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  1. Re:Mirror on Squeak Group Buys Ship Naming Rights in Gaiman Novel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mirrordot only gets the page directly linked. Try http://web.archive.org/web/20040212091052/squeakla nd.org/ if you want to be able to browse the site.

  2. Re:Lunix on C=64 on Linux Coming to the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    Ok, now to try this LUnx thing out. I would report back when I'm done, but that probably won't be for a while.

  3. Re:Universal OS. on Linux Coming to the Nintendo DS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have yet to see either run on a TI calculator (z80 [82/83/84/85/86] or m68k [89, 92]). I don't think Linux runs on any Z80 [please correct me if I am wrong], so there goes my two TRS-80s (one model 3, one CoCo), and also my two Sharp 1500s (one 1500A, one 1500; these are the same as the TRS-80 PC-2s)

  4. Digital (or Analog) PLs on How to Protect Radio Signals Over Short Distances? · · Score: 1

    Digitally Controlled Squelch using PLs
    Basically a signal broadcast at the same time as the communication signal that opens the squelch up on the receievers. This is what most Police/Fire/Safety Departments use on their radios. You may also try using a (Digitally) Trunked System.

    How PL Systems Work
    What is Trunking?

  5. Re:Would be nice for public transportation! on Google Ride Finder Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this just follow the schedule and add a bit to appease you? or does this actually track the busses and calculate in real time based upon the driver's habbits, road conditions, speed, etc. how long it will take to get there?

  6. Re:Adult Movies? on Your Face On the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    INFORMATIVE != FUNNY!!! Please, mod it funny if you want, but its blatent information! Plenty of compositing software can do this. Bauhaus's Mirage can work like an animated version of photoshop. AfterFX can position elements [face?!] heck, even Jasc's Animation Shop can do it [with enough patience and annoying swapping out to PSP for every frame, then closing PSP to get back, then reopening...].

  7. Re:One Word on AU Regulations on LAN Cabling? · · Score: 1

    You still need to somehow interface it to something that is not wireless, that generally involves wire, still requiring this (albeit outrageous) permit.

  8. Re:Who paid them off? on AU Regulations on LAN Cabling? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but low current.

  9. Re:Sounds like Pro-Union Legislation on AU Regulations on LAN Cabling? · · Score: 1

    Go wireless -- How does the wireless hook to anything else? WIRE!!

  10. Re:Adult Movies? on Your Face On the Big Screen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yea, but you can do that with some nice compositing software anyway. :)

  11. Re:Bermuda on Underwater Robot to Re-Cross Gulf Stream · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, thats Number Two. Alien Abductor Rule Number One is really: If you don't know what it is, shove stuff up its posterior and come back to cut it open later.

  12. Re:However...they ARE claiming copyright. on SCO Website Using Groklaw's Content · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, thats just if you take someone else's IP and use it without license, without claiming it to be your own. Plagiarism is taking someone else's IP and claiming that it is yours.

  13. Re:It's worth noting... on Kid Named After Everquest Character · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is, /pizza works in Firefox also...

  14. Re:However...they ARE claiming copyright. on SCO Website Using Groklaw's Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thats called plagiarism.

  15. CASH on Recommendations for Website Payment Systems? · · Score: 1

    Have them all give you cash, in hand, and you must meet them and decide if they are worthy of the product, ensure that you only have good customers, and you get more in-touch with them. Of course, this is crazy, but it is very secure if you have an array of body guards [or a beowulf cluster of them].

  16. Re:use any old thing on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1

    Yes, this type of video should always be terminated 75 Ohm, not 52, unless of course you worked with the engineers to design that specific piece of equipment and decided to throw away all the standards and use 52 Ohm just for your own version [then you have problems with hooking it to your tv, etc]. Also note, TNC Networks [BNC and TNC connectors are the same] use(d) 50 Ohm.

  17. Wallpaper on CD Storage Advice? · · Score: 1

    Yes, Wallpaper to hold your CDs.
    Even your door can hold some!

  18. Re:I don't know what's sadder... on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 2, Informative

    Cosmic Voyage talks about string theory.
    Galápagos talks about evolution.
    Not sure about Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, but its probably about evolution as well.

  19. Article Link [No Need to Register] on Growth of Wi-Fi Opens New Path for Thieves · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:Uh oh indeed! on Google Launches Google Code · · Score: 1

    The site http://googledot.org/ reads: Googledot! News about google. Stuff that googles.

  21. Re:Pan wheel... on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    Why? Some film formats have the audio stored on the side of the film in an optical format that is converted back to audio on playback in order to keep it in sync with the visuals.

  22. Pansonic P2 on High-Capacity PCMCIA Drives for Backup? · · Score: 1

    Last year at NAB, Panasonic showed off its new 'P2' camera system which records on what seem to be PCMCIA cards. From what I remember, they planned to have 32 or 64 GB drives when they finally release the full product (September 2006 according to this article).

  23. Been there, Read that on Colorizing Images and Video by Scribbling · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Read about it earlier this week, it looks cool, colorization looks nice, but with so few samples its hard to tell if it will work with a wide range of inputs, or only ones with contrast ratios like those shown.

  24. Re:The Tandy COCO Guy! on Software Engineering Demo for a K-5 Career Fair? · · Score: 1

    Actually one of the two 'demo' disks that came with some of the Apple II computers included a interactive demo of Apple Logo that teaches very well. Get an Apple //C (with that little monitor) and the disk, or just an emulator on a notebook (make sure to put stickers on the keys that are changed so the kids aren't too confused).

  25. Noise/interference on Japanese Firms Claim 170Mb/s Service Via Powerline · · Score: 1

    I have three major concerns with this.
    1: Noise between your network and your neighbor's network that are both on power lines coming from the same transformer on the pole, with no transformer inbetween. 2: Noise on the mains from the network equipment interferes with your power-level sensitive equipment. 3: Noise on the mains from equipment (possibly malfunctioning) on the mains that interferes with the network equipment.