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  1. Re:Done to death. on Best Backup Server Option For University TV Station? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Old People and their sense of entitlement...until they get put into a home and forgotten about

  2. Re:Poor choice for screensaver? on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 1

    Now try it with a Linux distribution from 2001. You do recall that XP came out then? You are comparing apples and oranges. If you took XP and slipstreamed all of the necessary hardware drivers in, you would see the same thing.

  3. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    I completely agree, it had been a long time since I had seen 4-6. The last time I had seen Jedi was in the theatre when it came out so when I did see them again I realized I had put them on pedestals and was looking at them with the perception of a 7 year old. But that perception had been expected to be the same when I saw them again and I was severely disappointed.

    At that point I realized, they are no better plotwise (let alone the dialogue is pretty cheesy) than Ep 1-3 and the only thing that made it stand out was the level of special effects at that time. Now they look chintzy but back then they were the shiznit.

  4. Re:Back in the day... on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Every time I went into the Source (Radio Shack in Canada since someone still owns the name) and went to that section, the guy would always come over assuming I was stealing batteries or some remote control doodad because no one ever goes into that section anymore.

  5. Re:Iphones are not $99 on Tracking a Move Via "Find My iPhone" · · Score: 1

    I think the "for whatever reason" nixes the fraud (I am sure the wording isn't exactly that but you get my point). His reason was he never intended to keep it.
    However I think if he did take it back, he probably would never have put up the web page.

  6. I believe so on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 1

    I think you should have a hobby that is not relevant to your occupation. For me it's wrenching on my Jeep. It's something different

  7. Biggest thing that bugs me on Microsoft Extends Xbox 360 Warranty To E74 Errors · · Score: 1

    Is the fact that it is so damn noisy. The fan is bad enough but the fact I will be watching a video from my computer and the drive is spinning. WTF is that for?

  8. Re:Not convinced - but what about Sleep Mode? on Companies Waste $2.8 Billion Per Year Powering Unused PCs · · Score: 1

    Stand by or Sleep?
    I found putting a desktop into Standby drops the wattage from 82W to 2W.
    Huge difference. In windows, stopping the desktop hard drives did not affect the 82W load. It just stopped it from cycling to a higher wattage with any little disk seek.

    Another advantage with Standby, is you can set up scheduled tasks to wake up the machine.

  9. Re:I expected more driver support on Windows Server 2008 One Year On — Hit Or Miss? · · Score: 1

    Or admin's lack of understanding on slipstreaming drivers into boot cds. If Microsoft was putting out a new iso file every week this would be a non-issue. The fact is they do tell you on how to take an existing install CD and inject Service Packs, hotfixes and drivers if you are so inclined.

  10. Re:Expected on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 0

    More likely your friends are stupid. (just kidding):)

  11. Re:Bedlam... on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    I believe exchange works that way as well, unless a user modifies the message, then a separate copy is created.

  12. I thought it would have been this: on Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    8====D

  13. Re:ultimate reason for the astronauts death on NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report · · Score: 1

    That's silly it was because of lack of brain activity. That was when they were officially dead

  14. Re:A new companion? on Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale · · Score: 1

    Since she's essentially playing herself, one must question whether this is is really acting.

    This could be argued about most primetime TV actors in the US.

  15. Re:Not in this economy. on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    I'd also add the military background definitely helped. The nice thing about hiring former military is they have a tendency to be a little more mature than non and a better work-ethic. Not necessarily the rule but more often than not I have seen it.

  16. Re:fairness on Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown · · Score: 1

    There is one difference between Usenet and BT. How many open connections does Usenet use compared to Bittorrent? That in itself puts a load on the Router as it has to remember this.

  17. Re:Sad news. on Bones Found Near Crash Site Confirmed Fossett's · · Score: 1

    Flying implies controlled, I suspect that even the couple moments before he crashed it wasn't controlled.

  18. Re:Does it fix the annoying wireless disconnect is on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    I don't necessarily think it is the driver as my wireless is identified as a bcm4306 by lspci. Yep Broadcom.

  19. Re:Does it fix the annoying wireless disconnect is on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    Call me a masochist, but that is too much like the Windows "you have issues with you server? Have you rebooted it lately" type of fix.

    BTW the actual message that I think is causing it is:
    No ProbeResp from current AP 00:40:10:10:00:03 - assume out of range

    Of course I have broadcasting disabled on my AP so I wonder if it is related to that?

  20. Does it fix the annoying wireless disconnect issue on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have been experiencing a minor annoying bug with Heron for the last while where the wireless connection will drop randomly. Reading the logs it shows that the wireless nic hasn't talked to the AP for a while and assumes it is out of range. I have seen others with this issue but no solution. A workaround is to restart networking.

  21. Re:Define "Winning" on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    The one thing about the video is if it was made intentionally to be used to take responsibility, you would think he would have said it was exactly as they had prepared for.

    Plus, the only country in the world that recognized the Taliban as the ruling power in Afghanistan post Soviet invasion was Pakistan and (I think) Iran.

  22. Re:Define "Winning" on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    True dat.

  23. Re:Define "Winning" on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    Did you read the wiki on the Maginot Line before linking it? It did what it was originally intended to do which was redirect a frontal assault.

  24. Re:Define "Winning" on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    Except the one video where OBL says 9/11 went much better than they expected.

  25. Re:Hmmm... on Attack Code Found For Recent Windows Bug · · Score: 2, Informative

    That plus the wireless network card drops randomly. The message in dmesg is that it can't find the AP so it assumes it is gone. Restarting the networking fixes it.