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  1. Re:Begging to be fired, anyhow.. on Webwasher versus Web Content Creators? · · Score: 1

    Why not download a simple Perl script that grabs information from a website, and sends it to your comptuer?

    Even more effective, and keeps one more old Linux box running. (don't give out the password, though, or you'll have a spam hub on your hands)

  2. Re:There's always a way on Webwasher versus Web Content Creators? · · Score: 1

    http://peacefire.org/circumventor/simple-circumven tor-instructions.html

    Simple CGIProxy-based open proxy with SSL for Windows 2000/XP. How's that?

    BTW, another reason you want to make a proxy only accessible to you is so that unwanted activity cannot be performed over your connection - you don't want your box to be a link in a spamming, or other illegal activity, do you? They WILL trace it to your box, after all...

    However, does anyone have ideas for turning an old Linux box into a secure open proxy that can be accessed via (possibly) HTTPS or SSH using the standard proxy settings of (say) Opera, and possibly tunneled?

  3. Re:Why not "optimize" these files upon receipt... on Grassroots Response to .doc E-mail Attachments? · · Score: 1

    That'll be interesting... In which cell is the text stored? All in A1? Does it seperate the file and logically throw it in cells? I mean, I know what'll happen with .sxw, but .sxc would be interesting to convert a .doc file to. Hint: .sxw = Writer, .sxc = Calc

  4. Re:Arrrrghh! on Grassroots Response to .doc E-mail Attachments? · · Score: 1

    Everything in POSTSCRIPT? Why not PDF? Almost everyone's got Acrobat^WAdobe Viewer...

  5. Re:Ping! on Grassroots Response to .doc E-mail Attachments? · · Score: 1

    Make sure to put a background on that 4000x4000 image, and not a pattern, just to make it larger.

  6. Re:Terminal Server on Dual User Windows PC · · Score: 1

    That's another story. Windows Server 2003 runs Terminal Services, same protocol, different implementation. Terminal Services creates another session for a new user, much like how multiple users can SSH in to a Linux box.

  7. Re:I want the opposite... on Dual User Windows PC · · Score: 1

    Am I thinking something like Citrix Application Neighborhood, or X? Where you run an app on one PC, and run another on another, and bring it all in to your PC?

  8. Re:Terminal Server on Dual User Windows PC · · Score: 1

    That's why I said not TS. BTW, can VNC (on Linux) support multi-user (on a single-head video card)?

  9. Re:Terminal Server on Dual User Windows PC · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think Remote Desktop (but not Terminal Services) kicks the logged on person off (at least when FUS is disabled, I don't know about enabled, as I don't have an XP Pro box to try it on)

  10. Re:About time... on PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft's FAT Patent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can actually see why it wouldn't be feasible. It's due to the physical size of the FAT itself. If you can't hold the filename inside the FAT, you have to make it shorter. In this case, the FAT had to be small to put more data, and filename size (and cluster size) took a hit. Now, they could have put a 100KB FAT on the 180KB disks, but it would have eaten up almost all of the space!

  11. Re:AKA "Which Schools Recommend Centrino" on Intel Ranks Colleges with Best Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    I would check, but (ahem) it seems a bit Slashdotted... Intel's site barely handles NORMAL load, though, and I have to refresh to get it to load a LOT.

  12. Re:Palladium on Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds · · Score: 1

    Mine had a worse logo, but an explanation of it. That logo would go good with mine, though...

  13. Re:Why? on Sony Develops 25 GB Paper Disc · · Score: 1

    1. Make it so it costs $0.005 less/disc, but the discs are MUCH less robust
    2. Instead of selling the 20 billion discs you used to, you sell 100 billion because they keep failing
    3. $$$$$
    4. Profit!

  14. Re:GULP on Sony Develops 25 GB Paper Disc · · Score: 1

    Your sig looked like it was part of your post, and made it pretty funny.

  15. Re:uses for an old LCD on Making Use Of Old LCDs? · · Score: 1

    $850? They probably weren't even taking a profit there - a 15" laptop in 1999 ? BTW, Google did exist back then, but was in beta.

  16. Re:I looked into this sometime ago on Making Use Of Old LCDs? · · Score: 1

    I think this is why SODIMMs were invented, although EDO SODIMMs are almost as hard to find as Toshiba proprietary RAM modules. With SODIMMs, you can take a PC2100 module out of (for example) a Dell, and throw it in an IBM. HPaq, Gateway, whatever laptop supports PC2100 in SODIMM format (pretty much everything that supports DDR). Also, on CPU, there are standards. Many Pentium I and Pentium II laptops use Mobile Module I, which has the chipset onboard, and some Pentium III laptops use Mobile Module II, which adds AGP support to MM1 (but not backwards compatible). Some Pentium I/AMD K5/K6 laptops use Socket 5/7, some Pentium II laptops use uPGA or Mini-Cartridge, some P3 laptops use uPGA2, AMD K7s (AFAIK) all use a laptop version of Socket A, P4 laptops use Socket 478, Pentium M laptops use a different 478-pin uFCPGA2 socket, and K8s use Socket 754 (note that this includes the only 32-bit K8s, the Athlon XPs on Socket 754).

  17. Re:I had a CGA 9" POS style monitor on Making Use Of Old LCDs? · · Score: 1

    I actually did find a couple games that used brown, green, and B/W. Some french Trivial Pursuit game off of an abandonware site, and Basstour (an old DOS fishing game) used it.

  18. Re:Bad idea! on Security and School - How Should One Speak Up? · · Score: 1

    What? I can get a university degree from home for a very small fee! I just wonder why this e-mail is in my "Spam" folder...

  19. Re:Palladium on Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds · · Score: 1

    What, like these? (sorry about the Publisher file, but that's what I had - not my box...) It was modeled somewhat after a Intel Inside-like sticker on an old 386 box (I forget what the Intel ad campaign was before Intel Inside) saying something about enhanced technology with Intel, blah blah blah.

  20. Re:Via? on VIA Releases Source To Custom WASTE Client · · Score: 3, Informative

    VIA makes CPUs (C3), motherboards (EPIA), and graphics cards (S3 UniChrome integrated and DeltaChrome) too! BTW, PadLock is definitely a reference to the encryption engine in their C3 Nehemiah and newer - it means that their 1GHz C3 can murder a x.xxGHz Pentium 4 on encryption, all while barely taking any power. However, as soon as you go to standard integer or floating point, it SUCKS ASS. Integer performance is in the 300-600MHz Celery range, and FP performance is in the sub-300MHz Celery range.

  21. Re:Palladium on Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds · · Score: 1

    Hang on a sec... you responded to the wrong post!

  22. Re:I’ll show them! on Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds · · Score: 1

    STICKERS. Sticker the damn things:

    THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS DIGITAL RIGHTS RESTRICTION
    TECHNOLOGY. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! MORE INFO AT:
    http://www.fuckdrm.com (not a real URL)

    Something like this would definitely do the job. BTW, someone said it was the XScale PXA27x, in other words, what'll probably end up in the next Pocket PCs and Smartphones. We've got a little while on cellphones, then, but not long.

  23. Re:Well that's just great on Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds · · Score: 1

    I do feel that ringtones are needed, but I wouldn't pay for a song.

    Ringtones are needed because when your phone rings, if there weren't ringtones, EVERYONE would look at their phone. Ringtones make it so people know it's not their phone that's ringing.

  24. Re:Not for me! on Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds · · Score: 1

    You mean your trusty ol' Pentium 4 semi-portable PDA?

    The Z80 is actually quite low power - ever use a TI graphing calc or a pre-Advance Game Boy lately? Also, the first ever PDA, the Amstrad PenPad(?), though a flop, ran a Z80.

  25. Re:Palladium on Intel Launches DRM-Enabled CPUs for Phones and Handhelds · · Score: 1

    OS: Linux? Mac OS (although it's quite likely to go DRM)?
    CPU: VIA? IBM?
    BIOS: Hmm... LinuxBIOS, OpenBIOS, BochsBIOS? If you go Mac OS, OpenFirmware is your only option...
    Video: S3 (I know, it sucks, but it's on VIA's boards)
    Networking: Umm... VIA? 3Com?
    Computer manufacturers: Tranquil? Hush? Other Mini-ITX builders? Apple?
    Chips? Hmm... good one. Any of these on Mini-ITX or Apple boards?