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  1. Re:My own personal problem... on Slashdot in Politics? · · Score: 2

    Good idea, and team up with someone like stamps.com so you can print out postage on the letter fold it in 3rd and mail it.

  2. Im using WinXP beta, cant wait to buy it. on World's First XP System Sold · · Score: 1

    Then I can call tech support and bitch about the Nvidia driver that comes installed with no opengl support, and the new Nvidia Driver that wont play the new CS1.3 patch.

    So far, i really like WinXP the font enhancements that didnt make it into Win2K are awesome. Turn off all the extra junk, its pretty much like Win2k, thou its more compatible with older programs. Dos stuff works now, with sound even.

    Need to run sandrasoft on it and see what the benchmarks are like thou....

  3. Reviews are cool, but whats the best hardware now? on Motherboards with i845 Chipsets · · Score: 1

    Whats the fastest Intel motherboard for P4s? Ram?
    Whats the fastest Amd motherboard (Via chipset?)

    I can find great prices via www.pricewatch.com But where can I find the best motherboard? I like asus, but which one is the fastest for intel and amd?

    I read sites like toms hardware, sharkys, via harware, extra, but if I want to build the best, where is a good place for fastest hardware out NOW that I can find on pricewatch?

  4. PSOne already is portable. (-; on PlayStation Portable · · Score: 2
  5. Post his SSN, Cell Phone, email, check act, etc... on Senator Hollings and the SSSCA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let his identity be stolen, he might change his tune about personal privacy.

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    Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

  6. 1.5 meg connection required. on A Stateless IP Phone In The Works From AT&T · · Score: 2

    I wish I had a spare 1.5meg connection lying around I could use for an voip phone. But all I qualify for is idsl on the soon to be out of business Covad, then its back to either isdn or modem. Design a voip phone with the compression of Divx on a 28.8 modem, and I'm set.

    I read that University of Washington broadcasts HDTV over the Internet2. Only need a 200mbs connection. Anyone got a 200mbs connection for 90bux?

  7. BSD on Flash, they just moved media to memory? on American Megatrends's NAS based on custom FreeBSD · · Score: 2

    So this is just BSD on a flash rom? Or is this all integrated into the Bios, so you just power the machine on and configure? What size is the rom?

    I could do the same thing with a cdrom, burn everything onto CDROM, boot cdrom, and not touch the harddrives. Looks like they just took software and moved it from media to memory.

  8. Funny, Mpeg-4 wont win the battle, ya right. on Sun, Philips Push MPEG-4 Up Steep Hill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have mpg1, mpeg2 and mpeg2.5(mp3) hardware in my house and car, I'm pretty sure mpeg4 will be there shortly.

    People are trading VCD because they play on newer dvd drives. If they come out with a DVD player that plays some Mpg4 format, everyone will jump all over it. (IMHO)

    I have a Dazzle and 2. I started encoding home movies on VCD and then migrated to SVCD for higher res. DVD-R is still a little pricey. If they come out with a Dazzle type of encoder with Mpeg4, I can keep using cheap CD's and make a "mini-dvd" type of disc. (Also DVD-Rs dont have burn proof yet, 10 dollar coasters, oh boy.)

  9. Vrml is a fancy mud/moo on Review Of 3D Web Browsers · · Score: 2

    Even thou Vrml worlds are neat, most attempts have been to copy a mud or moo. Make buildings, claim some land for yourself, look at the pretty ads.

    I want content, news, files, mp3, chat, something other than a landscape of nothing.

    Id like to see a true representation of the Internet, nodes, routers, servers, etc. I want to travel along, stop at google, search, and take the paths from each search. Goto Slashdot and see other people reading/posting and maybe interact. Use Gnucleus and see the packets of data flow from my workstation and back out onto the network.

    I want to see the Internet turned into virtual reality. Not a mud/moo in vrml.

  10. Admins at Earthlink and AOL on BBC: AOL, Earthlink Are 'Cooperating' With FBI · · Score: 2

    Do we have any Admins from Earthlink or AOL who are /. users? Lets hear the story from the horses mouth.

    Currently at work, the FBI is scanning cell phones at an extended rate, we cant even take the machines down for maintenance.

    Not to worry thou.

    1. FBI still has to provide a search warrent and phone number to record in .wav files.

    2. They use only 100mbit connection, so they cant physically record every call.

    3. People who run the systems are /. users.

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    We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge. - Unknown

  11. Re:keyword = 911 on BBC: AOL, Earthlink Are 'Cooperating' With FBI · · Score: 2

    And if your doing file logging, 20010911 is easier to parse.

  12. Co-op sites on New Themes.org Almost Ready; Needs A Little Help · · Score: 2

    Allot of the most popular sites are ran by the target audience. Slashdot gets its content from user submissions, the moderation is done by the users, the posts are the largest part of slashdot.

    Some of my favorite sites are all user driver, blues news, betanews, slashdot, planetsites, freshmeat, themes, infoanarchy, kuro5hin, netctarine and tribalwar. And most of the news sites I read get their submissions and comments from users.

    The only problem I had when Themes went down, its about the only place I know for icewm themes and theme screenshots.

  13. Re:You Can Play As The Nazis? on Multiplayer Test For Return To Castle Wolfenstein · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And in CounterStrike you can play terrorists.

    My kids also play Barney, doesnt make them a purple diaosaurs.

  14. Re:Still no exchange klone on ZDNet Reviews KOffice · · Score: 1

    our IT department runs NT servers, I cant change that. But I do have control over my laptop and desktop.

    I have been tempting to have IT forward all my email to my desktop sun box, but I loose the exchange groupware features. Not worth it.

  15. Still no exchange klone on ZDNet Reviews KOffice · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Im still locked into m$ office for exchange server. Until someone comes out with an Exchange klone, m$ will dominate the market.

    We had to install citrix clients so our NOC (running solaris on ultra 10's) could access the exchange servers. Even thou we don't use m$ products for our NOC, m$ infiltrated it via exchange.

    E-Mail is at least 25% of my job, working on projects around the country, email is my ball and chain to the m$ platform. All documents open fine under StarOffice, but I still have to go back to exchange for my email. So I just run win2k on my laptop, use x-win32 for display, and samba to mount my solaris box and ssh to encrypt it. Basically Merge the two OS's into 1 via network tools.

  16. Re:No way things can change... on Egghead Customer? Your Data Goes To Fry's · · Score: 1

    Troll eh, was a joke, glad I didnt GNU/terrorist.

  17. Re:the changes that will take place in info on Egghead Customer? Your Data Goes To Fry's · · Score: 2

    Something like this might just pass congress 'Really, its a good idea' while people are freaking.

    Start a national database with information from DMV, Telephone, Bank, Credit Card, IRS.

    Put security clearances on peoples ID. And heck, You can already be detained if you dont have an ID.

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    You must be CCL 3 to fly this flight.

  18. Re:No way things can change... on Egghead Customer? Your Data Goes To Fry's · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exactly, we should opensource all Terrorist movements.

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    GPL isnt only for software anymore!

  19. Customer Data on Egghead Customer? Your Data Goes To Fry's · · Score: 2

    You can't stop the sale of customer data unless your a majority stock holder. Stock holders want to make their money back, and customer data is a tasty sale. To protect their butts they normally have a privacy contracts with "We reserve the right to modify or change, blah blah at any time."

    We don't have as much privacy you expect, credit card companies, insurance companies, banks, etc, exchange data without your permission, due to fraud and credit reporting. Even with government databases, they love selling drivers license information to companies.

  20. Some quick thoughts. (No sound, GPLed) on Fast, Open Alternative to Java · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The demos are nice and small, very impressive. Ill need to try this on my linux box in a few moments. (Looks like from the /. posts is crashs on some redhat installs..)

    No sound, but its still in beta, so things should be added. The most impressive thing, is IVM is GPLed! No pesky Sun or Microsoft License! Now give me a QNX, Ipaq and Gameboy Advance IVM and im set!

  21. Re:The browser is great, but where is the spell ch on Mozilla 0.9.4 Released · · Score: 2

    I used netscapes 6 spellcheck.xpi with an early version of mozilla and it wored fine. It doesnt work with 0.9.4 (just tried) hopefully someone fixes this soon.

  22. Re:Speed issues. Moz 9.3/9.4 on Mozilla 0.9.4 Released · · Score: 2

    Links is text based, renders frames, and has HTTP 1.1/keepalive support, color. It supports the mouse in terminals too, so you can just click links.

    I perfer links over lynx.

  23. Re:I love it! on Mozilla 0.9.4 Released · · Score: 2

    Not sure what company you work for, but IT is almost m$ bought and paid for. Exchange, IE, IIS, Office2k, etc..

    But in Operations (aka we make the money), we use mostly Solaris, Apache, Netscape 4.77 and Mozilla. Some of our admin tools wont even work on IE5. (Havnt tested IE6 yet...)

  24. Re:Proxomitron on Mozilla 0.9.4 Released · · Score: 2

    It comes in handy on a few sites, and the option is easy to toggle. In fact most sites that do bitch about a non-ie browser work just fine after I fake the user-agent.

  25. Proxomitron on Mozilla 0.9.4 Released · · Score: 1

    ...the ability to disable the JavaScript window.open() method...
    You might not want all pop up windows disabled, only windows with ads.

    Check out Proxomitron

    It will has rewrite the http stream, so you can rewrite headers, html, cookies, etc. For both incoming and outgoing. Also make Mozilla reply as "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)". Its more powerfull than junkbusters, and has more features and filters(all editable)