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  1. Re:Silver Gold on Best CD or DVD Recordable Media for Longevity? · · Score: 1

    I think it was because the silver surface reflects more light.
    Was probably on dvdrhelp or something, can't remember thought. Back in the days I also expected gold to be better than silver. Read this only a few weeks ago.

  2. Silver Gold on Best CD or DVD Recordable Media for Longevity? · · Score: 1

    I've read that Silver is better than Gold. I guess one just expect gold to be better.

  3. Re:Verbatim on Best CD or DVD Recordable Media for Longevity? · · Score: 1

    I know "AZO" is advertised as more safe than some other organic dyes, if it's the best for real and how much better I don't know, and there are more brands which use it.

  4. Raid and ZFS on Best CD or DVD Recordable Media for Longevity? · · Score: 1

    I don't know but now when SUN has delivered ZFS wouldn't regular harddrives in a raid setup with ZFS be close to optimal? All data is protected with a 256bit checksum and gets fixed if the system finds an error.

    Only problem is if the whole system dies (that is if it's always connected and something like the lightning struck or the place burns down and so on), I guess you could send everything over to another machine somewhere else to.

    So two separated Solaris machines with atleast 2 harddrives and zfs will do, I guess :)

  5. Re:Apple left IBM for a reason on Walk-Ins Get 360 In April? · · Score: 1

    Apple MADE the low availability themself, of course IBM would have made loads of cpus for Apple if they wanted to have them. But obviously Apple only took the risk for a few but still wanted to be able to have more very fast if needed....

  6. Re:Surely, you jest. Whatevah. on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 1

    The reason I didn't run Solaris earlier was that it costed money, but that one is gone. I don't mind that much if it's free or not, I won't look in the code anyway, but even if I did it (more or less) will be free anyway so that's not a reason either. Only intresting question if it's better for my usage or not.

  7. You know what? on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 1

    Just run Solaris and you'll get support, simple as that, I'm told it's cheaper than RedHat to.

  8. What should really make them feel threatened is... on Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses · · Score: 1

    ... if they thought about google going into selling gods on the Internet.

  9. Re:OK, fine on Glide Effortless to Compete in File Sharing Market · · Score: 1

    No, that's probably non-copyrighted music since the work has to reach a certain level or artism, or haven't it? (i'm not sure, but most music is so crappy it should be free.)

  10. Re:Why? on Debian GNU/Solaris · · Score: 1

    Still compared to what Debian has it's kind of.. lame.

  11. Re:Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy on Singing Mice and Brain Chemistry · · Score: 1

    but they had change the pitch 16x? so the sounds aren't the same as they would be if it actually was a mouse, and if you raised it i guess your speakers and soundcard wouldn't handle it (only maybe on that one)

  12. Re:A bunch of URLs... on First Step In DS Wifi Challenge Complete · · Score: 1

    M3 was here btw: m3adapter.

  13. A bunch of URLs... on First Step In DS Wifi Challenge Complete · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some random urls:
    teh skeen
    ds dev
    supercard (can't find the M3 and G6 pages longer)
    wifime
    some info about m3
    Emulators for NDS
    whatever

  14. Re:The price. on The Revolution Will Be Globalized · · Score: 1

    Or the PS1 was a better product than the N64.

    I had an XBOX a long time ago which I sold and i recently got myself a Gamecube thought. The XBOX was boring, paper mario is fun.

  15. Re:And people complain about... on The PS2 Five Years Later · · Score: 2, Informative

    uhm, but 6 years later...

    The price isn't that important thought, the games and add-ons is the expensive stuff.

  16. Re:Too bad the installation is failing for people. on Quake 4 Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, but atleast you can rest sure noone will STEAL (copy..) it!

    Or wait...

    Seriously, why do they use their stupid copy protection mecanism? Have they ever worked? Quake4 was cracked within a day so what is the use for it? I guess the best alternative is to make it the Blizzard way requireing a valid key to connect to their game servers, and if you play their games you will want to.

  17. Re:marine life? on Sonic Torpedo Defense · · Score: 1

    I guess what I wanted to say is something like torpedos aren't fired and ship doesn't sick because of accidents, they do that because it's war and "they are supposed to", if someone come up with a solution to save the ship someone else will try to figure out a way to sink it.

    In any case it just seems weird to say it's because you care about the environment since not going to war is what would make the real difference. What you do is saveing your ship :)

  18. Re:marine life? on Sonic Torpedo Defense · · Score: 1

    A much simplier solution would be to not shot torpedes at the ship.

  19. Re:Development software.. on 30 Day PSP Coding Contest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember you've got distributors and retail stores atop of that to thought.

  20. Re:Development software.. on 30 Day PSP Coding Contest · · Score: 1

    An emulator running on the PSP and an emulator which runs PSP code isn't the same thing. He where talking about the PSP-emulator as in the emulator which emulates PSP program.

  21. Re:Dual format players will become the norm on Why Microsoft Hates Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Blu-Ray technology are to expensive, let's use both! :D

  22. Re:Nintendo on Why Microsoft Hates Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    "Either stop being evil, or fuck off and die!"
    I think Microsoft is quite good at fulfulling the last part for their current generation console.

  23. Re:Nintendo on Why Microsoft Hates Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Of course they will.

    Good enough hardware (How many will notice the difference? How many will care?)
    Low price. (Much larger market for a $200 console.)
    Innovative controll.
    Better games. (It's all about game quality.)
    Lower development costs. (Nintendo actually make money of what they are doing.)
    Less time spent on bullshit.
    Emulation of their old game library.

    The revolution will rock, first console to beat the NES in sales?
    Also think of what will happen if they manage to get THE release title for it. I've read Super Mario Bros sold 40 million copies in the US(?, or "America") alone.

  24. Re:How does this help ? on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked · · Score: 1

    They had a good point, I welcome it.

  25. Re:How fucking intresting on MIT Unveils Prototype for $100 Linux Laptop · · Score: 1

    no.