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Comment Spelling and grammar fail (Score 1) 90

" Everyone thought this meant they had finally given up. It turns out that the twins have decided to keep fighting after all, just with a different lawsuit." " Should be..." Everyone thought this meant the winklevoss's had given up, it turns out that the twins have deicded to keep fighting suckerberg after all, in a different lawsuit." Or something like that...

Comment Re:old practice (Score 1) 148

The Leyland Brothers did a documentary on this very subject in the mid 70's or early 80's... Falcons and Hawks are taken from the nest at birth to be trained for bird control at aiports...... and this is AUSTRALIA we are talking about here... australia in the mid 70's = the USA in the late 80's :)

Comment Re:An old Tektronix is fine for a modern engineer (Score 1) 337

Dave that post is a shocker! :P maybe you should come on ustream and ask the guys there before you post! lol :) soooo many links!! ps we should get together one day for a bbq when its a bit warmer!!! ive got heaps of stuff to ask you and heaps of stuff to show you... ive got a microwave transmitter and all sorts of old cool stuff... Oh yea its Stew here ! SydneyStew! :)
Security

Lenovo Service Disables Laptops With a Text Message 257

narramissic writes "Lenovo plans to announce on Tuesday a service that allows users to remotely disable a PC by sending a text message. A user can send the command from a specified cell phone number — each ThinkPad can be paired with up to 10 cell phones — to kill a PC. The software will be available free from Lenovo's Web site. It will also be available on certain ThinkPad notebooks equipped with mobile broadband starting in the first half of 2009. 'You steal my PC and ... if I can deliver a signal to that PC that turns it off, hey, I'm good now,' said Stacy Cannady, product manager of security at Lenovo. 'The limitation here is that you have to have a WAN card in the PC and you must be paying a data plan for it,' Cannady added."

Comment Re:Australia? (Score 1) 521

Yea, most of it is desert! and the bits that aren't desert yet are on the way there with the drought we have been having.... And then when the sea levels rise more land will be lost because tides in rivers will rise too, most of the coastline and low area's will be flooded, So that's even less land... And then we have the ethnic tensions which have been getting worse in Australia of late, But the funny thing it is the Muslims who are stirring this stuff up!!! Building "islamic schools" with 8 foot brick fence's around them, Building segregated community's, And literally taking over suburbs with crime, drugs, violence etc... it wouldn't be an unfair statement to say 80% Young Arab Muslim's in Sydney and most other capital citys of australia cause trouble... I know this first hand! I dont think the Maldives will be that welcome here... Our public transport system is falling apart as it is!!! Our roads are totally inadequate... and petrol prices vary by more than 60 cents a litre from suburb to suburb!!! They would have more chance of "moving into" a Muslim nation such as Indonesia, Any of the Arab Countries etc....

Comment Re:Why... (Score 1) 428

Ive purchased quite a few (hundreds of) d-link routers in the past, About 12 months ago i came across a batch of routers that had a maximum of about 5 metres wireless coverage.... WTF!!! So now i only purchase linksys WRT54GL's and run DD-WRT on them. And since then i have NEVER had a problem... D-link has always been a cheap "stop-gap", if you want real network hardware you buy cisco or 3com...
Games

Hellgate: London To Be Closed, Possibly Saved? 91

Namco Bandai recently announced that Hellgate: London would be shut down on January 31, 2009. They'd been supporting the game's servers since Flagship Studios saw massive layoffs in July. Now, a fansite has located an announcement on the game's Korean site suggesting that it may be picked up by a Taiwanese company called Redbana. The English version of the announcement says, "In the meantime, stay alert: the Hellgate will soon re-open, and your valor will be needed again."

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