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  1. Re:Common sense on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I have seen a couple fry!

  2. Re:Beat them to the punch on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 1

    What city state do you live in?

  3. Misplace Priority on UN Tech Group Finds Most Expensive Broadband · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps the developed world should consider that when you can't feed yourself or your family, broadband is not really that high a priority. If you also factor in the illiteracy rate, it becomes even less of a priority. The things these countries need are much more basic and critical to survival. Clean safe water, renewable, self sustained sources of food. To hell with broadband, and I run an ISP.

  4. Already planned my exit on 'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!' v2.0 · · Score: 1

    I always like to plan ahead. They say that the more times you've been knocked out, the higher your odds of getting Alzheimer's. Therefore, since I've been tapped out a few times, as I age further I shall once again begin skydiving. It will be a self limiting design..... If I begin to succumb, it's only a matter of time before I forget something important.... Either the parachute, or what comes after two! Marco

  5. NX Client for Secure Remote Browsing on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you have a linux box in the US, install NX Server (free) on that box, then install NX Client on your laptop or USB memory stick with whatever distro you want to use. Secure remote browsing done easy. Marco

  6. Re:I hate the idea of flying cars on Flying Cars Hop Slightly Closer With FAA Weight Waiver · · Score: 1

    Just looking around at the dumb asses driving in my area with just 2 dimensions to work with, adding a Z axis for these numbnutts to deal with would mean utter and complete insanity!

  7. maemo on Nokia N900 on Review of HTC Desire As Alternative To iPhone · · Score: 1

    I went with the Iphone to manage my networks. It became immediately necessary to hack the phone in order to get the applications / tools that I needed. After a day of config and cracking, I ended up with a phone that can bluetooth to an external Freedom folding keyboard (for real typing). I purchased the N900 running Maemo (linux debian based, I think). I've gotten most things working like I want on that, but have not been able to migrate completely yet, mostly due to a lack of time. I like the freedom the N900 provides as far as not being required to hack the phone. I'm still trying to get NX Client to run on it bug free. The only problem I have with the N900 is that it does not support 3G with ATT since it does have have the frequency capability.

  8. One Word on In Defense of Jailbreaking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nokia N900 built on Maemo (Debian Linux)..... Ahh shit, thats 7 words. As soon as I've got a couple more apps ported to it, my Jailbroken iphone goes to the wayside!

  9. Spectrum and Technology on Still Little To Do About a Bad ISP · · Score: 1

    I own an ISP and am an electronics engineer. We provide both wireline and wireless internet access (WISP), as well as, telephone service (VOIP). Due to technology limitations and regulations on technology, we are limited to what speeds we can offer our customer base. The most helpful thing Government can do is free up additional spectrum that is currently not available to the wireless ISPs out there. However, when they have done that in the past (3.65 GHz band), they take input from the Big Players (ATT / other telcos) and make the equipment rules such that there is not a way to effectively use that spectrum. This squanders spectrum and prohibits innovation. I would like to see a band of frequencies as large as the 5.7-5.8 band that currently exists with the following requirements: 1. All operators will use electronically steered antennas thereby essentially making the entire network a Point to Point connection. This would greatly eliminate the tremendous interference we presently see. 2. Open up Ultra Wide Band for WISP use. This is the only way we will be able to provide the speeds that are going to be necessary in the near future. UWB could be limited to a specific band, or due to the electronic steering, opened up across all bands as the likely hood of interference would be greatly reduced. That's my 0.02 Marco Coelho Argon Technologies Inc.

  10. fuel vapor..... sound like a mini moab on Sound Generator Lethal From 10 Meters · · Score: 1

    Any tool can be misused. If you know the 'safe' limits of the non-lethal technology you are using in a non-combat environment, you should be able to use it safely. It would be this is still much safer than rubber bullets (or lead for that matter). In a combat environment it matters not. Kill em all.

  11. Re:If you want broadband, live where it's availabl on Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 · · Score: 1

    I'll drink to that!

  12. WoW on Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    I just want to know who can make a spit wad that weighs 450Kg??

  13. My preferred removal Technique on Fake Antivirus Overwhelming Scanners · · Score: 1

    We remove the infected hard drive, then scan it on a linux box using five different AntiVirus/Spyware programs. Then we boot in safe mode back on the original machine and scan it as a running system. Some of the new virus / spyware programs are actually running the installed avg within a wrapper and not allowing them avg to see the whole hard drive. Really pretty well written if they could have gone unobserved.

  14. Re:Regular Users & Self-Inflicted Injury on Fake Antivirus Overwhelming Scanners · · Score: 1

    Hold it! Are you saying Unprotected Sex with a Stranger is bad? Shiza

  15. Re: Fake Antivirus Overwhelming Scanners on Fake Antivirus Overwhelming Scanners · · Score: 1

    I've actually seen one that, once infected, ran your antivirus program within a wrapper!

  16. celebrate linux on It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux · · Score: 1

    I celebrate linux every day.... It runs on ALL of my servers.

  17. Sounds like a poor choice on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a poor choice of mail systems together with poor controls. As an ISP, we handle thousands of mails per second. If I send a single mail to every customer in our system (thousands) the total time to have them delivered to the mail box (server) is less than 1.5 minutes. Rate controls should also be used to ensure no one mail can slam a system.: max messages per second max messages per user max connections per client etc.

  18. vista == windows me on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 1

    lasted on my laptop for 4 hours before IT was purged. Dual boot Fedora / XP for when I have to run an winbloz ap.

  19. Re:What??? on Erratum Plagues Quad-Core Opterons, Phenoms · · Score: 1

    Ahhh yes the 6502..... Beloved processor of my KIM micro computer. Damn that thing rocked!

  20. Re:802.11X is NOT Suitable for Last Mile on EarthLink Says No Future for Municipal Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Where are you based? We're based in Greenville, TX.

  21. Wireless ISP on EarthLink Says No Future for Municipal Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I run a wireless ISP in Texas. I still don't understand the logic. I thought most companies using the give it away logic died during the dot com bubble. We use a number of different technologies, non of them including 802.11x We provide a high quality of service, and charge our customers for service. Even with a good business model and paying customers, this is not a business for the light of heart or capital. If you give it away, they might come.... but you will go. Marco Coelho Argon Technologies Inc.

  22. Re:nope, doesn't hurt RH on Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? · · Score: 1

    I think of it like this. Similar to MySql, smaller firms will start off with CentOS, then as money, and business demands allow and require it to, they move to RedHat. I think this is good for RedHat. The large an installed base, the more growing companies will migrate to it.

  23. Re:Attractive women often think rules are for othe on Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20 · · Score: 1

    It's great until you have any kind of file system fault. Then the total lack of complete recovery tools turns your data into mush! EXT3... so far so good. LVM... Still needs more tools.

  24. Re:Russians on Anti-Scammers Become Storm Botnet Victims · · Score: 1

    Taking a country off-line actually been done before (the internet was smaller / less connected then).

  25. I'm already there on Bacteria As Fuel Cells? · · Score: 1

    Shit... I've been running on a pure alcohol diet for 20 years! There's nothing new here.