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  1. Trello on Ask Slashdot: Issue Tracker For Non-Engineers? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Consider Trello. It's not strictly an issue tracker, but it's very good for this sort of thing and already popular outside of software circles.

  2. Nokia E70 on Nokia the Next Gizmondo? · · Score: 1

    I've got a Nokia E70 (Symbian 3rd Ed.), and I find it spectacular. I've owned S40 Nokias and Motorolas previously.

  3. Mmmmm, "chinese cake" on Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked · · Score: -1

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

  4. Re:Lighter? on New iBooks 'Any Day Now' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and my current laptop is 3lbs, but getting Linux on it was a PITA. If they made a light iBook/powerBook, I'd give 'em the money to save myself the hassle.

  5. Lighter? on New iBooks 'Any Day Now' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they can get it under three pounds (remove the optical drive, I don't care) I'd grab one in a second. More than three pounds is just too heavy for a portable.

  6. Enterprise Edition on ROTK:EE Trailer Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just read that a Return of the King: Enterprise Edition. I've been doing this software thing for way too long.

  7. This should allow access to t-mobile voice mail on Caller ID Falsification Service · · Score: 1

    This bugtraq report shows that T-mobile customers are vulnerable to caller id spoof access to voicemail in the default configuration. I wonder if this provides sufficient spoofage.

  8. Re:Simple HTTP Solution on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 3, Informative
    Better than that they should use the HTTP 2616 If-Modified-Since: header in their GETs as specified in section 14.25. That way if it has changed they don't have to do a subsequent GET.

    Someone did a nice write-up about doing so back in 2002.

  9. All the geeks I know have started played poker on Geeks and Poker? · · Score: 1
    I've since written a irc poker dealer and a tournament timer.

    If you're in the Minneapolis/St.Paul area and looking for poker games we've got a mailing list for finding them.

  10. I though this was new in 2000 on Testing didtheyreadit.com's Mail-Tracking Claims · · Score: 1

    Back then I created a project on sourceforge called Mail Receipt. I was way wrong; the idea is as old as the hills.

  11. Re:Ry4an on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have 2 versions of the resume -- with and without. I once got a call from a company telling me I had a horrible typo in my resume, so since then I've kept the easy to get at versions without. It usually makes for a good interview topic though.

  12. Re:I guess you're not that proud of it... on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    I've got versions with and without the four and I pick depending on the company. HR people are looking for _any_ excuse to toss a resume and a typo in your name would certainly count. Usually I bring copies with the 4 to interviews and it usually turns into a nice dicussion. My interview success rate has been pretty good in the past.

  13. Re:Ry4an on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yup that was me. Ran a board called The Zoo and dialed into BSBox, Pinball Palace, and a few others.

  14. Re:Ry4an on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 2, Informative

    the 4 is silent

  15. Re:Ry4an on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah. Leet wasn't the goal. Hell 10 years ago it wasn't even called leet, but called "hacker" on the BSSes, and that wasn't the goal either.

  16. Ry4an on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had my name legally changed to Ry4an 10 years ago. It's worked out fine though most formal records just exclude it.

  17. It's all about re-sellability on Spread The Love (And Pay Us) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The items in everquest can be re-sold and potentially for a profit. The items at FunHi (to my limited understanding) can't be regifted or sold.

    It's makes all the difference in the world. It's why people will buy 'shares' in a company which are esentially vitual property too -- because they're resellable.

  18. remove the cubicle doors on Pranks for April Fool's Day 2004? · · Score: 4, Funny

    back in 1999 I was working for a growing company and we had lots of spare cubicle materials around. I came in the night before April 1st and removed the doors from many cubicles by simply removing the smooth ends and adding a new wall segment. Most of the employees opted to climb over the walls to work just the same.

  19. Garrett, Calc and Crypto on Five Free Calculus Textbooks · · Score: 1

    I took the two course crypto sequence from professor Garrett, author of the first reviewed book, and I can say without question he's a great math educator. We used "re-release" copies of his crypto text, which unfortunately he was unable to make freely available. Hopefully, it'll get opened in the future and picked up by other professors as it's a wonderful teaching text on an underrepresented subject.

  20. Re:Thinkgeek has something for this.. on Users feel Password Rage · · Score: 1

    I've been using this thing for two years and it's great. I feel safer with dedicated hardware than I do with a separate executable running on my PC or PDA. PCs and PDAs have too many places malware can hook into the IO and stash passwords. This thing would at least take someone with good hardware fu.

  21. Neither as good as Thinking in Java on Head First Java · · Score: 1

    Neither of the books mentioned are as good a learning book as Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckle. Which has the benifit of being free as in beer: http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/.

  22. Re:enough on Gnomemeeting Closes the Source · · Score: 1

    Don't you get it? Slashdot isn't making up these jokes, they're reporting them. I don't read the gnomemeeting website. I wouldn't have seen this joke. Now I have and I'm happier for it. Don't think of it as slashdot trying to perpetrate 10 different jokes. Instead, think of them as a joke aggregator finding the best of today for you.

  23. Re:Slashdot has been doing this for... on Soundless Music? · · Score: 1

    Sort of like MRML

  24. Re:It supports the AU audio format? on Sony Ericsson P800 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Java's from Sun and .au it was the first audio format Java supported. I suspect it was a freebie feature.

  25. Re:Jay Nixon's History with This on Do-Not-Email Registries? · · Score: 1

    He's done a much better job than his prececessor, John Aschcroft, who is also making a difference on the national level.