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  1. Re:PDF? on Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With "Blio" E-Reader · · Score: 1

    Yes, or even full Postscript.

  2. Re:Always Innovating Touchbook on Freescale Unveils Design For $199 Tablet · · Score: 1

    Considering the amount of space in the case (I've opened it up), an SSD wouldn't really fit so easily, and would increase the price. I popped a 32 GB SDHC card in it for something like $70.

  3. Re:to bad intel wants to make QPI to be in $500+ c on Core i5 and i3 CPUs With On-Chip GPUs Launched · · Score: 1

    The Exon (Xeon) Valdez?

  4. Re:Always Innovating Touchbook on Freescale Unveils Design For $199 Tablet · · Score: 1

    I honestly have no idea. It took something like three or four months for me to get mine.

  5. Re:Intel branding considered harmful on Core i5 and i3 CPUs With On-Chip GPUs Launched · · Score: 1

    My HTPC has a 65 W AMD Athlon II X2. Seems to work just fine for me, especially with VDPAU.

  6. Re:Intel branding considered harmful on Core i5 and i3 CPUs With On-Chip GPUs Launched · · Score: 1

    Of course, the current version of Microsoft's Virtual PC requires VT in order to work at all.

  7. Re:Always Innovating Touchbook on Freescale Unveils Design For $199 Tablet · · Score: 1

    I have one. I have fat fingers, so the physical keyboard is still a better choice for general typing. For non-typing GUI work, the touch screen works quite well.

  8. Re:First Post! on Raise a Glass — Time(2) Turns 40 Tonight · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with Rick Astley? I've heard worse songs.

  9. Re:If they do this.. on Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? · · Score: 1

    Seems like a lot of replies to this comment forget that it's possible to get business DSL, cable, and fiber-optic Ethernet from a residence. I've heard many success stories of people on FiOS switching to Business FiOS.

  10. Re:Browser down. on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would you want to create a Linux plugin for Firefox when you can run Firefox on Linux instead?

  11. Re:Some apps break at high DPI on Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    And if you lower the screen resolution, you have to deal with blurriness on LCDs (non-native resolutions) that may make it even harder to look at.

    I know I get headaches if I'm using anything more than a VGA console at a non-native resolution on LCDs.

  12. Re:What nonsense! on Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ever tried using a 15" laptop with 1600x1200 resolution? The text is impossible to read. Most people run these at much lower resolutions than the hardware is capable of running at. The same is true of people with poor eyesight.

    It's called increasing the font DPI. I do that on my 15" laptop which has a screen resolution of 1920x1200, and my eyesight is terrible. If you aren't using bitmap fonts, it should work just fine.

  13. Re:Such a what? on Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's? · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's the combination on my luggage!

  14. Re:Of course being in China, on Microsoft Steals Code From Microblogging Startup · · Score: 1

    I was merely criticizing the sentiment that denial of being brainwashed is somehow proof of brainwashing.

    What about when the brainwashers want you to think that you haven't been brainwashed?

  15. Re:I've had this for years - Nokia N800 on B&N Nook Successfully Opened · · Score: 1

    A lot of wireless carriers impose restrictions and/or higher charges on tethering.

  16. Re:Won't Switch From Safari Yet on Google Upgrades Chrome To Beta For OS X, Linux · · Score: 1

    Or you can switch to this instead, which makes more sense: Uzbl

  17. Re:Pointless hype on How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?) · · Score: 1

    DNNSEC, anybody?

  18. Re:Stupid NaviBitch on Robbers Mistake Funeral Home For a Bank · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't depend on that map in all cases, though. There may be some false information on it.

  19. Re:bandwidth limiting per process on Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    Most Bittorrent clients support throttling without any external means. rtorrent, for example, has a maximum bandwidth use setting that is by default disabled, but can be set fairly low.

  20. Re:The "bandwidth hogs" aren't using TCP on Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    Why do you think they are using UDP?

    It's called DNS, and it definitely uses UDP. Our connection is terrible because DNS times out most of the time unless it's tunneled to a machine somewhere outside of our home network. Thank goodness for public recursive DNS servers!

  21. Re:Yes on Typewriters, Computers, and Creating? · · Score: 1

    In this economy, $0.02 in today's dollars is the same as 0.02 cents in the dollars of five years ago!

  22. Re:Star Destroyer Vs. Borg Cube? on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    Considering that it is "news for nerds," I'd say that it is pretty angled towards "nerds."

  23. Re:So... on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    However many are left while drunk.

  24. Re:Normal Slashdot Troll Spam on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    I just wanted to see links to a bunch of the old ones in reply. Something like a troll summary.

  25. Normal Slashdot Troll Spam on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the most of the normal troll spam by bots on Slashdot are on FiOS.

    Say, why aren't the posting here?

    I couldn't find any more examples, but would like more here.