User: Storebj0rn

One word: Microwave

On: Paper Capable Of Playing Videos Developed

How does this ink react to magnetrons? My guess/hope is that it will expand, so you'll have the caviar effect (no, the harddisk, the stuff you eat)...

Even better when you put it on all consumer goods packing, sooner or later some kid will go: "Hey Mom, look I've painted the microwave"

Re:Now *that* is one ugly aircraft

On: Supersonic Flight Without The Sonic Boom

I thought it looked like a whale of some sort. I guess Darwin still knows fluid dynamics better than the rest of us.

Re:No blame for MS? - What about Dell?!

On: Blaster Writer Caught

I just helped a friend of mine setting up her new Inspiron 8500 yesterday, and while connecting the thing to the net, suddenly Blaster kicks in.

Now, Dell shipped this machine to her in August, preinstalled with XP - without this patch.

In my book, that's irresponsible.

They could at least have shipped it with a warning explaining that the first thing to do was visit the Microsoft site to get the patch.

(On another note, the pre-installed norton antivirus was from February (!) 2003... Apparently 9 megs(!) of updates(on a POTS line...yawn!) had to be downloaded...

Pessimists

On: Reviving A Dead Hard Drive The Hard Way

Blessed are the pessemists, for they have made backups

A true pessimis knows that the backup tape robot also will fail.