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  1. So it comes down to Xing's ULA? on DVD CCA Applies for Restraining Order · · Score: 1

    Are the user license agreements valid in Norway?

  2. I will not be buying from Amazon this season... on Richard Stallman Calls for Amazon Boycott · · Score: 1
    I am working on a website the could eventually be in competition w/ a portion of Amazon's site, and I really don't think we should be limited in our use of 'Cookies'.

    Also, BN.com has a better delivery service in NYC. They deliver it within 24hrs via bike messenger! At no additional charge. (But I have to use two clicks to check out!!!)

  3. The other's have affiliate programs as well. on Richard Stallman Calls for Amazon Boycott · · Score: 2

    There are other better affiliate programs out there. As I recall, A1Books.com had
    a pretty good deal. And the computer books were often a better price then AMZN.

  4. I would agree. on Cyberterrorism Article in Jane's is Available · · Score: 1
    The original Slash dot post says that they will attribue your comments..

    And the bottom of all the pages here says "All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster"

  5. Re:How does 'mount' work now? on Samba 2.06 Released · · Score: 2
    the new syntax is

    mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //foo/test /data/test

    which seems to work better then the previous version... Though i do notice a delay now between when the comand completes and when the file system is actually mounted..

  6. More Halloween comics... on A Sysadmin's Worst Halloween Fears · · Score: 3

    Webcomics.com is running a special Halloween Comics Section featuring comics with halloween related storylines and all sorts of crossovers between different internet comics. It's pretty fun. All of these are internet only as well.

  7. Silly me.. this is a feature. on Open Source E-commerce Engine Announced · · Score: 1

    a poor attempt at humor if you ask me..

  8. Bug w/ Minivend... on Open Source E-commerce Engine Announced · · Score: 1

    I was just checking out the site..

    I put THE STARRY NIGHT, Van Gogh in my basket...
    @ $20,000,000.00

    Then, I put a quantity of 2 for it. ( I wanted to see if it really is one of a kind! )

    MiniVend retotaled it to 2 X $400... for a total
    of $800.00

    Quite a sale for two of them.... It suppose this
    is what you get for writing it in Perl.

  9. My concern about switching to Dvorak.. on Carpal Tunnel Surgery? · · Score: 1
    I have to admit that the idea of increasing my typnig speed is very apealling. However, I have concerns about how it is layed out for Programmers. It seems like my needed special characters are farther away... like { [ ] } and most of all /.. They are all moved up to the left.

    So, how have any programmers here dealt with that? Have you customized your most popular keys to be better placed?

  10. Bowie the first? on Bowie Distributes New Album Using SDMI Format · · Score: 1
    "David Bowie is one of the most technologically well informed and culturally progressive artists in the world. It is only natural that he be the first musician to bring his art to his fans in this manner. "


    Whatever.

  11. Wow. Big news. on 512-bit RSA Key Cracked. · · Score: 1

    This is much different from the Distributed.net project where they are trying brute force. With
    this crack, they intelligently factored the public key. And it didn't take them that long either. I would imagine that there are some systems out there right now that could do this in what, a day or less?

  12. This method does not need the message to break key on 512-bit RSA Key Cracked. · · Score: 1
    Just my interpertation...

    It didn't try to crack the message by trying every possible key, then looking at the resulting data to see if it was real.

    Instead, it actually factored the public key to find the secret. With that info, it could get your mangled message, which would be much easier to crack.

  13. If it sounds too good to be true,it's probably ... on 911 Calls Linux · · Score: 1

    Linux.

    I think that would be a great slogan.

  14. Palm V is great for reading books. on Mainstream Books for Palm Pilots · · Score: 1
    I have already read several, and I have only had it for 3 weeks. Where do I get the time? In places where I didn't have it before! In places where I can't carry several books around with me.

    Screen - Everyone says is is much much better on the Palm V. I have to agree. I have no problem with it. I can read off it for hours.

    Batteries - They are now rechargeable.

    Software - I am using a program called CSpotRun (freeware) that is fine for the task. It even lets me rotate the text. (It's great rotated 90 ccw, I hold it very comforatably)

  15. I think they are going in the wrong direction here on The Future of KDE · · Score: 1
    I don't want a desktop because it looks good. I want a desktop that will help me work faster and easier. I also don't want my desktop to get in the way. Do you ever notice how much screen space some of this buttons take up? How much cpu it takes to render the whole screen with bitmapped buttons. It's sick.

    Granted, many of the things they are doing is helpful, application interoperability, ease of use, etc. But until they get on the track of making a better desktop, people will be sticking to windows desktops.

  16. Mine is Blazing.. Must be your app server... on Ask Slashdot: Which Java Applications Server? · · Score: 1
    I am coding a ton of stuff in Java in Netscape's Application Server, and let me tell you, it is Blazingly fast. I have benchmarked a few apps against the same code in other app servers and languages (including c++) and nothing else could beat it (c++ tied).

    I think the trick here that Netscape uses is that the most important libaries: Database, templating, i/o, caching, etc, are all written in c++. Also, we are using a JIT compiler, and the classes are cached between sessions.

    Now, if only there were a open source version of this. All the speed of native, and yet I can code in Java!

  17. putting programmers to work... on German Free Software Group asks Gov't Say No to MS · · Score: 1

    yeah. but the US is suppose to be short on
    programmers. By spending more on commercial
    software, you are actually spending money to
    bring programmers into the country. If that
    made any sense.

    Regardless. Cutting spending w/ out cutting
    services is what they should be about. How
    can they be against that?

  18. A Model for other complaints about Govt spending? on German Free Software Group asks Gov't Say No to MS · · Score: 2

    I like the rational way that they laid this out.
    Gov't shouldn't be speding money on stuff that is
    available for free. How many other goverment programs feed the evil giant? Can we use a similar attack any of those?

  19. Don't sub vocalize! on Ask Slashdot: Technical Speed Reading Courses? · · Score: 1

    (sorry for the rhyme)

    Most people will sound out or sub vocalize as
    they read. Believe it or not, but you don't have
    to do this to understand what you're reading. Stop sub vocalizing, and you double your reading speed.

  20. "I will cook this gazelle on the keyboard." on Innovative IBM Modem Usage · · Score: 1

    how do they come up with this stuff?

  21. 100 up & downs. on Linux on the Vomit Comet · · Score: 1

    up to 50 minutes of weightlessness, but you make
    it up in 1.8 g sessions. very sick indeed.