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http://tinyurl.com/29fw6

Sorry about that!

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I'm getting a message similar to the one you get from Bugzilla if you click the link from Slashdot.

I've made tinyurls for them, this gets rid of the referrer tag. I don't know if this is for everyone, but I'm using Safari v80 on OS X 10.1.2. I know TinyURL is usually used by those filthy trolls, but I think this is a good use for it. :-)

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I'm getting a message similar to the one you get from Bugzilla if you click the link from Slashdot.

I've made tinyurls for them, this gets rid of the referrer tag. I don't know if this is for everyone, but I'm using Safari v80 on OS X 10.1.2. I know TinyURL is usually used by those filthy trolls, but I think this is a good use for it. :-)

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I'm getting a message similar to the one you get from Bugzilla if you click the link from Slashdot.

I've made tinyurls for them, this gets rid of the referrer tag. I don't know if this is for everyone, but I'm using Safari v80 on OS X 10.1.2. I know TinyURL is usually used by those filthy trolls, but I think this is a good use for it. :-)

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Try one of these: AddAll, BookPool, Best Book Buys. Unfortunately, Froogle can't compete this time.

Try one of these: AddAll, BookPool, Best Book Buys. Unfortunately, Froogle can't compete this time.

Try one of these: AddAll, BookPool, Best Book Buys. Unfortunately, Froogle can't compete this time.

Try one of these: AddAll, BookPool, Best Book Buys. Unfortunately, Froogle can't compete this time.

I've found Audio Recorder to be a very nice little app. I keep it in my dock when playing with my acoustic. When the urge to record pops up, it's two clicks away. Allows multiple-format saving, etc.

Here is the unedited photo of Beagle, just after said events took place...

It's back!

If you plug a hole, it pops up again next door!

can be found here. I just happened to be reading this one and saw that /. had posted something similar. Worth a look.

Well, turns out goatse.cx is offline. :(

Guess we'll just have to rely on some Michael Moore (click for GIS) pics to digust the newbies now, eh?

According to BoingBoing.Net someone finally complained to the .cx registrar and had the site pulled...

No, but this is.

http://tinyurl.com/yw5w2

To save you the bother of clicking on it, it's Amazon's page for "Free Software, Free Society" by RMS.

Read this guide and use this site then come back and post. Sheesh.

Seems to have worked out OK for this guy.

Use this link instead:

Cache of NYT article, no pictures.

...in theory, yes, if we could travel faster than light then we could catch up with light emitted from Earth decades ago and see events which occurred at that time. This was a concept I first saw demonstrated in Patrick Moore's 1983 book Travellers In Space And Time, which I read cover to cover as a kid and taught me everything I knew about astronomy. But when you're getting closer and closer to finding the origins of Totality itself, who cares about the ruler of a country on an insignificant blue-green planet orbiting an unremarkable yellow star?

Besides explaining who "Dina" is, it's not terribly interesting... :(

12 Make email addresses portable

I don't know how this is supposed to work. If I have an address @yahoo.com, it's because Yahoo serves it. There's no reason for hotmail to save the same name.

38 Simplify URLs

I don't disagree (this should happen with computer hardware connectors, too), but there are places that can do it for you. Try TinyURL.

50 Add a broadband department to Wal-Mart

The fact that Wal-Mart dominates the market is a bad thing--for local ownership, competition, free speech, fair wages, environmental protection, and (oh yeah), the ability for America to manufacture anything domestically. Kick Wal-Mart's ass, don't try to expand it!

75 Let us link to a page we hate without boosting its ranking

The whole idea is: if a page is relevant, it's ranking should rise. Thus, if I want to read about something you hate, it's easier to find.

76 Add mobile numbers to the phone book

As if telemarketing at home wasn't bad enough. At least with a cell phone, even the exempt groups (charities and politicians) still can't find me.

77 Create an email address directory

Um, no. What the heck would I want that for? Email gives relative anonymity to those who don't know you. This is a GOOD THING. It also gives us a running start on spammers.

I myself use the MX700 on a daily basis, and I'm looking to get the MX900 mouse. Its the exact same 'optical bits' but it uses Bluetooth instead of the 900MHz radio frequency that the MX mouse uses now. The batteries supposedly last 2 weeks now, and with my 2500mAh batteries (instead of the 1700mAh ones that come standard) mine should last about 32% longer than that, which would be about 2 and-a-half weeks. Or thereabouts. I'm not too worried with it, as the recharging time only takes about 45 minutes... and I can use the keyboard shortcuts for that amount of time--easy.

The best part is that the base station (which still includes the recharging bits) is a Bluetooth hub. So you can use to sync your phone or anything else that uses Bluetooth. Headsets, cameras, keyboards, PDA's, etcetera, etcetera.

But back to those mice... There simply too big and flat. Its like trying to mouse with a portable CD player. The ball is also too far back, so that the move that I've seen everyone do at one point or another (flicking the front of the mouse while lifting it off the table) just plain doesn't work at all.

Not to mention that the tiniest piece of dust in the inside of those opto-mechanical bits makes your mouse behave as if it were designed by rhesus monkeys on crack.

And this is not a 5-minute review. I used it for a week, and the hype of "more frags!" was pure bunk. It was a pain in the ass to use in Windows as well. The settings--while you could change them on the fly with a wacky 4-button hotkey--were always too fast for me in windows. I have it fast, but this thing was like my mouse was dipped in Teflon... I sometimes use IceWM, so it was like Teflon on Ice. *rimshot*

So, myself personally (when my rebate check comes from Uncle Sam), I'm going to be buying the following combo for myself. Its time for me to update my desktop keyboard as well, and I hear good things about it so far... not to mention that it looks tons better than the Microsoft USB keyboard I have now... And I like the detached keypad/calculator/media pad. that's a nice touch, I think.

Dinovo media desktop

Here's a non-slashdotted, more complete article covering the same old news from over a month ago. Nice one, /.!

Fuck that. I don't even like pizzas. You can, however, attempt to locate and send me this fine lady. Mmmmm!

I'll cut you a deal - you stop using that outdated cliche term 'PHB' and I'll let you lick the dirt off my feet. How's that sound?

Here y'go:

http://tinyurl.com/33yqv

Don't worry about the 'tinyurl', it's just to include username/password in the actual URL because Slashdot strips such things out.

I got this bag for Christmas a few years ago and it's performed like a champ. I have to be careful not to overload it though. The bag won't break but my back will.

The best part is the extra protective case for the laptop. The strap is wide and comfortable. I've made many flights with this guy.

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They arn't DRMing things that you should be able to copy and do what you want with. They are DRMing things that are ment for people to buy or have limited use of.

Now there for sure will be examples to counter this, but thats not the rule. With all things comes some bad apples.

I took a little time to read the description of the kit on Discovery's website. It's much less than the /. post suggested. There's just some chemicals and a toy centrifuge to extract DNA. Actually there are ways to extract DNA with household chemicals, precipitate with isopropanol and spool on a glass or plastic rod. So far it's only DNA extraction, cool as a science-for-fun thing, but nothing new. The analysis part (with electrophoresis) seems to be fake (simulated, if you wish). The kit, according to the Discovery website contains "DNA stain (fabricated to mimic real DNA)". So, it's just a toy, cool, but nothing that'll allow Junior to test his paternity or do any real DNA analysis. There are educational kits that provide real DNA analysis in a classroom environment (like the Biotechnology Explorer program from BioRad), but they still require teacher's supervision.

Scott McNealy's Take on Power Point (it is a PDF document)

McNealy famously decalred to the San Jose Mercury, 3 August 1997, "We had 12.9 Gigbytes of PowerPoint slides on our network. And I thought 'What a huge waste of corporate productivity'. So we banned it". ...

McNealy's much cheaper, and more productive solution, was to remove PowerPoint and to "give everybody plastic Mylar sheets and all the pens they need to scribble on them", and to use what he describes as "the Bill Joy font. You can see where he licked his thumb and erases. It's so much faster," and leaves you time to get on with the job.

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Is it this guy?

For instance, this should show the demo page, and in IE, the address bar will be incorrect, using TinyURL

This is an actual, unedited file dialog I received on my Windows system. Tell me, what would you do?

Mirrored here - I'm not sure what my school's server can take, though, so please don't hurt it too bad :)

I'll do one even better for ya. Here's a a Linux powered robot with a webcam that you can even remote control through a java applet!

We can shorten our dependence on batteries by using Linux-managed solar cells, much like the city of Sera Bellum, CA.

Boooring!

What I'm interested in are Linux powered robots who fight each other!

If I have to see robots, I want violence! Much cooler.

I can hide links very well too!

Will this link take you to a picture of a widely stretched bottom hole, a girl covered in brown and yellow substance, or something more soothing?

Only clicking will tell!

Yes, but considering all the hype over Half-Life 2, how could they have missed it? More people are excited about the Counter Strike II mod than they are about HL2.

What SCO is doing to universities running Linux is no laughing matter. This is causing us some serious headaches, and due to non-IT management may cost some of us our jobs. Seems they don't like it too well when their "free" cost-saving NOS suddenly has a fee to it. Justified or not, I bet we have Windows 2003 in here by next semester. Thanks, SCO.

Cant someone just post the updates on a public ftp server ...

Not only can they, they are doing it right now. Dunno how long it will last, but if there's one thing the internet has taught us - people are always one step ahead of companies. There's an amazing strength in mobility, the RIAA can attest to that. We'll find new ways to pirate mp3 faster than they can stop us, and we'll update our OS however we want to. Keep on.

Hell, you can get the CDs on CDR at almost any university bookstore across America for about half that price! They need to revist their academic liscensing methinks ...

Here is an interesting interview with the CEO of Ironport. He touches on this issue and has an interesting justification for it. The dollard truly is mighty.

Manferdelli is the general manager for Windows security at Microsoft

LOL, yeah he works in BUILDING security, not IT security! ha! He's a TEMP worker! good stuff.

Don't be so lazy. The link to the article takes maybe 3 seconds with a google search, less if you use the toolbar. Cripes, if I wanted to google shrikle I'd use the word "dipshit."