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  1. Re:FTFA: on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure about this. I explored this option a while ago and in order to get autorun to work on a flash drive, you need an application installed like "Autorun USB."

  2. Re:Erm.....What the hell? on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 1

    I have a thumb drive I want to automatically back up every time I plug it in. I want it to back up to C:\backup\{datetimestamp}

    I had to get a program called Autorun USB to get it to work, but with this and a .bat file I was able to get immediate automatic backing up of my thumb drive every time I plugged it in.

  3. Re:Legitimate Question: on Google Lively Review · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe we're using the term "nuked the fridge" now.

  4. Samsung sch-A630 on Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone? · · Score: 1

    I have a Samsung sch-A630. It's an incredibly barebones flip phone.

    No camera, no games, nothing really fancy about it. The battery life is good, I rarely get calls and I charge it about once a week. Check eBay, you can probably get it for $30 - $30. I have mine through Verizon.

  5. PG on Open Library Project Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    Everything about this "Open Library" - from the colors to the fonts used - looks just like Project Gutenberg. Am I missing an important difference?

    Perhaps this is going to contain books still under copyright? I doubt the full text will be available, which makes this "library" pretty useless.

  6. Re:Pakistani Brain Virus on The Computer Virus Turns 25 in July · · Score: 1

    That was the first PC virus, created in 1986.

  7. Re:No Movie License Stuff? Wha? on Your Lord of the Rings Online Questions Answered · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it's possible that both the movie and the game take their descriptions from the same source material? Maybe?

  8. I almost always do this on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Since I own my own domain, whenever I sign up for a site, I usually put the site name in the e-mail address. I have all of my domain mail forwarded to my Yahoo account.

    So if I were to sign up for SA, I would use yaksha_sa@domain.com. Now if I ever get any mail from someone sending to yaksha_sa@domain.com, I know where they got my e-mail from.

  9. Kill the lawyers! on Microsoft Settles Iowa Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

  10. Re:More root servers? on DNS Root Servers Attacked · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone

    The root DNS servers are essential to the function of the Internet, as so many protocols use DNS, either directly or indirectly. They are potential points of failure for the entire Internet. For this reason, there are 13 named root servers worldwide. There are no more root servers because a single DNS reply can only be 512 bytes long; while it is possible to fit 15 root servers in a datagram of this size, the variable size of DNS packets makes it prudent to only have 13 root servers.

  11. Proactive on DNS Root Servers Attacked · · Score: 1

    Proactive really isn't in the government's vocabulary.

    The same usually applies to IT in general.

  12. Re:so a lot of it was from South Korea.... on DNS Root Servers Attacked · · Score: 1

    kekekekekekeke

  13. TestDesk on USB Drives — Recovery? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've had good luck with TestDisk when a partition has been deleted.

    I was formatting a PC and installing a fresh copy of XP on it. I had backed up all my data onto my thumb drive first. However, when the option to choose the partition to install XP came up, it displayed my thumb drives 1GB partition. I had forgot I had left the thumb drive plugged in, not realizing what the partition was I deleted it (but didn't format). After realizing my mistake I used TestDisk and it recovered all my data.

  14. Re:Sony and open standards - too good to be true? on Sony Reader Now Available · · Score: 1

    Here.

    Media Formats Supported
    Unsecured Text: BBeB Book, Adobe® PDF, TXT, RTF, Microsoft® Word (Conversion to the Reader-requires Word installed on your PC)
    DRM Text: BBeB Book (Marlin)
    Unsecured Audio: MP3 and AAC7
    Image: JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP

  15. Re:Dwarfs on New Tolkien Story To be Published · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe it is in this world, but not Tolkien's. He actually wanted to make the plural be "Dwarrows."

    "The real 'historical' plural of dwarf (like teeth of tooth) is dwarrows anyway: rather a nice word, but a bit too archaic. Still I rather wish I had used the word dwarrow." - The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, #17

  16. Re:Make the users hate you... on Bad Password Allowed Swedish Watergate · · Score: 1

    This is extremely difficult to do when you work for doctors, like I do, or lawyers, like my friend does. When the overriding decisions come from someone who is not at all familiar with computer security, it makes for a tough job.

  17. Pez? on 15 Websites That Changed the World · · Score: 1

    The whole Pez/eBay is fake.

    "The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade PEZ Candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media. This was revealed in Adam Cohen's 2002 book and confirmed by eBay."

  18. Whattya mean I don't need 8 cores? on Intel - Market Doesn't Need Eight Cores · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."

  19. Sad News on CEO Calls For AOL Paradigm Shift · · Score: 2, Informative

    No More AOL CDs, while they may accomplish the goal of stopping CDs from being sent out, may not be able to achieve that goal of rolling up to AOL HQ with a million CDs.

  20. Aww on RIAA Claims P2P Has Been Contained · · Score: 1

    Well that just takes all the fun out of it, now doesn't it?

  21. Re:Interesting idea... on Rumormongering - Apple Could Buy Nintendo? · · Score: 1

    I would kill for a pink Wii.

  22. Availability on The Fiber to the Premises Install Process · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's too bad that it's not very common, it's cheaper than my 5mbps cable connection.

    You can check availability here.

  23. Coke and Mentos Myths on Bellagio Fountains Recreated with Mentos and Coke · · Score: 1, Funny

    I personally prefer this video that dispenses with a common Coke and Mentos myth.

  24. Re:hostage taking (MOD PARENT DOWN) on Best Buy Invaded By Blue Shirt Improv Artists · · Score: 0

    How about attempted-suicide?

    It's the only crime where the 'attempted' has a harsher judicial punishment than actually doing the deed.

  25. Plagurizing on Fake Scientific Paper Detector · · Score: 0

    They're probably storing all text entries that come back as authentic so they can plagurize them later.

    At least, that's what I'd do.