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  1. Sorry... on Just One Page a Day · · Score: 1

    ... way to busy scanning in all the wizards of the coast materials for a simular project.

    I suggest getting a hp network scanner ... this thing rocks. Flawless sheet feeder, awesome quality, scans right to the network into pdf format, sends me a instant message when its done.

    i should have sprung for the duplexer.

  2. the three editors on PPC Amigas Go On Sale · · Score: 1

    now the final battle between vi, emacs, and cygnus editor may begin again.

  3. Re:Good! on Vatican/HP To Put Library Online · · Score: 1

    useful site for such things ... but those graphics crack me up on that website ... seems like that researcher is plauged by gnats or something on the frontpage.

  4. Re:EMI on Never Mind The 25th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    and your point is?

    i dont see how i or the emi song could be interpreted as claiming the media is not simularly depraved or power mad like you said.

    snap out of it

  5. EMI on Never Mind The 25th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    the EMI song has a whole new meaning in the music business today it seems.

    it should be the default song for someone's mp3 player like beck's is for media player.

    or at least the 'emi goodbye!!!!' part

  6. danger on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    in college i was doing some work in our computer center pulling cable under a presurized floor. it was your standard room of ancient large blue IBM 72" tall units. arranged in classic grid.

    then a maintence crew working on something in an attached room did something to start a small fire.

    half my body is under the floor -- head first. trying to unknot some cable.

    i didnt know anything about the halion (sp?) gas until the rescue worker explained it to me.

    i should have sued, but was worried about pizza money from my job.

  7. XML Based? on Tim Bray on Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    Is this XML with buttloads of encryption?

    I just cannot see their whole office suite being like StarOffice or Excel's export to XML... thats to to good to be true.

  8. thrusters on NASA Has Plans for 2nd Space Station at L1 · · Score: 1

    doest the new 5/6th to the moon space station still need thrusters? every vistor to and from it is going to knock it back and forth.

    or is the 5/6th position autocorrecting as well?

  9. Re:And we wonder on San Diego Company Owns E-Commerce · · Score: 1

    this wont stand up ... there simply is no public good in their patent. sad that people fell easily to their muscle however.

  10. Stale? on Car Digital Assistant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Clarion had a WindowsCE indash system back when WindowsCE was the thing. I am thinking 4 years ago?

    I remember that my boss just had to have it. It did IR syncing with his HP just fine and had a crappy interface for viewing contacts like they were cd titles. Nothing like trying to call someone with their name, fone number, and address scrolling by at blazing speed.

    It automatically synced without authentification as well so you could walk by the car and grab contacts as well.

    It held other documents, but only contacts and memos where available on the dash console.

  11. XUL on Creating Applications with Mozilla · · Score: 3, Informative

    i have to say that i have converted a bunch of cgi's that deliver HTML to cgis that deliver XUL and provide RDFs. the interface is awesome ... so many things you cannot do with IE alone (unless you cookup some ActiveX)

    it was rough in the begining since i had people that were not using mozilla and even now some people just use mozilla because they have to.

    but the power of the lists, tabs, etc are awesome compared to having to write javascript/layers/etc crap that takes more effort than the cgi environment to code.

    i love it ... i hope an activex control for IE is around that will allow IE to use XUL

  12. DAMN! on Camcorder Jamming Devices Announced · · Score: 1

    This is going to ruin one of my great past times of recent months. I hope some sort of polarized lense or simular filter over the lense will minimize this effect. There must be some sort of photo len filter than can be hacked onto a camera.

  13. terms on Reuters: 80% of Chinese Computers Virus Infected · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the terms in this article are very odd ... 'touched by a virus' and 'free from any virus attack'? i would hate to have my expensive research represented by such a summary.

  14. silly guy on GameToo Much...... And Die! · · Score: 1

    silly guy he should have '/cast makebread' or '/train fishing' more and he wouldnt have those problems.

  15. Whoa! on Kazaa And Exportation of U.S. Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    Ummm, anyone know about citizen options for these countries?

  16. Re:tweak rollup on No More Mac Tweaking? · · Score: 1

    well *i* wouldn't bitch ever, but if i were the os maker i might still. your slowing down the pace of my new product.

    if suddenly windows users were using microsoft office4.3 standard with via xwine on $50 linux machines. microsoft would start bitching.

    this may may be why file format standards on the office side seem to grow needlessly with every product revision.

  17. tweak rollup on No More Mac Tweaking? · · Score: 1

    arent all the free tweaks going to be made to break and then going to be rolledup into the next OS update ... and then charged to you at a fee? sounds like a terrible plan / practice for apple to embark on.

    however, if apple wants to make changes to the os (such as supporting its video hardware subsystems better and not using so much software to do so) it might be a stability boost to try and discourage rampant hacks to the system.

  18. Whats the difference? on Automakers to Make Diagnostic Codes Available · · Score: 1

    how does this differ from the pccable used in DashPC. Where he takes a B. Roadman's ODBII serial interface and gathers information about his car?

    Or does this suppliment with other amazing codes? Such as access to the odometer in some fashion (i think the only code i am missing on my car) that my dash displays but i cannot.

  19. is $50 million a lot? on HP to Heavily Support and Invest in .Net · · Score: 1

    with a few thousand people dedicated to this program and assumign they arent moving from .[otherthing] to .net is $50 million all that much money?

    or is this just a bunch of hype to make the stock price possibly move?

    i assume if a large vendor has to do a huge new worldwide roll out / market push for some new product that its gotta cost this much.

    i am sure they all are doing the same thing. hp just decided to make some press headway with it.

  20. User-to-user payment service ... on Bezos Seeks Amazon Honor System-Related Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    with payee-specific pages ... isnt that a checkbook?

  21. tango on Gas/Electric Hybrids, Air Cars in the News · · Score: 1

    note that tango car in the pdf is parked next to a ferrari at the beach ... must be very worried about the environment and the many intellectual and moral costs of operating nasty emissions vehicles.

  22. Re:what is netware? on Novell Releases PostgreSQL for NetWare · · Score: 3, Informative

    i would have to say that novell is pretty rock solid ... once you get it up and running it has an amazing uptime. however when you mess with it (ala make a weekly arcserve upgrade or something) thats when it tends to be flaky.

    it also doesnt like running out of diskspace or anywhere near out of diskspace.

    with good hardware its very nice for a workgroup situation ... not that unlike samba :)

  23. bi lingual on "L33T" Speak Invades Schools · · Score: 1

    i have had this problem quite a bit since i have been online since apple+ bbsing days and a very young vms hanger on'er with college kids. when i was young i did it to be cute.

    now its becomes a bad habit / problem from time to time with work. mostly the lack of structured grammar and use of computer slang.

    i see it as two problems 1) kids dont have a early bilingual education. obviously kids who had a bilingual education early know how to differenciate between differnt modes of communication.

    second is that basic writing courses (especially in college) are so mechanized that they dont address any issues in regards to modernity other than citing webpages.

    for instance in college your unlikely to get assistence in a writing lab for a math or formal logic paper. and example of this is that they are going to force you to change phrases such as 'if and only if' to 'if' (at least my experience at uw-madison and tulane, as well as what other people have told me).

    our taught english just doesnt have an outlet or way of expressing our different modes of communications.

    besides kids that sneak a few 'ppl' or 'omg' codes into their writing arent going to have any problems in the future ... they probably have a great vocabulary and read excellent. its just someone grabbing a headline.

  24. R&D on HOWTO: Spend A Billion Dollars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if i had a billion dollars we would be 999 million dollars toward developing an affordable small village level water purification system, or sanitiation system. or possibly help engineer some sort of food/weed that will grown nearly anywhere. to ease the suffering of the people on this planet.

    dont need to figure out the human genome or anything fancy to get something done with that cash.

  25. edonkey on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 1


    === from share reactor ===

    eDonkey Server raids i Danmark! (17.09.2002 14:41:44) from ScareCrow
    Sorry for not writing this here in english, but i want to make sure atleast all the .dk ppl understands it!

    Sent i går aftes var APG på farten igen igen igen... - Denne her gang har de set sig sure på folk i Danmark som har en eDonkey server kørende...

    Der kan læses mere om det i forummet og på http://www.siffan.dk (en af de folk som blev ramt igår)

    Så til jer danskere som har kørt public eDonkey servere.. - måske i skulle overveje at få dem pillet ned til stormen er ovre, da jeg personligt selv tvivler på at APG er færdig med deres ture :/