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  1. Re:Cue theme... on The Rise Of Reg-Only Media · · Score: 1

    Just to help out brothers who might be in need and any illegeal aliens out there: The zip code for Roswell New Mexico is 88320.

  2. Re:A guess on Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It · · Score: 1

    As I read this I am installing a dial-in Citrix Metaframe session on my iBook. But...Mac ICA Clients do not SUPPORT actual non-TCP modem connection so...I installed VPC, then installed Win2K Server (I had a spare unused license), then installed the client under Win2k all on a eternal firewire drive so it uses less on box space. Emulation is indeed the answer in those cases where the computer you can kick is not the one you need.

  3. Re:The ones with the longest life on Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? · · Score: 2, Funny

    well my Osborne 1 works great but you need to plug it in. CP/M though is a bit limiting. Lousy for wireless and the tables at Starbucks are a bit flimsy when I drop it on top...

  4. Re:Thank goodness RedHat is coded in America on Microsoft Outsourcing High-Level Work · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, will the Indian Tech support sweat shop now finally be able to answer the questions raised from the bugs introduced by Indian programmers and...since I cannot understand either one now, will the product tehy develope at least sell well in.........India?
    (think Deli accent): "Hi My name is...uh...Bob"

  5. Re:Cool hack? Not in my book. on Turn your iPod into a Universal Remote · · Score: 1

    you want a cool hack? try http://www.pixell.net/newton/

  6. Re:Russia? on U.S. Nuclear Cleanup Carries Major Risks · · Score: 1

    The Russians have already scuttled at least 2 nuclear subs with the reactor chamber in place.
    Also, some areas in the former East Germany and in Romania that were used as dump sites by the Red Army and by Russia of unwanted chemical, nuclear, and other tocix wastes make Hanford look like a CLEAN ROOM by comparison. It is seldom discussed just how BAD things are in terms of chemical and nuke polution in the former Eastern Bloc. Google on the subject of Russian Nclear Subs and you will find that un-monitored rusting hulks with live reactor chambers are anchored in shipyards all over. Cherynobl was bad, very very bad..but compared to the potential it may be just a foretaste...

  7. Re:Yeah right.... on SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020 · · Score: 1

    What? now they are giving Balmer v1agra?

  8. Re:Just SP2 is Rough? on Windows XP SP2 Still Rough Around the Edges · · Score: 1

    I agree only I take it one step further back: I have a system on 98SE. I consider it one of my most stable boxes. But, that particular box IS NOT ON THE NET! I use it for many stand-alone apps. When I need to copy files to it, I will do either of 2 things: Copy via IPX from another Windows box (seldom), or, copy from a Mac using Appletalk on the Mac and an older (obsolete, bought out, and no longer available... and you will get a REAL surprise if you try to access their old web page!) network package called: called COPSTALK. Since most all the current crop of viri worms and other headaches deal with Internet, email or other online activities I have found this beast a perfectly stable platform for a variety of activities. For INTERNET access I rely on various penguin distros, BSD or OS X.

  9. Re:Yeah right.... on SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone who has watched Steve Balmer dance ...MUST believe in aliens...

  10. Re:Tax everything - Nice sentiment, bogus quote on Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi · · Score: 1

    I know. Hence my listed attribution for the quote. Weren't some weird /.'er who done said it, This came from a ancient staid and respectable Scientific Journal. Which shows you CAN fools some of the people some of the time...

  11. Re:wow! on Quantum Computing Using Traditional Transistors · · Score: 1

    Qunatum still makes drives? Oh sorry, wrong stop, I am from the multiverse next door.

  12. Re:Tax everything on Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi · · Score: 3, Informative

    The classic example of basic research and its applicability is illustrated by the visit of Prime Minister Gladstone to the laboratory
    of Michael Faraday. Gladstone asked Faraday whether he thought this esoteric substance called "electricity" would ever have any practical uses. Faraday's reply was, "ONE DAY, SIR YOU WILL TAX IT."
    From Editorial in Science 26:735 11 Feb 1994 by Daniel E. Koshland
    Jr.

  13. Re:What's next - big brother? on Hollywood and NFL Fight TiVo · · Score: 1

    NFL realizes that after enough of a corpus of burly boys breaking bones and bouncing balls is developed out there in the wild, the real thing becomes moot. Or, is it possible that there is only one game played each year and the rest are skillful digitizations of various banners, uniforms and the like to produce "New" content for fans of the elipsoid bladder? In any case the NFL stands to loose a fortune of Americasn wake up and stop buying this particular "product"... Enough there to scare ANY Cartel..

  14. Re:fake on Apollo 11 Photographs Unfrozen · · Score: 1

    Yeah. After all, this whole series was rendered digital. Probably did the whole thing in Photoshop...And look! They put those guys in MOON SUITS! and and... made it look like they were on the MOON, and and...
    If you look closely in the reflection of the helmet you can clearly see the Book Depository in the background which demonstrates absolutely that these were all taken from on top of the Grassy Knoll... Can't fool me yes sir yes sir...

  15. Re:Software monoculture was good.... on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1

    no Virus threat? Ever heard of Stoned (DOS) or nVir (Mac)? Boot sector viri that would pass from floppy to floppy were quite common.

  16. Re:Don't Forget on UK High Court Rules Modchips Illegal · · Score: 1

    In S. Carolina a Chemistry professor was brought before the local judge for making "Moonshine". "Is it true" said the Judge, "That in your laboratory you have glass tubes and other equipment for the distillation of spirits?" "Yes I do Your Honor", said the Prof. "It is part of the equipment every chemistry class would have. Incidentally yer Honor sir, Nature equipped me with all the necessary parts to commit rape too, but I didn't do that either"

  17. Re:Gimme a billion dollars, I'm a genius, I swear. on Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Software Update Patent · · Score: 1

    Which absolutely proves the point of the stupidity, uslessness, and 4 expletives of the patent system.

  18. Re:Gimme a billion dollars, I'm a genius, I swear. on Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Software Update Patent · · Score: 1

    Regards wheels; look at the Steering wheel. Henry Ford had a patent on that little device. the Stanley Brothers who at the time were marketing a car called "the Steamer" were SOL and went out of business.

  19. Re:Outstanding on Microsoft Announces Dividend and Stock Buyback Program · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to have Microsoft stock, but one day I opened my portfolio and all the certificates had turned blue with incomprehensible writing on them. When I called my broker he assured me everything was all right, it was all a part of doing business and that I should put the stocks back in my old shoe where I stored them. So...I rebooted...

  20. Re:Water common? on Mars Had Surface Water for Eons · · Score: 1

    Why water? Many Sci Fi authors have predicted life cycles based on other substances, in various and other temperature gradients. Ammonia, liquid nitrogen, copper based (as vs. iron), crystal matrix, fluid dynamics in a methane bubble of a gas giant, Orrt Cloud dust mote patterns, etc. have all been used as life origin foundation platforms. To limit "life" to only those chemical reactions involving the ash of burnt hydrogen and its reaction with carbon, silicon, and strange amino acids is pure chemical/thermal/gravitational chauvinism. Besides, Ford Prefect already gave me a towel to mop up all the water...

  21. Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user on Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? · · Score: 1

    Why a long winded reply? the question is a simple English interrogative. A single syllable will answer it. Are Apple users smarter? Yes

  22. Re:mo money mo problems on S3 DeltaChrome S4 Graphics Chip Reviewed · · Score: 1

    EGA COLOR can not work, or at least I could not get it to work in 95 but, the driver I found (and, I dug for it) worked using a EGA amber screen and painted stripey AWFUL 95 GUI. Not anything useable, but, it worked enought o be able to say "I did it". I loaded that box (old 486 EISA mobo with a 90Mhz Pentium Intel overdrive) with 98SE soon before sending the whole thing to Dumpster Heaven. ity also would paint the desktop in amber stripes. but I would pity anyone using that...

  23. Re:mo money mo problems on S3 DeltaChrome S4 Graphics Chip Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Very good! I admire a researcher. there will be a quiz 3rd period.. BUT, Hercules DID manufactuer this honkin full length CGA capable card late in their life. I think they thought it would somehow make them special to Big Blue and save the day. It didn't. I know because I picked up a box with 8 of these beasts still in shrink wrap at a surplus store in their junk bin. $1.29/lb iirc which to my mind is about the right price for a "good" video card. BTW, if anyone is interested, I still have a amber screen Windows 95 video driver that workerd up through 98SE for display of simple GUI in Amber on black EGA on an old old monitor..

  24. Re:mo money mo problems on S3 DeltaChrome S4 Graphics Chip Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I need to replace my Hercules CGA 8bit ISA card already?

  25. Re:Graceful scaling complexity on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    Your business. Mine is to wrote a simple letter. Did you bother to READ Sowell's article?