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  1. Car Computer Access is Fun on Ask Slashdot: Good Books and Tools For a Software/Hardware Hobbyist? · · Score: -1

    Get him the appropriate hardware and software for the PCM in his car. I will soon be getting a Quarterhorse for my 93 Lincoln Mark VIII:

    http://www.moates.net/quarterhorse-for-fords.html

      With one of the software editors, Binary Editor:

    http://www.moates.net/binary-editor-2010-for-fords-from-clint-garrity.html

      And or perhaps EEC Editor:

    http://www.moates.net/eec-editor-software-from-paul-booth.html

      You need an unlocked strategy and bin file for your car and with that in place you can control and tune your car to the moon. Dtat logging in real time for real events is a very powerful tuning tool.

      My EEC-IV is actually an Intel 8061 and you can get even further into that with a disassembler etc.

      Lots of fun tuning with modern cars. I will have switchable tunes when I'm done. One for mileage and one for power, for starters.

  2. Slashdot borken on Tool Shows the Arguments Behind Wikipedia Entries · · Score: -1, Troll

    WTF this place is just fucked. The way to long long waits for crap to run, I hesitate to come here anymore. Yeah sure.

  3. Re:No on Is Apple's Multi-Touch Patent Valid? · · Score: 0

    No sweetie. It's a troll. You and some moderators are dangling on his hook, nice one too. But then I am just a critic.

  4. Re:alt-f2 + gnome-terminal on HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu · · Score: 0

    I would hope I'm not stuck with gnome-terminal. Why would 'rxvt' not work?

  5. Re:Bicycles what? on Moblin 2 First Impressions · · Score: 0

    You are not paying attention to current events. Your philosophy is getting it's ass kicked.

      I am not a nice person and watching the USA bite it big time is very funny. Irony is oozing out all over and the business section just cracks me up. You are not fast learners.

      Have a nice decade.

  6. Re:A photographer is a photographer on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 0

    Living in the past are we? Just kidding Tri-X rules but I don't use it. T-Max2 400 at 20F in XTOL 1+4 ... about 8 min constant agitation in BTZS tubes.

  7. Not just a file manager on Midnight Commander Development Revived · · Score: 0

    You can do most anything from MC. I use it to play video, games many things. You can bind a file extension to a command and just hilight and hit enter (F9/Command/Edit Extension File/User). I run my 1000 doom wads out of MC as well as all my vids. Even play DVDs one vob at a time sometimes.

      Hard to beat and manages files just fine.

  8. Re:Fishing for emotional validation. on New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again? · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no ... really I came here hoping there would be something about this.

  9. Full Circle on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Israelis are the Nazis and Gaza is the Warsaw ghetto.

  10. Re:All you really need to know on Ubuntu Kung Fu · · Score: 1

    Can you alias that sudo crap in .bash_profile ... eh' ?

  11. Re:Compare with XP on First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you have some adequacy problems the software solves for you. I mean it is "love" right? mWhahaha.

    The only useful thing I found Vista could do was shrink it's self. That made it last nearly a week on my lappy that came with it. XP sits where it was although I don't seem to need it much. Slackware 12 does everything I need the lappy to do.

  12. Re:Links to the torrent (for Google impaired folks on First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Just one of 97 windose 7 torrents right now at that site.

  13. Old Saying on DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We have met the terrorists and they are USA.

  14. Re:How do the botnets know it's OpenBSD? on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    09:50 PM ~# telnet localhost 22
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

      Just turn off the sshd and it all goes away. Turn it back on as you need to.

      Yes that is a 'time' prompt.

    PS1="\[\033[0;32m\]\@ \w# \033[0m\]"

  15. Re:Depends on the intended use on What Needs Fixing In Linux · · Score: 1

    You are not at all current it's obvious. I just put Slackware 12 current on my cheap ass, $550 with an extra Gig, Acer Aspire laptop and the kernel picked up everything but the sound. Some persuasion was needed but very little. Vista came on it. It was so crippled it was almost unusable. XP works but I spent a lot of time getting drivers for it.

      Modern Linux USB is flawless, I use a USB GPS device and no problem. Plug in a mouse and she works right now it's a much nicer laptop with Linux.

      Just delete all your dumb xorg.conf files and fire up X again. See if your problems don't go away.

      Slak rules as usual.

  16. Re:Well, this should brighten up Theo's day... on Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer Source Is Released · · Score: 1

    One O two Ls and you don't have to wear it ... eh'.

  17. Lift Weights on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 1

    Works for me and I'm 62 ... or ... is that 63 ... damn. Really it works. I think it's the new mitochondrion produced that makes this work. Only way for an old guy to get younger.

  18. Red is Low Res on RED's New Digital Stills and Motion Camera Pushing the Limits · · Score: 1

    A decent scan of a 4x5 will yield well over a Gig. 5000 dpi on a 4x5 is 25,000x20,000. Happily print to 70" at 360 dpi.

     

  19. Crap on After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can only listen to this truncated time shifted garbage through crappy equipment. Your little ear buds and horrible ipod amplifier deals at the very best just smooth the crud so it don't bite.

      I don't like even CDs much but I'm spoiled. I know what good sound sounds like.

      If you have to squeeze it use flac, the full CD file is just a 44100hz sample at best. Yeah nyquist yadda yadda but the overtones cannot resonate and all kinds of nasty timing events roil the mix. A good record with a nice cartridge will do 100,000 hz right to your tweeters. All the overtones to that level makes the sound you can hear much more real. Go to a live music event and pay attention. Your stereo should come close.

      Ah I'm wasting my time, you are all already deaf.

  20. Re:But where to buy TY? on How To Verify CD-R Data Retention Over Time? · · Score: 1

    Cdrecord will tell you what the disc is.

  21. Get Archival Medium on How To Verify CD-R Data Retention Over Time? · · Score: 1

    There are discs and then there are discs:

    http://www.printfile.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=180

          eh'

  22. Re:An armed society ..... on Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web · · Score: 1

    It's simple. I respond to danger otherwise I'm kinda laid back and unambitious. You having a weapon puts me in danger. I will continue to try to have that occur minimally.
      I am happy to engage in physical combat but you weak wimpy types always want to bring a gun to a fist fight. Having that be illegal works for me in Canada.

      Heinlien was a transvestite wanna be tough guy. His opinions are largely nonsense except the one about women and cats. I read science fiction as a kid and I've read everything he wrote but the last few. I could not get through them. At his best, as a space opera detail guy in the better earlier times, he was a lot of fun. After Stranger ... less so.

  23. Re:aus on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    Counting ballots by hand scales infinitely. Makes no difference at all how big the set is if it is counted by a scaling subset ... eh'.

      Now you are crazy people and stuff all kinds of crap on your ballots when voting for president but I think that is mainly because it allows more spin and confusion. Cynical bastard for sure, but then I've been here a long time.

  24. Re:aus on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    Canada too. If you count em' by hand it's pretty well impossible to cheat. We too return our results the same day. Sometimes close ones will be recounted but apart from that it's all done in one day by hand.

      Works well but I suspect the American character is not happy with something that cannot be spun. Playing fair is regarded as pussy. You need to think that through as it does not produce the results you think it does.

  25. Freedom Fighters on Doom9 Researchers Break BD+ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well done.