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  1. Re:Linux support? Uhhh... RTFM? on Creative Zen Micro Ships Today · · Score: 1

    Your response failed to take into account the facts I mentioned in my post. I have mod points, but answered instead. Your failure to understand the question could be understood as a trolling attempt.

  2. Re:Linux support? Uhhh... RTFM? on Creative Zen Micro Ships Today · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it's seen as a dumb USB storage, il will work on linux, regardless of the requirements.
    My Finepix camera requires some version of windows, and nevertheless works like a charm with linux out of the box.

    So I believe the question stands.

  3. Difference: on Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Preview · · Score: 1

    One word: "porn" ;-P

  4. Asus Pundit on Energy Efficient and Cheap Servers for Home Use? · · Score: 1

    Small, good looking (comes in metal grey or black), almost silent, an excellent choice.

  5. Re:The Postman? on Celebrity Casting For LOTR · · Score: 1

    The book is excellent, good story, deep thoughts. As all of Brin's books. I didn't even care to see the movie...

  6. Re:What _would_ you buy? on Low Powered Mini-Server for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Asus Pundit
    Even make a cluster of them.
    They go for 350 EUR w/ 2ghz cpu, 512M ram, 40Go Hdd
    Near silent, no external power supply, 2PCI slots if you remove the %*$@ modem.

  7. Re:As far as restricting Generals goes.... on Germany Places Command & Conquer on Restricted List · · Score: 1

    Bah, as far as the gameplay is concerned, I'm still with TA. No fancy 3D, but real game depth, and still the ability to surprise even after countless hours playing.
    Fancy 3d won't hide the lack of depth of the game.
    I'll be flamed for writing this, but WC3 was a sorry excuse for a game. Nice looking it was, but what new (game) feature did it introduce since TA? What nice feature did it lack? Shh...

  8. Wind on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    Wind is a beautiful movie; espescially if you're into sailing. If you're not, then maybe the movie will make you want to try ;-)
    And it features Jennifer Grey which is always a plus.
    I've seen Red Dawn somewhere here, and I enjoy that one for this definite role playing theme. I mean, come one, they weren't serious were they?

  9. Re:You Can't Cheat An Honest Man on Users Conned by Cable Con · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Action is taken against filesharers regardless of shared content. If the action is taken against them just because they are running a file sharing program, it is wrong. There are legal and honest uses to such programs. That's the difference I guess (at least, that's the difference I make).

  10. Re:instead of using "sound recognition technology on Wired's Wish List For 2013 · · Score: 1

    s/his daddy/God/

  11. Re:Environmental Illness on Shelter: A Quest for Non-Toxic Housing · · Score: 0

    Come on, we all know that fungi sprout on Yuggoth, not in dark closets.

  12. Obligatory mirror on Server In A Fly · · Score: 1

    Mirror here, without the video. Not sure if my home page will stay up longer than the original though ;)

  13. Galactica was a piece of crap on Battlestar Galactica to Return · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hopefully, they'll manage to do better than the original. Remember that it came after StarWars, so the standard was pretty high. But everything from the plot to the costumes sucked big time. The movie was terrible and the TV series worst.

  14. ATA just doesn't cut it on Enterprise-class ATA Drives · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When it comes to concurrent access, which basically means "busy server", ATA just doesn't cut it.
    We had some entry-level Sun (netra X1) with IDE drives collapse under medium load, just because of logging. I've had older, slower, SCSI suns perform under much more load without this kind of issue.
    ATA is ok for hoarding pr0n, it's OK for the live backup system; but I'm not putting those into any kind of serious server.
    And don't you mention ATA RAID. Those who do never used real SCSI Raid (as in "Enterprise" RAID ;), or just plain lie.
    It's a cost/performance tradeoff all right.
    ATA had many uses, but stops short of anything inside a 19" rack.

  15. Re:Up for discussion... on The Making of the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 0

    Both were large naval yards. With these cities gone, the US would have and keep naval supremacy in the Pacific.

  16. Re:This happens too frequently on My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer · · Score: 1

    I wonder what happens to the bounced emails then.
    Postmaster gets them. Thank you very much. cat > /dev/null would have been way better.

  17. The sheep look up... on E-commerce Sites to Collect Sales Taxes Nationwide · · Score: 1

    ... and was not fed

  18. Re:What about games released for Timex/Sinclair 10 on Top Ten Shameful Games · · Score: 1

    But the games didn't really have anything to do with those troubles did they? Flight Simulator was great at the time, and T-Rex was amazing.
    As for the system itself, it was one hell of a bargain for the price. I learned a lot on a ZX81. The computers that followed were great, and made it look like shit, but in its time, it was a great machine. Oh, and I had a stand-alone ram pack with a flexible connector that wouldn't come loose :-)

  19. Re:Gaming Industry Ready? on Return of the Independent Game Developer? · · Score: 1

    Not. Dungeon Siege.

  20. Re:I got all of the following... on Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses? · · Score: 1

    You own the company, it's your fault. If they're bad at what they do, fire them. If they need help, help them. Your fault. Owning a company is a reponsability to your employees. That includes proper management, and/or the courage to fire one that endangers the whole. Oh, and I know first hand what I'm talking about.

  21. Re:I'm happy! on Jon Johansen Trial Continues · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And it is quite a sad thing, as speaking at least one other language is rewarding. But then, most of the slashdot readers seem to know but a few hundred words of english, and that would hardly qualify as knowing a language (yes I mean the native english speakers, not foreigners speaking their language AND english) ;->

  22. Re:Only problem with x86 architecture on Mini PC in an Actual Lunchbox · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll address the serial port issue only. Try configuring a Cisco (or about any worthy piece of network equipment, Suns included for that matter) without a serial port. *boo*
    But hey, I work with my computer, I guess Josticks all come in USB now so you don't really mind.

  23. Re:If only.... on Lessig's Challenge: Are You Up To It? · · Score: 1

    On which planet do you live?
    Hey SETI! Contact! We have an E.T. posting on slashdot!

  24. Re:Time to put away childish things... on High Power RocketCam Videos · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can use "American values" and "debate and democracy" in the same sentence anymore. Or maybe just democracy, you can still debate all you want as long as you just debate and don't act.
    And no, I'm not trolling, I really think democracy left gradually without anyone noticing.

  25. Quality is not an issue here on Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets Leaked · · Score: 1

    Of course the DivX will suck. It's like the games. Try before you buy. I saw matrix first on DivX, before the release, and went to watch the movie on a real screen. I saw Phantom Menace this way, 6 weeks before release, and stayed at home when it came out. I enjoy getting a chance to sample the goods. If it's good, I'll gladly pay for it. You buy a car without at least driving it a few blocks? I don't. I like to know what I'm buying.