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  1. Re:Let me get this straight on Wireless Everything at Dartmouth · · Score: 1

    Just a small heads up on quoting things:

    TFA -> The $f article
    TFP -> The $f post

    $f being one of frell frack f***ing friendly etc

  2. OT but, Other software for FXO's? on Asterisk Breeds A Cottage Industry · · Score: 1

    I've been wanting something that lets me pick up my phone at home, the problem with asterisk is that its designed to get the phone directly plugged in to it and everything else plugs in to that. I'm just wondering if theres anything I can use thats simpler than a full featured PBX

  3. Re:Cookie Madness on Slashback: Pie, Election, Alarm · · Score: 1

    But logging in multiple times is only good for you, the builder, it's nice being able to log into a site, lose the window, go to the site again and I'm still logged in.

    I personally think things should be built to work well and coherantly for the average person, but not screw up the rest of us.
    Which will waste more time in total?
    You opening up a few web browsers
    People having to log into sites a lot more

    Ya know what'd be worse? web browsers sharing cookies, then you'd have to use multiple computers.

    soap boxing to counter your soap boxing? ;)

  4. Re:Great on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 1

    Previous article about trains and WiMAX and T-Mobile mentioned:
    WiMAX -> Wifi AP

  5. Re:3000 unattended servers? on Designing a Municipal Wireless Service? · · Score: 1

    My crazy idea with the roaming is to use a different netmask for the network like say 255.255.0.0 and have a dhcp server or two (@home's problems had something to do with like one server for something) to hand out IPs and then hook all of the APs up to a switch that works on the IP level, unless MAC layer is good enough (layer 3 and 2, I don't know this stuff :)

    the larger netmask lets one do things like have 10.10.10.10 use 10.10.20.1 as a gateway because 10.10.x.x are treated as local

    The other idea I had which I haven't figured out if it'll work or not was to use a netmask of 255.255.0.0 on the routers, APs, etc but still use the usual 255.255.255.0 netmask on clients so while roaming they'd still use the gateway of the node they started off on

  6. Re:TAKE THAT CALTECH on USB Disco Dance Floor · · Score: 1

    nice to know it always falls back to whos fucking the hottest girls

  7. Pressure Sensors? on USB Disco Dance Floor · · Score: 1

    what are they for? Construction and FAQ didn't mention, and I'm too young to have caught the disco era...

    I so want to build one of these

  8. Re:Use a multiline input box on Address Formatting for International Mailing? · · Score: 1

    I'd hope a person wanting something shipped to them would know how to format an address to themselves, but what the author of this could do is link to a site thats shows/explains different ways to format an address. Wikipedia might be a good place to start, if it's not there, just start one and then people can throw stuff in, Like I'd mention canada post's postal code finder.

  9. Re:clearly - there are two sides to every schwartz on Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are >limitless< posibilites for why microsoft would want to try out a new file system, not that I know them all. Most of the time when I read slashdot comments people leave little bits of ideas and information in their comments, kinda like everyones working in paralel out of ram (actually sometimes comments are so off the wall it sounds like they're working out of just the cache) trying to figure something out, but when theres these slashdot posts that have anything to do with microsoft everyone only sees one picture, one view, only one *real* motivation for microsoft to be doing this, lock out linux, duh, totally obvious, _everyone post this fact_

    Yes, it could be true, but thats not the point, point is that nobodys is being the devils advocate here and looking for another side.

    You guys are using the collective intelligence of slashdot to merely diss something instead of even thinking about it!

  10. Re: Billie Piper is a hottie. on New Dr. Who Episode Leaked · · Score: 1

    What about the first romana, Mary Tamm?

  11. Re:WinFS on WinFS to be available in WinXP · · Score: 1

    Financial obscurity? This is microsoft we're talking about, and we're on slashdot right now! If this was that other site, sure, not everyone that reads K5 knows everything about how microsoft is evil THIS WEEK.

    We know how they make their money (Bundling windows, service contracts and selling office) and what they blow it on (everything else they do). What more do you wanna know? How much they spent on toilet seats?

    As for file systems, did it hurt you that bad over NTFS? Removing FAT32 support from WinXP would be a more useful weapon towards whatever. Personally I have windows computers and linux computers.

    Personally I'm hoping someone comes up with CaptiveWinFS really soon after its available, and Captive NTFS uses stuff from XP SP1a. I think Microsoft is doing us a FAVOUR by back porting it to XP as theres an API for file systems in XP, and we've already got the stuff for it.

  12. Re:ctrl alt del! on Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doesn't Schlock Mecenary have a large buffer? I wonder if that was really considered for this comic contest, because it's kinda silly to pit buffered comics against unbuffered comics.

  13. Don't forget Greg Dean! on Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Of Real Life Comics. I read that daily too along with PVP and Superosity. Personally I was hoping Piro would join in, he'd be first out :)

  14. Re:mime type miss-match for the linux binary? on New Distributed Project Seeks Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    most people interested in this stuff already have boinc

    also right click -> save as (I know thats from IE but I cant be arsed to figure out EXACTLY what it says)

    oh, I know why its like this. gz doesn't mean binary, it means compressed. Firefox probably downloaded it and gunzipped it and threw it up as text.

    Not really their fault, but yes it should be changed, maybe by a .htaccess in thier download directory (hint to einstein guys as I'm sure one person will be looking through slashdot for important things)

  15. Re:Coming Soon: No actual evidence permitted, on FL Court Rules Against Spouse-Installed Spyware · · Score: 1

    So, if I think someone is gaining illegal access to my computer while I'm not around, I can't install a keylogger to figure out who it is?

    Husband isn't exactly illegally using his own computer, if you're putting a keylogger on your computer, you're putting a keylogger on your computer. If you're putting a keylogger on your wifes computer, you're putting a keylogger on your wifes computer. Unless of course you two share a computer, but you'd still talk to the other user (her) before putting the key logger to detect illegal use, right?

    Personally I think a personal computer, is personal, regardless of marriage rights etc etc, just like its possible to go into someone elses room WITHOUT looking in their underwear drawer, its possible to share a computer without spying.

  16. Re:Dijjer links to movies on Beware The Rotundus Rover · · Score: 1

    I think I'd be happier with a torrent, everyone is used to Bit Torrent now, and you get more control over it, Dijjer seems to give me no GUI for configuring it.

    Another problem is that it seems to depend on the dijjer.org site to be useful

    Also depending on a certain local port is annoying, what if I absolutely positively need that port due to some other local port using app?

    Personally I think you're trying to use this dijjer thing for something its not really targetted at. I looked at the site and it mentions ipod casting, local http server makes sense in that case, but a gui or status page or something would be nice. Oh, there is a status page http://localhost:9115/, still don't see any options to fiddle with :)

    Hmm, it got stuck at 47% downloaded 32% sent to client, I ended up getting the files direct. if this was bt I could close the torrent thats stuck, open reopen it on the direct download and help seed, just sayin. I am curious of how this initially seeds a file. Download started finally after awhile by it giving in and downloading blocks directly but after the download I think I crashed dijjer by hitting reload on its status page too much.

  17. Re:Big time waster fix detailed below: on PC Users Fight Distractions to Work · · Score: 1

    I thought its like this
    127.0.0.1 games.slashdot.org ad.site

  18. Re:Oh Dear God on Could TNG Stunt Casting Save 'Enterprise'? · · Score: 1

    slashdot uses html like so

    Actually You do.

    but thats okay, you screwed up the bbcode :) preview please

    (was going to post anon but I don't know if slashcode will email replies from anon)

  19. Re:Legit on Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service · · Score: 1

    uh lots of porn is copyrighted.

  20. Re:RTFA fools! on Is IRC All Bad? · · Score: 1

    Well now it says that, Before it was just a bad article...

    I'm sure theres a sliding scale thats like this:
    Properly Researched -> Badly Done Research -> Funny Joke on Bad Journalism

    But unless I'm a journalist I'm not going to notice it hits that funny level, because it's not funny to me, it's a stupid journalist joke, so why look out for it?

    Now, as revenge I think one of us should take a nice news article from BBSpot, and go to the equivalant JournalistDot and submit it as news.

  21. Re:IRC analysis fatally flawed on Is IRC All Bad? · · Score: 1

    actually the irc server could log the transfer, as to send you a file I send you my IP, a port for you to connect to, the file name and a size of the file

    this wouldn't be logged towards IRC bandwidth usage, logged for other reasons (riaa/mpaa should run a few IRC servers? :)

  22. Re:And the official Torrent: on Linux Live Gaming Project · · Score: 1

    Will this be in italian or english? I looked at thier site and the previous version of this defaulted to italian. It would be nice to know what language this defaults to. Also a shellscript to do the whole "iso -> temp dir, edit isolinux.cfg, make a sort file so isolinux.bin is at the front, make an iso" procedure wouldn't hurt too too much :)

  23. Re:Convert to Linux in 12 easy steps on Linux Live Gaming Project · · Score: 1

    uhm, remove the sound, does nothing for the flash movie, unless of course 1t'5 l33t leik1 j3ffk.

  24. Re:Change Your Firmare? on Cutting Through a Wi-Fi Traffic Jam? · · Score: 0, Troll

    one doesn't have to use open source firmware, seems that the first thing people do is figure out how to change the region code to allow 1-14, but I still use channel 11 as I dont want bored FCC people knocking on my door...

    open source firmware is made for the features, NOT letting people break FCC rules.

  25. Re:Knoppix - a lifesaver on True Stories of Knoppix Rescues · · Score: 1

    The newest version of Knoppix does have captive ntfs, but it gets the winxp stuff off of the hd, which is okay unless you are testing it on someone elses computer (ntoskrnl.exe was changed)

    captive-installer-knoppix is a quick and dirty mount partition ; check for windows/system32/ntoskrnl.exe etc ; umount ; next kind of loop
    captive-install-aquire is a gui for finding suitable files, scanned everything including the cd when I ran it.

    I am curious of what the differences between current knoppix and current kanotix are.