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  1. Re:I have used OFOTO.COM on Getting Prints Made From Digital Cameras? · · Score: 2

    Although OFOTO.Com features PC/Mac software on the main page, wading down into the Help pages shows that they do allow uploading with your browser. There's a procedure where you end up selecting the number of images to upload (up to 10) and a page with that number of "Browse" buttons opens. You then select your files and upload up to 10MB.

  2. Some possibilities on Getting Prints Made From Digital Cameras? · · Score: 2
    Many american drugstores and other places have picture scan-and-print machines. I believe I've seen some which also accept floppies.

    You might browse lists of photo sharing sites, such as this one at AmateurPhoto.About.Com. I looked at two, and see that PhotoLoft.Com allows browser or email upload, and there's a "Store" for creating gifts which involve your photos.

    I then looked for a similar page on Yahoo!: Yahoo! ... Photography and found that ImageStation.Com allows several upload methods and has a "Store" which can apparently make prints (based on the price list in the upper left corner). Plenty of unexplored sites there, although many are professionally oriented. And "Yahoo! Photos" requires IE so is useless.

    Note that now that you have the name of several services which meet your needs, you could now search for pages which list all those sites and you might find indexes which list more. Yup, a MetaCrawler search of "Imagestation PhotoLoft" (omit the quotation marks) found several photo service index pages.

  3. Re:Idiot lights on Making Linux Booting Pretty · · Score: 1

    Not new, but I've only noticed the Green/Red init script behavior on Red Hat. Last time I used Slackware (mashing it into a 12MB disk) it was on an industrial computer with a monochrome display and I couldn't see the colors.

  4. 2.4.0 Mascot on Ladies And Gentlemen, Linux 2.4 · · Score: 1

    Is the 2.4.0 mascot a Monolith with a bowtie and a white front?

  5. Re:Openmail from HP on Open Groupware Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Well, make sure to explain to the boss whether anybody can access next month's calendar entries and their saved mail if the license is not renewed. And that you depend upon someone else to decide whether to renew the license. It sounds almost as nice as renting MS Office, except we know you'll definitely have trouble converting Office documents if you decide to use other tools.

  6. Need a True Demoronizer on Patents: Two For The Road (To Hell) · · Score: 2
    Anyone else find it ironic that the press release claiming proprietary vision contains proprietary Microsoft characters that don't look right to some people? Apparently the company's vision is damaged.

    Oh, how silly. They have a Self Test which behaves differently when viewed on different monitors and systems.

  7. Re:Prior Art? on Patents: Two For The Road (To Hell) · · Score: 1

    Hello, Red Green. I like your TV show.

  8. Re:Patently ridiculous RTFA on Patents: Two For The Road (To Hell) · · Score: 3
    Read the article. It's a company press release where they say that they patented the genes. It also says that the patent also covers a test of the genes.

    So a company with one solution to the problem claims to have patent protection on the genes and one genetic test. So you can only get that test from a facility affiliated with this company with a treatment. This should raise a red flag (take my word for it, it's red).

  9. Re:Why should this matter? on Making Linux Booting Pretty · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I'll use suspend/resume as soon as I find the specs for the disk space Toshiba's SUSPEND needs so I can aim it at a safe part of my disk.

  10. Re:Idiot lights on Making Linux Booting Pretty · · Score: 1

    Red Hat emits text lines, followed by a column of Green "[OK]" or Red "[FAILED]".

  11. Tell Your Cable Co About This on All Digital TVs To Include Copy Restrictions · · Score: 2

    CableLabs, the organization that proposed this to the FCC, is funded and controlled by the cable TV companies. Let your local cable TV company know what you think of their spending your money on this stuff.

  12. Re:This is sad. on All Digital TVs To Include Copy Restrictions · · Score: 2

    Broadcasting in digital form does not require that the signal be copy protected. If they're afraid that movie theaters are going to start putting "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" on the big screen, just send a home-quality image. Or offer a reward for reporting TV Theaters.

  13. TV shows on DVD on All Digital TVs To Include Copy Restrictions · · Score: 2

    Can't watch DVD. No DVD player for my Linux laptops, so I don't buy DVD products. Another side effect of copy protection schemes...

  14. Re:This is sad. on All Digital TVs To Include Copy Restrictions · · Score: 2
    Why is this such a concern to the industry?

    It's of concern to CableLabs (who get paid to do cable TV technical work), the industry lawyers (who get paid to do research on laws, prepare all this paperwork, and enforce some), and everyone in the industry with "copyright" in their job title or description. They have to suggest something, anything to show that they're doing something.

    Unfortunately, every once in a blue moon one of their documents gets approved by someone who gets carried away by the theory. And we get to pay more as the effects ripple across the industry resources.

  15. Re:Openmail from HP on Open Groupware Solutions? · · Score: 2

    Therefore you can only depend upon it for a maximum of six months, and lose the use of it when you don't get a reply to your request for a new license.

  16. See "2001" on Electronic Class Notebook? · · Score: 1

    I think I first saw this design in the movie "2001". Look at the tablets being carried around by the astronauts. HAL seemed to interface to them, although they weren't used much as a computer control -- probably mostly due to people's lack of experience with computer interfaces at the time, and HAL's audio interface was easier for movie presentation purposes. The wireless fullscreen video is still a little awkward to do.

  17. QuakeWorld client/server on Open Groupware Solutions? · · Score: 1

    QuakeWorld client/server allows your groups to interact in many ways.

  18. Re:Pen/Tablet Computer on Electronic Class Notebook? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you mean Pen Computing magazine? Look at the "Telxon" link above.

  19. Re:1979: MECC Timesharing System on MUDs And The People Who Love Them · · Score: 1

    Combat was ported to a small system -- I saw it being demonstrated at a booth in an electronic shot. I blew up a Gorn base, then the author of the program. I haven't heard more of it -- maybe because I blew up the author...

  20. Plain English? on Sprint's Wireless Broadband - And What A TOS! · · Score: 2
    You think it is spelled out in plain English. It looks questionable to me.

    This Sprint Broadband Direct Customer Agreement (?Agreement?) is entered into between Sprint Communications Company LP (?Sprint? or ?we?) and the customer designated on the Work Order (?Customer? or ?you?)

    And I see that Slashdot agrees with me:
    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.

    Reason: Junk character post.

    So I had to do some editing to get it accepted.

  21. Pen/Tablet Computer on Electronic Class Notebook? · · Score: 1

    In the industry they're called pen computers . Most pen computers are Palm-like devices, although some are clipboard-sized (other names are "clipboard computer" or "pen tablet"). Telxon, Norand, Microslate, and Fujitsu make some. There also are notebook-like convertibles which hide or remove the keyboard, such as the Clio.

  22. Re:Go ahead, and keep reading.. on Apple Sues Freetype - NOT (updated) · · Score: 1

    Oh, great. Recursive slashdotting. (Will I hear from the /. lawyers about altering the Slashdot mark?)

  23. Re:Bad linkage on Apple Sues Freetype - NOT (updated) · · Score: 1
    "We need money to buy food."

    Yes, if you buy food then by definition you need money. There are other ways to get food, but buying does require money. (And to avoid a long thread of comparing barter, money, and other systems...I do recognize the great convenience of using money to represent the value of things, particularly because a dozen chickens would make of mess of my back seat.)

  24. 1979: MECC Timesharing System on MUDs And The People Who Love Them · · Score: 2

    Help me out here, what were the MUDs on the 400-port MTS in 1979? MORDOR, SCEPTER? It's been a while...and I remember less of those on Plato.

  25. The Bathroom Quakes on Recharging Laptop From Plane Headphone Jacks? · · Score: 1

    Flight Engineer: "Three lavatories have been drawing 9 amps for 15 minutes. Tell the flight attendants to ask lavatories 3, 4, and 6 to quit playing wireless Quake or we'll have to turn off all their power."