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  1. Re:Use NTFS file compression on Deleting Old Windows Update Uninstall Files? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is one step ahead, the hotfix uninstall and servicepack archive directories have NTFS compression enabled automatically if the drive is NTFS.

  2. Re:Off by default on Reverse Firewalls As An Anti-Spam Tool · · Score: 1

    My ISP blocks SMTP (also netbui and any http incoming) by default, but allows users to remove the port blocks by logging into their online account admin page and clicking unblock.

    I think this is the best of both worlds, as it makes it harder for the average user to get infected and send out spam (or pickup nimda et al by accidentally enabling iis) but others who want to use these ports can easily enable them.

  3. Re:invalid product keys... on Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    Nope, they still just have a blacklist... there's no registered corp key checking. As long as your corp key has a PID of 640- its perfectly safe. Check your favourite "demo" software sources for the SP2 keygen, for educational purposes only of course!

  4. Re:Have you ever thrown a CD? on Homemade CD Shooter? · · Score: 1

    Thats why you should put a cup of water in with the cd if you are going to be running it for more than a few seconds. The magnatron literally fries itself, because there's no water (or water containing food) in there to absorb the microwaves.

  5. Re:This is great because it's Google on New Google Groups in Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    I got invited a few weeks ago, 24hrs later I got 3 invites, then a week after that another 3. AFAIK people on google owned blog sites got 25 or so. It's part of an effort to 1. get more people on to test gmail, and 2. reduce the chance of people sellign them on ebay for large amounts of money.

  6. Re:Games... on WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security · · Score: 1

    If it breaks most copy protection and forces game producers to wake up and realise I won't buy games that install hidden drivers/services, or write to my boot sector just to play, then I'm all for it!

  7. Re:100mb? WOW! on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1

    Everyone I know already has a gmail account, hardly theoretical. Invites are flooding the net (part of googles campaign to stop people selling them on ebay.)

  8. Re:That does it! on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 1

    I think my current ISP has the best of both worlds... several ports are blocked on new accounts, but all a user has to do is goto their secure account page (or phone tech support) and choose to disable blocking to get them opened. This stops most cluesless users with zombie PCs, and allows powerusers to run mail servers as well.

  9. Re:Hot indeed... on Heat Insulators for Laptops · · Score: 1

    CPUidle only offers some cooling while the system is idle. Most mobile processors already lower their clock when idle anyway, so a seperate program isnt needed. When this protection is really needed is when you're running your system at full speed, at which point cpuidle and built in clock controlling won't stop you being burnt.

  10. Re:And only 3 to 5 years before I can buy one... on 40" OLED Television Revealed at SID · · Score: 1

    Also MSI make a fairly tame (feature wise) mp3 player, but it does have an OLED display to show off:

    MSI Megaplayer

  11. Re:And only 3 to 5 years before I can buy one... on 40" OLED Television Revealed at SID · · Score: 1

    It's a television, any more than this is overkill for DVDs/TV ect.

  12. Re:addblock on Firefox/Thunderbird Plugins: Is Less More? · · Score: 1

    ADD Block? Sort of like ritalin? Now thats something IE dosn't have, great feature for students trying to study.

  13. Re:WARNING: Mozilla cannot protect you on Life-Ruining Browser Hijackers · · Score: 5, Informative

    This gets past the Mozilla/Firefox blocker by using target="_blank" which somehow bypasses it.

    Add the following to your user.js to stop it:
    // disable target="_blank" (open in same window):
    user_pref("browser.block.target_new_wind ow", true);

    Stolen from Texturizer.net:
    http://texturizer.net/firefox/tip s.html#beh_blank

  14. Re:Motives on RIAA Forgets to Make Royalty Payments · · Score: 1

    God forbid a someone makes a forum where people can post offtopic stuff (yes even *gasp!* porn!!!1) without moderation, maybe even to help keep it off his linux forums. Why don't you find some arguments that actually directly involve your hated Linspire than harping on about the guy wanting to make a forum to have some fun. (it may suprise you to find out the internet has a lot of porn, might I suggest netnanny?)

  15. Re:Display Quality Too on Energy Efficient Graphics Processors? · · Score: 1

    So... you're comparing a no-name GF440-MX (budget GPU and Brand) to a generally good quality name brand TNT2 Ultra (Creative.)

    The output filtering and general board components can have a huge effect on output quality, as well as board life, obviously. Maybe if you got a name-brand Geforce4 or Radeon it would be a decent comparison. Cheap no-name hardware is generally bad no matter if it's got a newer GPU or not.

  16. Re:Great on Element Computer: ION Linux on Linux Hardware · · Score: 1

    Debian ect. don't bundle the Nvidia/ATi driver already because it's not opensource, and distros want to stick 100% opensource!11 on their product can't if there's a binary driver included. Seems a bit stupid to me, I personally couldn't care less if a distro was only 99% opensource as long as I had the best hardware drivers (closed or otherwise) bundled with it.

  17. Re:News for nerds? on MS Hotmail Offline For Hours · · Score: 1

    My primary email is at myrealbox.com (novells beta server) I use this over my ISP addresses because I can switch ISPs to whichever has the best deal or whenever I feel like it (current ISP does something stupid) without having to email my entire contact list with the new address, and change all my mailing list addresses / site registraios ect.

  18. Re:Only so much carbon... on Space Burial · · Score: 1

    They send some/all (depending on choice) of the *cremated* remains only, no whole bodies, so there certainly won't be 70Kg of mass leaving for each corpse.

  19. Re:Go for a French Press on Which Instant Coffee? · · Score: 1

    I personally don't know why anyone boils water in the microwave. With an electric kettle you fill it up, turn it on, then wait for it to turn off. Unless you know the timing of your microwave you have to watch it to make sure it dosn't boil over, especially at work where you can be called away at any time, a kettle just seems so much easier. Then there's always the danger of superheating the water (ok, it's been overhyped, but it can still happen.) Microwaving water danger

  20. Re:Realmedia on NPR's Car Talk Dumping RealMedia · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually I think he's referring to the excellent "Media Player Classic" a GPL "re-write" of mplayer2, it has all of features that the original did (small size, clean interface) and a heap of extra's such as Realmedia/Quicktime and even flash playback support using the IE plugin controls. http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

  21. Re:I like #5... on Netcraft Jokes About SCO's Virus Fears · · Score: 1, Funny

    There used to be a website (ftp.warez.org I think, but it's changed now) that resolved to 127.0.0.1, it was great to give to those idiots who join random irc channels and ask for good "warez" servers, especially if they happened to be running an ftp server on their own computer. "This site sucks, it has the same stuff as me!"

  22. Re:Firewall on Spammers Using Hacked Machines as Decoys · · Score: 1

    Actually my current ISP by default blocks http, smtp and a couple of others, but allows customers to quickly turn the blocked ports on and off via a simple click in our account's "toolbox" webpage. I think this is the best solution, as people who have no idea, and arn't running servers (to thier own knowledge) have the ports blocked, but anyone with some knowledge who wants to run a server can unlock themselves easily.

  23. Re:CDRTools Windows on BeOS Max Edition v3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The latest burnatonce (0.99a) uses a native windows control to burn and dosn't need any ASPI installation. (at least on XP and 2k)