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  1. Re:No business model on Research: File Traders And Music Purchasing · · Score: 1

    eh, "Vs." was OK, I don't think another great studio album came out until "Yield".

    JMHO.

  2. Re:RAID on Hardware IDE/SCSI RAID for Windows 2000 Servers? · · Score: 2

    The goddamned FastTrack Lite BIOS refuses to leave the drives alone!
    I'm using three Gigabyte MoBo's with that Promise IDE/RAID controller: the board has 4 total IDE channels.

    Next to the third & forth IDE connectors, there's a jumper that has to be set to either "RAID", "IDE", or possibly "Disabled", knocking that extra IDE controller out completly. On a Win2K box I'm using the "RAID" settting; on an OpenBSD box I'm just using it has straight "IDE", so I have three HD's and a CD-ROM, each master on their respective channel.

    So, uhm, my point... I'd see if there isn't a jumper you can set to disable the RAID function, and just use them as straight IDE controllers.

  3. Re:Ask Jeeves on Easter Eggs in Web Sites? · · Score: 1
    Games DON'T affect kids. If PacMan did, we'd all be eating pills and listening to repeditive music...
    ... you mean like ravers do?
  4. Re:Just get a VW TDI (Golf, Jetta or Beetle) on Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Recommendations? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hear hear. With in the last couple of issues of Car & Driver, the TDI VW's were found to be much more efficient, and fun to drive, than the Honda Insight. Also, you can by a VW, where as the hybrid vehicles usually come with a fairly restrictive lease (or so I've been told).

    I got stuck driving a Toyota Prius for a couple of days while my car was in the shop. No acceleration, almost dangerously top-heavy with a short & narrow wheelbase & width, the car was absolutely no fun to drive. The high-efficiency diesels are the most practical way to go.

    YMMV.

  5. Re:Different interpretations of standards! on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 2
    fucker. something ate the closing curly brace; that style line should read
    img {display:block;}
    to trim all the extra space around images in Gecko-based browsers.
  6. Re:Different interpretations of standards! on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 2
    Put an image in a table cell and IE will put it flush bottom but Netscape will put it on the font baseline (leaving space below for where decenders would go). Both are possible interpretations of the standards.
    yeah, kinda sucks. FWIW, Netscape seems to be the better interpetation. The IE model is more backwards compatible, however
    Working around this is a pain in the ass. Sure, we can do it: but we shouldn't have to!
    The work around is throwing:
    img {display:block;
    in your stylesheet. Not too f'in hard, eh?

    Besides, if you really want to go with the spirit of HTML 4.x, you'd be using CSS to place your silly widgets, not tables.

  7. Re:Lets review the kiddie toons on Review: Men In Black II · · Score: 2

    Like the better Disney movies, there is plenty in "Lilo & Stitch" for the parents of the kiddies. I saw MIB II yesterday, and while there were some funny parts, the movie on a whole was disappointing (boring, predictable). I wish I saw Lilo & Stitch instead...

  8. poor little goth kid (was: Re:Wow on Legal Pundits Pan Internet Exceptionalism · · Score: 2

    Great, now everyone who googles ` nihilistic technofetishist` is going to slashdot some sorry goff kid's website.

  9. Re:Confused on SSH-Based Solutions - Looking for Industry Proof? · · Score: 2

    Well, if the OpenSSH licence allows it (and I belive it does), write up an invoice & charge your company an arm & two legs for the software, if spending money makes them feel better about the whole situation.

  10. Re:My All-time favorite Onion headline on Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse · · Score: 2, Funny

    My favorite conversation heard over cubicle walls:

    JB: Holy shit! I can't believe it, Microsoft patented zeros and ones!

    TS: Uhm, what?

    JB: Yeah, it's right here, check it out...

    TS: Joe, you're reading The Onion again.

    JB: Oh, yeah. I forgot.

    ... and sad to say, Joe was just hired to do network administration...

  11. Re:DOS Mozilla users??? [just to avoid confusion] on Serious IIS Hole; Minor X Bug · · Score: 1

    right up there with coffee and napalm...

    oh, wait, it's morning already? Another night wasted away on a Win2K box... thank god the new office OpenBSD/Samba server is up and running

  12. /Cringly? & did you read the article? on WiFi, Light Bulbs, And The FCC · · Score: 1

    1. Why are Cringly's articles automatically turned into /. posts.

    2. Did the submitter read the article? The gist of the story was that 802.11b would work just fine with the new, RF-noisy lights.

    3. Yes, a more insightful webpage & technically detailed website was listed on slashdot just a couple of weeks ago.

  13. Re:regardless. on Managing a Global Programming Team? · · Score: 1
    My advice is to take your money and hire a starving college student or two. Hell, set up an internship and have them work for free (or give them ~$10/hr. They'll still love you).
    You're smoking crack. When I was at Stevens three years ago, the CS/Comp Eng Co-Ops were getting $20/hr, and I knew a few who got more. Employers offering $11-$13 an hour were not getting their first-, or second-, choice students. Yes, the market has changed a lot in the last three years, but I don't think you'll find anyone at $10/hour.
  14. Re:Archiving on Siva Vaidhyanathan On Copyrights and Wrongs · · Score: 1

    Big Vault? Hillary Rosen?

    Why, drop it on her, of course.

    But using a cow would be infinitely more practical.

  15. Re:I have the answer. on User Naming Practices? · · Score: 1

    I've found the best email name is in the form of:

    ..---

    At the very least, I know that my credit has gotten a lot better since I've implemented this system at work...

  16. What's the big deal? on Seems Nobody Gives A Damn About Privacy · · Score: 1

    It was still Opt-Out, they gave notice about the change, and said the changes won't go into effect for 60 days. It took me two minutes to change my privacy settings back to what they were ("don't email me"), and the "postal mail" and "phone call" options were already set to "don't bother me".

  17. Re:nonsense on New Lighting Technology To Wipe Out Wi-Fi Access? · · Score: 1

    ... so, was the original question about human's ability to see strings or CString?

  18. Re:Over my dead body on New Bill Would Restrict Sale of Video Games to Minors · · Score: 1

    No, movie ratings aren't enforce by law, with the exception of adult movies. But a lot of theaters will not sell tickets for R rate movies to minors.

    Now, if you had a movie with as much gratuitous (or anti-social) "reality" as some video games, would those movies get an "R" rating, or "NC-17"? Most theathers won't even show NC-17 movies, let alone worry about carding patrons.

  19. Re:hmm...this seems pointless on New Bill Would Restrict Sale of Video Games to Minors · · Score: 1

    Fifty years ago Mom had nothing to do but monitor the rug rats all day.

    Today, two-income families are the norm, not the exception. What is wrong with ensuring that parents are present when a game is being purchased?

    Now no, this is not going to keep every 13 year old away from GTA III, and more than once some trailer park baby machine is going to loudly complain to a store clerk about "the gubbermint can mind it's own damn busines, my kid will do what it wants to". But it can be a tool to help parents that actually care keep tabs on Junior's purchasing habits.

  20. Re:Over my dead body on New Bill Would Restrict Sale of Video Games to Minors · · Score: 1
    They'll pry my copy of Virtual Valerie from my cold, dead fingers, which are incidentally attached to my virgin ears and virgin eyes.
    No, they won't have to.

    It's very important that we (as the governed) make sure the language of the law makes sense, and that in essence all it (should) does is put the backing of law behind the game ratings that are already in place.

    Think of Rated R movies... when a theater enforces the "no one under 18 without a parent or guardian", thats one step closer to having a clue what it is your child is up to. When Junior says "Mommy, can you pay for GTAIII?" and Mom looks at the box and has half a clue what it is that's being purchased, hopefully those More Impresionable (15 yrs & younger) won't come into contact with virtual car jacking thuggery.

    The key is the law has to be "minors can't purchase", not "minors cannot view/play".
  21. Re:Mozilla not ready for ecommerce on Slashback: Spambots, Retroism, VoIPhooey · · Score: 1

    Are you joking? Besides the fact (that you mention) that using the referer as security measure is pretty stupid, Opera (in the latest version, at least) has the ability to not divulge referer information.

    If the credit card verification company in question isn't willing to change their methods, I think it is time to get a new one, not tell users what browser they can use...

  22. What keeps me in the Zone on Finding the Programming Zone? · · Score: 1

    What keeps me in the zone is shutting of AIM & and not reading slashdot.

    Damn. Gotta get back to work now...

  23. Re:Hardware review on Cray's New Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    Just send your first born, thank you. And to ensure prompt payment, why don't you leave your "joy stick" hand as a deposit...

  24. Re:This is what'll screw us all in the end on The Root of All E-Mail · · Score: 1
    Security through obscurity will never solve anything when used as the first line of defense.
    Oh yeah? Ever visit the PX at Area 51? 'nuff said.
  25. Re:Anti-Unix site running IIS now? on Slashback: Blender, Pictures, Servitude · · Score: 1

    didja try "seineeWerAsnimdAxinU"?