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  1. LBA-48 on Hitachi Announces 400GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    One of the main reasons for ATA-133 was to add support for hard drives over 128 GB to the standard, in the form of LBA-48.

  2. AutoGK on ExtremeTech Wages War of the Codecs · · Score: 1

    Not quite one click, but AutoGK is pretty easy and has good documentation.

    AutoGK site

  3. Re:But you miss the point! on Infinium Labs Threatens HardOCP Again · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did I mention you're a big old bed-wetting doody-head?

  4. Tom Clancy, anyone? on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of The Cardinal of the Kremlin... I hope we're ahead of the Russians. :)

  5. Re:ultimatebootcd on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    Along the same lines, but using (obviously illegally) commercial software, is Hiren's BootCD. An excellent tool, if you can get a hold of it. eMule is a good bet.

  6. Re:What is everyone asleep? on GEOS Available for Download After 18 Years · · Score: 1

    Well, my bad, then. I read somewhere that it wasn't, and I have several demos that work on Hoxs64 and CCS64 but not in VICE, so I was inclined to believe it.

  7. Re:I read it the same way on DVDCCA Claims Patent on CSS · · Score: 1

    I've never use that property... here's how I do it.

    .title {
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    margin: 0;
    text-align: left;
    height: 22pt;
    padding-left: 4px;
    z-index: 2;
    position: absolute;
    color: #2A2A2A;
    }

    .titleshadow {
    font-size: 18px;
    font-weight: bold;
    margin: 0;
    text-align: left;
    height: 22pt;
    z-index: 1;
    padding-top: 1px;
    padding-left: 5px;
    position: absolute;
    color: #5A5A5A;
    }

    Just use absolute positioning and z-orders and offset things a few pixels.

  8. Re:What is everyone asleep? on GEOS Available for Download After 18 Years · · Score: 1

    C64S? Oops, I meant 64C... and yes, I did preview the post...

  9. Re:What is everyone asleep? on GEOS Available for Download After 18 Years · · Score: 1

    VICE isn't cycle-accurate, so it may not work, but Hoxs64 and CCS64 are both cycle-accurate. I think CCS64 is even cycle-accurate in it's 1541 timings.

    Ah, if only I could get my C64S working again...

  10. Re:Gotta frag in linux on Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo Released · · Score: 1

    Awesome. That will make me almost certainly buy it.

  11. Re:He cant be just "Knigtef" on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    I forget what its called but Bill Gates cannot be "Knighted" with full title as he is not a british subject , its kinda like being knighted "lite"

    Ooh! Can I be a knight-lite, too?

  12. Re:Good! on Lego Goes Back to the Basics: Building Blocks · · Score: 1

    I agree. That is what made me switch to K'Nex. While the models can't be quite as detailed as with Lego, the freeform possibilites are amazing, and I have yet to see a specialized piece.

  13. 2 kinds of freedom on Stallman On Free Software and GNU's 20th birthday · · Score: 1

    There are basically 2 kinds of freedom: the freedom to do any damn thing you please, and the freedom to do any damn thing you please except take away somebody elses freedom. RMS believes in the latter.

  14. Foobar 2000 on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use Winamp for playing files with weird extensions, because there are so many nifty plugins that let me listen to PSFs, NSFs, etc.

    I used to use Winamp for that, but now I use Foobar 2000. While not as polished as Winamp, it's an amazing piece of software.

  15. Extra buttons are also great for games on 3-Button Mice - An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    I also use an MX500, albeit under Windows. I've found the extra buttons to be great for use with games that support them, particularly FPS games. No more moving my left hand from wasd to quickly switch to a particular weapon. :D

  16. Other sources of stem cells on U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, there are other sources of stem cells, such as from adult spinal fluid and from umbilical cords.

  17. line noise on Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent · · Score: 1

    line noise will autoformat and compile under VB.

    You misspelled perl.

  18. Re:Advice on How Do You Organize Your Gear? · · Score: 1

    I think like that too... but my mom is a pack rat. Guess who wins? :P

    College won't be any better... I'll be going to my community college, and staying at home to save $$$.

  19. Pointless on The Problem Of Unused Cabling · · Score: 1

    While I would love playing UT2K3 with my lunar friends, I'm afraid the ping times would suck. Bad.

  20. The media is divorced from the drive on DVD-Rs go 8x · · Score: 1

    One of the major reasons is that the media is seperate from the drive that reads it... if your hard drive dies, you're SOL on your data, but if your DVD drive dies, you just get another one.

  21. Binary compatibility on Linux in 2004? · · Score: 1

    No. There seems to be this big delusion that somehow OpenSource has to rewrite virtually every commercial application.

    Maybe commercial companies will port to Linux!! Oh no, you say, isn't that illegal by RMS's communist manifesto? Sorry to break your fantasy, but it is legal, only Microsoft wants you to believe otherwise.

    Take a look at the special effects industry and you will see that there is lots of commercial, closed-source, for-profit software being written for Linux.

    PS: What Linux really needs is to be pre-installed on machines in a store. However it appears that Microsoft is still disallowing dual-boot machines to be sold.


    <sarcasm>Yeah, that would work fine if gcc and glibc didn't break binary compatibility every 6 months.</sarcasm>

  22. Ancient News on New X Roadmap from Jim Gettys · · Score: 1

    Right... except for all this happened back in 1998.

  23. Only two choices? on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    Somehow you missed the obvious thing a good parent would do: explain to their children that there is bad stuff out there. Teach them why it is bad. Tell them you trust them not to do it.

    In short, be a parent.

  24. Re:FreeDesktop.org at SCALE 2x on New X Proposal on Freedesktop.org · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh. For a moment there, I thought you meant FreeDesktop.org's X would be getting Scale2x support. :P

  25. Re:And remember guys.. on AMD Optimal BIOS settings + Overclocking Guide · · Score: 1

    Funny? More like +1, Insightful. I had to drop my OC back 100MHz before I could get it to work.