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  1. Re:My Blackberry does this on Son of CueCat? Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks · · Score: 1

    What specifically are you doing? Generating the contact QR code on-screen on one phone and snapping a pic/scanning on the other?
    I know it's possible but the software I've tried for the storm is all very limited or slow. What software are you using?

  2. Re:Cat6 on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    I don't have experience with CAT6 but I always recommend terminating solid core structure cable to punch downs (jacks or patch panels.) Patch panels and jacks are not only more reliable and clean looking but are also much less tedious to install.

      I've always found crimping solid core to be troublesome.

  3. No more BocKView?? on Amazon's A9 Drops Retained Data Methods · · Score: 1

    Damn, that was very useful for Manhattan. Any alternatives out there?

  4. Re:Eh hem, size matters. on Much Ado About Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    very true. This is in contrast to most modern diesels cars, which are hard to tell the diference for standard gas ones. Most are quiter then the majority of gas cars, pretty much all you hear is the turbo.

  5. Re:What's the point? on Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last · · Score: 1

    actually from what I've been told by a geologist, they now use google earth most of the time and use there special software only to fill in some in some area where GEarth is lacking. I think the biggest thing is someof the data that record is required to be in a specific software.

  6. Re:No Track Point? on Lenovo's New PCs and Laptops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks more like they bought dell!

    Why would they do this? Looks like they are ditching every thing they bought from IBM. What exactly did they buy?

    Doen't look like I'll be getting a thinkpad again.

  7. Re:Another reason to smoke on Fired for Solitare At Work · · Score: 1

    Someone sure as hell shouldn't be given slack for smoking. What if you were an alcoholic whould a quick shot or sip from a flask be equivalent to a newport? I mean if anything it's more efficient you wouldn't even need to get up. And if you could drink guinness you could skip lunch : )

  8. Not an issue... on Apple Switched Chips Too Soon? · · Score: 1

    The software design enables them to switch when and where they need too. If one day IBM says look we have this awesome server/pro-workstation chip that has 10x the power, and intel keeps making better low power solutions, Apple could easily stay dual platform. Even tri platform if something else comes up. The multi platform binaries blur the line between the two platforms, just like sun wanted java too. "Was this the right time to go dual platform," might be a more interesting question.

  9. Easy. on PC FM Tuner Streamed Over a LAN? · · Score: 1

    I've been doing it for a while. I steamed 92.3 formerly WXRK, home of Howard Stern to work pc all the time. Now I really don't have a reason too.

    I use an old ISA card called radiotrack and a shoutcast server.

  10. Sound like a good idea but.. on Coca-Cola's Coffee Soda · · Score: 1

    I it's not new and I doubt it will taste better than this stuff from these guys. http://www.manhattanspecial.com/products_pure_espr esso.html

  11. Re:So fucking what? on MPAA Gives Film About Ratings an NC-17 Rating · · Score: 1

    No where in the US is it legal to purchase before your 21!

    Consuming it is a little different in some states, but if you go out to a bar you have to be able to purchase it to drink it.

    Now of course there are laws and then there are "rules."

    In NYC I have NEVER been carded, this seems to be the "rule," but I've heard that Boston doesn't have the same "rule."

    This is nothing more than bars and authorities being more lenient in certain areas. Albeit in areas with better public transportation as well as in areas where the authorities probably have much better thing to be busting for. I've even had friends in NYC who got searched for drugs by under cover cops, who weren't even the slightest bit interested the fact that they were drinking underage let alone walking around with open containers on the street.

    Again, definitely not the laws.

  12. Re:One question: on Song Sites Face Legal Crackdown · · Score: 1

    This is very true. Most of the time nothing more than a refernce when learning or playing the music. Most poeple looking up lyrics sure as hell aren't doing so they can perform the song. I'm a resonable person, but if you want me to like you bands and buy thier CD's and merchendise stop alienating me!!! It's thing like this that have made millions decide that stealing music isn't really wrong.

  13. Re:FC4, 1.5 on Unpatched Firefox 1.5 Exploit Made Public · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure that it is the new QuickTime 7 plugin causing that.
    As other have posted, it crashes IE as well. And every firefox crash I've had since I've installed 1.5 appears to have been QuickTime related!!!
    All happening after installing 7 except for one.

  14. Re:Does this thing work at all? on New Google Homepage Features · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't have anything to do with java

  15. Impressed but can't update. on Eclipse 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I have to say that I'm loving 3.0.

    CFEclipse and PHPEclipse have allowed me to completely ditch dreamweaver.

    Will eclipse 3.0 update to 3.1 with the built in updater?

    Is there a way to use the 'FTP and WebDAV' support to edit sites like dreamweaver

  16. If it ever came to this... on Give Your DVD Player The Finger · · Score: 1

    I would just take up reading or indi films. Maybe go out side:-) The funniest part of this is people would still be pirating them and selling them on the street in the city. All they would be doing is creating a better market for parates and once again burdening and invading the privacy of consumers.

  17. Re:Morris Plains - GET OUT! on FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a very odd post, did you just pull it off of weird nj a wiki something? Interesting info and Greystone sound like a cool place to visit. But why post it here?

  18. How about something more realistic/managable on Custom Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    For instance, a board where certain components are replaceable and upgradeable.
    Starting even at a basic level like some of the boards in mass produced systems, where the basic board might only have 2 PCI slots, but you can slap on an additional card to extend the PCI bus. Or add-in legacy devices, such as serial, printer or PS/2 port so they would need to be on the base board. Most of this could probably be accomplished with PCI-E x1. Perhaps, their needs to be new standard or new extension of ATX for this. But in the end, this will interfere with any goals to make things smaller, at least in the short-term. I think the point is, that unless something was mass-produce to allow for customization, the chance of a truly custom system at the board level ceased to exist long before most people even knew what a PC was.
    It however would be interesting to see a board manufacturer create a manufacturing process where they could build to spec. Something like people used to order from jeep, a roof, seats, doors rugs etc., were optional. Or a more recent example would be how Mini does things. None-aftermarket customization defiantly has a future in manufacturing but it will likely be a while before we go from an engraving on you IPOD to a completely custom board.

  19. Re:Check your rights on Retail Theft Detectors and False Alarms? · · Score: 1

    The real trick is that they have to see you leave the store, many security guards will stop someone before they leave the store. Making it immposible to charge them with a crime. As far as them seeing you take something, its true to a point. They can't just ask random people to stop for a pat down just because they look suspicious, but if an alarm is set off they have the right to investigate within limits.

  20. Re:really, really bad. Hello FTC? on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    Well that actually along the line of what I was thinking. I think DW with a new(very needed) GUI would be their next product. The sooner I stop getting JS error from DW's ui the better but I'm using gvim more and more. So some kind of OSS will most likely be my home by then anyway.

  21. Re:really, really bad. Hello FTC? on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    I don't think they'll completely ditch dreamweaver.
    you might even see them dump golive. Since they will also have Flash and Coldfusion I doubt they will just kill DW.

  22. Re:Patch? Fix? on XP Service Pack 2 Breaks FireWire · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They may have been driven by those companies, but nobody is really battling for either. Intel happily includes firewire on most of their boards and apple includes USB2 in all their computers now.

    Now thing might change a little with wireless USB, bluetooth, etc,.. but a company is always going to back a technology more when they played a role or invested something into its creation.

  23. Re:MSIE/MSN on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    I realize your trying point out the relationship between google and mozilla, but I'm sure if IE(which I'm sure is still the most used browser on google) had the ability to prefetch they would take advantage of it. Microsoft does do things to make IE faster when connecting to IIS. I'm still amazed that the new msn search support other browsers so well.

    Anyway this is hardly collaborating, mozilla didn't do this for google. It's something that existed.

    Hardly a "sitfinder-esc" "feature"

  24. Re:Bad title on Google Launches Google Code · · Score: 1

    yeah the sourceforge search function needs soem help.

  25. Re:Power? Performance? Ease of Use? on IBM Backs PHP for Web Development · · Score: 1

    Are PHP's image manipulating functions good enough for a professional site? I remember playing with a test site a while back and being less then impressed with the image quality. I'm now using a product from efflare, imageCR, along with ColdFusion. The quality is phenomenal, many of the images that are just resized or thumbnailed honistly look better then what comes out of photoshop. No jagged line, etc... If I move to php, will I need another third part product?