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  1. Foot pedals. on Ask Slashdot: Single-Handed Keyboard Options For Coding? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Another thing to consider is a foot pedal or two. Set them up to do SHIFT and CTRL and away you go!

  2. To stop "the next Wikileaks" on How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Minimize access to sensitive docs, keep those with access happy, and most importantly, always be ethical.

  3. Re:Windows 1.0 was barely usable on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    I have tried Windows "dumb" tiling. I want something AWESOME. http://awesome.naquadah.org/

  4. Re:Windows 1.0 was barely usable on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    1) I don't ever need to see more than 2 explorer windows at a time. (SRC and DESTINATION)

    2) This is why I want a tabbed and tiling WM! :)

  5. Re:Windows 1.0 was barely usable on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    Windows 1.0 was a complete joke - it didn't even support overlapping windows.

    Personally I have learned to HATE overlapping windows and would love to have a tabbed & tiling window manager for Windows. (Need to use it at work) I now find that I work with two monitors with one application maxed on each.

  6. Displacement not Self-Replicating on First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yep, and if you read the entry on LifeWiki you would see they agree with you.

    "It displaces itself by 5120 cells vertically and 1024 cells horizontally every 33,699,586 generations."

  7. Need more coops on One Year Later, Zer01 Web Site Disappears · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Instead of multi tier marketing schemes, we just need more cooperatives: owned and run by members, for the benefit of the members!

  8. Re:Who wants 'em? on URL Shorteners Get Some Backup · · Score: 1

    They are also nice for when the medium in which you are communicating the URL doesn't support hyperlinks... such as the printed word. Much easier to have someone type a bitly url (esp. if you give it a nice short name) than some longer url. The longer the URL the easier it is to make a mistake keying it in.

  9. Re:The competition is OSX on Windows 7 RTM Reviewed & Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    "man man" It is where you can start your lesson on how to use the CLI, and not remember any commands. From there you can learn about "man -k" which lets you search for stuff based on keywords.

  10. Objects in the rear view mirror... on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 5, Funny

    may be closer than they feel.

  11. Re:"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    Thank you for this quote. It is great!

  12. Re:Goofy project on The Semantic Web Going Mainstream · · Score: 2, Informative
    What you seem to fail to recognize, is that the semantic web is not about teaching computers how to analyze our language (syntax) to extract semantics, but rather us agreeing on how to add syntax to our our data so that the computer can understand the semantics.

    For example, the following chunk of code explicitly defines the creator, title, description, and date of an audio file. Because it has been specifically marked up, and IF we can all agree to use the Dublin core namespace for describing that type of data, then we can write programs that can gather, correlate, and make deductions about that info from multiple sources.

    <rdf:RDF
      xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
      xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
     
      <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://media.example.com/audio/guide.ra">
     
          <dc:creator>Rose Bush</dc:creator>
          <dc:title>A Guide to Growing Roses</dc:title>
          <dc:description>Describes process for planting and nurturing different kinds of rose bushes.</dc:description>
          <dc:date>2001-01-20</dc:date>
     
      </rdf:Description>
    </rdf:RDF>
  13. Re:Common Sense/Observation != Science on Motorists Sue Over 'Hot' Fuel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Everyone keeps mentioning how the underground tanks insulate the fuel well... Why do they bother with temperature correction in Canada then? Because it is in big Oil's favour.

  14. Re:'Secure encryption technique' not available ? on Flash Drives Go To Work · · Score: 1
    Could somebody pleas visit those army barracks with a very big clue stick ?

    Sounds like what they need is a very big GLUE stick!
  15. Re:Not again... on FOSS Is Not Free if It's Not Free From Complexity · · Score: 1
    Oh, and Linux applications are harder to install because Windows applications are easy to install...
    Those who find this true should check out both APT and KLIK. Doesn't get much easier than klik!
  16. I want to go wiiiiiii! on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 1
  17. a wiki on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    I use moinmoin http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/> with the MonthCalendar macro http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MonthCalendar>

  18. Fake ghostlike photons.... on ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkGEEK! · · Score: 3, Informative
  19. Re:great on Privateer Remake Complete · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Check out UFO2000, a multiplayer xcom game that will run on linux! As well, you could always play the original using dosbox.

  20. Boardgamegeek on DOOM: The Boardgame · · Score: 1

    Doom's boardgamegeek.com entry shows the following stats:

    Number of Views:
    74585

    Number of Ratings:
    190

    Average Rating:
    7.79

    Bayesian Average Rating:
    7.52

    Overall Rank:
    75

    Standard Deviation:
    1.67

    It has made the top 100 already, looks promising.

  21. Re:Bah! on Commodore 64 TV Game for Sale · · Score: 1

    Archon and M.U.L.E. are both missing! aarg!

  22. Re:GUI design on Jef Raskin On The Mac · · Score: 1
    If this is so, Raskin should go out and create his OS of choice.
    He is! Well, not an OS yet but check out The Humane Environment project.
  23. Re:Jabber RSS subscriptions on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 1

    OK, but that is a different issue... As well, how does pubsub.com know that there is new content... by polling RSS in a traditional manner? Or do the content providers actually inform pubsub? Are they sending all of the messages at once or distributed over time like I suggested? Is XMPP the bottle neck, or their polling and matching?

  24. Jabber RSS subscriptions on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 1

    Jabber could work nicely for this type of thing.

    Providers set up a Jabber presence for their individual RSS feeds.

    Clients subscribe to Providers RSS presence.

    Provider generates new news, And makes an announcement via it's jabber presence. This could even include all of the information that is normally in a RSS feed, making the need for RSS unessary!

    Clients then can repoll the RSS for new news if they like.

    If there is a problem with too many subscribers at once... then you limit the number of clients that can subscribe to any individual RSS jabber presence. If you try and subscribe to a full account, you get an auto-message informing you of the currently open account. The provider sets up 1 RSS jabber presence per 1000 subscirbers for instance, and then only announces the new news to each jabber account every 5 or 10 min, spreading out the hit on the RSS file.

  25. In other words... on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Make Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible... sound familiar? Now just apply it to the UI!