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  1. Could be worse on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    From the looks of the pictures it's simply shaken itself to pieces. Down here in Australia and New Zealand, Samsung top loaders have a bad reputation for catching fire and burning peoples houses down. Lastest Samsung Washing Machine Fires

  2. Re: Answers on Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS? · · Score: 1

    I was disturbed to find out one of my banks doesn't recognise case in its passwords. I put my password in with caps lock on and it worked. Tested a few combinations of upper and lower case all worked.

  3. Hand Trucks on Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network · · Score: 1

    Build all your workstations and servers onto racks made from hand trucks, you know the ones with 2 rubber wheels that you use to move fridges and the like. You can build little shelves etc onto them with places to hook all the various cables then when you need to move you simply unplug the cables and wheel them out the door. It's cheap and effective you don't need people tripping over themselves trying to carry heavy bit of a gear onto a truck. If the gear already has wheels on it it's much easier to move safely.

  4. Next Window on Creating a "Force Field" Invisible Touch Interface · · Score: 1

    Plenty of touch overlays for larger screens used this technology, I have a stack of overlays for 32" panels that use IR like this. A much better options would be something like Next Window Overlays http://www.nextwindow.com/ They use a pair of 1 dimesional ir cameras and a bar of ir lights to triangulate objects in their field of view so by placing the cameras in the top two corners of the screen and the ir leds between them you can have a simple bar rather than a square frame like this thing. Mount a bunch of them on the ceiling next to each other and you'd have instant 3D multitouch

  5. Generation G on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 1

    Google are clearly putting all their staff together so they can only socialise with each other, eventually pairing off and producing Generation G offspring

  6. Like is the only option on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There isn't an option to dislike

  7. Re:In the CAD World... on The Comparative Value of 2-D Vs. 3-D Graphics In Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    CAD people shouldn't mix metric and imperial measurements like that. Unless of course you work at NASA

  8. Dialog on China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch · · Score: 1

    The dialog could be from a training run or something similar, they do some pretty comprehensive training setups it's not inconceivable that the dialog from one of these could've been used as dummy text

  9. Re:Give it a day... on India's "$10 Laptop" To Cost $100 After All · · Score: 1

    Oooo an internet argument count me in. There was no 60 - 100MHz Pentium Pro's they started at 150Mhz it was the original Pentium that had the fault.

  10. Re:Run? on Computer Optional For AOC's New HD Display · · Score: 1

    It probably run an ESS ES6430 or something equivalent. These sorts of chips drive DVD players and similar devices. Usually they have a basic menu system capability and the ability to play the file formats listed

  11. Re:Nifty book on Linux Appliance Design · · Score: 1

    Actually a solution I've seen is using a PIC micro controller to translate the signals from the IR receiver send signals through to LIRC via serial or USB but when a power signal comes through switch the computer on via the Wake on Lan header on the motherboard

  12. Re:iTunes FairPlay Vs Qtrax DRM on EMI Launches Advertising-Supported P2P Service · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well given my recent troubles to decrypt an EMI copy protected CD i'm not sure where to go for music that I can listen to in the manner I choose.

    Seriously I use to pirate alot of music then I decided one day that it wasn't right and I should pay for the music I listen to. So I went out and purchased a couple of new CD's and I get rewarded with CD's that don't play in some CD players or as with the case with the last CD I bought, cannot play it on my computer or store the music on my computer. I can run the Macromedia player thing that comes with it but that it turns out is just playing .wma files hidden in a second session on the cd. It was one hell of a lot easier to simply download the music, why do I feel punished for trying to do the 'right' thing.

  13. Re:I Assume You Are Intending To Use an ILS? on Thin Client Solutions For Libraries? · · Score: 1

    Koha was developed originally for my local library... in a sleepy little town called Levin

  14. Hyperthreading? on Doom 3 Hardware Guide Debuts · · Score: 1

    does this mean P4's hyperthreading isn't supported?

  15. Screen on Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? · · Score: 1

    I Find screen to be a very useful tool Especially when working over a dialup connection.. if I get dropped I simply reconnect and reopen the screen I was working in

  16. Re:isolate on NIST Issues Windows XP Security Guide · · Score: 1

    This is true... I work at a local primary school and I've setup a Freesco dial up box and a gentoo machine with squid between the windows network and the freesco box... not one of the many worms etc made it through in the 2 years they have been running

  17. Re:SCSI DVD-R on Taiwanese Makers Will Squeeze DVD Recorder Prices · · Score: 1

    I don't quite see the benefit there.. Am I wrong in understanding that ATAPI performs well in long sequential transfers like burning a dvd or is there some other plus to using scsi for a device like this?

  18. Re:News Flash on FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Try to kill it? nobody should try to kill an operating system or any other piece of software If it still has a valid use then people will still use it.

  19. Re:Be Prepared to help the newbies... on Linux PVRs Highlighted · · Score: 1

    The Freevo mailing list has been excellent to me and many others. Often helping us with problems that don't really fall under the lists scope The only time I see anyone get called a newbie is when people do it to themselves in that sorry i'm a newb sorta way

  20. Re:Does this really apply? on Linux PVRs Highlighted · · Score: 1

    I'm using tv_grab_nz xmltv grabber with freevo and it seems to get 1,2,3 C4 and prime without too many hicups

  21. Re:quick - kill it! kill it! on Eight Years Of Apache · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The comparison chart on their website -> Last updated 12jul98. It'll take a little more than a 6 year old chart to convince me it's a superior webserver

  22. Yeah but on Freedom of Speech in Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can copyright a song.. but can you copyright the ideas behind how you made that song... I mean it's your idea etc but the basics of music aren't copyrightable. So why should we give people the right to own the ideas behind making software.

  23. Re:Hmmm, is it that complicated on Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1

    The Xserve with a G4 processor would use significantly less power than a comparable x86 solution... therefore the powersupply is probably under alot less stress.

  24. Re:Not a surprise on Novell To Cease NetWare Development? · · Score: 1

    These are indeed wonderful features but... How much do they cost? How much does it cost for training, Installation, Support, Can I fix it myself if it breaks or do I have to call Novell. I really do hope that the wonderful features justify the cost

  25. English eh... on Ricor PVRs To Hit Russia · · Score: 1

    Maybe my english is a little rusty but "delete or unable deleting" doesn't sound right to me. Shouldn't it be disable deleting of recordings