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  1. Re:nVidia Drivers are not the issue on NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007 · · Score: 1

    I believe everybody's video drivers were pretty bad when Vista initially came out which was due to Microsoft making changes to the OS related to video and audio drivers. Funny how people forget so quickly about that specific part of the story. How would you like to start over on a video driver and get all the bugs worked out with in two months? It's realistically impossible.

  2. Re:Watchable in VLC on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    It seems I cannot get it to work with VideoLAN Client, something about RTSP doesn't work through NAT as far as I can tell by some google researching. Oh well.

    My NAT setup is basically a Linux 2.4.x kernel using iptables for NAT routing. :P

  3. Re:Interesting name... on Asteroid Mission Competition Announces Winner · · Score: 4, Informative

    That was actually Anubis in Fail Safe of season five.

  4. Re:IE Is Not A Web Browser on IE8 May Not Pass the Acid2 Test After All · · Score: 0, Troll

    And Lynx doesn't even try to lay the page out as the CSS demands.
    Why the fuck would a console web browser support CSS?
    Apparently in your fantasy world everything should support CSS even when isn't suppose to!
  5. Re:love the product, hate the name on Hackers Get Android Running on Real Hardware · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm off to the US patent and trademark office! Thanks for the idea. :)

  6. Re:But they cannot fix the isk farming problem? on EVE Online's First Quarterly Economics Report Published · · Score: 1

    For my alt to pick up large amount of items and then bring it back to me near low sec space which then I jump down to deep 0.0 where I base my operations. So, I really don't hang around those areas. :)

  7. Re:But they cannot fix the isk farming problem? on EVE Online's First Quarterly Economics Report Published · · Score: 2

    Not to mention spend any time in Jita or Amarr for more than 20 minutes you'll get eve-mail spam about sites to visit to buy ISK and it gets worse from there on (it does seem somebody has written a macro bot for this specific purpose).

    You would think by now that CCP would go through at least a method of detecting such spams by analyzing eve mails for content to flag accounts for further investigation, but then again this is CCP we're talking about after all. :)

  8. Re:The Ubuntu on Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to gentoo-wiki.com/MAN_hdparm -B is:
    Set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports it. A low value means aggressive power management and a high value means better performance. A value of 255 will disable apm on the drive.

    I would say blame the hard drive vendor.

  9. Re:GPS more accurate than radar? on GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case · · Score: 1

    GPS devices are only accurate when you are actually moving, it calculates the velocity by differences in position coordinates. If you are standing still then GPS devices will have a difficult time keeping track. Try this sometime, see how long it takes for your GPS device to get a lock on your location from a cold start from a standing still position and moving around (just walking around in your hands out side in the yard will do, but vehicle motion is much better).

    From the tests I've done standing still can take a while from 40 seconds (outside) to a good 15 minutes (in doors). Now if you're moving most GPS devices I've played with (for embedded hardware projects) will lock from 3 to 12 seconds easily.

  10. Re:That's a common racket -- not just EVE on EVE Online Endures Downtime Due to Breached Security · · Score: 1

    For the most part I agree with you. XBox live service is the same way and a bitch to get them to give you credits for months which you didn't use the XBox live service (my xbox 360 has been dead since April and didn't get fixed until the first of this month).

    As for EVE, I'm a customer of CCPs and I have for over a year not provided them with my CC (I did for the first few years, but suspended the account cause of cash problems) and have gone with getting time cards by paying with paypal instead.

  11. Re:So... on Bungie Explains Halo 3's Resolution · · Score: 1

    But on the back of Halo 3 it says "HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p" so surely they didn't lie to us ;)
    Also does anybody know what the "file sharing" online feature is suppose to be?

  12. All themes... on City Fights Blogger On Display of Public Information · · Score: 1

    All the CSS/Themes have been changed to this retarded crap, is this some kind of a joke?
    I've checked Linux, Games, Apple, and of course YRO sections, and all of them have this color problem in their respective CSS files.

  13. Re:Wait, they have McKay? on Crew Ends 100 Day Mars Simulation in Arctic · · Score: 1

    Would anybody notice another solar system missing? ;)

    For those who don't understand, see Stargate Atlantis: Season 2, Episode 6 "Trinity".

  14. References? on One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX · · Score: 1

    Got any references or links to various tutorials and/or documents on how I could setup my network to notify me about a rogue NIC?

  15. About the auto-mated whitelisting idea... on Hotmail vs Goodmail · · Score: 1

    About the idea of whitelisting based on subscribing through an email reply or what not (and forgetting about at times when the user confirms via a URL link) instead of restricting to a specific email server like so:
    "list-peacefire-confirm-481534893-sender=orders=am azon.com&senderip=72.21.203.1@mailserver.com"

    Why not leave it at your original format of:
    "list-peacefire-confirm-481534893-sender=bennett=p eacefire.org@mailserver.com"

    And have the receiving email service/network verify where the emails are coming from using SPF and/or similar ideas instead of specificially restricting to an IP address. Because after all we aren't guaranteed IP addresses for life. :)

  16. Re:In the words of the Terminator Gene on Terminator Gene Ban Suggested in Canada · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "I won't grow back" ?

  17. Corrupted Discs on Copying HD DVD, Blu-ray Discs May Become Legal · · Score: 1

    I have bought around 40 DVDs over the past six years and I have a few DVDs which are simply have corrupted or bad spots on them that you cannot visually see, but when you play the disc when it gets to a particular spot or some spots it confuses the DVD player and causes it to freez or even crash on some software DVD players. One such DVD is K-19 (has several bad spots) and another one that I can remember at this time is Beetlejuice.

    I have always wondered if it were possible to get a new / fully working DVD disc replacement from the movie distributors since they claim we have only licensed it, and it is their fault that their product is basically defective and we should have the right to get a replacement by law you would think.

  18. Produce Panic on Ron Gilbert Working on Penny Arcade Game · · Score: 1

    Produce Panic was a game a few years back that was about Penny Arcade's character fruit fucker 2000, link: http://www.garagegames.com/products/35/
    Not sure if it was the first game ever made about/related to penny arcade though.

  19. Re:Not very long... on Censoring a Number · · Score: 5, Funny

    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0? That's amazing! I've got the same IPv6 address on my luggage!

  20. Re:too many models and lines on Affordable DX10 - GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php is your friend. Allows you to select any ATI and nVidia card known and compare them side by side. Somebody back about four years ago here on slashdot pointed me in the right direction to that site and have been using it since. :)

  21. Re:stupid users on Oracle Linux Adopters Suffer Backlash · · Score: 1

    It's megabytes god damnit!
    No sane techie will use the bibyte crap!

    1 Kilobyte shall forever be 1024 bytes! :D
    Damn some standards organization for redefining kilobyte, etc. after decades useage..

  22. Re:Not only odd, probably illegal. on Borders Closes the Books on Amazon · · Score: 1

    Didn't companies like BellSouth in the south east of the states use to charge a Universal Recovery Fund (a tax) or some crap like that until half a year ago that they were pocketing?

  23. Ramen worm on 25 Percent of All Computers in a Botnet? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Like the ramen worm that effected most Redhat systems and then disabled the exploits it used? http://news.com.com/2009-1001-251311.html

  24. Re:My new year's resolution? on Resolutions for 2007? · · Score: 1

    1680x1050 @ 60Hz Dell 2007WFP. A nice christmas gift. :)

  25. GnuCash 2.0 on Managing Money With Linux Apps · · Score: 4, Informative

    It has been working out great from the start for me and I find it far more easier to use than commercial software packages like Quicken, Microsoft Money, and QuickBooks. No annoying or lame navigation, straight to the point which what I like about it best, not to mention the free part which helps too.

    I have been using GnuCash 2.0 since it came out quite a few months ago and enjoying it since for all my personal finance book keeping needs. :)