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  1. Re:one small mistake: on Keeping a Data Center Cool on the Cheap · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look at any Seagate product specification page.

  2. Re:I can only use it when... on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 1

    In Windows, if you have the Dvorak and Qwerty layouts both loaded, by default you can toggle between them on an application-by-application basis using left alt+shift.

  3. Ironic on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions · · Score: 1

    from the debug-twice-distribute-once dept.

  4. Re:What happens to old bar codes? on Bar Coding The World Away · · Score: 3, Informative

    You need to be a member of the Uniform Code Council to get your own manufacturer ID:

    http://www.uc-council.org/ean_ucc_system/members hi p/need_upc.htm

  5. Re:Can't agree more on New Linux Kernel Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Actually, when files are sorted by name in Explorer on Windows XP, foo2 appears before foo10 (!)

  6. Re:biggest problem on Mathematicians: Elections Flawed · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it's not a federal law, but most states seem to have it as a state law.

  7. Re:biggest problem on Mathematicians: Elections Flawed · · Score: 1

    By federal law, all employers are required to allow their employees to take one hour off work to vote. The employer is required to pay the normal salary during that hour, as if you had been working. Thus, there is no excuse not to vote.

  8. Typing on Controlling Robots with the Mind · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if this technology could be adapted, so that as a person thinks of a letter, the sensors could translate the neuron pattern into an ASCII code. Imagine typing without the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome.

  9. Re:make it look like my HI-FI damnit ! on Choosing a Good Case · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you want something like this or this.

  10. Re:What language is PETROS� written in? on Peter Tattam Of The PetrOS Project Talks To OSNews · · Score: 2, Informative

    Borland Object Pascal doesn't allow pointer arithmetic without casts.

    Not entirely true.

    Pointers to bytes and chars may be manipulated with simple arithmetic.

    Other types of pointers can be incremented/decremented by the size of the structure being pointed to with the Inc() and Dec() procedures.

  11. 10 American astronauts have died, not 7 on Zvezda ISS Service Module Launches · · Score: 1

    Remember Apollo 1?