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  1. Re:Fools! on 3G Waves Causes Headaches, Sharpens Memory · · Score: 1

    We are still laughing but now it is because all of the little blue sparks flying around your tilfoil beanie.

  2. I liked this link on Build Your Own Segway · · Score: 1

    I liked this link on his site.
    Toward a metric America. That is funny for so many reasons.

  3. The dark spots, on Ion Engine Propels Probe to Moon · · Score: 1

    We all know what hides in the dark spots that they wish to explore and that no picture of what is lurking in the darkness ever will make it back to earth.
    So all we can do is wait for the message that they have lost contact with the spacecraft..
    ..I have not watched too many movies...

  4. Re:Interesting that he mentioned the '486 :) on The Weak Signal Challenge - Decode and Win $100 · · Score: 1

    For some reason, I still find it funny to pull out my Pentium 75mhz motherboard with 64mb ram, place it on a phonebook on the livinroom table, put a network card, vga card and a 512mb HD and then install FreeBSD. hmm

  5. Re:EGAD ... HE DOUBLED HIS KARMA on 2.6 Ton Pinball Machine · · Score: 1

    Uh karma, bah! scew karma!

  6. Re:Remove the scurge from your webpages too on Microsoft Wins Summary Judgement in Smart Tag Case · · Score: 1

    naah, I just think I will let the websurfing expirence be a very confusing matter to the poor first-time PC owner who has no concept of whats going on.

  7. Re:Another bandwidth hog... on ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping · · Score: 1

    I don't know, when I play BF1942 on a 64 player server, my MRTG hovers around 12-17 kilobytes pr second. Bit I have also told the game that I have a high bandwith connection, I don't know if that makes any difference.

  8. Re:NAT & firewall on End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death · · Score: 1

    :D I know, my workstation is not, however, the machines I administer is.
    What I was meaning to say that I was not one of the Windows admins running around with a wild and tired look on their face because tons of PCs and servers got infected. I just migrated to the terminal room next to the server room where I could work with the machines.

  9. Re:NAT & firewall on End Of the Line for SpeakFreely: NATed to Death · · Score: 1

    Yes, but depending where you live it can be hard to convince the man(in my case RIPE) that you really need 1000+ IP's. And even when you get it, it's not free. and I would say that for the average company, using NAT is really not a problem.

    Besides from the IP telephony is very much alive where I work but as hardware boxes, where each branch office has a leased line for network connectivity. These lines also carries telephone lines. Which is why when we got hit by the latest work, our internal phone network also went down with the overload on the routers. I am happy to say that I work with UNIX my Debian desktop was running fine. Sadly that didn't help much with a overloaded network. :)

  10. Get the latest version of BIND on ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get the latest version of BIND to block that Verisign junk. go here
    Now all it needs is support for the Evil-Bit in TCP/IP

  11. Re:I'm as stumped as my girlfriend usually is on Telstar 4 is Down · · Score: 1

    no no no, it's the latest remix of the song Telstar.
    ...I think.

  12. Footprint on Telstar 4 is Down · · Score: 1

    When looking at the Loral Skynet pages, I think that it is amazing to see the footprint of those satellites, like Telstar 12 that covers Europe to north America(Atlanta).

  13. Re:Mo Money! Mo Money! Mo Money! on Windows ATMs by 2005 · · Score: 1

    Well, why did banks, and ATMs have problems when the internet has? Under the last worm attack which caused problems for many companies and internet connections, it was reported that it caused problems for ATMs as well.

    I don't have any personal knowledge of how they work, but I have heard that not all ATMs are on a leased(private) line, and that the type of connection they get, depends on the expected volume of transactions. That does indicate to me that the cost of security and stability are weighted against the expected transactions(and income).
    Besides from that I have seen a windows bluescreen on a ATM machine, although I can't remember which brand.

  14. but? on Final Fantasy X-2 North American Preview · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who wears short shorts?

    Great, if you was not 100% sure the site would get /., just mention "girls,,, short shorts".

  15. Re:And in Soviet Russia... on Nmap Gets Version Detection · · Score: -1, Troll

    BAH! *NMAP is dead!
    A crip,,,,
    naah

  16. Re:Not calvin on Ford To Move To Linux · · Score: 1

    They are similear, but different enough to not infringe. A little legally trickery mostly, but they are not Calvin and should not be thought of that way.
    That does not compute,
    SYNTAX ERROR!
    So.. .. . they should thought of that way after all I guess.

    Oh well, I know what you mean.

  17. Re:The missing bit on Homemade Silly Putty · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the symbol was used in many old cultures before the Nazis adopted. Had many differnet meanings depending on where in the world you were. So I have always strange that the adopted it, since many of its(original) meanings must have conflicted with them

  18. Oh no. on Nokia Shows Off Phone with Printable Faceplate · · Score: 1

    Give me a phone that works with my email and calendar. I have tried the Sony ericsson, but it froze a couple of times, which were unacceptable since it was when it was lying idle on my desk or in the middle of the night, when I was on call duty.
    So I swithed to a Nokia phone with Bluetooth and the it is great that the phone just needs to be near my pc in the office for me to sync it with Notes. But the sync. of the phone is too annoying when you have tried a PDA. It's not a one touch update like my Palm was(press the update in the cradle), I first have to connect the serial via bluetooth, then start the Nokia program, press sync, then choose not to see the log file and then exit the program again.
    While having a camera in my phone is a fun thing, I would rather want that it worked seamlessly with the groupware products that I use.

  19. Re:Climate change or cancer... on Distributed Computing and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    And none of them supports anything but Windows. Too bad. When I get a new server it is most likely a 4x2.6GHz HT Xeon machine these days. Mostly they sit idle for a month or so before they are put into use, so I run 8 clients of Folding@home on each of them. I would have liked to support the cancer project, but I don't have a single windows machine. And yes, I know that is not normal. :)

  20. 3g phones, on Ruling on GPS Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    Now I am looking forward to the new 3G phones, I just played with one yesterday. Video streaming that worked and other fun stuff. It also had GPS so you could see where you are but someone else could request to get your coordinates and it would show up on their map. Of course on my phone it asked if it was ok to send that information to the requesting phone. But one could fear that it would be possible to request it without your knowledge.
    But then again, if you were proffesionel criminal, you would not carry it around if it was a issue. Only the stupid would.

  21. Re:Why is this useful? on GNOPPIX: Bootable GNOME CD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OS on a CD can be very useful when you try to rescue a system. Having a fully working system with all the tools at hand and access to the broken one, can save hours of work.
    You boot the CD and get everything including network access, I have sometimes attached a USB (v2!) harddisk and transferred data to that one, or maybe a partition(with partimage).

  22. Re:Here's the real story: on GeForce FX Architecture Explained · · Score: 1

    My Intel P4 standard fan are louder than my fx5900 msi card. When I go into a game the gfx fan speeds up and I can hear that because of the change, but once the CPU gets hot, the cpu fan is much more noisy.
    The fx5900 makes less noise than my GF3 TI500 and much less heat. and just for that I am happy about the card since I have spent a great deal of time lowering the noise level of my PC and the GF3 was the loudest part in my PC. Now all I need is to get a better cooler for the CPU.

  23. I hate their guts. on VeriSign Looks At Earning Money on Domain Typos · · Score: 1

    Companies that advertise on pages that make a living of getting traffic from typos are in my book in the same category as spammers and seeing them on a "typo" page would lower my opinion of them if I had one and if I didn't, I would see them as a company to avoid.

  24. Which is why I don't write anything personal on Exposing Personal Information in the Whois Database · · Score: 1

    A frind of mine have had 2 cars stolen and one attempt because of this information. He had published some information about them on his site like pictures, track times, races he had won.
    The third time when they got caught, the claimed that they had gotten his address from the internet where. Someone had seen the cars there and "ordered" them to get it.

  25. Re:Spammer source on Exposing Personal Information in the Whois Database · · Score: 2, Informative

    Placing your email address in your whois information will ensure that you get at least 100 penis enlargement mails pr day to that account. Which is why all email adr. that I need to publish like in the whois or on websites, are on mail servers that use just about every rbl list and antispam program available.