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  1. Re:Stop Making It Bigger. Start Making It Faster! on The Limits To Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 0, Redundant

    start ripping bluray movies... 30-40GB per...

  2. Re:secret resistors abound on Hardware Hackers Reveal Apple's Charger Secrets · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looks more like a way to signal to the iPhone that it can go ahead and "fast charge" by pulling 1A, or "slow charge" by pulling 0.5A. They just didn't tell anyone about how to do it.

    As for your dell power supply, just get one of those "ATX power" extension things, cut in half, "scramble" the wires in the right way, get a working dell PSU, and then start selling it. see http://pinouts.ru/Power/dell_atxpower_pinout.shtml for the pinouts.

  3. Re:Place your bets on Hardware Hackers Reveal Apple's Charger Secrets · · Score: 1

    the 2 resistors on the data lines are a "voltage divider", DC electronics 101. So any 2 that will give you 2.8v and 2.0v will work. the larger value the better, for less "bleed" current.

    This gives me incentive to figure out what the difference is between my usb plug on the end of normal power cord and the official Nokia one is. It is just a 2 pin round plug, but at low battery levels I get "unsupported charger" the charger says "5VDC 500mA" which seems like USB spec to me. but alas it doesn't work.

  4. Re:Interesting on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    because it's "property tax" and not "Home tax"... It's a tax on the value of the property, which as you note, includes the house, but also includes pools, sheds, gardens, streams, and such.

  5. Re:Obvious question on Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's not a huge pressure differential. Less than a few feet of water in reality.

  6. Re:Depth of Field on Why Bad 3D, Not 3D Glasses, Gives You Headaches · · Score: 1

    Large depths of field, or see http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/06/26/computational-cameras-exploiting-megapixels-and-computers-redefine-modern-camera and the talk there for how to play games to get low f-stops for non-grainy pictures and large depths of field at the same time. If you notice, most pictures taken with your cell phone camera tend to have a large amount of the picture in focus(excluding the motion blur parts).

  7. Re:Make the 3D fad go away on Why Bad 3D, Not 3D Glasses, Gives You Headaches · · Score: 1

    how about 4k2k video? or the one using displaylink, or lightpath, or both, the one with 10Gbit ethernet, the one with Netflix2 or $COOLVIDEOSTREAMING, or the one that plays back files from UPnP with as much format compatability as mplayer/ffmpeg/vlc, the one with all of the above. So yes there are lots of reasons I would upgrade my bluray player(I currently have a ps3), but 3d with glasses isn't going to be one of them, and I'd still need a new TV to boot.

  8. Re:Well, that was stupid. on Does Net Neutrality Violate the Fifth Amendment? · · Score: 1

    Then I'd like my tax money back from them, or the parts of the wires that were paid for my tax payer money, and I want the right of way rights they were given back too, they can negotiate with each and every landowner to string wire.

    Full stop.

  9. Re:Don't make car analogies if you don't understan on Is StarCraft II Killing Graphics Cards? · · Score: 1

    well to be honest, there are so few cases with good airflow, and then the GPU manufacturers skimp on the cooling power of the stock heatsinks. 12volts and 10 amps is 120 watts, so yes you will need some substantial cooling to keep things in spec temps. Although cases like the SG07 have dedicated cold air for the GPU and a fair amount of cooling on the backside of the card as well.

    In the end though, this really should be a non issue, with proper component selection, placement and cooling.

  10. Re:Oh God... on New PS3 Firmware Causing HDD Upgrade Problems? · · Score: 1

    some of my old rips that played beutifly before the otherOS removal and such now "skip" and "pop" during playback. The files play back just fine in mplayer and vlc.

  11. Re:European ExoMars rover has skinny wheels on New Mars Rover Rolls For the First Time · · Score: 1

    sry, that should be "kg" not a "kilo-gravity constant"

  12. Re:European ExoMars rover has skinny wheels on New Mars Rover Rolls For the First Time · · Score: 1

    they are huge, see the comment about the costs for lifting a kG of material.

  13. Re:Mr. Shuttleworth should try to understand himse on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    paid kernel devs, like redhat and suse. Getting hardware vendors on board, like suse and redhat. Getting 3rd party software(like oracle) on board.

    Basicly something other than the closed launch pad, and some shiny guis for config files. (that work fine if you are on close to standard OEM desktops, but heaven forbid you have a hardware raid controller and want to run LVM or NFS on /.)

  14. Re:Overweaning care on New Mars Rover Rolls For the First Time · · Score: 1

    the real problem isn't getting it to mars. It's getting to land safely on mars. There is very little atmosphere, not enough to use parachute, but enough to cause heat when plowing though it. Add to that enough gravity to make things like retro rockets unpractical

  15. Re:Atari vs. Commodore on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    Vim vs. Emacs (well to be honest, this one doesn't really exist, as we all know that vim is better.)

  16. Re:Ubuntu is about Ubuntu, not about Free Software on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    I have yet to get ubuntu on a computer or a VM... of course all of those same computers run gentoo quite happily. So in my experience, no ubuntu is not less hassle.

    one computer the CD refused to boot in, booted fine in my main desktop, but not in that one. Gentoo and debian CD's were fine.
    One computer didn't like my video card (ati pci thing from 2003) best i got was800x600 vesa, on the 1280x768 native panel.
    Both vbox and kvm choke on the livecd/installcd.

    Also mostly I use XFCE these days, and while I know I can get Xubuntu, all I really want is a vanilla xfce install.

  17. Re:Ubuntu is about Ubuntu, not about Free Software on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    no, he just wants the pot to have the name of the person how cooked it, and why they made it for you. Read the sign if you want or not, but at least the sign is there.

  18. Re:Good luck with that! on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    for me, i suggest Ubuntu to new people simply because for the most part their forums are very friendly to people new to linux. Also because the distro does try to make things be in similar yet different places than Windows XP. I don't use it for just those reasons, when I feel I want to try something that my distro packagers didn't allow for or don't feel need to be defaults or i want to add something as a service, there seems to be very little documentation on how to do that.

    For example I have a laptop that works great apart form the fact the 10/100 Mbit networking card, will drop 90% of packets in 100mbit mode. If you use mii-tool to set it to "10BaseT-FD" it works great dropping not 1 packet. Now, my problem is this and i haven't looked in a while, how do I insert a command to run just after the network card with MAC=12:29:39:xx:xx:xx comes up, but before anything tries to go and get a dhcp address? i have the same problem with suse, redhat, debian(to a lesser degree, there is some doc out for that), but yet that is documented in the Gentoo networking handbook ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=5 ). So, some distros are better for some people than others. Also, anyone get the latest ubuntu CDs to work in virtualbox, or kvm?

  19. Re:Sense of Entitlement on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    well in this economy i'd like to see 5 figures... instead of my current 0 figures...

  20. Re:And yet- on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    now scale that down to a Big 192838 school... lets see what happens then...

  21. Re:How is that novel? on BlindType — the Amazing Keyboard of the Future · · Score: 1

    how about a laptop keyboard with a 2mm stroke for the last 7 years? it's pretty damn close.

  22. Re:Eh? on British ISPs Favour Well-Connected Customers · · Score: 1

    so they should provide a real way for to to say "yes this is torrent traffic, go ahead and throttle it down enough to get the rest of your traffic in, but no more than you need to" or "this is an ftp download of the 6 debian dual layer dvds, it's going to take a while anyways, so go ahead and slow it down a small amount if you need to". Of course that requires your ISP to be trustworthy... good luck finding one like that.

  23. Re:I don't get it. on To Ballmer, Grabbing iPad's Market Is 'Job One Urgency' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    garbage tablet PC? you mean the ipad? that isn't a tablet pc at all. go on, try to install an arm binary on it and get it to run? how about sync it on a platform without iTunes? play videos, you knowns ones not out of quicktime(again not available on all platforms).. so yes, the iPad is a nice device, but a tablet PC it is not.

    *Go ahead mods, i have some karma to burn...

  24. Re:Performance, reliability, and price, pick two. on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    back it up to 3 tapes nightly, ship one to Antarctica, one to Sweden, and put one in the bank safety deposit box. Do this daily. i bet $1.1mil goes away rather quickly in shipping, tapes, and man hours. I doubt his IT dept does that for the storage they do provide him, but even weekly incremental backups still have a tape controller and automated tape fetcher thingy, and tapes involved, along with the commercial package they bought to automate the process on Windows Server 7.

    now buy windows 7 for the server for your data, the dell sever with 24/7/365, 30 minute response time, power(redundant from 2 grids), cooling, and general maintance like; installing windows updates, java updates, flash updates, scheduling reboot times with your boss/head of dept(paying OT because they can only be done at 2am). Yep seems like I can hit 1.1million or close to it, rather quickly without fancy games. I could do a SMB install with some WD RE drives a hardware raid controller, and a cron job... but i of course can't provide 24/7/365/30 minute type service for it.

  25. Re:And what will future versions be called? on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    hmm that sounds familiar... USB anyone?