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  1. Explain then please on Dell Offering "Open" PC · · Score: 1

    why home & media center are often the same, but going to XP pro is always more then 100$,and lately always $119?

  2. Re:it's their mess, hope they clean it up on Bad Movies to Blame for Box Office Slump · · Score: 1

    3$ TO DUB? that is kinda insane, if it costs a dollar I'll eat a cigarette.

  3. Re:Ridiculous on Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple · · Score: 1

    but under canadian law, kinda understandable to try for.

    canadians pay a levy on cdr's for music-- it's paid to their artists fund, and that gets money distributed to all musicians.. after office expenses of course..

  4. Re:Squatted domains based on family names? on How Can Cybersquatters Be Evicted, Cheaply? · · Score: 1

    I know (family) a writer for a major metropolitan newspaper..

    a pullitzer winner.

    His name is 'his trademark' and he got someone to drop the name by having the papers lawyer contact the squatter.. it was apparently picked up right after he won the award...

  5. Might I suggest instead on Best Buy vs. The Game Makers · · Score: 1

    skip the game, and double your budget for hookers and booze?

  6. Yes, ford, gmc, on Best Buy vs. The Game Makers · · Score: 1

    and toyota never make a dime off of auto parts....

  7. Re:Doesn't this happen a lot anyway? on Best Buy vs. The Game Makers · · Score: 1

    talk to an architecht sometime, whose home design has been 'reused' without his permission.. they get kinda pissed off...

  8. Judge again? on The Fracturing of the Internet · · Score: 1

    there are more differences than that.

    You claim, consulting a judge is not required "AGAIN" and I would say, now due to the patriot act, a judge is not required the first time around.

    http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecur ity.cfm?ID=9154&c=111

    and (iv) allowing the FBI to use its "intelligence" authority to circumvent the judicial review of the probable cause requirement of the Fourth Amendment.

    any thoughts on that small bit of research?

  9. Re:California charges it on States Push to Collect Online Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    do you know what being a member of congress pays>?

  10. Sndrec32... strange, that's what I use to rip cd' on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    in a rush, sndrec32 can rip cd's to mp3.. all you really needs is the lame mp3 codec. I've walked my MOM through this from a coupla thousand miles away when it was an emergency (for her, not me)

    record a blank file, any length, then keep increasing its length by 'decrease speed' under the edit menu.. get to 4500 seconds for a 74 minute cd.

    move the pointer to the beginning of the blank file.

    play the cd, hit record on sndrec.

    then change the properties of the wav to output on the lame codec.

    then make sure to save the file as "whatever.mp3" as it still tries to save as wav.

  11. roll your own? on Integrating Weather Reports into a Webserver? · · Score: 4, Informative
  12. Re:"homebrew software development " ? on PSP Firmware Downgrader Released · · Score: 1

    It might make you feel better to think otherwise, but I don't think microsoft or sony would consider modding game decks to run linux a 'non-illegal' use of a console..

    Just my opinion, though.

  13. MS remote desktop? on The Decline Of The Desktop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My first hand experience...

    my pc at work SUCKS, but my connection doesn't (dsl at work, comcast cable at home)

    I use windows remote desktop, (mstc.exe) and pull up my desktop from home pc (and due to using the termserv.dll hack) while my wife uses the same pc at the same time for whatever. Including CPU sucking games... when I get home, I log in, and my desktop is '''' exactly the same as I left it at work ''''! cursor blinking in the same spot etc,. if I go out to my shed, I can pull it up on my old windows ME laptop and keep working there (and smoke!) over wifi.. except for video, I can do everything I can do without being there...

    I don't have firsthand experience with, but thought 'roving desktops' for XP & with windows server was basically the same thing-- for multiple users....

  14. 1au from sun at all times.... on ESA Selects Targets for Asteroid Deflection Test · · Score: 1

    Refresh my memory-- 1AU --isn't that EXACTLY the earth's path?
    Gosh, more than 1 AU.. hmm.. 50 feet more?

  15. Re:Cinemoments on Technology for Capturing 360 Degree Video · · Score: 1

    Yea, 'cause there's no precedent in scifi, like say Farenheiht 451

  16. for clarity of above post on Financial Services Software for Linux? · · Score: 1

    please substitue "excel" where it now says "quicken"

  17. Re:Tied to Quicken on Financial Services Software for Linux? · · Score: 1

    obviously you haven't used quicken lately.. you can scrape all the stuff off the internet in a similar fashion..
    (a royal bitch to set up- and it's all trash if your bank changes it's layout)

  18. lotta downloaded video? on Data Storage For Home? · · Score: 1

    on a windows box?

    windows movie maker is your friend, drop a movie into moviemaker, check the resolution of the movie.. then save your movie in the smallest file size that keeps those dimensions.. chews up a lotta CPU cycles, but can reduce filesizes by half..

    I drop most of my videos right off, quality does suffer, but- still very viewable. I just dropped a 1.06 gb download into 602 mb...

  19. a whole 1.544? on Sun President Says PCs Are Relics · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Why so prominent a review? on Review: Sims 2 Nightlife · · Score: 1
  21. it's wikipedia on Top 50 Science Fiction TV Shows · · Score: 1

    gimme a momment, I'll fix that definition to suit ME!

  22. Mac mini perfect? on Revamping the Movie Distribution Chain · · Score: 1

    hard drive space?

  23. Re:two points on TiVo User's Fears Explored · · Score: 1

    over the phone, they suck.. but via email- they hunt down very obscure problems and work them out.

    I use remote desktop to connect with my CRAPPY work pc to my home pc, and do all my computing off my home pc... I had a error that I found listed on the knowledgebase, describing my error, but for people using remote desktop into a windows server (altho for server it was called terminal services client, not remote desktop) I sent them an email through office support giving them the KB atrticle and specified I was having the exact same issue under xppro- not server, a 1-2 weeks later they email me a link to a updated version of clipbrd.exe to use.. worked perfectly.

  24. two points on TiVo User's Fears Explored · · Score: 1

    Even when IBM became bigger than Apple when exactly was that point reached? IBM has ALWAYS (imho) been bigger

    the difference between software duplication/use is that software requires SUPPORT- (which is the premise behind FOSS- support is where the corporate profit comes from) video and audio tracks do not-

    if I copy microsoft office, I get no support.

    I bought my damn copy, and I've needed to use support.
    if I copy a movie, I don't need support- it's not a great parallel..

  25. Re:Get real. on Running a Home-Office Through a UPS · · Score: 1

    why not just shut it off at minute nine when it starts beeping?