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  1. Re:Expect lots of hard drive failure/read errors on Seagate Plans 37.5TB HDD Within Matter of Years · · Score: 1

    http://grcsucks.com/spinrite.htm

    Spinrite sucks. It's crap. No wonder you think your drives are bad.

  2. Re:Does anyone still use windows? on Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection · · Score: 1

    I wish I was lucky as you. Seems like everyone I know that has a computer, but isn't technically savvy in any way, has Windows. Oh wait, that's how that works......

  3. There is such a telephone device! on How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? · · Score: 1

    Only it doesn't call you, you call IT! It should be at your local hardware store. I worked at an Ace Hardware back in the day and we had it there. Basically, you call it, and when it answers it will give you a signal to let you know whether or not it's too cold in your house. Just go find one and read the instructions :) Also, keep the house like 45-50F. Not ANY lower. Just because the air is that warm doesn't mean your pipes are that warm!

  4. Re:(-1) Did not actually read advisory on No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, ok. Like it's that easy. Tell that to the Human Resources lady who has to open up Word documents containing resumes/cover letters from random people. Get my drift? Why do you all have to be pricks without thinking first?

  5. But... on No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Their solution certainly said that we aren't to open any MS Word documents. Does this mean Microsoft will pay unemployment to the people that deal with Word documents all day, but can't open them due to security issues?

  6. Re:Side benefit on CSIRO Demonstrates Fastest Wireless Link Yet · · Score: 2, Funny

    try not to burn the butter this time

  7. Re:Solution on Firefox Losing Its Way? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    *KHTML is > Gecko. It is lighter, faster, and more standards compliant.

    *Konqueror does NOT require all of KDE; just mainly KDElibs and QT

    *It DOES have an extension system.

    Any questions?

  8. lotsa cash! on EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines · · Score: 1

    777.5 million Euros = 998.38775 million U.S. dollars

    Ouch...

    Look for Bill's golden toilet on Ebay everyone!

  9. Re:But you can't run it on a Kentsfield on Microsoft Will Allow Vista Reinstalls · · Score: 1

    XP sees my dual core opteron as two processors, it will surely see your quad core as 4 processors. Each core gets its own APIC number. Each processor also gets their own APIC number. How will Vista really know the difference without needing updates to have hardware IDs and a database to store all that info, etc?

  10. Re:Firefox fans, get a clue! on IE7 Released As High-Priority Update · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you're a [i]douchebag[/i] I have firefox 1.5.0.7 on my windows install at home which i rarely use. I tried my hardest but it kept telling me there were no updates. Therefore, my friend, you're a liar. You were NOT forced to get 2.0. Go troll somewhere else

  11. Musicbrainz? on MySpace to Use Audio Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    God I hope they aren't using Musicbrainz.... they'll rape their bandwidth, and then they'll not give any money back to that project. The new audio fingerprinting is so accurate there it's not funny.

  12. Re:From the summary... on How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials · · Score: 5, Funny

    the coolest thing is that they've said on the mailing lists that if they start forcing / flagging commercials so you have to watch them and you can't skip through them, MythTV will use those flags to skip the commercials entirely.

    Ahh, the power of chee^H^H^H^Hopen source.

  13. Re:So its part of the Active Directory for Unix on Google Gets Slack with Software Updates · · Score: 1

    quit your god damn trolling and look at Fedora/RedHat Directory Services. He wasn't saying he was replacing Active Directory. Now on the other hand, FDS could possibly do that in the future. (in a non-Windows domain, to boot!)

  14. Re:Unwriteprotecting a CF card? on Which Filesystem is Best for CompactFlash? · · Score: 1

    perhaps 'dd' would be of use? then fdisk to re-partition and then make your new partition?

  15. Rediculous Suggestions on Which Filesystem is Best for CompactFlash? · · Score: 1

    You don't need a journal for compact flash, and you certainly don't need the complexities of ext2. What you need is something simple, but scales well.

    UDF

    Supported by Mac, Linux, and Windows.

    It's really the best solution.

  16. i'm a victim on Does Your Employer Still Use SSNs? · · Score: 3, Informative

    i live in WI and someone in Milwaukee (with many, many previous addresses) is reporting my SS. I have no idea how or where they are reporting it, but they're in the database with my #. They have never used it for financial things yet, though, so my credit is fine. I reported this to the cops several times but they won't do anything about it because they arent using it for credit related things. This pisses me off to no end.

    I have the original SS card in its original envelope from 2 months after I was born.

    I had a hard time explaining things to employers when I was a teenager because they'd do checks of some sort and find this other guy's name.... notably Radio Shack and Menards (Like Home Depot) were the main ones causing problems over it.

  17. i had a similar situation on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    four years ago some stupid girl in my class posted a picture of her kissing another girl.

    someone coaxed me into snagging the picture and putting it on a site saying she was a lesbian before she could take it down.

    i did this on my own free time after school that day.

    it was supposed to be a riot. truth is, for about 15 minutes it was. then it got lame.

    well, its existence started to spread. some idiots decided to print it off and post it in the hallway. yeah, that was a grand idea.

    so shit hits the fan, and next thing i know i have two classmates bawling over this even though they did this to themselves. (remember, the picture was originally on one of their sites, but it was taken down. i put it back up on another.)

    everyone decided to point at me, of course, and so I get called to the office. parents are pissed and are talking to lawyers. I get bitched at for being an unethical nerd, and keeps threatening me to admit i did it and apologize because they're calling lawyers.

    I said "prove it."

    and that was that. their lawyers supposedly said "i can't prove he did this" and wouldn't do anything for them. Hell they didn't even tell my parents about this.

    I think until they have hard evidence, they need to back off on these people.

  18. Re:A Linux Kernel, eh? on Wii Will Have an Updatable Linux OS · · Score: 1

    Really? So Linus and co no longer make the decisions? The LKML messages that flood my inbox tell me differently.

    The kernel development has not changed, it has only matured. They are now looking at the possibility of stopping all feature additions and doing bugfix only for a while so that things stabilize and age-old bugs that nobody bothered to look at get squashed.

  19. who got screwed? on MySpace CoFounder Says Purchase Was A Scam · · Score: 1

    leapfish is telling me otherwise, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA http://leapfish.com/domain_name_appraisal.php?url= myspace.com I think he needs to quit complaining before they ask HIM to pay THEM! :D

  20. A Year of MythTV on MythTV 0.20 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been running MythTV for about a year now and let me tell you -- TV can't get any better.

    I have the shows I want whenever I want them. Sure, sure, you can do this with Tivo. But can you also watch those recorded shows over your home network on other PCs? Burn to DVD? My MythTV box also is my torrent box, fileserver, IRC proxy, IMAP server....

    Let's put it this way -- more features than Tivo, and they can't control what you do with it. Go ahead, skip all the commercials you want. Keep your recordings as long as you want. The Man can't keep you down when you're running this system.

    Also, when that commercial flag becomes law (I think it's still up in the air), MythTV plans to use it to identify commercials and intentionally skip them. Eat that, capitalist pigs ;)

  21. Re:Not relevant. on Paul Thurrott's WGA Woes Solved · · Score: 0

    you never said anything about a business man, you were referring to business environments. why the hell is a business man running his own network? that's why you hire IT people. The business man should not have to care about the backend. where are you going with this? by the way, we can do thin client setups too. and virtualization... vmware, xen, qemu -- whatever you want. on that take a good hard look at VMWare ESX Server. It's all on Linux. We can do thin clients too... pxe booting, redundancy.. etc. We dont have Terminal Services licensing to deal with either.

  22. Re:Not relevant. on Paul Thurrott's WGA Woes Solved · · Score: 0

    our driver support is superb. How come 90% of the devices out there aren't supported by a default install of Windows?

    Dude, you're a fucking troll. All your past posts have nothing but pointless, spineless rants.

    Our security is better BECAUSE we are open source. We're more stable because of it. Our security model is 100x yours. Wake me when a TRUE MULTI USER OPERATING SYSTEM comes from the Microsoft Foundation. It's not happening. Vista will prove they still can't do it.

    Anything you want on Linux you can have. CRM? Sure. SugarCRM. Go look it up. It rocks.

    The truth is that Linux is stable, reliable, and it WORKS.

    You want network directory? We have Novell's eDirectory and Fedora Directory Services which is maturing quite well.

    We print, we file share, we route, we network, we run and run and run securely.

    What does Windows do?

  23. Re:Not relevant. on Paul Thurrott's WGA Woes Solved · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm pretty sure anyone who has the brains to use Linux knows enough not to work at Best Buy. That's just a given.

    On the contrary, I think you're working for Best Buy and trying to FUD Linux so you can get more sales and pretend to fix computers.

  24. Re:Yep, Racist America on PSP Ad Draws Charges of Racism · · Score: 1

    Yes but you forget that there is no such thing as a "Race". The only thing that separates us are our nationalities and cultures. Race is a a social creation and it is completely false.

    It's all socialism.... and people need to get the hell over it. Who you are is what matters, not what you look like. This racism crap needs to END.

  25. And you bastards think you have it bad..... on The Fiber to the Premises Install Process · · Score: 1

    http://www.reedsburgutility.com/internet%20page.ht m

    Look at what I have to deal with. Yeah I have fiber, but look at those rediculous prices and speeds!!!!!!

    I complained (I just moved here) and I was told that we're getting "new plans" next month with the possibility of 1x1 being the lowest and 5x5 being midrange. I hope to god they weren't lying.

    The worst part: I dont even have a WAN IP. That's right, the whole city is one big god damn LAN!!! (Unless you get a business class connection, I guess). That's right folks. No bit torrent for me. No services on my boxes at home. No SSH. Nothing.

    I cry myself to sleep some nights....