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  1. Re:How exactly on Galactic Fossil Found · · Score: 2

    analyzing the spectrum i suppose

  2. Ice Age, eh? on Woolly Rhino Discovery In England · · Score: 2, Funny

    They were surely frozen after their... err... meeting with Sid the Sloth and Manfred the Mammoth was a bit cold.

  3. someone should patent patent lawsuits on San Diego Company Owns E-Commerce · · Score: 4, Funny

    and sue all those companies which are abusing the current patent law system 'till a new one is ready.

  4. not a chance on The Sinking Ship that is AOL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    when most non geeks think of aol they think of an "easy internet expirience", although most of them don't even know what internet is. they use aim, they use aol email and they don't want to go any further, hell they don't even know there is more than aol. such people don't care about the speed or price because they don't use it too often.

    as long there are still enough computer illiterate aol will stay.

    and as long as aol funds the mozilla team and winamp, it should stay - it is still the lesser evil.

  5. chemicals in my toolbox on What's in Your Toolbox? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    one important section of my toolbox are various chemicals:

    isopropanol for cleaning various surfaces
    good thermal grease (for changing coolers)
    instant and epoxy glue
    ballistol (for saving fans, great lubricant, not only for weapons)
    sea water spray (for my poor nose if i must work in dusty environment)

  6. Re:which isn't that hard.... on CDMA, Cell Phone Standards And Who "Wins" · · Score: 2

    It actually is.

    Don't forget please that they are individual countries, not one big united country. these countries use different languages, different phone lines and many of them different currencies. And I am still able to use my gsm cell phone almost everythere in europe.
    Such thing would be far easier to achieve in a single country than in multiple ones.

    Besides, EU+Russia are already bigger than USA, add nearly the rest of the world and you got the picture.

    I remember going to Estonia two months ago. The bus went through Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, finally through Estonia. And my cell phone had a connection all the time, I could make this trip without dropping a call.

    In Estonia however, I bought a local GSM SIM card because it would be cheaper than roaming. It worked without any problem with my GSM phone. I even bought a new GSM phone in Estonia because they are just cheaper there and it worked without any problem with my german GSM card.

    Before I did this, I met a man from Swizerland in Estonia, with his GSM phone. We exchanged phone numbers and he called me. With a swiss gsm phone and card, he called me with a german gsm phone and card and we both were in Estonia. Now that is fun!

    And everything would still work if I had decided to went to Russia or Finland directly from Estonia.

  7. Payload on Sputnik's 45th Anniversary · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its size was more impressive than Vanguard's intended 3.5-pound payload.

    even more impressive was the launch of sputnik 3 - 1327 kg payload, 16 times heavier than sputnik 1 - with the same rocket type. that caused even more fear. the rest of the world couldn't believe that ussr can make such strong rockets - more than enough to deliver a nuclear payload over the half of the globe.

  8. Re:Google is your... on Itanium Problems · · Score: 2, Informative

    it actually works with any word after that... or no word at all. if you don't believe, try it out.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/technology/cir cu its/29CHIP.html?ex=1033963200&en=3b60e461ca6b0684& ei=5062&partner=

    seems to be a nice bug

  9. Re:I just downloaded and burned 9.0rc3... on Mandrake 9.0 (Dolphin) Is Available [updated] · · Score: 1

    don't know about changes, but why don't you just use cd-rws?

  10. Re:Maybe not in English on Tiny Boxen · · Score: 1

    sure, but boxen also means loudspeakers in german. and they are actually boxes.

  11. best product win? on Apple Bundles InDesign With Power Macs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    shouldn't it be: as a capitalist, I say, let the product with the best advertising win.

  12. Re:Don't mix ink types in Epsons! on Reducing TCO of an Inkjet Printer? · · Score: 1

    i found that the jet tec (http://www.jettec.com/)ink cartridges work quite well with epson printers. there was an article in c't, about different ink brands, too, they found jet tec ok, not the brightest colours, but the most compatible.

  13. Re:BOOT DISK on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    because CF cards have got only a limited count of writing cycles.

  14. not only there on German Free/Open Source Migration Project · · Score: 3, Informative

    the police in a german state - niedersachsen (lower saxonia) will even completely move to linux. about 11000 desktop linux computers will be used from 2004 on. these clients will connect to a high speed linux cluster. the special police software is written in java, star office 6 and netscape communicator will be used.

    the lower saxonia police tested win2k and xp against linux and found out that linux is more secure, easier to administrate and saves about 20 milliones euros in 10 years.

    at the present time lower saxonia police uses 5500 x terminals with 200 unix mainframes.

    the text in german is here
    http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-17.0 4.02-0 00/

  15. a clean design on Familiarizing Your Admins with New Hardware? · · Score: 1

    the most important thing, imho, is a clean design of a system. it doesn't have to be a system with tons of features, just clean. sometimes as clean as they teach it in unversities at cs courses. it is a bit slower and not that optimal, but it is a clean design.

    the worst system is a patchwork which even the author cannot understand anymore after three days.

  16. good riddance on KPNQwest Files for Bankruptcy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    kpnqwest provided the backbone to a quite big german hoster - strato. i can remember that strato had failures twice a week and they always blamed kpnqwest and kpnqwest said they will get better... they didn't really.

    too bad for the employees, tho.

  17. had router with fli4l on Building Linux Appliances - Dealing with Heat Issues? · · Score: 1

    i had a router i built with the fli4l (www.fli4l.de) linux isdn+dsl router distribution. it was a p133 downclocked to 75 mhz on some asus dual pentium board with eisa (the only motherboard what i had). i actually ripped off all fans, the psu fan, the cpu fan, everything and it worked without any issues. yeah, it was quite warm but not too hot. nothing where you could burn your fingers.

  18. Re:circumvention devices? on Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs · · Score: 1

    in united states, maybe. in germany you have got a right to make a backup copy, so the article is legal here and post-it notes too.

  19. Re:DMCA on Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs · · Score: 1

    well the article is in a german magazine and in germany you have a right to make a backup copy for yourself.

  20. Re:(Not) natural-born killers on New Bill Would Restrict Sale of Video Games to Minors · · Score: 1

    you are mistaken here. that guy in germany owned his glock and the pumpgun legally. he was a member of a schuetzenverein (rifleman club), has legally acquired a wbk and bought his arms legally. with a wbk you may possess two guns, and carry them unloaded and locked from home to the club and back.

  21. Re:What a nightmare on Taxing Sci-Fi Products to Fund NASA? · · Score: 1

    sure. lotr is legend of the rangers, the newest b5 spinoff. there actually are plenty of aliens.

  22. Re:WHY are ATIs drivers so bad? on ATi's New All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB · · Score: 1

    the crashes and problems with image quality in 3d on radeon 8500 have often NOTHING to do with buggy drivers. the biggest problem of this card is that joke of a cooler. many people expirienced the same problem but almost always the problem was solved with a replacing of that cooler-wannabe with a real one.

    this of cource only works with a built by ati video card. third party radeons mostly have a better cooling solution but a broken firmware.

  23. Re:No brains? on Interview With id Software's Robert A. Duffy · · Score: 1

    it is a bit different in switzerland. nearly all male sitizens have go to the army. when they are back home they keep their rifle (sig 550 nowadays) and some rounds of ammo. switzerland is small but neutral and they take their neutrality very seriously.

  24. Re:on re ads on Another Go At Making Spam Cost Money · · Score: 1

    yes, sure but you pay for these ads already - because the advertized products cost more because of ads. if you buy food, drugs, cloths... whatever... you pay for the advertizement cost.

    and then the companies can write them off the tax payment.

  25. Re:Nice Idea on AMD Targets Web Pad & PDA Processor Market · · Score: 1

    burning my karma here but what the hell...

    if your amd based pc is loud, then it is your fault. mine is about as loud as a videorecorder working, and that with two 7200 rpm hard drives. those of my father (i built it, too) is nearly absolutely silent.

    people tend to buy cheap fans and loud psus because their amd cpus were inexpensive, too. there are plenty of good heat sinks you can combine with some really good and almost silent fans. there are plenty nearly silent psus on the market, even cheaper codegen ones are quite silent. and a seagate barracuda 4 harddrive isn't that expencive, too. better to invest 20 bucks more in better components then to live with a pc loud as a helicopter.

    anyway, back to topic. not all amd processors are getting so hot. i can remember some k6-2 and even k6-3 which didn't require any fan with a better heatsink. and that with 0.26m.