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  1. Re:It happened to me on Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I reset tcp using netsh and that seemed to fix it for me for the couple instances I have seen.

  2. Re:I have an idea on Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I had this on a couple clients and after I reset TCP using netsh that seems to have fixed it for them.

  3. Re:FlyDrive would be a better name on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    F-Drive? What about f-disk? Oh wait...

  4. TennesSee on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    It appears none of the mods mave noticed the big misspell in the title of the summary. Tennessee has 2 S's. Yes, I am from TN, so maybe it just seems more glaring to me.

  5. Re:Simple, right? on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    You usually can't get better meat than freezer beef that you raised. What you get from your local Krogers or wherever just isn't as good.

    Sometimes it's not always about the money. I'm sure it kept my Grandfather alive. He lived to 94 years old and worked on the farm up until that last 4-6 months of his life. He fed calves and did other chores or whatever he could do. He even helped pull wagons while doing hay during last years hay season. If he had just decided to sit in his rocking chair at 65, he wouldn't have lasted as long as he did.

  6. Re:Simple, right? on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    Well, actually, there are several small farms around here as well in TN. One thing I point out was that there are not many small, _self-sufficient_ farms. Most of the small farms are guys who are getting a little supplementary income from selling beef head or some of the more affluent people playing what we like to call 'weekend warriors'. They don't like that term so much :) Though I guess I can't laugh. My 9-5 is in IT then I go head out to the farm on Saturday.

  7. Re:Simple, right? on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    I don't know what area of the country you are in, but really, a farm that consist of less than 100 acres is extremely rare, or at least getting more rare. It is not enough to really sustain a living wage these days. My father owns a dairy farm in the south east US and I still work with him on it on the weekends. If all we had was 100 acres, he would've had to hang it up years ago.

    Also, many people that buy fertilizer (not all, of course) buy it and it is spread for them by their local co-op or whoever since that equipment is so expensive for the amount you'd use it.

  8. Re:Oh dear on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 1

    Einstein did believe in a God. His belief would probably be categorized as Deism. He believed in a deity that created the Universe, but he did not believe in a personal God that performs miracles, comforts the sick, etc, etc. He often spoke of figuring out the secrets that God created in the universe. If I recall, it was all too mathmatical for there not to be some sort of deity to have created it in the first place.

    As a young boy, he did have strong faith. He observed Jewish practices, but as a teen, he rejected it. It was later in life that he came to the conclusion that there is a God.

  9. Re:Didn't Novell already do this? on Linux Foundation Asks Who Says "I'm Linux" Best · · Score: 1

    I may sound like a huge nerd, but every time I see that commercial, but it gives me goose bumps at the end of it.

    Anybody else? Anybody? .....?

  10. Re:Fight back on How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure? · · Score: 1

    Linux patch management is flexible, allowing automated patching of systems on a self imposed schedule; e.g. desktops automatically, servers at night after warning.

    WSUS is very capable of doing this. I often set all desktops to auto update with critical updates and set the servers in a group that doesn't update. I then manually update them myself, as needed.

  11. Re:Citation Needed? on Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    It was an interesting piece. I would recommend for reading Robert Baer's latest book, The Devil We Know. It gets more into the political structure and the authors insights into what Iran is ultimately after. Rick Steve's piece got into the culture that Baer didn't touch as much.

  12. 3 super computers from Evangelion on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    Balthasar, Caspar, Melchior

    Also the names of the supposed 3 wisemen/kings that visited the baby Jesus.

  13. Re:Not enough data on Learning To Read With Click and Jane · · Score: 1

    In the book Freakonomics, this is one of their conclusions. The fully admit that the 2 datums are correlated, but books do not necessarily make the children smarter. It more likely genetic predisposition. Smarter parents are more likely to have more books. They then pass their genetic disposition for intelligence to the child. Or it could be they care more, thus try harder.

    Very interesting book. I highly enjoyed it. Especially the section on parent intervention into a child's education.

  14. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    Back in college when I smoked a lot of pot I thought smoking and driving was OK. I didn't think it impaired me that much. It wasn't until I was driving and I was convinced I saw a man being hanged from a light pole. A real lynching! I was freaking out. Then as I got closer I realized it was just kudzu hanging down off a light pole. It didn't stop me from driving at the time, but I decided it wasn't that safe. I regret it now, but at the time I didn't really care that much.

  15. Re:CSI NY on Daemon · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, I suppose there is that too :)

  16. Re:CSI NY on Daemon · · Score: 1

    It makes me cringe watching something like Smallville that pulls so much crap as far as hacking goes. It didn't used to be that way but now if someone needs something they walk into a room with a 'wireless device' that pulls information off of the servers automatically. Or wirelessly copies hard drives in matters of seconds. Or so many plots that involve Cloe hacking the NSA/local police/DHS mainframes in a matter of seconds to get that vital piece of information.

    Thank God this is the last season. It needed to be off the air about 3 years ago...

  17. Re:Wal-Mart on Walmart Caves On DRM Removal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of Tags, does somebody know how to make them not show? I have in my setting 'Show Tags' as unchecked.

  18. Truecrypt vote here on Whole Disk Encryption For Vista? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been happy with Truecrypt. It is easy to use and the performance impact seems to be not that bad. I just make sure to never use sleep mode or anything like that. Just power off and on anytime I use it. I also setup my windows login to automatically log me in. I got tired of typing in one password and waiting for the next password. I figure if someone is good enough to break my truecrypt password then my windows password wouldn't stand a chance, especially if they had decrypted the data.

  19. Re:Not going to work.... on Blocking Steganosonic Data In Phone Calls · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xn94fq8CUk is what his ascii breaks down to if anybody else was curious...

  20. California on City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns" · · Score: 3, Funny

    This reminds me of a canister of chemicals I saw at one point:

    "May cause cancer in California"

  21. Re:Allergies on Identical Twins Not Identical After All · · Score: 1

    She's sure she's allergic. She's allergic to anything in the -cillin family. She's proven that on more than one occasion to her doctors.

  22. Allergies on Identical Twins Not Identical After All · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've wondered about this. I'm going to get married to a twin in a couple months and my fiance is has many medical allergies - penicillin and similar drugs (like her mother). Her identical twin sister on the other hand has allergies such as pollen or other outdoor allergies.

    I was never sure how much genes would play a role into this.

  23. Millennium on Impress Your Friends While Watching "Untraceable" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did anybody else see this movie the first time it was released when it was an episode of The Millennium several years back? The plot line is exactly the same. Another forum even posted that some of the lines in the movie match up with the episode.

  24. Re:Call Jon Stewart on What's Wrong With the TV News · · Score: 3, Funny

    I only laugh at a comment on slashdot if it's already modded "+5 Funny".

  25. Re:Wall building? on A Run Through Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    IBM's OS/400 doesn't have it as far as I know...