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  1. A Class on iTunes??? on Stanford Classes Now Available on iTunes · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but the dumbing-down of post-secondary education has gone too far.

  2. Re:Everything bad for you is good for you again on Drink Decaf and Die · · Score: 1

    Snacking between meals isn't bad for you; actually, it's healthier to eat small amounts continuously throughout the day. Homo sapiens's evolutionary state has not caught up with his present customs and habits.

    It's *what* you snack on that matters. Think nuts and fruits instead of foods high in simple carbs (e.g. candy, crackers) or cholesterol (e.g. potato chips, nachos, pork rinds).

  3. Re:Firefox already supports multi-link bookmarks on Multiple-Target Hyperlinks for the Masses · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention the excellent Linky plugin for Firefox. But, to be fair, neither the Home Page URL nor Linky truly support multi-URL bookmarks. They're simply ways of handling multiple URL's in a single action.

  4. Firefox already supports multi-link bookmarks on Multiple-Target Hyperlinks for the Masses · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...in the Home Page URL in Preferences (or Options, depending on your OS), you can specify a multi-URL home page. The multi-URL format used is just pipe-delimited URLs (e.g. URL1|Url2|URL3...etc.)

    Each URL is then opened in a separate tab. Very nice. More universal support for multi-links would be great.

  5. RBOC's will eat Cable's lunch on Online TV May Be IPTV's First Step · · Score: 1

    Fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) is the 'killer combination': support for video in addition to IP and voice bandwidth, all via one super-fast fiber.

  6. Re:freezing water on How Ice Melts · · Score: 1

    > Not knowing much about frigidity myself, but
    > being contrary, not to mention skeptical, by
    > nature, I expressed doubt...

    I know all about frigidity. Just ask my wife.

  7. I prefer to on Command Line for the Web · · Score: 1

    combine the power of the command line and the web by using wget. :)

  8. All you need are on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1

    find and grep

  9. Re:Hurd on On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures · · Score: 1

    Should be easy to modify Eclipse to attach to a running process, since this is supported by the jdb debugger included with the J2SDK (1.4 or later).

    Personally, I prefer to use lighter-weight tools (Emacs + JDE) that don't get in my way as much as Eclipse.

  10. Re:Fantastic on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Cats are excellent dawn harassers. Sometimes *too* good!

  11. Abelson & Sussman's SICP on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1

    "...programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

    Clarity first. And assume the compiler knows what it's doing.

    Google "literate programming" for more supporting material.

  12. Re:Another useless study on Computers Linked to Glaucoma? · · Score: 1

    Glaring....haha good one!

  13. Re:Am I the only one nerdy enough to think... on Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 1

    thank you

  14. Am I the only one nerdy enough to think... on Carbon Nanotubes Harder Than Diamond · · Score: 1

    ..."SWORDS!!!!" ?

  15. Goooood Question!!!! What about Rekall? on Replacing FileMaker with Free Software? · · Score: 1

    A while back, Rekall - in conjunction with a sql database - looked like a potential open-source replacement for FileMaker and Access.

    Has anyone here successfully ported a FMP database to Rekall + {MySQL|PostgreSQL|etc}?


    Ref: http://www.rekallrevealed.org/

  16. Re:Thunderbird Wishlist on Less is More: Thunderbird 0.7 Review · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fix what calendar? Thunderbird doesn't have a calendar to fix....

  17. I Love Degrading DVD's on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 0

    Of course, it depends who they are degrading to.

    Oh...I get it...nevermind.

  18. XFCE on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The XFCE window manager has a nice clipboard management utility that sits in the Dock. Clicking on it displays the last 8 or so things that you copied/cut. Selecting one "arms" it so that you can paste that item.

  19. Yay on Solid-State Mini-ITX Linux Recording Studio HOWTO · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another nonexistent problem is now solved!

    Hard drive noise is really the least of the noise problems in a modern studio. Speaking from personal experience.

    I mean, my power amp is louder than anything in my home project studio, including the computer.

    OK, mod me down, please.

  20. I was about to yawn.... on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 1

    ...when I noticed the video of the mandolin player. Now that's the first instrument I'd think of when setting out to test a gigantic subwoofer!
    hee!
    But a very cool project. Bet they could make the building fall down with the right resonant frequency....

  21. Re:Apple saw this problem during the 90s on The Paradox of Choice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The social conservatives have seen this problem for years, which is why they want to undo Roe v Wade.

    Yeah, off topic - I know. Whatever.

  22. I'm Convinced on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm ready to switch. OpenOffice doesn't have all the wonderful nifty features that MS Office has, and I'm tired of explaining my use of this obscure piece of software to my friends and family...

    So. Tell me - where do I buy MS Office for FreeBSD?

    No?

    Linux?

    Solaris?

    Oh.

  23. oopsy on Stop! Website Thief! · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...We emailed them via the contact page, which was the same as our own, and heard nothing back," he said. "We then contacted the authority that controls the domain and heard nothing.

    Well, duh, of course. They also copied your cgi scripts....

  24. Re:Overexaggerated on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 1

    I agree - a target's popularity among crackers is not necessarily a measurement of how secure it is.

    You could argue that linux is cracked more often than FreeBSD because it offers more of a challenge :)

    Then again...maybe I should read the article before posting....

    (nah... this is /.)

  25. Re:Umm... on Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain · · Score: 1

    And sometimes when it's really cold, I turn on my heated car seat... %0