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  1. Re:Pigeons on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    We had a pigeon problem in a courtyard at my school.

    We also had a stray cat problem, so we trapped one of the cats in the courtyard - a few weeks later the cat was fat and the birds were gone

    Not sure if the cat is still in there or not

  2. Re:Times change on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 1

    This is the output from the dealer portal tool used to check if service is available. Maybe they switched to a better sat who knows

    ZIP Code 37857
    Is Service Available YES
    Available Speed 1500.0
    Latitude 36.4193
    Longitude -82.9279
    Azimuth 227.9
    Elevation 38.4
    Skew 57.4
    Boom Arm Angle 20.7
    Antenna Pointing Aid 7
    Satellite Anik-F2
    Beam 0037
    Polarization Left
    Override Status Open
    Gateway ID 3
    Gateway Name LAREDO
    Frequency 1080000000

  3. Re:Times change on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 1

    And you are doing it at my location? bullshit. you are the one who is lying. You obviously don't install sats because if you did you would know it goes by which bird services your location and you wouldnt make a false blanket statement like that. Well you told me that you live "southern VA, east TN" So i ran a few of the zip codes and noticed a pattern: (if you give me your zip i will check)

    ZipCode Bird Beam Gateway New Customers
    24701 Anfik-F2 0037 Left LAREDO YES
    24201 Anfik-F2 0037 Left LAREDO YES
    37660 Anfik-F2 0037 Left LAREDO YES
    37683 Anfik-F2 0037 Left LAREDO YES
    24382 Anfik-F2 0037 Left LAREDO YES

    Now You will see that the whole area you said you live in is coverd by the same sat, same beam, and same gateway. Unless you live in a different place you are lying.

    Maybe the last time you checked they were not adding customers but it looks like they are now

  4. Re:Times change on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 1

    Neither company is even accepting new installs at the moment. That is just a complete lie - We sell Wildblue and our techs put in 3-7 new install a week.
  5. Re:Simple solution on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 1
    Well when my dad worked in I Corps headquarters at Fort Lewis
    he would turn off his laptop pull out a screwdriver and change out the classified hard which was then put in a safe and put in the take home/check email/surf/let your kids play with hard drive


    I am assuming that the non-classified hard drive was never in the laptop when it was connected in to the classified network. So yes you can work in classified areas and still take home your laptop

  6. Re:Why special version. on Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP · · Score: 4, Interesting
    MS does have a version of XP for older (slower) hardware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Fundamentals_for_Legacy_PCs

    Processor 233 MHz
    RAM 64 MB
    Free hard drive space 610 MB


    All they would need to do is add Outlook Express, back in and it would probably work good

    I have installed VS 2005 and MS office 2003 on WinFLP so it can't be that bad.

  7. Re:Blue on Black on What Font Color Is Best For Eyes? · · Score: 1

    I always found blue on black to be relatively painless in very low light conditions. I agree http://www.bungie.net/ Is the best color combo I think.

    My eyes hurt when I browse a different one after bungie.

  8. Re:Screws to HDTV? Not exactly on Comcast Puts the Screws To HDTV · · Score: 1
    http://tech.dishnetwork.com/departmental_content/techportal/content/tech/receiver/722.shtml

    Dish Network's relievers support MPEG4 and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

    Their picture looks good to me

  9. Re:... But Windows STILL not dying... on Pirates Find Proper Way to Crack Vista's Activation Schema · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ah. So it will just have to be cracked again.

    Already been done - still old news - http://defcon5.biz/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=921

    I have had an activated copy of SP1 on my laptop since the 7th of Feb

  10. Re:How does this work? on SP1 Unsuccessful in Preventing Vista Hacks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can someone please explain to me how they can get a non-genuine copy to "pass activation"?

    Sure, some OEM versions don't need activation, all they need is the correct SLIC table embedded in the bios to tell vista that it is a OEM computer and a OEM product key.


    With that you will not need activation and you will be Genuine. So you are right it does not pass activation, just like the VLK keys of XP don't pass activation, because it is not needed.

    There are tons of sites about it

    On a side note if you buy a computer that is OEM Vista Home Premium you can use the SLIC table in your BIOS and get Vista Ultimate, just by changing your key. Once again no activation

  11. Re:Kids and computer on A Child's View of the OLPC · · Score: 1
    I know what you mean. We got a DS for the wife and our 3 1/2 yr old plays Mario all the time. Then when I got the XBOX 360 for halo it came with a free game Ultimate Alliance. He loves to play Spider Man and If he could he would play all day long.


    It is sad when you give your kid a choice between the park and computer/games they pick games.

    We had to limit it to 45 min a day, or else he would upset easy and seemed to not listen to us.

    On the bright side we now have a effective tool for punishment. Just threaten to take away the 360 or the DS and they are an angel :)

  12. Re:Makes me wonder on Comcast Admits Delaying, Not Blocking, P2P Traffic · · Score: 2, Informative

    it also had a policy to outright block all encrypted traffic that wasn't coming over port 80


    I feel sorry for your friend. Https is done over port 443 not 80. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS)

    Every https webisite I have tried to view over port 80 has given me an error. https://www.bankofamerica.com:80/

  13. Re:Many cities only have 2 real choices on Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1
    Most if not all sat ISP's have a cap.

    Wildblue's top end plan caps you at 12GB a month. After that you get dial up speeds. They best part is you are paying 79.99 a month for a 1.5 mb/s connection.

    We sell wildblue at our store and the tech says it is around a 1/4 second delay each way.

  14. Re:DirecTV on Bandwidth Crunch Looms for Cable Companies · · Score: 2, Informative
    I work for Big Dog Satellite a retailer for Dish and Direct. If you count up the main Sat's both of them have it is around 10.

    (61.5, 99, 101, 103, 110, 118, 119, 120, 129, 148)

    for Dish you NEED the 110, and 119 (129 for HD)

    For DIRECT HD you need their HUGE dish that can pick up 5 sats - 99, 101, 103, 110, 119. It is 2 feet by 3 feet. And that is the SLIMLINE model. The first one was HUGE
    http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?main_c at=02&CAT=&PROD=AU9-S

    For Dish HD you just need the 100.2 dish it is just slightly bigger than a standard dish.
    http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?PROD=D ISH1000.2

  15. Redundancy on iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can just see it now, your boss makes everyone in the company with an iPhone run a distributed backup web server in case 365 Main Datacenter http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/ 24/2210255 Goes down again.

  16. Re:"back charges" on Industry Insider Blasts Comcast · · Score: 1

    "I've been wondering how much a DirecTV's DVR hardware is worth"

    I work for Dish but I would think the costs are about the same for DirecTV.

    If we were to order one for our store it would cost:

    DVR - 625: $319 - 250 gb hard drive (100 hours)
    DVR HD -VIP 622: $450 - 320 gb Hard drive SATA interface (100 hours and 20 hours HD)

    The problem of trying to sell it is the receiver number and the smart card number might be tied to your account. So if you do sell it the other person could not activate it. You would have to call and "release it" from your account, but if you do that they could notice they left it there.

    If you don't need the hard drive I would look into selling it. You stand to make more money that way.

  17. Re:Oh stop whinging on Industry Insider Blasts Comcast · · Score: 1

    she is complaining about $9.99 for the HD channels?

    I work for Dish Network and they charge $20 extra a month for HD. Look at the fine print they give you $20 off for 10 months. So you get it for free for 10 months but it is an 18 month contract. (http://dishnetwork.com/content/our_products/dish_ hd/offer/index.shtml)

    you do get around 30 HD channels though.

  18. Re:Yeah, but at least he doesn't have supergulibil on Justice Dept. Defends Microsoft Against Google · · Score: 1
    Just like my other post (http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2379 99&cid=19458733), the Vista search can be turned off. D


    That was the first thing I disabled when I got vista, because I can wait the extra min or two for it look for it.

    bNow if it really not disabled and it just slows the search down then I will be mad. But the process disappeared in taskmanager

  19. Re:Grep against Google on Justice Dept. Defends Microsoft Against Google · · Score: 1
    It can be turned off, unless MS is lying to me

    Windows Search: Provides content indexing and property caching for file, email and other content (via extensibility APIs). The service responds to file and email notifications to index modified content. If the service is stopped or disabled, the Explorer will not be able to display virtual folder views of items, and search in the Explorer will fall back to item-by-item slow search.
    http://www.tossyourjunk.com/pics/vista/vista-searc h.jpg


    If you disable it then search does go slower, just like in XP

    http://www.tossyourjunk.com/pics/vista/vista-searc h1.jpg


    BUT how many casual users know how to turn it off using services?

  20. Re:Key quote on New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police · · Score: 1

    The first step towards finding out who did something is figuring out when it was done


    Exactly, the typing program in my high school was always "Hacked" and you found your self typing "Ms. X is a B****" instead of "the cat jumped over..."
    I remember one day the "tech" sat next me and looked to see when the file was last modified. He told the teacher, she looked on her calendar and said Jim Jones was there that day, then the tech left

    I am sure Jim was blamed for it weather he did it or not.

  21. Re:Piracy on Dell PCs with Ubuntu Are A Little Less Expensive · · Score: 1
    I never said I use them. My copy of windows came with my laptop. all you have to do is read the WGA blog http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/default.aspx they will talk about the current ways to hack windows and what they are doing to stop them.


    the 3 ways are:
    timerstop method
    relash BIOS
    softmod bios

  22. Re:Piracy on Dell PCs with Ubuntu Are A Little Less Expensive · · Score: 1

    Search any torrent site. I bet you will be able to find a copy of Windows XP that has updates to May 2007, passes WGA, AND doesn't even require a key. I've seen them, and in the past, used them.
    The same can be said for Vista. I know of at least 3 different ways to get vista working.
  23. Re:Can't We on AT&T Dumps VOIP Customers · · Score: 1
    It already does take a "long" time for the GPS info from cell phones.


    I have had to call 911 twice. Once on my lg vx6000 and once on my lg vx8300.

    Each time my phone enters "Emergency mode" and I wait about 20 - 30 seconds, after that I hear it ring and the 911 operator picks up. Sure 20-30 seconds is not alot but It was enough or me to keep looking at my phone to make sure the call was not dropped


    I wish I could get the tape for the first one. My finance was following me and she lost control of her car and ended up by an overpass. I guess the GPS data was saying I was on the bridge because the operator keep asking me where I was and each time I would say "on powers blvd a few hundred feet south of the Platte overpass" (3850'18.01"N 10443'15.78"W)
    She asked me at least 4 times to confirm it.

  24. Re:Even better on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 1
    My bank did the same thing (USAA). They kept posting on their webiste they were upgrading the security so figuried it would be a good time to change ny password to a 14 char/digit/symbols.

    I could not log in that day and I didn't have time to call their support line. The very next day when I tried it I noticed that they put a length restriction on the password box of 12 and then I could log in.

    When they "upgraded" their security the backed cut everyones password down to 12 but the web form still let you put in 20 chars. I am just glad they fixed it in one day.

  25. Re:If he were a law student... on Student Attempting To Improve School Security Suspended · · Score: 1
    ...and that does what?


    proves you aren't just saying "i was going to tell them it was broken" to get out of trouble and you HAD the intentions to do so. But you would still probably get in trouble