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  1. Re:Another M$ ploy to co-opt an existing technolog on Microsoft's New Language · · Score: 1

    What about Raja? As in, Raja Ain't JAva.

  2. Re:C "pound" on Microsoft's New Language · · Score: 1

    I don't. I say "hash". "Pound" I reserve for the funky British L-shaped currency symbol which I could display here if I remembered the correct HTML entity for it.

  3. Re:CVS as the standard? on Open Source Development with CVS · · Score: 1

    I know it's easy for CVS to be run over commonly-available secure connections like ssh. Does anyone know if that's possible with VSS, or would one have to go about setting up a VPN to securely communicate?

  4. Re:GPL on Open Source Development with CVS · · Score: 3

    Um, no.

    Karl Fogel and Coriolis, the copyright holders, can do whatever they want with the material that they hold the copyright to.

    Another author using those chapters in a derived work would have to release the derived work under the GPL, or obtain a separate license from the copyright holder(s).

    FWIW, I went to school with Karl. Never knew him, but it's neat to see that he's written a book. Makes me feel inadequate, too.

  5. Re:Non/Free and Debian on Will Debian Remove 'Non-Free'? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that for pico[1] (which is packaged with pine), there's nano, which is GPL.

    [1] Yeah, pico sucks, I know. But it /is/ a lot of people's first editor.

  6. Re:I admin one at the office on Has Anyone Played With Gateway Micro Server? · · Score: 1

    If you put all the boxes into a chipper/shredder, I bet the end result would be pretty homogeneous...

  7. Re:GNOME and versions... on Gnome 1.2.0 Released · · Score: 2

    I'd rather have warning messages displayed than suppressed. I'd like to see when something is going even sort of wrong.

    Of course, I'd rather see the causes for the warnings fixed above all else.

  8. Re:Aleph1 = C? on Mathematical Problems For The New Age · · Score: 2

    Oops...it does make a difference to your system of mathematics, but either way, the system generated by either assumption cannot be shown to be inconsistent.

  9. Re:Aleph1 = C? on Mathematical Problems For The New Age · · Score: 5

    You're pretty close there. Aleph0 is the cardinality of the set of all integers, c is the cardinality of the set of all reals. Cantor's diagonalization proof demonstrates that c > Aleph0.

    But the exact "value" of c, in relation to other transfinite cardinals was not determined. In particular, its relationship to Aleph1 (which I believe is the cardinality of the power set of Aleph0) is formally undecidable. That is to say, it doesn't make any difference to your system of mathematics if you choose c

    It's been a while since I've studied this stuff, but I've found this a decent introduction to the subject.

  10. Remote POP to local IMAP on From POP3 To IMAP-What Solutions Are There? · · Score: 2

    Yes, there is a solution. It's called fetchmail, and I was amazed at how easy it was to get it set up properly.

  11. Re:I fear I will start a flamewar, but on Jeffrey Zeldman Bites Back · · Score: 2

    I'd like to see verification demonstrating that Konquerer is indeed 100% CSS-1 compliant. According to the web page you've cited above, Konquerer will be 100% CSS-1 compliant when development has finished. Or have they finished the rendering model already?

  12. Re:Entry pages on Jeffrey Zeldman Bites Back · · Score: 2

    Why not have a proxy server that strips out those nasty things like refresh elements, javascript, and other elements that you find distasteful?

  13. Re:Sources and sinks on Bow Tie Theory: Researchers Map The Web · · Score: 2

    ...which is why so many corporate web sites suck.

    They haven't realized that people want information from more than one source. They also haven't realized that providing links to those alternate sources will improve their credibility.

  14. Can you make it play itself? on Is There A Market For A Voice Controlled MP3 Car Stereo? · · Score: 2

    This makes me want to record interesting voice commands on MP3, and then putting them into the player.

    I can just imagine the track "Recurse", that holds my voice command "Computer, play track Recurse".
  15. Re:Just a curious question...isn't there a point o on Designing Web Usability · · Score: 2

    I think you're making the (incorrect) assumption that easy to use means simple.

  16. Re:I should have written YOU'VE on ArsDigita University · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'd hire any black jewish gay female paraplegics who subscribe to their brand of fanaticism.

    That's what I hate about plaintext. Sarcasm is so hard to detect.

  17. Metallica irony on Napster, Gnutella, Bans, Lawsuits And More · · Score: 3

    Metallica suing over (illegal) distribution of their music via the internet is...somewhat ironic. After all, Metallica first became known on the heavy metal scene due to the passing around and duplication of their tapes at concerts, clubs, etc.

  18. Nice. on 'Battling Censorware' · · Score: 1

    Wow...that was a sweet essay. Gives me hope that the DMCA will eventually be emasculated by First Amendment rights.

  19. Re:WHO!??? on James Gleick On Software Patents · · Score: 2

    James Gleick has also written "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything". However, I thought this book was rather poorly written compared to his other two.

  20. Re:Offbase on Mac OS X Desktop and GUI Design · · Score: 2

    FWIW, Apple licensed usage of what they saw at PARC for 100,000 shares of Apple stock. Not quite the 10,000,000 that Mr. Jobs just got optioned, but still, an apparently fair amount of money.

  21. Re:Is he nuts? on Mac OS X Desktop and GUI Design · · Score: 3

    The Mac OS has always been limited to 31 character filenames. This is, I believe, derived from a limitation in HFS, the Mac OS file system. HFS+, which debuted with Mac OS 8.1 offers support for 255 character file names. However, the OS has not been updated to support 255 characters, due to legacy OS and application issues.

    The collapsible directories *have* been there -- I suspect he's talking more about this method being the default, rather than the freeform/gridded icon layout that is currently the default with the Mac OS.

    Where Tog I believe missed the mark (or perhaps he did mention this, I don't recall) and the Salon article certainly did, is that the old-style Finder is still present in Mac OS. The NeXT-style browser is simply the default, and offers a new option. From what I can tell, the NeXT-style is oriented at newer users.

  22. Re:The Law of Beer on Why Bubbles in Guinness Fall · · Score: 1

    I thought the First Law of Beer was:

    Beer you have is good beer.

  23. Re:This is definieltly alpha material on Mozilla M12 Released · · Score: 2

    But hasn't Netscape/AOL shown a complete lack of interest in fixing bugs in Communicator? Haven't a lot of the same bugs persisted from 4.5 to 4.6 to 4.7? I believe a lot of people have given up on them.

  24. Re:Who cares? on Red Hat Stock Splitting · · Score: 1

    I believe the argument is that /. has a story capacity of n stories a day. If m stories are posted that a lot of people think isn't news for nerds like it was back in the good old days, then /. is only ( ( 1 - m/n ) * 100 )% as useful as it used to be.

  25. Re:Shouldn't we use the right extension for the fi on Is the Internet Becoming Unsearchable? · · Score: 2

    Yes, but many file systems, which may be the destination of the results of the HTTP request, *do* make use of extensions to determine file type. Though, perhaps, storing MIME-type meta-information would be better, we're stuck with what we've got.

    Also, I mean the URL to also be used as a user-interface. For example:

    http://slashdot.org/99/12/14/1154243/comments

    would generate your browsers's preferred format, whereas requests to:

    http://slashdot.org/99/12/14/1154243/comments.pdf
    and
    http://slashdot.org/99/12/14/1154243/comments.scml

    would return the PDF and the Slashdot Comment Markup Language (an XML app) respectively. This could be done with content-type markers, but the interface is much poorer than simply using file extensions.