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  1. Re:Not until it is CHEAP and NEARLY FREE. on Cellular and Computing Industries Finally Collide · · Score: 1

    With the Treo 300, unlimited data per month on your PalmOS device is $10/month.

  2. Re:I am a Java developer, however.... on Fewer Jobs, Less Pay In The IT Industry · · Score: 1

    Denver is cheap. Now look at Silicon Valley. A small 3 bedroom home (not exactly the American dream, but nothing to complain about) starts at $500,000.

    Inflated house prices, inflated everything prices, need for inflated salaries..

  3. Re:receiving data on Tivo 3.0 'Firebolt' Hits the Wild · · Score: 1

    The other PVRs do charge for service. That cost is included in the purchase price of the unit. And subsidized by other forms of advertising.

  4. Re:So who makes "good" hard drives? on IBM Bails Out of the Hard Drive Market · · Score: 1

    So what laptop drive has the best
    a) shock/vibration tolerance
    b) temperature tolerance (particularly cold starts)

    I use an IBM Travelstar in my car computer. It'd be good to know what the current best drive is to recommend to friends doing the same. =)

  5. Re:Key to user security... on Microsoft: Trust and Antitrust · · Score: 1

    Wow.. and to think you can't figure out that he may have run more machines than the 100 he mentioned which were never rooted.

    I can say I've ridden my bike 100 times in the past year and didn't fall.

    That doesn't mean I never fell off my bike.

  6. Re:My two cents... on How to Build a Fast Air-Cooled Quiet PC · · Score: 1

    Better yet, just get an Alpha PAL8035 (i believe that's the model number). It's an 80mm by 80mm heatsink which natively takes an 80mm fan. Bigger fan, better airflow with less noise.

    Only catch is that it doesn't work on all motherboards. Your motherboard must have the proper four holes to mount it, and there needs to be enough room around the CPU.

    Works great though. I have a nice 19dba 80mm case fan as my CPU fan. Overclocked and it's still all good.

  7. Re:Diesel pumps. on Diesel Cars - High-Tech Low Tech · · Score: 1

    I live in SF. 3 gas stations within 3 miles sell deisel. Usually the larger ones, as the most common deisel customers are trucks, and if the station lot isn't large enough for a truck to drive in.. well..

  8. Re:The Author Speaks on Overcomming Programmer's Block? · · Score: 1

    The boss of a friend of mine died skydiving. His second parachute didn't open. Of course, his first one did, but he detached from it because he decided he wanted to freefall a little longer. Darwin award?

  9. Re:Slashdot.org cluster on FreeBSD 4.1 Released · · Score: 2

    This is false. Half of Slashdot's servers used to be FreeBSD. Two Linux, two FreeBSD. I know, because I ran them. I won't bother joining in on the war of why Linux or why FreeBSD. Others can do that pretty well.

  10. Re:A woman's perspective on Women in the Open Source/Free Software Communities? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I, a male, had similar problems. I went for a number of years without being challenged in math/science classes. We kept trying to get the schools to move me up, but they never did it. Eventually we abandoned the public education system and turned to home education, which I'm grateful for.

  11. Re:what about the box? on Slashdot Tweaks · · Score: 1

    The images are now coming off yoda, a nice rackmount box with dual 450mhz PIIIs, 512MB of RAM and 18GB of UW SCSI HD. It's running FreeBSD 3.2 (-STABLE)

  12. Re:Jesse said switch ??? on Slashdot Tweaks · · Score: 1

    lol! Definitely a different Jesse.

  13. Re:VA FreeBSD Systems? on Slashdot Tweaks · · Score: 1

    What I find ironic is that out of four machines (all VAResearch), two came with Linux metal plates on them and two didn't. The two with the Linux plates run FreeBSD, yet the two without metal plates run Linux. =) We'll have to pry em off and put them on the right boxes.

  14. Re:FreeBSD on Slashdot Tweaks · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's two FreeBSD boxes and two Linux servers. Back as you said, it's a gradual, one step at a time adjustment to see for ourselves how they each perform for our needs.

  15. Re:ftp.cdrom.com on Slashdot Tweaks · · Score: 1

    That's the network. During the morning I can easily get 13Mbps from ftp.cdrom.com (yes, 13Mbps, amost 1/3rd of a T3).

  16. Why FreeBSD? on FreeBSD under the Penguins Shadow · · Score: 1

    Genreally with linux emulation there is no slowdown (or negligent amounts). Some things have been foudn to run faster under BSD, even though they're linux emulated.

    It's not so much of 'emulating', but just understanding the other format and having the libraries ready.

  17. Just 28? on Quickielanche · · Score: 1

    Hot100 has a methodology page describing it. To put it briefly, they analyze proxy logs and claim a sampling of at least 100,000 individuals.

  18. Doesn't Fit... on The Life of the Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    I think it fits perfectly, although I've managed to avoid interactions with users on the phone (keep it to email).

    Oh yeah, I live in San Francisco.

    The one thing that didn't fit for me was the part about being able to ramble on for 30 hours about what I spend my time doing. I find it a bit harder to quantify, since it's so... dynamic, large in scope, varying. It's like trying to describe the shape of a gas cloud.

  19. The Linux Lynx! on Lucy Linux, Dressed to Kill · · Score: 1

    All I can say is...

    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew, get it away

  20. This is good news. on Salon Switches to Linux · · Score: 2

    Actually, that's 640,000 page views. Slashdot total HITS per day (which includes graphics and such) is around 3.6million+

  21. Not for their glory on Slashdot Moderation:Phase 1.1.1 · · Score: 1

    Yes, it'd be a perk for moderators "for helping". However, I'd sure there's hundreds of folks out there who'd love to help, just to help and be involved in pointing what's good, without the extra benefits.

    As someone else said, having moderators get special advantages would create a 'caste', where you have those special people and those who aren't.

  22. customization on Slashdot Moderation:Phase 1.1.1 · · Score: 1

    Eh? T1 situation? They've been on a T3 for a few months now.

  23. We need hyperbolic Slashdot! on Hyperbolic Trees · · Score: 1

    Come on! It'd make navigating comments so much easier! And think! You could color code comments based on their score! ;)

  24. Show ad banner [yes/no] on Todays Slashdot Updates · · Score: 1

    No, it's not Rob. VAResearch doesn't pay Rob (directly, they pay for advertising) to update websites.

  25. VERY misleading title on "Open Source" Apple says "No" to Xanim · · Score: 1

    The article title is very misleading. If you go to the xanim page, you'll see that Apple did NOT SAY "NO".

    Apple's policy with the codec they paid a lot to help develop is not to license it out. However, no one has asked them to make an exception for xanim. Apple has not said no, because they have not been requested.

    Maybe if we request that Apple does, they will. But they've done nothing wrong yet.

    I'd sure hate to get slammed for saying "no" to a question that was never asked of me.