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  1. Re:No suprise there. on Blackberry Future Uncertain · · Score: 1

    You can edit/view Word and Excel attachments with eOffice.

  2. Re:Looking forward on A Decade of PHP · · Score: 1

    One of the huge problems with PHP is the massive number of XSS and SQL injection vulns present in code.

    $sqlStr = "select * from foo where bar='" . addslashes($bar) . "'";

    It's not PHP's fault that people don't take the time to learn how to write secure code.

  3. Re:Future of treatment? on First Successful Cell Transplant Cures Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Yes. Yes, I have. And he (not me by the way) is now getting things back on track after he passed out a couple of times due to neglecting his diabetes for too long and developing hypoglycemic unawareness.

    Are you saying that I neglect my diabetes? My Hemoglobin A1C tests are always under 7. Anything under 7 is considered the range for a non diabetic.

    Exactly, you detected it, it wasn't hard for you to detect it, you didn't even have to think about it, you just knew.

    I would have much rather detected it when it hit 50 or so, not 19 (or 38 for that matter). How many people do know that can drop to 19 and still be coherent? You are generalizing diabetics, just because when you reach 3 (W[ever]TF that means) your mental acuity is affected doesn't mean that every diabetic that reaches 3 will feel the same way.

  4. Re:Future of treatment? on First Successful Cell Transplant Cures Diabetes · · Score: 1

    As for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) leading to diabetic coma, this is easily avoided by any diabetic with even "rough" control due to the fact that they will readily feel blood sugar levels dropping far in advance of danger



    Easy? Have you ever met a brittle diabetic? I wear an insulin pump to help control my sugars. Two years ago I had a problem with my insulin pump, it gave my about 15 units of Humalog insulin without me knowing it. Now, 1 unit of insulin will lower my blood sugar 70 points so do the math. While I was sitting in church I did feel my sugar was getting low, I went to my car and checked my sugar, it was 19. 'Lucky' for me it was Easter and my daughter had some candy in the car. Not all diabetics can feel it when they are going hypo.

  5. Re:my God! on Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce · · Score: 1

    i can see the fark headline "timothy Hampers Mobile Internet..Tim Berners-Lee surrenders"

  6. Re:my God! on Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's more of a blog than a blurb..

    New headline "timothy Hampers Mobile Internet?"

  7. Re:Lazy IE Only Scripted Webpages... on Firefox In Print · · Score: 1

    So aren't making sense.

    First you say
    The average person writing HTML has no idea how to properly develop it, and this includes people who do this for a living!

    Then you say
    I *want* my browser to fudge things a bit so they look right.

    What's the point of properly developing HTML if a browser is going to *fudge* things?

    You totally contradicted yourself, enjoy Lynx.

  8. What about other ways of getting updates on MS To Limit Security Fixes to Legal Copies of Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    Aren't there monthly Windows XP magazines that come with a CD that contains the latest Windows updates on them?

  9. Re:Cordblood, on US Stem Cells Contaminated · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Do I trust Firefox more than I trust IE? on How Can I Trust Firefox? · · Score: 1

    Why?

  11. Re:Mono on Mono: A Developer's Handbook · · Score: 1

    I thought I had Mono for an entire year, turns out I was just really bored...

  12. Re:The logistics of building the Death Star on Star Wars Minutiae · · Score: 1

    I thought it was built by the Wookiees.

  13. Re:Religeon on Bush vs. Kerry on Science · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of legitimate ways to criticise George Bush, you don't need to resort to cheap shots

    It's not a cheap shot, it's the truth. Oh BTW, Linux is the bomb.

  14. Re:Religeon on Bush vs. Kerry on Science · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He's also pro-life AND pro-war, go figure.

  15. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You can export files into PDF with OpenOffice too.

  16. Re:First thing to type at a command prompt.... on Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    There's a 'wtf' command, it's used to decipher things like AYBABTU and AFAIK....

  17. Re:Notes from a former IBM employee. on Using Debian in Commercial Environments? · · Score: 1

    I run DB2 Connect on our Debian web server at work and IBM has helped us out of some binds. As they should, we paid $20k for DB2 Connect. We met with an IBM rep last week to discuss our AS400 upgrade and he mentioned running Linux on our new iSeries. I told him that we run Debian he had never heard of it, the only distros he knew of Suse and Red Hat.

  18. Re:We're next on Googling Behind China's Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    They are working on the first amendment as we speak....

  19. Re:Story Time on PHP 5.0 Goes For Microsoft's ASP-dot-Net · · Score: 1

    I've been the same boat, I applied for web admin position at a very Microsoft-centric college and I was turned down because I wanted to use LAMP. The guy in charge of hiring actual said this "Open Source is not secure because hackers can get a hold of the code and break into servers"

    Now that I look back on it, I'm glad that I didn't get hired...

  20. Not to be a baby but... on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 1

    is there a better/quicker way to install the patch?

    Telling my users to go folder X and then double click on file Y would be a lot nicer than having to go to all their machines.

    Yes, I know, it's not at 1.0 yet. It's just constructive criticism.

  21. Re:Jeopardy hub-bub on The Man Who Knew Too Much · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The day is mine Trebek!"

  22. Re:Firefox has more features than IE? on New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL · · Score: 1

    So tell me, where do you do your online banking?
    Just curious....

  23. Extensions on Less is More: Thunderbird 0.7 Review · · Score: 1

    Firefox 0.9 blew up all of my extensions (and my calendar!), I'm not going to rush to get Thunderbird 0.7 .....

  24. Warning for Calendar users... on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    After installing Firefox .9 I lost my Calendar. I went back to texturizer.net to get it back and the link to it is dead... =(

  25. Re:You most certainly are (wrong) on A Look at the Newly Released Mozilla Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    I just installed Firefox and Thunderbird on our Citrix servers at work last month. Seems to be working out really well, the only problem is when a user goes to a site that is designed for IE only....