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  1. Re:Use the line to pull other lines into your outl on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Since 100baseT ethernet only uses pairs 2 and 3 (orange/white and green/white), you could punch down pairs 2 and 3 on an RJ45 jack and pair 1 (blue/white) on a phone jack.

    We are running ethernet on our old phone lines. Works fine.

  2. Re:Baen Free Library on Copyright Infringement of Books · · Score: 1

    You can read a good friends book here.

    I checked. Neither of my friends has a book there.

  3. Re:It's a ROM hack on Square Enix Shuts Down Fan-Made Chrono Trigger Sequel · · Score: 1

    The largest monitor in a typical home is an SDTV. Consoles, unlike most PCs, can display on SDTVs.

    I don't think either of those sentences are true. At least, not if you leave in the "unlike most PCs" part.

  4. Re:I for one... on Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town · · Score: 1

    I live about 200km (~125 miles) from Bowen; in a small city called Townsville, Queensland - population 150,000. Brisbane is the capital city of this state, and maybe more likely to be known by an international audience(?)

    Nah, Townsville was in Powerpuff Girls, so it's the one we all know.

  5. Re:Correction on Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town · · Score: 1

    Actually, spiders have book lungs, sort of a slightly fancier spiracle with more effective surface area. More efficient gas transfer but not anything like a mammalian lung.

    You know where there's a good article about book lungs? Wikipedia.

  6. Re:Ouch on Handling Caller ID Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    I usually hear that called "rep surfing".

  7. Re:Bucking the peripherals trend? on How Nvidia Wants To Bring 3D Glasses Back · · Score: 1

    Does anyone actually play Singstar?

  8. Little Brother on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is great stuff -- just barely SF, though, all stuff that could happen tomorrow. Reads like 1984 in the modern US with a techie teen protagonist.

  9. Usenet (rec.arts.sf.written) on Decent Book Clubs for Sci-Fi Fans? · · Score: 1

    Lots and lots of great SF discussion on usenet, rec.arts.sf.written. There are a few trolls and sometimes some spam, but a pretty high signal to noise ratio overall (Signal to Noise was a pretty good book, too).

    And you can even check it out on Google Groups if you're NNTP impaired. But don't, 'cuz web forums suck.

  10. Charlie Stross talks about this on his blog on Vista to Create 50,000 Jobs in Europe · · Score: 1

    It's in today's entry which is right here.

  11. Daughter in hospital now on Child's Play 2005 Launch · · Score: 1

    Her hospital isn't one that Child's Play provides stuff to, but there are a few local corporations that have pitched in, and anything that takes away from the boredom of a few weeks in bed is great. Most donations go towards stuff that helps the kids get better, but games can make the kids feel better.

  12. Batman has one of those on PlayStation 3 Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I think he throws the controllers at people and they come back to his hand if he misses.

  13. You can do it in Canada, too on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    You can go to http://www.ufile.ca/ -- just $14.95 Canadian. Haven't tried it myself, we've always got at least one Windows machine around.

  14. Re:We have a few rules, and it works on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 1

    She (Elizabeth Spoilsport) is 7, is bilingual in French and English, writes in cursive, and does her times tables. She can recognise 4/4, 3/4, and 5/4 time signatures.

    But how is she with computers? My daughter can format a partition, install her own software, surf in four or five languages (that I've seen), and the other day she was bidding for some Beanie Baby stuff on eBay. I can't wait to see what she does after she turns five...

  15. Re:butchering asimov on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it will be a fun watch (I'm seeing it this afternoon) but sometimes it would be nice to watch a film that was as stimulating as the book (LoTR was one) and not just 2 hours of fun.

    Two hours of fun? Try 74 minutes of fun. Yeah, there's value for my $15. I could watch it twice and still not take as long as RotK.

  16. Re:On the bright side, on U.S. Students Shun Computer Science, Engineering · · Score: 1

    Holy crap! I'm not even first year yet and I usually have harder stuff than that!

  17. Re:Not neccessarily true on Open-Source Software and "The Luxury of Ignorance" · · Score: 1

    I'm a relative newbie (only using Linux for about two years, Unix for about 12), but even heavy perusal of linuxprinting.org hasn't let me figure out how to use my Mandrake machine to print on the HP printer attached to my WinXP machine.

    Maybe I should try Mandrake Move instead.

  18. Flash could so run on water on Comic Book Physics · · Score: 1

    Turns out an average sized adult human male could run on water as long as they run about sixty miles per hour.

  19. Re:Mediastation open source alternative on MIDI Keyboard/Computer: Neko64 · · Score: 1

    That thing doesn't have even one 64 bit processor, let alone two. And why does it come with a webcam?

  20. Re:It would be interesting... on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1

    Hey, I never knew about the Goon Show until I read they were part of the inspiration for Python

    The Goon Show inspired a programming language? I'm betting that's not a good thing...

  21. It figures it'd be now on NVIDIA Releases New Linux Drivers · · Score: 0

    I just finished getting the old ones working last weekend...

  22. Re:Magnetite occurs naturally in the body, so ... on Detoxing With Magnets for Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that this treatment would also pull out any bacteria in the body that contains magnetite?

    You are unlikely to have any of that kind of bacteria actually in your body. Here is a quick little discussion of them.

  23. Reminds me of the Brights on Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Except not quite the same thing -- Brights are trying to form a labelled community, whereas hackers already have one and are just getting a logo for it.

  24. What, no rocket jump? on X Prize and John Carmack · · Score: 2, Funny

    I figured they'd just point a rocket launcher at the ground and take off that way...

  25. Re:I don't doubt it... on Videogames Attract More Women Than Boys? · · Score: 1

    They can't own cars, but they have people that drive them anywhere they want to go.