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  1. Re:so what on Skype 5-way Calling Limit Cracked · · Score: 1

    Easy. Eliminate two of the others :) (j/k)

  2. FP on Comcast Accused of Blocking VoIP · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP :P (prolly not)

  3. Hi-Res on New WoW Map Uses Google Local API · · Score: 0, Troll

    Back in 1980 maybe this was hi-res but it is by no standard a hi-res image.

  4. Re:what a bunch of sleazeballs on Microsoft Sued Over Patent Infringements · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While you may consider it a bogus set of patents the good news your opinoin matters not. The patents have been issued and thus they have every legal right to defend them.

  5. Re:It's just cool on Xbox 360 Hardware Disassembled and Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Man i love your sig line. Good days...good memories :)

  6. I have BF2 and play alot on Review: Battlefield 2 · · Score: 1

    But i dont get what people are saying about it being unstable.... I mean i have a P4 2.4ghz and a gig a ram and an ATI9800PRO. No problems. Now i run in 800x600 to keep it fast due to my vid card is only 128mb but i dont have crashes i dont endup with a slow pc afterwards (when i switch to say play UO). Infact it loads and unloads very quickly. I dont have problems with memort leaks but some folks did evidently. Sounds like to me yall need to get cleaner machines and quit loading so much crap on them. My game system is just that dedicated to games and i dont load crap on it other than games. Its XP (which i dont like) but it is stable as hell. (its actually a dual boot win 2k / win xp). Really i mean i havent rebooted this machine since BF2 came out. So it would appear that it is more Hardware/other software related...and the fact that it has affected who clans of people doesnt mean it is their software. I for one usualy play at least 1 hour a day at BF2 and usually a lot more than that. :)

  7. Re:Role reversal on U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban · · Score: 1

    MORE IMPORTANTLY ...this time we have the nukes :) Bring it on leaf lovers :) (j/k)

  8. Re:big deal on Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains · · Score: 1

    Read the article linked to it and you will quickly see that there is a problem....you can be easily spoofed using IDN and could easily be fooled even when in SSL. RTFA!

  9. Um Big Banks on Ret. World Bank CTO on Desktop Linux TCO Facts · · Score: 1

    And large banking institutes (like the largest bank processing company in the country) right all their own software!!! EVERY BIT OF IT.

    Most of the software is written on older systems. Mainframes are still heavily used. You really need to get out and take a look around. They are not using .NET and those tools.

    Why do i know...well my wife works for the larget bank processing company in the USA.

  10. Re:It wouldn't have been thrown out on The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper · · Score: 1

    UM while you are correct in some fashion (about the estate)....you cannot be held liable if there is no estate. You cannot be held accountable for the crimes of your parent. (If you did not benefit from it).

  11. Re:Where does freevo fit in? on PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE · · Score: 1

    Well you didnt try Myth properly Get KnoppMyth and in under 20mins youll be running. Freevo....never got fully done...Myth is a fully robust package... Freevo doenst have nearly the options or hardware support of Myth.

  12. Re:DirecTV compatable? on PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE · · Score: 1

    Myth works with ANY video source period.....

  13. Re:Yup... on PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE · · Score: 2

    Come on people open the damned box! Get online and read (try dealdatabase.com for starters!) How in the world do you claim to read /., be a tech head, and not know that you can hack the CRAP outta a TIVO! I myself am a huge supporter of Tivo....I have bought quite a few of these lovely boxes :) I run 2 currently at the house alone!!! But Myth is a much more free system with none of the restrictions that Tivo has. Also there are no FEES like Tivo charges (even their lifetime service is not for a lifetime its for 5 years!!! read the fine print) And there is nothing inherently more stable about Tivo then Myth. Or have you never seen the Green Screen of death on a Tivo or experienced the power on/power off endless cycle they can get into. Its a computer just like Myth uses. Things will go wrong. At least i can get parts for my Myth....its expensive to get parts for a Tivo. And if you copying these shows to Video Tape...im gonna have to come slap you. Tape is not perminent media. Go to DVD. I can go through my PC or via the video out to a standalone PVR / DVD writer and the shows are mine forever. Myth doesnt require the jumping through hoops to export the streams. Myth is a better way to do it. Now 1 cavet .... DTIVO is great cause you dont lose any of the perfect quality. But your stuck with the tiresome exporting and converting to get it out of the DTIVO and into a PC. Again Myth does this so well its won me over!

  14. Re:MythTV on PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is IR controller module for Myth to control such devices. If you have Dtivo you can actually controll the Dtivo directly from the Myth system via ethernet (requires adding one to your Dtivo , but if you havent done this already...you must be beaten!!!) Anyways yes Myth can control this no problem. IF you have Sat reciever only then it is controlled via the IR module. Just like a lot of other equipment controlls it. Who the hell turns off their reciever to start with....turning it off at the switch doesnt turn it off even....the unit is still fully running just not output to screen so why bother. It appears you are grasping for any reason to say Myth is no good. But your points are not valid and are easily handled. It would be no great feat to wire the on/off switch on the sat receiver to be polled and controlled by the Myth box. :) Your gonna have to try a lot harder than that to defeat Myth!!!

  15. Re:cost? on PVR's Head-to-Head: MythTV vs. Microsoft MCE · · Score: 1

    I have a Dtivo, Tivo, and a Myth. The Dtivo is great the Tivo isnt bad and the Myth simply kicks ass. As for costs....the Dtivo is the most expensive then Myth with Tivo (standalone) being cheapest to get into but just as expensive as Myth over a 5 year period. So it would seem that the best way to handle this is do the Myth TV. I use a Pentium 3 and a Happauge PVR card with mpeg2 encoder built in hardware. All works rather nicely. The best part with Myth is that there arent any format Nazis lurking to keep you from doing whatever you want with what you record :)

  16. Re:this is why I got ReplayTV instead on Hollywood and NFL Fight TiVo · · Score: 1

    My tivo already does this...so no your replay isnt doing anything a TIVO doesnt already do. The fact that Tivo is adding it to the menu is just them using the developments the Tivocommunity has already added. Some of us have been doing this for several years now.

  17. Re:Yeah, TiVo sucks so does comcast but I like VoI on VoIP Questioned · · Score: 1

    I dont buy your Tivo problems. I have never had any of my Tivos plugged into ANY phone lines. Maybe you need to work on your Haxor skill set there buddy.

  18. Easily Handled on Auto Manufacturers Running Out Of Unique IDs · · Score: 1

    Just upgrade Vins to IPV6 and the problem is solved :)

  19. Re:This is bad for the university... on Physicist Loses Degree for Data Falsification · · Score: 1

    HE cheated and lied he deserves to be discredited as well as to have his PHD revoked. The same as if he cheated on his Thesis. You are not buying a degree by paying the $120,000 you are paying for the education. The Degree (PHD or otherwise) is the certificate that says you have achieved this knowledge and are adding to the fields knowledge. Lying would not constitute adding to the field of knowledge. Quit defending this SCUM...thats all he is. A Cheater and a Lair. As for comparing this to F1 racing....get FU(K!n real. Thats racing this is science.

  20. Re:get a new car company or get some smarts. on Automakers Try To Keep Repair Codes Secret · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, the law already allows you to keep your warranty and have the work done anyplace you like (say like having tune up s and oil changed). You are not required to go back to the car company and its doesnt invalidate your warranty. So that doesnt fly.

  21. Re:Need Yet Another Warning Label? on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 1

    You missed one that should be there. The University should also reserve the right to pull your degree years later when its discovered you paid someone else to get it, hacked the grade system and bumped your grades, or anything else you shouldnt be doing. Usual pranks and such are exempt but not cheating / lying /stealing!

  22. Re:The chairman should know on WiFi Signals In Between Television Frequencies · · Score: 1

    you must be new to /. RTFA is strickly forbidden :)

  23. Re:Electric? on Indian Voting Machines Compared with Diebold · · Score: 1

    They still do not PRODUCE (generate) electricity. The electricity was stored in the chemical form when they were charged. Thanks for playing though. See a battery is a capacitor of sorts. Check the definition. You will find that it doesnt matter how its stored its still stored. Now a solar cell generates electricity. Johnny tell our contestant what consolation prizes we have for him....

  24. Re:Electric? on Indian Voting Machines Compared with Diebold · · Score: 1

    You are correct sir....Batteries DO NOT PRODUCE electricty. Which is what you questioned. They infact discharge a stored charge, but they do not produce it. If only they did.

  25. test on Nicholas Petreley Slams Gnome · · Score: -1, Redundant

    testing to see if i can post yet