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  1. Re:NickJr on Introducing a Child to Constructive Computer Use? · · Score: 1

    If you email me ( slashback@tonsofpcs.com ), I may be convinced to looking through piles of diskettes for you :)

  2. Re:NickJr on Introducing a Child to Constructive Computer Use? · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to ReaderRabbit and MathBlaster???
    And even Super Muncher! **super muncher tune plays**

  3. Re:Oh really. on Lord British on Personal Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    Update: I dug through my piles of Apple II diskettes and found Ultima III. I will be playing it on a IIgs and/or a //c (depending on which room I decide to sit down in, I have one of each hooked up, see my username if you are still confused), and trying to get it to crash for the next week.

  4. Re:Oh really. on Lord British on Personal Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    Crashes on Ultima??? When? I have never seen an Apple II crash when a good diskette is inserted.

  5. Re:Did M$ invent the iPod? on Did Microsoft Invent The iPod? · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Did M$ invent the iPod? on Did Microsoft Invent The iPod? · · Score: 1

    When did 'Apple' invent the GUI?
    When did 'BSD' invent the TCP-IP stack?

    Last I checked, Apple was not the inventor of the GUI and BSD was not even from the right university for TCP-IP....

    You are the fool.

  7. Re:Why MD5 on Aussie Speed Cameras in Doubt Because of MD5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that is the point of the article. They take the picture, write it and a MD5 hash, then try saying that it is official because it has a matching MD5 hash. I can make any picture with a matching MD5 hash. Even this post can have a matching MD5 hash, does the MD5 hash prove that I wrote it?

  8. Re:I'll take hidden answer #4 on MS Seeks Entrance Fee to XBox Accessory Market · · Score: 1

    And for the ones you didn't cover, Sega Master System did first. One thing Nintendo did start [I don't think anyone else had done it prior] is the "Lockout" chip required in the game cartridges for them to work with the system (luckily TenGen found out that if they sent power down the right line, it disabled the lockout chip :)

  9. Re:Convert to RTF first on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, it is, since RTF is a text-based format where all the formatting is open and close tags, much like HTML. Save a word doc as rtf instead and open it in notepad, and you will see. There are many tools premade to convert from RTF to HTML, but you can build your own easily.

  10. Re:Macs, Analog, 2 Cameras? on Cheap Tapeless DV Capture? · · Score: 1

    My reply was just to counter this post's great-grandparent's suggestion of VHS and give more logical suggestions. Also, depending on how long you actually record, the DV deck solution is cheaper, as for additional time you need only have more tapes, not more $300+ Hard disk drive units, and will leave no gaps as you can hot-swap tapes with two recorders [on-camera and off-camera]; the cheaper HDD recorders cannot be hot swapped. Another camera does contain a deck, yes, but you would need to be sure that you have one that will record from an IEEE1394 input.

  11. Re:Macs, Analog, 2 Cameras? on Cheap Tapeless DV Capture? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A good quality VHS camcorder (like an old professional model)
    Since when is VHS professional?
    shoudl be able to tape for quite a long time and give you a great picture.
    In SP (the 'greatest' picture that VHS can produce), VHS still creates a lousy picture, and the largest preloaded tapes [for NTSC] are 180 minutes.
    Maybe even beta or VHS-C or 8mm or something.
    I hope you mean Betacam, not Betamax, although it is better than all the other options you have stated. Oh, and still not 2 hours of continuous...
    If you go out of the digital realm, you may have better luck. And there must be special VCR type things that can take those tapes and have FireWire to take the video off for you easily.
    Special VCR? How about just a DV deck or a Digital 8 deck....

    My other suggestion is more decidedly low tech: 2+ camcorders. Switch one on when the other is about to run out of tape.
    Or you could just connect a deck to a camera, and switch the deck on just before the camera runs out, take the tape out of the camera, then put a new tape in the camera just before the deck runs out.... I used to do this with 3/4" all the time, it works out well, as you have overlap to use for editing.

  12. Re:Wow.. step ahead? on Yahoo! Launches Audio Search Beta · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.altavista.com/audio/default has been around for quite some time. How is this an innovation?

  13. Re:BugMeNot on Stealing Data? A Sniffer Shows it's Easy · · Score: 1

    http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl e?AID=/20050731/ZNYT05/507310389/1002/Business or you can go to the local paper reprints [not local here, but it must be somewhere]...

  14. Gaming router?!? on FreeBSD Based Gaming Router · · Score: 1

    Wow! Finally! Just what I always wanted! A router that can play games!

    Oh, and why do they suggest a hub? That ruins the point of a good router. Get a switch.

  15. Annotating programs for automatic summary,,, on Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents · · Score: 1

    Annotating programs for automatic summary generations [Identifying when baseball is exciting]

    Audio/video programming content is made available to a receiver from a content provider, and meta data is made available to the receiver from a meta data provider. The meta data corresponds to the programming content...

    It's called closed/open captioning/teletext data/subtitling. It's exciting when the typist/stenographer cannot keep up with the real audio. It's not exciting otherwise.

  16. US Naval Observatory - Time Service Department on Time Syncing Through a Firewall Without NTP? · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Read Slashdot on Transferring Mail from AOL? · · Score: 1

    I remember the days when a 2mhz 6502 processor was pretty cool.
    What do you mean remember? 6502s are still cool! [Those new processors tend to get hot]
    Without the NES and the C64, and even the Atari VCS, we'd all still be on those pong machines!!

  18. Re:Panera... on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Panera prices were high enough [at least around here] in the first place to warrant the free service. If you would stop going there for 5 cents more on an item, you wouldn't have been going there in the first place.

  19. Amiga on Best TCP/IP Stack Implementation? · · Score: 1

    AmiTCP or Miami.

    Nothing like paying for your tcp/ip stack, 15 years after the company who made your computer went out of business.

  20. Re:Are you kidding me? on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    Ever hear of grep?

  21. Re:I'd put my money elsewhere on Cable Wants to Cut the Cord · · Score: 1

    It works for hotels with their similarly structured Super-NES games to your hotel room system [albeit an hourly rate more often than not].

  22. Re:Gilligans Space Station? on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    ... with Collins, the Pilot too, Camarda and Lawrence, the specialists, and the rest, are here on Collin's station.

  23. Re:FP? on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    L1.
    L2.
    L3.
    Need I go on?

  24. Re:Question of relativity... on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    The Earth moves towards me and stops as soon as my feet touch it.

  25. Re:Reverse Engineer one from the Aliens on NASA's Astronaut Glove Design Competition · · Score: 1

    Patent laws.