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  1. Re:Except... on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 1

    Interesting.. I wasn't aware of that.

    In any dual boot arrangement the install sequence is important. Windows 7 bullies other systems on disk. If you install Windows 7 on a system with Ubuntu, Windows will offer to completely format the disk and if you reject that, it disables booting of Linux as Windows uses its own MBR loader, which disables the Linux GRUB boot loader. It won't trash the Linux partition, but will make it invisible! Repairing the bootloader is a chore and not straightforward. However if you install Linux after Windows, the Linux bootloader plays nice with Windows and offers a choice of OS on booting.

  2. Using Outlook from Orbit - unreferenced to source on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This story looks like a Microsoft troll. The link to the story http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=1329&zoneid=12 does not provide any link to NASA as a source. Without a source we must suspect a hoax. Sending a 4MB OST file to space back and forth sounds incredible, bandwidth wasteful, as information as text would be very large at 4KB per transmission. 4MB could be 2000 pages of text.! I have exchanged emails from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on a yacht using SSB radio and a Pactor modem http://www.scs-ptc.com/shop/categories/modems-en at 2400bps. Why, because bandwidth over a HF radio link is limited. There are many lightweight email clients and command line equivalent email clients that can communicate without the noise associated with animated smileys and gifs. The message is important, straight ASCII, tells it all. The medium here is not the message.

  3. Re:So Stupid on Irish ISP To Block Access To Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    From Eircom and other ISP's viewpoint, blocking torrent access reduces their traffic substantially and leaves more bandwidth available for spam! Priceless!

  4. Re:My Backyard on Speculation On the Doomed Satellite · · Score: 1

    If it lands in your backyard, you will have a building site.

  5. PC Power supplies get larger by the year on Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets · · Score: 1

    In the 1990's my Pentium 90 had a 90 Watt power supply. Today I have a 450W power supply. An LCD screen is easier on power than a CRT, but the trend is upwards. Blame Windows for producing software requiring more computing power to run and Intel for producing the hardware to run the supposedly more "Power"ful software. All just to play solataire! Slap a carbon tax on Microsoft, Intel, AMD and graphics card makers.

  6. It's not FOSS, it is FLOSS on What's Wrong With the FOSS Community? · · Score: 1

    FOSS is for English speakers in USA. In Europe and Canada there is only FLOSS, Free and Libre.

  7. Re:same trick as msn search on Microsoft Claims Worlds Best Search Engine Soon · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Uh, sharepoint? on VisiCalc Creator Developing WikiCalc · · Score: 1

    "If I'm wrong about it, would you please refer me to a summary of how to use this tool?" Hey, we don't do user interface information, EU don't need interface information either, but we will license the source code for $50K.

  9. Re:WAR. That doesn't mean the job is nice. on U.S. Army Testing Personal Cooling Suits · · Score: 1

    Why are you using 130 degrees. The rest of the developed world uses the Celcius degree calibration, but I suppose that the USA is still undeveloped, nay medieval, they still use rendtion or torture on their enemies or supposed enemies. The Imperial system, only remains in USA - units and torture.

  10. Re:Prediction: on Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is somewhat negative. He could do very well. Think of musical prodigys including W.A Mozart. In more recent times; Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica http://www.stephenwolfram.com/about-sw/ "Born in London in 1959, Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech by the age of 20. --" Went on to create the computer algebra system http://www.wolfram.com/

  11. Re:Soduku on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    You can get a mathematica package to do Soduku http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/5 690/

  12. Re:Combine into one PDF on U.S. Army Guide to Code Breaking · · Score: 1

    If you run Windows, you can install a virtual printer driver, that will print any file as a pdf document and continue printing as many files as you wish and then create a new pdf from all the files that have passed through the virtual pdf printer. Check out http://www.fineprint.com/

  13. Re:What's with the stupid google predictions? on Google Planning Web Browser? · · Score: 1

    "What's next - google hires a plumber - the end of IT as we know it?" No, surely necessary to find memory leaks!

  14. Bush overseas http://65.172.163.222 is accessible on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 1

    The Register reports http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/27/bush_block ing_non-americans/ but that http://65.172.163.222/ works http://65.172.163.222/ resolves as GeorgeWBush.com which illustrates how cak-handed the blocking is. Naturally as the site runs IIS6

  15. Re:The Danger of Congress on SCO Lobbying Congress Against Open Code · · Score: 1

    Yes they can ban anything. They banned alcohol in the prohibition era . How long did that last?