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  1. Re:How can they... on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language · · Score: 1

    I thought industrial-strength meant it could be used do dissolve things. It is something I've always found lacking in other languages (except brainf*ck, ulamda, INTERCAL et al which dissolve braincells for breakfast).

  2. Re:Hah! on Ballmer On Microsoft's Search Goofs · · Score: 1

    AdBlock will do flash or iframes too. It can do blocking on regexps (or a simplified glob type) too in case there are servers you want some content from.

    The proxy server solution is nicer if you surf from multiple machines that can access it though.

  3. Re:Best of Primitive Computing on Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never been to England? More like 90% :-)

  4. Re:1 in 7 :) on The Unhappy World of IT Professionals · · Score: 1

    To rotate a spreadsheet you start by picking up the display device (after sufficient warning to protect yourself from a lawsuit from the manager who attempts this with his 48" "I need this to see my Gantt Charts" monitor).

  5. Re:You can't get parts from India... on Orwellian Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Were you replying to the grandparent there? Because you just reiterated what I said. However, you used language that made it appear that you thought the opposite.

  6. Re:Search Engine Optimization Professional on Yahoo! Vs. Google: Algorithm Standoff · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is the only good use of Flash I've seen. My nephew likes it, anyway.

  7. Re:You can't get parts from India... on Orwellian Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Economy expanding usually refers to something like GDP increasing. This can happen without creating jobs.

  8. Re:Why was Perl5 so Popular? on Perl's Extreme Makeover · · Score: 1

    3) If there is a cute, short, hackerish way to do something, and a longer, more boring, more explicit way to do the same thing, ALWAYS pick the boring way. Anyone who looks at your code in six months will be very pleased (instead of ready to kill you). Since Perl is so flexible, this is always possible. As for performance, well, in my experience the slick, hackerish ways of doing things often slow things down more than the explicit-using-more-lines way of doing things.

    If anyone is having difficulty overcoming these tendencies, leave a comment with the cute hack. Then at least everybody will know how clever you are. If you want your cake, leave the easy to read bit as a comment instead :-)

  9. Re:Not his masters degree on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 1

    I had to wait three years for mine, the only criterion they mentioned was not being dead, but I'd bet there were some esoteric ones as well.

  10. Re:Stuff on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 0

    You forgot to put your Morphix CD in first, and reboot...

  11. Re:ROM (acronyms you never knew) on NTT Develops Stamp-Size 1GB Hologram Memory · · Score: 1

    The Amiga had WOM.

  12. Re:Remote vision on Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Surely that is more a low latency demo than a high bandwidth one?

  13. Re:Meetings, my experience on The Useless Meeting Wack Jobs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everybody gets this confused. A good meeting is one without an agenda. A bad meeting is one without beer.

  14. Re:Analogue = Current Time and Reference Points on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    Are Old English Miles different to the ones used in the UK now? Just curious.

  15. Re:Telnet=Bad SSH=Good on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    It's not bad or misinformed, just irrelevant to the parent thread.

  16. Re:Too many damn x's! on freedesktop.org xlibs 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Eh? Brimstone is a solid at room temperature. Do I win a Nobel prize? :-)

  17. Re:Arise! on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    I think technically it's because he is not a subject of Her Majesty. But it probably amounts to the same thing.

  18. Re:Congratulate "Sir William" and move on on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    I don't think he'll be entitled to the title "Sir". At least not through this award. I think that ir reserved for subjects of Her Majesty. That may well includes members of the Commonwealth. A certain War of Independence will preclude Bill.

  19. Re:The goods on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think two parties seems to be the equilibrium position.

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    Maybe its a function of the particular voting system in America. It doesn't seem to hold in other coutries around the world. Recognising an equilibrium for these kinds of systems isn't easy of course.

  20. Re:I Got To Touch It on The Amazing Properties of Aerogel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I recall that although it was extremely light, it fell quickly when I dropped it from hand to the other

    Welcome to gravity, its pretty much the same for everybody on earth.

  21. Ahem on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The comment at the top, in css class "ahem". Saying that my browser doesn't support css. What actually happened is your server couldn't serve the css page. With pretentions like these are you suprised people don't care about the facts of BSD?

  22. Re:What is old is new again... on The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing · · Score: 1

    Err, that would be Clay Shirky. Doh!

  23. Re:What is old is new again... on The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing · · Score: 1

    I think Cal Shirky said it best.

  24. Re:Let's be honest on Microsoft's Security Report Card · · Score: 1

    If you just want to count tcp listening sockets, you can do

    netstat -tl|wc -l

    At least with the netstat I got from Gentoo. Your code will count any tcp sockets.

  25. Re:Keep 'em coming... on Mozilla 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Eh? What's wrong with telnet. If you don't have the time to craft the packets by hand by connecting yourself to an ethernet cable that is.

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