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  1. Re:CNET recommendation on mozilla on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 1

    OK after some research it turns out that font embedding support is non-existent on Mozilla products at this point, hence your issue. Go figure. Apparently they are focusing on complete unicode support, which would in most cases eliminate the need for font embedding.

    See here:
    http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/f aq.html #downloadablefonts

  2. Re:CNET recommendation on mozilla on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 1

    See here:

    http://www.eenadu.net/fonthelp.htm

    This page tells you what to do. If you install their custom font on your system it will work. The problem has something to do with this font (referred to as "eenadu" throughout the page), not the encoding. Some javascript at the top of the page tries to deliver it to the user but fails on Firefox for some reason. It also fails in IE6 when the page is saved and loaded from a file, but works from the live site. Go figure.

  3. Re:Should I know about this PHP? on phpstack - A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server in PHP · · Score: 1

    You are either lying or inept, if you google for "php download" the first hit is the (free) php.net downloads page.

  4. Re:What's funny... on Moving Up the IT Ladder in a Poor Economy? · · Score: 1

    Congratulations yourself for earning a +0, Anonymous Coward! Also, thanks for reading all my other posts! That must have taken some time.

  5. What's funny... on Moving Up the IT Ladder in a Poor Economy? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that I've noticed anyway, is that the percentage of people who are employed in IT and in over their heads hasn't really gone down a lot since the dot com bust. I still run into people all the time who don't know squat. Of course, I also work for a gigantic corporation...

  6. Old News, we already live under this law on IT Workers Not Eligible for Overtime in New Rules · · Score: 1

    http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/29/213.html

    Read (a), then skip to (17) and read that chunk. The "Maximum hour requirement" is defined in section 207, if it's not obvious what it's talking about.

  7. Re:The smartest.... bah on The Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide · · Score: 1

    Take companies A through F, first to worst. What you would have to do is probably give tax breaks to D, E & F and have them paid for by tax increases levied on A, B and C. Maybe C & D are unaffected instead since they are the middle of the pack. So in the Apple example, they are the entire industry at the time so they would be unaffected (receiving a tax break they paid for, canceling out). Anyway, first you would need to make corporations in general pay taxes, which just doesn't happen thanks to the various loopholes available.

  8. Re:EE Majors still worth anything? on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    aHEM:

    http://www.rubiks.com/

    Sorry, but when you correct someone else and you're also wrong, I am forced to point it out.

  9. Re:Characters on Footage From Star Wars: Episode III · · Score: 1

    She's in there quickly a few times, just as horribly cute as ever. Worse than any ewok, that one.

  10. Re:Patriot Act on Scam Combines Patriot Act FUD With IE Bug · · Score: 1

    Whoever marked this Insightful is "probally" more ignorant than anything else.

  11. And it was all ruined by on The Star Wars Car · · Score: 1

    having that cheesy, redundant bumper sticker.

  12. Re:Better Than The Simpsons? on Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy" · · Score: 1

    he said Missouri actually

  13. Re:Not so fast on Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google · · Score: 1

    What is goofy is the fact that it mistakenly says there are only 16 results TOTAL on that first page. Other searches on MSN do not do that. Search for "Linux", the first page will say "1-15 of 365" or something. I've seen glitches like this deep in google's group search, but not on the first page of a search engine... Perhaps there's an overflow issue since there are so many results?

  14. Re:How hard would it be... on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    For most IT guys, it would be pretty hard to add a math degree. Heck, CIS/BIS/MIS guys didn't really have any special math requirements where I went to school. Also, when I was getting my math degree, the CS and Engineering guys would be in the wee-girl versions of the classes I had to take. I actually took a Diff-E class with nothing but engineers because it fit my schedule. I think some actually failed, but it was easy - I got 100's on everything.

    Nowadays I wish I'd gotten a CS degree instead; having a math degree is useless if people don't think it was any harder than anything else. Oh well, too much inertia at this point.

  15. Re:does the time saved really matter? on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1

    It would actually be diminishing returns putting that seven minutes in just for added closure, since apparently it makes the movie feel awkward and oddly-paced right from the start.

  16. Re:AT&T has the server logs! on Do Not Call Site Has AT&T Stats Tracker? · · Score: 1

    It's probably just an easy-cheesy way to have the hit info populated somewhere else. Why is anyone's guess.

  17. Re:Actually... on Review: 'Bubba Ho-Tep' · · Score: 1

    Oops, you are talking about the DC/Vertigo graphic novels from the 90s, I'm talking about the actual regular DC comic books from the 70s/80s.

  18. Re:Actually... on Review: 'Bubba Ho-Tep' · · Score: 1

    Jonah Hex wasn't all that short-lived, something like 92 issues, plus all the "weird western tales" or whatever he was in before that. Now the follow-up series "Hex" was short-lived (which perhaps you are referring to, as it had some similar elements to "Bubba Ho-Tep"), and was my favorite comic at the time. I quit collecting comics altogther after they cancelled "Hex", out of disgust.

  19. Re:The newton.... on Interview with John Scully · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ummm... the poster is joking, not being "interesting".

  20. Re:Doh. on Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux · · Score: 1

    Heh just try running a $5/mo hosting company using windows boxen...

  21. Re:why not support the companies that support us? on Half-Life 2 - A Linux User's Lament · · Score: 1

    Hehe, saw a pile of those tins at Half-Price Books, I think the price was like $2.98 (if not it was well under $10). I seem to recall that the linux version included the windows version as well, but no one seemed to give a rat's ass as they just sat there gleaming in their pointlessness.

  22. Re:Duh... on No Americans Need Apply · · Score: 1

    I'm actually fine with that if the guy they're bringing in is a superstar. But if he's just another shmoe and they're looking to cut costs by getting a Chinese shmoe, F- them. We have plenty of shmoes standing around here already.

  23. Re:Duh... on No Americans Need Apply · · Score: 1

    The thing is, US workers don't make all that much anymore. See the number of 2-income families that were once of the single-income variety 50 years ago, same standard of living. Two cars, tract housing, health care, etc., is not feasible with one income for too many people anymore.

  24. Overlooked point? on Essay Grading Software For Teachers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No one will read this, but I bet that these automated essay graders are able to mimic human graders closely because the human graders themselves graded the 450 "config" essays under computer-esque conditions, i.e., a time constraint that forced them to skim, think as little as possible and generally act like a machine.

  25. Re:no embeddable J2EE either on Java vs .NET · · Score: 1

    RE: mod points, that's kind of an ongoing problem here. I've noticed that if you post early, you are much more likely to receive mod points than if you post later. I guess when there's not much to mod any reasonable comments look good enough.