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  1. Re:you didn't read the article on Top SciTech Gifts 2002 · · Score: 1

    There was one in Hemos' comment too, I guess it is some kind of disguised advertising ;-)

    They however forgot to advertise for MacOSX !

    (Note to the mod, this *is* on-topic and this is humor.)

  2. Copyright infringment ? on Phoenix To Change Name · · Score: 1

    How the hell ?
    Phoenix is not a BIOS but a damn sexy browser, do Phoenix X plan to sell a BIOS-based web browser ?

  3. Re:Anyone still using Mozilla? on Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    Hey, I didn't know this, as I stayed with 0.3 (it works without any problem for me and I don't have enough time to deinstall, update reinstall it...). :-)

  4. Re:Anyone still using Mozilla? on Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, as Phoenix is a cut-down version of Mozilla, it means we shall soon "type ahead" with it too.
    BTW, Mozilla is better for those who also want an integrated mailer, we're not discussing the very same app, here...

  5. Re:what for on Bringing Back the PDP8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    RT11, of course :-)

  6. What if... on Another Critical Microsoft Hole · · Score: 1

    What if I deactivate ActiveX controls to avoid this one to be operated ?

  7. Quite obscure problem, actually. on SpamArchive.org Launched · · Score: 2

    Most obvious is that usually spam is personalized, that is the recipient's mail address (or part of it) often appears either in the subject or in the body. So will this archive store every variant of every spam, or just a 'global' model ?

    I guess this could be easy to implement some "almost identical" recognition filter but the problem would be that somebody forwarding a funny spam to somebody else (hey, haven't you kept your very first "herbal alternative to viagra spam" spam message in order to show it to somebody ? ... ok, neither did I.) might be listed as a spammer so, there should be some re-occurrence filter to ensure that a given "spammer" doesn't send a given spam-model more than once to more than once recipients but here, once again, we may face some situation where everybody could be hurt by such restrictions.
    I personally consider the spam problem as overhyped as it doesn't take me more than 15 seconds a day to eliminate unwanted messages.
    I have more problem in real life with these advertisers who dump their pizza-prices in my mailbox but here, in Switzerland, every one pay for every garbage he dumps.

  8. Re:not too far away... on IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer · · Score: 1

    Well you can still carry half more in your pocket now for less than 300 bucks now...

  9. Re:not too far away... on IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer · · Score: 1

    The nanodevices based in my bloodpath will know how to make my body eliminate the excessive kilogramms. :)

  10. not too far away... on IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We will have such chips implanted into our brains in order to reason even quicker, then we will develop newer chip that will help design newer computers that will miniaturize themselves as new implants that will help us...
    etc.
    How far are we from learning kung fu from an optical disk ? :)

  11. of course on DMCA bad for Apple Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple is known as *the* creative people's platform, look at how many sound engineers use Logic or ProTools on Mac, enumerate Avid's video users, Photoshop's/MacOS hardcore DTP'ists...
    Now if they can't use some existing copyrighted work in private to flex their creative muscles, they won't be creative anymore...

    (I wrote "is known as", it doesn't mean I actually endorse this vision)

  12. [Cat got your tongue?] ? on COMDEX Opens with Smallest Attendance Ever · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry but I just don't get it :
    You may reject my story which was as stupid as this one, which is your right, your site too.

    But hyping some uninformational thing is just over my perception.

    Why do you publish this if you don't care more than the others who didn't visit it ?

    Are you sponsored by some [aspirin|paracetamol] company ?

    BTW, my story was about that guy who wants to offer Bush a PS2 to pass his nerves on...
    At least I found it funny, you dfidn't, but according to your comment, you didn't find this one either...

  13. filter on Email (As We Know It) Doomed? · · Score: 2

    Be honest, besides some hotmail addresses that I use to register to some news sites, I don't get that much spam, maybe 8 a day...
    I added some filters in Mozilla, since then, what I know falls in specific directories while potential spam falls in the inbox, making it quite easy to delete, unless it appears to be legitimate *or* interesting (I actually found one spam to be interesting...).
    Anyway, email is like telephone : you may still get wrong calls but it should not make me consider this medium as doomed...
    I have^H^Hd more issues regarding web popups or onLeave( window.open...) stuff (Thanks Mozilla, it won't happen much, now).

  14. Short advice on Review: Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets · · Score: 2

    but if you haven't read the book, why do you care about the movie?

    I just wanted to get a clue : why was ti so overhyped and so on.
    Actually I love the ambiences, the story is quite entertaining and I think the 2nd one (I saw it in switzerland yesterday night : we were around midnight, 300 adults in a movie theater :-) was better than the first.
    I for sure will go and watch the following when it's out :-)
    But I still don't want to read the book...

  15. Re:well of course on Publishers' Attack Free Government Sites · · Score: 1

    I guess there has been some moderation abuse over there, it rathers sounds like irony and if it desserved moderation at all, I'd rather give it a +1 funny than some moronic -1 flamebait...

  16. dyslexy on Microsoft on Security: We'll Break Your Apps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We'll Break Your Apps

    Phew!
    I first read We'll Break Your Ass !

  17. quick thoughts on In Stores Soon: Perishable DVDs · · Score: 2

    I guess DVD rental prices will however increase...

    I'd however appreciate to have such a burner at home, in case I want to send music to some recording label...

  18. not exactly 2.5 years ago, re-read slashdot ! on In Stores Soon: Perishable DVDs · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Michael wrote: "We noted this 2.5 years ago."

    It was actually less than a year ago (Feb 8th 2002)...

  19. Re:No! on EFF Urges Support for Rep. Boucher's DMCRA · · Score: 2, Informative

    I guess you should carefully re-read my message, I wasn't giving some assertion but rather some comparison.
    However established a law could be, it won't resist to the crowd's anger, be it in the US or wherever else.

  20. lack of info on Reducing the TCO of IT with Linux? · · Score: 2

    so what does that mean in the sense of hardware, software, middleware and management impact?

    OK, you have not actually told us what groupware your company runs (Lotus should be okay as IBM has worked upon it, for Exchange, you may take a look to Xandros).

    Also, What typical activities are you performing ?
    Programming ?
    For which target ?

    If this "just" consists of deploying yet-another-billing system, I guess it is still possible if you know how to interface the telecom switches using the GCC...

    Now, for DTP purposes, you'll have a problem as Gimp doesn't support CYMK (well, it didn't the last time as checked) and Gyve or Killustrator are just too far from Adobe's products.

    For web programming, this could do, except that I am not sure there is a GNU package aimed at replacing FlashMX... OK, still get Java, though.

    No, please, be more explicit regarding what is to be done using Linux.

  21. No! on EFF Urges Support for Rep. Boucher's DMCRA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't fight an unlegal law by promoting its opposite : you'd end with tons of legal imbroglioes and each situation would be as messy as it could be...
    I suggest people contact their representatives to cancel the DMCA instead.

  22. Photoplane on Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 2

    There's also Photoplane who published similar works (taken from a motorized model plane) on GNUArt.net

  23. Re:as soon as this evening... on Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump · · Score: 1

    Actually : "so that it won't detect itself..."

  24. Re:phew? --- just how carefully did you read? :-) on Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what I meant is that the backdoor will hide itself but not eventual other backdoors residing in others trojanized programs...
    Thanks for your clarification, though :)

  25. Re:Impressive! (Was: as soon as this evening...) on Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump · · Score: 1

    apt-get is nice, but its not the solution to every problem

    I didn't mean the opposite :)
    I am a sysadmin and apt-get just helps me a lot by updating whatever I forget to update.

    Now, of course, I have to monitor my servers, harden my config, etc.
    But still, it is a wonderful tool that applies in the current situation :)