Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Domains

Domain: tipotheday.com

Stories and comments across the archive that link to tipotheday.com.

Comments · 9

  1. Re:Well by tlhIngan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Does HP + Palm = Facepalm?

    For the day /. supports unicode :)

    Actually, at one time, /. did support unicode. Just that well, it's really hard to whitelist unicode codepoints, and crap like "force right-to-left" gets used by people who think it funny to reverse text. (The source code of the page doesn't show it, but because the unicode renderer obeys it, every bit of text onwards gets rendered right-to-left).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_control_characters#Bidirectional_text_control

    An old trick was to use the old "megamillion" character which contains several unicode codepoints (which follow with the character when copy and pasted). Copy and paste that character and havoc ensues.

    http://tipotheday.com/2007/08/26/wtf-is-this-character/

  2. Re:Professionalism by V!NCENT · · Score: 1 · on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

    No they ran Linux, or at least before the switch to Windows was made. Microsoft made a major add compain about it: http://tipotheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/reliabletimes.jpg

  3. advertisement lies? by Axello · · Score: 1 · on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day

    Microsoft had a big ad campaign last year celebrating their conquest and migration of the London stock exchange to Windoze from unix.

    I hope that the linux based NYSE doesn't get this problem. Bad for publicity.

    See also:
    http://tipotheday.com/2008/09/08/microsofts-foot-in-mouth-london-stock-exchange/

  4. Re:Misleading summary by mashade · · Score: 5, Interesting · on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day

    Yep, I remembered and laughed so hard I had to put the images next to each other:

    http://tipotheday.com/2008/09/08/microsofts-foot-in-mouth-london-stock-exchange/

  5. Re:World of Warcraft by mashade · · Score: 2, Informative · on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic

    Good example. Another is the Ubuntu release that came out yesterday -- all the mirrors were crushed, while this was Bittorrent's time to shine.

  6. Re:So what's next? by mashade · · Score: 3, Informative · on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out

    Check the list ;) or add your own...
    Ubuntu Names Repository

  7. Re:Don't NASA even know their own history? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 1 · on Russia Plans Its Own Moon Base
    And we're the ones that should point this out?

    Gimp.

    Gnu

    Blender

    And bog knows what else.

  8. Re:I mentioned this last time... by mashade · · Score: 1 · on NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office

    FWIW, Google Apps can actually act as a relatively good intermediary between MS Office and OpenOffice. If your DOC or XLS has a lot of bizarre formatting, Google Docs/Spreadsheets serves as a filter to 'dumb it down'.

    Upload to Google, save back to disk, and voila -- something that works nicely in OO.

  9. Re:The shoe is on the other foot by mashade · · Score: 0, Troll · on Mozilla Exec Claims Apple is Hunting OSS Browsers

    Funny, I saw this as a "Jealousy" move from the beginning. What else could be the motive? They're jealous of Firefox' exposure, especially since more folks on Mac seem to run Firefox than Safari. I wrote a quick blog post about it when the news broke.

    Apple Couldn't Stand the Heat