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  1. Re:Cost inefficient? on DVD / Hard Drive Recorder With 28-Day Capacity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    User-friendly to set up, silent, attractive. Price notwithstanding, this is an option to most consumers, most of whom have never even heard of Windows Media Center. For you, though, if your computer isn't deafening, keep what you've got.

  2. Re:He's [not necessarily] wrong. on Ballmer on Linux · · Score: 1

    What percentage of Apache servers and IIS servers are attacked (successfully or not)? I don't know... most defacements go unreported. But there are more Apache servers (see Netcraft, and Apache servers *are* frequently attacked and compromised by skript kiddies.

  3. Power != PowerPC on Solaris Coming to IBM's Power Architecture? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think PowerPC is code compatible with IBM POWER RISC. They are similar, but PowerPC was a joint project with Motorola.

  4. Re:What's next? on Meta-tag Spam Declared Illegal in Germany · · Score: 1

    You might try Flashblock for Mozilla/Netscape7/Firefox. I love it.

  5. Re:Anyone see the MPG? on Ford Launches First American Hybrid · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've read elsewhere that it's in the 35mpg highway ballpark. here is an article stating they got anywhere from 39 to 60.

  6. Re: Push to talk on New Phone Uses WLAN or Cel Networks · · Score: 1

    "push to talk" refers to stateless walkie-talkie style communication, like Nextel does. It doesn't mean you have to push a button to speak in telephone mode -- it just means you can use your phone to do point-to-point packet communication, in addition to the traditional dial/ring/answer/connect modality.

  7. Re:Curious on Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users · · Score: 1

    It's an option, but it's not a good one. That's why I put it last.

  8. Re:Curious on Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users · · Score: 1
    If you don't have a login on that SMTP server, you are a presumed-hostile guest on their network. Use webmail as your backup then, and nag your home-domain admin to put in SSL access to your own mailbox if you want it.

    That is touchy, though, if your ISP doesn't allow outgoing SMTP to any other mailserver. 3 options:

    put in an SPF record for your ISP mailhost

    ask/pay for the privelidge of having SMTP outgoing permitted to your domain host's server

    take your business elsewhere that doesn't block outgoing SMTP

  9. entropy vs. inertia on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1
    A bit pedantic, but I'd like to clarify that entropy is synonymous with chaos or randomness. I think the term closer to what you meant is "inertia".

    entropy

    inertia

  10. Some things are not hot-swappable. on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    I was working on EISA cards (remember those?) in a fancy dual-processor server, and was having trouble with the one ISA card it needed. I pulled one of the expensive network cards, and then turned back and realized the power switch was still on. Oops.

    At least the manufacturer was good about replacing the motherboard under warranty, which I had fried, and it was a new server so it didn't need to go back into production right away.

  11. Teens drinking coffee? on Setting Up Mac OS X for a Teenage Coffeehouse? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I know what Starbucks' answer would be, but do we really need younger coffee drinkers already? Guess it's better than smoking. Not much cheaper though.

    I'd hazard a guess this isn't an LDS (Mormon) cafe.

  12. GPG: enigmail on Firefox/Thunderbird Plugins: Is Less More? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use it myself, and the Enigmail plugin works great once its configured. Unfortunately, making the Win32 port of GPG work with your keys is a bit of an ordeal, but it's mostly just the learning curve of GPG itself.

    link for the lazy (and slashdotting).

  13. beavers with handguns on Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those are here in Oregon. Anyone can get a concealed-carry license!

  14. Huh? make up your mind. on Rambus Files Antitrust Suit Against Memory Makers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They blame a conspiracy to raise prices, and then they say chipmakers didn't want to pay Rambus licensing. You can't have it both ways... it's obviously your own fault if your licensing is too expensive.

  15. Has thin-client computing come of age? on Will Novell Adopt The LTSP Project? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's been hyped since the mid-90's, but thin clients have never really caught on in the corporate environment. Why is that? Perhaps the low cost and ubiquity of [GNU/]Linux can give the adoption of thin clients a much needed boost.

  16. Re:Do we really need more blogging? on Turn Your PC into a 'Moblogger' · · Score: 1

    True, the forum hits can be useful. It would be nice if google had an "exclude forums" or "exclude blogs" advanced search option, though.

    Yes, my post was highly ironic. It just seems to me that the noise-to-entertainment/information value in blogs is higher than most of the web. There are some excellent exceptions, to be sure.

  17. Do we really need more blogging? on Turn Your PC into a 'Moblogger' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, I think there is too much stuff put on the web just because people can. Blogs are mostly narcissistic rantings, with no regard to what purpose they serve. I'm getting tired of googling for something, only to turn up a useless blog or forum discussion.

  18. Re:me! me! on AutoZone Responds To SCO · · Score: 1

    All your code base are belong to us. We are on the way to destruction.

  19. Re:Bitrot on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom · · Score: 1

    Duh, I just realized my faux pas. The parent already established that both backups and checksums would be used. However, you must checksum and test both the original and the backup regularly, or else both could bitrot such that there was no valid backup to restore from.

  20. Re:Bitrot on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom · · Score: 1

    Sure you can check for corruption with checksums and whatnot, but once you've discovered it, it's too late. You must make backups, and bitwise compare them. Checksumming is also necessary, so that you can tell which one is good when they don't match.

  21. Re:Solar powered? on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here in Portland, OR, where it rains almost as much, we have quite a few of them (solar powered), and they work fine even on cloudy winter days.

  22. CF + Camera? on Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't know of a recent camera that uses CompactFlash. Heck, few cameras even use SmartMedia anymore... it's down to SD/MMC, xD, and MemoryStick.

  23. Re:Getting it home on For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine · · Score: 1

    Actually, Discovery Channel (USA) programs have said that boring machines are usually built on site and abandoned off to the side of the tunnel, because it's so much expense to get them out. They could give most of them away and not get any takers, supposedly.

  24. Re:aren't the units registered? on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 1

    Seriously, they know all that anyway.

  25. old school on Mobile Wifi Backpack · · Score: 1

    So, how's that 20-column Vic20 treating you?