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  1. Re:not me on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 2, Informative

    The latest releases of DD-WRT, and a few other custom router firmwares, have a built-in bandwith log for your entire network.

  2. Re:Solution on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 1

    I've actually seen a few ads that were designed to be slowed down via DVR

  3. Re:Urban Networks... on Homemade VoIP Network Over Wi-Fi Routers · · Score: 1

    Actually, iDEN (Nextel) allows one to use the PTT service without a tower.

  4. Re:This may be a dumb question... on A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And likewise, if you have data you need to get rid of, how easy/hard (compared to magnetic HDDs) is it to permanently blast data off a flash drive if you don't want the data found?

  5. Re:hide the dish on Dealing With Dialup · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't even think about GPRS, and EDGE is only slightly faster than dialup (though T-Mobile's rates are relatively low). However, AT&T's HSPA and Sprint/Verizon's EVDO nets are fast enough.

  6. Re:Finally... on OpenSolaris Indiana Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    JNode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNode) would like a word with you.

  7. Re:Great on Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats · · Score: 1

    That's only the ActionScript (a close cousion of JavaScript) engine

  8. Re:Nintendo Wii? on Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats · · Score: 1

    Only if Nintendo/Opera is willing to write their own SWF player to these specs.

  9. Re:That's why Open-Source fails on the desktop on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    Psi is Jabber-only, all the multi-protocol magic happens server-side, and is supported by nearly every Jabber client worth its weight.

  10. Re:It's more complicated than you'd think... on Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors · · Score: 1

    You also have to detect "invalid" vote combinations, of course - voting for two presidential candidates, for example. That's correspondingly more complicated for the less-straightforward ballots. Press the number for the candidate you wish to select.
    1. John Johnson
    2. Jack Johnson
    3. Richard Nixon
    ? 4
    Sorry, invalid entry.

    Done. I'll send you my bill.
  11. Re:Wait, on OQO Hacker Claims World's Smallest OS X Machine · · Score: 1

    Only the Touch and iPhone. All the other iPods run a custom, 100% unreleated OS called Pixo.

  12. Re:Dont forget ... on SCO v. Novell Goes to Trial Today In Utah · · Score: 1

    Is there a "-1, Get a new troll-bot" mod?

  13. Re:No dilemma on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    You do not want to be the author of an out-of-control autonomous, self-replicating entity, no matter what it does. I'm sure Cyberdyne Systems wishes you were on their payroll.
  14. Re:Friendly botnets would be sued. on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    Simple.
    Find some script kiddie, and pay him huge sums of cash to spread it for you. Works for the evil botnets

  15. Re:PGP won't help them... on Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman would like one, but what do we care what they do with it?

  16. Re:Education and Secrets don't Mix. on Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists · · Score: 4, Funny

    And again, how do we not know that you aren't also part of twitter's schemes?

  17. Have her install Wubi on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hand her the disc, tell her to click the "Install inside Windows" option, and let her loose from there. Completely non-destructive, and so simple your wife could (probably) do it.

  18. Re:Comedy gold... on IBM's Inexpensive Notes/Domino Push Against MS · · Score: 1

    Except it's not quite a mail client. It's ECLIPSE.
    Eight
    Careless
    Lifetimes
    In
    Perpetual
    Swapping
    Enragement

    Yes, I think it's the modern spawn of EMACS

  19. Re:Curious about Ubuntu on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    I hear WoW is quite solid under wine. Don't want to start myself, however.

  20. Re:I upgraded on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    With the black dots, are you sure you don't have some dead pixels?

    And the Unlock button is part of something called PolicyKit, a finer-grained permissions system to replace gksudo.

  21. Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    I believe you can actually. Never actually done it, though, so YMMV

  22. Re:I can't understand Firefox3 beta5 on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    It's easier to deal with bugs in a beta for 2 months, than it is to deal with security holes popping up 5 years from now in a no longer supported version.

  23. Re:Firefox 3 Beta 5? Really? on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    AFAIK, since this is a LTS (Long Term Support) release, they went with the beta Firefox so there wouldn't be major shocks when Mozilla stopped updating 2.x and Ubuntu updated everyone to 3.

  24. Re:Started the download 20 minutes ago on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 5, Informative
  25. Re:Kudos to them, I guess on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm going to ignore you being a buzzkill long enough to tell you that, in this particular instance, Sun is using the GPL with the Classpath exception, which means that it's perfectly okay to link to it without invoking the viral clause.