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  1. Re:If the bearing are out, flip it over. on 10 Computer Mishaps · · Score: 1

    When I worked for a school district in So. Californi(~2001), we had about 80 new dells, and they had the infamous deathstar (Deskstar) hard drives. the "flip upside down and pray" method worked more than it should have.

  2. Re:#1 Works! on 10 Computer Mishaps · · Score: 1

    I am sure MTV would be pissed at your infringment on Jackass IP.

  3. Re:The Main Attraction on New 1 Kilowatt PSU - Too Much Power? · · Score: 1

    If I am not mistaken, it still runs at 120, just ignores one leg. You can plug 120V devices into a 220 outlet if you kill one of the 120V legs. You just need 1 leg, and a neutral. Ground is a safety option.

  4. Re:Necessary Evil on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    Yes Sir/Mam I am. Looks like you caught me, or at least my callsign. Quite rare, either that or people just do not mention it. Sadley, I am still a technician class, I keep missing the test dates.

  5. Re:Try something unique on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    X-plane, while not a game, works great in linux.

  6. Re:Necessary Evil on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, he is obviously using the linux kit for his PS2. Duh!

  7. Re:Other bands to test... on Musical Wings Reduce Aircraft Stall Risk · · Score: 1

    Umm, did you mean William Hung, or John Denver? :P

  8. Re:Human error on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    I would look at a leave of abcense as more of a reason to change my password. If the password was comprimised before you take leave, then the account is still comprimised while it is being unsupervised. This gives the attacker free reign, with no oversight. If you change your passwrd after it was comprmised , and they did not throw in a root kit, they are locked out, at least for a little while.

  9. Re:This research... on Crocodile's Immune System Kills HIV · · Score: 1

    That was gonorrhea, not HIV.

  10. Re:nah on Zotob Worm Hits CNN and Goes Global · · Score: 1

    I belive this crash was this morning, well, 3am CST 8/16/05. It left Tocumen Panama for Fort de France, Martinique. It crashed in Venezuela.

    You might be thinking of the Greek crash that happend sunday (depending on your time zone).

  11. Re:Scary. on Linux Based CarPC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    its pretty easy to hack together a car/garage door lock key fob "cracker". Just find one of the many user setable devices. If it is set with dipswitches, you can use a 4040 binary ripple counter (all of the ones I have are 12bit), and use a 555 as your clock/pulse for the ripple counter. Tie the outputs to the dipswith outputs, and let it run through the codes automaticly. Might take awhile, older ones were 8 bit, but some new ones are getting up there. If you need more than 12 bits, tie two together for 24 bit.

  12. Re:You have a point. on Linux Based CarPC · · Score: 1

    Quite a few cars( even low end dodges) are displaying MPG nowadays. It does not require GPS, just the injector size, pulse width, and speed/odometer readings. Everything is already on the car/truck.

  13. Re:Credit where credit's due on Did Microsoft Invent The iPod? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm, I belive he said let there be light, not let there be white. The ipod was invented on the 6th day, thats why he accomplished nothing on the 7th.

  14. Re:Product Website on USB-Powered Linux Server Fits in Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    Looks like a solution looking for a problem. Bad way to market a device.

    My suggested sales pitch:
    Here it is, not sure what the hell you can do with it, but if you find a good program/use for it( god knows we tried), we will give you $50,000. ( no joke, check out the site).

  15. Re:This is unethical on Retail Fraud on the Rise · · Score: 1

    Eve did it!!



    If you belive that kinda stuff.

  16. Re:Why? on Hacking Hotels 101 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because when high school students do this shit, they later rm -rf the entire storage array.

  17. Re:now correct me if im wrong on U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Look into Time Dilation.

  18. Re:Dating Methods on 190 Million Year Old Dinosaur Embyro · · Score: 1

    Not sure that I would use these guys as a credible referance.

  19. Re:Dating Methods on 190 Million Year Old Dinosaur Embyro · · Score: 1

    More than just two translations my friend. Here is another example of how translations can screw things up.

    Lucifer is mentioned one time in the bible, in Isaiah 14:12. It was not in reference to Satan, but to Tiglath-pileser III, King of Babylon.

    Lucifer is the term the early Romans used for the planet Venus. It came into the bible through a translation error. The original Hebrew term "HeYLeL BeN-ShaCHaR" that ment bright son of the morning/dawn was translated as Phosphorus,The then current Greek Term for Venus, and then into Lucifer, the term used by the Romans for Venus. Now we are stuck with it, and many christians belive it refers to an archangel that fell from hevean. If you dont belive me, break out your good book, and start reading from Isaiah 14:1. The newer bible translations( new international version, and I belive the new KJV version) have removed the word lucifer from the bible.

  20. Re:C/C++/PHP? You mjust be kidding! on Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps? · · Score: 1

    I think you should consider the growing, non-techsavy fear of javascript. IIRC, MS Iexplorer has JS disabled by default. Cant remember, as it has been months since I have been on a windows box.

  21. Re:You only need one thing for it all... on Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what a dumbass, everyone knows that nothing is scalable as Vi.
    [/joke]---( for the people that can not see an obvious attempt at humor.)

  22. Re:We need an HD "Earth Views" satellite in orbit on Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off · · Score: 1

    Yes, but how long is the Clippy genome?

  23. Re:Quick Perl hack on Rate Your IM Popularity · · Score: 1

    corrected a few typos for you, hope you dont mind. Filled in a missing semicolon(line 17) and changed timeou t to timeout ( line.10)

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    use LWP::UserAgent;
    use CGI qw(:param);

    die "usage: $0 <aim_sn1> <aim_sn2>\n" if (@ARGV != 2);

    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
    $ua->env_proxy;
    $ua->timeou t (5);
    my $q = 'name1=' . $ARGV[0] . '&name2=' . $ARGV[1];
    $q =~ s/([^=\&\w])/sprintf "%%%x", ord $1/eg;

    my $r = $ua->get('http://www.aimfight.com/getFight.php?' . $q);

    die $r->status_line if (! $r->is_success);

    $cgi = CGI->new($r->content);

    %score = %sn = ();

    for (0, 1)
    {
    printf "%-12s: %d\n", $ARGV[$_],
    $sn{$ARGV[$_]} = $cgi->param('score' . ($_ + 1));

    $score{$sn{$ARGV[$_]}} = $ARGV[$_];
    }

    if ((keys %score) + 0 != 2)
    {
    print "\nTie!\n";
    }
    else
    {
    print "\nWinner: ", $score{(sort keys %score)[0]}, "\n";

    }

  24. Re:You prefer the live ammo solution? IDIOT! on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1

    The taser is less than letheal, except for the few dozen people it has killed.

  25. Re:static dhcp ? on What's On Your Network? · · Score: 1

    yeah, I guess with the cheaper nics you could. I have seen some more expensive 3com nics that would not let you( well, you could jumper a few solder pads), and some that you could change the mac with dip switches.