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  1. Re:Talent wastage... on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    Funny thing about the "magic=drugs" thing is that Giles and the coven that Willow went to after almost destroying the world told her that the whole abstinence thing was completely wrong.

    -prator

  2. Just a flash ROM with a couple freakin' headers!!! on IsoNews Ostensibly Shut Down By The DOJ · · Score: 1

    That's all an Xbox mod chip is. There is an LPC bus debug header on the Xbox that you can plug an external ROM into. You pull down one signal, and the Xbox sends memory reads over the LPC bus instead of the internal ROM bus.

    Any Xbox "mod" that exists is basically wires to an external LPC ROM chip with other fancy features such as a way to disable the ROM and use the on-board BIOS. Plus, the pinout is an Intel-defined debug header.

    There is no way that this hardware can be considered illegal.

    -prator

  3. The real use for the back tick is... on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    ...to pull down the console in Quake and other fps games.

    -prator

  4. Re:On the other hand on Professors vs. WiFi · · Score: 2

    And for god's sake, you didn't pay $n,000 dollars to get the same education you could get from a video-correspondance course.

    Actually, you probably pay $n,000++ for those video correspondance courses. I just got done taking an NTU class that was actually a Georgia Tech class. A 3 hour course was $3,000. Luckily, I got my company to foot the bill.

    Also, I recently found out that I could take the same courses from Georgia Tech directly for $1,700. NTU gets quite a profit from those things I guess. If I do continue taking courses, I'm going to apply to Georgia Tech directly.

    -prator

  5. My kind of /. on Phish to Sell Downloads of Concerts · · Score: 2

    This is refreshing to see how many Phish fans are out there on /. Any of you guys going to the NYE or Hampton shows? I got shut out of those, but I'm going to the Cincinnati shows.

    I'm listening to the 10/7/00 mp3's right now. They do sound great, but I like to occasionally here the audience cheering. I guess I'm still going to get shows from Furthur.

    -prator

  6. Re:Wouldn't want to risk it on DVD Player as 802.11b Peripheral · · Score: 2
    Those are actually made by iRiver.


    -prator

  7. Re:Ad hoc drug dealing on Clothes Make the Network · · Score: 2

    You've got marijuana!

  8. Re:People dispose of computers? on HP Wants Manufacturers To Bear PC Disposal Costs · · Score: 2

    Why do you have this gem rotting in your basement?

    You can put FancyLinux 11.23b on it, and run it as a firewall/fileserver/home security robot/cheese grater.

    -prator

  9. Re:The classics on What Makes Great Science Fiction? · · Score: 2

    Snow Crash had some good stuff in it. Every time some jerk cuts me off in traffic I wish I had some of those nasty stickers.

    -prator

  10. Re:The Tank on Fact and Fiction Behind Bond's Gadgets · · Score: 2

    They did a level like this in one of the recent Bond games. I think it was Agent Under Fire. I only played a little of the single player, but the tank level was great. It felt a lot like that scene in the movie.

    -prator

  11. Re:Mirrors on Homing In On Laser Weapons · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which means you now have 20-30 targets to destroy in 30 seconds instead of 1 target in 10 seconds. Fun!

    I think this is one of the new mini-games in Mario Party 4.

    -prator

  12. Re:fascinating on Yahoo Moving to PHP · · Score: 1

    Ok, I give up. I've spent more than 30 seconds on google looking for a definition of TMTOWDI. What the hell does it mean?

    -prator

  13. Re:I wonder..... on Building a Dead Silent PC · · Score: 1

    Anyway, the auxiliary voltage supply is still on in any modern PC with an ATX supply when the power is "off". I guess the fact that some components are operational causes some level on noise.

    -prator

  14. A few questions on Phoenix 0.3 Is Out · · Score: 1

    I've got Phoenix installed now, and I was able to install Mouse Gestures through Tools->Preferences->Extensions, but how do I configure Mouse Gestures now? I want to map the gestures button to middle mouse, but I don't have the menu like Mozilla has.

    Also, I can't figure out how to add sites to the pop-up whitelist.

    -prator

  15. Re:AOL's Savior? HBO on The Sinking Ship that is AOL · · Score: 1

    I think this is a great idea. I currently use a Tivo , and I love it. However, if Time Warner's "on-demand" service ever got expanded to offer more shows, I think it would seriously cut into Tivo's profits.

    Of course, I guess that AOL would be cutting into Time Warner's cable money by offering shows over AOL

    -prator

  16. Re:While we all hate AOL on The Sinking Ship that is AOL · · Score: 1

    I agree. I still do a lot of my server troubleshooting on the Usenet, and I read rec.music.phish from time to time. Works fine for me.

    -prator

  17. Re:Next step for UT2k3? on Speex Joins Xiph To Bring Free VOIP To The Masses · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. I don't understand why this hasn't become a standard for any game that has a team-based mode.

    I'd like to say things like, "Hey, jackass. When you pick-up the ball, head towards the other person's base."

    -prator

  18. Re:I can't find my favorite! on 37 Operating Systems, 1 PC · · Score: 1

    vi OTHOH is a text editor.

    What's the extra H for?

    -prator

  19. Re:Up here in Redmond country. on Why Software Piracy is Good for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Does having friends at Microsoft help you learn how to use a $ instead of an S in MS?

    -prator

  20. Re:A non-literal translation on Sen To, X-Men 2 · · Score: 1

    Please. Gaiman wasn't "prechewing" anything for us. He just tried bring a story into a frame of reference that would make a little more sense to American society. He wasn't trying to dumb something down for us. A lot of things just don't make sense if you try to directly translate them.

    -prator

  21. Re:This Discussion is Irrelevant... on ATi Radeon 9700 Full Release Review w/ Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Didn't Bungie originally only make games on the Mac? That might explain why they showed it on a G4.

    -prator

  22. Re:My no spam recipe on The Continuing Rise of E-Mail Marketing · · Score: 1

    You can force them to use a webmail client like Squirrelmail. This is what I've been doing for the last 4 or 5 months. I guess there is still the possibility of someone forwarding on a vb virus.

    -prator

  23. Re:This is why I avoid Vegas altogether. on MIT vs. Las Vegas · · Score: 1

    Yeah, NO has so much culture. You can smell it in the air.

    /me inhales some quality NO air.
    /me chokes and gags.


    Wait, I was mistaken. That's just the smell of urine and feces.

    -prator

  24. Re:Oh, that's representative. on Nielsen to measure TiVo usage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, thanks to my wife, we will probably get to only watch Trading Spaces all day/every day.

    -prator

  25. Re:Not worth the additional cost on Computers That Thrive in Salty, Humid Environments? · · Score: 1

    Make sure you don't get a Toshiba. You might accidently void the warranty by looking at the screen.

    -prator