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  1. Re:Windows Search 4.0?! on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    Total Commander and Alt+F7. It even works on Linux (wine), sadly except Samba shares browsing ;(
    It's a best file management tool I've ever used.

  2. Re:Could this do it? on Amazon & TuneCore To Cut Out the RIAA Middleman · · Score: 1

    You seriously underestimate that thing "intertubes" ;)
    Just wait for Pandora and such but only for RIAA free music. It will take time, but it will happen. There is a big chance it will even happen with Amazon's blessing, just by checking a box when uploading music "I agree you to use my music for marketing purposes". Amazon get's a big fat cut from selling not RIAA music as they don't need to pay RIAA anymore.

  3. Re:8 core Mac Pro on Reasonable Hardware For Home VM Experimentation? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I hope you're joking... That's waaaay too expensive.

    I can run up to 4 VM on my laptop (Lenovo T60) with 3GB a and Core 2 Duo 2GHz without any problems. Often I need to work on 3 machines (design one + cluster for testing) and it works really well together. Problem is that disk subsystem sucks, so I suggest you invest in some RAID, but processor or memory wise it's enough. If you run Linux, you can run more of them as they use less memory and processor usage is also nicer. Just stay away from GUI as X uses abysmal amount of processing power in remote VM for anything more that 800x600.

    You don't really need anything very expensive - most of commodity hardware nowadays runs VMWare Server easily. It's also free so even sweeter. Just choose processor that supports virtualisation, as that speeds up everything a lot.

  4. Re:Dear losers on Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native · · Score: -1

    Different question:
    Is Firefox in Wine faster or slower that Firefox on Win? (Let's say XP as on Vista everything's slower).

  5. Re:I want the Upstream on Charter Launches 60 Mbps Service · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Mod down, positive review of Windows on Windows 7 To Be "Thoroughly" Tested For Antitrust Compliance · · Score: 1

    Woooosh...

  7. Re:No, haven't RTFA, thank you very much on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually I can see it all the time. My Ubuntu laptop's (IBM T42) WiFi is about 50% faster that the same configured Windows machine of my wife. We're talking about SAME hardware. I don't really know if it's drivers, or something else.

    Performance on LAN is more similar, difference is about 10-20% max, but with this kind of hardware it heavily depends on HDD to write data and Windows is crap at this - it's swapping - god knows why!!!

  8. Re:What about other certs? on Cisco Mulls Adding Verbal Interview To CCIE Exams · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To save costs that can be done over the phone. Some official line with video recording to prove that the person talking was the person taking test. Just in case of problems afterwards.

  9. Re:Its just a service pack for Vista on Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay · · Score: 1

    Awesomer, awesomer, kid!*

    *http://xkcd.com/483/

  10. Re:Expect the reverse on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    You forgot "In Soviet Russia..."

  11. Re:Adopt a git... on Git Adoption Soaring; Are There Good Migration Strategies? · · Score: 1

    We also have GIMP. I think there's some kind of competition going on ;)

  12. Re:Old news on Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware · · Score: 2, Informative

    Disable service called Shell Detection something. That will switch off Autoplay for everything globally. Easiest solution and saves you memory and load time.

  13. Re:Install Ubuntu on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    I suggest something like logmein or ntrconnect. One of them works on Linux, don't really remember which one.

  14. Re:J solution on Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's even less readable that PERL. Shit, I didn't think it's possible. And I used to "program" in PERL...

  15. Re:IPMI + DRAC or similar? on Low-Bandwidth, Truly Remote Management? · · Score: 1

    You can try LogMeIn. It supports HTML interface which is basically and JPG image you click on and it sends events to the computer and then refreshes. Typing is done through choosing Send Keystrokes. This way you can work around all animated crap in browsers. It's not great (painfully slow) but usually enough to do stuff that cannot be done in Powershell/SSH (somebody mentioned hardware drivers).

    2 ways are always better than one.

  16. Re:So what? on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Warning! May contain nuts!
    If you know what I mean...

  17. Re:Well on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 1

    It's easy. I'll explain: $$$

  18. Re:Bush on Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it didn't meant to be an attack. I've just seen tons of references to this "Money as Debt" on youtube, and I just got enough of it. Sadly it happened now.
    It's even classified in total bottom of charts at IMDB. It's full of misrepresentations and half-truths that fit somebody's agendas. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

  19. Re:Anyone else miss the cold war? on Robotic Fish Track Targets, Communicate With One Another · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even more. Putin started camps for kids that are in principle very similar to HitlerJugend. There's also a quite a big nationalist movement in Russia.

    There's a big chance that new cold war will start but it'll be much different that the previous one. It can be 3 sided with China taking also strong-arming especially in Asia and Africa. Oh, in Brazil also. Also technical advancements changed many aspects of warfare, you can see it when you look at cyberattacks originating from China.

  20. Re:Anyone else miss the cold war? on Robotic Fish Track Targets, Communicate With One Another · · Score: 2, Funny

    No problems for sharks to digest - they will cut them before to pieces with their lasers.

  21. Re:Bush on Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's "slightly" more than your Money as Debt on youtube. I've passed through 2 tough years of economics, so I can assure you it's not so simple. Other thing is that debt is kept pretty stable in proper economy, it's wars and such that imbalance it.
    I suggest you start from Economics for Dummies as definitely you lack some knowledge.

    BTW: all references to "educational" materials on youtube should be classified the same as kittens on treadmill...

  22. Re:And therein you have the problem.... on Microsoft Denies Call-in 'Save XP' Petition · · Score: 1

    Me also... damn I forgot I use Ubuntu.

  23. Re:Making things complicated. on To Whom Should I Donate? · · Score: 1

    Shame that nobody won in the last 10 years

  24. Re:Prior art on Microsoft Patents 'Proactive' Virus Protection · · Score: 1

    You're joking right? So who's going to pay for all that signing?
    Not to mention that that's been in use for years and hasn't changed much. Haven't seen pop-up recently asking for permission to install files from unknown sources, i.e. not signed?

  25. Re:Fanfic on Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slashdot.org

    sometimes it feels like south american novel...