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  1. Femtocell? on Desktop As a Cellphone Extension? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since the problem seems to be one of coverage (i.e. his basement gets none) a better solution (that would allow him to keep the phone with him) would be to install a femtocell in his house so he can get coverage. Vodafone are launching them in the UK, people like IP Access (http://www.ipaccess.com/picocells/index.php) produce them.

  2. Re:PHP's == operator on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    Has he not heard of ===?

  3. Re:Looks all right on EVO Linux Gaming Console Opens Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    If you wanted a controller optimised for FPS games, you'd use a keyboard and a mouse.

  4. Re:$1500USD? No way... on Dell's First XPS System With AMD Phenom II Tested · · Score: 1

    You mean quad Crossfire. SLI is NVIDIA's tech. Interestingly, I own an MSI K9A2 Platinum, with a pair of 3870s and 8GB of RAM. Not got around to upgrading my CPU from the 9600 Black Edition that's currently in the socket though. Also, with the advent of 4GB memory modules it's theoretically possible to have 16GB on the board (not sure if anyone's tried this yet).

  5. Re:What a waste ... on NASA Releases Video Tour of the ISS · · Score: 1

    All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

  6. Re:Ghost in the Shell on Scientists Achieve Mental Body-Swapping · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe Shirow has categorically stated that Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell: Innocence are operating in a completely different timeline to the events in Stand Alone Complex.

    Quite appropriately for a discussion on GitS, CAPTCHA is "identify".

  7. Re:Rye Playland on Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth · · Score: 1

    That explains how he's luring the children...

  8. Re:Clever strategy on W3C.org Briefly Censored In Finland · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be BitTowwent?

  9. Re:He'll never make it on Man Attempts To Cross English Channel With Jet Wing · · Score: 1

    "I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEEL!"

  10. Re:Legacy? on Unholy Matrimony? Microsoft and Cray · · Score: 1

    So they're either Microsoft, oppressed by middle management, or clinically insane.

  11. Re:Heterogeny on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I guarantee even the best workman will complain about their tools if said tools are unable to complete the task they are supposedly meant to do.

  12. Re:You too can be an armchair scientist. on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    How appropriate. You resemble a dairy farme- no, wait...

  13. Re:Question on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nice try, but it's Wine Is Not an Emulator.

  14. Re:If only I could cry nonsense on ISO Puts OOXML On Hold · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Microsoft's decision to add support to Office 2007 for the Open Document Format instead of its own OOXML office file format is due to backwards compatibility issues with OOXML, it has emerged."

    "In Microsoft's announcement, the company said it was adding native support for ODF due to increasing pressure from customers "and because we want to get involved in the maintenance of ODF". The company now says OOXML support would require substantially more work."


    Read:
    Embrace, extend, extinguish.
  15. Re:It's PC Magazine and just about everyone. on Ballmer Says Vista Selling Really Well · · Score: 1

    32bit XP can only access a maximum of 4GB even with PAE.
    32bit Linux can access a maximum of 64GB with PAE, but has a maximum per-process virtual memory space of 4GB. But it still means I can use all 8GB of my system's RAM without going to 64bit (the only reason I haven't swapped to 64bit is laziness :P).

  16. Re:not cost effective for the performance gain on DDR3 RAM Explained · · Score: 1

    32bit Slackware.

    $ cat /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal: 8310468 kB
    MemFree: 5979288 kB
    Buffers: 38932 kB
    Cached: 1234492 kB
    -snip-
    SwapTotal: 0 kB
    SwapFree: 0 kB
    -snip-

    Normally the Cached value is sat around the 6GB mark. PAE is a dirty, filthy hack, but it works rather well. The main limitation is the 4GB per-process virtual memory space - but under 32bit Linux can handle up to 64GB of RAM.

  17. Re:This molehill is gigantic! on Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML · · Score: 1

    truncateFontHeightsLikeWP6 (Emulate WordPerfect 6.x Font Height Calculation)

    Without access to WordPerfect 6's Font Height Calculation routines, it is impossible to exactly replicate this behaviour, thus rendering your application non-conformant to the OOXML "standard".

  18. Re:Can't leave well enough alone on Dilbert Goes Flash, Readers Revolt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Disable Javascript. All the old behaviour comes back. Alternatively, go into Help & Preferences, Posting and select Slashdot Classic Discussion System.

  19. Re:That's an easy one! on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    At this point I would like to remind you that hydrogen and oxygen are both natural gasses.

  20. Re:As with so many things... on Large Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes Produced · · Score: 1

    We British invented the language.

    You Americans perverted it.

  21. Re:Solid State? on Western Digital Touts New 'Green' Drives · · Score: 1

    A word to the wise, stay away from the Solid State society, or you'll end up killing yourself just like them.

  22. Re:from ooze we came? on Liquid Crystal Phases of DNA, Beginning of Life? · · Score: 1

    Your sarcasm detector is broken. That, or you've never read the wonderful works of Douglas Adams.

  23. Re:Johnny Neumonic on Picture Passwords More Secure than Text · · Score: 1

    Mnemonic. See this and this.

  24. Re:I can see the ads now on NEC SX-9 to be World's Fastest Vector Computer · · Score: 1

    53% savings, 100% loss in function. I personally don't know of any version of Windows that can run on a vector CPU.

  25. Re:This is why OOo Calc can never replace Excel on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 1

    Oh, okay. Consistency and uniformity.

    This is why Access 2003 has no "select all" in the SQL view of a query input. I suppose this is why there are dozens of Microsoft applications that throw the standard widget sets out the window and implement their own. This is why drag and drop works in some applications, but not others. And why the ODBC management panel uses a Windows 3.11 era file dialog box. And why some applications use a Win95 era file dialog box.

    Yes, Windows is indeed the bastion of consistency and uniformity.