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  1. Re:Human hampster wheel/windmill thingies...? on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    You could even purify the sweat, and turn it into drinking water and salt, so that you had salt for food, and water for drinking when you're on your power-generating workout because you get paid minimum wage, and need more money.

  2. Re:The real issue.... on Longhorn Skinning A Reality · · Score: 1

    No, when XP Home appeared. 2000 is at least as stable as XP, but isn't a consumer version. ME was the home counterpart to 2000, and ME... sucked... total... ass.

  3. Re:Skin the crash screens, too? on Longhorn Skinning A Reality · · Score: 2, Informative

    And it has no effect on NT-based OSes. Did you notice it went into 386enh? 386 Enhanced? That's Windows 3.0 (and deriatives). Actually, the blue screen was introduced in 3.1, and this hack will work on 3.1 and up. To test on 3.1, hit [CTRL]-[ALT]-[DELETE], and to test on the other OSes, write to a floppy, and midway through writing, pop it out.

  4. Re:Skin the crash screens, too? on Longhorn Skinning A Reality · · Score: 1

    No, that feature was removed when MS dropped DOS for good. However, every DOS-based version of Windows from 3.1 on can use BSOD Properties, which will change the colors of the BSOD. Yes, you can have a P(urple with Green text)SOD.

  5. Re:PNG, great. on Longhorn Skinning A Reality · · Score: 1

    Actually, Opera was one of the first to support it. I remember it was often the designers that targeted Opera that were having problems with IE in the Opera 6.x days. It was great to see "Best viewed in Opera, does not work in Internet Explorer" on some sites, especially when I was on Opera.

  6. Re:that's Longhorn? on Longhorn Skinning A Reality · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, harware-accelerated does not mean fancy schmancy. It just makes it a LOT easier to be fancy on lower end hardware. However, I wouldn't mind Windows Classic to be hardware accelerated, myself.

  7. Re:that's Longhorn? on Longhorn Skinning A Reality · · Score: 1

    On XP boxes, I usually put the UI into Windows Classic, but I do leave the start menu in XP mode, as the new start menu can actually be useful.

  8. Re:Open Formats on Longhorn Skinning A Reality · · Score: -1, Troll

    PNG is a newer compressed image format. If MS had its way, we'd all be using BMP+DRM.

  9. Re:Definition? on Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet. · · Score: 1

    Hell, even being raised on an Apple II when the A2 was already declared dead, I heard of the C64 (especially when I got a 386DX33 (Pentium MMXs were just coming out) with 4MB RAM (I think 16-32 was the standard) and a 14.4 modem (33.6 was quite common then), running IE 3.0 16-bit).

  10. Re:Feels Different on Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet. · · Score: 1

    Throttle your connection to 300 bps (NOT necessarily the same as baud - it can be at a 1:1 ratio, as it is on a 300 bps modem, though) at your router. You DO have an old 486 between your cable modem and your desktop, don't you?

  11. Re:SWEET JESUS. on Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet. · · Score: 1

    A C64 running the web server and two instances of VNC server that is now in Contiki, in addition to a RealAudio server, stood up to a /.ing.

  12. Re:Oh boy! on Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet. · · Score: 1, Informative

    Funny thing is, those BBSes probably can't scale, but a C64 running Contiki (actually, it was before the web and VNC servers were added to Contiki, but it was the same technology) doesn't melt when the web server that's SERVING DYNAMIC PAGES, the TWO VNC servers, and the RealAudio server gets slashdotted. Funny, how the DSL modem comes MUCH closer to melting than the C64 when under a /.ing...

  13. Re:Legacy on Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet. · · Score: 1

    How 'bout a web server?

    Hey, it ran on a C64, and the server lasted through a two-week long slashdotting... An Apple //e would normally have twice the RAM. Now we just need LANceGS support in the Contiki A2 port...

  14. Re:Doing same on Vic20 on Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet. · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the linked articles (PETscii.com) had a listing of TelBBSes, running on various platforms (mostly C64/128s, but there was an Atari, and some Apple II and Commodore-based BBSes emulated on Windows, Linux, and (!) Amiga.

  15. Re:Prediction on Microsoft WiX Code Released to SourceForge.Net · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, read the news release that it's the first MS OSS project. There's a comment saying that they had to pull the compiled version because he forgot to upload the source to CVS.

  16. Re:The answer is - A circle! on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    So every day, millions of commuters would be running over the land's huge tits?

    I'd hate to see what plastic surgery got them that big, though...

  17. Re:Could it be... on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    Rombus? Is that some high-latency, high-clock speed, thin data path BIOS interfacing system that Intel pushed back in the days of the i820 chipset and the beginning of the Pentium 4? Oh, sorry, that's RAMbus...

  18. Re:old news on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    When the new COSI opened, they had an automotive technology exhibit called Square Wheels. Obviously, they had a square wheeled pedal car, but they also had stuff on engines, gears, mufflers, (and now we start to diverge) gyroscopes, air pressure, etc. Pieces and parts of Square Wheels can still be found - the air pressure part is outside the theatre exit, the part with the wheels spinning uphill is in one of the staircases, and a couple of other parts are in the Gadgets section. Just look around, and when you see a yellow diamond sign on a dark blue background, you've found a part of Square Wheels.

  19. Re:ingenious concept on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    Better for Morrow County, Ohio roads.

  20. Re:Cool on XPde 0.5 - A Linux Desktop for Windows Users · · Score: 1

    I dragged it to the Recycle Bin, and got a "Please insert disk in Drive A:", so I think it was trying to erase everything.

  21. Re:My place? on San Francisco Flashmob Attempts Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Naw, they didn't even have the P5, let alone the P55C (Pentium MMX) or P54C (Socket 5 Pentium), back then.

  22. Re:But... on Pigeons' Bandwidth Advantage Quantified · · Score: 1

    A shotgun is not like a firewall, a brick wall is like a firewall. I think you're right on DDoSes, however. A shotgun, come to think of it, is like a deliberate attack on the transmission medium (in the case of a traditional network, an attack on a router or cable).

  23. Re:Wahooo on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    Google is rather Linux friendly, you know. They even use the Open Directory (which originates from dmoz.org, short for Directory Mozilla) content in their directory.

  24. Re:PowerPod != iPowerPod on Apple's Rumored PowerPod · · Score: 1

    So, is it more like this?

    (no product), iBook, PowerBook
    eMac, iMac, PowerMac
    iPod Mini (could be argued that it's the ePod), iPod, PowerPod?

  25. Re:Running distributed.net? on 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop · · Score: 1

    I found the apps. They're Absolute Software ComputracePlus and ZTrace Technologies ZTrace Gold. (playing around with ReqWireless WebViewer, so this is a short post)