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  1. Re:Idea? on PhatBot Trojan Spreading Rapidly On Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    the newer linksys routers can actually block outbound traffic as well.. i found this out when i wanted to switch from 802.11b to 802.11g in my router... and it had a decent amount of configuration options i could use to stop allowing my brothers to play neopets constantly.

  2. Re:Idea? on PhatBot Trojan Spreading Rapidly On Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    actually, linksys routers, some of them anyways, have UPnP enabled by default, and windows messanger already tells the UPnP to forward ports that it "needs" to have open for some BS reason. so, you had better have your DMZ and port forwarding disabled on your router then. ;)

  3. Re:Very cool, but.. on Toyota's Trumpet Playing Robot Showcased · · Score: 1

    is that where the engine is being developed that seperates the hydrogen fro the oxogen and uses the hydrogen as fuel, and releases oxogen into the atmosphere?

  4. Re:What happened to fair use? on Nintendo Patents Handheld Emulation, Cracks Down · · Score: 1

    just because the GB and GBC arent made anymore, how does this make them obsolete? the GBA CPU is still physically in the GBA system, and if you notice inside of the cart slot, there is a lil switch that GBA games wont push, but older games will, and this switches the GBA into GBC mode. does this means its OK to pirate Windows98 because WindowsXP is the new thing? i dont think so..

  5. Re:Programmer, get thee to a lawyer! on Nintendo Patents Handheld Emulation, Cracks Down · · Score: 1

    gbadev.org need i say more?

  6. Re:Backup Copies on Nintendo Patents Handheld Emulation, Cracks Down · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually, you can get a customized link cable that plugs into a parallel port to dump games onto the PC, as well as SAVERAM, and the GBA BIOS. it isnt limited to just ROM DUMPERs. and with there being home-brew versions of the cables being made now-a-days, just about *anyone* could get into it and start dumping their games.

  7. Re:Great! on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 1

    woopsies... i ment to type in "half-16-half-32"... not sure what all happened there... as far as i know tho, WinME was still dual-mode. and for those that dont know this, but that dual-mode operating system is what caused most of the instabilities in the windows 9x series. this is why winnt4 was always more stable, whereas 9x shat itself all the time. everyone complains about microsoft's lack of backwards compatibility, but, what they dont realize is that microsoft layed down a structured frame work for designing applications for windows 95.... anything that followed that structure works just fine in any version of windows from 95 and nt4 all the way up to XP and the longhorn alphas. somewhere the line has to be drawn on backwards compatibility tho, to allow for new functionality. dropping support for nearly 10 year old programs in favour of new technology? i will go along with that.

  8. Re:.NET framework on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 1

    the problem with java tho, is the user-interface.. java alienated themselves with lack of enhancments to their user interface on an os-specific level. lets see a *decent* 3d game made in java, and i dont mean something that looks like the original wolfenstien or doom.

  9. Re:Great! on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) the 9X series of windows was able to run half-half-23-bit programs easier, because the OS WAS hanf-n-half. ever remember those "most switching benchmarks"? that was a benchmark to see how well your CPU could switch between the 16-bit and 32-bit instruction sets. 2) windows 2000 also supported the whole "application compatibility mode". go look for (i THINK its) appcompat.exe on the windows 2000 CD. it was an application w/ command lind params instead of being in the application's EXE's property menu. 3) as for compatibility w/ 16-bit applications, windows xp simply uses an emulator for 16-bit instructions. this is to make sure the memory arcetecture and other things dont break new pure-32-bit applications.

  10. Tacoma, WA on Cities Building Own Fiber Networks · · Score: 4, Informative

    i live here in Tacoma, WA, and we have our own city-wide fiber optic network provided by Click-Network.. i must say, i love it MUCH better than comcast or any of the DSL providers around here. we have had the network ground layed out for several years, and everything seems to work just fine. the city doesnt offer the ISP themselves tho, currently there are three seperate companies offering internet access via this network. i'm guessing this fiber-op network is probably why the city has recieved the nickname "The Wired City"

  11. ATI RemoteWonder on Development Of The TiVo Remote Charted · · Score: 1, Interesting

    i havnt used a TiVo remote, but i can sure as hell say that ATI made one nice remote for PC. hmmm, never thought of the TiVo as a remote before, as i'm a software developer working with several wireless remotes... maybe i will get one a play around with it now.

  12. Re:Disapointing Linux Benchmarks. (Socre:5, Insigh on AMD Receives $683M for Dresden Plant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    all of those times are horribly... i just copied 45mb from my main PC over to my server across a 100mbit network connection (wich is a hell of alot slower than any HDD), and it took about 4 seconds. im guessing you dont have proper drivers for your SCSI device there.

  13. patent on Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site · · Score: 3, Funny

    why not sue google for infringing on slashdots patent for taking down web servers?