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  1. Re:Please please please be a trend on Blizzard Patches No-CD Support Into Warcraft III · · Score: 1

    Epic has removed the CD check from the first updates for UT and UT2k3/4. Not sure about UTIII though.

  2. Re:Asus Eee on Best Laptop for Going Around the World? · · Score: 1

    SD is pretty small, and is more or less the standard for consumer/prosumer cameras. XD is only a few hairs smaller, more expensive, and is only used by Olympus and Fuji.

  3. Re:DNS hijacking on Time-Warner Planning AOL Split · · Score: 1

    Insight does the same thing. That is, until you manually change your DNS servers.

  4. Re:Asus Eee on Best Laptop for Going Around the World? · · Score: 1

    You can forget about the USB card reader. The Eee has a built-in SD(HC) card slot.

  5. Re:Pick Two on Best Laptop for Going Around the World? · · Score: 1

    The OLPC breaks that logic, as it's all three. (passes military ruggedness specs, 3.5 pounds, ~$400 going by Ebay value)

  6. Re:a pity the British government won't use it on TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that they would trust TrueCrypt as it is free. On the other hand, they could ultimately trust TrueCrypt because the source is open, and they (or someone they paid to do it for them) could easily vet it's capabilities.
  7. Re:Good alternative to the Touch? on Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    I'd look into the Nokia N810 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810) and a 2GB MicroSD Card. It's a few hairs bigger than the Touch, and only has the 2GB built-in (hence the MicroSD card), but it makes up for it with the 800x480 screen, GPS, webcam, and slide-out thumbboard. Also, Maemo (the Linux-based platform that the N810 and it's cousin, the N800, run on) seems to have a somewhat healthy development community, and plenty of ports of desktop Linux apps. Ars has a pretty thorough review here: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nokia-n810-review.ars

  8. Re:Default settings on Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    6 DoJ and EC drop on Microsoft like a metric ton of bricks

  9. Re:Another Flamewar? on Torvalds Says Microsoft is Bluffing on Patents · · Score: 1

    Wait, what? Them be fightin' words!

    (takes window seat)

  10. Re:Cant even start wine on Linux Has Better Windows Compatibility Than Vista · · Score: 0

    America's Army didn't have a great FPS because most VMs don't have any sort of 3D acceleration support, in addition to running 4 OS's at the same time.

  11. Re:Python is doomed on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 1

    Not sure about C++, but ObjC compilers can compile all C code with no problem IIRC

  12. Re:Its all about the IM on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    You forgot about Google Talk/the Jabber networks (which AOL is considering converting AIM to). There is hope yet.

  13. Re:In other news on Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P · · Score: 1

    No, they couldn't share software or FLAC

  14. Re:Zimbra on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just in case you just now got out of the DeLorean, Yahoo bought Zimbra back in September.

  15. Re:Implications for open source on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't forget they also own Zimbra, an OSS Outlook/Exchange competitor

  16. Re:Change the icon on Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic · · Score: 1

    And you will get that after they give Ubuntu its own icon

  17. Re:Soooo. on Time for a Vista Do-Over? · · Score: 1

    Apple provided a very solid way to run OS9 apps in OSX via Classic.
    You can run just about anything built for Linux if you have the proper versions of the libraries
    If VMWare and SWSoft can make VM software that can run Win programs on an OSX desktop, it's time for Microsoft to give up if they can't do the same on their own platform(s)

  18. Re:redundancy on Millions in Middle East Lose Internet · · Score: 1

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Fark can keep their echo threads!

  19. Re:What about the EEE 700 (2G Surf), not 701? on Hacking Asus EEE · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, the only thing the 700s are missing is the RAM slot and camera. In that case, you should actually have a extra USB header. Note, however, that the 700s have a weaker battery in addition to the soldered-on RAM, so I would keep that in mind.

  20. Re:damn. That was quick. on Hacking Asus EEE · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you're referring to MiniPCI-Express (mPCIe), not ExpressCard. ExpressCard is the PCMCIA replacement, and is external usually.

  21. Re:But what about the power? on Hacking Asus EEE · · Score: 1

    IIRC (when I first saw TFA), he put in a switch somewhere to shut off the GPS and BT.

  22. Re:How can you justify still using SMS? on The True Cost of SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    IIRC, I believe T-Mobile USA only charges for outgoing SMS (not a current T-Mobile customer, I may be wrong)

  23. Re:Underlying Implications on Nokia Buys Trolltech · · Score: 1

    The global title menu bar GNOME doesn't have a Mac-style global menu bar. The menus are still bound to the applications. That menu at the top of the screen is no different from a Start/K Menu

    and spatial browsing GNOME (at least in Ubuntu) defaults to browser-style
  24. Re:KDE Qt Free Foundation on Nokia Buys Trolltech · · Score: 1

    The first two negatives cancel out, leaving you with a single negative.

  25. Re:...QT release timing?.. on Nokia Buys Trolltech · · Score: 1

    Well, development on KDE 3.x has close to stopped, and KDE 4.0 is not in a supportable state yet. I wouldn't want to support either of them for any length of time ATM.