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  1. Re:Nitrous? on Algae That Cleans Emissions and Produces Fuel · · Score: 1

    kind of makes it had to code !!!

  2. Re:So now... on Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no, YOU missed the point

    $0.25 added to the price of a camera is a trivial amount

    $0.25 added to the price of every flash chip is not a trivial amount

  3. Re:So now... on Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld · · Score: 1

    they are probably 40mm radius, 35mm of plastic + 5mm of hole

    Mini CDs are 80mm diameter

  4. Re:not as bad as drugs... on Getting Off NetHack? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, I *need* the bong hits if I know work are gonna phone, otherwise they will wonder why I only talk slurred at work !!

  5. Re:It's no secret... on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1

    What user do you run firefox/thunderbird as ?

    is it yourself ?

  6. Re:No Progress? on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1

    That's not the same as "NT was written as kind of a test bed for new technology."

  7. Re:My 2p : ignore the moaners on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1

    There are probably plenty of interesting things you could do with the data but perhaps the server cost outweighs the need to innovate.

    Then again, it's on mysql iirc. The hard work is offloaded into the client. =)

  8. My 2p : ignore the moaners on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 2, Interesting

    /.'s job is to pick stories that provoke discussion

    it's raw material is : submissions & comments

    if you can find a away to moneterize your /. postings, you go for it.

    nofollow in comments is fair enough way to reduce spam

    I'm sure once your submission queue is a more hassle you'll add nofollow to them too

    good luck

  9. Re:Summary on Fedora Core 5 includes Mono · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think it is best the Mono people stay where they are and keep as far away as possible from anything I use, thanks.

  10. Re:Denial: Not just a river in Egypt on Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think · · Score: 1

    "WITHOUT ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER"

    see, Windows can even break the laws of physics

  11. Re:People largely get mad due to fixable things. on Computers That Feel our Mood · · Score: 1

    it also has a habit of going 404 in around 6 weeks when you bookmark anything

  12. Re:ya..Verry impressive and all... on Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner · · Score: 1

    and c++, of course

  13. Re:ya..Verry impressive and all... on Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner · · Score: 3, Informative

    is this enough bindings ?

    for actual links see
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets

            * [1] binding wxBasic for the BASIC programming language
            * [2] binding wxPerl for the Perl programming language
            * [3] binding wxPython for the Python programming language
            * [4] binding wxRuby for the Ruby programming language in September 2004 "early beta"
            * [5] binding wxSqueak for the Smalltalk programming language
            * wxLua for Lua; a Sourceforge.net project is also available here
            * wx4j for Java
            * wxJS for JavaScript
            * wxHaskell for Haskell
            * wxEiffel for the Eiffel programming language
            * wx.NET for C#/.NET
            * wxCL (formerly wxLisp) for Common Lisp

  14. Re:Well on Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner · · Score: 1

    Like this one?

  15. Re:ya..Verry impressive and all... on Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner · · Score: 4, Informative

    see :

    http://wxpython.org/

    it's even cross platform

  16. Re:Why do you put up with this shit? on Microsoft Deal Limits Verizon MP3 Phones · · Score: 1

    (one of the cheapest) data price here (uk) is :

    £8 / $4.52 per month for up to to 5mb (£0.40p / $0.22 per MB)
    then £1 / $0.5645 per MB

    sliding to

    £40 / $22.58 per month for up to 512Mb (£0.77 / $0.43 per MB)
    then £0.75 / $0.42 per MB

    £75 /$ 42.62 per month for up 1024Mb expected usage (£0.07 / $0.04 per MB)
    then O2 reserves the right to apply extra charges or to withdraw the Data Max 1024 service from any individual at any time in the case of suspected overuse or abuse of the service. Any charges introduced shall be binding and final between You and O2 and shall not be the subject of mediation or arbitration.

    http://www.o2.co.uk/business/tariffs/datatariffs/0 ,,203,00.html

  17. Re:Come back on Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims · · Score: 1

    I'm not cheerleading, just saying

  18. Re:My web hosting nightmare is customers like you. on Worst Web Hosting experience? · · Score: 1

    "Kind of a pain" !!

    Pain is your stock in trade, that's what they pay you for !

    It was "kind of a pain" to buy, build the shed for and install our 20kw generator but data security is kind of important.

  19. Re:Nokia 770 reponse from OWNER on Nokia 770 Alive and Well · · Score: 1

    3. VoIP/Phone capability.

    I would contend that VoIP on a device like this is essential.

    But what's to stop you running Linphone ?

  20. Re:Using mine to post this... on Nokia 770 Alive and Well · · Score: 1

    I could write in grafitti on my Palm, and on the rare occasion I wrote on paper sometimes did it there too.

    It was still quicker to tap the kb.

    I imagine for people with existing keyboard skills, that will always be the case.

  21. Re:Some early reviewers scoffed on Nokia 770 Alive and Well · · Score: 1

    You must be new around here if you think karma means anything.

    This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...

  22. Re:that's the past on Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims · · Score: 1

    WindowsCE, is that a current version of Windows ?

  23. Re:Come back on Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims · · Score: 1

    NT ran on PPC in addition to Alpha

  24. Re:Come back on Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims · · Score: 1

    you cant make system floppies any more

  25. Pipex on Worst Web Hosting experience? · · Score: 1

    they use smaller hosting companies as a kind of umbrella group

    You sign up with Pipex but end up at Bob's Local Hosting

    I inherited the account when I changed jobs

    It runs :
    Linux version 2.2.16C37_III (root@kbuild.sfbay.sun.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sat Apr 12 14:54:32 PDT 2003

    With some sort of Cobalt Control Panel

    I said to myself : I bet this box is a bit vulnerable

    and decided to back it up straight away so did a scp -r / /home/remote_backup &

    watched it tick away for a while and then closed the terminal window

    They were running all the boxes with unlimited bandwidth and when they saw the bandwidth spike from this box they decided it was suspicious activity and closed it down !!

    I didn't notice it was down, it was for some legacy static sites, not really part of my work but just in my dept.

    They told us the box had been compromised and that they wouldn't bring it back up. They had tar'd the file system and, if we paid a re-installation fee, would re-install Linux and put the tar in the / directory.

    Over the barrel we did so.

    When I picked apart the tar I noticed that indeed the box *had* been compromised, so they had seen the b/w spike, logged in, seen it had been owned and turned it off.

    OK, fair enough I though. But they had re-installed EXCATLY the same vulnerable Linux/Apache combination and by the time I had worked out what was going on, the re-install had been owned again !!

    Seems they got an irc bouncer running as user www, so I presumed they hadn't rooted it.

    I installed my own Apache, but this killed the control panel.

    Great for me but now I have left the company they need someone who can use BIND to manage their domains =)

    score 1 for the BOFHs