Comment Re:"You must be ne... wait a minute, 5 digit ID?" (Score 1) 298
Brilliant!
Comment Re:Fahrenheit: It's for telling temperature (Score 1) 1233
It doesn't happen often but yes, Boston can hit 100 degrees f on occasion.
Comment Re:You know what's awful? (Score 2, Insightful) 106
Add intellitxt.com to your hosts file and point it to 127.0.0.1, those annoying-ass pop-up link things will go away forever.
Comment Re:Not worth reading (Score 5, Interesting) 176
Originally, they were a distributor of 3.5" floppies that could be re-formatted and re-used. They changed their business model when floppies fell out of favor and CDs became popular. It was then that they became the #1 polluter in the US by distributing millions of useless shiny plastic coasters to every man, woman, and child in the country, overwhelming landfills across the nation.
Navigating a Geek Marriage? 1146
JoeLinux writes "I am soon to marry my true love (a girl! yes! they do exist!). She is a literary geek, whereas I am a gaming/Linux geek. Being the RTFM-style geeks that we are, we have been reading up on marriage, making things work, etc. Unfortunately, all of the references seem to be based around an alpha-male jock and a submissive cheerleader-style wife. A lot of the references to incompatibility in the books don't apply to us (neglect due to interest in sports, etc.). What are some of the pitfalls and successes learned in the course of a more geek-oriented marriage?"
Comment Re:More 'Stuff', Same Crap (Score 1) 291
Not sure about the Win 7 file copy thing (or what it has to do with Office 10), but Excel has had 1,048,576 rows since Office 2007.
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 425
Been listening to Michael Savage, eh?
Comment Re:Battlenet Server Clones? (Score 1) 737
However, until then, I am fairly sure that someone will reverse engineer the software and figure out how to emulate a server on their own.
It was done in the past (see bnetd). Blizzard didn't take kindly to it as it removed the need for a CD Key in order to play the game. They sued the developers under the DMCA and won.
Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker 550
Hugh Pickens writes "Fox News reports that 'Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.' According to the report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old US Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president. Although earlier reports had placed the Vice-Presidential hide-out in a highly secure complex of buildings inside Raven Rock Mountain near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, Fox News reports that the Naval Observatory bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks. According to the report, Biden 'said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.' According to Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine's Washington contributing editor 'the officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn't be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.' In December 2002, neighbors complained of loud construction work being done at the Naval Observatory, which has been used as a residence by vice presidents since 1974. The upset neighbors were sent a letter by the observatory's superintendent, calling the work 'sensitive in nature' and 'classified' and that it was urgent it be completed on a highly accelerated schedule."
Comment Re:Yeah, but I don't really like Firefox (Score 1) 345
Ya, but IE4 had that cool little easter egg in it!
Comment Re:Better reception with this unit (Score 1) 202
Trade shows are where this device would be very cost effective. The last one I was at charged hundreds of dollars for a single IP address. This device would have paid for itself on the first day of the show. We could of had our two demo machines set up on it plus our sales weasels on their laptops. The only problem, as mentioned in an earlier post, might have been from interference on the wifi channel. The show floor was filled with wifi devices all competing for a signal.
Comment Re:Remember... (Score 1) 418
To me, it is worth not receiving that $50 in order to stay of off the bookstore's spam/junk-mail/telemarketer/whatever list, especially if they were to sell that info to some third-party marketer. I'll pay the street price please, in cash, just leave me alone and keep me off your crap-flood junk list.
Comment Re:Weird site behavior (Score 1) 84
Seems to be the Javascript the site uses. Page Up and Page Down and arrow keys worked when NoScript was blocking the domain, but as soon as I white-listed it, they broke.
Comment Re:What's missing? (Score 1) 137
Interesting read, thanks for the link. I'm having a very similar problem installing Adobe Illustrator 8.0 on Vista Home Premium x64 (I know, spend some money and upgrade, blah, blah). Thanks to the article, I now believe it is related to the fact that Illustrator uses a 16-bit installer, but unfortunately there is no 32-bit equivalent for it to swap out for. I wonder if I copy the .exe and any supporting .dlls off of my old XP x86 machine if I could get it running, bypassing the installer.
Comment Re:Commercial torrent is CDN (Score 1) 186
However, for someone like Microsoft distributing something like a Windows 7 beta build, you're still going to want to spread the load across multiple servers on multiple continents and so on and so forth, which, yeah, is sort of what services like Akamai are all about. If Microsoft doesn't want to contract out like that, they could probably just do something similar with their own resources. I'm pretty sure they're big enough to be able to handle that.
Microsoft (at least through the MSDN download site) uses their own transfer protocol and file transfer management tool (Microsoft File Transfer Manager) to access the content. They do indeed use Akamai to host and distribute the content.
