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  1. Re:OT Grammar Nazi comment on Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    yes, I was going to post the same. Of course, the password is need not be his or her password. It may just be 'a' password. Hell the user may be logging in as someone else. Using his/her (own?) password would be silly.

  2. Re:Dual head on Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card · · Score: 1
    Just get a dual head card, it's easier, and will probably perform better.

    Getting onboard video working with an additional card depends on your BIOS/motherboard, sometimes there is literally a setting in the bios for enable/disable and priortiy of installed cards.

    Plus, if you get a dual head card, you will have dual head. If your onboard also works, then you could have tri head which can be very useful, especially if it is on a different card.

    Also, many dual head cards will often come with a 'TV' out mode aswell, usually S-video and/or Component RGB. I have a 7800GTX , hooked up to a 21inch 1600x1200 LCD (DVI), a 24inch Sony FDW900 1920x1200 (VGA) and a 42inch Plasma via analog component at 1280x720.

  3. Re:PC LOAD LETTER on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 0, Redundant

    PC LOAD LETTER! What the fuck does that mean?!

  4. Re:metric system on Integrated Circuit Is 50 Years Old Today · · Score: 1
    Often it is the case where your point would be valid, but come on, if anything using the imperial unit in this case makes it clearer..

    Take the equivelent metric unit representation

    1/16 = 1.875 mm

    7/16 = 11.1125 mm, or say 1.8x11.1 mm.

    One must know what the size of a mm or an 1/16 inch is to make sense of either measurement.

    The imperial measurement it is easy to read that it is 7 time longer than it is wide, i.e quite a thin rectangle. One has to perform mental calcs to get the same info from the metric measurement. Also, the board might actually have been exactly 1/16x7/16 inch therefore to quote in mm would be wrong.

  5. Re:Spare us the details? on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Exactly - what is the freaking point of posting this pish in the first place.

  6. Re:Write EXIF data? on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I wonder about that. Which photo management software correctly writes the metadat back to the file? Picasa/ACDSee etc all seem to be blurry when doing this, as some data seems to move with the files and some seems to stick into the app.

  7. Couple of points.... on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 1
    Been using it since it came out.

    The privacy stuff in the posts above in concerning me slightly until I find out more about it.

    However, in using it I have found:

    hit detection on tabs near close button it pretty weird. If I click to the right it chooses the next tab, even if the hotspot of the pointer is on the tab I want to close.

    no right click -> right click for open right click on link menu, in Opera, I can right click a link and then with the right button click the menu that pops up to open in new tab. Can't do this in Chrome. I do this because my laptop has no middle button and dancing left-to-right-to-left-to-right on the buttons to open say a list of links is a PITA.

    Resizable form boxes, e.g. ebay ask a seller, and this form right here, Pretty neat, haven't seen it before not sure if it is Chrome/webkit specific.

  8. Re:Text vs. Voice on Preparing Computer and Cellular Networks For a Hurricane · · Score: 1

    Is n't it common in the states to get 'free' texts with your monthly plans? Over here in the UK just about every contract (not pay as you go) phone has some allocation of 'free' minutes and texts to use for the monthly fee be it 30, 40 75 GBP whatever.

  9. Re:Magpies are evil. on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1

    You should have removed your tin-foil hat. Magpies dig shiny things.

  10. Velociraptor link on Western Digital Working On a 20,000 RPM Drive · · Score: 1

    Was I the only one dissappointed that the velociraptor link didn't point to an xckd comic?

  11. Re:Might as well get used to it on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1

    What res did it look like it was running at?

  12. Re:colors? on Lenovo Intros the Monstrous ThinkPad W700 · · Score: 1

    Yes, They are blue. Blue is a well known colour, ideal for using in various ways in the physical world in which we live.

  13. Re:Easy! on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 1

    The UK does not comprise only of the English.

  14. Re:Sliding Panes on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 1

    OK, not exactly like the 'ssplit' option in excel, but have you tried Opera? It has a proper MDI interface and can do multiple webpages within the main app window.

  15. Re:Fix the TED video player on What Tech Should Be Seen At TED? · · Score: 1
    Ugh, fullscreening you tube sucks. Every time I do it, I end up with a larger picture, but ony now it's updating at half the speed and the image tears accross the screen. No thanks, I'd much rather watc a better quality, smoother copy even if it is smaller on the screen.

    For this reason I never full screen stuff ike his, youd think they could get hardware accel working, or even some efficiency, i've got a 2.2 Ghz C2D here, and it cant play back a youtube full screen.

  16. Re:Still could be innocent on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1
    Of course in the UK it is different. Could someone tell me whether I should or should not say something when a police officer quotes You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

    Well I googled it and came up with this link when I was looking for the exact quote ... http://www.foot-ansteys.co.uk/index.cfm/solicitors/News.Details/sectionzone_id/9/news_id/189

  17. Re:Making scans better - use a black piece of pape on Digitizing Old Magazines? · · Score: 1

    And this will also have the effect of creating a nice edge mask around each page so you can do consistant IP (image processing) etc, but it can dull down an image, you can also use a white background for transparencies, or as an alternative to black if the edge definition of the page does not matter

  18. huh? on Irrigation Controller Stolen, Wirelessly Rescues Itself · · Score: 0, Troll
    This is an irrigation controller? Something that you plug onto the end of a hose, and it controls the irrigation ?

    Can someone tell me why this is interent enabled? Or what is so magical about it that someone would actually buy one, and secondly, steal one?

  19. Re:Then STOP releasing the product! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1
    We installed a peice of software that we we ended up using over a RDP session, but due to various reasons performance sucked. (thorwing around a few TB of 25Mg images can have hat effect on a porrly setup disk server)

    Anyway some consultant guy came in and told us we should have used Add remove programs to install the software if we were gonna use it over RDP.

  20. Re:Then STOP releasing the product! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1
    No that's nonsense.

    On my system (debian) if I do apt-cache search media player, I get a whole list containing things like :

    xfmedia - Xfce media player
    xfmedia-dev - The Xfmedia development files
    xine-ui - the xine video player, user interface
    xmms - Versatile X audio player
    \
    mplayer - The Movie Player
    vlc - multimedia player and streamer

    The next command is obviously apt-get install "whatever"

    If I do a cache -search for podcasts, I get :

    datastore:/home/ZERO1ZERO# apt-cache search podcast
    democracyplayer - GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
    democracyplayer-data - GTK+ based RSS video aggregator data files
    hpodder - Tool to scan and download podcasts (podcatcher)
    kitty - a Qt/KDE based RSS podcast and video aggregator
    podracer - podcast aggregator/downloader
    rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME

    It really isn't difficult.

  21. Re:Hmmm on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Lol quite funny.

    Interestingly my first post is marked as troll?

    Anyway, I use other phones, (like the phone at work) to make my calls. This is the cheapest way I have found :)

    No idea why I thought it was french. Is there not a bunch of frecnh people designing a simliar open standard phone thing? Maybe it was a brain fart when I read France in the summary. Who knows.

  22. Hmmm on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'm still using a Nokia 6210 I got in about 1999 with an Orange contract, only on the second battery. In that time the life time counters are at about 50 hours total calls and rouhgly about 25 hours are outgoing calls.

    So blatantly I have no real need for a phone, why do they all have to be so gaddamn expensive? I can't afford much more than £5 a month for calls, will the open-ness and WIFI-ness of this phone allow me to say, use my internet (which I already pay for) to make phonecalls? (for free)

    What's with the 2.5G? Did n't the Iphone get absolutely slammed for the lack of it, something that British (european) users apparently Have To Have? Given that this is a french phone and not a US thing, surely it would come with the usual standards.

    Also, can I ssh into my computer and restart my webserver, motherfucker??? :)

  23. Re:Careful... on Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field · · Score: 1
    Yup - after getting fed up of FF2 memory, lags, and the like I switched to Opera 9.2 and got to 9.27 I think,. Great browser fast, good features, etc.

    After moving to 9.50 it frequently freezes when opening new tabs, and seems pretty sluggish in places. The pop ups are pretty good and the address bar.

  24. Re:Some Solutions on Multi-page PDF To Multi-page TIFF and Archiving? · · Score: 2, Informative

    imagemagick is Slow slow slow for multipage tiffs. Using tifftools on windows, creating and splitting multipage G4 tiffs is 20 (TWENTY) times faster using tifftools.

  25. Re:Famous "last particle" on Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World · · Score: 1

    Is that like 'most any' and 'most every' ? Well which is it most or every?