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  1. Re:Not complying with any HTML standard on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    nice, and here's the same but with the new layout.

  2. Redundant? on Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or did anyone read "coastline north of Cape Town" and think "no shit!"

  3. Re:Ad campaign on Public BSOD Sightings? · · Score: 1

    that's supposed to do something? i just compiled and ran it just fine, no crashes or anything. and you point was?

  4. Re:Bad Reference on Whistle While You Work · · Score: 1

    No, Luke's "conversations" with r2 in 5&6 were just as one-sided as those a parent has with a pre-lingual infant (except the ones when he's in the x-wing and he's reading the translation on the screen). There's no point at which r2 conveys anything more than emotion.

  5. Re:Experiences with Norton Ghost on Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? · · Score: 1
    you don't need to install any patch to stop CodeRed. just do:
    iisreset /stop
  6. good robots on CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame · · Score: 1
    Fictional: R. Daneel Olivaw.

    Real: just about anything from the MIT Leg Lab.

  7. Re:Halifax Explosion on Guy Fawkes' Explosion Would Have Devasted London · · Score: 1
    From this, they determined that damaged is greatly enhanced when the bomb is exploded above ground.
    (I know this is true, but...) how did they work this out from this incident? Was the ship flying at the time?
  8. Re:How is Windows easier to use than Linux? on Red Hat's CEO Suggests Windows For Home Users · · Score: 1
    your point is valid, but in fact a linux user wouldn't really need to know that the equivalent of 'add/remove programs' is kudzu. In theory the shell (KDE/Gnome/etc...) would call it something sensible in its menus (and on the whole they do now).

    As an aside, the windows program for adding/removing programs is called appwiz.cpl but most people don't need to know that, it's just another icon in the control panel.

  9. Re:A question on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 1

    ms had a ppc version of nt back in the day. they never released it though, and i believe it was supposed to be a secret, but i played on an old ibm chirp box running nt when i was there...

  10. Re:ACLU to help out? on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    Actually there have been many attempts to ban so-called "Saturday Night Specials": low cost firearms that are often the only option for minorities seeking protection. I thought the racist nature of gun control was common knowledge. Where have you been hiding?

  11. Re:ACLU to help out? on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    I doubt the jews, gypsies, gays and other persecuted minorities were all that worried about changes to the tax laws.

  12. Re:Nothing new except overkill on Microsoft's new CLI · · Score: 1
    "Marvellous", they cried, "see how he manipulates registry entries as if they were files"
    Yeah, flat files are much more useful than an ACLd hierarchy of typed key/value pairs.
  13. Re:Pixels you said? on Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    efficient as possible? bah, your .PNG is 944 bytes.

    photoshop gives me a 2-color gif of only 45 bytes. and this one is 224 bytes inline:

    <style>.g .w{background-color:white;}.g *{height:20;width:20;}</style>
    <table cellspacing=0 class=g bgcolor=0><tr><td class=w></td><td/><td class=w></td></tr><tr><td class=w></td><td class=w></td></tr><tr><td/></tr></table&g t;
  14. Re:Finally!!!! on More Looks At Far-Off 'Longhorn' · · Score: 1
    your setup is borked. i just tried it on a couple of machnies here and it works fine.

    BTW: to get documentation on errors you can place the cursor in the 'LNK1181' text in the output window and hit F1.

  15. Re:X using sockets.. on Frontiers: A New Xlib Compatible Window System · · Score: 1

    how about the button rendering?

  16. Re:X using sockets.. on Frontiers: A New Xlib Compatible Window System · · Score: 1

    no, X11 isn't slow because it uses sockets, X11 is slow because it uses Xlib. The density of your protocol is irrelevant if it can't support the kinds of data you're trying to send. For example, look at the Xlib traffic needed to communicate a simple button click using your favorite widget set (and the context switches involved). Sockets or not, that shit is SLOW.

  17. Re:Desert Fox? on Digital Ink On Billboards · · Score: 1

    and Haiti, Macedonia, and ongoing operations in Colombia and the Philippines.

  18. Re:Does this work for non native speakers? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Yes, a cat's got my tongue, OK? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 4, Funny

    tripthong: falling flat on your face after getting out of bed the morning after a particularly successful date.

  20. Re:$600 for a thin client? on HP Introduces Transmeta Thin Clients · · Score: 1

    how to reduce fan noise and wasted desk-space? put your computer on the floor.

  21. Re:Java's not exactly pining for the fields just n on Java vs .NET · · Score: 1

    vs.net is excellent as an all-round development tool, but nothing comes close to IDEA for code manipulation features. i wish intellij did a version for .NET.

  22. Re:Oh? on Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings · · Score: 1

    eh? SUS integrates with active directory and active directory allows group policy objects on individual machines, or groups of machines. Patching office is easy, just push the .msi out through AD.

  23. Re:Psychology plays a role on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1

    yup, but the difference is that most self-respecting windows devs/admins probably have a linux/bsd box lying around to play/learn/use and they respect it for what it is and can have rational discussions about the differences between to two camps. The reverse is rarely true.

  24. Re:Psychology plays a role on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1
    there's no such thing as a system that can contain an arbitrary bug and still be secure.

    think about that for a while, and then think about your whole argument.

  25. Re:Psychology plays a role on Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? · · Score: 1
    No, that is NOT true. The service can be running as any user on windows and you can still gain Administrator privileges
    No, that is NOT true. The NT seccurity model does not allow you to do this (without correctly authenticating as a user that is a member of the Administrators group). You can only do that if you're exploiting a bug in the code. If you're exploiting bugs in code, then you're operating outside the design of the security model.

    Sure, there are bugs in windows (as there are bugs in every OS) but that's outside the scope of this thread's discussion.