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  1. huh? on Digging Holes in Google · · Score: 1

    Pot, kettle, black?

  2. Re:Tektronix Color Wax Jet Printeres on Color Printing Without the Inkjet Mess? · · Score: 1

    Yes I forgot to mention that. They are not really suited to be turned on and off. They go to sleep. Also not designed to sit on the floor. (One user insisted and it was nasty inside a few weeks later)

  3. Your parents were right... on DVD Players - Buy Now or Wait for the Violet Laser Models? · · Score: 1

    Don't sit so close to the TV. The Mpeg-2 compressed artifacts will give you brain cancer! If you can see the dvd artifacts, you're too damn close. If you want artifactless video go down to your local pawn shop and pick up an old laserdisc player. But remember it is only stored digitally. The video is analog. I don't know all the specifics but there are some tradeoffs vs dvd. Considering home dvd players can be had for much less than a C-note these days why not just get a cheapo "Panofujisonic" until you decide on your technology.

  4. Re:Tektronix Color Wax Jet Printeres on Color Printing Without the Inkjet Mess? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also black ink is free. If you buy a color set, you get a free pack of black. Picture of ink. One thing and I can't stress this enough. Ink is not cross compatable across many models, so the bow tie ink should not go into the oval slot even if the color is right. The different printers they make use different temp inks. If you load 800 series ink into an 300 series system you'll damage the print head because the ink will solidify in the tubes. If you do the opposite, you could burn the ink. Common preventative maintanance is to run a cleaning page. If the print has lines in it, run the "light stripes" test. After a while you have to replace the oil roller. There is a small chip on the roller that counts pages to keep you from using the printer past the roller's designed usage period. Also after about a whole pack of ink has been used, you'll have to dump the drip tray. The easiest way is if the tray is still hot, run it under a cold water faucet, the ink will shrink slightly and you can bang it against a trash can and it will come loose.

  5. Re:wrong conclusion on DVD Player With DVI Output · · Score: 1

    Hmm. My Sony receiver has coax and optical and can automatically determine which is used. So if I turn my Sony DVD player on, it lights up "COAX". If I turn on my PS2, it says "Optical". Most receivers that I've seen can do both.

  6. Re:maybe on DVD Player With DVI Output · · Score: 1

    The JVC projectors used in the ATC simulators I worked on could accept up to 1600x1200 via VGA, Composite, Svideo, Component, RGB, or DVI. One day... it will be mine.. :D

  7. Woz is the beast! on Wozniak Unveils WozNet · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll prove it!
    W = 23
    O = 15
    Z = 26
    Total = 64
    The original Apples used 6502 processors.
    Number of years past since his last professional beard trim : 5
    We remove the 5 from 6502 and that leaves us with 602.

    602 + 64 = 666 !

  8. Re:From the Nitpicking A**Hole Dept. on Sony Switches To Its Own Processor For Handhelds · · Score: 1

    Depleted uranium is used in Anti-Tank guns because of it's hardness and other properties will allow it to pierce the skin of a tank. I wasn't implying it was going to blow up. I was implying a PDA that could take a chunk out of the concrete.

  9. Re:School Buses on Southeast To Start Video Monitoring Flights · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I made it plainly known that there was no way they had a camera in that fake looking box and subsequently we got away with everything. One student threw a rock out the window and broke the windshield of a UPS truck. The driver pulled the bus over and yelled at everyone and when no one admitted to it, she just started the bus back up and continued on the route and nothing ever happened to the guy that did it.

  10. Re:MOL anyone? on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1

    I'd bet someone could come up with a minimal install of PPC linux that boots and does nothing but launch MOL and goes into OSX. I don't think there'd be much of a performance hit at all besides the emulated video.

  11. The problem on Nationwide Class Action Filed Against DoubleClick · · Score: 1

    They made things that looked like windows diaglog boxes including [x] to close them that were all part of the picture so if you clicked on the internal x it would jump to the site. The internet is just like a giant bazaar for snake oil salesmen.

  12. MOL anyone? on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Quad proc OSX in MOL on IBM? Sounds tasty to me!

  13. Magnesium...Titanium... on Sony Switches To Its Own Processor For Handhelds · · Score: 4, Funny

    None of them satisfy me. It's depleted uranium or nothing! I want to drop my pda on the pavement and damage the pavement and not the pda.

  14. Lets bankrupt them! on RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Against File Swappers · · Score: 1

    Last time I looked on Kazaa there was something like 4 million gigs being shared. That's a lot of tracking down for them to do. Maybe we can make a program to spoil the whole thing, making millions of virtual clients.

  15. Problem 1 and 2 on Microsoft Names Linux its Number Two Risk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Considering how MS deals with problems, it can't possibly win.

    1. MS can't buy the economy
    2. MS can't buy Linux
    So traditional MS strategies don't work.

  16. Re:All your fancy freedom rhetoric aside on BitTorrent Community Running For Cover? · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting other methods. IRC, and alt.binaries.* Going after BT is dumb, you might as well go after Al Gore, since he invented the Net and all...

  17. Re:Win32/Cygwin port on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    And before you say "Download it"... Don't...

  18. Re:Win32/Cygwin port on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    Becaaaaaaaause... Some people would like the MS Office version of Outlook's features without having to buy it. :P

  19. Win32/Cygwin port on Ximian Evolution's New Clothes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has anyone ported this to Win32 or Cygwin yet?

  20. Unix beat them all on Apple Tries to Patent Fast User Switching · · Score: 0, Redundant

    root@server# su - jbob
    Welcome jbob! Current system time is 17:20GMT
    jbob@server$ ^D
    root@server#

  21. Re:I wonder on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Not to further the OT, but Ross Perot had a part in freeing some of the hostages in Iran.

    In 1979 two American executives who worked for EDS in Iran were arbitrarily imprisoned by the revolution. Perot hired "Bull" Simons, a legend from the Green Berets, to plan and execute a breakout. With the help of envelopes stuffed with his cash, Perot, Simons, and a team of EDS employees managed to spring the two executives in a series of high-risk escapades without anyone getting hurt.

  22. Carrier pigeons vs station wagons... on Mailing Disks is Faster than Uploading Data · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they can update the RFC? It's just another medium like 100baseTX vs 100baseFL

  23. What's he smoking? on More Info on Phantom Game Console · · Score: 1

    There's no reason Infinium Labs shouldn't get hundreds or thousands of game developers to sign up; if the developers offer their games through this service and no one buys, they lose nothing,

    How about time? Money?? Porting games to a new console doesn't just occur with a ./configure && make && make install . You have to tune them to the hardware.

  24. Tried for beta test app. on More Info on Phantom Game Console · · Score: 1

    But they want a copy of my resume? Strange...

  25. What I learned on Automated Package Management for IRIX? · · Score: 1

    Go into software manager. For the install location put in http://freeware.sgi.com/Inst/ . It will then get the list of packages and then you choose to deselect all of them. And tell it to filter by upgrades. Then select all. You can also do this from "inst" but I don't have the exact instructions.