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  1. Support Call on ABIT's Secure IDE Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Customer: my mother board just died and I got my replacement and I cannot see anything on my HD

    Support: well if you had the Secure IDE enabled you will need to reformat and install from scratch, Unless you either backed up or wrote down your special code.

    Customer: You mean the long string of weird numbers and letters.

    Support: yeah ...

    -- Tim

  2. Re:Being handy... on What's Your (non-tech) Hobby? · · Score: 1

    I like wood working as well. Could see some pics of you creation. I am currently mulling over what to build for my home "office"

    -- Tim

  3. Re:companion plants on Gardening for Geeks? · · Score: 1

    I have been lonely, Will a companion plant help any or would I be better off with a dog?

  4. FLame away on Wireless VOIP? · · Score: 1

    Get some of those cool cell phones that advertise with Crystal Clear Voice technology, call a land line hooked up the recording equipment.

    Would it work? Probably not, just use wired mikes save the money. or even use less wired mikes that will pick up a group of singers and give individual miked to the soloists/important people

    -- Tim

  5. screw them on Baby Bells Promise Broadband Stagnation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Create neighborhood Co-ops lay fibre and connect to other co-ops. Go wireless or laser(home brew) where you cannot lay fibre. Get connections to local hosting companies and Larger tier1 vendors where possible.

    -- Tim

  6. Simple on Improving Indoors Wi-Fi Reception? · · Score: 1

    Make sure the AP is not located near bunches of metal like say a computer or lamps or any stray electrical chords

    -- TIm

  7. Re:Clean Rooms on ID'ing People By How They Walk · · Score: 2

    You recgnize people by any number of traits.

    Their hair, eyes, gate, breathing, the sound they make when they walk.

    -- Tim

  8. Re:For perspective... on First Worm with a EULA? · · Score: 1

    Normally Don't I have the right to modify a contract before agree to it?

    -- tim

  9. we had another launch planned but... on Armadillo Rocket Makes A (Short) Manned Hop · · Score: 3, Funny

    After such a flight, we were planning to do more launches. Our Ultimate goal was space but we have been slashdotted, and our "burtable" bandwidth has killed our budget.

    Thanks Slashdot.

    -- Tim

  10. Goto half-empty on Where to Ask if not Ask Slashdot? · · Score: 3, Informative

    half-empty.org might not have as much technical depth as /. but we do asnwer questions to the best of our ability.

    -- Tim

  11. Re:This doesn't make sense... on New Closed Source Voting Systems Malfunction · · Score: 2

    A SIX MINUTE boot sounds like they are running on top of windows. But they could very easily have used linux with the speed boot(not sure of the bios project) and boot theese thins in unser 15 seconds

    -- TIm

  12. Re:This doesn't make sense... on New Closed Source Voting Systems Malfunction · · Score: 2

    You cannot trace who made what votes, or it could be used against a person.

    You could have a data base that ties into a main DB to authenticate, so people could vote anywhere. then after than assign a "session cookie"/ballot (basically some sort of abs random key) to carry with them to a voting machine

    -- tim

  13. Set up a second company on Why are Businesses Willing to Spend More for Software? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Set up a second "company" and have a different customer REP visit each of theese places. One of your companies could bid what you seem is fair and the other with a few modification, and a guy in a slick suit could bid 2-4x as much. See which company gets more jobs, or better yet see what types of clientele each company gets then bit appropriately for those clientele.

    -- Tim

  14. Easy the hacker's diet on Exercise for Geeks? · · Score: 2

    I've used just the diet portion and the eatwatch program and I lost almost 20 lbs by doing nothing more than watching what i eat.

    Hacker's Diet

    -- Tim

  15. Look into Optical technologies on Last Mile, High Speed Help for Upper Michigan? · · Score: 1

    Talk to the Telco, Cable, & ISP's in the area.

    Do a joint effort to run single mode fibre to each house. Colocate equipment in "common" Environmental vaults. Each group pays 1/3 of the cost to run buy & burry the fibre. And Each group pays for 1/3 of the Buildings. POND techlology is relatively inexpensive about $800/ port(for both ends) it provides cable, phone & broadband

    -- Tim

  16. Re:Fiber is -expensive- on Optical Fiber for a Small Community? · · Score: 2

    what are the distances involved? I live in a community of 60 homes all on 2.5-5+ acre plots. Most of the houses are more than 100Meters apart. I would not even consider laying coax. I am only considering wireless and fibre. The copper technologies are outdated. DSL is a 1970's technology, T1's are 1950's technology, Coax cannot be much beyond that. Besides advances in fibre are happening faster than moore's law.

    -- Tim

  17. Re:Fiber is -expensive- on Optical Fiber for a Small Community? · · Score: 2

    FIBRE IS CHEAP. Fibre equipment may be more expensive. If you use single mode fibre you will probably never roun out of capacity. You can upgrade the equipment and still keep the fibre. Singlemode fibre can run 10/100/155(oc3)/1000 and beyond. single mode can span very long distances 10mi +

    -- Tim

  18. LAY THE CABLE on Optical Fiber for a Small Community? · · Score: 2

    I work for the Government and in our County the County is laying Fibre everytime it opens a hole on a major road. I got out of a meeting, today, where the county is looking at expanding it's fibre infrastructure. They are considering making new developments and new business parks lay infrastructure.

    DO NOT let anyone talk you into laying COPPER over FIBRE. The cost of fibre should be at or below the cost of copper. And the Fibre equipment is dropping in price. The cost of the fibre is basically the trench.

    I would overbuild the fibre or lay conduit. I would also look at forming a CO-OP or a "Non-profit" and then do an RFP(Request For Purposal) to find a LEC or CLEC to provide you with the internet bandwidth. Be sure to put inthe RFP
    the TOC that you want to see, I.E. allow the use of VPN's, No DL cap, the ability to run a webserver or what ever.
    There is an optical technology called POND which costs approximately $800/port (source and destination) which provides Phone, cable & Broadband.

    If you want any more information please send me an email and I will talk to the Network engineer here and send you more information.

    -- Tim

  19. Why not just mask with an overlay on Legal Issues for Outside Webcams and Others Privacy? · · Score: 2

    Why not just build an overlay that will mask out their house with something else asn ask them if that would suffice. My guess you are asking /. because you really want to keep your cam pointing in that direction

    -- Tim

  20. Re:Saw a PBS special on this... on Kills Tumors Dead · · Score: 2

    I believe that the origional tumer sometimes lets out a chemical that says I am the tumor do not grow. So when the origional/large tumor is removed this chemical level drops and the others race for contol. IIRC there is a drug that can now mimic this chemical

    -- Tim

  21. I would not be as concerned with fake positives.. on Face-Scanning Loses by a Nose in Palm Beach · · Score: 2

    As I would the false negatives. If the software had a large percentage of false positives and a very low number of false negatives you could train people to use the software to "check" the results of the SW. In that case it could be useful by pointing out potential candidates. But if the SW has a high number of flase negatives it is useless becuase the people still have to do all the work and they have spent money on something useless.

    -- Tim

  22. Re:They are just afraid of change on PVRs and Advertisers' Worries · · Score: 2

    Advertising is a risk to begin with. What if they sell digital billboards like they do in sporting events. They could carry a Green/Blue box of soda and super impose the Soda brand over that. Or put advertising posters on the wall of a house. there are many many other options to advertising than just standard conventional spots.
    They probably do not fit into the current paysystem and exec's would need to think. But apple pays big money to have their systems used by Uber hackers in the movies.

    -- Tim

  23. They are just afraid of change on PVRs and Advertisers' Worries · · Score: 2

    They can place ads right in the show. One of the "Freinds" can easily drink only pepsi & wear only rebok's. There are other ways of advertising than just running a 30 second spot. The TV networks and the advertisers do not want to do that. They can also place logo's on the screen. They do not want to do anything different.

    Using a PVR is not different than changing the channel or fastforwarding on a TAPE. It's just got a computer in it and it's digital so we need new laws to make people watch the ads so we can make mony!!

    -- Tim

  24. Re:Cant Be Done on Configuring a (User-Side) Hassle-Free Network? · · Score: 2

    NAT Could be done but NAT breaks things.

    -- Tim

  25. I would not stand for it on "Industry Standard" Paycuts in IT? · · Score: 2

    I would be a trouble maker and see if senior management did the same thing, including their bonuses.

    After all if they are not doing a good job managing the company they do NOT deserve the bonuses

    --Tim