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  1. Re:how a supernova explodes on Star In A Jar · · Score: 1

    flies off....???? Correct me if I'm, but how can the CORE fly of in any meaningful way?? The outer layers will of cause be sent off at high speed, bu as far as I can see, the core should stay, roughly, on whatever path it's on, likely orbiting the center of some galaxy. Of cause it will probably spin, quite fast AFAIR.

  2. Re:A Damn Good Thing on "Smart Tags," Round Two · · Score: 1

    Try visiting http://www.bookmarklets.com/.
    It's very easy to set up searches in almost any engine, plus much more. Right now i can select a section of text in a webpage, and just clicking one bookmark I can open a fresh window (since I usually just want to check something before reading on) with a search google, yahoo, IMDb, freshmeat or several other engines.
    Also, it's easy to do all sorts of other stuff, like jumping to an url, eventhough it's not a link, ROT13 decoding, resizing the screen or changing simple layout stuff, like backgroundcolor (on any site that is, right in the browser)

  3. Re:Or on iPAQ AutoMP3 Jukebox How-to · · Score: 1

    No hard-wired stuff??? I would think the RF-interface has to be placed on your antenna wire right before your carradio. Otherwise you'd be broadcasting close to the regular radio band, plus quality would probably degrade, since there could be random noise on the selected frequency.

  4. Re:How about TeX on Abiword, wvWare And KWord Authors To Collaborate · · Score: 1

    Just for the record... so does AbiWord (to some extent, haven't tested it).

  5. Re:still around? on Computer Curriculum for Inner City Kids? · · Score: 1

    Careful... today that kind of thing can probably get kids suspended or worse...
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/19436.html

  6. Re:checkinstall... To lat it seems ;-) on Monitoring What Files Your Applications Leave Behind? · · Score: 1

    Never read /. while doing other stuff... ;-) You find a nice topic, read the replies, think you have something to add, get the facts straight (wait, this must be where I went wrong *g*), do some stuff that needs doing, post your reply.... and notice, that you've been beaten to it.... by a long shot ;-)
    Well I guess that's it, no more working while /.'ing ;-)

  7. checkinstall on Monitoring What Files Your Applications Leave Behind? · · Score: 1

    check out checkinstall. It's a tool to build packages from tarball installs, it's build on something called Installwatch, maybe this could be of use, especially if the chroot approach fails, since this just watches what happens, and makes it possible to do a roll-back. Sure, if it turn ugly you still might need to bring parts of the system up from backups, but with a little luck, this might give some idea about what goes on, and maybe then you can move things around your-self....

  8. Slashdotted???? on AOL And The GPL · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who gets 403 forbidden from observers.net??? If not, does anybody have a mirror???

  9. Re:When will IPv4 addresses run out? on IPv6: Japan Leads · · Score: 1

    Since I found your posting rather confusing, I will just add a little info (I too have an ADSL from a danish provider (Worldonline, since you didn't ask)). And while my router was delivered with NAT configured with 192.168.1.x on the local side, the external IP is fully routable, and fully accessable from the "real" internet. But it is certainly an anoying little caveat, since you need to either let some machine get all packages, or configure EVERY port you need to use. Lets all hope the powers that be (or if the US won't play ball, the powers that WILL be) get in gear and implements IPv6...

  10. Re:Not up 10 seconds on Sketch Quake Renderer · · Score: 2

    And at the risk of grinding my universitys server into the ground ;-) here's a link to a complete mirror (except the .zip's, don't want to be a complete jackass)... mirror at Aarhus Uni (denmark)

  11. Re:aol evil. on Sony and AOL vs Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well, then you still can't be online 24/7 (granted, the last time I stayed up for 22h15m+ straight it didn't last much longer *g*)....

  12. Re: Red Hat: Who Needs Netscape on Red Hat: Who Needs Netscape? · · Score: 1

    And just why shouldn't you compare apples and oranges??? Seems to me it's just fruit.... ;-)

  13. Re:Sure, it's a joke, but... on A Home For The Technologically Inept · · Score: 1

    FYI we have something like this here (in Denmark)... It's a standard course called a "PC drivers license" which you can take at any relevant place of education. They are often given as part of normal education at the high-school level, or along with a home computer arrangement in companies... But just anybody can take it, and you can get numerous books and teaching aides... Might even work ;-) But as I'm already in the university studying for a masters degree in CS, I think I would be very offended if the topic came up in a job interview or similar situation ;-)

  14. Re:Let's band together on Gaming Companies Being Sued Over Columbine · · Score: 1

    actually I seem to recall reading (recently, although where escapes me) that the best temperature for coffee was between 92 and 96 degrees celsius (197 - 205 F)...... (Note: I'm from Europe (Denmark) YMMV) ;-)

  15. Re: on Skirting AOL Checksumming -- Legally? · · Score: 1

    well..... Windoze would probably just go down in flames (IMHO)..... that make you feel better???

  16. Re:This is absurd! on The Lone Guns Against Spam · · Score: 1

    well... at least they don't call collect!

  17. Re:Please explain. on Ethernet Sets To Bridge The Last Mile · · Score: 1

    > ....like comparing apples and oranges....
    So what... apples and oranges can easily be compared: Like this ;-)

  18. Re:Richard M. Stallman! on Electronic Pricetag Alteration · · Score: 1

    while you are absolutely right, it is less than a month since some friends showed me a simple to use hole like this in an actual production web-shop (We're CS-students, and they were doing some unrelated project with the firm and were looking at the web-site). I won't say which shop it is (since I don't quite recall *g*) but they simply used urls in a frame to talk to the backend, and by typing these urls in the main address-field and altering the price one could put stuff in the cart at any price ;-) The only problem is that the people who need education aren't likely to read /. So I guess we have to tell them, hit them over the head for dismissing it and tell them again, repeat until satisfied that suit/manager/whatever gets it (no enjoying this, this is for education purposes ;-)

  19. Re:PPC is an inferior platform on The Silent Kernel Platform War? · · Score: 1

    Have I missed a decade or something? ;-) x96??? Not that it's a problem, I'd just like to know... ;-)

  20. Re:Great! But I'd still prefer the Ethernet versio on IBM Releases GPLd WinModem Support For Linux · · Score: 1

    Damn... you guys sure got the least ideal solution... Here (Denmark) there are three national ISP's offering (A)DSL (one more soon) and from two of them (including mine, *thanks*) you don't get a modem. Instead you get an actual router (Cisco 677) - NAT, filtering and stuff. Granted, it isn't THAT cheap (~$50 US/month for 256 kbit/s). PS: I hope you get the USB ones to work, or that the ethernet option gets cheaper

  21. Re:RHCE on How Much Unix Knowledge For Helpdesk Staff? · · Score: 1

    I believe the RHCE was for the helpdesk-staff, not the 16k employees... otherwise I think the problem stated/considred would/should disappear ;-)

  22. Re:Its a book... on What's Wrong With Content Protection? · · Score: 1

    Well did you consider the fact that lots of people have scanners, and with ocr you can even make the output EDITABLE (uuuuuhhhh you can change the text) and DIGITALLY COPYABLE. Also there are books that cost a lot more... I have bought books for my university-courses that cost me in excess of $100. That would easily cover the cost of a copy. So the claim that there is no market for "book-piracy" is totally unfounded.