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  1. Sweat and tears on Just Add, Umm, Water · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wouldn't sweat and tears work if there was enough to rehydrate the pouch? They're both made of salt water. What about saliva?

  2. Thin client servers on Where are the High-Capacity SCSI Drives? · · Score: 1

    I would think that SCSI has been shifted toward thin client servers. Gigabit Ethernet is fast as it stands, but extra speed calls for faster drives and faster disk access.

  3. Re:Army can't do it? on Aerial Robotics Competition · · Score: 1

    Just because he's a robotics projects offer doesn't mean that he knows everything that goes on. It depends on security clearance levels.

  4. Re:You think that's bad? on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    How is this informative? The date at the top says 03-26-1998. But at the bottom is says,"Times-Union 1997". This has nothing to do with people being scammed on eBay. There's at least two alleged scammers out there that have scammed people out of tens of thousands of dollars. I'm not trying to troll, but I dare say that's more important that an off topic story that happened over six years ago.

  5. What's the point? on Stallman Pushes For Free BIOS · · Score: 0

    BIOS is dying. 64-bit systems don't have it anymore or won't have it for long if they do.

  6. It's aeon, not eon on Mars Had Surface Water for Eons · · Score: 0

    The correct spelling of the word is "aeon", not "eon". http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=aeon

  7. Xboing on What's Your Favorite Open Source Game? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's got to be by far one of the coolest break out games I've played. When you lose the ball it says,"Awww shit!"

  8. The neutron bomb on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's probably one of the least known of the existing nuclear arsenal, but it's also the cleanest, most efficient and deadliest. It destroys human flesh with neutron and gamma radiation while leaving cities and their power grids fully intact. And its radiation can penetrate armored structures and go deep into the ground. As far as I know, it's never been used or tested (on anyone). But unlike it's nuclear siblings, it's radiation decays quickly and doesn't cause a nuclear winter.

  9. Re:Web Standards on Getting Your Company to Migrate from IE? · · Score: 1

    The reason Bill Gates is rich is because he knows that the major of the market is grasping for straws. Throw that argument at your mom. Microsoft knows what most of its customers don't.

  10. They might be gathering it for Intel on Windows Update v5 Gathering Too Much Information? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Intel has the power to shape the hardware industry. If they want the floppy to disappear, they can make it happen. The information gathered can be used to give an idea of how much legacy hardware is still in use and it could be used to predict future demands in hardware. Take that as opposed to old motherboards and expansion cards sitting at the dump. If the user visits Windows Update, then it's know that the hardware is still in use.

  11. Disinformation Death Match on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    Best Buy vs CompUSA.

  12. I wouldn't say they're being hard-nosed on Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Alot of the errors they mentioned are typical for Friday the 13th films, where blood and guts reign and only the hardcore fans devote time to find the bloopers. One would expect better from a major action film.

  13. It's got to be the about the aliens on Military on Alert for Killer Coke Cans · · Score: 1

    The military doesn't want anyone opening a can of coke during an alien autopsy or experiment. The last time someone came out to give a prize, they were abducted.

  14. Defender and Frogger remakes on Videogame Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To be · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I liked the Defender remake for GameCube, but I'm also a hardcore Defender fan. The Defender remake holds so true to its original that unless you like shooting aliens and rescuing colonists all the time, you're going to get tired of it quick. In one way that preserves the game, but in another it limits it.

    Frogger's remake tried to do things a little differently, but there's only so much you can do with a jumping frog.

  15. A few bloopers I had on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I first used Linux several years ago, I was low on hard disk space. I was looking for a way to free up some more space. I went to user management and saw all these entries for "/" and the owner was "nobody". I thought,"Hey. I can free up space by wiping out these 63,000+ entries. I deleted it and then the system froze. I tried to reboot and just saw three asterisks. By that time, I had realized that I just deleted the mounting point for the root partition. Oops.

    Another time, I was changing a CMOS battery on a computer and pulled the metal clip that held the battery up a little too far. I put a new battery in and the piece broke off. CMOS couldn't be saved. Oops.

    The most recent thing that happened was at school earlier this year. As part of our Capstone project we had several OS's including Windows 2000 with domain controllers. One of the disks containing a DC wouldn't work. Like the other hard drives, it was in a drive bay. I decided to take it out and hook it up directly to the IDE controller on a motherboard. Other machines in the room were having problems, so I took the disk to another room. A member of my group went with me. I hooked it up and spark! The disk caught on fire! He said,"Shit we got a fire!". I held the power button in and the system shut down and the fire was contained. Needless to say, I had lost part of the project. The workstation wasn't damaged, fortunately. But I'll never use a Seagates hard drive again. And to add insult to injury, someone stole our hard drive that had Linux on it and I already had Windows 2000 Server DC's, IIS, Novell 6, Windows 2000 workstations, and Linux with Samba already talking to each other! Doh! The icing on the cake was the instructor saying we had the smoothest OS install he's seen. Everything worked first time around!

  16. The major difference on the server realm on Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Linux is a true multi-user OS. Windows NT and 2000/XP/2003 are not true multi-user systems. You have to run Terminal services or Citrix to get multi-user functionality.

    Also, Linux can behave as a true server node. Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 behaves as a hybrid node. It's both a workstation and a server. Linux can be run without a GUI. This consumes less resources and allows the system to be run simpler. Besides, a server is administered remotely. This makes a desktop seem silly and impractical. And Microsoft bundles alot of stuff that can't be uninstalled (i.e. Internet Explorer, outlook express, etc) without special tools.

  17. The government fell short in the long run on Appeals Court OKs Microsoft Antitrust Settlement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The government is notorious for being both sloppy with its networks and being computer illiterate. The prosecutor in the anti-trust case didn't even have an email address as of late 2000.
    There was an article by Scott Hacker called He who controls the boot loader. It mentions how the DOJ missed the real issue entirely.
    It wasn't web integration that did the damage. It was Microsoft classifying its boot loader as a trade secret that toppled competition.

  18. It's worse than I thought, Kyoto! on Midway Sues Ericsson Over Defender 'Tribute' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Memory: This is a GSA Comm-link transmission:
    Incoming message from Colonel Adams:
    The Manti have somehow invaded cellular phones!
    I just can't stand the idea of those cockroaches
    controlling my air time. Your mission is to rescue
    colonists that are using cellular phones before the
    buggers get to em.

    Adams out.

  19. Re:Cool! on Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP · · Score: 1

    If you use the -recurse switch, it'll look up the name. nslookup -recurse 66.35.250.150 Name: slashdot.org Address: 66.35.250.150 Aliases: 150.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa

  20. Re:Sure, the G5 is nice... on Industrial Design Excellence Awards 2004 · · Score: 1

    He's right. Both Firewire and USB measure speed in Megabits, not megabytes. That makes a huge difference.

  21. Here's a driver from Canon on Slow Printing on Linux? · · Score: 1

    But it's Canon in Japan http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/bj/bjlinux201.html#pa rmition It's the S500. It might work.

  22. Updates on Slow Printing on Linux? · · Score: 1

    Have you checked to see if there are any kernel updates from RedHat? That might be part of the issue, especially if it's USB. I'm guessing it's a driver issue.

    I know when I had RedHat, I had an issue with UDMA/66 not working on my VIA chipset. It was a 686A soutbridge and the driver didn't let UDMA transfer rates go beyond UDMA/33. I had to download a driver from VIA to compile into the kernel to get UDMA/66 transfers.

  23. Re:Monopolies create their own competition on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    They can't buy open source competition. I think open source has opened a whole new door in terms of economics.

  24. Monopolies create their own competition on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Monopolies, since they have no competition, drag their feet. They chug along at their own pace. But when they start having serious problems with their products, it's already too late. They have a cumbersome task of fixing them. The end result is customers seeking an alternative. Monopolies literally create their own competition due to negligence and lack of motivation. This holds true for Microsoft.

  25. 2000/XPlite on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Go to LitePC.com and try 2000/XPlite. It'll let your remove IE while retaining shared files such as shdocvw.dll.