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  1. I'm suprised at the wide variety of products. on PC World's 100 Best Products of 2005 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Over the years, PC World has becaome very toned down, and I see them only reviewing full PC's, never individual components.

    To see products like:
    NVidia GeForce 6600 GT Graphics Board
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive
    Plextor PX-716UF Rewritable DVD Drive
    Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard

    That was a nice suprise, and even though I may not agree with the list, it was still interesting to see what they picked.

  2. Re:Slashdot on New Online MD5 Hash Database · · Score: 3, Funny

    RESULTS:
    Hash Pass
    4e9fd9f4624c02685096769364a81d95 slashdot

    Yes, it does.

  3. No RSS feed. on Podcasting from Space · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the definition of "Podcast" require RSS?

    Anyways, I thought it was very interesting and cool how they have done this, it should make others feel better about the space program.

    I hope they continue this on future missions.

  4. Coral Link to the 40 MB video on A Few Good G-Men - HL2 Machinima · · Score: 2
  5. Re:MSI on How to Build a Mainboard: ECS Production Tour · · Score: 1

    me too!

  6. Re:Compression on DivX 6.0 is Out · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Divx is used for transfrerring over the internet, so the smaller the file is, the better.

    Even with many pipes over 500KB/second, it still is not enough to stream in 1080i.

  7. Re:Two buttons? Why two buttons? on True Bluetooth Trackballs? · · Score: 1

    Mac OSX can use mice with one to infinite buttons. This isn't System 7.

  8. Re:WTF are apple up to? on Darwin 8.0.1 Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    You will get it with 10.4.1 due in less than a month. Its like this is in Debian unstable right now. When you get it it will be like testing.

  9. Re:Use... on Personal Use FLAC Streaming Solutions? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    5 is too bloated and 3 is too buggy

  10. Use... on Personal Use FLAC Streaming Solutions? · · Score: 3, Informative

    -Windows 2000 or XP
    -Winamp 2.92 (yes i know its old but it supports shoutcast)
    -SHN and FLAC Winamp plugins
    -Winamp Shoutcast DSP plugin
    -Windows Shoutcast server

    The DSP enocdes to MP3 on the fly, and really dosn't use much in the way of system resources.

    The only problem i cna think of is remote control.

  11. Target market on ROM Rental Service To Launch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think this is targeted at the /. crowd, more towards the people that buy those Pac-Man joysticks at the mall because they think it will bring them back to childhood.


    We, on the other hand, have grown to know and love MAME, so this isn't all that exciting, UNLESS they get some ultra-rare game that us MAME'ers don't have yet


    P.S. The icon for this is a X-Arcade controller, the ULTIMATE MAME controller!

  12. Re:Well.... on 'Xtreme' Equipment That You Have Borrowed? · · Score: 1

    Uh huh... High school student? You're going to get reamed royally when they find out you've been installing all this unauthorised stuff on the crappy Windows PCs in the labs. Only install stuff on machines you're allowed to. If they suddenly discover SETI@Home running on machines it shouldn't then it'll give the project a bad name. Besides, if you can install all this stuff and not have anybody notice then they've got other security problems fix first.

    MANY of the computers already have it on there at my school, I just change the account fromk the sysadmin's to mine. They will NEVER notice, as its the CLI version. And for the ones that DON'T have it, the sysadmin doesn't really know that they don't already.

    Oh yeah, and for some real fun, install it on a bunch of G5's at the Apple store.

  13. Well.... on 'Xtreme' Equipment That You Have Borrowed? · · Score: 1

    I borg (install SETI@home) on very box I can lay my hands on, and I guess the total value of all those machines is weel into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    I also installed a Counter-STrike server on a server at my high school, and I think its been running for like 7 months and noone has noticed yet :-)

  14. Re:These guys defined product delay on Nintendo Revolution Under Wraps Past E3 · · Score: 0

    If you are 13 now, you couldn't have been around for SNES...

    2005
    - 13
    -----
    1992

    SNES came out in 1991, and even if it did coem out in 1992, I don't think you could remember it.

    Thank you, I'll be here all week.

  15. If they dont show it off then, When will they? on Nintendo Revolution Under Wraps Past E3 · · Score: 1

    I haven't been keeping up on console games recently, so I dont know what evenets still exist. I *think* that there is some show in Japan in the Fall, but I don't know. I think Nntendo should atleast have some beta hardware to show off, not just DS and Gamecube games. This may hurt them. But maybe this is jsut a flase rumor.

    Now let's wait for E3.

  16. Re:Okay, quick question then: on Verizon's DSL Gets Naked · · Score: 1

    Verizon is cheaper, Comcast is faster. It really depends on how fast you want to go. Ask otehr people in your area how they like Verizon. Broadband can be hell in some areas and heaven in others.

  17. Re:Linux? on New 640-Node Apple Xserve Cluster at UIUC · · Score: 0

    I would assume that since it replaced a Linux cluster, it probobly runs close to the same form that it replaced so all their old apps will continue to work without much tweaking.

  18. Re:Quirky service but worth it on Voom No More · · Score: 1

    With his mind set on Dish, I bet he has soemthing against DTV or they dotn work in his area. DTV has a beetter service, but the company is worse that M$.

  19. From the changelog: on Knoppix 3.8.1 is Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX-CHAN GELOG.txt

    * V3.8.1-2005-04-08
    - Lots and lots of package updates
    - Integration of UNIONFS for full write support in the live session
    - Capability + utilities for using loopback virtual disk drives on NTFS
    (saving system changes and home directory permanently on disk)
    - Kernel 2.6.11 (Kernel 2.4.x removed)
    - ipw2100 and ipw2200 (Centrino WLAN) support
    - RAlink rt2400 and rt2500 WLAN support
    - ndiswrapper update
    - FreeNX update (client and Server)
    - Added: qemu, kwifimanager
    - OpenOffice 1.1.4
    - KDE 3.3.2 from Debian/unstable
    - Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird from Debian/unstable
    - Live updates/software installations can now be done via kpackage thanks to unionfs

  20. FTP Links While they Last! on Knoppix 3.8.1 is Released · · Score: 2, Informative
  21. I think this is a sign of... on New Xbox Titles Through 2007 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No backward comptibilty in the Xbox (2/Next), as this seems kind of early to state this, makes me think that high profile titles for Xbox may even come out after Xbox NExt comes out.

    Maybe they will even cross release games?

  22. Camera Phones. on Why Don't PDAs and Cellphones Use USB? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People just LOVE camera phones these days, and by not putting standard connectors on, consumers are forced to pay outrageous prices for data servece, where if they had a USB cable, they could just mount it as a drive and drag the JPEGs right off the phone.


    Companies goals are to make money, not please the customer.

  23. To make money. on Why Don't PDAs and Cellphones Use USB? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By not putting standard interfaces on, people are forced to pay for ringtones, where if they had USB, they could just drag a MIDI right to the phone.

  24. Re:Download the track? on Ride Along With a Real Verizon Wireless Tester · · Score: 4, Informative

    Extension: AMR Program and/or Extension Function Company Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec Specific Notes Speech encoding format used in GSM telephony. MIME Type What's This? File Classification Associated Links * Player * Background Paper Identifying Characters: Hex: 23 21 41 4D 52 0A 34 ASCII: #!AMR.4

  25. What causes the price? on Contrabandwidth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    According to OpenNet Initiative, a nonprofit that tracks banned sites, visiting a single website in Saudi Arabia can cost anywhere from $26 to $67

    I wonder if the price is because of the cost of the connection (probobly a satellite phone), or something else.... What do you guys think?