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  1. Re:Whole section of the report not covered on Firefox Security Head Says Microsoft Obscures OS Holes · · Score: 1

    He didn't rebut that point, which was actually pretty reasonable. I'd be interested to see what he has to say about that. s/He/She/
  2. Re:Missing the point on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 1

    Ext2 Installable File System For Windows -- http://www.fs-driver.org/

  3. Bah, I don't need no USB cable on Digital Camera Memory Card With Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Informative

    My SD card has USB built-in:

    http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1853)-SDSDPH- 2048-SanDisk_Ultra_II_SD_Plus_USB_2GB.aspx

    This solution seems alot simpiler than Wi-Fi: no SSID/WEP/WPA/etc stuff to configure.

    Funny, people are usually more impressed by my SD card than my new Nikon DSLR.

  4. Re:I've bee using Beta 2 since sometime in the sum on Office 2007 — Better But a Tough Switch · · Score: 1

    This anecdote illstrates how the Office 2007 UI is better. Much of the feedback the Office got were for features that already existed. The discoverabilty of this kind of stuff is far better in Office 2007.

  5. Re:XNA is not bad on Microsoft Publishes Free XBox Development Tools · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I attended the XNA Open House this evening. The first demo consisted of downloading a model from TurboSquid, adding it to a XNA Game project, writing about 15 lines of code ... and boom -- there was a rendered ship that was lit, spining and was controlable by the 360 controller. Ridiculously easy.

    The entry barrier has been lowered significant. I forsee alot people taking advantage of this platform.

  6. I'll see your OMG... on Detailed Panorama of Mars Released · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...and raise you a Really Frakkin' Big. (387MB TIFF >>>>>>>> 87MB JPG)

    Also, this isn't the final image; just a preview in honor of Spirit's 1000th sol. Another panorama picture will be released that includes the rover deck.

  7. One word: Shareholders on Ballmer Sounds Off · · Score: 1

    The price of being shareholder-owned is that you have to live up to shareholder expectations. And their expectations focus around % growth. Now it's really hard for Microsoft to grow any larger in its core markets...so they have to follow the money. Who's the one making money (and buzz) now? Google, of course, so that's where Microsoft is (forced) to follow if it wants to grow.

  8. Re:Direct link to WMV on Videogame Remake of 1986's World Series Game 6 · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this is any better, but at least Google has more bandwidth:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8547285560 243429315

  9. You can do Ext2/3 now... on How Virtualization Led Microsoft to Support Linux · · Score: 1

    Microsoft doesn't natively support it, but it gave Windows the extensibility to access other filesystems.

    See http://www.fs-driver.org/

  10. When does the script book for on The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 1 · · Score: 1

    Straczynski's The Real Ghostbusters episodes come out? :) That was ABC's number one rated animated series at the time when he was on the staff. After the network tried to come in and change the show, Straczynski gave them the finger and quit. The show went downhill soon afterwards.

  11. Re:I have one as well... on IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC Reviewed · · Score: 1
    Good to hear that your experience is that extra memory fixes the speed problem. I suspected as much, since my desktop runs 2 VMs, and when they ran with 512MB each, it was dog slow, but at 1 GB each, things work pretty well. What are you running in Virtual PC? If its another Windows setup, how much memory do you give it?

    I run W2k3 in VPC for testing web apps, using just the default setting (256mb). I have VS.NET 2003 install on that machine as well, but I don't recommend VS at 1024x768 for anything beyond a brief fix. I would suspect I'd need to bump up the memory allocation if I did.

  12. I have one as well... on IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The killer feature for me is to be able to sit on the couch(or the bus) and browse comfortably.

    First thing I did is buy a 1GB stick from Crucial; makes all the difference. I use Outlook, Virtual PC, RSS Bandit with no problem.

    Yeah, the resolution is a bummer, but would you really want a really high res on a screen so small?

  13. MS Virtual PC blogger talks about it here: on Microsoft Adopts Virtual Licenses · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/ 10/10/479186.aspx

    Also check out his great series on running old games under Virtual PC.

  14. I tried.... on Microsoft Drops Windows XP for Itanium · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://slashdot.org/submit.pl under my login:

    2004-12-28 05:30:10 Microsoft drops Itanium Windows XP (IT,Microsoft) (rejected)

  15. uh, try 4 years ago. on IT Practice Within Microsoft · · Score: 1

    See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/ case/hotmail/default.mspx. Of course there were reports that some of the DNS servers were still running FreeBSD: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/Articl eID/22474/22474.html. But that was *3* years ago.

  16. This totally fits with Google's recent hires... on Will Google Launch A Browser? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Back in July Dare Obasanjo noted on one of his blog posts that Google was hiring a bunch of people from the IE browser team and couple of Java guys from Sun.

  17. If you take a bus, they are nice on What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy? · · Score: 1

    One of my bus-mates has one, and it allows him to productive on the bus-ride into work. It's a convertable so he can work efficiently at the office, and in tablet mode, it takes up just the right amount of room.

  18. PHP has this for over a year on MySQL Gets Functions in Java · · Score: 2, Informative

    PHP Dev David Sklar implemented this over a year ago: http://www.sklar.com/page/article/myphp

  19. Flash format IS open. on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.openswf.org/

    There are lots of third-party apps that generate Flash files.

  20. You mean the Universe PHP Extension on Programming PHP · · Score: 1

    Universe is the successor to Satellite. It is a binding to the MICO CORBA ORB. See http://universe.2good.nu for details.

  21. 4th Law of Robotics... on Terminator 3: Attack of the Terminatrix · · Score: 5, Funny

    A robot must protect the existence of the movie franchise as long as it does not conflict with the First or Second (or Zeroth) Law.

  22. WRONG school! on Wu-ftpd Remote Root Hole · · Score: 1

    WU = Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri.

  23. WU-FTPD maintainer ain't happy... on Wu-ftpd Remote Root Hole · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out this thread on the wuftpd-questions list:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=wuftpd-questions&m =100698257011540&w=2

  24. Besides that... on Major Changes To MySQL Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    The MySQL/mSQL book is the worst Oreilly book I've read. The online manual is far better, which is sad.

  25. Re:v2OS on MenuetOS Debuts · · Score: 1

    Found some links:

    http://v2os.v2.nl/

    http://v2os.sourceforge.net/