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  1. Re:I back up my data on.. on How to Keep Music for Forty Years? · · Score: 1

    Just use a scanner to get in back in the computer.

  2. Re:interesting on Indian Company Shows Off Sub-$200 Laptop · · Score: 1

    64 MB graphics card (not shared mem)

    Where did you find a $300 dimension 2400 with a real video card? The one they have for sell now is just like the one you listed above, except the video is listed as:

    Video Graphics: Integrated Intel® Extreme 3D Graphics with up to 64MB shared main memory.

  3. Re:Firefox asks what to do on Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets · · Score: 1

    I generally disable the automatic opening of files in safari, so while it may download, it should serve the same purpose, although I'm on 10.3 and the widget files don't do anything, so I can't be sure. By the way, does Safari 2.0 at least have the option of letting bringing up a dialog box asking where to download. that is one of my biggest pet peeves with Safari.

  4. Better on Live Picture of the Next Xbox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    at least it's less bulky and ugly than the first one.

  5. Re:Good news, even for Sid users. on Sarge is Now Frozen · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, I believe I read on some Debian mailing list that X.org would be incorporated into the next release after Sarge.

  6. Re:Huh? on Sarge is Now Frozen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder if the Debian team with move to quicker release cycles after Sarge gets out the door. Wasn't that one of the goals of the new Debian project leader?

  7. Re:LARRY PAGE OWNS YOU on Larry Page's Vision of the Future · · Score: 3, Informative

    MP3 direct dowload here

  8. Re: drop on Trek Producers Will Provide World A Break · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being on UPN probably didn't help much either.

  9. Re:Failure is imminent. on Yahoo Ups Mail to Match Google's Gig · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is still room for Google to get worse and yahoo to get better. Yahoo used to be in Google's shoes, and there is nothing to say that Google won't go the same way.

  10. Admitted is was influenced by OS X on Google's X Files Vanish · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if them admitting that it was modeled after OS X quickened its demise. Maybe if they kept their mouths shut nobody would have said anything.

  11. Re:Third Party Clients on AIM's New Terms Of Service · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder how this affects things like .Mac and other third party AIM compatible services? Also, wasn't AOL talking about opening up AIM for more things like Apple's .Mac implementation?

  12. Re:Physicality on Broadband to Kill Off DVD? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think "real" books are going to be with us for a while, but other printed materials like magazine and newspapers will largely get replaced in the near future.

  13. Re:Physicality on Broadband to Kill Off DVD? · · Score: 1

    I used rarely listen to music until I went to college and had the bandwidth to download music, and that got me hooked so now I have a lot of (legal)CDs. So in my case it worked, although now I find myself buy from iTunes a bit more, but that's mostly when I just wan't a song or two, and most of my albums are physical CDs. I would probably still be downloading though if the P2P networks didn't go to crap. I think the RIAA purposely posted crappy versions of their stuff just to drive people away.

  14. Re:Alt-F3 Tells All on U.S. Justice Dept. Chooses Corel over Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OpenOffice probably wasn't considered as a real option, but StarOffice may have been.

  15. Re:Alt-F3 Tells All on U.S. Justice Dept. Chooses Corel over Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    I keep trying that, but Office crashes every time I do. Do I have to enable superuser mode first?

  16. Re:This is great but... on Introducing 802.11s - Wireless Mesh Networking · · Score: 1

    WiFi should stay where it is, in very localized places inside your home or in a small area to serve a small LAN. WiMAX would be great for local ISPs to cover a nice sized area, but with the backbone still on land lines.

  17. Re:Its very simple... on Phishers Build Deceptive Links with DNS Wildcards · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how that affects https connection. Even if they steal the DNS, they shouldn't be able to get their certificate.

  18. Re:A Few Notes: on TrekUnited Reports Mission Successful at Trek Rallies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on, if there is no cure for baldness but there is hyperdrive, something is wrong

    By that argument, Voyager was crap too. They had a bald hologram. Surely they could have programmed him some hair.

  19. Re:A Few Notes: on TrekUnited Reports Mission Successful at Trek Rallies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd say Season 4 was better than any Voyager season, and up to the quality of a TNG season. If you look at the series as a whole, right now it stands about with Voyager due to the first two seasons, but if it were allowed to continue for 3 more years with the remaining seasons the same quality or better than season 4, I'd say it could reach TNG overall quality, and could easily pass Voyager overall with only on more good season.

  20. Re:God no. on TrekUnited Reports Mission Successful at Trek Rallies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then don't watch it dumbass, and let those of us who want to, to continue to watch.

  21. A Few Notes: on TrekUnited Reports Mission Successful at Trek Rallies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Okay before things get out of hand let me make a few points on behalf of myself and fellow Star Trek fans.

    1 - To BSG fans, while it may be a good show, it's still not Star Trek. It's not set in the familiar setting and universe that Star trek fans like and know.

    2 - Why is having only one good sci-fi show on good enough

    3 - To all of you who watched the first couple of seasons, it's a gotten a lot better and is hardly the same show. I stopped watching midway though the second, but came back in the fourth and it's much better. If it continues the way it has gone in this past season it should easily pass Voyager in quality and could potentially reach TNG standards

    I also watch BSG and the two Stargate shows, but I also like Enterprise, and would like as many options as i can get.

  22. Re:Big day for Mandrakesoft on Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva · · Score: 1

    I sent one too. Actually I've sent them e-mail for a couple of other dupes, and they still posted the story, again.

  23. Again? on Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many times can they acquire the same company in one day.

  24. Re:Maybe it's going here on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would they make a Tivo out of a cardboard box?

  25. Re:512 is better on Pushing The 512MB Barrier On Video Cards · · Score: 1

    Even if the physics are realistic, if the textures look like crap, that kind of hurst the whole illusion of realism.