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  1. Malaysia's "Apartheid" on Thailand Cracks Down On Twitter, Facebook, Etc. · · Score: 1

    Are you referring to Bumiputera?

  2. Re:So what? on Will Tabbed Windows Be the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 2, Interesting
  3. been there, done that on Microsoft's Free AV App May Be a Non-Starter · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Anti-Virus

    Have we forgot that MS already tried to bundle AV with their OS?

  4. Re:The babe from Firefly? on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    Or Carnivàle.

  5. Floppy disk level of suck on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Floppy disks sucked. There was nothing good about them. Slow, unreliable and ill designed. Fuck them and the free AOL disks they wrote on.

    In the eye of the beholder, I suppose. From HCI expert Donald Norman:

    A simple example of a good design is the 3½-inch magnetic diskette for computers, a small circle of "floppy" magnetic material encased in hard plastic. Earlier types of floppy disks did not have this plastic case, which protects the magnetic material from abuse and damage. A sliding metal cover protects the delicate magnetic surface when the diskette is not in use and automatically opens when the diskette is inserted into the computer. The diskette has a square shape: there are apparently eight possible ways to insert it into the machine, only one of which is correct. What happens if I do it wrong? I try inserting the disk sideways. Ah, the designer thought of that. A little study shows that the case really isn't square: it's rectangular, so you can't insert a longer side. I try backward. The diskette goes in only part of the way. Small protrusions, indentations, and cutouts, prevent the diskette from being inserted backward or upside down: of the eight ways one might try to insert the diskette, only one is correct, and only that one will fit. An excellent design.

  6. Re:Hm, that and DNSsec sucks ass on DNS Inventor Tackles Flaw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://dnscurve.org/index.html

    DJB's take on it, although it's gone quiet...

  7. Re:Odd thing about WoW on Piracy Killing PC Gaming? · · Score: 1


    I bought my copy of WoW for $2 at JB Hi-Fi in Sydney. It was a 14-day trial CD.

    Sounds close enough to what you describe, with $2 being close enough to free.

  8. A little bit of history repeating... on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 1

    We already saw this in 93 or so.

  9. Eh? on Stealing Legos for fun and profit? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's a Legos?

  10. Re:What else would SSH Communications say? on SSH Claims Draw Open Source Ire · · Score: 2, Interesting


    So when will PuTTY have a "start file transfer here" option?

    Oh right, when I write it!!

  11. Re:Duncan FireWheel on Extreme Yo-Yoing · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Freehand style? on Extreme Yo-Yoing · · Score: 1


    Freehand is a relatively new yo-yo style created by Steve Brown and Chris Neff.


    For videos of Steve doing some FH tricks check out Sector Y

  13. Re:QEMM! on Windows 98 Phased Out · · Score: 1


    You mean HMA or High Memory Area, not HMB. That's the first 64k above the 1M mark.

  14. Other Schemes? on Felt Tip Marker Defeats Copy-Protected CDs · · Score: 1

    I've got two CDs with SACEM, SDRM, SACD, SGDL written on it. They will not sync up in my newish ATA CD-ROM (takes about a minute, then the red light just flashes). However, they will get recognised in my 2x SCSI CD-ROM -- go Apple.

    There is what looks like an extra track, but it's right next to the audio. I've tried the felt-tip marked technique, but the CD still fails to read.

    Oh well.

  15. Re:WTF? on Enigma · · Score: 1


    I think he meant "God" as an interjection.

  16. Re:Why? on Shutting Down Worm-Infected Broadband Users · · Score: 1

    why is it an ISPs job to worry? because they're an ISP, not an IAP.

  17. the UK man that was jailed on Maker of Kournikova Gets Wrist Slapped Too · · Score: 1

    he is the black baron, or chris pyle. responsible for SMEG.

  18. Re:LAME will survive on New "mp3PRO" From Fraunhofer, But What About LAME? · · Score: 1

    or maybe even shorten.

    encoder: shorten-3.1.tar.gz
    xmms plugin: xmms-shn

    it's loseless compression, too. this software is somewhat more complete (and mature?) though.