User: nri

aircraft noise is the driving factor

On: Virtual Pilot Lands Qantas Jet

currently there is heated debate here in sydney about aircraft noise, particularly now since we are not getting a second airport. Planes are flying low over suburban areas for long distances requiring throttles to be well above idle. This system is supossed to allow planes to glide in from higher altitudes with throttles on idle. Saving fuel AND reducing noise.
Hope it works well, but i wish I could find out which flights they are testing it on - so I can change my flight to another one

easy

On: Documentation Strategies?

its quite obvious really. Take the customer requirement spec that you already wrote, take functional specification that you would aready have written, take the design note document that you aready wrote before you started coding and possibly take some of the fully documented comments from the header files for the functions. Easy right. Unless you are one of those hacker that dives straight in without proper design.

pcmcia

On: Getting Better Battery Life w/ Linux?

service pcmcia stop
service lpd stop
hdparm -E 4 /dev/dvd
hdparm -S 12 /dev/hdaX

Re:Do we buy viagra 0.16% of the time

On: Two Spam Filters 10 Times As Accurate As Humans

so what, once i read it i know its spam. the filter had also read it and decided that it wasn't spam. therefore i am more acurate that the spam filter. Thats my point. We are more 100% accurate and the the crap about them been more accurate is rubbish.
I realise the whole idea of a spam filter is to save me from needing to read 1000's of spam email, and for that i am grateful. I just disagree with the statemant that the filter is more accurate then me - its not.

Do we buy viagra 0.16% of the time

On: Two Spam Filters 10 Times As Accurate As Humans

If we humans are only 99.84% accurate, then 0.16% of the time we will incorrectly think the email is real and buy viagra ? I don't think so.
I read the email and delete it. Exactly the same as the spam filters do it, only MORE accuratly. I think the tests applied would have been between a human reading the header of an email and deciding whether to open it or not verses the spam filter making the decision for us. BUT the spam filter makes its decision by opening the email. Therefore to have a proper comparision I should be allowed to open the email as well before I make the decision. Therefore I am 100% accurate.

Re:Unicast should be Unicastrated

On: New Ultra-Intrusive Pop-up Ads Introduced

forgot to tell u it goes into /chrome/userContent.css

my full one is... /*
* turns off "blink" element blinking
*/
blink { text-decoration: none ! important; } /*
* hides many ads by preventing display of images that are inside
* links when the link HREF contans certain substrings.
*/

A:link[HREF*="slashdot.org/favicon.ico"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="ad."] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="ads."] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="/ad"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="/A="] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="/click"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="?click"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="?banner"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="=click"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="/ar.atwo"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="spinbox."] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="transfer.go"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="adfarm"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="bluestreak"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="doubleclick"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="adspace"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="*eu.xmts.net"] { display: none ! important }
A:link[SRC*="*server-au.imrworldwide.com"] { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="*server-au.imrworldwide.com"] { display: none ! important } /* disable ad iframes */
IFRAME[SRC*="ad."] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="ads."] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="/ad"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="/A="] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="/click"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="?click"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="?banner"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="=click"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="/ar.atwo"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="spinbox."] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="transfer.go"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="adfarm"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="bluestreak"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="doubleclick"] { display: none ! important }
IFRAME[SRC*="adspace"] { display: none ! important }

IFRAME[SRC*="*campaigns.f2.com.au/*"] { display: none ! important }
A:link[HREF*="campaigns.f2.com.au/*"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[SRC*="campaigns.f2.com.au/*"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[SRC*="redirect.fairfax.com.au/*"] IMG { display: none ! important }
A:link[SRC*="*.ads.fairfax.com.au"] IMG { display: none ! important } /* flash ad killer for yahoo, boston.com, cnet, doubleclick */
embed[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"][sr c*=" smh.com.au/"],
embed[type="application/x-shockwav e-flash"][src*=" campaigns.f2.com.au/"],
embed[type="application/x -shockwave-flash"][src*=" doubleclick"] {
display: block !important;
visibility: hidden !important;
}

IMG[usemap] { display: none ! important } /* turning some false positives back off */

A:link[HREF*="download."] IMG { display: inline ! important }
A:link[HREF*="click.mp3"] IMG { display: inline ! important } /*
* For more examples see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
*/

Re:Unicast should be Unicastrated

On: New Ultra-Intrusive Pop-up Ads Introduced

/* flash ad killer for yahoo, boston.com, cnet, doubleclick */
embed[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"][sr c*=" smh.com.au/"],
embed[type="application/x-shockwav e-flash"][src*=" campaigns.f2.com.au/"],
embed[type="application/x -shockwave-flash"][src*=" doubleclick"] {
display: block !important;
visibility: hidden !important;
}