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Comment Don't take it seriously (Score 5, Interesting) 340

From the site:

The privacy policy, the contact us page — it’s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked — to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn’t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That’s the beauty of jokes — you can make them out of anything.

However, if you have a better idea — don’t hesitate to contact us.

Comment Re:Tomato (Score 1) 196

Absolutely right, I am using Tomato USB on both my WRT160N-v3 and E3000, there is also some interesting "mod" like [i]Toastman[/i] builds.

I have had a lot of problem with dd-wrt running on a WRT160N-v3, N was dropping about every hours, I tried dozens of build for more than a year before switching to TomatoUSB.

Comment Re:Monitor definitely (Score 1) 522

I agree, back in 97 I bought a Viewsonic PT775, 17" which was able to run in 1600x1200, impressive at the time! Using a Matrox m3D I was able to play GLquake and some others games at full resolution.

I kept it for about 10 years. When it started to have problem I changed it for a 22" LCD, well, I thought my CRT monitor was great, but the LCD is definitively better, especially since it takes less space on the desktop, the image is crisp, etc.

Comment Re:Where did this article come from? (Score 1) 257

I am using TomatoUSB on both my E1000 and E3000, it's a so powerful firmware, and the GUI is really nicer than dd-wrt.
Also dd-wrt was unstable for me, they release version too often and sometimes they are buggy.

I am using the Toastman build of TomatoUSB, with IPv6, OpenVPN, QoS, all the bell and whistles.

Comment HW acceleration with GPU... (Score 1) 127

They should start to re-enable it. I use XP on a netbook which has a ION, it's a very powerful GPU for a netbook, I can play movie on 1080p because it uses the GPU to render it. Flash video *were* also accelerated, but not now. Google decided that on XP, they disable all GPU acceleration. So now all the video (like youtube), all flash games, etc, are driven by the poor Atom...

Why they forced a disable is beyond me, there is no way to re-enable it except by going back to Chrome 7 or something like that.

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