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  1. Re:Watto! on Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review · · Score: 1

    I always that Watto sounded more like Stromboli in Pinnochio. He's (Stromboli) been thought to be a caricatured Jew, Gypsy or even Armenian.

  2. Re:H202 on Hyper-Oxygenated Water Speeds Up Healing · · Score: 1

    I heard it this way:

    Johnny was a scientist's son
    He was but is no more
    For what he thought was H2O
    was H2SO4

  3. Re:Old news. on Spam Capital of the World · · Score: 1

    Know any backhoe operators in Boca Raton?

  4. with Smarty... on Load List Values for Improved Efficiency · · Score: 1

    With Smarty, and PHP, you could put the list in its own cached template. Check to see if the template is cached before displaying it and if not go to the database.

    You can even use Smarty's html_options function to build your lists for you.

    And when something changes the data for the list, just clear the cache. The next time it's needed the cache will be updated.

  5. what I'm worried about is... on New IE7 Information Announced · · Score: 2, Interesting

    that they'll make IE7 nice and standards compliant but break all the hacks we use to accomodate IE6 like the Holly Hack et al.

    This would make it impossible to support IE6, IE7 and other standards-compliant browsers while still allowing them to (rightly) claim that they're compliant. Would they do this ? Hopefully not.

  6. This might do it... on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 1

    If the sledgehammer treatment seems too uncivilized:

    Try this.

  7. Re:Shielding? on 1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not just crosstalk. Twisting improves "Common Mode Rejection" because the twists cause any interference to be picked up with opposite polarity on any signalling pair.

    Obviously, IANA EE.

  8. at a past employer... on Burst.com and Microsoft Settle · · Score: 1

    We had a policy of *not* backing up emails for that very reason.

  9. Re:vprMatrix on Intel Flaunts Mac mini Knock-off · · Score: 1

    Looks just like my Fireant circa 1999 only bigger.

  10. Re:McIntosh apples are bland and tasteless on GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you get your McIntoshs at the market they probably are bland and tasteless. I can drive 20 minutes from here in pretty much any direction and pick my own, in season. Nothing like 'em fresh!

    We usually wait for Macouns a week or two later, though.

    All the "eastern" types are better than any of the "delicious" types, when fresh. If I want to buy eating apples in the winter, I go for a Braeburn, usually from New Zealand. Expensive, but they're huge. One is usually too much.

  11. Re:Running b&w only on HP printers on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 1

    I have an officejet 5110 that has been out of color ink for about six months. Still works fine.

    You need to go into printers settings, click the advanced tab, check "print in grayscale" and then choose "high quality", "black only" or "optimized for fax". All three settings use only black ink.

    If you don't check "print in grayscale" and you're out of one color ink you will indeed get strange results. For some reason it uses color inks even when it doesn't seem to make any sense (unless you tell it not to).

  12. love my HP CP1700 on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 1

    I use it for short runs of 11x17 color posters.

    I've had it for 9 months and run hundreds of pages, including a good number of 90% coverage 11x17 posters, and I've only had to replace the black, cyan and just tonight the yellow ink tank.

    It's still on the first set of print heads.

    I should also mention it was amazingly cheap by mail order. Like less than half of original list.

    Some day I may even go crazy and get a Continuous Ink Flow System for it.

  13. Re:IBM Thinkpads are the same way on BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops · · Score: 1

    That is perfectly acceptable 17th century english. Did you hate it as much in Stephenson's "Quicksilver"?

  14. deliberate damage on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 1

    CNN reported this morning that the trial was terminated after many of the badges were found to have been deliberately damaged.

    Sounds like someone figured out the microwave trick and the word got around...

  15. price on Not Much Happening in Hard Drives This Year · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So the only way for them to move is lower prices.

    Sounds like a good year for consumers. Who needs more than a couple hundred GB anyway ?

  16. Re:whois on New York's Oldest ISP Gets Domain-Jacked · · Score: 1

    Beware any company incorporated in Delaware. The postage stamp state's main reason for existence is its weak corporate liability laws.

  17. Re:Rogue registrars? on New York's Oldest ISP Gets Domain-Jacked · · Score: 1

    So how did you do it ? I have a hosting client with their domain on yahoo/melbourneit and I haven't the faintest idea how to get it loose from them.

  18. Re:That's pretty funny... on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 2, Informative



    discrete (d-skrt)
    adj.

    Not joined to or incorporated with another; separate; distinct.

    discreet

    adj 1: marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace" [ant: indiscreet] 2: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" [syn: discerning] 3: heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor" [syn: circumspect]

    </pedantic>

  19. Re:no trust... no passport on Microsoft Loses Passport · · Score: 1

    Even assuming that web site admins store their passwords hashed, how long can that hash hold up to a brute-force attack from a 3Ghz+ system?

  20. United Devices on IBM Grid Near 50,000 machines - Slashdot Users #13 · · Score: 1

    I've been running the United Devices client for a year or so now. I just switched to the Rosetta project and joined the slashdot team there last night. What's the difference between the grid.org thing and this new version?

  21. move Up on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    Speaking rather selfishly, this possibility was actually mentioned when we moved from 180ft to 1000 ft above sea level here in Massachusetts. The reason was cheap real estate but elevation does have its advantages.

    I had this crazy visual of standing on Belmont Hill overlooking Boston when the wave hit and then realizing it wasn't high enough.

  22. want a half-dozen dead game console controllers ? on Rage Against the Machines · · Score: 1

    I wish I knew where my kids got the idea that whipping the controller to the floor when they lose the game is a good idea.

    No, it's not me.

    Also, I work at a small newspaper that runs all OS-9 Macs. We're right across the street from the police station. The police have been notified by one of our writers (no joke) that if they see a pink imac come out the the 3rd floor window "with prejudice" they shouldn't bother responding.

  23. Re:An IDEA for GNU or other OSS orgs on Mozilla Lightning to Challenge Outlook · · Score: 1

    Yahoo *removed* vcard export about 6 months ago. I had just entered over a hundred contacts. I was pretty pissed.

  24. Expensive maybe, but not ridiculously so... on Build Your Own Teleprompter · · Score: 1

    I get this catalogue for some reason and happened to remember reading this.

  25. Re:a revolving house....in 1968 on Revolutionary Tower in Brazil · · Score: 1

    There's another once-rotating house in Framingham, MA.

    The word is it was once owned by a famous pro athlete. Also that it doesn't rotate any more.

    Anyone know more about this one ? I couldn't find anything on it by googling.

    It's somewhere around here, I think.