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  1. Sombody promote that man!! on New EMI Boss Says 'Downloads May Be Good' · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, they already did....

  2. Re:SDesk on Virtual Desktops on Windows? · · Score: 1

    Yaah, another sDesk fan!! Yes, sDesk is the best pager I have ever used.

    I like that I can drag around the windows directly from the Visual Pager, which is a graphical representation of all the open windows. You can customize it to have a lot of windows (I'm using 24 currently).

  3. Re:Expand it yourself on New Record Prime Found · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean put "$x=(1895693 +2) "?

    You're not checking even numbers are you?

  4. Re:In other news.. on Massive Lightning Storm on Saturn · · Score: 1

    FTFA "Lightning bolts more than 1,000 times stronger than those found on Earth".

    Rough estimate, 1210 jigawatts.

  5. Re:If these don't work... on Stubborn Spyware Removal Advice? · · Score: 1
    The Autoruns tools is also very usefull. You can see what programs and drivers are set to load on system startup. And you can temporary disable them or do a google search on the item right from the app.

    It also shows you the full path to the program. If you are running the NTFS file system you can set that file to have no access for Everybody and the file will not load on startup.

  6. Re:I created a new type of car on New Keyboard Has Just 53 Keys · · Score: 1
    I read a story a while back where this guy had designed a new gas/brake pedal system. Instead of the two pedals you have now, one would to the job of both. To brake you pushed the pedal like a regular brake pedal works now. To accelerate, you tilted the pedal by rocking your foot forward.

    Obvious advantage was you didn't need to move your foot from one pedal to the other to brake. This would result in faster response times and help avoid accidents.

  7. Anyone else use sDesk? on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Tomasek http://www.tomasek.cz/stary_soft/sdesk/ version not the newer one from Bresner.

    It works amazingly fast and supports sticky windows, draging windows from one desktop to another, dekstop names, any number of virtual windows, short cut keys for any window. Lots of features than I have not seen in any other pager for Windows.

  8. Re:Good Info... on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 1

    You sure? I think it could use more cowbell.

  9. Re:What about rar? on New Winzip in the Works · · Score: 1
    Zip is also capable of splitting it's archive, why don't you complain about that too?"

    no trolling, just commenting.

    I probably should have stated that I'm more annoyed with multi file RAR's on Torrent downloads. Torrent already does multi-peice downloads so there is no need to do it again by breaking it up into a multi-file archive.

    Even worse is compressing (in any format) an already compressed Video/Audio file wich doesn't make the files any smaller.

    If I want to keep sharing I have to keep those compressed versions around.

  10. No temp DIR requirement? on New Winzip in the Works · · Score: 1
    Will this new version finally let us zip files into a new archive without creating the zip in my TEMP directory first?

    Example: Local OS/TEMP on C: partition and Data partition on D: I select multiple directories on D: and tell it to create a new Archive on \\server\share\dir. Winzip will create the Zip on my C:TEMP first and then copy up the file.

    Same goes for unzipping files too (more noticible on larger files). This serves no purpose and it just increases the time it takes to zip/unzip files.

    Changing the TEMP everytime I want to zip unzip a file will help buts it not a solution.

    The command line utilities work well, unzip/zip, unrar etc. But sometimes it's just nicer to run a gui. Especially for multi-selecting unrelated files to compress into one file.

  11. Re:What about rar? on New Winzip in the Works · · Score: 1

    RAR itself is fine. It spliting up RAR archives into multiple files that annoy me.

    And then there is the different extentions:

    rar, r##, part##.rar etc..

  12. Re:This could be a really inconvenient to employee on Wi-Fi Times Sixteen · · Score: 1

    Kind of like parking in your driveway?

  13. Re:Artificial Gravity on Time-in-Space Record Broken · · Score: 1

    Sure it will. But isn't the whole point of the ISS to perform tests in (near)zero gravity.

  14. Re:I found a rather obvious bug... on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 1

    Yup. And add more cars with "C" and they drive on the right hand side.

  15. Re:Boring... on South Korean Scientists Clone Dog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Question is would you really want that animal to come when you call it?

  16. Re:Cue the tinfoil hat... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    IMDB says she was born in Canada and grew up in New Zealand

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001593/

  17. Re:Google hosted homepage on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Blehh, that IE one is terrible. The Firefox one just looks so much cooler.

    Which, is how it should be. :)

  18. 1.0 right now on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Running 1.0 right now. Seems to work great!

  19. Re:more solving problems. on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    FYI: That quote is from Yoda in ESB.

  20. Re:It's all SMTP's fault! on Child Porn Accusation As Online Extortion Tactic · · Score: 1

    SMTP also contains post marks. Take a look at the Message-ID: and Received: tags in the header of your emails.

  21. Re:Lyra: the * MPY * player. (not MP3) on 40GB RCA Lyra: Apple Fans Needn't Fret · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have the 64MB RCA Lyra. Same as the 128MB except for the obvious gimpyness of less storage space.

    It can play MP3, WMA(plain or DRM), and MP3pro. I haven't use WMA's on it much but for MP3 or MP3pro playback you just hook it up to your machine and copy the files using your OS' filemanger. No extra software required. Havent even heard of this MPY format you speak of.

    It does come with music manager software but that still on the CD. Perhaps it stores music on the device in this MPY format.

    Nice feature about this player is the SD card slot. I'll be getting a 1GB when the SD cards drop even more then they have already.

  22. Re:Traffic Safety Center on Whopping-Big Data Theft At U.C. Berkeley · · Score: 1

    "please if you are going to say something funny quote the original post so I don't have to dig through links to find it."

    Have you tried using the "Nested" sort method for slashdot comments? This place all the comments in an expanded tree format which makes it soooo much easier to read through.

    You can actually follow through the comments in the proper order.

    CrownRai

  23. Re:Not in the US on DVB-T STB/MPEG2 Player That Can Access SMB Shares · · Score: 1

    I have found this site to be a good place to lookup acronyms. CrownRai

  24. Re:Big Brother knows.... Printer/ink; file/1's 0's on New Technique Could Trace Documents By Printer · · Score: 1
    > Well, currency in Canada, I hear, has the US flag flying over the parliament building. You need a fine lens to see it.
    It is actually the Red Ensign flag which has a slight resemblance to the American Flag at that size.

    Here is the URL to the Canadian web site with info on the flags of Canada. The Red Ensign is the second from the bottom. http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/symbols/df5_e.cf m

  25. Re:Not hydrogen powered on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    You realize that it uses hydrogen as the fuel source for the internal combustion engine right?

    All the solar panels and water-hydrogen converter do is provide you with FREE* hydrogen for the vehicle.