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  1. What everyone else misses... on 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta · · Score: 1

    This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
    and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

    I see a lot of people complaining that MySQL doesn't have this or that and that it's hard to get things implemented in the database engine but I don't see many people saying that they've done anything with MySQL to make it better or make a reproduction that stands on it's own with the features they want.

    It works for me, I've not changed it. So what's your excuse?
  2. Re:Fantasy and reality on Senator Clinton Slams GTA · · Score: 1

    I agree with your point 100% otherwise however...

  3. Re:Fantasy and reality on Senator Clinton Slams GTA · · Score: 1

    Asked him where he heard about that (at school) and dad sent him to his room.

    Funny, I heard about it on CNN. Yeah, I believe it was about midday when they showed it in great detail.

  4. OMG... on Return of the Mac · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It is true.

    Slashdot is a Mac advocacy site!

    I usually hate it when people say this, but it's true!!! Oh, the horror.

  5. Shit? on UN Wants To Regulate Internet · · Score: 1

    no, I said delay movements... /rimshot

  6. Re:Hey why not! on UN Wants To Regulate Internet · · Score: 1

    Not insightful, short-sighted.

    Of course the UN should stay out of Internet business but they should stay in the saving the world business.

    Without a body like the UN to delay movements the world would be a much scarier place for you Americans too...

  7. Thieves even! on TiVo Starts Testing "Pop-up" Ads · · Score: 1

    I can't spiel!!

  8. The smart way. on TiVo Starts Testing "Pop-up" Ads · · Score: 1

    The best way for Tivo to make everyone happy is to provide ads while I fast forward, rewind or do nothing at all.

    I think that they should work out ways to put ads on the device, for their sake, and for our sake. Just let them develop the best ad, the one we barely notice. Then we don't have to put up with so many other "pop-up" ads and we won't be called theives.

    Work smarter, not harder...

  9. Re:First attempts of disruptive innovation? on A9.com with Syndicated Search · · Score: 1

    RTFA, this is pretty big.

    Even if they don't get it working, Google or Yahoo! may just run with the idea.

  10. Re:Advertising on What's Next At Apple · · Score: 1

    To be fair they put them in all sorts of TV shows and movies...

    They are doing this to get people to see them and say "what's that?" or get others to assume that is what all computers look like.

    It's all about recognition. A newbie can pick the Mac out before a Dell or other plain PC.

  11. I guess you don't want to see this: on History Flow Shows How Wiki Articles Evolve · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Extending RSS... on A9.com with Syndicated Search · · Score: 1

    Are you like, serious?

  13. Extending RSS... on A9.com with Syndicated Search · · Score: 3, Informative
    They aren't just making up new rules to existing protocol and expecting the world to change along with them.

    Read:

    OpenSearch RSS 1.0 is an extension to the RSS 2.0 standard, conforming to the guidelines for RSS extensibility as outlined by the RSS 2.0 specification. The intent is to provide a standard format for returning results for a search query. This extension is designed to be backward compatible with existing RSS readers.

    Version 1.0 of OpenSearch RSS adds only three new elements, each within the openSearch XML namespace. Additionally, OpenSearch 1.0 makes recommendations on how existing RSS 2.0 elements can be best used within a search context.

    Future versions of OpenSearch RSS will attempt to maintain backwards compatibility with OpenSearch RSS 1.0. More complicated search extensions to RSS 2.0, such as language selection, encoding type, spelling suggestions, multi-media results, sponsored links, etc, will be done in such a way as to keep OpenSearch RSS easy to implement and interpret.
    Besides, they are only extending the RSS 2.0 namespace... something done quite often. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/23/extendingrss.h tml
  14. Compliance on Blackbox (Finally) Updated · · Score: 1

    Blackbox is not even listed as EWMH compliant yet, what is taking so long?

    http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec

    just kidding...

  15. Re:How about on MS, EU Agree on Name for Windows Sans Media Player · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's GNU/Windows thank you very much!!!

  16. Re:What about Open Source violators? on GPL Violators On The Prowl · · Score: 1

    Hey, I just installed AutoIt3 and I was wondering if we could see a GPL only repository of scripts?

  17. Boring!!! on VoIP Wiretapping · · Score: 2, Informative
  18. Re:Yikes on Bloggers Avoid Federal Crackdown on Speech · · Score: 1
    What scares me is that the first amendment reads:
    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
    I think its crazy we already have law that says I can't say "vote for" or "don't vote for" a candidate. If we can't talk freely about this very fundamental idea, we've already lost. I run a political blog (which is on a little break, we are still trying to put the election behind us) and we would never respect one law created to stifle our free speech rights.

    Face it, the Right controls the legislative branch. If you want to fight this type of legislation at this point you only can take it to court. Break the law, go to court and fight it... follow the rule of law.
  19. What about Windows NT? on Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus · · Score: 1

    The conclusive evidence is that OS X is a flavour of *BSD.

    And Windows NT/2000/XP are "flavours" of VMS and don't stay up for fractions of the time...

  20. Re:VoIP is marketed as land-line on Texas Attorney General Sues Vonage over 911 · · Score: 1

    I think they should be required, but that is just me looking out for the public...

  21. Re:useless info in status bar on New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule · · Score: 1

    * I actually ran 2000 with 64MB on a laptop for some months back around 2000. It actually wasn't too bad as long as I didn't load more than one or two programs, but for any serious work, it wouldn't have been usable.

    I ran 2000 on a 333Mhz K6, 60MB RAM (shared video) and two 4 Gig drives for 8 months with 4 reboots.

    How did it run? Very well when I made the drives dynamic and put everything on these 5400 RPM striped drives. Was a great NTLM (Active Directory) server for 3 machines.

    On a side note: I think that UI is dead ugly. The majority of the window is dark, which has to be changed right away and the widgets *look* a lot smaller than they need to be.

  22. The typical things Slashdot users will say... on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 2, Funny


    ...sleep?

  23. Good? on Yahoo Adds Search for Creative Commons Content · · Score: 1

    If this works at all, which it does... it's DoublePlus Good.

    As a website operator, I've been looking for this type of thing for a long time. Google'n "GNU FDL" doesn't get me the right results and I don't like raping Wikipedia, which I have done and will continue to do.

    I'm always looking for free content that I can edit, improve upon or parody. I wish this could be extended to GPL code and GNU FDL documents as well.

    What? It's like two more radio buttons right?

  24. Re:They "think" it was "sabotaged" ? on EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows · · Score: 1

    Good example - if you embed a visio document into a word document (which you can do really easily) - don't expect the person you send it to have a fully embeded version of vision inside the word doc to add/change the visio drawing. You may even have problems printing a full resolution copy of the drawing inside word without having visio installed.

    I've never had a problem viewing Visio drawings embedded in Word without Visio installed... but a way to ensure everyone is able to view all inline drawings of any type is to install PrimoPDF and print to a PDF...

    Used this on a major school project and this allowed me to print and view anywhere. Also Word 2003 offers a print to TIFF option but you need a gMail account to hold those documents.

  25. Re:Would you like to take a survey? on How the Spam Industry is Sustained · · Score: 1

    Look at the time I entered that shit! Right on time.. only 1 frame dropped!!

    Brilliant!!