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  1. Re:Open Source Calendar? on Mozilla.org Announces Open Source Calendar · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna make mine call every day friday and a mandatory 5:00 bar event on each and every friday.

    On second thought, this would suck, cuz you'd never get a weekend off.

    HMMM.....

  2. Re:Now after this, all mozillla needs is.... on Mozilla.org Announces Open Source Calendar · · Score: 1

    I was thinking, this has the potential of being a replacement for outlook. Outlook is the ONLY thing keeping me tied to MS at work. I'm sure that somone could kludge this piece of software to get it to interact with exchange server.

    On a side note... mozilla's bloat factor is getting pretty high. I'm glad you can get the source and compile it browser only.

    Pat

  3. Re:Whoops. Three years late. on From Gang Bangers to Web Developers? · · Score: 1

    did you look at it? it's my bookmarks on the go. I USED to have a redirect there to my domain, but I just switched to LFS and havn't got apache/ANY webserver up yet.

  4. Re:Whoops. Three years late. on From Gang Bangers to Web Developers? · · Score: 1

    This is what I was wondering. Why would they want to flood an already saturated(or near saturated) market. There are already 12 Ma and Pa web developers out there using Frontpage that make it hard for professional web developers like myself to find business. Businesses that want quality web pages and know what they want come to us, but we never get any small projects because of groups like this.

    /pointless rant

    Pat

  5. Re:I loved that book on The Space Child's Mother Goose · · Score: 1

    My Favorite: (not sure if it's in this book)

    There once was a lady named sprite;
    Who traveled much faster than light.
    She left one day,
    In a relative way;
    And returned the Previous night.

    Pat

  6. Re:Read the article, and look at the screenshots. on ATI Drivers Geared For Quake 3? · · Score: 1

    not defending ATI here, but I see this as being more likely with ATI's track record as drivers go:

    They detect that quake 3 is running, and call a special sub section/function that works better with Quake 3. Unfortunately, the fact that the coder had had like 16 beers that day, he committed a typo somewhere and misplaced a decimal point(always missing someting mundane like that) which 'accidentally' drops the quality in Q3. Unfortunately, he was so wasted he couldn't see the picture difference. Once he sobers up in 4-5 months, he'll fix is.

    Pat

  7. Sounds not bad on Tech Heavyweights and the SSSCA · · Score: 1

    don't get me wrong, I'm all against this sort of standardization and regulation, but at least this way there'll be a standard copy protection to break that won't(shouldn't) be lossy as compared to macrovision encodings which can cause picture(and now sound) quality to suffer on some hardware.

    Pat

  8. Re:Battery Life on Peer-to-Peer Cellular · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if this was a service that was turned on only in emergencies, you wouldn't have that problem. HOPEFULLY, whatever was causing the cell phones not to work, would be resolved in less than a couple of days. This is just being looked at so that, in event of the apocolypse arriving, you can call your friends in another time zone and give them fair warning.

  9. Re:Spelling police! on Wanted: Turn-Key 10-Node Beowulf Cluster · · Score: 1

    copy and paste... what I did for my sig. I don't fix other peoples typoEs. I'm knot a secratarie

  10. Re:What is turn-key? on Wanted: Turn-Key 10-Node Beowulf Cluster · · Score: 1

    I think it'd take 2 boxes, cuz you'd need to keep the power cables and ethernet cables separate(and those DAMMED user manuals)

    ...now turn to page 557 of the idiots guide to configuring a beowulf cluster...

  11. Re:Still no exchange klone on ZDNet Reviews KOffice · · Score: 1

    pretty far...

    being forced into the win2k environment at work, I have to have exchange open all the time. one of the groupware features is that you can share your mailbox with other people. The most commonly used feature, at where I work, is the calendar. Everyone in the company can look at my calendar and see if I'm available to meet with a client or for a meeting. They can then schedule a meeting on my calendar, adding specifics I might need, and all I have to do is click accept.

    I must admit, it's quite nice.

  12. Re:Wrong on Diablo 2 Items Bringing Home the Bacon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because all of these places reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. It's their choice as to whether or not they'll serve you, and if you don't play by their rules, they won't serve you.

  13. Re:Improved Speed? on Mindstorms' Next Generation · · Score: 2, Funny

    you suck(as in you live in a vaccum) it's actually much slower than that, like 299792457 meters per second through air.

  14. Re:German News Magazine Spiegel bought it on Trojan Room Coffee Pot Auctioned Off · · Score: 1

    why do you think they sold the coffee pot? They realized the better use for the camera.

  15. Re:Nyquist and sinc on Macrovision CD Protection Bypassed · · Score: 1

    ouch, quantum mechanics flash back..... no, must not fourier.... NOOOOOO

  16. Re:Yup, there really are that many bad admins... on On the Definition of a Hostile Network Connection? · · Score: 1

    lol, I read the man page for the kill command at work today just to find out the proper way to do a bumper sticker I'm making... only problem is the man page on my system doesn't agree with my kill's internal help.

    The bumper sticker is:

    #kill -e end_user

    the man page said -e allowed for killing by process name...

    anyways... enuf rambling...

  17. Re:Not quite the first book in the genre on Loki Publishes "Programming Linux Games" · · Score: 1

    Eh, I still prefered the hack and slash approach I had to use to program on my C64(actually it was the vic-20 clone)

    Finally, writing a LONG text adventure prog, I ran out of memory :-(

  18. Re:Old Man Rant on Loki Publishes "Programming Linux Games" · · Score: 1

    xtris is a FAR more recent program than those others. xtris wasn't really included until you included X, and that wasn't until you actually got the distributions on CDs. It was a pain in the pre-1.0.86 days to get X working, much less a game in X.

    and that's my 3 sentances worth

  19. Re:Mozilla shrinking on Mozilla 0.9.2 Storms Out The Gates · · Score: 1

    The installer under linux(at least a GLibC2 version of it) does just that.

  20. DAVE Screwing us on this. on Hacking DirecTV over TCP/IP using Linux · · Score: 1

    I see this biting all the Emulators of the world in the ass cuz Dave is gonna be cracking down and working harder in stopping emulators. (IE, shut off the H stream)

  21. Re:Perfect medium on Classic Atari Games for Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Hey, nibbles in just a wormy rip-off. I had wormy for my Tandy TRS-80

  22. Re:Remember the days on Cheaters Sometimes Prosper · · Score: 1

    It'd be much less expensive to use a smart card. (Same technology DSS uses)

    DSS streams still havn't been cracked because of the crazy stuff the chip on the card does. Card readers are readily available for serial ports for less than $20. I don't see any reason one of these couldn't be taylor made to decrypt the inbound packets.

  23. Re:What about RF signals tresspassing in my home? on Make Way for Fiber · · Score: 1

    and in doing so, you either killed the cat, or turned it into a pile of rotting flesh....

  24. Re:Will probably need a new interface... on Ergonomic Laptop Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    I thought the reasoning behind the qwerty layout was to spread out commonly paired keys, such as st and th so that the arms wouldn't get stuck on the way up.

    on a side note...

    I use dvorak anyways...

  25. Re:liquid nitrogen and savings on Superconducting Power Cable in Detroit · · Score: 1

    if you drop 20%, and then pick it back up, you're increasing by 25%.... think of it this way....

    you have a 100 cents
    you drop 20 cents (20%)
    you now have 80 cents
    you pick up the 20 cents (25% of 80 cents)
    you've just increased by 25%

    that is where the 25% comes from.... of course, I doubt that your impedence will ever actually reach zero. but people will get close enuf(superconductors) that % loss in negligible....

    just me 2 bits