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  1. Re:Great name on Canada-Wide Wireless Broadband Network Planned · · Score: 1

    Inuk is one sylable. It means person in Inuktitut.

  2. Re:lego pron on Lego Welcomes Hack Of Their Design Program · · Score: 4, Insightful
  3. Where do I get this? on Lego Welcomes Hack Of Their Design Program · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All they seem to carry around here are the sets that only make one thing and have lots of specialized, only-one-way-to-use-it parts. No more big box of Dacta gears, shafts, beams, etc. Great for 7 year olds who want to make a pirate ship; not so good for adults who want to make a robot/cd changer/whatever.

  4. Re:Chair on Ultimate Software Developer Setup? · · Score: 1
  5. Re:IDE on Ultimate Software Developer Setup? · · Score: 1

    Why all the sarcasm? Remember, not every "professional sofware engineer" is trying to solve the same problem.

  6. Re:To coin a phrase... on Hilton Hacker Gets 11 Months · · Score: 1

    It's amazing what happens when you use the police force intended to prevent political assasinations to investigate property crimes.

  7. Re:Still no encryption? on Yahoo To Update Mail Service · · Score: 1

    They can still read it.





    (Unless you take the computer home every night and they never have physical access to it.)

  8. Re:No plaintext protocols for login, please on Yahoo To Update Mail Service · · Score: 1

    Because your mail is still unencrypted on their disk and when travelling between servers.

    If you want confidentiality, authentication, and non-repudiation, use GPG and a host based email client. If you want a throw away account for signing up to web forums and personals sites, use webmail services.

    (But I think they should be using TLS for the login stage of webmail services)

  9. Re:Still no encryption? on Yahoo To Update Mail Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you want worthwhile encryption on your email, use a host based email client that supports GPG. If your email is open to the world as it flies between servers and sits in their caches and spools, it doesn't really matter if it's open to the world as it flies between you and your webmail host.

  10. Re:Over-under... on Rickford Grant Interview · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whose desktop?

  11. Costco Edition on Dvorak on Microsoft Confusing the Market · · Score: 1

    Same price, but comes in a much bigger box.

  12. Re:Does it... on Cinelerra 2.0 Released · · Score: 1
    Does it rip my DVD's to DIVX?
    No. It's a video editor.
  13. Re:Camera support in linux on Cinelerra 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes you need drivers. No, it's not a hassle. If you have a recent distribution and a IEEE 1394 (Firewire) DV camera the driver should load automatically. The drivers should already be provided by your distribution (all the cameras use the same driver).

  14. Re:Keyboard specific? on Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking · · Score: 1

    I for one have a weird typing pattern, because my right hand won't turn completely palm down (injured in a traffic accident). so I type with my whole left hand and two fingers of my right.

  15. Re:No, that's incorrect on Refugee Radio Station Blocked by Red Tape · · Score: 2, Interesting
    They're cheap enough that someone could buy a thousand of them and distribute them to everyone in the Astrodome.

    s/could/did/

  16. Re:Not BSE at McD's on Ready For the Big Mac Virus? · · Score: 4, Informative
    IIRC prions are the predecessors of viruses.

    Not even close. Prions are non-functional isomers of protiens that can catalyse their functional form of the same protein into the prion form.

    Viruses are packets of genetic material and enzymes that instruct the host cell's mechanisms to replicate the virus.

    Prions are so much simpler than viruses that there's probably no link. Remember, Michael Crichton is a fiction author.

  17. Re:Not BSE at McD's on Ready For the Big Mac Virus? · · Score: 4, Informative

    BSE is a prion disease, not a virus.

  18. Re:84 pounds to power devices? on New Twist on Power Walking · · Score: 1
    ...HEAVY... 90kg pack... range gets shorter...walk more efficiently...

    Dare I suggest... bicycles?

  19. Courier! on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    Not just IMAP, but the whole shebang (MTA, webmail, POP3, IMAP, mailinglists, etc), plus you'd want OpenLDAP for storing all those passwords. I'm not sure how to set it up redundant and distributed, etc, but I'd wager that someone at the courier-mta website could point you in the right direction.

  20. Re:Small companies? on Cisco Flaw Opens Routers to Attack · · Score: 1

    Any internet connected device with a vulnerability is a hacker target. At the least a rooted router can be used to hide the true source of attacks against more interesting targets. A router is much preferable to a desktop for this purpose as it's already designed to do this. Also a router is likely to have a fast, stable connection.

  21. Re:happy hacking keyboard on Das Keyboard: Hit Any Key · · Score: 1

    Black IBM Rapidaccess III USB Keyboard rocks my world... slightly narrower form factor makeing the numeric keypad closer, quick launch buttons, and a USB hub. Pair it with a Logitech Marble mouse USB (actually an ambidextrous trackball) under your left hand, and your input devices are centred and require little unnesecary movement.

  22. Re:Size soon not being an issue on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1
    And my photos really suck.

    But they suck with lots of detail.

  23. Re:I want faster drives, not bigger ones. on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I want really big storage that will never fail, and speed is not important, so long as it's not worse than reading from a DVD. So there you go, not everyone has the same wants and needs.

  24. Re:Size soon not being an issue on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1
    I would love a 8x10 film format but the print enlarger + lens is too much $$ and it's HUGE.

    Contact Print & scan your print, then make inkjet prints or poster prints at a commercial printer?

  25. Re:Size soon not being an issue on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 0, Redundant
    How many "everyday" users are using medium or large format camera equipment, have a film scanner that can even scan medium and large format.

    I encourage you to visit any medium or large city photography club. You'll probably meet quite a few.