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  1. Re:Hey Doc on Time Travel · · Score: 1
    No, that was 1.2 Jiggawatts.

    Jigga who?

  2. SIVC on Should Open Source Software Expire? · · Score: 1

    check out Simple Internet Version Control. Honestly, I can only remember three apps I've ever used that included it, but it's a protocol that allows a developer to guestimate how many users have installed the app and keep users informed that there's a newer version available.

  3. Re:Who chose the contract? on Gateway Testifies To Microsoft's OEM Treatment · · Score: 1
    If you're a Gateway, HP or Dell, Microsoft may have you by the balls, but you STILL have Microsoft by the short and curlies.

    Just please don't invite the goatse.cx guy to the porn shoot, okay?

  4. Re:VNC on The State of Remote Desktops? · · Score: 1
    vnc is suppossed to be good and it works for free


    VNC rawks. I just compiled x0rfbserver for a Debian Woody box (you'll also need the xclass libraries) and I can even see my :0 display and use Win2VNC (Think x2x, but using Windows 2000 and some VNC frippery). Plain ol' VNC on a *NIX machine spawns an additional display.

  5. Re:No, GNU/Linux and MacOS are not UNIX on Penguin2Apple · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that would refer to A/UX rather than OSX.

  6. Re:not the worst, but the best: on What's the Worst Acronym You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    damn you exi7!!!

    beat me by 4 minutes...

  7. not the worst, but the best: on What's the Worst Acronym You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

  8. Re:only a gui available on Computing Pet Peeves? · · Score: 1
    Design the exterior of a box that would do what your program does. Make it easy to look at and easy to understand. Mimic that in your GUI.

    But make sure your mimicry of the real world doesn't override the usability of your GUI.

  9. Re:Cost? on Macintosh Clustering · · Score: 1
    What about cost?
    • 8 dual 1GHz PowerMacs @ $2999 = $23992 (store.apple.com)
    • 8 15" LCD monitors (yeah, it's overkill) @ $599 = $4792 (store.apple.com)
    • 1 D-Link DGS-1008T 8 port Gigabit switch = $595 (pricewatch.com)
    • misc cabling: make something up
    • POOCH licensing: $150 + (numNodes-1) * $100 = $150 + 7 * $100 = $850
    So I'd say about $30229, right off the top of my head.
  10. Re:Get a good carry case, and use it. on Structural Integrity of Laptops? · · Score: 1
    I've been tempted to buy the 'Grip it strips' I see in catalogs- anybody tried these?

    Only if I can get 'em in purple and fluorescent orange, to go with the ones I had on my Vision "Gator" board I had in 1989.

  11. Hello Direct on Headset Cordless Phones? · · Score: 1

    Hello Direct just sent me a junk catalog where they were touting a new Bluetooth enabled headset, but, of course, I'm not in the market for one, so I threw it out. There doesn't seem to be anything on their website about it. How's that for informative?

  12. Re:Windowing system or window manager? on Resources for Rolling Your Own Windowing System? · · Score: 1
    I'd use X a lot more if I could get an X server on windows (anyone got XFree to work?) but in a UNIX environment this feature really rocks.

    Gotta love Cygwin. Some other freaks have even started porting KDE to Windows...

  13. Re:No sandbox = .NET security on First (proof-of-concept) .NET virus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (from the Symantec site)

    "Normally .NET files do not have any platform dependent code, but a small 5 byte stub. This stub executes the mscoree.dll _CorExeMain() function and thus the .NET MISL (intermediate language) gets control if the .NET framework is installed."

    "The virus infects .NET executables by attacking the 5 byte jump to the _CorExeMain() function. It replaces this jump, with another one to point into the last section of the executable, it overwrites its .reloc section with itself and nullifies the relocation directory."

    The paragraph in between that you deleted read:

    Thus currently a .NET application executes native code before it will execute the platform independent code. According to Microsoft this native code will be removed and the operating system itself will recognize and execute .NET images.

    So, supposedly, this only infects Beta 2 of .NET. It also states this attack does not work against Beta 1.

  14. Re:The English story is correctly translated. on Jon Johansen Indicted by Norwegian Authorities · · Score: 1
    Now, out of these 200 people providing technical support, 198 of them are none technical and 2 of them read /.
    Someone hasn't read most of the comments in the -1 sewer I see.

    No, he's saying there are 200 typewriters in the support dept.

  15. Re:Nope on Time Canada Shows New iMac · · Score: 1
    Actually, Apple's always made it quite a point to not purchase (or bribe) product placement.

    Then the full-color, high-res, glow-in-the-dark Emate in Batman Forever (or whichever one it was) was a fluke. Or something.

    I seem to remember some sugary breakfast cereal running some sweepstakes with an Emate as a prize tie-in.

  16. Re:Apple started the PDA on Apple PDA? · · Score: 1
    a Numberpad (yes! roguelike game players unite)

    Real Nethackers use hjklyubn :)

    And as far as I can tell, John Sculley seems to be credited with creating the term Personal Digital Assistant in reference to the Newton.

    If I wasn't behind a firewall, I'd let y'all slashdot my Newton webserver (This obviously isn't mine).

  17. Re:Where are the Debian packages? on Quicktime Under Linux With MPlayer · · Score: 1
    From the documentation:
    6.1. Debian packaging

    To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it, and cd into programs directory:

    cd main
    fakeroot debian/rules binary
    If your machine is fast enough to view AVIs without skipping, it shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes to compile a .deb.
  18. Re:not too bright on Uber-patch for Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    Okay, so how is this an IE problem? Using Mozilla 0.9.6 (Build ID: 2001112009), I clicked the readme.txt link above, was prompted to open or save a text document, and had the option to save hello.exe. I have IE 5.00.3315.1000 installed but only use it when Mozilla won't render a page (Pervasive's knoledgebase... grr!)

  19. Re:sketchy at best on The Battle Of The Consoles: From Atari To The Xbox · · Score: 1
    The review seems a bit sketchy. How can we skip from 'Tennis for Two' (1958) to Doom (1993)?

    I also don't remember Space War being the "first, first-person shooter". And I'm having a hard time with the (implied) equation "Space War + Colossal Cave = Doom"

  20. Re:I live in SIOUX Falls, not Souix Falls on Crashing Xbox Kiosks · · Score: 1

    Anyway, Microsofts poor software has kept me employed for 5 years, and this is just reinforces that belief.

    I'm studying up for my Microsoft Certified XBox Engineer cert.

  21. Re:Driver's Licenses on McNealy Calls for National ID Card Too · · Score: 1
    Yeah, but it'll stop repeat offenders. Nobody's ever going to be able to crash a second airplane into a building -- we'll tag their card the first time around, and be on the lookout.
    That's one tough card!