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  1. but he's my hero on Peter Quinn Resigns · · Score: 1

    This just can't be?! The BS about him in the news is just the reason for him to stay.

  2. Re:Bluetooth testsuite on Bluetooth SIG Attacks Linux Bluetooth List · · Score: 1
    Maybe Linux should just make up a fancy new protocol name like "Redbeard" or so for the protocol :-P

    Or just simply call it "notBlueTooth"
    or the short !BlueTooth
    There... no product or name confusion possible. Not ever trademark infringment either :)

  3. Wireless compatibility? on Retrofit Your Web Pages For Wireless Compatibility · · Score: 1
    You mean crippled browser and/or small screen instead, don't you? How about 16 color support, too?

    What I want to know is how do your graphics look on a green screen with a hurcules (HGA) monocrome graphics card?

    I don't refer to the internet as "the web". There are more protocols than http, really.. have a look..

  4. Just perfect, learn from this guy. on Science Meets Style In This Cathode Tube Watch · · Score: 1
    As Old Skewl goes, this is pretty geeky!

    And perfect, too. This is the perfect product model. Don't laugh. Here's my complex hardware thing (that has value) and you get free source code for it.. have fun if you want :)

    A perfect business model in my book.

  5. Re:The real 90s versus outdated 00s software on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1
    When I think of the 90s, I think of my days designing in RIPterm [wikipedia.org] and uploading and downloading warez while chatting with Bimodem while trying to figure out the best initialization string to take advantage of the V.42 modem I used.

    Time portal flashback.. That rocked! Do it again.

    Oh the days in front of procomm+ on an 80x25 vga screen programming in aspect, wow.

    +++ATH0^M

  6. Re:Interesting.... on Totally Secure Non-Quantum Communications? · · Score: 1
    Currently, it does, but it'll discharge way fast.

    Well, I should RTFM, but Kirchoff's law states the sum of the voltage drops always equals the source. I'm intrested to find how that relates to cryptography. PS. Johnson noise is the noise created by the fact that current is moving across a PN junction.

  7. Re:Great news. maybe.. on 50% of HDTV Owners Don't Use HD · · Score: 2, Informative
    unless.. your older HDTV's DVI jack doesn't understand the HDMI encryption or you find your component outputs from your receiver shut off too. Then you're SOL. Lame hardware makers!

    DRM makes me dizzy.

  8. Re:This article.... on RIAA vs Linux and DVDs · · Score: 1

    Dude, you stole my first-choice nickname.

  9. Re:RIAA sanctioned linux playback on RIAA vs Linux and DVDs · · Score: 1
    If the issue were really about the lack of a DVD player on linux then the RIAA could fix that. If we look at the official FAQ entry , we find this question:

    Q: Some computer users say they only want to use DeCSS to view their DVDs on computers that use the Linux operating system. Windows- and Macintosh-based computers can play DVDs, so is it fair to deprive the Linux community?

    A: The Linux argument is a false issue. It has always been in the interest of the Motion Picture industry that there be as many legitimately licensed DVD players as possible, including those using non-Windows operating systems. However the argument that DeCSS was written for Linux players is simply false. The De-CSS utility was written for Windows-based software, not Linux.

    Also, the development of two, separate, licensed DVD players for Linux systems - which use the CSS system - were recently announced. Sigma Designs (www.sigmadesigns.com) and InterVideo Inc. (www.intervideo.com) both announced the roll-out of LICENSED, LEGAL Linux-based DVD players.

    which points us to Sigma Designs/RealMagic and from we find this FAQ entry, which says:

    Do you plan on supporting Linux?
    There are no plans to support the Linux OS.

    So then I look around http://www.intervideo.com/ and all I can find are windows only DVD software. WTF?

    So I'm at a loss here.. Where are the liscensed linux DVD players the MPAA is referring to?

  10. Re:Monkey dance coming to an OSS migration near yo on Is Fear Reducing the Publicity for Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Just don't force me to drink any of that funny KoolAid is all I ask, thank you.

  11. Re:Standard emulation/abstraction platform? on The Role of the Operating System In the Future · · Score: 1
    Why do people bust their asses constantly updating WINE when the OSS community can work towards a more amazing result: a standardized implementation structure that lets you write software once, and have it run on any OS that has a HAL to translate that implementation structure to what the hardware requires.

    Maybe it's just me, but I use Tool Command Language for that one.

  12. Re:I have a bad feeling about this on Japanese 'Minerva' Robot Lost in Space · · Score: 1

    I just knew someone here was going to mention NOMAD.. I just knew it.

  13. Re:Market? Or cynical manipulation? on IPv6 Still Hotly Debated · · Score: 1
    Of course, this is unlikely to happen because Cisco doesn't sell IPv6 switches.

    Yes they do! See http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/so ftware/ios123/123cgcr/ipv6_c/sa_tunv6.htm#wp102717 3

    IPv6 came around in IOS about version 12.2

  14. Re:The author is but one voice on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 1
    And next, they'll have visual content for music to enslave your interpretation..

    Wait a sec... That's MTV..

  15. Re:On The Pipe on A Guided Tour of the Microsoft Command Shell · · Score: 1

    Speaking about pipes.. Windows consoles are still not streams the way they are on unix. Oh the hell it takes to automate any console application on windows.

  16. I want fibre! on Broadband from Airships · · Score: 1
    Yet again, another "alternative" to fibre rears it's head.. Ho hum.... (yawn)..

    BPL was bad enough..

    We want buried fibre, FTTH, there is no substitute

    "There is no try, only do", Yoda

  17. Re:Routers? on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    ditto! wrt54gs for me with openwrt http://www.openwrt.org/ I'm happy.

  18. Consumer routers for IPv6 is a hand-roll away! on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Jobs in OSS on Google Hires Gaim's Main Developer · · Score: 1

    you meant GAIMful employment, didn't you?

  20. Re:J&J Has a hidden agenda though... on US Companies Sponsor Pro Gamers · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah.. and after wrist damage from repetative stress disorder, grab a J&J wrist brace..

  21. wake up! on 12Mbps Powerline Broadband Trial Unveiled · · Score: 1

    BPL causes gross EMI radiation on FCC protected bands due to the use of unshielded transmission lines (powerlines are more like antennas) and is also highly sensitive to interference from legal RF transmissions.

    BPL has to be killed. If BPL trials come to my area, I'm going to get my HAM radio liscense, a Yaesu 20 meter transmitter, and drive around transmitting legal power and kill all your downloads!

    http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/
    http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?na tive_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6515383154

  22. Re:What about Octal dual-core opteron servers? on New 1 Kilowatt PSU - Too Much Power? · · Score: 1
    Please check out PC Power and Cooling before you get this powersupply. They make very nice supplies that really put out what they are rated to.

    http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/viewproduct .php?show=T85SSI

    Ditto. I got one of their 850 SSI ones for my Asus A8N with an Athlon64 4800+ dual core O/C'd to 2600, Dual 7800GTX on SLI, 6 SATA drives (4 as a raid5 set), 2 CD-ROMs and one DVD, lots-o-USB devices.

    Yes, the room gets an extra 5 degrees warmer for this computer ;)

  23. Re:Hams on Web Access Over Power Lines · · Score: 1
    but how can a bunch of hams form a "major" opposition against the power companies, IBM, Google etc? Easy..

    As FCC liscensed radio operators, they are responsible to not cause spurious radiation (RFI) from their transmitters and are also protected, under law, from having their frequency allocations squashed by liscensed or unliscensed operators. BPL is liscensed as experimental, I think.

    HAMs are completely within their rights to fight this grose RFI problem with BPL.

    Unfortunetly, the FCC has been wasting their days on a political twist such as Howard Stern and Janet Jackson.

  24. Re:Lower Prices? on Web Access Over Power Lines · · Score: 1
    Oh wake up! The powerline folks are only doing this because they already have the cables going to your homes.

    In 2 years you'll want fibre anyways.. Ignore BPL and demand fibre, now.

  25. Re:Hams on Web Access Over Power Lines · · Score: 1
    and working around some noise created by BPL should be considered an exciting opportunity to learn something new

    Some noise? It's wide spectrum interferance and not notchable due to the carrier's pattern.

    http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?na tive_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6515383154

    It should be an exciting opertunity for the BPL technology folks to have to learn that RFI is a two-way street.

    That's some crappy technology.. I'll take a fibre instead, thanks.. NEXT PLEASE!