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  1. x31 on Thinkpad X300 Specs Leaked · · Score: 1

    no 2.5" hdd, no mini pci-x, no firewire - so, no new portable audio workstation for me, i guess i will stick with my good old x31 a little longer - or maybe the x61 prices slump a bit..

  2. TH-55 on Which eBook Reader is the Best? · · Score: 1
    for me, it's still my good old SONY TH-55 with plucker and Gemini as pdf converter.

    you find a lot of free pdfs on the net, and the one hand usage with the wheel for paging is ideal. in plucker you can add one click lookup of words for translation and if you add this font you have the right balance between strong readability and narrow width - I read hundreds of books this way.. PAT

  3. Honeckeresk on Bill Gates Brags About Vista, Reacts to Apple's Latest Ads · · Score: 1
    This guy reminds me heavily of the late Erich Honecker. Creepy..

    PAT

  4. GEMA even cashs up their own artists on Germany's RIAA Sues Rapidshare - YouTube Next? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    As a side note, the GEMA is somewhat different to the RIAA in that they even want a fee from you as an artist if you put your own music (which you registered with the GEMA) on your own website. Thinks this. No joke. There we are in Germany after all our experience with fascism ;)

    (Disclaimer: I'm German).

  5. Re:stop beeing so US centric on PayPal Launches Virtual Debit Card · · Score: 1
    see subject for god's sake..

    PAT

  6. stop beeing so US centric on PayPal Launches Virtual Debit Card · · Score: 1

    for people outside the US this will be a good thing (TM). here in europe, credit cards aren't so popular as in the US and shop's who only offer payement by credit card (nytimes.com comes to my mind) are just not usable for me (not haveing a CC) so, when paypal finally launches their product, i can stop doing these buys with my mother's CC.

  7. mythtv client on Wii Internet Connection Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1
    i wonder if fullscreen for flash videos is enabled in wiipera. this way i somehow imagine a myth frontend, on the fly encoded by the mythbackend, in the end a tv in the tv..

    PAT

  8. andlinux on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 2, Informative
    you mean something like AndLinux?

    PAT

  9. Re:playing dvorak's advocate.. on Leopard Vs. Vista · · Score: 1

    native german speaker's heritage - read Kant to see some /real/ commata ;)

  10. playing dvorak's advocate.. on Leopard Vs. Vista · · Score: 1

    ..i see some kind of strategy: beginning with apple's switch to x86, in this case intel, i just have the feeling, that intel, as a secretive company, did trust apple enough to lay out before them there palomino concept, and apple came to the conclusion, that this could be the leverage needed to break into the windows market on the long shot. when virtualisation on the processor level is finally a reality, it will be possible to run windows "emulation" whithout beeing dependent from microsoft at all, because the windows will run on one of the cores of intel's (or amd's) processors, which will finally be the chance for apple to sell /their/ computers with all what makes them superior /and/ selling full windows compatibillity. than see vmwares announcement to have 3d-graphics support in future products and everything falls into place. PAT

  11. much too high frequencies on Making the Sounds of Vista · · Score: 1

    is i just me or are these vista sounds teeth grinding high? PAT

  12. cynicism (No honest man can call Bush a christian) on Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating · · Score: 1
    I've been through it in training, so I know exactly what it's like. I still don't consider it torture. This is the same mentality that tells us it's wrong to occasionally discipline a child physically, or to eat meat because "it's cruel to the wiffle cows".

    this just makes me wonder if you get taught cynicism or to forget humanity in "training".

    what training do you talking about anyway? us army? and you americans really wonder what the world is thinking about you? detaining foreigners without trail (yes, that's a pun), without even knowing why and how long they will be detained comparing with educating children is so brainwashed that i think you should get back to the front lines really soon. PAT

  13. Re:secure...says opera? on Opera to Start Phoning Home? · · Score: 1

    problem is, that this would be the first file a spyware would alter/delete. see %sysvol%\%system32%\drivers\etc\hosts PAT

  14. flamebait?! on Microsoft or Google? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    when can i finally moderate slashdot stories?!

  15. DSLR != ProSumer on Top 10 Digital Cameras on Flickr · · Score: 1

    sorry, but entry level DSLR are usually not called prosumer cameras. prosumer cameras are usually cameras with non-changeable lenses. PAT

  16. Re:buzzword bingo on Next Step in ISP Control Panels? · · Score: 1
    a first reply is seldom well thought thru..

    when i need to integrate a lot of services, partly self serviced by the customer, where is the problem in having them intgrated into a usable frontend? just because i can create a customer, with a template of security settings/features for him with the ease of a click doesn't makes me a bit dumber then i was before. it just helps. does it mean i don't know how to secure a server, read a log file, tweak a qmail configuration? no, sorry, it doesn't.

    so, next time, write the third reply and think for a second before posting, thanks,

    PAT

  17. time for a WGA-disabling worm/virus, is it? on WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall? · · Score: 1

    i wonder if this would be the first time, the AV vendors would NOT blacklist a worm/virus which does nothing but disabling WGA and sends itselfs thru outlook like any other of this malwares. I mean, seriously, the joe doe with the disabled windows won't buy mcafee, or does he?

  18. Digg?! Re:Holy Sh*t on Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft · · Score: 1
    I agree with you in all you said, but, hell, DIGG?! that kindergarden? here the most have at least a little background when they comment, but over at digg, my friend, you won't find windows vs linux flamewars, but XBOX360 vs PS3, Myspace vs. whatever.. hell, I'm sure, the half of those kids don't even know the word flamewar anymore.. ;)

    good luck..

  19. It's all about NT on VMWare Eats Microsoft's Lunch · · Score: 1

    IMHO MS bought VPC to offer their clients a way to continue running legacy NT servers AND upgrade to new servers (with the attached license). what else VPC runs also is not what MS cares much about. I don't see them even competing with VMWare..

  20. YES! Re:Sadly, not a lotta FPU hardware. on Octopiler to Ease Use of Cell Processor · · Score: 1
    Why can't someone invent a chip for math geeks? With 128-bit hardware doubles? Are we really that tiny a proportion of the world's population?

    Yes, in fact you are a really tiny proportion of the world's population!

  21. not convinced (Re:Apple is a hardware company) on OSx86 Cracked Again · · Score: 1
  22. a much more sane approach on Ideazon ZBoard Customizable Gaming Keyboard Review · · Score: 1

    have look here. it's a WASD keyboard from Wolf Claw. quite interesting..

  23. i hardly see my desktop once a day?! on Yahoo Launches Dashboard · · Score: 1
    what i really don't get about these widget engines - they are on the bottom of your desktop - but i hardly see my desktop more then once or twice a day (as a windows user). mostly opera is open fullscreen (wherein i read my mail too) and i have the windows taskbar on the right side some 100 pixels wide (1600x1200) so i switch to my applications from there or by alt-tabbing.

    sometimes i download stuff to my desktop and have todo a quick Win-M to start it - but these are really the only moments a day i see the background of my desktop. so what use is these dashboard/konfawhatever for me?

    PAT

  24. Re:I'd want an IM Speak translator on Yahoo IM Translator · · Score: 1
    I suspect by deleting you from their buddylist ;)

    and right so. or wouldn't you be a bit annoyed if your doctor expects from you a correct description of your malaise in medical latin when he visits you? speech is best used according to the environment it is used in. PAT

  25. Re:Totally incorrect on Computer Makers Cater to Big Business, IT Depts. · · Score: 1

    are you drunk? think! come on! he's at a software shop:

    scenario a) he's developing /server/ software.

    scenario b) he's developing webserver software and provides servers for his clients

    scenario c) ..come on, continue..

    PAT ;)