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  1. Plenty if you are casual about it on The IT Labor Shortage · · Score: 1

    I'm a shareholder in an small ISP. We register about 1000 domains per month and most of them have a web site requirement. There's plenty of work around here if you like small projects.
    It's great if you don't like working much. You can make a tidy sum knocking a whole site together in a couple of weeks and take a weeks off to do your own thing. No too stressful.
    I work like that and by telling five people in our towns computer community my phone rings every hour with a few questions and job leads.
    It's like I don't have to worry because good people with time on their hands are hard to find too.
    .oO0Oo.

  2. We broke the code and got 10000 points on Cool Japanese Gadgets You Can't Have · · Score: 1

    easy really
    check the files is creates and watch the one that changes date every time you print.
    Do a quick diff on a couple and you will work out what to do.
    I can't tell you explicitly because it was a couple of years ago and it's been long since deleted and forgotten btu i just remembered how we cracked it.
    The things you buy it are bit crappy for all that supposed printing you would have done.

    .oO0Oo.

  3. Paradigm fork(1) on Trolltech Developing Qt That Doesn't Need X · · Score: 1

    Just when you upgrade to the long awaited version 4.0 than it's time to delete it and re-write all the apps again for a different one.

    Anyone written a Farenhieght to Celcius converter for it yet?
    .oO0Oo.

  4. Er, no - read this from w3c.org on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1

    By default, SGML requires that all attribute values be delimited using either double quotation marks (ASCII decimal 34) or single quotation marks (ASCII decimal 39). Single quote marks can be included within the attribute value when the value is delimited by double quote marks, and vice versa. Authors may also use numeric character referencesto represent double quotes (") and single quotes ('). For double quotes authors can also use the character entity reference".

    In certain cases, authors may specify the value of an attribute without any quotation marks. The attribute value may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), hyphens (ASCII decimal 45), periods (ASCII decimal 46), underscores (ASCII decimal 95), and colons (ASCII decimal 58).

    see
    http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#attr ibutes
    section - 3.2.2 Attributes
    .oO0Oo.
  5. Re:SSH and VNC can be done on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1

    Well I don't know. I've never needed to do it.
    .oO0Oo.

  6. I've got an account now - it's good on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1

    firstly my celeron333 freeBSD server with 128Mb ram is at about 0.40% for my 800x600 vnc server.
    But it's memory footprint is about 4Mb.
    Is that a lot of resources?
    When I close my VNC connection cpu utilisation drops to 0% and my memory gets swapped out. (or it would do if I ever used 128Mb of ram for ANYTHING!).
    Saving state is great because you can start a compile, close it down and when you come back to it later it's like you never left. Helps when you're doing the usual 10000 things at once on 10 machines from one terminal.
    When you manage ten or so servers in NT, Win2k and a couple of Nix's remote access like this is great fun.
    VNC also has a clipboard feature so you can cut and paste between machines.
    With X you can choose the window manager globally for all your sessions.
    You also get to specify the screen size for each server so depending which machine I'm on I can get the correct size screen - (useful as I have a laptop with only 640x480 and scrolling becomes a pain).
    You can have it full screen or even choose a zoom level(as a fraction!)
    .oO0Oo.

  7. try this on Michael "Monty" Widenius of MySQL Interview · · Score: 1
    • two databases on two machines (for extra distance!) one table in each (for simpliciity)
    • an update that changes data in each one
    • table 1 write successful
    • wait for table 2 to get written
    • roll back when write to table 2 fails

    Without transactions table 1 has incorrect data in it for some period of time.
    With transactions write to table 1 are only really made when both writes are possible.
    In Access :
    function writedb() as boolean
    on error goto rollusback

    table1.begintrans
    table1.edit
    table1!name = 'dave'
    table1.update

    table2.begintrans
    table2.edit
    table2!customername='dave'
    table2.update

    table1.committrans
    table2.committrans
    writedb=true

    leavesub:
    exit function

    rollusback:
    table1.rollback
    table2.rollback
    writedb=false
    resume leavesub:
    end function

    Code written from memory without testing so don't nit pik it plz!
    .oO0Oo.
  8. they plan to use PHP for stored proc on Michael "Monty" Widenius of MySQL Interview · · Score: 1

    Or that's what was said at the php con in israel

    transactions would be good though.
    Sometimes the tradeoff would be worth it
    the choice would be good
    but hey, I can always code them myself!
    .oO0Oo.

  9. Split docs available on Michael "Monty" Widenius of MySQL Interview · · Score: 1

    Read the page :

    http://www.mysql.net/doc.html

    two files, one is one big one
    one is split into chapters
    .oO0Oo.

  10. Get Crackin' on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1

    lovely now I can really get up to some anonymous mischief. Sadly when you create files in your public_html dir you need to chmod 644 them to make them appear in your webspace.
    .oO0Oo.

  11. Redundant gimme a break on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1

    Where else does it say on this page what platforms VNC will run natively on!
    .oO0Oo.

  12. That URL again on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1

    VNC under SSH homepage
    Slashdot code turns ' into "' in hrefs!
    .oO0Oo.

  13. slashdot code flawed on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1

    VNC Homepage
    Slashdot turns href='http://url' into href="'http://url'" !!
    .oO0Oo.

  14. SSH and VNC can be done on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1
  15. VNC is cool for this sort of app on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 2

    If it's vnc based then that's cool.
    Clients available for all sorts of platforms :
    Linux 2.x for x86
    Solaris 2.5 (SPARC)
    Windows 9x/2000/NT (Intel Win32)
    Macintosh
    - 68K processor
    - PPC processor
    DEC Alpha OSF1 3.2
    Windows CE 2.x
    - SH3 processor
    - MIPS processor

    An of course a Java app in a browser window

    I use it on my network at home and also have vnc servers running on my FreeBSD server at work so I can work from home or wherever I am!
    Using VNC means that Workspot don't have to care about Video drivers or anything which makes it much easier for them.

    .oO0Oo.

  16. VNC is platform neutral on Workspot Offers Free Web-based Linux Accounts · · Score: 1

    vnc
    To change window managers just edit your
    ~/.vnc/xstartup file and change the window manager.
    I use iceWm on my FreeBSD box.

    .oO0Oo.

  17. bite it! on LucasArts Announces First Massive Multiplayer Game · · Score: 1

    It's the only sensible business model innit really.
    Giving the client away would be a good idea but any business venture is a gamble.
    Making it a download would make sense if it wasn't so darn big.
    So throw in distribution and advertising to go with the lovely packaging and box contents and you need a big wedge of cash.
    It's early days yet in the MMRPG world. Watch the cost of playing come down as things improve.
    .oO0Oo.

  18. ???Ethics aside??? on Dolly meet Dotty: Pig Cloning · · Score: 1

    Er, ethics aside many things are possible. Wanna do them all?
    .oO0Oo.

  19. the shining path of rightness on Multics Scheduler · · Score: 0

    Unix does many things wrongly!
    A single user system with muli-user capabilities tacked on.
    But it does things good enough for most people but blindly holding it up as the shining beacon of correctness is clearly pointless.
    .oO0Oo.

  20. How about a crowbar? on Busted for (L0pht)Crack Possession · · Score: 1

    I don't expect to be busted for posessing my lead anti-x-ray bag.
    But when I used it for blocking the radio detectors that are used in my city center's stores to prevent shop-lifting (just pop the item with the radio "tag" inside the bag and then the store radio activated alarms can't penetrate the lead so the signal isn't frequency shifted but the goods are) if I am caught I expect to get "going equipped to steal" to be added on to the shoplifting charge.
    Don't do it these days but those were the times when any item was "open source". hehehe

    .oO0Oo.

  21. Shoulda been Speculum on SuSE 'Name-the-Mascot' Contest is Over · · Score: 1

    'cos with open source you can see right inside baby!
    .oO0Oo.

  22. Wanking george on Bearded Drinkers Lose Guinness · · Score: 1

    "sort of a fall from grace in the public eye?"
    Has the media taken hold of your mind?
    Getting caught wanking is something funny to be happily shared with the world aint it?
    It's not like any of us hasn't been in a place where getting caught would be embarrassing.
    Perhaps they should have worked out how much spunk gets lost in your pubes.

    .oO0Oo.

  23. try drawing rm -R * on XFree86 3.9.18 Today, v4.0 in March · · Score: 1

    nt
    .oO0Oo.

  24. Re:Why are they storing the credit card informatio on RealNames Customer Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    If you have a PDQ machine in your shop you are instructed to keep the bottom copy of the slip for your own reference.

    We stored ours in the cellar. You are not told for who long to keep them. We ended up shredding them regularly. Anyone who broke into our shop could run off with plenty of slips.

    btw. We don't have this shop any more.

    While they were there they could steal the computer with all of our customers details too. We have a monthly subscription for which we keep a copy of the CC number. We keep 'em encrypted but a client program decypts them so someone can type them into the PDQ every month.

    I know it all sounds lax on the security front but I'm telling you because it's a real world example of how a real small business runs itself. CC's are not secure by any stretch. Thinking otherwise is dumb.
    .oO0Oo.

  25. Ah, the secure E-mail on RealNames Customer Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    FROM: RealNames@bayarea.realnames.com

    Dear Real Names User,

    We've been 0wn3d.

    Your new password will be IOWNYOU
    Please log in and change it so we can all get access.

    J R Cracker

    p.s. please do not reply to this e-mail as it is fake. I just put FROM: RealNames@bayarea.realnames.com in the header but you probably don't know that and trust an email just by the from address.
    .oO0Oo.