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  1. Re:Performance & # of USB ports on NSLU2 Now More Useful · · Score: 1

    that 0.5 A requirement is for powered devices only. otherwise the default is 100 mA. the device must negotiate the higher power. in this case the usb doesn't need to power the drives, even if they were powered from usb. since they are not running "hotswap usb", which is inherently swappable, they're not kosher anyways. besides most usn drives are extenally powered.

  2. Re:Snail Mail Address... on The Family That Spams Together Stays Together · · Score: 1

    Eric Head 31 Oliver Court Kitchener, Ontario N2L 3E7 519-743-8259

  3. Re:Already done on Design a Virtual Office with Open Source? · · Score: 1

    sure - that's for winblows... now do it for a real operating system.... besides $39.95, though not expensive, certainly isn't open source.. so how do you handle dynamic dsl ip addresses of you must check messages by ip? how man lines can your program handle simulteously before your cpu gives up the ghost servicing winmodems?

  4. Re:$1 Trillion debt and counting.. on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 1

    don't you mean the billions you gave israel?

  5. Re:this has a sister product, you know on Microsoft's new CLI · · Score: 1

    MULVA, MULVAS "Multi User License Verification Access" (System) That's for multiple simultaneous menitrations ;) w

  6. Re:Xerox Alto on 30th Anniversary of the Microcomputer · · Score: 2, Informative

    ahem.. 74181s are only ALUs, ie they perform only logical & arithmetic functions... they have no latches, no registers, ram etc. the common bit slive chip of the era was the AMD2901 fom the 2900 family...

  7. Re:Not that easy on Microcomputers for Homebrew Projects? · · Score: 1

    that's just plain total bullshit.
    you can even wirewrap to 40 Mhz...

  8. Re:Why bother with a CPU anymore on Chinese "Dragon" Chip On Sale · · Score: 1

    because you can't really make an FPGA go 150Mhz, or 2-3 Ghz, eh? do your homework..

  9. tapping is trivial on Russians Order Mobile Phone Encryption Removed · · Score: 1

    if you are a telco employee or installer.. I friend of mine works for {bit telcom switch co} installing CDMA sites - they routinely listen and follow conversations - just for fun. They listen in on fights, affairs etc. Needless to say all this is built in to allow LE dweebs to get their jollies. Why hack GSM encryption when the switch already does? The POTS lines are all mined by 50 acres of ECHELON solid sate recorders and keyword recognition. Anyone guess at the keyword list ? ;)

  10. Re:Version Control on Hans Reiser Speaks Freely About Free Software Development · · Score: 1

    Actually, VMS kept around all versions of a file until you did a PURGE command on a directory. Accessing the file without the version got you the latest files. But imagine a log file.. Needless to say this was very wasteful of disk space.

  11. Re:A lil history... on QNX: When an OS Really, Really Has to Work · · Score: 1, Informative

    You are correct. Students were required to write their own RT OS for the year 3/4 rtos course to control an elaborate model train setup- strangely enough, built by Mark Tilden of BEAM critter fame. I have the listing of it I picked up by accident- it was printed off a line printer on a Honeywell Gecos machine running a unix like OS;)

  12. the ship has been sold, please call again! on Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    from this link - it looks like it been sold. perhaps the editors should read more carefully. http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/vengeance/Costs. html

  13. Re:Time to think about Mac again? on Microsoft Pulls Broken XP Update · · Score: 1

    no need to throw out your existing hardware and intel shit processor! ever heard of linux? just imagine a machine uptime of 200-300 days with winblows...

  14. Re:Link? on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 0, Troll

    don't bother, it was a crappy disjoint movie without plot and without an ending. the effects, esp. cloning are overdone. waste of BW

  15. Re:We've investigated GameCube clusters too. on Playstation 2 Linux Cluster at NCSA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    hey Mr. PHD, sure the clock rate is higher on your PPC, but where are your vector units?? Streams benchmark shows PS2 sucks vs a PC, but it's the vector units that shine. good luck duplicting a toshiba custom vlsi Emotion Engine with the hardware you've got on a Cube. No way to add a hard drive, no way to read an ISO disk or DVD... no built in LAN - how did you say your Cube was better suited to clusters?

  16. Re:Cost Effective on Playstation 2 Linux Cluster at NCSA · · Score: 1

    the systems are far more stable than an x86 nt shitbox. I have two Sony PS2 with uptimes of nearly a year...

  17. Re:Carl Sagan was missing Billions and Billions of on Primordial Soup: Interview with Stanley Miller · · Score: 1

    creationist moron needs spell checker - TRUELY!

  18. Re:Brits are worthless... on A Computer Called LEO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess you never read enough history that the poles and brits have a huge head start on enigma decrypts using their mechanical computers (bombes) and developed the Colossus to break "fish" code. The americans and pre-NSA were children still playing with paper and pencil in those days. It wasn't until the brits and poles gave them everything on a silver platter that they even started to get a clue...

  19. Re:British lies on A Computer Called LEO · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    somehow you seem to be under the mistaken impression that the effing yanks invented everything in the world. I guess you never heard of Colossus or Zuse's electronic computers that were built before ENIAC. Yet another stupid moron ignorant american opens it's mouth and shit falls out.

  20. Re:Who's biting the hand... on DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn? · · Score: 1

    why not charge the military a license fee. Hey, linux was meant to be used to give life not to facilitate death.

  21. what about FCC and UL ? on Beige Box Apple Clone? · · Score: 1

    Forget patents and Apple's objections. Even with a UL/CSA approved power supply,you will need to to get certification on the entire system as sold. that means meeting FCC EMI requirements for consumer products and at least UL fireproof, electrical leakage etc. requirements. How long will this kid last if he gets even a single lawsuit? Designing a product is more work and investment than most think. You can't just slap a mobo in a cheap plastic molded case and forget about the real engineering. What about cooling? The case needs to be metallic coated for EMI, the plastics need to be flame tested, Ac leakage tests performed etc. I seriously doubt it can be done for less than 30K$US. For even 1000 units - it's not worth it. Better off selling the emtpy cases and allowing people to take the risk of self-assembly. Besides, at 350$US, adding a cpu, memory, hard drive, external CD, keyboard mouse, you're getting close to 1K$. Why drop a grand on an older and obsolete system with PC100 ram (good luck finding that these days). Buy yourself a decent 2-3Ghz AMD/INTEL clone box, with 266/33Mhz ra, a 200 gig drive and won't worry if it's PPC or not. I'll hold on to my VISA deposit for now.

  22. Re:Can find you even if your mobile is turned off on Echelon Used to Capture Terrorist · · Score: 1

    that's total bullsh*t. Off is off and if you've pulled the battery - there is no way you're transmitting anything. Learn some basic electricity! I worked with a designer that had a totally mistaken view of how GPS worked - he thought that the satellites actually scanned the entire planet and triangulated you by looking down at you - rather than the other way around. Too little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

  23. Re:Why is this guy a celebrity? on Kevin Mitnick Answers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Weren't you paying attention? It was that Markoff Times reporter and sidekick Tsutomu Shimomura that made themselves millionaires hawking the story. Curious that there isn't too much mention of how or why stolen cell phone source code ended up on Tsutomu Shimomura's workstation. Or how such a self proclaimed security genius and crypto expert was so easily hacked himself;) Samurai honor, my shiny a$$... Isn't Shimomura then as guilty as Mitnick for stealing the source code in the first place? Wasn't he even more arrogant and vindictive in trying to shamelessly retaliate for his loss of face? The press and government scripted this as a good-wins-over evil story, and as it turns out, the evil wasn't and the good was anything but!

  24. Aren't all Ford cars disposable??? on Ford Shows Off Recyclable Car · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of all the cars I've ever had - the Ford was the worst. What's so new about his one?

  25. Re:Mac users on More On Kapor's Attempt To Best Outlook · · Score: 1

    I thought that is was 10% of the population that likes the same sex ... maybe the same 10% that use Macs!