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  1. dang on 10GB In A Linux PDA · · Score: 1, Redundant

    must not use credit card...

  2. Mine on The Psychology of Passwords · · Score: 1

    I'd tell you how I came up with mine. But then it would be easier for you to guess. Then I'd have to change it in the 200 places where it is the same. I'm gonna learn some day.

  3. How to contact. on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 1
    Senator Wyden doens't have a public e-mail address that he publishes (wimp). He does have a form at this page for sending a comment. Although he says he won't respond if you are not from Oregon.

    Gephardt's got a page here. Same deal. No public e-mail address given.

  4. Domino.doc on Version Control for Documentation? · · Score: 1

    Domino.doc from Lotus does everything you want and more.

  5. Golden Rule on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 1

    I think the Golden Rule applies here. You would want someone to discretly tell you if you had a problem. If they other shop won't tell their client about the problem, tell them yourself. Don't try to make the other company look bad. You are doing your business a favor, you look like a helping, kind company. You are also helping the internet by altering poor admins to problems like this. Take the high ground, be the good samaritan, then pat yourself on the back.

  6. Re:My Experiences on The Myriad Ways of Wiring Your Home? · · Score: 1

    Damn. Up here in Abilene, my garage get hot in August. Don't need to make it any hotter with a bunch of computers :)

  7. Re:there is no knife... on Effortless Cutting Blades? · · Score: 1

    They might be able to teach you this at Wudan, but you still need to get the Green Destiny to make the cut nice and smooth. :)

  8. IBM _wants_ you to migrate on Converting From Oracle To DB2? · · Score: 1

    IBM wants you to migrate. They have a team that will even help. Check outthis IBM migration site for more info.

  9. Re:Amateur radio on Two For The Sky: Satellites For HAM And You · · Score: 1

    In America, NONE of the license classes require code.

  10. Finally on New HamSat · · Score: 3

    For those who don't know, Phase3D has been worked on for _years_. It is a remakable machine, allowing communications on several bands (frequencies). It has a large footprint that will allow it to be seen from the ground twice a day for most of Europe and the U.S. Go to AMSAT.org and listen if you have a scanner. Most, but not all of the bands are digital, but the signal should be strong enough to pick up with a cheap scanner and a good antenna. Good to see it finally up, now I gotta dig out the old radios.

  11. slammed on The Joys Of Big Business; or Why AT&T Long Distance Sux · · Score: 1

    I got slammed 4 years ago. I got signed up for a 1-800 number. The $60 charge magically appeared on my phone bill. Being a poor college student at the time, I called SWB to ask about the charge. I was told I had signed up for a 800 number. I said I didn't and I wanted the charge taken off my bill. They said they couldn't and I would have to call the company that issed the 800 number and have them credit my SWB account. I called the company and they said they would credit my account. The next month came around and I still had the original $60 plus $60 for the next month. I went through the whole routine, with the phantom company again saying they would credit my account. Then I get a letter from a collection agency saying I owed $120 + $30 in collection fees. Sux as we only have one option here for local service. I didn't do business with SWB until I got married, and then I put the service in my wife's name.

  12. 2 cents on FCC to Rule on Request to Limit Recording From TV · · Score: 1

    power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutly.

  13. OT - about ATEX on Last Chance To Order A Vax · · Score: 1

    I don't know about their old stuff, but their new stuff sux! They vastly outsold their ability to maintain. My company, which will remain nameless, had been very disapointed with Atex since our $500,000 install 18 months ago. We pay a lot of money to have fast tech support. Fast to Atex means when we get to it, usually sometimes next week. This is a production newspaper system. We had to spend the money because our SII system couldn't be made Y2K compliant. But that's another story.

  14. Pilot Advice on Ask Robert X. Cringely · · Score: 3

    Moderators, please read the bio before you mod this question. Bob is a pilot who tried to build a plane in 30 days. His show was on PBS, same and Triumph

    What advice would give someone wanting to get his pilot's license? Is it worth the time? Is it worth the money?

  15. lost? on Tiny, Tiny Sony Digicam · · Score: 2

    They need to add some sort of transponder so you could make it beep when you lose it. That small is bound to be misplaced :)

  16. Predictive Dialer on ABC Ads Target Answering Machines? · · Score: 2

    Many people in this discussion have been talking about telemarketers hanging up on them Now, IANAL, so I won't get into the legality of hanging up, but I can shed some light the software that many telemarketers use. A predictive dialer works like this:
    List of number is input/imported.
    Dialer dials each number, really really fast.
    If there is an answer, the dialer connects the call to one of the telemarketers. This is why, often there is a one or two second delay from when you say hello, and when the telemarketer starts in.
    If the dialer get a connection and there isn't a telemarketer ready to take the call, i.e. they are all on the phone, the dialer hangs up and will try the call again later.
    Annoying, but the good predictive dialers can call tens of thousands of numbers an hour. Somehow the dialers is hooked straight into the PBX and can dial the numbers at amazing rates. My $.02 worth.

  17. Implant this baby on Gigabyte Matchbook Drives From IBM · · Score: 1

    The battery pack for a pacemaker is a bit bigger than this. implant a smaller battery and the driver. surely the space between my clavicle and my shoulder blade could hold this :) Run the wire for the tiny transducer to my inner ear. Wireless link in my other shoulder for d/l'ing new files to the unit. Audible user interface, I'm set. Sign me up.

  18. New internet and unaccountable businesses on Software That Can Censor 'Sexual Images.' Or Not. · · Score: 3

    I think this is one of the down-falls of the way many businesses are conducting themselves on the internet. This is obviously a company that was able to drive up the hype on their product. Now they are able to keep saying, "we're working on it" and most people will say 'OK' and not really hold the company responsible. Imagine if a company that made a real physical object tried this. Cars that crashed or drove the wrong direction 90% of the time. Or a kitchen disposal that ground up your hand in addition to the kitchen waste. Consumers wouldn't allow this product to remain. Its time we do the same for e-companies. Especially ones that proclaim to help children. None of these products work well. Just check out Peacefire.org. Get the lowdown.

  19. Bedrooms vs. Server rooms on Computers And The Noise They Make · · Score: 1

    I work in a server room. Looking around, there are:
    4 workstations with monitors
    15 servers (old Compaq and HP netservers and four new Dell darth vader black Poweredges) with monitors
    2 laser printers
    1 _HUGE_ UPC
    1 good ole HP3000 with 2 terminals (you want uptime? how bout 1 year with nothing but scheduled maint. downtime)
    a bunch of flourescent lights.
    The ambient noise in here is like a car at 60 mph on the highway without the stereo on. You do get used to it after a while. With out the industrial AC in here it would probably be above 90 degrees easy, which is still cooler that the great outdoors this time of year.

  20. Re:MySQL... on Programming the Perl DBI · · Score: 1

    Moderate this up. I too deal with lots of _very_ important transactions. Transaction support is just too valuable in some situations to ever be dismissed. $.02

  21. REDEEMING? on The Battlefield Earth Contest · · Score: 1

    The only redeeming thing about this movie is that while doing a little critic search before it came out, I wandered into some Anti-scientology sites and realized how screwed up the cult of scientology, and by association, the Travoltas are.

  22. Phase 3D on Iridium Saved? · · Score: 1

    I'm still planning on using Phase 3D when it get launched. LEO, not there all the time, but still pretty good. Bounce them packets baby. Interested? Check out AMSAT.org

  23. As to the last question on At Last And At Length: Lars Speaks · · Score: 1

    My mom used to have a saying about the pot calling the kettle black. I doens't seem right for the pot to say it isn't like the kettle just because the kettle is bigger. The pot is still black. Just like the band members are just as guilty of stealing for making copies of tapes. My $.02

  24. Re:almost on Ham Radio Repeater On The Moon? · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the fcc has handed some enforcement over to local law enforcement. IAAH (i am a ham) and I and most of the hams I'm friends would clean up their signal if it's noisy. Check to see if there is a ham radio club in your area and try to get them to help you with your neighboor (if he isn't a ham). Some of the amplified CB signals is incredibly noisy. But so are most paging services. 73 de KC5ZGH

  25. Re:Hello Cheating! on Net Access From your TI-85 · · Score: 1

    All the teachers will do is make students with wireless access (for the exams that wouldn't allow them) is to construct a small box lined with a couple layers of tinfoil. You would have to use your calc in the foil lined box. Good rf blocker. Course it would be hard to see the screen. Sheesh, i thought programming the _whole_ periodic table into my casio about 8 years ago was hard.