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  1. Re:Problem with Open office on Special Edition Using Star Office 6.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Save your Writer document as .sxw

    Rename the file to .zip

    Unzip it

    Hey look .. whaddayaknow .. :)

  2. Re:taxes on U.S. E-Commerce Sites To Collect EU VAT · · Score: 1

    Porn movies on public TV? You're obviously not in the same Sweden as I am. If you want to debate our welfare state - please look up your "facts" first.

  3. Re:crap in, crap out on AAC Put To The Test · · Score: 1

    Yup I agree - I have no problems with the kHz-limit of CDs :) The old Xing-package with it's cutoff at 16kHz was terrible though.

  4. Re:dumping? on Will Microsoft Subsidize WinXP For Lindows Buyers? · · Score: 1

    ... I didn't know Microsoft employees were working without salary. Thanks for telling us.

    *sigh*

  5. Keep it up, Microsoft on Will Microsoft Subsidize WinXP For Lindows Buyers? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    .. this is the kind of stuff that's illegal in EU and there's no Bush here to save you in court.

    Is the US market enough for you, Microsoft? Because that's where you're going to end up owning your monopoly - and only there.

  6. Re:As SIMPLE as that on Jabber Gathers Steam In Australia · · Score: 3, Informative

    Who's the idiot that mods a link to the SIP/SIMPLE standards "troll"??

    SIP = Session Initiated Protocol. Hey people - this is what routes your telephone calls now and more so in the future.

    SIMPLE = SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions.

  7. Re:As SIMPLE as that on Jabber Gathers Steam In Australia · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not sure a lot of people got your reference to SIP/SIMPLE .. so .. sorry for pointing out the obvious.

  8. Re:crap in, crap out on AAC Put To The Test · · Score: 1

    Uh, I can hear well up to about 18.5-19kHz thankyouverymuch.

    Yes - tested. No, I'm neither an alien, a dog or an infant.

  9. Re:Actually, I've got 2 airports at my house on Implementing WiFi in the Real World · · Score: 1

    D-Link DI-624 review:

    no wireless bridge capabilities.

    Belking 54g review:

    no wireless bridge capabilities

    Netgear WG602 review:

    no wireless bridging capability

    Yup - I've just been shopping around for 802.11g equipment. I went with the D-Link anyway since I've had D-Link before.

    (You might be right about the Linksys though)

  10. Re:Hash collisions on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 1

    ... and that's why I, clearly, pointed out that I talked about cryptographic hashes in general and not about ReiserFS.

    Read the post before you reply to it :)

  11. Re:Hash collisions on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 2

    My suggestion still stands - why you're modded informative I can't understand.

    Here, we are saying that given several hundred thousand keys, what is the probability that any two of them hash to the same value.

    Low enough.

  12. Re:Hash collisions on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 1, Interesting
    It's also very well known that before you see a hash collision in a cryptographically sound 128-bit HASH-method (or why not 160) the universe will have ceased to exist.

    Do the math.


    (Note: I'm strictly speaking about hash methods in general, I haven't looked up the strength nor size of the one used in ReiserFS)

  13. Re:Software is Hard on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True. Once you know how to _engineer_ software the methods and languages will be irrelevant.

    Too bad the OSI doesn't believe in it.

  14. Re:Undetectable file sharing on 43 Million Americans Use P2P Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why I use WASTE (and some info about the name, links to the novel etc).

    True, filesharing will probably be a popular use of WASTE, but secure chatting with your friends is equally attractive.

  15. Re:Apple is just Gate's lap dog on Ballmer Sends Wakeup Call to Staff · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe you should've read something before downloading, and maybe you should think twice about why we didn't say it's good enough (on the Mac) _now_ ..

    From openoffice.org, regarding the Mac OS X version:

    It is also not a traditional Mac OS X user-friendly application. Consider yourself warned. Always back up files; always take precautions. This build is meant for the Darwin community and Unix-savvy Mac OS X user community and forming a platform for us to build the Quartz and Aqua tracks for the traditional end user.

  16. Re:Apple is just Gate's lap dog on Ballmer Sends Wakeup Call to Staff · · Score: 1

    ... that will work for .. what, one more year? After that people will say "Office? StarOffice? No? Ah, then we don't care".

  17. Re:Security on Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I fail to see any references to your claim that Symbian has no security features, and that Windows SE has .. :) Care you elaborate?

    I'm quite positively sure that .sis-files (Symbian installationfiles) are signed, as an example.

  18. Re:WIDE open to abuse on Trepia: A Buddy List Of Strangers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... or, he could go down to the nearest school. Damn society, providing pedos with easy access like that.

    Seriously - give it up.

  19. Re:Exim is hefty hefty hefty on The Exim SMTP Mail Server · · Score: 1

    The vulnerability can only be exploited by the "admin user" of exim, who is determined by compiled-in values.

    Local root exploit, true, but it looks like it was more theoretical than practical.

  20. Re:Steve Jobs/Tablets will fail but info needs iPo on Major Tablet PC Running Into Problems? · · Score: 1

    P800 has bluetooth, and SonyEricsson has a few very cool BT-headsets. Go ahead :)

    (Yes I have a P800 - it's _that_ good. Just get one!)

  21. Re:They won't call it Gecko Tape though on Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the link:

    Non-Adhesive, Self-Griping Tape

    Cool. I buy that also - but in those stores it's called "Bondage Tape" ..

  22. Re:i thought on SETI Goes to Arecibo To Stat *Candidates* · · Score: 4, Informative

    this article?

    Although the SETI@home team was ready to pounce on any possible extraterrestrial signal the minute it was detected, nothing resembling such a signal was detected in real time, during the observations. This, however, is no cause for discouragement: real-time analysis is very rough, and would only detect the strongest and most obvious extraterrestrial signals.

  23. Re:This is ridiculous on Online Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo · · Score: 1
    Not much we can do about it. The rapporteur of the committee choosing amendments - Arlene McCarthy - has said that any proposals or arguments based in the notion of software being non-patentable will not be heard:

    I won't accept amendments that exclude patentability per se

    But sure, there are bright sides aswell:

    However, she agrees with opponents of the draft law that it would be wrong to have the level of protection granted to developers in the U.S., where mundane software devices can be registered for patent protection.

    "I want to make it harder to get patents in Europe than at present," McCarthy said


    (source)

  24. Re:This is ridiculous on Online Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The European Parliament will vote on patents in EU in just a few weeks - having a case like this go public _before_ that happens will only help us from having equally relaxed restrictions on software patentability as seen in the US.

    Will most surely have patents on software soon, yes, but that will probably exclude "business methods". Algorithms will be patentable, "one click shopping" and "buy it now" will not.

  25. Re:Another option with SMB on Mount Remote Filesystems via SSH · · Score: 1

    What's not secure about SSH tunneling?