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  1. Re:iPod durability on iPod's Two-Year Anniversary · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a hefty RAM buffer into which data is loaded, and then the disk spins down. This is how the iPod conserves battery life.

  2. Re:Centrino is NOT the price/performance/powr lead on Intel Putting Wi-Fi into Future Chipsets · · Score: 1

    And there's still no support for AiportExtreme on Linux, greatly reducing the utility of Linux on that iBook.

  3. Re:Intel linux support sucks on Intel Putting Wi-Fi into Future Chipsets · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um, I know Dell sells them. There was a 802.11b MiniPCI card from Dell on sale for $29 the other week. Check Techbargains for it. Also, if you're desperate, you can generally rip apart a consumer AP or "router" and yank out it's MiniPCI card, too.

  4. Re:Fair beats free. on Economics of File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Daft Punk's extra downloads are nicely DRM'd. I remember installing that shitty software back when I had a Windows box in 2001. Of course, Windows installs don't last that long, and once you've used the code that came with your CD, you can never install it again. So, it's essentially useless to me now. Oh well.

  5. Re:This will be good for apple on Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, I installed 10.3 last night without registering. Just select that you're 'not ready to connect to the Internet' and when prompted later to register, click 'register later'. Then, after rebooting, delete the alias to the registration program and don't use the wizard to configure the Internet settings. Really quite simple.

  6. Re:Glorious! on DVD Authoring In Linux · · Score: 1

    Does that have anything to do with my nick?

  7. PowerPC on NDIS Wrapper For Wireless LAN Cards Under GPL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this works, then no one will bother developing an open source driver, which means there is still no hope for using Airport Extreme, which uses the Broadcom chipset, under Linux on a PowerBook. =(

  8. Re:I can't wait for it to reach Britain on FCC To Expand Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    That joke totally went right over your head, mate.

  9. Re:Storage on CD-R Lifespan - Is It The Label? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, nice website.

  10. Re:300$ ?!?!? on Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red · · Score: 1

    Dude man, so my mate and I wanted to get a grant to see if applying stickers to a Honda or Accura actually made it go faster. Too bad we both suck at writing proposals, eh?

  11. Re:NAT firewalls a huge factor on Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth · · Score: 1

    Could you explain what your BIND config entries mean (or post a link)? I've never seen that before.

  12. Re: not an urban myth, you can graft hops on canna on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    Yes, grafting would work, but, as THC is produced in the flowers of the cannabis plant, THC and the other cannabinoids would not transfer from the roots to the hops, thereby making the exercise pointless.

  13. Hmmmm on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Too bad that won't work with cannabis, despite the old urban myth that it does. Mmmm, I'd be sure to get my daily recommend dose^H^H^H^Hserving of vegetables per day.

  14. What about today's Xbox? on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are they not going to have backward compatibility? That seems like a big mistake in the game console market to me.

  15. Yeah right on Hercules USB DJ Console Reviewed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you're trying to tell me that professional DJs are going to ditch their pair of 1200s and huge collection of vinyl for some shitty little piece of plastic with a USB connector on it?

    Sure thing.

  16. Re:Hold your horses about switching on Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office · · Score: 1
    What do you think, am I off base here?
    Yes, I think you are. You're completely forgetting that OSX applications run on the PowerPC architecture, and OSX is not a version of FreeBSD. Yes, a lot of the underlying UNIX utilities are from FreeBSD, but the kernel is not, nor is the graphics framework. In addition, most of the MS apps are not written like UNIX applications but instead are written like old Mac applications. I forget what this is called, but I believe it's the one that's not called Cocoa.
  17. Re:Ignorance on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Tell me, what part of "gets reused in the reactor" didn't you understand?

  18. Re:Ignorance on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you missed out on the part where modern nuclear reactors don't produce appreciable waste. We only have a problem in the US, because our asshat government prohibits these types of reactors, because they can also produce weapons-grade plutonium. In a civilian setting, this gets reused in the reactor, but here, in the US, we must be concerned with them gosh darn Ter'rists.

  19. Re:but France was right on Dilbert Readers Rat Out Some Weasels · · Score: 1
    Have you ever heard the phrase "51st State"?
    Yes, I have. It was a movie with Samuel L Jackson.
  20. Re:Losing the Insert key on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/~Dancin_Santa

    Yep, we sure don't use the tilde at all...

  21. Re:Not a particularly good idea... on Japan Introduces Consumer-Paid Computer Recycling · · Score: 1

    So you're saying Japan is a haven for dumpster diving? Awesome.

  22. Re:Dang... on Remote Root Exploit In lsh · · Score: 1

    Trust me, your RedHat 9 box was *not* running lsh.

  23. Re:uh.. that doesn't cover everything on How To Upgrade Linux To The 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 1

    Man, I compiled the kernel as one normally would and installed it.

    Next,
    emerge nvidia-kernel vmware

    That's all I did. Now, does that really warrant a howto?

  24. Re:uh.. that doesn't cover everything on How To Upgrade Linux To The 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 1

    Man, I'm running Gentoo, with 2.6.0-test3, and I'm using the latest NVidia drivers, and the latest VMware, and they all work great.

  25. Re:unix on old pentiums on Debian And The Rise of Linux · · Score: 0

    Did you give grub a try? I've got an old P133 acting as a gateway with a 16.8GB disk, and using grub was the only way I could get it to boot.