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  1. Re:I cant say I blame them on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 1

    i think that every tool should have a file that has a complete list of all settings used hidden somewhere (including defaults) i don't care if i i have to set KdeVersion3.2installed = Yes and Skin like it!! or HKCU\Programs\Mubleco\geewhizzfree\version1.3.45.4 2\ OSversion yes im a dinosaur with windows98se but TELL ME SOMEWHERE

  2. Re:Because of your marketting dept, that's why on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 1

    okay so maybe what we should do is 1 develope a list of freeware and or FLOSS tools to fix the problem (of course coding as needed) 2 during the installs set them to autoupdate as much as possible 3 tell the users that "these programs have been installed for your protection if i have to redo them because you uninstalled them or broke them my price doubles" so how about it???

  3. Re:No, no no. on Microsoft Collaborates On Child Porn Buster · · Score: 1

    Say you do shoot someone in the head in the privacy of your own home. Are you somehow magically safe from the law because nobody has the right to know or determine what you do in your God Given Constitutionally Approved Super Duper Privace? No. ------- Actualy the default rule for the USC is allow all so Us Yankees do a Right to Privacy. As to the shooting somebody while in MY HOME it depends on where MY HOME is and why. In Some parts a thief roll some very heavy dice when doing a "job" since The Gospel acording to Smith & Wesson is part of the local law

  4. Re:Balance? on The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    i would bet that "the war you never have to fight" is one "The Art of War" considers won just follow the logic its become public that "we" have 13 inch MAVs with x stats so NOT YET PUBLIC do we have ones that are 1.3inch or maybe 13MM or ... makes you wonder doesn't it

  5. Re:Or in other words. on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 1

    actually Bonzi Buddy is one of the "SHOOT USER ON SIGHT" things (i will see your troll and raise you one BOFH) Side note what (free and or FLOSS) tools are good for a triage kit (goal is to at minimum get the system working enough to get the data off)

  6. Re:Here's another hint... on New Technique for Tracking Web Site Visitors · · Score: 1

    As far as cookies go, at the "bodega on the corner" the "guy who works there" writes down *in his own records* when you came and what you bought. He doesn't give you a piece of paper and ask you to file it in your records and then bring it back to him next time you visit. ---- and those customer loyalty cards are??

  7. Re:Not actively deleting cookies on New Technique for Tracking Web Site Visitors · · Score: 1

    One thing that i would like to see is some sort of LIVECD (small footprint type with a useful menu) that has 1 Read/write to NTFS (even if you need to include the MS files to do so) 2 A Virus scanner that does Windows 3 An Adware removal program running under Linux 4 some sort of Windows Registry Program that can be used to yank keys out(again hijacking the MS files if needed 5 Writeback to the CD like puppy does (used to update the defs for the 2 scanners) So does this exist and if not can the Slash Collective make this happen?

  8. Re:How to properly package for linux on How to Make Easy-to-Package Linux Software · · Score: 1

    a few things i would like to see 1 dump a symlink to the docs into say ~/docs 2 have actual useable documentation 3 if you rewire an ap to move files change the docs to match 4 have some sort of "create full settings file" switch that makes a .#apname with ALL settings (including defaults) or just do so on first run 5 make the most probalble use of your ap have the shortest command line ie apname

  9. Re:Not news! on Microsoft Silently Backs Favorable Presentation at RSA · · Score: 1

    what is really needed is a report with 1 a large number of more or less identicle systems ie CPU within X to X+Y ghz ram @ Z HD of type W sized at ~V 2 latest public versions of MS software and a mtching set of GPL software (with latest patch set for both 3 a set of POPs (dsl cable t? lines) scattered about then boot a pair up at the POP and see what kind of kill times we get the variables would be 1 Pure MS Pure GPL and of course server and client only 2 location and time of day Any orgs want to do the test??

  10. Re:As an owner of many buildings, I take issue on Grafedia Elevates Graffiti To Art · · Score: 1

    as a non owner of property i would say you are just being nice to just meta refresh these twits to the pen some folks might take a more direct approach. ie make them try tagging without use of one or more fingers

  11. Re:This is why US is waaay behind in cellular tech on Major Hangups Over the iPod Phone · · Score: 1

    want to know the secret ringtone (sprint pcs) files are setup like Content-Type: audio/MIDI Content-Name: #ringtone name Content-Version: #number Content-Vendor: #vendor name Content-URL: http://#servername/path/filename.midi Content-Size: #size in bytes of file as long as the file is named *.gcd and is served as text/x-pcs-gcd you are good to go

  12. Re:Well... on Clash of the GPL and Other IP Agreements? · · Score: 1

    it might me in your best interest to get out of there before the Nazgul starts picking your company's flesh apart with pliers. ---- you mean the 2 or 3 that are not being used to "adjust" SCO right about now?

  13. Re:Good LORD it's got some useless stuff! on KDE 3.4 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    lets see 1 stargazers 2 wiccen/druids 3 wherewolves 4 The BOFH (and any other OFH type) 5 some nutjobs 6 most nocturnal folks 7 anybody that does stuff near the ocean shall i go on??

  14. Re:What next? on NZ Business Fined For Out-of-Date Website · · Score: 1

    Consider this a fully GPLed method for preventing this problem 1 have the way to access the server written down (insist on FTP access you can setup a link as ftp://username:password@yourdomain.tld if you have to get that bare metal 2 get a copy of open office or another office thing that writes html in a sane manner (NOT MS OFFICE) 3 write up your stuff and then save as html files (insert script/program to create the links) 4 upload to server (note if you have the server "in house" you can just save the html to the server root) 5 profit! 6 edit as needed 7 goto 4 Note if you can justify having the server on site it also helps if you ever need to shutdown the server FAST

  15. Re:Nonsense on NZ Business Fined For Out-of-Date Website · · Score: 1

    no that would be called bit of history since most likely the models sold would be vastly different and of course the 73 catalogue would be obsoleted by the 74 cat which would be obs by the 75 ...

  16. Re:Lengths of Wire...? on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 1

    The machine was also quite dangerous - if the tape broke, it would hurl fragments of steel that bore a not-so-passing resembelence to razor blades. --- so that would be a "passing through you" resemblence to Razor Blades?

  17. Re:Jeez.. on The Repercussions of Blogging · · Score: 1

    Easy disclose only when you have the shield of 1 the company is going supernova anyway 2 Some sort of TLA group is doing the asking So for example SCO is about to go boom. As an employee if the SEC or the FBI or the DOJ is doing the asking go for it. Volenteering the info would be bad.

  18. Re:The manager must know enough to know who knows. on Non-Technical Managers in a Technical Company? · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is the manager must have enough technical knowledge to understand very well who has more technical knowledge than he, -- this is known as the just enough to be dangerous line (also put can talk to the "real techs" but knows that s/he shouldn't try to do anything)

  19. Re:More important: people vary on Taking Care of Mobile Patients · · Score: 1

    Every doctor should have tattoed to their arm (under the medic alert stuff) Always Treat Who not What!! The numbers will vary due to who (marathon runner, dancer, cumputer tech, gardener) even when you limit to a given age range

  20. Re:Coverage = quality? on FUD-Based Encyclopedias · · Score: 1

    actually due to the limitations of science (repeatable ,measureable ect) neither evolution nor creation can be called theories (proper name is Model) Wild guessing > Model > Theory > Fact

  21. Okay so does that mean the Drakes will.. on Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva · · Score: 1

    Pick up a few good mirrors on this side of the pond? Im wondering if it will take until Christmas for me to get my hands on a 10.2 OE DVD. (yes i do know that it will be a month or so for CE) First On Topic Post!

  22. Re:Toner vs Ink on Lexmark's DMCA-Abuse Case Coming To An End · · Score: 1

    i suppose if somebody actually came to you and could give you 1 Panchrome hex 2 the correct base "media" 3 a useable volume you would drop dead in fright?

  23. Re:now, to try and get tech favor again on Lexmark's DMCA-Abuse Case Coming To An End · · Score: 1

    part of the problem can be summed up as WinPrinter (just like a WinModem) part of the hardware is actually in the software (try this: if you can find the wheel that moves the ink cartridge back and forth jam a small screwdriver into it) or if you haven't yet do a full and formal uninstall of the printer program nuke the driver and then reload (bonus points if you do this from a new download)

  24. Re:platform? on Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet · · Score: 1

    Want to make a bet that the shadowman on the brochure means that somewhere inside this company is a "In case of MicroSoft s*ing us break glass" copy of the source code so that they could roll out a Fedora/RedHat version of this very quickly? or how about a there is a actual install cd hidden somewhere bet?

  25. Re:How was this supposed to actually work? on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    or how about this year 2045 scene The Junior Citizen DataBase is considered GOSPEL as to the "students" matters. High Lord Burrito of the SlashDotStarNetwork finds that some of his members (with 16 digit ids) have found a way to make EMP waves cheaply and "safely". On April 1 2045 in 3000 JC Programming Centers a "medium" scale emp goes off and the local JCDB nodes fry like eggs. Okay so how useful is this tech???