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  1. Re:Intel? on Darwin 8.0.1 Available · · Score: 1

    17 Minutes??!? Only 17 minutes to copy an entire Hard Disk Drive's data!!!! The speed! I need to get a copy for my 80286 Compaq Portable III!!! </CRAZYTHOUGHTS>

  2. Re:Thunking! on 32-bit to 64-bit - Obsolesence Pains Again? · · Score: 1

    I wonder, will you be able to thunk 16 bit directly from 64, or do you have to thunk a 32 bit thunker to thunk the 16 bit?

  3. USB-Serial Adapter on Linux Support on USB Palm Pilots? · · Score: 1

    Most of the USB Palms make use of an internal USB-Serial Adapter. Can you check for the adapter and then try again?

  4. Re:Perhaps a strange suggestion, but... on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1

    You could run a utility that changes the BSOD colors and set both the text and background to black, but that would be too hard....

  5. Re:Ha! on Homeless Wires? · · Score: 1

    No, some of us live at local gaming stores.... And the proper term is NERD not GEEK.

  6. Re:Discount on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1

    That's still more 'donated' than the cost to press one CD and a site license document.

  7. Re:Don't publically call your boss 'nuts' on How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? · · Score: 0

    And when you talk about the advice you received from slashdot, no one will notice that it is you?

  8. Don't publically call your boss 'nuts' on How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    DO NOT write anything like the following in a slashdot article: My boss has always been a bit nuts.

  9. Re:Challenge on Symantec Launches Anti-Spyware Beta · · Score: 1

    If these products succeed, we will have to endure many more years of windows.
    How do you figure?

  10. Re:Challenge on Symantec Launches Anti-Spyware Beta · · Score: 1

    Ummm... they do offer a combined package (pc) (mac).

  11. Maxima on Unix Graphing Programs? · · Score: 1

    http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
    Might be able to do bar graphs.

  12. Re:Interesting practical uses for Personal Cluster on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 1

    Forget Blender, How about Maya or Lightwave [screamernet] rendering?

  13. Re:The What Prize? on Wink Chosen to Receive Noble Piece Prize · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Trains are best for medium distances on High-Speed Trains in the US? · · Score: 1

    The flight is 1.5 hours, you need to show up over an hour earlier, and wait a half hour for your baggage; plus all that walking between terminals. The 3 hour train would be faster.

  15. Re:beating the dead horse on High-Speed Trains in the US? · · Score: 1

    Not with gas at a low of $2.00 per gallon for 87 octane

  16. Re:so what? on One-Third Of Companies Monitoring Email · · Score: 1

    Many ISPs block incoming port 80 connections. Also, your outgoing port number could be [and probably is] different from the port number you are connecting to.

  17. Re:"Unhackable Code"? - 2 things on Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code · · Score: 1

    It is not random, you just cannot know what it is. And, following, if you don't know what it is, you can't say that it's random, for all you know it could be perfectly sequential.

  18. Re:I've wondered as well on Free-to-Air Satellite Questions? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    They still broadcast it C band, the only difference is they are migrating to a DVB MPEG-2 signal. You can read about this on the NASA-TV website:
    The new Digital NASA TV will be on the same satellite (AMC 6) as current analog NASA TV, but on a different transponder (17). In Alaska and Hawaii, we'll be on AMC 7, Transponder 18.
  19. Re:I've wondered as well on Free-to-Air Satellite Questions? · · Score: 1

    NASA TV is nice, I haven't seen much other than that, as my highschool's reciever unit got taken out by lightning when I was a freshman. Also, if I remember correctly, you can watch alot of raw news feeds.

  20. Re:"Unhackable Code"? - 2 things on Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code · · Score: 0
    1. Nothing is truely random.
    2. Why can't I just monitor the 'data' lines?
  21. One on each? on Distributed DVD Back-up Solution? · · Score: 1

    Why not just run one disc on each machine?

  22. Re:Tigger on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 1

    No, this is T-I-single-guh-er; it has no relation to T-I-double-guh-er

  23. Re:So which is it? on Measuring Acceleration/Speed for Small Vehicles? · · Score: 1

    You can't figure speed out from acceleration? The OP said: you can figure one out from the other, not you can figure each one out from the other.

    </nitpick>

  24. Re:DON'Ts on Soldering For Non-Solderers? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only 30/45 watts? My 250 watt Weller works fine for small traces.

  25. Re:Let's think about this for a second... on Traffic Studied Using Computer-Linked Cars · · Score: 1

    You seem to be missing it, this device will tell you to go to a route that is currently faster, it will tell others to go there, until that route becomes slower than another, then switch to another route, and so on. This will make the slower routes faster [up to the average] and the faster routes slower [down to the average]. If you do not understand how converging functions work, go take a math class.