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Comment Not going back to OS 8/9 thank you... (Score 1) 170

by mergy (#28644571) Attached to: Classilla, a New Port of Mozilla To Mac OS 9
I spent enough time with; -OpenDoc -Desktop Printing -Chooser -Extension Manager -Cleaning out corrupted preferences -Playing with RAM allocation for Adobe apps for clients -PPP dial-up accounts with hacks No thanks. I don't think my fingers have ever healed from putting memory into the PPC 7100s or 8100s and getting continually sliced-up. Ugh! Bad memories indeed.

Comment Re:Verizon turned down the iPhone (Score 1) 237

by mergy (#27716469) Attached to: Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon
///The iPhone is really about the only reason to consider them as a network.///

Correct.

I was on Verizon for years and prior to them I was on Sprint in the San Francisco Bay Area. I moved to the iPhone and AT&T because of the iPhone and very happy I did because the iPhone is amazing. It is better than any Palm, Blackberry or other phone I have had but the AT&T service BLOWS!

There are a lot of bad areas in San Francisco for AT&T that Verizon's coverage was solid in. The other CONSTANT frustration is when I call other iPhone/AT&T users and get dropped ALL THE TIME!

Horrible = AT&T

Comment Increase HD capacity in three steps (Score 1) 546

by mergy (#27135913) Attached to: What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives?
1. Buy a Black Sharpie(TM) pen (the thin sharpie would be best in my past experience). 2. Locate the reference to the drive size on the manufacturers label located on the top of the drive enclosure (typically in GB). 3. Gently (as to not damage the disk platter below the label and enclosure) using the Sharpie(TM) cross out that number and replace with the desired capacity above or below the factory stamped capacity. NOTE: depending on how the drive manufacturer has detailed the size on the label, you might have space above the factory size reference or below the reference.

Comment Terry Childs should get a Tron suit... (Score 1) 498

by mergy (#26979377) Attached to: Terry Childs Case Puts All Admins In Danger
Like the Tron guy (you know the guy who made his own budget tron suit). http://www.tronguy.net/images/headshot.jpg I think I would be cool with Terry if he wasn't such a putz or a-hole and he had a tron suit on or something nutty when they brought him to jail. Overall, he gives people the sysadmin stereotype they all want - hostile, paranoid and a jerk, so it got a lot of play in the media. It is frustrating because many of us fight this stereotype constantly and make huge gains only to have a Terry Childs attitude reinforce the negative stereotype of a sysadmin who does not have a sense of who and what he is working for. Yet, even with all of that, I think if he could get in a Tron suit of some sort, I would give him another shot and it could twist the stereotype into a crazy geek rather than an asshole geek.
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Scientists Harvest Nano-Power From Hamsters 90

Posted by timothy from the diminishing-returns dept.
Al writes "Researchers at Georgia Tech have come up with the ideal way to test a new peizo-electric device that efficiently harvests power from bio-movement — attaching it to a hamster. The device contains a series of zinc-oxide nanowires mounted on top of a flexible plastic surface. As the plastic bends, the wires generate around a nanowatt of power. The Georgia Tech team, led by Zhong Lin Wang, wanted to show that their device could produce power from irregular movements so they attached it to a tiny hamster jacket. They also tried attaching it to a volunteer's finger. Here's a video of the hamster wearing his piezo-power outfit."

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