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  1. Re:Credit Cards Online on Novell CEO Attacked by Cookie Monster · · Score: 1

    Ever look at YOUR receipts when you use a credit card? One from Sun Coast Motion Pictures and one from Papa Murphy's. Used my check card on both of them. Both of them have my Visa number and expiration date printed on them. But I'll bet you NEVER throw your receipts away.

  2. Re:I think the solution is simple on DVD Hack Delays DVD Audio · · Score: 2

    100% non-piratable encryption:

    dd if=/dev/random of=dvd-a_file

    :-)

  3. Re:This is most Odd. :) on Happy Odd Day! · · Score: 1

    Oops... blame the guy who wrote that Perl one-liner. Damn buggy software :-)

  4. Re:Decimal-centric detail on Happy Odd Day! · · Score: 1

    Seems to me the new hexadecennium would start at the end of the year 0x1FFF, which is 0x666 years from 0x1999 :-)

  5. Re:This is most Odd. :) on Happy Odd Day! · · Score: 1

    However, 11191999 is not prime (factors to 7,13,29, and 4241), and neither is 1159591119999 (one factor is 2130917, I didn't wait for the rest :-)

  6. Re:Opera! on A Linux 'Browser War' in the Making? · · Score: 1

    After a quick test... at load time (not loading any documents) Opera 3.6 allocates 6.7 megs, IE 5.0 allocates 6.7 megs, and Netscape 4.6 allocates 14 something. (Adding the mem usage + vm size).

  7. Re:Opera! on A Linux 'Browser War' in the Making? · · Score: 1

    At load time, sure, but it inflates -- fast and it doesn't really free all the memory that it should. The binaries may be smaller but the memory footprint ranks right up there with the "big" boys, especially after a few hours running.

  8. They probably won't sue. on GraphOn Patents Remote Windows Apps Over X · · Score: 1

    If VNC is actually in violation of this patent (ad I doubt it is) it would be a really bad idea for GraphOn to sue the company that now owns VNC... AT&T. If anybody has deeper pockets than M$... :-)

  9. Re:Opera! on A Linux 'Browser War' in the Making? · · Score: 1

    I keep hearing about Opera's small footprint... it doesn't seem to work that way though. 20 megs is more like it.

  10. Re:Lineo's embrowser runs on fbcon... on A Linux 'Browser War' in the Making? · · Score: 1

    I see you work for them... :-)
    Got a screen shot?

  11. Re:names are useful on I Want Names for my Servers! · · Score: 1

    We have a server named "bugs"... it has a nasty habit of living up to its name :-)

  12. Re:How did it freeze so fast? on Wooly Mammoth Extracted Intact From Siberian Ice · · Score: 1

    Well, there's no reason to think they all froze at the same time. But since they are relatively well-preserved (i.e. not just bones) they would have had to have frozen quickly after dying (or more likely, died of freezing), then never thawed or been exposed for other animals to eat them.

    This may happen in your freezer regularly, but I don't think it happens very frequently outside.

  13. How did it freeze so fast? on Wooly Mammoth Extracted Intact From Siberian Ice · · Score: 1

    It's my understanding that hundreds, if not thousands of wooly mammoths have been discovered in Siberia. How is it possible that they all froze so quickly?

    The report says this mammoth died by a pond, because of all the plant life found. So what's the process?

    1. Mammoth is eating plant life by pond and dies of unknown causes.

    2. Twenty feet of snow immediately fall on mammoth before it has a chance to decompose or be eaten by some other creature.

    3. It never thaws.

    4. This happens to hundreds or thousands of different mammoths.

    Does this not make sense to anyone else?

  14. D&D movie doesn't make any sense on D&D Movie on The Way · · Score: 2

    How do you pull an interesting plot out of a Drag & Drop protocol? :-)

  15. Like a bad Douglas Adams script on Finns Build a Virtual Helsinki · · Score: 1

    "The house knows whenever a room is empty," he says, "so there is no reason to circulate the normal level of air, just minimal."

    Anyone else ever seen Shada? "You are dead. Dead people don't require oxygen. Shutting off air supply..."

  16. They need a legal department on "LinuxOne" files for an IPO · · Score: 1

    "To support market development, LinuxOne will place carefully selected software modules in the public domain."

    They're going to remove all patents and copyrights from their code? Not likely. Perhaps they need to run their literature past a good lawyer...

  17. Re:MS Parallels... on NSI E-mail Vunerability · · Score: 1

    I don't really see people flocking away from M$... I'd like to, but I don't. :-)

  18. Re:Read the full patent [pdf] on Doubleclick's Banner Ad Patent · · Score: 1

    But were those GIFs created with properly licensed software? :-)

  19. Re:What PS/2 mouse problem? on XFree86 3.3.5 released · · Score: 1

    Damn, and I thought I knew a lot about Linux... I always wondered what that kernel option did. :-)

  20. Re:What PS/2 mouse problem? on XFree86 3.3.5 released · · Score: 1

    When I used a PS/2 mouse, every now and then when I switched from X to the console and back, the console would freeze and I would only be able to get back in via telnet. I've got my fingers crossed hoping that's the bug they fixed :-)

  21. There's a common thread on Chad Davis May Be the Next Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1

    I think everybody agrees, this schmuck is not going to get a whole hell of a lot of sympathy :-)

  22. Duh... on Chad Davis May Be the Next Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1

    Okay... kid is careless, arrogant and stupid, gets his hands on some scripts, finds some security holes, and intentionally pisses off the FBI.

    And this is news that he's going to be prosecuted? He might as well have walked into their DC headquarters waving a shotgun around. It'll be news when he *is* the next Mitnick.

  23. Re:K-Develop is great. on SGI releases "Jessie" to the Open Source · · Score: 1

    I've written code for Windows much more than for Linux recently... and that looks very familiar.

  24. Re:tilting at windmills on Review: MySQL and mSQL · · Score: 1

    Sure, point out the easy way to do it :-)

  25. Re:mySQL C API on Review: MySQL and mSQL · · Score: 1

    whoops, make that

    st_row = (struct ST_ROW *)row;