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  1. Re:Too small on ViewSonic shows 200 dpi display · · Score: 5, Insightful

    here's a thought, maybe you need bigger icons. There is nothing that says icons MUST be 64 pixels tall(well, maybe windows ui guidlines, but they dont count). The idea behind these new displays is that you will use gui elements designed to be rendered on 200dpi displays, not on 72 or 100 dpi displays. So if things were done properly an incon on this monitor would be the same size or larger than one on your current monitor, it would just ne higher quality.

  2. Re:Caffeine on Gaming Fuel: 4-way Shootout · · Score: 2

    From what i have heard coffee came to western europe during the renaissance. IIRC coffee was first introduced to turkey in the 1400s, where it really took off. From turkey it spread west, but took its time in doing so.

  3. Re:Great! on The Coming of Serial ATA · · Score: 2

    10k rpm scsi have been available for a while, but they are noisy as hell, not something you would want in a consumer computer, they are also a good amount more expensive. Plus it guves scsi an additional advantage over ide.

  4. Re:Download Queues & Gnutella on The AudioGalaxy Story · · Score: 2

    check out napshare. Napeshare is a gnutella client for X that does exactly what you say, you enter in some search terms, and a minimum file size, and then click go. It downloads anything that matches. it works very well.

  5. Re:Simple on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 2

    no, i didn't have to guess, i said 8(or 7) because PST is -8, but PDT is -7, right now the offset is -7.

  6. Re:VCR Timers on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 2

    PBS's uasualy handles the time broadcast in most US markets, and it is notoriously innaccurate.

  7. Re:Simple on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 2

    are you really that bad at math. is subtracting 8(or 7) that hard?

  8. Re:Don't Do That on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 2

    They dont say prior permission, they prior notification, and they are many that dont say that. They server ops just want to know whose using there servers. If they really didnt want people using there servers they wouldnt be on the list, or they would be mareked as private, or they would be firewalled.

  9. Re:I use NTP like this..... on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 2

    almost all time synchronization is done with ntp.

  10. Re:Atomic Wall Clock on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It gets the signal from wwvb in colorado, which broadcasts the time on 60khz encoded in bcd using some odd modulation scheme. wwvb time is very accurate, at the trasmitter i think the accuracy is within a picosecond. If you know your location you can calculate the time it takes the signal to reach you from the transmitter, and get your time as accurate as the clock at the transmitter. WWVB is run by NIST. They also run two other radio stations, wwv and wwvh. WWV broadcasts from the same site in colorado that WWVB broadcasts from, but broadcasts a voice signal of the time, a pulse every second, as well as bcd and several other things. WWV broadacts on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz. WWVH broadcasrs the same thing as WWV but is located in hawai, has a female voice instead of the male voice that WWV has, and doesnt broadcast on 20mhz. WWV rocks.

  11. Re:Oh that's what I need... on AOpen Debuts The Funniest Motherboard Ever · · Score: 5, Informative

    umm, there are water cooled tubes, uasualy they occur in RF amps, some older FmM broadcast stations used water cooled tubes in their finals. Water cooling a tube will let it work at a higher current than it is rated for. Basically the water cooling is to keep it from getting any hotter than it is supposed to get. The water cooling doesnt take it down to 50 deg F, it keeps it at the ideal operating temperature.

  12. Re:UPS maintenance on Do-it-yourself UPS · · Score: 2

    correct! this is what deep cycle batteries are meant for. You can buy them in auto shops uasualy, they use them for RVs and boats. They are designed to be used fo rlong periods of time, recharged, then used most of the way down again.

  13. Re:Be Careful on Do-it-yourself UPS · · Score: 2

    Im guessing it would only do that once each time it's unplugged. Im guessing the capacitors dont have good enough bleeder resistors on them, so your hand is serving to discharge the capacitors, This could be giving 117v, it could be giving less, it could be giving 600, but more than likely it is a very low amperage. So i dont think it's much to worry about, but it is a bad design.

  14. Re:Linux vs. Solaris: sink or swim on Slashback: Film, Solaris, Contention · · Score: 2

    umm, solaris and linux have ran on the same platforms for years. Solaris 7 was released for x86, and i think a version prior to that was also, and linux runs on almost all sun hardware.

  15. Re:Isn't OGG . . . on Netrek · · Score: 2

    nope, thats OOG THE CAVEMAN

  16. Re:Moral Dilemma. on Slashback: Wal-Modem, Culpability, Misquotes · · Score: 2

    im guessing it had something to do with evolution, because i seem to recal that they registered it about the time darwin became a public project.

  17. Re:Taco violates Tech-Report's copyright, film at on Shuttle's SS50 reviewed · · Score: 2

    umm, did you look at the user number/name? that is not the real cmdrTaco, it's an imposter.

  18. the sexchart on Software for Social Networking Diagrams? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the sex chart is a 2d rendering of 1500 iinterconnected nodes. I belive they have a utility that gets fed a textfile describing the node relationships, and from that reners the text. This might be usefull to you.

  19. Re:Funny about the dates... on Sunken City Found Off Of India · · Score: 2

    The Bhagavad Gita purports to have last been told to mankind by Krishna 5000 years ago.

  20. there is a new installer on A Better Installer for Debian? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they had done there research, they would know that there is a new installer for debian all written, it will be included with the next release of debian, woody, which should happen real soon now(tm).

  21. be carefull on Amateur Radio Packet Over 802.11 Cards · · Score: 1

    be carefull with this, or you might just turn your card into a part 15.3 device.(incidental radiator)

  22. Re:Cigarettes on Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told? · · Score: 2

    guns do kill people, bullets kill people.

  23. Re:BitTorrent on Finally Real P2P With Brains · · Score: 2

    Last i heard, the bandwidth for kernel.org was being provided by ISC, and they figured the donation was worth about $8500 a month. thta was from a post on LKM

  24. Re:Why can't they fix it now? on Linux 2.4.18 Released · · Score: 2

    Because it would be bad to have two seperate versions of 2.4.18 out there. Because once they put it into the mirror system, it starts to propogate, and it would proably cause problems if a second version of 2.4.18 was put up.

  25. Re:What would be better on Palm on a Bicycle · · Score: 2

    There is at least one gps unit i know of that is good for absolute altitude, the garmin eTrax summit, it has a real altimeter in it, so even if you can't get a single sattelite, you can still get your altitude.