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  1. Re:Very Funny on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 4, Informative

    First... XP64 can only address 128GB RAM, because it's not using 64-bit addressing. It's using 36-bit, which is what the EM64T chips use.

    Now, the AMD64 chips can *AT MINIMUM* address 1TB, b/c they use 40 and 48-bit addressing.

  2. Re:Still have mine on 10 Year Anniversary of PS1 Launch · · Score: 1

    ePSXe - the actual emulator - http://www.epsxe.com/
    scph1001.bin - the ROM image - use Google
    A video plugin - the ePSXe site lists the ones you should use, but on a modern GPU, Pete's OpenGL will work nicely. If you've got an OLD GPU, the PeOPS Soft GPU will work.

    The ePSXe tutorial will tell you how to tie it all together...

  3. Re:Odd story about Katrina victims. on Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen anybody, but I've heard that the Red Cross is dropping a LOT of victims here in Central Ohio... (in fact, all over Ohio, from what I've heard...)

  4. Re:Sorry for being a luddite but.. on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS · · Score: 1

    Hmm...

    Testing the Opera SSR mode (which enables any mobile stylesheets the site has) on Slashcode doesn't give a page that looks any different from Slashdot in SSR mode.

    This is important, as AvantSlash is shutting down (due to breakage, and apparently there won't be a need for it) when Slashdot rolls out CSS. http://slashdot.org/palm is a pathetic excuse for a AvantGo version of Slashdot. And, the CSS version doesn't have a mobile stylesheet, with information hiding so that only the relevant parts show up, so it'll be just as bad as regular Slashdot.

    So, will I have to fork AvantSlash when Slashdot changes to CSS? I hope not...

  5. Re:Finally, Slashdot Slashdotted, Literally! on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS · · Score: 1

    On a more serious note, I think Jon Katz wrote some articles that drew enough attention to /. that it took /. down...

  6. Re:Finally someone with smarts on Too Many People in Nature's Way · · Score: 1

    Well, New Orleans is physically located in a good area, if you don't count the fact that it's 20 feet below sea level.

    Basically, there's a tradeoff between the location (which is good) and the terrain (which is dreadful). Until now, everybody thought that the tradeoff was acceptable.

  7. Re:Only a matter of time. on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've also got a Minolta-QMS PagePro 1250W... $12 for a pack of two refills...

    12 PPM actual, 17 rated.

    Seven second first page out, too (versus three minutes for the magicolor (4 PPM rated color, 16 PPM rated B&W) if it's not warmed up...)

    Unfortunately, the trays (on the PagePro, not the magicolor) are made of REALLY cheap plastic, and are falling off. It prints no problem, but the trays are broken...

  8. Re:Uh on What's In Your Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1

    I use a Samsonite notebook bag for my books, because it is QUITE useful like that, and is WAYYY too big for my laptop.

    I use an old Compaq laptop case for my laptop (a ThinkPad X21). This case is also too big, but it fits the laptop better. I also have the WiFi card, the AC adaptor, my PDA's AC adaptor, USB cable, and USB/DC dongle, and my trusty screwdriver in there.

  9. Re:Only a matter of time. on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Try a photo-quality consumer-grade color laser.

    I've got a Konica Minolta magicolor 2300DL (Linux support sucks for it, though), and except for a little graininess, it's got better color reproduction than any inkjet I've seen.

    Konica Minolta even positions the 2430DL as a photo-quality consumer-grade color laser - it even has a PictBridge port on the thing.

    Also, I've heard that the Samsung CLP-510 (not the 500) has good photo quality.

    All of those printers are/were sub $600 (sub $500 in the case of the Minoltas).

  10. Re:Putting your requirements on other people on Anti-Virus Protection For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    And, something else to add:

    I don't know about Palm OS 5, which is probably more common on Palm OS smartphones (Treo 600 and 650 are the main (and, in the case of the 600, the first) "OMGIHAVETOHAVEONE!!!1111oneoneone!" Palm OS smartphones, and they run Palm OS 5), but a program could be written to crash Palm OS 4 to the point that a hard reset (the Palm OS equivalent of a reformat, except it's done by pushing three buttons, and is over in 5 seconds) would be necessary.

  11. Re:Putting your requirements on other people on Anti-Virus Protection For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Informative

    Symbian's actually not that vulnerable, it's just a bigger target than Palm OS when it comes to smartphones... Bluetooth, OTOH...

    These viruses require active participation to get the thing going. Therefore, saying NO to an unsolicited BT DL will fix it.

  12. Re:What would you expect? on Intel Replies to AMD Antitrust Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they're still widely considered to suck...

    I saw some bench somewhere that showed that the Celeron D 351 *almost* tailed the Sempron 64 3400+ (yes, Sempron 64. It's a Sempron, but with 64-bit enabled...) in a FEW benchmarks.

  13. Re:Who cares! -Average Joes, i.e. Consumers on PS3 GPU Less Powerful Than GeForce 7800? · · Score: 1

    I think we paid about $150 for it...

    The picture's certainly not bad...

  14. Re:Far Side? on Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Replying to myself, but correction:

    Arthur, Trillian, and Random were the last THREE descendants of the Golgafrinchans. Forgot for a moment there that Arthur and Trillian had a kid...

  15. Re:Far Side? on Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years · · Score: 3, Funny
    You were the one that didn't read it.

    The Golgafrinchans didn't do any work, but they survived two million years. Arthur and Trillian were the last two descendants of the Golgafrinchans.

    Remember that it was the "CAVEMEN" that were dying off?
    "Yes. One of our film producers is already making a fascinating documentary about the indigenous cavemen of the area."
    "They're not cavemen."
    "They look like cavemen."
    "Do they live in caves?"
    "Well..."
    "They live in huts."
    "Perhaps they're having their caves redecorated," called out a wag from the crowd.
    Ford rounded on him angrily.
    "Very funny," he said, "but have you noticed that they're dying out?"
    (my emphasis)
  16. Re:Far Side? on Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    I've seen a BOOK that dealt with this exact situation.

    We're Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizers and hairdressers. Neanderthal were the original organisms of the Earth computer. We fucked up the algorithm, and they died off.

  17. Re:Who cares! -Average Joes, i.e. Consumers on PS3 GPU Less Powerful Than GeForce 7800? · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I've got a Toshiba 19" TV...

    Got it in 2001 (whenever it was, it was *RIGHT* before the V-Chips came out), and the thing doesn't have any fscking A/V jacks!

    Not a bad TV, but no A/V jacks? WTF were they thinking?

  18. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    Still, there's reasons why the malware would WANT to run as LocalSystem instead of the current user.

    LocalSystem has higher privs than even Administrator. There's things that Windows keeps the admin from doing that would hose the system, guaranteed. Of course, the workaround is to run them as Scheduled Tasks or services, as those DO run as LocalSystem... so a user running as admin can elevate a task to LocalSystem if necessary, and a piece of malware running on an account running as admin can elevate itself to LocalSystem if it wants to.

  19. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    Opera (this is 8.0, but it's been in various places since at least 7.0):

    Tools>Delete Private Data...

    Then this (well, not with all the options) comes up... :P

  20. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    Unless the virus/trojan horse/spyware is running as LocalSystem or Administrator.

    LocalSystem MIGHT have ring 0 access, so the app MIGHT be able to read the contents as they're decrypted, but otherwise, it's not going to work.

  21. Re:Simple Games! on Technology That You Loved from the 70/80/90's? · · Score: 1

    that two person football game with the big track balls

    Atari Football?

    Myself, give me a good Battlezone game. Of course, I came after the time of arcades, but...

  22. Re:PDF? on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1

    Have you tried Foxit Reader, by chance?

    I no longer cringe at "http://somesite.com/reallyinterestingarticle.pdf" , due to Foxit's speed.

  23. Re:example on Examples of Obsolete File Formats? · · Score: 1

    Also, the opening Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets being easy...

    First, Lotus 1-2-3 itself survived until 2000.

    Second, Microsoft used the 1-2-3 format for the spreadsheet in the first version of MS Works. In fact, the MS Works spreadsheet format is to this day a fork of the 1-2-3 spreadsheet format.

  24. Re:example on Examples of Obsolete File Formats? · · Score: 1

    you could probably solve the problem with a few hours of hunting around on eBay for an old 68k Mac

    Or a few minutes of hunting around using Google for a copy of Basilisk II... I think there's even a Mac port...

    And, that's why the best backup format is .tar, possibly with gzip compression. What DOESN'T support gzip? And, GNU tar is GPLed...

  25. Re:Three Magic Words... on Examples of Obsolete File Formats? · · Score: 1

    Can't edit a PDF? WTF?

    http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/pe_intro.php

    'Nuff said.

    (Actually, try their reader out, as well. Basically, thanks to them, my *shit... that's a PDF* reflex is dying.)