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  1. Re:V5 Windows update on Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    Yes it does detect invalid products (my friends = owned).

    Just download a program that searches for a good key, there are plenty of them out there.

  2. Re:Longhorn and Unix. on Unix To Beef Up Longhorn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And you can tell they don't want to admit it because it's named Windows Services for UNIX. UNIX Services for Windows is more correct, but they want you to believe that Windows is empowering UNIX instead of the other way around.

    It's true, they market the thing for migrating from UNIX to Windows but I've only ever used it to migrate from Windows to UNIX.

  3. Re:Mod article -1, Troll on Linux Users Are Spoiled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then why does OSDN have Microsoft ads all the time?

  4. IE Weapons License on IE Download.Ject Exploit Fixed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In other news, the US House of Representatives has changed the language in a bill requiring Pentium 4 class processors to have a weapons license. Instead of Pentium 4s requiring a weapons license "Microsoft Internet Explorer" will now require a weapons license.

    For those of you that missed it:
    Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License?

  5. So you could legally... on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · · Score: 1

    So you could legally make a wire tap by putting a computer on the wire, converting the previously single wire into two separate segments. Then, have the computer temporarily store the information in RAM before transmitting it on to the destination (and also store the data to the disk and thereby have a legal wire tap).

  6. Re:I have to admit on Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I really should use the preview button...

    While 3D desktops "look cool" I still don't see how that makes them practical. I've found the ability to use multiple desktops much more useful. I make key shortcuts for all my desktops (CTRL+ALT+"desktop number" where "desktop number" is between 1 and 6) and I setup the useless windows key to press CTRL+ALT simultaneously so that I can switch between desktops with "windows key"+"desktop number". I find that to be much easier and more practical than organizing windows in three dimensions.

  7. Re:I have to admit on Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While 3D desktops "look cool" I still don't see how that makes them practical. I've found the ability to use multiple desktops much more useful. I make key shortcuts for all my desktops (CTRL+ALT+ where is between 1 and 6) and setup the useless windows key to press CTRL+ALT simultaneously so that I can switch between desktops with +. I find that to be much easier and more practical than organizing windows in three dimensions.

  8. Re:Brad...are you out there? on Metamath! The Quest for Omega · · Score: 1

    no, the joke is "r dr d(theta)"

  9. Re:There's a third option on Open Access To Scientific Literature: Can It Work? · · Score: 1

    I agree, I think that author-pays could setup a conflict of interest problem. Personally, I think that even the potential of such a problem in a major scientific magazine is a bad idea - you've got to be able to trust what you're reading.

  10. Re:The U.S. Patent Office: DIE, DIE Bitch! on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    Tomorrow I'll probably see a patent on a new sex position. Yeah, but I bet if you produce any prior art they'll throw you in jail :)

  11. Re:FireFox on End Run Around Pop-up Blockers · · Score: 3, Informative

    I personally like the AdBlock extension (http://adblock.mozdev.org/) since it allows you to remove banners and other pesky ads straight from the page. You can even have AdBlock "fill in the hole" by removing enough of the ad that the page fills the spot in. Sorry /. :(, it works on your "Advertisement" column so all I see is the title.

  12. Re:USPTO respected? on Ken Brown Responds to His Critics · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's more like internationally laughed at for approving anything that shows up on its doorstep and not even checking its own database for conflicts.

  13. Shareaza 2.0: Open Source on Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not to be cruel, but what makes Shareaza so cool that someone would go to the trouble to port it when we already have gtk-gnutella (http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/) that supports Shareaza?

  14. Re:Is this a good thing ?? on New MPC Decoding Library And Updated Homepage · · Score: 1

    It seems to me like it produces much smaller files for the same level of quality - but don't use the defaults if you're working with MP3 files. I've found that the "best" option for my current re-encoding progress is "mppenc --radio --quality 3" - my current extreme example reduced a 5.2 MB MP3 (128kbps) to a 3.9 MB MPC and I can't hear any difference. For reference, the default is "--standard --quality 5", which makes some files smaller and some bigger - my settings produce consistently smaller files with the same quality as the original (as far as I can tell).

  15. "Swapiness" on Is Swap Necessary? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you've got kernel 2.6 you can change the "swapiness" to fit your needs/desires. People with lots of RAM could experiment by changing the swapiness value to 0 and report back with the results (be easier than installing a system without swap).

  16. Re:Please wake up... on Sasser Worm Disruption Growing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because when the Linux Rah-Rah Club provides a patch for a security vulnerability it usually doesn't provide a new three vulnerabilities for the one it fixed. Even if the LRRC did provide such a patch someone would see the problems immediately and provide another one to fix them.

  17. Re:Audio Delay on Lip Sync Problems with New Digital Displays? · · Score: 1

    It's much cheaper to just build in a little menu that allows people to shift the timing of the audio. Most computer DVD players have features like this built-in, but for a live feed you would have to buffer things in order to do that kind of syncronization.