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  1. Re:Jabber Inc on Cisco To Buy Jabber · · Score: 1

    You Sir are an idiot.

  2. Log in, it works on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 1

    I pointed my jabber client to talk.google.com with the JID gmailusername@gmail.com, auth'd with my gmail password and am online. Even added a user to my roster. Word up! -nicfit

  3. Linux and Jabber actually... on Tux Enlisted for U.S. Defense Program · · Score: 1

    As an aside, the FCS project is also making heavy use of Jabber. Word!

  4. What's next? on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is a nightmare of a scenario. He resigns now so that he can be proposed for a supreme court seat later. Suck!

  5. Re:Wanna cyber? on MS Rails On Open Source, Appeals To Gov't Greed · · Score: 1

    LOL! Thanks!

  6. Fedora (Red Hat) is more to blame then CUPS on Open-Source Software and "The Luxury of Ignorance" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let's be honest, all the GUI Wizard issues have nothing to do with CUPS, right? They are part of the Fedora Admin/Setup GUIs and we're likely written by Red Hat. -nicfit

  7. Apple Todo List? on 101 Ways To Save The Internet · · Score: 1

    Umm, how about a Linux version of iTunes. What's holding that back? Duh!

  8. Re:huh? on Best Online Mapping Site? · · Score: 1

    Not anymore. The first incarnation of yahoo maps was indeed powered by MapQuest (side note: I did the integration :)). But once AOL acquired MapQuest all that changed, albeit it took some time. Yahoo did not want to pay AOL for maps. They are competitors in many respects!

  9. Re:Mapquest ~= Yahoo Maps =~ NavTech on Best Online Mapping Site? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    True, the both use Navtech (as well as other data sources depending on the area being rendered), but the routing engines themselves are different. NavTech == data. Although NavTech may have a routing engine, MapQuest does not use it. And up until the AOL acquisition of MapQuest, Yahoo Maps was just a front-end on top of MapQuest technology.

  10. Re:cstdio on Mike and Phani's Essential C++ Techniques · · Score: 1

    haha, that should read "the former", not the "latter". ~. you get it?

  11. cstdio on Mike and Phani's Essential C++ Techniques · · Score: 1

    cstdio and iostream (vs. their .h "equivalents") is not the M$ way of doing things it's the ANSI way. It's just that it's a lagging feature in many compilers. The difference between stdio.h and cstdio is that the latter declares it's symbols in the std namespace when __cplusplus instead of the global namespace. Works in gcc 3...

  12. Appearance does not make the man on Suit Up Or Ship Out? · · Score: 1
    At a previous job a customer wanted some onsite integration help which involved a three week trip to lovely (Not!) Silicon Valley. I happened to be the first choice for this project, because it was my software that was being integrated. I don't think that my boss gave it a second thought to send me despite the fact that I was a t-shirt and shorts only type with dread locks! Nor did the customer care or even appear shocked when I arrived. Let's hope times don't change in this respect!

    One benefit was that since the my tripped spanned two weekends I was expecting to be completely bored. Instead, I got a few invitiations from local employees. One in which involved a stellar house party! Call me crazy, but if I would have been wearing a suit I don't think I would have gotten the invite. At least let's hope not ;)

  13. Fuck tradition on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My girlfriend told me not to WASTE our money and instead we spent three crazy weeks in Hawaii AND had money in the bank.

    God I love her!

  14. Seinfeld on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    At my last job we use a Seinfeld theme. Of course,
    the usual suspects jerry, kramer, elaine (no george though...) were represented. Some of not-so-common
    characters we had we pennypacker, mandelbaum, puddy.
    newman was the mail server of course :)