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  1. What "extra medical costs" ? on Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax · · Score: 1

    Smokers die earlier and collect fewer pension payments. Aren't fatties just as big a saving on the long run?

  2. Re:Cry me a river... on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1
  3. 99% Debauched on The Surreal World of Chatroulette · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... is what I saw. Had a short chat with a guy from Brazil - short because we did not share a language - other than that just a flashing sequence of monkey spanking exhíbitionists.

  4. Emacs Hostile Keyboard on Rethinking the Thinkpad · · Score: 1
    From the article: "The only complaint with the keyboard is the positioning of the Ctrl and Alt buttons on the bottom left, it is very easy to hit the Function (Fn) key when you mean to go for Ctrl."

    That might be because they GOT THEM THE WRONG WAY ROUND!!!

    Idiots

  5. Re:As if.. on World's First Ultra-Thin Multilayer Circuit Board · · Score: 1

    No you don't repair, you just print a second edition and send off the old one to be pulped/recycled.

  6. Brew your own ... on Timeshifting: Cram More Into Life · · Score: 1
    ... with a combination of vsound, realplayer and lame.

    realplayer for linux will run from the command line with a url, not like it's nagging and obtrusive windows relative.

    Trap the realplayer output using vsound. Squish the resulting wav file to mp3 with lame and then bung it on yer iPod/whatever to hear at your leisure.

    Drive it all from cron.(Found that tip somewhere out on the web)

    The tricky bit for me was working out the URLs for the programs. Radio 4 hides everything behind cute popup windows on their site, but the page source reveals all.

  7. Linux writing to NTFS is a VERY BAD IDEA: NOT!!!! on Live Windows Bootable CDs for Sysadmins · · Score: 5, Informative
    That problem seems to have been solved, maybe not with great performance but at least safely usable for emergencies. Its called "captive" and works by emulating a windows kernel and reusing the windows drivers. For more info look at:

    http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

    (haven't used it myself but CT, the local german computer mag, says it's OK and they seldom miss a trick)

  8. Re:Slightly off topic but... on Storage Security · · Score: 1
    One is never enough, you need two disks. Don't bother with RAID, just keep them in sync with something like Unison.

    That way you also know as soon as one of them has failed and can do something about it. Not like backup media which you might have to worry about demagnetizing/whatever.

  9. Re:the inevitabele Forth/Jupiter Ace comment on Forth Application Techniques · · Score: 1
    My first computer was an Ace. It came with a book which did a pretty good job of explaining programming to the beginner. One year later I got my first job in the industry and was wondering what all the fuss was about when people were talking about "modular code."

    Nearly twenty years later and I haven't come across a more productive environment for small embedded projects.

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