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  1. CAT5E on Networking Academic Buildings - Which Infrastructure is Best? · · Score: 1

    Run CAT5E to every nook, cranny, and corner imaginable. Place it everywhere you can fathom a future use. Then go back and install 2 drops between every original drop. Wash, Rinse, and Repeat. You can never have enough drops.

  2. How I Started on Is Early Exposure To Computers Good For Kids? · · Score: 1
    When I was 8, my father bought me my own computer and installed tons of games on it. He then handed me a DOS manual.

    I didn't know how to get to the games nor did I know how to run the games.

    However, I did know how to read.

    Instill a desire to learn. If there is anything you can teach your children, teach them how to learn.

    If you tell them and show them everything, you won't be doing them a favor. You'll only be teaching them lazyness.

  3. Re:Good program, but ... on IBM Offers Computer Recycling · · Score: 1
    I'm assuming there are other programs like this around the country, but I don't know. What's your city doing?

    Around here we drive up in the ozark mountains and chunk them over a cliff. :-)

    It's kinda funny that our current EE seniors have developed a solar powered hidden camera system to catch this type of thing.

    Yes, this was a joke... Please don't take away what little karma I have.

  4. Re:Just another reason to open the story submissio on Custom Handheld Atari 2600 · · Score: 1
    I'm not trying to be a troll. I swear.

    I wish I could say that they care. I really do. I really enjoy slashdot, but all in all, I don't feel like they care anymore.

    However, you can always email malda@slashdot.org with your comments. Eventually, something will get past his filters. ;-)

  5. Numbers Please on Hacking The City · · Score: 1

    Just how much money did JWZ cash out with?

  6. History Will Repeat on eLection '04 · · Score: 1

    Al rides in his limo
    To give a speech
    On how everyone should take the bus

  7. USENIX on Conferences For Unix Admins? · · Score: 3
    I'd highly recommend the USENIX conferences and in particular the SAGE events.

    They even have student programs to help us kids get through school.

  8. Re:Seperation of Church and State? on At Long Last, Election Day · · Score: 1

    After going to the city hall and taking a peep at the ballot, I ran to the local church. :-)

  9. Re:What makes Gore _any_ smarter? on At Long Last, Election Day · · Score: 1
    GW is one of the more active Texas governors in history: he puts in about half a day of work every day.

    You realize half a day of work is 12 hours, right? :-)

  10. Just Remember on Greenspun on Managing Software Engineers · · Score: 1

    Work to live... don't live to work.

  11. Social Interaction on Do Techies Care For Daycare? · · Score: 1

    Children need the everyday social interaction that daycare provides. They need to learn to have to deal with problems and daycare is a great way to allow that.

  12. Re:Ug. Social Engineering! on The Full Nader Plus a Taste of Bush and Gore · · Score: 1
    I whole-heartedly believe that the people who think those who make more should pay a higher percentage of their income are completely mathematically illiterate.

    No doubt. We should all stop and think about where our tax dollars go.

    • How much per tax dollar do the "poor" use?
    • How much per tax dollar do the "rich" use?
  13. USIII Webcast on Sun's UltraSPARC III Processor Shipping · · Score: 1
    From Solaris Central:

    For those of you who don't know, the US-III webcast will be at http://www.sun.com/webcast/neteffect/ at 10am EST..

    For a sneak peak at one of the new machines I found online today... check out the Sun Fire 280R, which is the US-III replacement for the E220R. Amazing what you can do when you guess URL's.

  14. Re:Making bucks off someone else's rep on Typosquatting · · Score: 1
    Someone else is making bucks off your good rep, for $15 worth of capital. At best, somebody owes you a cut of the proceeds for your blood, sweat, and tears spent making a site yonder doofus could exploit.

    If they are loading it in a frame, then Taco owes them a portion of the banner proceeds. :-)

  15. Re:What about 900KHz and 2.4GHz? on Mobile Phones And Danger · · Score: 3
    Home phones that use 900KHz and 2.4GHz seem to operate in the same frequency range as mobile phone so are they dangerous too?

    No, they use *far* less transmitting power because they only need to transmit a few hundred feet.

  16. Why Store CC Info? on Western Union Cracked, Credit Cards Stolen · · Score: 2
    Why should anyone store my CC info?

    We run an ecommerce site and I went as far as to verify that our credit card processor doesn't *ever* store credit card details?

    Doesn't anyone care anymore? Am I the only one that doesn't like my financial information being stored?

  17. Re:Whoa, CT Finds The Conspiracy on Western Union Cracked, Credit Cards Stolen · · Score: 1
    American Express, a huge corporation, but second fiddle to the likes of Visa and MasterCard, needs something to promote its new idea. With the Internet at hand, it has its weapon. It sends some crackers to crack Western Union, thereby pushing people to the 'safer' disposable credit card.

    American Express doesn't have any competition. :-( Visa and Mastercard are non-profit organizations.

  18. Schools May Suffer :-) on Use of CD-ROMs in Higher Education? · · Score: 2

    What happens when all of the non-computer owning students go to the library and print out all 500 pages? :-)

  19. W. Richard Stevens was a God. on Rich Stevens Article in Salon · · Score: 1
    Here is an excerpt from UNIX Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI: Volume 1, Second Edition.
    • As usual, but contrary to popular fads, I produced camera-ready copy of the book using the wonderful Groff package written by James Clark. I typed all 291,972 words using the vi editor, created the 201 illustrations using the gpic program (using many of Gary Wright's macros), producted the 81 tables using the gtbl program, performed all the indexing, and did the final page layout. Dave Hanson's loom program and some scripts by Gary Wright were used to include the source code in the book. A set of awk scripts written by Jon Bentley and Brian Kernighan helped in producing the final index.

    W. Richard Stevens was a God.

    I would have given anything to have studied under him.

  20. Ham Radio on Reusing Old Satellite Dishes? · · Score: 1
    There are Ham Radio uses but I can't think of any at the moment. However, I do recall the oblong ones are better for this use than the circular ones.

    Good luck.

  21. Re:JINI is way before its time... on What Happened to Jini? · · Score: 1
    Microsoft's "plug and play" is plenty adequate for the current consumer needs.

    But this is exactly the reason why Jini was developed. Some people don't like Microsoft "making things easy" for everyone. :-)

  22. Filesystem Tricks... on Tuning Linux for Databases? · · Score: 1
    I am looking more for Linux specific things like kernel settings and disk/filesystem tricks.

    The biggest filesystem trick is to not use a filesystem.

    Get a real database and access the disks directly. :-)

  23. This is sad... on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD · · Score: 1

    It's really sad a country has nothing better to do with their money than to send something into space and hope no one touches it until they data vaporizes off of it. :-)

  24. What We Do... on URLs Aren't Property? · · Score: 1
    The reason domains cannot be considered property is that your domain is a service provided by the registry.

    Because of this, you can not simply purchase a domain but must "lease" it and renew your lease each year.

    I don't like this. I wish I could say that I "owned" my domains. I wish I could say that my startup could sell domains and consumers would own them for enternity. This just isn't the case and as such, we must continue to renew our domains each year.

    There are things being done to keep this renewal hassle to a minimum. For example, we are allowing domain registration for up to 10 years at a time. However, this gets us back to the registry getting in the way. The ten year limit is not something we mandate but is a registry limit.

    What is the difference between storing an expiration date that is 10 years from now and storing one that is 11 or 50 years from now?

  25. Man Pages on What Are the Best New-To-UNIX Resources? · · Score: 4
    Teach them the basics: ls, cd, and the filesystem layout.

    After that, there really is no substitute for man pages. Teach how to search man pages for keywords and how to RTFM. If they don't learn how to find the answer themselves, you won't be doing them a favor.