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  1. Re:'story' tags on Best OS For Netbooks and Underpowered Tablets? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think tags are annoying and wish there was a way to get rid of them. Especially since they are whatever you want to put in.

  2. Re:Carefully protected? on Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009 · · Score: 1

    That's ok. I had a loadmaster put 4 LAV tires on top of a small server rack.
    Fortunately it was in a pelican case but it could have been bad. Servers had been built and configured. Where they were going doesn't exactly have a local vendor rep. If it did, he would definitely be carrying an AK

  3. Possible solution... on "Iron Man" Release Brings Down Paramount's Servers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they should use bittorrent to alleviate the load on their servers. :)

  4. Re:No harm, no foul on University Brings Charges Against White Hat Hacker · · Score: 1

    The question is:
    Did he ask if he could try it out before he did it or did they ask for his assistance? Nope, throw the book at him. Sure their admins are incompetent, I looked into a job there and balked at what they were paying for the role, which is usually a good sign of you get what you pay for.

    If he really thought there may be something wrong, he should have contacted them and suggested that they investigate and let him assist. There are companies out there who do this type of work. They just don't arbitrarily crack into someones network and then approach afterwards. Instead he put his own ass on the line assuming they would be grateful and has learned no good deed goes unpunished.

  5. Re:Sure, and then.... on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Love to see a Recumbent on the Pyrenees or the Alps. It would be interesting to see what tech could do to allow one to climb those hills.

  6. The first thing I though of when I read this on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I recently accepted a work-from-home job that will involve using my landline to talk to customers.

    Please take me off your call-list :)

  7. Re:X-what? on US To Launch Military Orbital Spaceplane · · Score: 1

    Doubt it will be O since that is used for Observation.

  8. Re:Yeah... on China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air · · Score: 1

    Or the Atlanta police escorted the bums to the edge of town and told them to keep walking
    (not sure if that really happened, but I heard about it on the internets so it must be true)

  9. Re:Nothing is wrong with the parallel chain on IPhone 3G Jailbreak Released, Paves Way For Open Source Apps · · Score: 1

    Well Eli Wiesel said the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. So he would be pretty much agreeing with you.
    Is that an indirect Godwin?

  10. Re:Just downgrade from Vista business or "higher" on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably because it is easier to do that than get a wireless nic driver to work with a kernel change.

  11. Re:Obligatory... on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 3, Funny

    best clicky-pends and coffee mugs and complimentary dinners
    I think you mean hookers and blow :)

  12. Re:Why not turn it off after work? on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    A guy I worked with had his home phone ringer turned off. He screened all messages when he got around to it.

  13. Looked into it a while back on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    and found that if you want USB you are looking at getting a external disk drive with a network connection. I couldn't find a NAS that allowed you to connect via USB for initial population of the drives. Mind you this was about 6 months ago so things may be different now

  14. Re:Not hacking! on Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive · · Score: 1

    Sorry you lost that war 10 years ago.

  15. Re:open source drivers and gaming 4 linux on Kernel Builders Appeal For Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately Ubuntu mostly works. I updated to Heron from Gibbon and all of a sudden my Wireless (bc43) card decided not to connect to the AP.

  16. Re:Write Your MP on Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Doesn't make file sharing legal. It just makes sharing Audio files legal. The only ones who benefit is the music recording agency from the levy.

  17. Re:Liberals on Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Problem is that there are rumors that the Liberals don't want an election right now and may kowtow to the Conservatives. We shouldn't be waiting on the assumption that common sense will prevail, we should be writing to our MPs to tell them that although this bill appears to be more reasonable than the American one, it is flawed and will be isolating people who decide not to run a Windows OS.

  18. Re:Mac and Linux users... on Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Hypothetically speaking this passes and the Parent becomes true, I wonder how long it will be before you start seeing companies and Govt agencies moving away from Windows (or more likely a patch from MS to remove the functionality. This is a "potential" attack vector. We have it disabled by default in our OS at work as the Sec guys (who are naturally paranoid) demanded it.

  19. Re:Good riddance! on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 2

    I guess the CR-V, the Pilot, the Rav-4 and the Escape are also Station Wagons?

  20. Re:Linux has been business-desktop ready for years on Microsoft Free, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    Try incorporating new features into an OS after going through Monopoly investigation. Last time it was Netscape that got them in trouble with bundling iE, this time it could have been Roxio or Ahead.

    Not like MS didn't deserver it before.

  21. Re:UNITS! on Why BitTorrent Causes Latency and How To Fix It · · Score: 1

    Without delving into it too much and providing an easy link to find:
    Wikipedia is one:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_network_throughput

    When you look into the overhead (especially if encrypted traffic is involved) that is involved with typical network routing, you aren't talking anymore about the specific data that you are transferring and how it can vary (padding etc). How do you get an accurate representation of how much data that can be pushed through a link? This is why they talk bits per second, it is the smallest common denominator.

    Hell, looking at the IP protocol, it never once mentions Bytes
    http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip.htm

  22. Re:UNITS! on Why BitTorrent Causes Latency and How To Fix It · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, standard method of determining bandwidth was in bits per second not Bytes. /could be worse a guy I work with uses Mips no idea what he is talking about, I just shake my head

  23. Re:I work in Canada on Moving Between Countries? · · Score: 1

    I am finding through other people's experiences that in general a bad reference is never given, due to potential liability or defamation issues. A bad reference is most likely a "Yes this person worked here and I am declining to give any reference".

  24. Re:Press release translation on Class Action Suit Against Bell For Throttling · · Score: 1

    I can attest to the uneducated, unmotivated ignorant swine. I was in Chicoutimi and Jonquiere in 2002 for work and that is what I came away as an impression of the people there.

  25. Re:Dude. on P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    My Grandparents had it and I used to listen to it everytime we went there. Always loved the Chicken Heart that ate New York.