Comment Re:The Best Thing To Do (Score 1) 287
Screwdriver? Ok. But a bit of broken off toothpick? Years after the fact, I'm still looking for that fucking moron.
Comment Re:Not the new desktop socket (Score 1) 100
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.... IIRC, LGA 1366 has a tripe-channel memory controller
So
Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 384
Of course I use the company property for personal and private activities - there is really no longer any separation between my work and personal activities because I lack the discipline to separate them.
Ye Olde Slashdot "fixed that for you".
Comment Re:As any ham can attest to... (Score 1) 589
Hmmmm... a couple o' things:
The Federal Candy Corp. will show up a lot quicker if you fire up a transmitter that walks over Emergency / Military / Aviation Services freqs. Trouncing AM/FM may get them to show up - after the money (station owner) starts squawking. A complaint from mere mortals - eventually. Maybe.
The other thing is RF isn't what most people think it is - 100's of Khz or higher. The managed spectrum starts at 9KHz. Lot's of things emit RF, including some non-obvious things, like Compact Fluorescent Lamps.
So, a 'noisy' CFL can get you a visit from a federal officer. No warrant needed sez the FCC, just an instrument reading. Sounds like over-stepping bounds to me via Pretzel Logic. Also not what the CA 1934 intended - regulation of transmitters of high power (among other things like licensing, spectrum managment, etc), not ambient, low power noise sources natural or man-made.
Comment Re:Games (Score 3, Informative) 1365
As the A.C. below notes, not if it's an OEM issue of XP - the EULA ties XP to the machine it shipped with.
What he can do is blow away the XP install on that machine, install Linux and Virtualbox, then install that OEM XP as a Guest and do the activation over the phone. XP's EULA's are blissfully unaware of virtualizing, unlike Vista's which is, and does prohibit this trick.
Caveat: Some OEM releases of XP (looking at you HP) don't make nice - the installer looks for Vendor / Machine identifiers and will croak on ya. Dell plays nice, I did this with an 8600 / XP Pro rig.
Comment Re:1. Reject Technology 2. Criminalize Customer 3. (Score 0) 562
.... Also you have to have a net connection for HULU. If your out of wifi range of 300' your not going to be watching hulu.
Well yes, nimrod - you have to have a connection via the toobs to access hulu.com Now grab something to steady yourself or sit down for this next part is truly very shocking: It works over 3G connections. At 480p even.
TomTom Can License FAT Without Violating the GPL 261
dp619 writes "Capped per-unit royalties make FAT licensing agreements permissible under the GPL, and SD Times has found that Microsoft's public license policy caps royalties at $250k. If the royalties are capped — as they seem to be — TomTom should be able to license FAT without violating the GPL. And if that is the case ... TomTom needs some serious explaining to do as to why they aren't licensing FAT. That said, Microsoft still needs to explain why it just cannot say that folks won't violate the GPL if they license FAT under its terms."
Comment Re:You all are ... - ELECTROCUTION SAFETY WARNING (Score 0) 695
* Most people just use a male to male plug,
Those of us with for-real electrical backgrounds call such a contrivance a death trap.
Comment Re:Totally agree (Score 0) 621
O, the irony of this sub-thread: A discussion of backing up Gmail via POP / IMAP as opposed to backing up the original source of the data, to wit, your own damned machine as if that's easier
The key notion is backup. Simplest (and easiest) is backup the local machine. Fetch and store from Gmail is an extra step - not needed.
