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  1. Re:Backing up via DVD on DVD Burner Round-up · · Score: 1

    Archival storage. Backup on one time write material, and file it away in a safety deposit box.

    This goes a huge way towards disaster recovery, and record keeping requirements, far cheaper than a warehouse full of boxes of records. Grind them up after the required period.

    Once a month, do a full backup, and stash it away.

  2. U.S.S. Grace Hopper on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 3, Informative

    Anybody serve aboard her? That is a ship named after one of the Navy's formost geeks, way before being geeky was cool. (if it ever is)

    Just a small ship in a big navy, but they are important to.

  3. Re:A pinch of salt ... on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 1

    I remember visitor's day at the UofI, in the materials section, they ran demos of their concrete crusher on the hour, to an audience crowd each hour.

    Big things being destroyed is cool to watch, even when it is something as simple as testing batches of concrete, when it leaves a pile of rubble that takes a dozer to remove.

    You shoot anything with a 1lb object at 500+ mph and it is going to be entertaining.

  4. Kinda cool, nothing new on Giant "Inkjet Printer" · · Score: 1

    Billboards, usually along roadways, are printed by huge inkjet printers.

    Go google for large scale printers, they exist. You get like 50 DPI, but for a billboard, that is plenty.

  5. RIghts change over time on Estonia: Where the Internet is a Human Right · · Score: 1

    I look at it as a form of communication, which has been established as a right.

    I mean the right to free speech (in the USA) means one can own a printing press, or a radio station (regulations permitting), TV, or now, a web page.

    I don't think the founding fathers had radio and tv in mind when they wrote the bill of rights, but they knew that people have the need to communicate.

  6. Forget duct tape what is needed is racer's tape on Duct Tape Goes Minature · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When watching the Indy 500, I saw pit crews sealing up the (bent) cars with "200 mph racers tape".

    Now what NASA needs is 600+ mph racers tape, for the shuttles.

  7. Re:Slasdot Membership Credit on Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! · · Score: 1

    Then it is worth promoting eh?

    Yeah, it would be a good thing to remind folks of the subscription, as the header gets lots in the banner ad, in this ol' mind at least.

    Certainly seems like a good idea for runner ups.

  8. Re:Too hard on Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just get the approriate color choices for the carpet.

  9. On the cheap on Build a Multi-Output MP3 Server? · · Score: 1

    Run line level signals over cat-5, and use amplified speakers, which start at $10/pair. Buy a cheap receiver or amp on Ebay, or at a garage sale, to drive larger speakers.

    A single output, such as a tape output on a receiver or a sound card output, can drive multiple inputs, with no problems.

  10. Identical systems on MandrakeClustering Shows Off At ISC2003 · · Score: 1

    The cluster management software may be useful for things like offices, class rooms, etc, where one needs to maintain a bunch of identical systems.

  11. Customized software on Business Software Needs A Revolution · · Score: 1

    Many times the high cost is to customize a program uniquely for a customer, thus the feature can not be demonstrated at that time.

    Only the requirements for it exist. And the vendor's promise that they can deliver and implement something that works, and is on time, and will do what they say it will.

    You can be showed something "just like it", but that is again, just a promise.

  12. Must be wholesale cost on How Labels And Artists Divvy Up Your Dollar Online · · Score: 1

    If I'm a retailer, and I buy the CD wholesale for $x and then it is up to me to sell the CD for whatever I can.

    There is no obligation on the part of the retailer to give part of the profit or loss to the label or artist. I'm talking about a simple sale here, not a specific contract or other deal a store may have.

    What is interesting, is how this case shows that there are other options for distributing music, and the $$.

  13. Re:Managing bandwidth on Managing Bandwidth and Bandwidth Costs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is there any reason an FTP server couldn't support bit torrent as well?

    The combo of the two would be great for moving distributions and other mirroring of publicily available data.

  14. Are there even that many lines of code? on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 1

    "hundreds of thousands" lines of code. Hmm, just how many lines of code does the Linux kernal contain? That has to be close to it all of it.

    Or SCO has problems with the entire GNU library of code...

  15. Re:The sad truth... on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    >I would like to see something critical go IPv6 exclusively.

    Umm, the nations defense is not critical?

    The DOD is a big customer, with a single goal. They do not have to meet quarterly earnings goals. Not going to be distracted by the latest tech buzz word.

    This is what has been needed, a big customer demanding IPV6.

  16. Java on The Little Coder's Predicament · · Score: 2, Troll

    Download, install, and run. Read the tutorials on Sun's site.

    If a kid can't do that, then programming isn't for them.

  17. Dell and the other guys on Will Microsoft Subsidize WinXP For Lindows Buyers? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's other customers may not take too well to someone else getting a better deal than they do.

    This is a step down a steep slope of cheaper software, that MS doesn't really want to go for in the long run.

  18. Mobility on Putting the TV Broadcast Spectrum to Better Use? · · Score: 1

    What is the percentage in RV parks? One sees quite few TV's, and an increasing number in SUVs.

  19. Court time table on Darl & SCO Overview · · Score: 1

    I agree sort of, it should be pushed forward in the courts, and let us see what is going on.

    Enough of this bluffing, call it, and show your cards.

    IBM can make an offer any time, and settle any time before a final decision. The suit isn't as much a problem as the FUD in getting there.

  20. Differing security goals on Would You Use SELinux? · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that SElinux is more about mandatory access controls, that is enforcing security between multiple individual users.

    More along the lines of breaking the dependancy to give elevated privs (admin) to get anything done on a machine.

    The BSD's may have the features that a person needs in their applications.

  21. Zmodem was bullet proof on Fast TCP To Increase Speed Of File Transfers? · · Score: 1

    Back in those days, I setup a interactive session, PC to the companies Vax/VMS system, dialing in, then back out again.

    Zmodem worked over the link, where none of the other protocols did. It was horribly laggy, escaped characters, etc.

    It was designed to handle a packet switched (x.25, tymenet, telenet) network in the path.

  22. Popcorn cannon on NASA's Foam Test Offers Lesson in Kinetic Energy · · Score: 1

    In a discussion a long time ago, the subject of using popcorn as a weapon came up.

    An un-popped kernal at relativistic speeds, gives the energy of a small nuke on impact. In theory at least.

  23. Another name for P2P? on Supercomputing: Raw Power vs. Massive Storage · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Lots of data, in a networked array of systems.

    Sounds familar, and the RIAA and MPAA's worst fears.

  24. Re:Cool, but... on Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    From the listing:

    Navy crew of 1000, air crew of 300.

    Probably max crew, it probably can be run with a crew of a few hundred, several dozen to run x 3 shifts + support staff.

  25. Hell of a dance floor on Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Great place to throw a party, cruise outside the reach of the law in internatinal waters.

    Hope the weather is good tho.