ever added to the ST universe.
    Clearly the new focuse of Enterprise is sex. Then again Kirk was always making out with aliens.. O well.

  8. Re:TurboGraphix 16? on Nintendo Embedding Classic Games on Trading Cards · · Score: 1

    The sega mastersystem also had a card slot of the front as well as the cart slot on the top.. I only remember playing on sega card game it had something to do with a flying robot/ship. The card slot is also where the sega 3d (flicker) glasses pluged in (Same crap they keep trying to bundle with high end GFX cards today).

  9. Re:If its free.. on Advertising on a Free Wireless Network? · · Score: 1

    I think that would pritty much destoy the experience and convienence of the wireless connection.. Imagin tapping away on your iPaq or clicking your track pad on a laptop just so /. loads before your lunch is over.

  10. Re:If its free.. on Advertising on a Free Wireless Network? · · Score: 1

    True, in fact they where VERY popular but since next to no one clicked the ads the companies didn't make money because there demand was always higher than thier profit. I think it would be great if I could walk around and surf, even with adds everywhere but I would likely never click on one.

  11. Re:Slashdot Cache on When Users Attack · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be so bad if it only Cached frontpage news then deleted the content as it moved off the front.

  12. Re:Woo Classic Maxis! on Palm Offers Refund to m130 Owners · · Score: 4, Informative

    The only site I ever needed to Palm software.
    http://www.pilotgear.com/
    Just do a search for Simcity in the software section

  13. Re:Ogg or MP3??? on Maxtor Announces 80GB Platters · · Score: 1

    Why bother compressing and loosing quality?

  14. $20 a month on Why You Don't Have a Broadband Connection · · Score: 1

    Where?
    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    When?
    NOW
    Price?
    34.95 CAD = 22.41 USD /mo (www.xe.com/pca/)
    Hardware (DSL or Cable modem)
    69.95 CAD = 44.83 USD , user installs and calls for activation
    speed 1.5Mbits /s downloads or higher depending on your plan.

  15. Thats why I removed messaging from my phone on FEC Permits Anonymous SMS Spam · · Score: 2

    My phone had a nice easy e-mail option on it, but because the e-mail address was the phone number for all the subbscribers on the network it was easy for spammers to guess it. So I had the option turned off.. I am not paing XXcents per spam.

  16. Re:Interviewing Programmers 101 on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    From what I here my current employer was very impressed with my programming releated extra-cirrucular projects and research.
    If possible make them show you some code and have them explain it to you in thier own words..
    I personal hate direct questions answer formula interviews.. In my opinion those that can answer those questions more likely memorized it out of a book some where than actually understand the question.

  17. Re:RPM is obsolete =/ on Three Major Linux Distributions Certified LSB Compliant · · Score: 1

    I would rather use RPM than installshield and I'm a windows user!!!.. I can't count the number of times I have had strange pauses, lockups, errors, misc files left all over my system from using installshield or MSI. I would much rather use some other less bloated standard.. Under windows I tend to use Inno Setup for my windows projects.

  18. Re:How to restore functionality on No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0 · · Score: 1

    I would use mozilla if it wern't for this bug that is still not fixed.
    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133726
    Seems to happen on all platforms.. The browser is pritty usless if I have to create a new profile ever time I launch the damn thing.

  19. Re:Just FINDING the EULA may be fun... on May I Have Your EULA Please? · · Score: 1

    It would seem that MANY apps I have installed have a License.txt file in the programs install directory.

    Probably a common feature among software install with install shield or most commercial instalers.

  20. Food for thought on MPAA Requests Immunity to Commit Cyber-Crimes · · Score: 1

    Micro Hard Drives (mp3 players etc)
    Current: no levy
    Proposed: $21.00 per Gigabyte
    Nomad Jukebox 3 20GB
    Current: $699.99 CAD After Proposed Levy: $1119.99 CAD
    They don't want the money, they just want to kill the market.

  21. In other news on MPAA Requests Immunity to Commit Cyber-Crimes · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Canadian Private Copying Collective wants more of your money.

    On top of raising existing levys, they want to tax any media that can store copyrighted material. This includes Hard drives and Flash media. While the MPAA is crashing your computer in the US the CPCC is robing you blind every time you buy recordable media.. And how much are the artists getting??? According to reports, after 2 years of the levy being collected NOTHING has been paied to ANY artist.. Theroy has it they are spending all the money lobying for higher levys.

    http://www.sycorp.com/levy/index.htm

  22. Re:Even Microsoft don't do that on AOL Won't Enable Instant Messaging Interoperability · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can remove MSN Messenger in all versions of windows with this command in the RUN window or at the command line:

    RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

    Quick easy and its totaly removed.. Watch those windows updates in XP because some of them will reinstall it.

  23. Re:Buy some Bandwidth on Campzone 2: The Return · · Score: 1

    At public tech auctions I have found that Joe looser will pay anything for something he thinks is a deal, so expect someone to bid WAY to high on things like desktops and printers... But the REAL equipment, such as LARGE UPS units and switches will ususaly only be bid on by the techs.. who know what its worth and off then are as cheep as you are, so a few deals can be had.

  24. Re: Been to Canada Much? on Campzone 2: The Return · · Score: 1

    Yep I was there this year and had a great time.. There was A/C but I don't think it could keep up with the unusually high out side temp, the 1000 CPUs and 1000 Geeks emitting heat and it may have been turned off at some time do the the HUGE power drain of this years record turn out.

    I'll be back next year.. It was way too fun. And the prizes are kick ass too.

  25. Re:Fragapalooza in Western Canada on Campzone 2: The Return · · Score: 1

    I attended this year. It was great.. I have stopped by a few times in the past but never had the time to attend.. 1111 people registered this year, it was a blast.
    Only problem was that more people attended this year that ever before and there was some power problems because of the number of people.
    Man there where some great prizes up for grabs.. from both offical and private gaming contests.. Even some cool door prizes.