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  1. Re:Separating Content from Presentation a Good Thi on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check your favourite HTML tutorial.
    Yes, good HTML is valid XML.
    Unlike your example, which is not even valid XML. But that's beside the point.

  2. Re:Separating Content from Presentation a Good Thi on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This is a probably a troll, but I'll byte.

    You seem to forget that, in the context of office programs such as Word, the 'content' is the sum of 'text' + 'formatting' + 'presentation'. You need all 3, or you do not have a workable document. Having 'text' only is not enough. We are not talking about being able to read a .doc file on your scrollable cellphone screen here. We are talking about interoperability between all major office suite producers.

  3. Re:My earlier plea for sanity on SCO Sues IBM for Sharing Secrets with Unix and Linux · · Score: 1
    <A.C. quote>
    A llama's anus doesn't smell. It has an odor (one that I am not familiar with), but it doesn't smell. Its nose does the smelling.
    </A.C. quote>

    --
    Delirium Tremens
    (shamelessly bringing more visibility to this illarious post from an A.C.)

  4. X Terminals on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 1

    Why is it such a pain to run multiple X Servers on a single Linux box?

  5. Re:Google on Dealing with Employers Who Perform Credit Checks? · · Score: 1
    You probably meant />

    <sarcasm/> ;-)

  6. Sie of FLAC files? on FLAC Joins The Xiph Family · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just curious. How many gigs did you need to store your 325 music CDs in FLAC files?
    (I mean 'gigs' as in Gigabytes, not the head-banging kind ;)
    I am actually more than curious, I am very interested to know. I have a 500+ CD collection that I have never ripped. I think it's time to begin backup-ing everything digitally, but I can't decide between mp3 and ogg (and I don't want to rip more than once either). So FLAC looks like the right thing for me. Just wondering about the size of files.

  7. Create own CA + install as trusted CA in browser on Self-Regulating SSL Certificate Authority? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just create your own CA certificate and then write an html page for Netscape and another one for IE so that it loads your CA certificate into the browser's certificate database.
    Then use your CA certificate to issue as many certificates as you like. As long as the DN matches the hostname or IP of your HTTPS server, your users' browser will play along happily.

  8. Re:CVS, huh? on Remote Root Exploit in CVS · · Score: 1

    You are out of you mind, budy. We are talking about a root exploit through CVS, not a mere CVS privilege escalation issues. I can tell you that the guys who gain root access through this exploit will have more interesting things to do then put some new freaking source code into a CVS tree, you fool. First, that code would have to compile, and secondly, the malicious change would be detected by the component maintainer after a mere diff or check out.
    You don't know anything about software development and/or exploits, do you?

  9. Re:Anti-Spam Activist Threatened on Spammer Gets Spam Mailed · · Score: 2

    It seems like the tag of black car can be read from one of the pictures, no?
    Should be an easy job for the police...

  10. Re:antitrust anyone? on Microsoft to Buy Rational and/or Borland? · · Score: 2

    I doubt it. The authorities might understand the issue when Quicken is involed, but I doubt they have any understanding of what MS buying Borland would mean to the industry.

  11. I don't buy it on Microsoft to Buy Rational and/or Borland? · · Score: 2

    Somebody must be playing rumors to have the stock go up or something.
    The truth is, Microsoft may be interested in acquiring Borland, but Borland is most probably not interested in being sold to Microsoft. Anyway, if it was even a remote possibility, Oracle at the very least would step in.

  12. 1-800-GET-A-CLUE on When Profiling Goes Wrong · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have remarks like yours and mine some usefullness?

  13. Re:Don't use it. on PINE Releases 4.50 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, it allows to render BOLD html text as plain text.

  14. Evolution in motion on PINE Releases 4.50 · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... watching it change is like watching evolution in motion.

    Hum, not quite yet. But, it is definitely catching up.

  15. Re:so... on NASA Cancels Moon Hoax Book · · Score: 1
    Uh, why does the chicken cross the road?

    To get to the other side, maybe?

  16. Re:Performance isn't most important on Another J2EE vs .NET Performance Comparison · · Score: 1

    Whiner.

  17. Re:New Job on ICANN Eliminates Karl Auerbach's Seat · · Score: 2

    Ah! I hadn't seen that one yet today.

  18. Re:What a rambling post!! on Kramnik and Deep Fritz Draw, Tied Before Final Game · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I tried to run it through a the grammer and spell checker on Deep Blue but it crashed.

    Obviously.

  19. Re:Second Best Quote on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 1

    A not 100% pure Java solution was exactly what the problem was asking for: interoperability. If you want to stay 100% pure Java and without using network resources, you end up writing a native code or VBScript emulator in Java. Good luck.

  20. Re:Second Best Quote on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 2

    Sun's Java over DCOM? You must be playing with Tiger or something because I never saw anything like that. There used to be a lot of vaporware talk about RMI-over-DCOM, but I am not aware of anybody who actually managed to implement that. Yes, it certainly can be done. No, nobody wants to do it.

  21. Re:Second Best Quote on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 2

    You might want to have a second look at the IIOP support in Java, or even at JNI, which allows you to call portable C code compiled on many different platforms. Or if you are into ActiveX, you can also use an OLE bridge.
    So, who says Java is not interoperable? Hmm?

  22. All this time I thought they were whisky-powered on World's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Island · · Score: 3, Funny

    Else, why would they have so many distilleries on that little piece of land?

  23. Re:What's new? on Red Hat Linux 7.3 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    Alright, it is probably a typo in their release notes. The full package list says Mozilla 0.9.9 . Way better.

  24. What's new? on Red Hat Linux 7.3 Released · · Score: 2
    Mozilla 0.9.2 !?
    Isn't that a little conservative?
  25. Re:No License? on Pay Dirt in Scanned Driver's Licenses · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ah, it happened to me once, but the other way around. I was at a grocery store in California buying beer. The cashier asks for my ID and I show her my U.S. Georgia driver license. She then tells me that she is sorry but she is not allowed to sell alcohol to out-of-State resident.
    WTF?
    I eventually walked out of there with the beer because I happened to also have my Belgian passport with me. That was ok.
    Go figure. It has probably to do with rural superstition or something. Don't deprive Belgians of their beers!
    Could get dangerous. The world might stop spinning . An asteroid might hit the Earth.