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  1. Re:Three pieces of advice... on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    We ended up waiting 14 months for ours after the first miscarriage :(

  2. Re:Congratulations! on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    Easy - wrap up the diaper and throw it away after you've finished changing the baby.

    And we don't use a changing table; it's a bit hard for the baby to fall off the floor ;)

  3. Re:you can't be too far away from a surgeon on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    Here in Japan, an episiotimy is SOP during labour - i.e., 90%+ of mothers have them. Yes, it's an outdated technique with zip evidence for its necessity, but they still do them.

    We outsmarted the bastards, though - the baby came out so quick the doctor didn't have time to do one! (I was planning on stopping him if he did try, though.)

  4. Re:Congratulations! on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    Screw that - get a plain plastic pail with a lid, and save plastic bags from when you go shopping.

  5. Re:Priorities on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    Depends on where you are, I guess. I read, write and speak Japanese, work in Japan on financial systems and make ~$US95,000 a year, and my degree isn't even CS (linguistics, to be precise).

  6. Re:Priorities on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    My wife had toxemia, but carried the baby nearly to term. About four or five days before the expected birthdate, she had a bout of very high blood pressure and had to go into hospital (for her health, not the baby's).

    The doctor decided that night that he'd have to do a Caesarean the following morning at 10am, but guess what - the baby came out all by himself at 4am!

    Still, I don't like to think what could have happened - my wife's blood pressure peaked at 190/140 or so.

    Some rambling on my part ;)

  7. Re:Three pieces of advice... on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    A month or two?? You must be joking. Depending on the type of miscarriage and how far advanced the baby was, it can take a year or more to recover.

  8. Re:Been there, done that QWZX on Hydra: Rendezvous-Enabled Text Editing · · Score: 1

    Er...

    802.11b: No.
    802.11g: No.
    IEEE-1394: Yes, in a consortium.
    ZeroConf: No.

  9. Re:But a GOOD joke. on Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems · · Score: 1

    Well, thanks, but I hoped most people would get the joke, rather than taking it seriously... I mean really, a WinCE compatibility layer? Who in their right mind would believe that?

  10. Re:Wasabi Systems on Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    +5, Informative??

    It was a joke, OK?

    Glad to see the moderators are in their usual good form...

  11. Wasabi Systems on Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems · · Score: 5, Informative


    Since the first three posts (not by me, I hasten to add) were all modded down to -1 in less than a minute, I'll try to post something more worthwhile.

    Wasabi Systems offers three main components:

    Maguro
    This is their embedded kernel, using a customized NetBSD kernel with extensions designed to allow better low-power operation and lower latency for real-time applications.

    Uni
    This is a custom, proprietary API supplied by Wasabi Systems that provides a variety of functionality for embedded systems, including interfacing with FieldNet devices such as the Kohada2010F and Tako ABV modules.

    Ika
    This is another proprietary API layer from Wasabi, which allows the use of WinCE applications on their systems without recompiling, thanks to a branch of the WINE project (called SAKE) that adds compatible system calls for over 95% of WinCE library routines.

    It's a wonderful company run by a bunch of great guys - I wish them all the best.

  12. Re:How about some ethics ? on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I take that back - according to the RH9 release notes:

    The following packages have been deprecated, and may be removed from a future release of Red Hat Linux:

    - pine - License-related issues


    So it is still in there.

  13. Re:9 Drops Support for Intel L440GX Server Board on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    The Intel L440GX isn't a 386 board - it's an SMP Pentium II/III server board.

    I've got one too, with RH8 - guess what's getting installed next time I upgrade...

  14. Re:why do they need my e-mail??? on Post-crash Salary Survey · · Score: 1

    Considering that it gives the name of the person who holds your address, and he has his reputation to protect, I think it would be rather unlikely that he would let 10,000 addresses from SYSADMINS around the world be used for spam.

  15. Re:Please not again... on New Whitespace-Only Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Well, it's April 2 now and April Fools articles are still being posted...

  16. Re:Please not again... on New Whitespace-Only Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but April Fools articles usually get posted on April 2.

  17. Re:How about some ethics ? on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Ah, OK. My bad.

  18. Re:Oh geez... on RFC 3514: New Bit Defined for IPv4 Headers · · Score: 1

    I like this part myself:

    6. IANA Considerations

    This document defines the behavior of security elements for the 0x0
    and 0x1 values of this bit. Behavior for other values of the bit may
    be defined only by IETF consensus [RFC2434].


    Other values of the bit?

  19. Re:Community or company? on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    No, what he meant was KHTML.

  20. Re:How about some ethics ? on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Er, no. Some is BSD-licensed, and if you look hard enough, you'll find some stuff with more restrictive licenses (pine springs to mind).

  21. Re:BitTorrent not working well on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Try using the btdownloadheadless.py script instead.

  22. Re:Interesting... on Last-Mile Fiber Optic · · Score: 1

    Er... see my other comment.

  23. Re:Interesting... on Last-Mile Fiber Optic · · Score: 1

    Well... I've lived there for the last 13 years, so I guess you could say so.

  24. Re:Interesting... on Last-Mile Fiber Optic · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Not much on Last-Mile Fiber Optic · · Score: 1

    True. I generally associate the word 'closet' with something that can fit one standard rack, with anything larger a 'room'. My bad.