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  1. Re:this happens to us pretty frequently on Stop! Website Thief! · · Score: 1

    I am using a the latest mozilla. It's true that after a couple of "ctrl -" I can see the text. What about adding "clear: all" to the .tacent class

  2. Re:this happens to us pretty frequently on Stop! Website Thief! · · Score: 1

    yeah, and your site (cloudspace) is broken in mozilla (your navigation covers part of the main page), while those who ripped you off have a nice looking menu and a legible page underneath. Pretty ironic, dontch'a think?

  3. Re:Windows server? on Ease Into Subversion From CVS · · Score: 1

    ... and if you want to use it with ssh on top of svnserve you can read this step by step guide

  4. Re:I've tried both Subversion and Arch on Ease Into Subversion From CVS · · Score: 1
    Problem is, everyone using ssh must log in to the same user account or the permissions get screwed up. So, yes, it's quite hard to share repositories in Subversion.

    I think you are wrong. I log in to my repo from different ssh accounts without problems. Using cvs + svnserve with multiple accounts is also possible in windows XP
  5. Re:Is there demand? on Ease Into Subversion From CVS · · Score: 1

    how about versioning directories?

  6. Re:SVG != Flash on Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla · · Score: 1

    I am not taking it badly but I gotta tell you, this is a *major* hack, as much as using s for layout is a hack. Divs were not designed for this purpose. Divs define rectangular areas. Sure, by using hundreds of them you can hack it into something that looks like a diagonal. But rectangular they are.

  7. Re:SVG != Flash on Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Come on, what you are suggesting is a hack. And strictly speaking, even that hack only has rectangular regions. If I look under the hood, I don't see any diagonals

  8. wikipedia on Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... obviously you have never seen the wikipedia. To put it in somebody elses' words, "with many eyes, all bugs are shallow". This principle does not apply to software only.

  9. Re:To quote HR Giger on Mike Oldfield's Online Game Makes Like A Maestro · · Score: 1

    Once you've collected all the tubes a door opens up to a new set of tunnels. There is a bird in a cage in it. Not sure exactly what's up after that.

  10. Re:A layman's view on Yahoo! Vs. Google: Algorithm Standoff · · Score: 1

    Even more annoying: typing the exact title of a book on Amazon's search box, and getting a list of 5 or 6 different books, then a sponsored link to the exact book sold by a different bookstore. Then typing the exact title on the advanced search option of amazon, wading through the results to find that amazon sells it at the same price.
    Try to search for "my art my life" using "all products"

  11. a different question on Recoverable File Archiving with Free Software? · · Score: 1

    ... my subversion archive is now more than can fit in a cd. Is there a tool I can use to split the big file in two cd's, hopefully something that doesn't need another piece of software to reinstall the big file.

  12. Re:What about Linux? on Subversion 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    What do you mean I can't commit from my laptop? I do it all the time.

  13. missing titles on Title Fight For Best All-Time Game Scheduled · · Score: 4, Informative

    spacesims: missing freespace 2
    I also couldn't find descent, the best game ever

  14. xaraya on Idea Management/Navigation Software? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have set up a cms (content management system) to do just what you mention and it is working great.

    Contrary to most other cms'es of the PHP-Nuke series, xaraya has the flexibility to manage all publication types (FAQ, articles, reviews) into one single module, which avoids lots of clutter. You can add fields to each type. Myself, I have created a "research blog" publication type (where I describe what I do each day in a blog format), and then "reviews" (for the books I read), "articles" (the articles I read), "todo", "docs" (for things I keep forgetting). Each of these publication types have one or more category trees associated with them (with some trees overlapping) so that I can search/display my blogs by category and/or by pubtype. Finally, I have set it up so that only I can access it. The permission system allows for you to set up different kind of access to the different pages depending on various criteria.

    Using a full blown cms may be overkill but the flexibility and extendability is great. To mention your needs, you can use the autolink module to generate automatic links in your modules, and so on..., search works great, for BibTeX you'd probably need to create your own hooks, which I believe vouldn't be terribly difficult.

    A wiki might work, but your pages would look identical across tasks and categories, and I like the ability to visualize different pubtypes and/or categories differently. The tendency to generate a mess is enormous in wikis, but with a single user less so. Good luck.

  15. Re:I won't be buying any stock... on Opera Browser Creators Planning IPO · · Score: 1

    This are nice features. For those that want some of these in Mozilla, get yourself the multizilla extension (a better tabbed browsing experience) + (for image magnification), get the bookmarklets from http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ (zoom images in/out, zap images, zap javascript and so on)

  16. how does it compare ... on FreeSpace 2 Gets Reissue As Limited Edition · · Score: 1

    ... to descent 3 which I believe is from the same company? I tried the fs demo a while ago but wasn't impressed and thought D3 was much better.

  17. Re:Sorely needed on MySQL Official GUI Interface · · Score: 2, Informative

    if it's only to mess around with the DB, why not show the boss phpMyAdmin? I am always amazed by how good a project that is. From the screenshots I see, the GUI will have more functionality, but at least you can use phpMyAdmin from anywhere in the world with a net connection and a browser.

  18. Re:Sorta off-topic, but I'd reaally like to know on Hands Free Computer Operation for Quadriplegics? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A friend of mine (35 years old) had a vein near the cerebellum blown off a couple of years ago (sorry I forgot the exact diagnosis). He is now semi-paralized. Speech is severely impaired (very hard for us to understand him), so voice recognition is not an option. Communication is slow and difficult (sometimes you have to go throug yes/no questions) but you can easily figure out that his brain is pretty much as sharp as before (he was a CPA). He can't walk, he can sort of move his arms but doesnt' have much control of his fingers, plus his arms sometime tremble a lot, so keyboard is also not an option. The best solution for him is an on-sreen mouse-activated keyboard.

    Bottom line, he was trying to use his pc but had difficulties typing with the trembling and all. With other friends we donated him a big monitor and I installed a monitor keyboard so that he can type with using the mouse). He can communicate with friends via the net, expressing arguments and sentences that would take hours for us to understand given the state of his speech. I know he also plays chess. I don't think he is going to create "a new life" on the net, as you put it, for the simple reason that he is not fast enough for IRC and i am not even sure that he is fast enough to post regularly in message forums/email (I think he gets tired after a while). However, it's better than nothing.

  19. Re:Stay with the hiking boots on Airport and Foot Friendly Trade Show Shoes? · · Score: 1

    Does anybody else find a bit disgusting to have to walk barefoot or with socks where other people walk with shoes? Not mention having to place my laptop/jacket into those trays where other people have put their shoes.

  20. Re:what's still WRONG with TB on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released · · Score: 1

    how about setting up 9 filters that redirect your mail to the 10th inbox?

  21. my favourite missing feature on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released · · Score: 1, Informative

    Now if only they managed to include my main reason why I miss Eudora: manual filters. If you agree please vote for bug 183929 (paste this link http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183929 ): add manual option to filter.

    They've got "filter after the fact" in place more than a year ago, but they forgot to make it useful by adding manual filters. It's a shame that such helpful functionality can't be used.

  22. Re:The problem is the CVS on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    The main problem is that you are using slashdot in the first place. You probably like Perl or have a site with 1 million hits a day. Those are the reasons to choose slashcode. If you don't need that, there's plenty of other options, the best one in my opinion is xaraya

  23. Things will get more interesting... on Apple Makes no Profit from iTunes · · Score: 1

    when bands will start selling their songs directly to Itunes, without going through the record labels. Then prices will start going down or stay the same, and /or Apple will make a profit, and/or artists will be better paid.

  24. Re:What's wrong with pencil and paper voting? on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 1

    Well, first we have more on our ballots than other countries seem to. Second, not all ballots from all counties in all states are the same. Third, there was a lot of political maneuvering going on in that particular situation that made the process a lot longer than it normally would be


    First, you mean more ballots per citizen right? Well, just hire more counter.

    Second the same is true in other countries. Every electoral district has different candidates for the post (e.g. a parliamentary seat), so what's the point?

    Third, you are supporting the point of your parent poster
  25. they claim prior art from MS! on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 5, Interesting
    from the nyt:
    In the trial, Microsoft did claim that there was prior art that undermined the claims of the Eolas patent. But in its filing, the Web consortium offers different examples including pre-Internet era software like Write, a word-processing program included with the Windows 3.1 operating system, which included software for summoning and displaying other programs. That, the standards group said, is the same basic function and idea described in the Eolas patent.


    It is incredible that MS would forget to use prior art of their own in their own lawsuit!