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  1. Get the ISS flight plan on Wi-Fi, Now Available On the ISS · · Score: 2, Funny

    For those who are really serious about (or nuts enough) trying to pick up ISS wifi signal.

    Check out when ISS will appear over your head using heaves-above.com

    Enter your coordinates and it will let you know exactly when and where it will appear over your horizon.

  2. Re:WARNING!!! 10.4.3 render iBook G4 not bootable! on Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Please note that I did not change /etc/ttys before or after the Update.

    Got my iBook revived! (my blog)

    The detailed steps is in my blog, basically, what I did was, download Mac Os X Combo using a working Mac, boot dead Mac into Target Disk Mode, apply the patch using the Combo package, reboot the dead Mac.

  3. Re:WARNING!!! 10.4.3 render iBook G4 not bootable! on Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. WARNING!!! 10.4.3 render iBook G4 not bootable!!!! on Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Updated two machines simultaneously. PowerMac G5 1.8GHz single processor and iBook G4 1GHz.

    The PowerMac G5 was sent for reboot after finish updating. While iBook was sent to shutdown after update completed.

    Now, iBook G4 is spinning wheel at grey apple. The longest I waited was about 15 minutes before hard shutdown. I have put it into Target Disk Mode to be Verified by PowerMac G5, the filesystem is not corrupted.

    I can hear the harddisk clicking in iBook which makes me salivate (I don't know why). Might have to reinstall Mac Os X Tiger. That means a chance to install some Linux on it first.

    So, be warned. I'll wait for 30 minutes of spinning wheel to see whether that make any difference.

  5. Re:.. and up goes the number of false positives .. on Fast, Accurate Detection of Explosives · · Score: 1

    False positive is always a problem. I had my laptop bag (Samsonite) stoped at the x-ray machine becasue there is a piece of flexible metal in it. Which I didn't even know was there. And the way the US security treat a false positive is really un profesional. Newark Liberty Airport. June 05.

  6. seti@home, folding@home and no Internet connection on Windows Cluster Edition · · Score: 1

    I don't use Ms Windoze.

    But, millions and millions of people do. And there is a lot of wasted processing power out there.

    A lot of distributed computing emphasized on Windows (pseudo) operating-system, because of the vastness of wasted processing power.

    Yes, distributed computing is suppose to be cross-platform or platform independent.

    But, I see no reasons (technically) why we need a Windows pseudo-OS cluster.

    A note to the designer of the system. Make sure they do not connect the cluster to the Internet, please. We have enough machines out there spreading viruses, worms, trojans, spywares, etc. We don't need a super-computer to do that.

  7. Re:JNI is an API, not a platform... on Don Box: Huge Security Holes in Solaris, JVM · · Score: 1

    There have been ssh-brute force on many many UNIX machine around the world. It tries to attack machine with weak password.

    Note, that I use brute force in a very loose way.

  8. Re:it doesn't work, crash in Mac Os X on Skype For Mac OS X and Linux · · Score: 1

    Update: No it is not working fine. If I choose to save password. The next time I start Skype it will crash after complaining of corrupt password.

  9. Re:Bill buys Apple? on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    I am just qouting the reason my friend gave me; for leaving Carlsberg.

    Join an AA recently?

  10. Re:it doesn't work, crash in Mac Os X on Skype For Mac OS X and Linux · · Score: 1

    I had many version of Skype installed on my aging iBook G4 (1 year old). The previous installation left over files must have been corrupted. And have been purged.

    It works fine now.

  11. Re:Bill buys Apple? on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    I know that Carlsberg brewery gives it's higher level employees ONE cartoon of beer per month.

    Have a friend who quit working there; afraid of being an alcoholic.

    And all employees can buy their beers real cheap.

  12. Re:it doesn't work, crash in Mac Os X on Skype For Mac OS X and Linux · · Score: 1

    Solved it by using finder to search for skype files and folders. Remove all of it.

    In the process, I removed my contact list as well. :)

  13. it doesn't work, crash in Mac Os X on Skype For Mac OS X and Linux · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work. Running Mac Os X (10.3.7). It complains of corrupt password then crash. I cleared the Skype folder in /Users/me/Library/ using Secure Empty. Still the same.

    It has been like this since the last 3 versions.

    Crap, how can this be even version 1.0.0? It doesn't work!

  14. Re:This is a bad sign on Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack · · Score: 1

    That's what you get for running a server on a Mac mini :)

    Apache on iPodLinux!

  15. Re:Errant U's on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named Greatest Briton · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they think they are the centre of the universe.

    Actually the Chinese thinks China is the centre/center of the universe. This is reflected in the chinese name of China.

    Of course that was many many years back.

  16. Real Bullshit! on Real Pays For Legal MP3 Playback On Linux · · Score: 1

    This website explains about the three related patents in mp3. The website mentioned that the patents relate to encoding and not decoding (playback.)

    MP3 The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly)

    History of MP3. Qouted from this website: "In 1998, Winamp became a free MP3 music player boosting the success of MP3. No licensing fees are required to use an MP3 player."

    Real is bullshitting about mp3 playback fees!

  17. EdCM slashdotted on NASA Releases Free Global Climate Model Software · · Score: 1

    http://www.edgcm.org slashdotted?

    It is on NetBSD/OpenBSD according to netcraft.

    Must be a small budget project. Low end server hardware?

  18. Re:Now They're Slashdotted! on A Look Inside the BBC's Network · · Score: 1

    I don't know. How do I find out?

  19. Re:Now They're Slashdotted! on A Look Inside the BBC's Network · · Score: 1

    confirmed

  20. Re:LCD degrades FAST! on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    LCDs don't degrade noticeably, at least the ones used as laptop screens don't. Perhaps you are thinking of plasma screens?

    Yes you won't notice the degradation. Cause it degrades over time and you have nothing to compared with.

    Try take a photo of your LCD screen now. And take another photo 6 months later. And compare both of them. I must add try to use the same environment. Dark room is the best. Use same camera and setting as well.

  21. LCD degrades FAST! on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    LCD monitors and projectors degrades really fast. You can see vast difference in quality just after one year of usage. This is confirm by Epson's engineers which point it out to their customer. They were pushing for DLP projectors that time.

    I will choose CRT monitors anytime. Given the high price of LCD as compared to CRTs. And it's degradation.

  22. On the map. on Ham Operator Sets New Miles-Per-Watt World Record · · Score: 1

    Can some one please point it out on a map please.

  23. Re:great on Next G5 Multitasks Operating Systems · · Score: 2, Informative

    (Current uptime 7 days 10:29 on this OS X on IBM PowerPC CPU laptop, during a week that included a deadline requiring all my production applications to run simultaneously and reliably, which they did) What laptop is that? As far as I know, ALL Apple's laptop (iBook and PowerBook) chip is from Motorola.

  24. Re:Heh heh. on ICANN Plans to Charge Fees to .net Domain Owners · · Score: 1

    I am in no part of MSN. How then? I am the minority! HELP!
    Maybe I should get into Internet 2.

  25. Re:Next year on Gigabyte's Dual-GPU Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    In fact this has been DONE by IBM, Sony, Toshiba in PS3 chip. The GPU and CPU on the same CHIP. And maybe some other stuff.