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  1. Re:Sensationalist headlines on Apple Releases Free, OS-Independent, FireWire SDK · · Score: 2

    You know it's like definitely not Non-OS-independent you know.. we like putting things that way...

  2. Re:Lets not forget... on India's ISPs Want Payola from Big Portals · · Score: 2

    Also, there *are* some decent Indian portals around, which pretty much provide the same services as yahoo or msn, with local flavor. Frankly, i would expect indians to hang around those sites, not on MSN or yahoo.

    Also i'd eat my hat if more than 5% of Indian netizens browse slashdot.

  3. Re:karma on Slashdot Readers Visit Meatspace · · Score: 2

    Okay. You can have Cowboyneal .

  4. Re:karma on Slashdot Readers Visit Meatspace · · Score: 5, Funny
    I wish there the ratings had an associated animal,instead of adjectives;

    l.t 10 - Goat

    10 - 19 - Sheep

    20 - 29 - Dog

    30 - 39 - Bunny

    40 - 49 - Cat

  5. Re:Heres the post everyone should read first on Mozilla RC3 Released · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't Mozilla cook my dinner? :-)

  6. Re:Need for Checksumming on Open Content Network (P2P meets Open Source) · · Score: 5, Informative
    It is part of the specs


    1.2 Untrusted Caches

    It is currently unsafe to download web objects from an untrusted cache or mirror because they can modify/corrupt the content at will. This becomes particularly problematic when trying to create public cooperative caching systems. This isn't a problem for private CDNs, like Akamai, where all of their servers are under Akamai's control and are assumed to be secure. But for a public CDN, the goal is to allow user-agents to retrieve content from completely untrusted hosts but be assured that they are receiving the content intact. The CAW solves this problem by using content addressing that includes integrity checking information.

  7. Examples.. on What is Well-Commented Code? · · Score: 5, Funny
    # all of these will also get moved elsewhere

    # this is the worst damned warning ever, so SHUT UP ALREADY!

    # Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
    # Or ignore them, we don't care.

    # You know, we do assume comments are linear -Brian
    Refer here for further details:)
  8. Dying. on Napster Execs Resign, Company Appears to Teeter · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can we have a port of the *BSD is dying post to Napster please?

  9. Re:The problem with the Internet on Technology: Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Monday morning blues...


    Look at the +ve side.. The biggest advantage Internet has over other media is that both sides of the story are available, if you're willing to look.
    An American read an Arab news forum; an Indian can browse a Pakistani newspaper; What other medium provides such unbiased coverage ?
    It is upto the individual analyze different news sources, and form an opinion.

  10. Re:These disease is of course mindless idiocy..... on Technology: Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding · · Score: 2
    Of course I'm going to get modded down for "being a racist" or "being flamebait"


    Proof that Reverse psychology works..

  11. Re:PA-RISC & HP-UX on HP/COMPAQ Publishes OS/product Roadmap · · Score: 2

    Here's a PA-RISC to Itanium roadmap Most big corporations prefer to wait and watch, and PA-RISC is good enough for those. And the migration path looks promising too; no code/data migration, just change the CPU board and you're done.

  12. Re:Nice and Concise on HP/COMPAQ Publishes OS/product Roadmap · · Score: 2

    I wonder why Parent was marked Funny. The comment was pretty insightful.

  13. Well, on Using Google to Calculate Web Decay · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To arrest that decay rate, here's my contribution.

    Bill Gates SUCKS
    Bill Gates SUCKS
    Bill Gates SUCKS !!
    BASE BASE BASE
    BASE BASE BASE
    BASE BASE BASE
    Late at Night
    Late at Night
    Late at Night
    life's short play hard
    life's short play hard
    life's short play hard
    blessed are the cheese makers
    blessed are the cheese makers
    blessed are the cheese makers

    I request all members of the forum to link this post in all the websites you could access, and post this message too :)

  14. Re:Or... on Samba Team Responds to Microsoft CIFS Spec License · · Score: 2

    Just to nitpick-- Mozilla et.al are implementing a client for an industry standard protocol HTTP ( so is IE, i guess), whereas Samba is aiming to replace the Microsoft standard SMB/CIFS protocol.. [yeah, i know CIFS is now an industry standard and all that ]

  15. Re:Compare old Powerbooks with the new on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean the price for the older configuration has come down..

    667mHz was around ~3000, now its around 2500..
    Depends on which way you look at it mate :)

  16. Why the hell is parent offtopic? on New OpenOffice.org-Based Office Suite · · Score: 2, Funny

    The link leads to a legit website, and this article is about OpenOffice.
    Please read the posts before you moderate.

  17. Great! on Linux On a Used Cash Register · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we can get all our stuff free from the Linux counter :)

  18. Pacman on G4: The Pong Channel? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there'll be a Pacman channel next. MS could put out ads with long-haired evil h4x0rz r00ting machines, and a punch-line like "Say No to GPL".

  19. "X"Free86 on XFree86 10 Years Old · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now the X has another meaning :)

  20. Re:wow on Seeking Multi-Platform I/O Libraries? · · Score: 2

    Are you Mel by any chance?

  21. Figures for the layman on $24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) 8.4 TFLOPS lets you find the sum of 4.2+4.2, 168 trillion times a second.
    2) 170 TB can hold 42.5 thousand times the contents of the entire Library of Congress books .(+ all the MP3s you downloaded )
    3) 1 TB of RAM may let you run as many as 13 Windows applications simultaneously.

  22. Re:Why didn't Mr. Taco just say... on The Union of Vim with KDE · · Score: 2

    Gawddamn it, its Blue for VI and KDE. Dinn you know?

  23. Re:Nice, serious, but no thanks on The Union of Vim with KDE · · Score: 2

    If you are using menus/mouse/buttons to do normal editing operations(cut&paste,scrolling etc), you dont need Vim.
    OTOH,if you are indeed keen on using Vim, there are plenty of tricks in it that can make you keep the mouse permanently away.

  24. Re:what's wrong with clones anyways? on First Human Clone Eight Weeks Along · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a lil more involved than that.. This Old BBC interview gives a layman's explanation of what's involved.

  25. Real programmers on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 2

    do it on the bare er.. metal :)