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  1. Re:Hmm that gives me an Idea. on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a dyndns account be easier?

  2. Re:where? on Chatterbox Challenge Contest Underway · · Score: 1

    Complaining about either his depression or the relative size of his computational power to the types of tasks assigned to him.

  3. Required comment ... on How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Required comment regarding my flying car, or lack thereof.

  4. Re:I wouldn't want that porsche. on Spammer's Porsche Up For Grabs · · Score: 1

    Do what I'd do - sell it and buy a real Porsche. :)

  5. Re:What scares me most on PC In An XP Box · · Score: 1

    http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/news.php?artc=8512&s=0951f f10be1403d32ed9eaf57208cbbe

    Sorry it took so long. Page is SFW and post-meal viewing.

  6. Extra benefits on From School to Work to Working at School? · · Score: 1

    I work for a rather large community college...

    I get 2-3 weeks extra paid time off for the winter break. I get spring break off - paid. I also get my normal paid time off, sick leave, etc.

    I get free classes,as does my wife, and eventually my 2 kids. Good state benefits for health/dental insurance, etc. Reserved parking.

    Oh, and having the campus filled with hot co-eds isn't so bad either... just remember to look but don't touch (wife's rule, not the colleges).

  7. Re:too bad on Muscle Cars And Smokin' Chips · · Score: 1

    And my dual AMD rig makes a nice space heater.

  8. Re:Umm on 1,028,000 Digital Photographs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, but they may have had lenses from their film cameras... that seems to be one of the major big selling points for a professional/near professional grade digital SLR.

  9. Re:BIOS Alternatives? on Phoenix DRM Reads Your E-Mail · · Score: 1

    linuxbios.org

  10. Re:Hey, speaking of which? on Anti-piracy Vigilantes Tracking P2P Users · · Score: 1

    The good serials for both of those:

    1

    There ya go. Let me know if it doesn't work for you.

  11. Re:Yet another modern feature added to *BSD on SMP On OpenBSD, Coming Soon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sure, but how much of that source do you read/audit? Do you just check the md5sum of the source package? That could be faked, just as well as a "bad" pre-built package could be put on a FTP server, etc.

  12. Re:Turn off the phone... on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I told my boss I couldn't take call, etc. because I have no cell phone or beeper. He promptly provided me with a nice alpha beeper.

  13. Turn off the phone... on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    ... just like they are asking. And if the servers/etc. are really paging/calling/messaging you wiht problems on a regular basis, ignore them. When the PHB can't get his email, explain to him that you woulda known the server was down or there was some other problem, but since you can't use your phone to monitor (which BTW you've been happily paying for out of your own pocket), you had no idea there was a problem.

    Present it like this, especially while various things are not working due to the fact you can't get the notices, and most likely they will either provide an alternate means of monitoring (alpha pager like someone else mentioned above) or allow you to continue to use your phone just for that purpose.

    And if they do allow you to use your phone, perhaps mention again that you've been paying for it out of your own pocket...

  14. Re:Just perfect Wine/WineX on Is the Key to Linux a Games-Based Distro? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Quake 3 demo first launched for Linux, then Mac, then a week or two later win32.

    Quake 2 always had native Linux support.

    Quake/QuakeWorld had Linux support really quick after release - and that was nearly 10 years ago.

    Seems like all of id's titles quickly have a Linux port, not only for the server (like Half Life) but for clients as well.

  15. Re:Obvious Answer? on Congress May Force Revealing of Car Computer Secrets · · Score: 1

    A simple 4 stroke engine ... variable cam timing, complex variable spark timing,

    Gee, I thought that's what my Bosch distributer does... guess firing at 5 deg. BTDC at idle and a 35 +/- 2 deg. at 3500 rpms isn't quite variable or complex...

  16. Pete, on Build Your Own LCD Picture Frame · · Score: 1

    Pete, Repeat, and Ditto... At least it is semi-interesting.

    Also, this is a good use for those old 486/low end pentium laptops too... keep trying to get some to work on for the VPA dept. at work.

  17. Re:They should have run the on Build a Robot out of a Car? · · Score: 1

    "Horse power is for those who can't keep thier speed up in the corners"

    - Some anonymous racer

  18. Qualified inspection on Testing Electrical Capacity of New Offices? · · Score: 1

    Like others have said.. A qualified inspection will be best, just as if you were buying a home.

  19. When does ... on Microsoft Customers Get No Bang for Buck · · Score: 1

    When does an announced or heavily marked release date become "contract like", for example, "Longhorn will be released 1/3/2009" as opposed to using something like "when it is done".

  20. LAN parties and such on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    of course. And the poster above is right about D&D or other role playing games. Heck, there were THOUSANDS of people to socialize with at GenCon!

  21. Re:Who actually pays? on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Funny, the college I work at has the Academic Alliance thing... so our students get like just about anything MS has for $25 total, but only if they are majoring in the ITE fields.

  22. Re:Apple operating systems on A History of Apple's Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    Funny, but Darwin has an x86 port.

  23. No outlook express? on Next Generation Mail Clients Reviewed · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I would think that including outlook express (even instead of teh full outlook) would've been good. Also, a quick comparison to one of the free webmail systems like the hotmail web interface would've been nice.

  24. Re:just my opinion on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1

    No worse than having to pull the engine on my Porsche 356 to replace the #3 spark-plug. (Using Weber carbs instead of the factory Solex or Zeniths, no room to get a tool in there to access it).

    Of course, while the engine is out, I get to do all sorts of stuff to make it Better, like changing my starter bushing, checking the solenoid, starter brushes, adding a hard-start relay, cleaning everything, etc.

  25. Re:Steltor CorporateTime on Handhelds Syncing w/ Web-Based Calendars? · · Score: 1

    We use that here at work... nice little apps, they have clients for Win32, Mac classic and OS X, and Linux