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  1. Re:One thing I hate on Small, High-Resolution LCD Monitors? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Dell 2007FP is a 20" 4:3 1600x1200 monitor. This is pretty much the only monitor we buy at work.

  2. Re:Oh just jump to 64bit already MS on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 1

    Sort of off topic ... how long did that take to run?

    I got

    real 2m49.509s
    user 2m48.863s
    sys 0m0.240s
    on a 3GHz Xeon.
  3. Re:Linux Easter eggs? on An Easter (Egg) Holiday? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And if you do it twice in the same session, oocalc says "oh no, not again!".

  4. Re:This was a predictable result on How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We had that very sign on the door to the server room, but management made us take it down.

  5. Re:Cheers! on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray AACS DRM Cracked · · Score: 1

    It's simple really. The porn industry makes movies people actually want to watch.

  6. Re:These are actually good questions on Avoiding the Cube Farm - Effective Office Floor Plans? · · Score: 1

    I completely disagree with paragraph three. At our office, we have a group of mechanical engineers, a group of electrical & software engineers, a group of researchers, a group of purchasing people, a group of process engineers, a group of accountants and a group of quality engineers. Within each team, the team members are in close proximity to each other. All of our desks are L shaped and most are grouped into X shapes with everyone facing inward. They all hate it, without exception. The only people who think it is a good idea are management who all have their own offices. It doesn't foster communication between teams, when they want to meet with one another, they book a conference room to get away from the noise of the open office environment. Management has banned speakers on PCs (a good thing), but they also view headphones in a dim light and would prefer that people did not have them. The accountants have cubes only because they may have sensitive information on their screens. They like the cubes; they don't like being close to the front door.

  7. Re:What's next? on Solar Boat To Cross the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Bah! It'll never work.

  8. Might Even Be Illegal? on Don't Network Administrators Require Privacy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We ran into a similar issue at work. Our argument to keep our locked office was that since we have access to all the files on the network, under the HIPPA laws we're required to keep our workstations in a secured area like HR since confidential employee information could potentially be displayed on our screens. Don't know if it's true or not, but it let us keep our office.

  9. Re:That's not the red book! on OpenGL Programming Guide · · Score: 1

    Which can be found in the NCSC Rainbow Series Library along with most of the other books in that very neat picture.

  10. Re:Here comes the math (Thanks google) on Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month · · Score: 1
    But it looks like the marketing math was:

    (8 * 2^40) / (19.2 * 10^6) / (60^2) = 127.25 hours.

    Which gives you a base-2 terrabyte and a base-10 megabit. Go figure.

  11. Re:Nice... on Apple Easter Egg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Check out Folklore. The story Signing Party is about the signatures. The last paragraph talks about how they slowly disappeared throughout the Mac versions.

  12. Re:No. on DC Power distribution - Nix the Transformers? · · Score: 1
    Well, if I were to attempt a power supply like you describe, I'd use a DC-DC converter for each circuit. Most are fully isolated, so that would take care of your hum and power/sig ground issue. Then I'd try and find a surplus switching power supply that had the right output for the converters. This wouldn't be cheap. You're probably looking at $40-70 per DC-DC converter. Once you got everything together, this becomes a $600+ project.

    Perhaps if I come up with some spare change and a bit of free time I'll hack one together. Keep an eye on Hack A Day in the next month. :)

  13. Re:Not really gadget-related, but: on Electronic Gadget Ideas for a New House? · · Score: 1

    I've done this a few times myself. I always tie a blue plastic grocery bag to the end of the string I'm pulling through. It seems to help a lot on really long runs and large diameter conduit.

  14. INTERCAL on A Brief History of Programming Languages? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't see INTERCAL on there anywhere. Of course since it was written to be different from all existing languages, it can be kinda hard to fit in a language tree.

  15. Re:Overclocking damage via software, Possible on P on Overclockix 3.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, some older CRT monitors could be damaged by giving them resolutions and refresh rates that they couldn't handle. There's a warning in one of the X man pages. The XF86Config one I suppose.

    I had a KDS monitor that didn't come with instructions (that is I borrowed it from school) and one day I went to the library and when I came home it had stopped working. Anyway I took it apart and a little daughter board soldered on near where the horizontal refresh line came in (it had BNC connectors) had blackened itself. I would have fixed the board but the 8 pin chip that seemed to be the center of the board had been burned beyond recognition as had several small capacitors and the traces on the board. So I salvaged the flyback transformer, some power supply caps and left it for the trash men. I suppose that could have been caused by running it beyond spec, but I really don't know.

  16. Re:10 Percent Failure Rate on Smart Guns are Coming · · Score: 1

    Well, not to be a pendant or anything, but Smith and Wesson has a new "most powerful handgun in the world", the Model 500. It's pretty nifty: .50 caliber, 2600 ft/lb muzzle energy. However, its best feature is the lack of this smart gun crap. OK, back to your regular scheduled humor.

  17. Re:How long has this been happening? on U.S. DOT Launches Laser Illumination Reporting · · Score: 1

    Boeing 747 Specs ... it's Flash.
    According to this, the typical cruise speed is 567mph @ 35,000ft. This seems to be pretty typical across the 7x7 series of jetliners by boeing. Someone else can look up Airbus specs.

  18. So ... on TiVo Moves to Bypass Cable · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's it do? If you don't hook it up to cable or satellite (unless you get a special card), it just becomes a fancy hard drive in a fancy box? Why do I need one again?

  19. Re:link already broken on Battery-Powered USB Enclosure · · Score: 1

    Well, that's what happens when you run your server on AA batteries.

  20. Re:It's a joke! on Using GPS to Track Teens · · Score: 1

    I want Jacob's car. Well, before it hit whatever it was that it hit, that is.

  21. Re:The good link... on Government Code Collaborative Falls Short · · Score: 1
    The error leads me to believe that the site is a virtual host. The way my vhosting works (and I admit I don't know if this is the best way) is as follows:
    <IfModule mod_vhost_alias.c>
    UseCanonicalName off
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%-2
    </IfModule>
    This allows me to add a directory to /var/www/ with the domain of the site minus the TLD and voila, Apache can serve it up without being restarted. And 8191.net, www.8191.net, etc all point to the same thing. Now there might be problems with this approach if I wanted www.8191.net and www2.8191.net to have different content, but I don't.
  22. Re:Uhh... on Shortage of Intel Laptop Chipsets · · Score: 1

    Well, not so much OEM's as an OEM. Quanta seems to make most of them according to the article. And they're not just a big factory, they do a lot of the design work too. Which makes me wonder, what brand of laptop do the engineers at Quanta use? Cause that's the one I want.

  23. e-TopCo from Pricewatch on How Cheap Can A PC Be? · · Score: 1

    e-TopCo has one. Actually they have several. And at $55.00 who cares if it's an optiplex? And it has a keyboard and mouse.

  24. Re:Mirror [OT] on Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower · · Score: 1

    Great. What with all the problems they're having with their Cisco border routers right now, I have half a mind to drive down to school and watch the IT room smoke. Perhaps this'll convince them that redundancy doesn't count when it's all in the same box.

  25. Re:In use? on What VoIP Is Actually Good For · · Score: 5, Funny
    Could you imagine you're enjoying a 45 days holiday in Europe (or in New Zealand, which is really cool!)

    No. I'm still working on what it would be like to have free weekends.