rveety - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Can you order Internet Trough TW w/o Cable? (Score 1) 379

by rveety on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @03:46PM (#26283937) Attached to: Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows

Yes you can. They install a filter on your cable line to block tv channels *and* charge you a $20/mo non-subscriber fee (at least in my area).

To avoid the $20 bogus fee I signed up for earthlink cable internet, and my bill comes from TW minus the non-subscriber fee.

Feed NASA Telescope Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @06:13PM

The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed that planetary systems -- dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets -- are at least as abundant in twin-star systems as they are in those, like our own, with only one star.

Comment Re:RT (Score 1) 129

by rveety on Thursday February 01, 2007 @09:00AM (#17841628) Attached to: Issue Tracking Ticketing Systems?

I have RT running supporting 500+ employees in a school district. I chose it because of its configurability. It integrates with our LDAP servers and is easy for our (mostly non computer geek) users. I agree that the older versions were slow, but v3.6.3 is speedy.

HP Acquires VoodooPC 32

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @02:41PM from the jumping-into-the-fray dept.

eldavojohn writes "HP has acquired VoodooPC, a high-end gaming PC provider who's former co-owner will now be the chief technologist of HP's newly formed gaming PC division. Back in May, we saw Dell acquire Alienware. Are gaming machines important options to consumers, or is it just plain profitable? Who will we see enter the gaming market next? Apple?"

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