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  1. Re:Make your own on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1

    before soldering a connection, you should always make sure there is a good physical connection first.

  2. Re:Is Vonage the right person to sue? on Texas Attorney General Sues Vonage over 911 · · Score: 1
    Vonage should just add a cheap cell setup (they cant cost much these days) to their service.

    Use that to call 911.

  3. Re:Yes, let's lump them together. on Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again · · Score: 1
    because I am a poor student with a Thinkpad T23 and linux would much rather have more than 256megs (I've got an open slot but I want more than another 256).

    The cheapest I've found it is ~$89+shipping and I would rather pay 50-60 (like that ebay auction where I got sniped for $61)

  4. Re:Yes, let's lump them together. on Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again · · Score: 1
    Wait...so the politicians dont want it...the people dont want it...and most of the major record labels dont want it?

    How did this law even come as a serious suggestion...in the US a majority of hte people can want something and the politicians dont even look its way (until there is money behind it).

  5. Re:Does anyone consider that stuff 'advanced'? on Advanced System Building Guide · · Score: 1

    man....All I want to do is buy some 512mb sticks of an obsolete format that they should be glad to get out of stock/off of their producton lines.

  6. Re:Does anyone consider that stuff 'advanced'? on Advanced System Building Guide · · Score: 1

    I would rather RAM prices dropped over time (see my sig)

  7. Re:Just to be clear on Utah Governor Signs Net-Porn Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How long until the ISP does it automatically (hey they will probobly raise everyones prices to accomodate the service anyways) or it somehow interferes with a persons ability to do business with the internet porn industry.

    As soon as some wife (or mother of an 18year old) of someone who would pay for porn, has this restriction put on thier account--but the guy is too scared to tell her that he wants porn--the porn industry is going to throw thier heaps of money in along with the ACLU in getting this bill struck down. Then the bill will just end up costing the state even more money (which will get passed on to the taxpayers).

  8. Re:Cool Job Opportunity on Utah Governor Signs Net-Porn Bill · · Score: 1

    Ah...dude...you forgot the great salt lake so I guess you would still be stuck in utah even if you could telecomute.

  9. Re:Mandrake 10.2 on Mandrake 2006 Will Integrate Conectiva Components · · Score: 1
    did you try the most current version?

    I know the via SATA broke 9.2 and I think 10.0 on mine and you had to add the driver yourself (just like in windows set up, you have to add the SATA driver when it asks for scsi)

  10. Re:Best usage on From Archive.org, Free Multimedia Hosting for Life · · Score: 1

    do tell how that works

  11. Re:Cluster and Classify ... on What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How about a system where the current (convicted?) DNA samples are seperate from the not convicted samples. The not convicted samples are listed only by number and if a match shows up as a number, a judge gets to make the call as to whether the information is released.

    Of course there would still have to be a system in place that keeps them only adding data to that database when it is taken for a valid reason.

  12. Re:You submitted this... on 'Online Poker' Googlebomb · · Score: 5, Interesting
    They are fighting against the sites that are linked to by spam and thus fighting the spammers while supporting wikipedia.

    I am sure the bloggers love google and hate seeing spam have large amounts of influence on the results.

  13. Re:understanding doesn't help. on Understanding (and Avoiding) Software Patents? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Parent is right.

    A lone person simply cannot handle this task so you are better off just writing it and then if anybody comes after you (and you are actually infringing...not just being chased away), you either fold or find another solution such as letting the EFF or somebody use your situation as a poster child for patent reform.

  14. Re:No OGG? on Nat Friedman on the Future of Collaboration · · Score: 1
    it sounds like Fedora needs something akin to the "plf" urpmi mirrors that mandrake has.

    They sure make it easy to do things like mp3 and dvd

  15. Re:Latex / Kile on Programming Tools You've Used? · · Score: 4, Funny
    I like to do everything on TI calculators.

    You've got TI-basic and tons of math functionality in addition to text editors for your documentation, drawing software for your uber cool splash screen, calendars for keeping on track with your coding and even the capability of an address book to keep track of contributors.

    Some notable projects developed using this suite are "AP pHysix cheeT'r" "Drug Wars" and of course the numerous high quality ports of Windows.

  16. Re:No, not at all. on Would You Forfeit a Raise to Work From Home? · · Score: 1
    Right now my high school classes (I'm a senior) are scheduled so that every other class/"event" (locker in the morning, lunch) is on the opposite side of the school.

    I cross the entire school at least 8 times...at least it gives plenty if time to look at cute girls...except the main hallway lockers seem to house the ugly ones.

  17. Re:Aha, that explains it ... on WinFS to be available in WinXP · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I would venture to guess that they are attempting to allow older systems to use it because NTFS is to close to being as good as FAT under linux.

    If more people start using winFS, it becomes that much harder to make a linux switch.

    And we have already seen what they think about Wine.

  18. Re:I think... on Do F/OSS Contributions Make You More Marketable? · · Score: 1
    how about a windows sync though. As it stands, you can export and then import into palm desktop but that isnt enough for the average palm user.

    I'm trying to setup a simple distributed calendar for a small office. Sunbird and a webdav server works perfectly. What doesnt work perfectly is sunbird + iCalendar on a webdav server with several users who want pda sync. iCalendar can't subscribe to and publish to the same calendar so its either read-only or overwrite the old data. PDA syncing is still a problem (im not sure how iCalendar handles it but I know one of the guys currently exports and imports instead of native syncing).

  19. Re:Will your company develop Flash content on Flash Developers Fear Spectre of Spyware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Companies will continue using flash until not a single user looks at a lame flash intro and says "cool"

  20. Will your company develop Flash content on Flash Developers Fear Spectre of Spyware · · Score: 0
    Will your company develop Flash content knowing Macromedia is using its runtime as its own marketing piece?"

    Yes.

  21. Re:I think... on Do F/OSS Contributions Make You More Marketable? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    At the University of Chicago, they have a Free Software Practicum class in their CS division where you essentially pick a strong OSS project and work on it by yourself or with a team. Obviously this ranges from working on a few bugzilla entries for a project to working on adding features to something like Sunbird (PDA Sync anybody?). Part of the class requires that your work gets accepted into the projects codebase before you get credit.

    I think that the classes requirements essentially show what would look the best on your resume. If you can point to something that YOU did in a decently major project (as in something they will have heard of), it will probobly help you and differentiate you from the tons of other applicants who spent their time coding "Bob's freeware XP launch bar". Think of what would happen if your resume is read by someone who uses thunderbird or sunbird in the future and you can say that you played an integral part in implementing PDA syncing.

  22. Re:Flow... on What Makes a Good UI? · · Score: 1
    Then you would love the POS software we use.

    acronym has always bothered me. I wonder if a company has ever tried to change it so that they could markit as "You want an XYX not a POS"

  23. Re:Sigh on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Well, without /. they would be quietly circulating a paper on how to break your hashes and it would still be quiet.

    Maybe its easier to upgrade from SHA1 than it was from MD5.

  24. Re:History on Advice for a New Software Project Manager? · · Score: 1, Insightful
    This is a different question and its exactly on the front page of /. either.

    Even if the questions were identical, its possible that new replies will yield new insights (or highlight ideas that got lost in the nether regions of the comment structure).

    You don't have to reply to it if you don't want to.

  25. Re:Portable code on Migrate Win32 C/C++ Applications to Linux · · Score: 2, Informative
    In my little experiance, I can tell you that the portability of code has much to do with its complexity and what it works with (and the level of the language).

    If to systems have very similar network protocols (as most do), it becomes trivial to write a cross platform app that mostly deals with the net in a higher level language. But when you try to optimize it more and more or start linking it to more unique parts of a system (cocoa for instance), the process becomes exponentially more difficult.

    Repeating libraries across systems helps this as show by wine, but then the software is nolonger running native to the system, it thinks that it is still running on a windows box.