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  1. VIA Vinyl Envy24 on An Affordable Pro-Quality Sound Card? · · Score: 1

    The VIA Envy24 chip combined with a quality I2S codec chip (AKM Semiconductor) will suit your needs. Stay away from the Envy24HT-S, Envy24PT, and Envy24GT as they are lower-end chips geared for the consumer markets. I'd go for S/PDIF digital interconnects if you can foot the bill.

  2. Re:Anyone doing Zero Gravity Copulation research? on First Zero-Gravity Surgery a Success · · Score: 1

    Mission Specialist Jan Davis
    Payload Commander Mark C. Lee

    Those NASA guys have a twisted sense of humor.

  3. What's the catch? on Earthlink Offers Alternate DNS Without "Dead DNS" · · Score: 1

    What's the business model for OpenDNS, how do they make money?

  4. Re:My idea exactly! Brilliant! SETI paradox resolv on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 1

    We should have plenty of time to laugh at the irony thanks to time dilation. The first thing you'll notice is that all of the clocks set via GPS will display the wrong time, depending on your prospective.

  5. Re: Fermi's Paradox! on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thats Fermi's Paradox!:

    "The story goes that, one day back on the 1940's, a group of atomic scientists, including the famous Enrico Fermi, were sitting around talking, when the subject turned to extraterrestrial life. Fermi is supposed to have then asked, "So? Where is everybody?" What he meant was: If there are all these billions of planets in the universe that are capable of supporting life, and millions of intelligent species out there, then how come none has visited earth? This has come to be known as The Fermi Paradox.

    Fermi realized that any civilization with a modest amount of rocket technology and an immodest amount of imperial incentive could rapidly colonize the entire Galaxy. Within a few million years, every star system could be brought under the wing of empire. A few million years may sound long, but in fact it's quite short compared with the age of the Galaxy, which is roughly ten thousand million years. Colonization of the Milky Way should be a quick exercise."

    http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/cosmo/lectures/lec28.h tml
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

  6. Re:I hate this "school" of thought. on Podcasts of University Lectures? · · Score: 1

    3x = 2x + 10
    -10 = 2x + -3x
    -10 = -1x
    1x = 10
    x = 10

    3x = 2x + 10
    30 = 20 + 10
    30 = 30

    Remember to always check your work.

  7. Re:So in short, it's a bit of a gamble. on Forensic Analysis of the Stolen VA Database · · Score: 1

    "and he's suggesting that it would fairly hard to do that without leaving some tell-tale signs inside the case (tool marks, DNA, mechanical changes to connectors, etc)."

    Not true!, a LiveCD and a external USB hard drive will do the trick nicely... alternatively, you can just use a LiveCD and the NIC to clone the drive with netcat. If you want to leave zero physical traces then boot the notebook over the network with the built-in wifi and then clone the drive with netcat, remember to always wear goves and to first put the notebook in a clean sealed clear platic bag that you can type through... I'm just getting warmed up, their are many other variations I think of that will defeat his logic... You must assume the data is compromised!

  8. Get the digi cam out space cadet. on Shuttle Launch Postponed To July 4th · · Score: 1

    They need to recorded the show down below, if they can see it from space...

  9. Re:And yet, other researchers disagree on Is Distributed Computing Being Distributed Badly? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Well excuse me on Is Distributed Computing Being Distributed Badly? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "The big drug companies are not looking for cures, they are looking for drugs to sell."

    You can't sell drugs to dead people... but their is true to your statement... The goal of the drug company is to keep you dependent for life on their product, and you can't do this by finding cures.

  11. Re:Hey! We were gonna milk that for all its worth! on WSJ on CraigsList and Zen of Classified Ads · · Score: 1

    "But why should all the people dealing in real estate get a free ride? I don't mean people who just want to split their rent with a roommie. I'm talking wealthly landlords and folks selling million-dollar homes. Who benefit not just from the fact that Craigslist is free, but the fact that the housing search software is well-designed. They should pay. If Mister Newmark doesn't want the money, there are plenty of worthy causes."

    Charging 0.25% commission for each listing would net Craig 3+ million on that real estate page you listed.

  12. Re:W3Schools says pre-2k only 2.1% on Firefox to Drop Pre-Windows 2000 Support · · Score: 1

    "And who's maintaining a Mac build for only 3.6% of the population?"

    If you go back to that page and look at March 2003 for MacOS & Linux and then look at the current stats you will see that MacOS had a %100 growth rate while Linux only had a 50% growth rate...

  13. Why the funky addresses? on 6Bone IPv6 Network Shutting Down Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Why in IPv6 did they pick the funky address style, why not just extend IPv4 to the 5th power and call it IPv5?:

    256^4 = 4,294,967,296
    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

    256^5 = 1,099,511,627,776
    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

  14. Re:Slashdot new layout crashes my Opera 9 on The 100 Best Tech Products of 2006 · · Score: 1

    Yes... I can comfirm this problem... Opera 9 beta2 on FreeBSD 6.1

  15. Re:New layout? on The 100 Best Tech Products of 2006 · · Score: 1

    The new site hangs Opera 9 beta2 on FreeBSD 6.1.

  16. Re:more proof the RIAA/MPAA are insane on Death By DMCA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I tought the whole point of paying for cable was so you did not have to have/watch commercials?

  17. Re:This might help my daughter - more info? on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 1

    Yes, checking with her doctor first would be a good idea :-). I wish you luck and here is some more info for you:

    Run this search through the PubMed database: 'Clauss zolpidem'.
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=P ubMed You should get six hits and the email address for Dr. Ralf Clauss (the guy who did the study) is claussrp at yahoo.com

    Google has some more hits: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe =off&q=Clauss+zolpidem&btnG=Search

  18. Re:This might help my daughter - more info? on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Does anyone have a link to the actual paper, or more info on this? I hesitate to grind up an Ambien and put it in her G-tube, but even the thought of something that might help her brings tears to my eyes as I write this. You have no idea what it is like to watch your child essentially disintegrate right before your eyes -- it's been 18 years of torture."

    Try it, if you can get your hands on some. Ambien is a fairly mild drug in my book... read up on the prescribing information sheet and try it on yourself first to test for allergic reaction (rare) etc. Ambien CR is supposed to be a longer lasting version of this drug, the half-life for normal ambien is like 2.5 hours... BTW.. I'm not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night :-).

    Every time I've taken this drug, for sleep problems, I get amnesia from it. The best example I have for this was when I was in the hospital and was given this drug to help me sleep for the night, the nurses said I was up all night reading magazines when I 'knew' I had fallen asleep... I have also witnessed this side effect in other people, she was able to cook a meal on the stove and have a conversion with me but had absolutely no memory of this event, It's a common side effect for this drug but they like to down play it for sales... This I'm sure has something to do with the topic at hand...

  19. Re:Journaling Filesystem on FreeBSD 6.1 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    FreeBSD has journaling ufs2 in the works:
    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current /2005-December/059079.html

    Scott Long also touches on the subject in a interview he did for the bsdtalk podcast show:
    http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/02/bsdtalk017-int erview-with-freebsd.html

  20. Re:This would tow your boat on Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche · · Score: 1
  21. Abandon all Hope, ye who Enter Here... on Sysadmins - What's in Your MOTD? · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE (SE7210TP1E) #0: Tue Mar 14 12:15:56 CST 2006

    Welcome to FreeBSD and the wonderful world of UNIX!
                    Abandon all Hope, ye who Enter Here...

    If you need help, the commands; man, whatis, and whereis will help you.
    For an introduction to UNIX head on over to:
                    http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/unix_course/unix.htm l
                    http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
                    http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/

  22. Re:MOD PARENT UP! on Cell Division Reversed for the First Time · · Score: 1

    1. The last time I checked, slashdot was still a Linux and OSS news site.
    2. So one can assume most of the readers here run Linux or BSD.
    3. The last time I checked, Quicktime and iTunes it did not run on Linux or BSD.
    4. The question is:

    WHY WOULD YOU POST A VIDEO THAT NOBODY CAN WATCH?


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  23. Re:Kcrappy Knaming Kscheme on KOffice 1.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Um no, but you can get Kaffeine here


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  24. Re:No way I'd buy these on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs · · Score: 1

    The only reason I'd buy these is for backing up stuff, but It's not economically feasible to use them.

    Maxtor MaXLine III 7V300F0 300GB SATA-II Drive: $127
    Sony Blu-Ray 25GB Disc: $22.5
    Sony Blu-Ray 50GB Disc: $54

    If you brake that down into price per gigabyte you get $0.423, $0.9, and $1.08 respectively.

    The numbers speak for themselves. I will use 80 Discs and it will cost me $1,800 just to backup a simple 2TB array! Tape and Disc technology are so far behind Hard Drive technology that it's not cost effective to even consider them as backup solutions.

  25. Re:Pronuciation? on Novell Returns to the SUSE Name · · Score: 1

    um... what do you mean? :-)

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