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  1. Re:Divx My Ass on Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A .divx file is just an .avi with a different extension. A bit like .mp3 is .wav with a different extension.

  2. Re:To the Moon, Alice on NASA Considers Mobile Lunar Base · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, but a moon base is much closer, even just for "practice" for a mars base. It's still a hell of a lot cheaper to send stuff to the moon than Mars.

  3. Re:3D! on Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative · · Score: 1

    Even bump maps would make it look better... not 100% though.

  4. Re:Why is this better then Mozilla? on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't know about Thunderbird, but Firefox has customisable toolbars, which is something the is severely lacking in Mozilla. Also, as I'm a web developer, I'm opening and closing web browsers quite frequently (to make sure Java is totally out of memory), and I find the startup time on Firefox is quite a bit faster than Mozilla (it's almost as fast as opening IE which is pretty good as IE is intergrated into the system, thus always partially running).

  5. Re:bling bling on Orac^3 -- Not Your Everyday Casemod · · Score: 1

    Probably a fortune considering he's an Aussie... things are overpriced down here!

  6. Re:Its amazing what one can do with some silver lo on Orac^3 -- Not Your Everyday Casemod · · Score: 1

    The thing is he didn't use silver loom, it's actually shower hoses.

  7. Re:It's what works that counts on Searching for the Best Scripting Language · · Score: 1

    I was thinking exactly the same thing... Test like this are fairly useless... you need the right tool for the right job.

  8. Old joke. on Sony Launches Three Linux-based In-car Navigation Devices · · Score: 1

    But does it run.... oh, wait!

  9. Re:Anybody remember AllAdvantage? on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I signed up to this, managed to score $30 Australian dollars, which back them worked out to probably around $0.50 US :-) The good thing about it was you could turn it off if you didn't want it.

  10. No need for SQL to be exposed to the web on MS SQL Server 2005 Adds Security Features · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sorry, but you're an idiot if you expose your SQL server to the web, there's no need that I can think of to do it. Your webserver should be on a seperate box that is exposed to the web, whereas the SQL server should only be visable to internal networks... is this new encryption really necessary?

  11. Re:Ah... technology on Can Cell Phones Ignite Gasoline Vapors? · · Score: 0

    Hmmm, smoke signals while filling up.... I feel safer already!

  12. Re:Battle Royale on 2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent · · Score: 1

    Sounds very similar to a movie released a few years back called Series 7.

  13. Is it just me? on Build Your Own Monowheel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Personally I think the whole concept of that is really quite cool, that said, I don't think it's place is on the road with other motorists, maybe only on a race track.

  14. Is it just me on Install iPod Update in Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or does it seem really dodgy just to hack the firmware for the OS... shouldn't Apple be doing this? It should be easy for them to do as there stuff is already BSD based anyway (isn't it?)

  15. Re:Alias's Rambaldi on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing.

  16. 3ds? on Universal 3D File Format In The Works · · Score: 0

    What's wrong with 3ds, it's easy to extend without breaking compatability.... if an app doesn't know about a chunk, it just ignores it.... seems like a pretty good format for 3d to me... maybe it could have compression, but that's all I'd probably add to it.

  17. Re:I can see it now... on Money That Grows On Trees · · Score: 1

    Oh believe me, you aren't the only one... the first thing I thought when I read the article was Tiberium.

  18. Re:Howard is against DMCA on Pay Attention To .Au/.Us IP Trade Law · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh, that's similar to the article I read... except that just said Howard... implying John Howard... and I thought The Australian was better than the other papers, obviously not.

  19. Howard is against DMCA on Pay Attention To .Au/.Us IP Trade Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    I read in "The Australian" (local newspaper) that John Howard is agains the DMCA, partially because it holds back innovation.... hopefully that counts for something.

  20. Abuse on Finding Yourself With Photo Recognition · · Score: 1

    Could this be abused? Maybe someone cropping a photo of somebody's house in the background of a pic to find where that person lives?

  21. Re:Surprise? on Happy Spamiversary! · · Score: 1

    I thought only the dead ones were lovable?

  22. Mmmmm Blue on The Blues for LEDs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm a fan of blue LED's, but I'm kinda getting sick of them, they're everywhere. Companies need to realise that there are other colours too... why don't we see more purple ones (I did have a burner that had a purple one, but that's the only device I've seen that came with one)? Or maybe a light green rather than the regular boring green?