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  1. Re:Kinda [sic] reptitive. on Apple Releases JavaScriptCore Framework · · Score: 1

    Good heaven, please tell me how the first post can be repetitive or redundant?

  2. Re:Geocities... on Fake Light Sabers Making Real Cash · · Score: 1

    Maybe not, but at least the pipe is bigger. Five comments and the bandwith limit has been exceeded. Oh well. We probably didn't miss much.

  3. Re:Great! on Macs Are Cheaper than PCs · · Score: 1

    Yep. Because my grandmother/dad who uses this stuff to make money wants to deal with:

    "gcc -O2 crw.c -lm -lpng -lz" or "gcc -O2 -DNO_PNG crw.c -lm".

    For the Canon EOS-1D, you'll also need this Lossless JPEG Decoder, which I adapted from ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/multimed/ljpg.tar.Z . Untar and run "make".

    Convert EOS D30 raw files to 48-bit PNG.
    Faster than crw.c, but no longer maintained. Compile with "gcc -O2 eosd30.c -lpng -lz"

    Show the heap structure of CRW files.
    Simple reference parser for exploring camera data. Extracts the JPEG thumbnail, if the image has one. Compile with "gcc heap.c".

    Decompress raw CCD data to standard output.
    Simple reference decompressor for curious folks. Here's a simple program to convert that raw data to an 8-bit grayscale image.

    Old version of "crw.c"
    Supports four cameras at compile time. Compile with "gcc -O crw_v1.c -lm".

    Frequently Asked Questions

    I don't have a C compiler. Could you send me an executable?
    OK, but I have to charge for this service. The fee is $20 for a Linux-x86 or Solaris-SPARC binary, $35 for a Windows EXE file, or $50 for a Windows EXE with EOS-1D support. You'll get the latest version, which you can use and distribute without restriction.

  4. Re:Back in the day... on Unix File System Issues on Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    It's similarly easy to create the possessive form of the second-person pronoun, which is 'your.' I'm sure you've had at least twelve years of education. It probably came up at some point in there.

  5. Re:Bloat on A Web Browser in Your BIOS? · · Score: 2

    Interestingly, one of the older Performas (500-something, iirc) had a copy of a very old version of the MacOS in ROM, so if things were totally hosed, the user could be told to hold down a series of keys and the system would boot off the ROM disk. That's the sort of thing I can see being extremely useful, and would support wholeheartedly. When all else is wrong, being able to boot into a limited place where you can run your diagnostic programs without having any drives mounted seems like an ideal situation.

  6. Re:Good. on Harry Potter, Macrovision and Economics · · Score: 1

    Uh, sorry to be difficult, but that's stupid.

  7. Re:Good. on Harry Potter, Macrovision and Economics · · Score: 1

    I don't care. It ought to work. It's a core OS function. It doesn't work.

  8. Re:Good. on Harry Potter, Macrovision and Economics · · Score: 1

    I was in the Office Depot the other day, and there was a 1.6GHz HP notebook on display with a dos box open. I held down the 'k' key, and it skipped a beat every ten or so characters. If I'm going to shell out money for a machine running at thousands of megahertz, I'm going to expect that it will keep up with keyboard access. XP, no thanks!

  9. Re:Good. on Harry Potter, Macrovision and Economics · · Score: 1

    There's your problem: You ought to use an OS that doesn't let user-level programs "conflict." I shouldn't care that I'm running AIM, Outlook, and a game. That's completely irrelevant to whether or not my computer's going to be stable. And there's nothing you can say to change my mind.

  10. Re:You've got the right vision... on How Yoda Became an Action Star · · Score: 1

    That's bizarre. I'm impressed.

  11. Re:You've got the right vision... on How Yoda Became an Action Star · · Score: 1

    Funny, that. I've been wondering the same thing about yours. In fact, on the way home today, I decided to Google for Alan Gordon Partridge. Alas, I forgot before I arrived.

    I think most writing would be better if there were no apostrophes whatsoever (with exceptions for possession.) People seem to be irresistibly tempted to insert them in any word that happens to end in an 's.' In fact, I say the phrase "he understand's your going" in an e-mail message today. I think people could simply do without. I'm not saying that I'm a master grammarian, but if one doesn't put the effort into learning a pretty simple rule, I'm not sure I should put the effort into reading it.

  12. Re:You've got the right vision... on How Yoda Became an Action Star · · Score: 1

    Surely it was supposed to be comical, right? I mean everyone in the theater was in hysterics.

  13. Re:Such a shame... on Lawrence Livermore Lab On The Chopping Block? · · Score: 1

    People really don't make enough of that: Carnahan DIED! The voters of Missouri wanted him out of the Senate so badly, they voted for a DEAD man!

  14. Re:POWER TO THE CLITS! on Unix Shell-Scripting Malware · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have a few questions, the answers to which I really want to know:

    1. How old are you?
    2. Do you find posts like this funny?
    3. Do you care?
    4. Do you think others find it at all humorous?
    5. Do you think they care?
    6. Have you ever made somebody's day better for no reason?

    I'm sure you're long-gone, but I'd really like to know the answers.

  15. Re:And... on Unix Shell-Scripting Malware · · Score: 1

    Boy did it!

  16. Re:Well... on Ideal PDA Feature Wishlist? · · Score: 1

    Hehe. I figured not, but it was still funny.

  17. Re:Well... on Ideal PDA Feature Wishlist? · · Score: 2, Funny

    He still hasn't denied working for Sharp...

  18. Re:You'll take one WITH commercials -- and like it on DRM Helmet · · Score: 1

    The next minor number revision enhances it further. If you think about having had sex, you'll get the Trojan ads. If you only think about having sex, it shows you porn ads. It's the progress of technology; there is nothing you can do.

  19. Re:in space... on In Space, No One Knows You Read Vogue · · Score: 1

    The first time I read that, it came across as "I don't think anyone need a brain in zero-g." It worked either way =)

  20. Re:I knew there was a good reason... on Linux and the Smile.D Virus keeps us Smiling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You should have done that fifteen minutes after getting the machine configured.

  21. Re:Article on Vertical Keyboard vs Carpal Tunnel · · Score: 2

    I didn't know Major University Studies were typically capitalized. Unless it's an important Study, I guess. I didn't catch in the ad which, precisely, university (University?) it was.

    Besides, haven't there been vertical keyboards around for a while?

  22. Re:The Moon: A Liberal Myth on Slashback: Norwegian, Nader, Handheld · · Score: 2

    Do you have a first edition of either of those books? Do you have any evidence that the publication dates weren't backdated to suck in unsuspecting LIBERALS like you? Eh? Yea. I thought not.

  23. Re:46 hits and not slashdotted yet? on PocketPC Wireless Webserver · · Score: 2

    Well, the device wasn't responding, so I wanted to read the comments before being cynical. It might have been legitimately cool, but I wouldn't have known without reading the first few comments.

  24. Re:On another note on Community Sets Up Their Own DSL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, it's better than "guy installs commonly-used software on consumer device, turns it on, submits to slashdot." This is legitimately cool.

  25. Re:46 hits and not slashdotted yet? on PocketPC Wireless Webserver · · Score: 2

    I haven't done anything cool today, but I've done cool things in the past. I built a wearable webcam back in '98-'99. I think that's a lot cooler than installing software. I install software every day. I don't submit stories to Slashdot about it. Maybe that's why I'm not cool. If that's it, then I'm glad I'm not cool.