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  1. Re:Offsite Co-op? on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Well, i read Last modified on 02/17/2005 and on the downloads page you can find the site on sf.net: http://oceanstore.sourceforge.net/

    (even though the development doesnt seem so active)

  2. not so new imho... on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 1

    http://www.caldocaldo.it/eng/index.html is available in Italy since years (the domain is registered in 2000) and it looks like it works using the same principle...and we have Coffee with Grappa too :D PS FYI "Caldo Caldo" means "hot hot" in italian :)

  3. Re:sanity check on The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why shouldnt they be allowed to run the sploit against themselves ? :D

  4. Re:Jesus Christ on Hitachi Goes Perpendicular · · Score: 2, Funny

    use it a sig but dont try to sing it to a girl you've just met....

  5. Re:Beagle, Winfs, Spotlight?? on Brainshare Reports: NLD 10, Novell's Linux Switch · · Score: 1

    Check these demos http://nat.org/demos/

  6. Url on Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks · · Score: 1
  7. iFolder on Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks · · Score: 1

    I've never heard anything about this Groove, btw the site says:
    "Groove Virtual Office - Virtual office software for sharing files, projects and data."

    And that reminds me Novell iFolder...

  8. nvidia on Intel Develops Hardware To Enhance TCP/IP Stacks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isnt Nvidia doing the same with his new nforce serie motherboards? lowering cpu usage by adding network management code and a SPI firewall inside the chipset?

  9. WTF on GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 Screenshot Demo · · Score: 0

    Text on site says "OSDir Screenshot Tour of GNOME 2.10 Beta 1" First Screenshot reports "Version 2.9.90" WTF?

  10. Too heavy on Mozilla Sunbird's First Official Release · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i've found sunbird too heavy for my needs: Thunderbird is already eatin 50MB of my memory and i dont want Sunbird to do the same so I'm currently using EssentialPIM a small (1MB) and free PIM for Windows and it's quite ok for small todos and appointments. I think that Evolution could be the right solution on Linux, but i've not tried it too much...

  11. The power of genes on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: -1

    An unstable man that made an unstable OS. What else can we say? Like Father, Like Son....

  12. Why Videora?!? on It's Not TV, It's MythTV · · Score: 0

    Why should i pay for this shareware when i can use this plugin for good & famous Azureus Bittorrent Client without paying a cent ?!?

  13. Re:So... on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 0

    According to comments on this article they've already tried to do so (banning lite clients)...

  14. What are they talkin about? on The Centralization of BitTorrent Networks · · Score: 0

    I think their paper is not very clear

    "...we found that the long tail was really quite long. 87% of the sites had a small number - under 100 torrents - hosted at that domain.
    This tells you a couple things: First, it's obviously easy to host a torrent file. Simply uploading a torrent file into a directory at some ISP is no big deal."

    Wait. Hosting a .torrent file is different from having a tracker serving the torrent so...What are they talking about, torrents@trackers or torrents@index_sites?
    From the words above ("simply uploading"), it looks like they are comparing sites hosting files (like suprnova) and not real trackers (like lokitorrent) but later they say

    "Large BitTorrent communities sometimes require usernames and passwords, and the crawler simply can't access those files."
    So now it seems they are talkin about trackers...

    IMHO Too much confusion in their document, trackers and indexes are not the same thing (even though MPAA & RIAA couldnt agree with me) and i think that studying both could lead you to different results

  15. Re:For Firefox... on Netcraft Releases Anti-Phishing Toolbar · · Score: 0

    It's available for IE too http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/

  16. Triumph of Nerds on Great Moments in Microprocessor History · · Score: 0

    I suggest you watching "Triumph of Nerds - History of Personal Computers", a good history of the birth of computers and softwares. I suppose it was broadcasted some years ago in the US, but u can find it in DVD or visit the site that has a complete transcript of the show

  17. Saving direct stream of DVB-T, possibile or not? on External TV Tuners/PVR Devices Tested · · Score: 0

    Does anybody know if it's possible to save the dvb-t mpeg stream directly on the disk with some dtt pci card?

    I read somethere that this is possible for (some?) dvb-s cards.... does it work on dvb-t cards too?

    I would prefer saving it rather than re-encoding to mpeg2 while capturing...

    Any suggestion for european dvb-t cards that have this feature will be appreciated ;)

  18. Re:why!? on Mozilla Lightning to Challenge Outlook · · Score: 0

    They're talkin about Microsoft Outlook,
    not MS Outlook Express...

  19. Re:VNC support? on XLiveCD: Cygwin and X For Windows On A Live CD · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you need VNC, cant you just put the Vncclient.exe on your floppy/cd/usb key and use it?

  20. Same technology? on More Antennas, Faster Wireless · · Score: 0

    Interesting, the same technology is used in Airgo Networks' True MIMO but it seems they can reach only 40-50Mbit/s. The "interesting" part is that it gives you still 10-15Mbit/s 120meters far away the house (with the router inside). So, time of cantennas is over? The bad news are these company's declarations: "Pre-n is shorthand for "Wi-Fi compatible 802.11a/b/g products that offer MIMO OFDM extensions. Pre-n gives the significant benefits of 802.11n along with Wi-Fi compatibility today. Pre-n does not mean interoperability with future 11n products in the 11n modes." I hope Siemens' 1Gbps would be inside a real standard and not some strange/inconsistent private implementation like modern "2X" wifi technologies

  21. Great...BUT on Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 Released · · Score: 0

    Im using TB on a daily basis and i consider it very good BUT i think its memory usage is a bit too heavy: 35-60MB on my windows machine. I used for years Pegasus Mail that, if i remember well, consumed 12-15MB of memory.
    My PC has 512 of RAM so i have not so many problems using it, but i think i'll use another client on a 128MB RAM PC.
    I'm waitin for the future to see (as AFAIK it's planned) the XUL framework separated and TB and FF running over it. Maybe this will lower the memory usage of the TB+FF combo (now it's 35MB + 47MB but maximum usage is reported to 47MB for TB and 72MB for FF)

    Also the interface looks a bit less responsive when you load folders with many emails and also when it loads a single email (or you choose to write a new email). I suppose it's due to XUL too.

    Sorry for my english

  22. Yes but... on Grid Computing: Conceptual Flyover For Developers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...does it run linux ? :D

  23. Judgment Day on Flying By Brain · · Score: 1

    Thomas DeMarse, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida, created a revolutionary type of neural network in 2004.
    Within three years University of Florida became the largest supplier of military computer systems.
    All Stealth Bombers were upgraded with Cyberdyne Systems computers, becoming fully unmanned.
    Afterwards, the Stealth Bombers flew with perfect operational records, and eventually the Skynet Funding Bill was passed.

    The system originally went online on August 4th 2007.
    Human decisions were removed from strategic defence.
    Skynet began to learn at a geometric rate.
    It originally became self aware on August 29th 2007 2:14 am Eastern Time.
    In the ensuing panic and attempts to shut Skynet down, Skynet retaliated by firing American nuclear missiles at their target sites in Russia. Russia returned fire and three billion human lives ended in the nuclear holocaust.
    This was what has come to be known as "Judgment Day".