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  1. Re:Any stories in the Bible/Koran/etc that coincid on Meteor May Have Wiped Out Middle East Civilization · · Score: 0

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    a very controled meteorite. as common logic says that it'll kill many people trying to cross.

  2. Re:quote on iTunes 2.0 Installer Deletes Hard Drives · · Score: 0

    when accessing them, you should esc out, with a slast, i.e.

    rm -rf "\"\ \""

    do delete the dir.

  3. Re:The bug on iTunes 2.0 Installer Deletes Hard Drives · · Score: 0

    $$, $1, $2, $3... are the params to the script.

  4. Robot Wars... on A Robot To Follow "Mother" And Another To Block Her · · Score: 0

    They should stick 'em into Robot Wars (after arming it with a little more than some lego bricks. It'll be cool, a mix of Robojox[1] and Combat Zone[2]).

    [1] An OLD film, does anyone else remember it?
    [2] An OLD computer game (Win 3.11), does anyone else remember it?

    CS!

  5. Re:like this... on WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks · · Score: 1, Interesting

    CSS vs. Layers.
    MSIE, Opera, Mozilla uses CSS (Standard), Nutscrape uses Layers (and the evil layer tag, pre CSS).
    Javascript.
    Standards, HA, Javascript does not know of these 'standards'!

    Then you have the fact that some tags are just interpertated differntly!

    Then you have the fact that not all the standards are implemented, so even if it's perfect HTML (validated & everything, which I have) it still rendereds diffrently on diff. browsers.

    When I play as web-dev I normal go for this approch:
    HTML 3.2 + CSS Compatable first and formost.
    MSIE Comptable 'extras (inc. Java Script)'
    if I have time, I'll add netscape etc.

  6. Re:Compatibility? What about standards? on WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks · · Score: 0

    >> It would probably be a good thing if browsers followed the HTML standard. I can't tell you how annoying it is to make a decent looking website only to find out that your Netscape 4.7 users see garbage.

    It's JavaScript thats the problem.

  7. Big Banks, and CD Changers... on Large-Scale Video Archiving? · · Score: 0

    Now, last time I went to a bank (the behind the seances(sp) they had was was basicly a hugh 9" CD changer. This backed up all the accounts the bank had, it could hand the data & speed you require, then just have a spreate machine to read 'em off as and when needed.
    If the data you need is not pernament, then get the big feck of tape based systems.
    I think (I'll check now) that the system was Sun based (http://www.sun.com/storage/)

    Just taking a quick look at there site:
    http://www.sun.com/storage/highend/9960/index.ht ml
    6.4GB/sec
    Total raw capacity per subsystem 37.3 TB

    Your'd need a couple of 'em, but the amount of data you want, your going to have to have some big feak off system.

    I'm sure if you sent an email to Sun asking what they'd recomend, they would have a better answer than most of the people on this forum.

    CS!

  8. Re:Doubleplusungood on Microsoft Edits English · · Score: 0

    > So perhaps the next step is to alter the MS spell checker to detect "bad" words and report back to Redmond all users who type them?

    They plan to combine this with the US "StarWars" project, and fire lasers at the perpetrator(sp maybe).

  9. Re:That's double plus ludicrous! on Microsoft Edits English · · Score: 0

    BeOS did something like that, it was a real pain!

  10. Re:Waiting for this. on Microsoft Edits English · · Score: 0

    I belive MS Word 2003 does
    "monopoly" - "A good thing, Mircosoft, your God"

  11. Re:To be eliminated in future editions: on Microsoft Edits English · · Score: 0

    The word "privacy" will have the MS dictionary meaning off
    "Only know by you, Microsoft and the US government".

    The really funny thing is, I used MS Word to spell check this post ;-)

    CS!

  12. would this work? on RIAA Wants Right To Hack · · Score: 0

    Create a band, name it LIKE a popular band (i.e. the band name in pig-latan/7337, something that would be matched on a Napster seach for the band), then create a song, again named LIKE the bands name, i
    M0nst3r Magn3t - Bod Says No.

    Now sell this song as an MP3 for $5000 and have a friend 'buy' it. Make sure the friend has a high chance of being hacked by our good friends the RSAA, then sue.

  13. Re:THIS IS GREAT!!! on RIAA Wants Right To Hack · · Score: 0

    linux can be hacked...

    (it's just harder, unless it's a newbie box, then
    telnet in with 'root' no password/'password'/'root')

  14. Re:THIS IS GREAT!!! on RIAA Wants Right To Hack · · Score: 0

    or just download legal MP3's.

    No problem then...

    I wounder how they check(I could have a MP3 called Monster Magnet - God Says No, but thats not to say its THE Monster Magnet's - God Says No), and what about MP3's you own the CD for?

    CS! (Has no illagel MP3's, all prase http://www.mp3.com )

  15. Re:THIS IS GREAT!!! on RIAA Wants Right To Hack · · Score: 0

    URL please...
    Plus howmuch are the drives?

  16. Re:Crypto Kills on News.com: Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do · · Score: 0

    the point of the gun is to make the hole.

  17. Re:Causes on NAI to Sell Off PGP Product Line · · Score: 0

    >MS would be smart to buy and bundle it w/ outlook but modify it a bit so it's not openpgp compatible.
    Why? MS Outlook already supports signing/encryption & decription using X.509 keys.
    Why bother with PGP aswell?

    CS!

  18. The problems is the big MS. on NAI to Sell Off PGP Product Line · · Score: 0

    again...
    Encryption/decryption & degital signing is build all major email clients now (including Outlook).
    So why bother with PGP?

    CS!

  19. Re:The Palm is already dying on Pocket PC 2002 · · Score: 0

    > (Except for battery life.)

    err... now I don't know about palms, don't use them, but 10 hours seems very... err.. small...

    I've had my Psion Revo going to 2 weeks of adv use (1+ per day) and it's down to 47% bat power... A friend had a CE device quite some time ago, he forgot to recharge it for ONE night and it died.

  20. Re:Oh come on. on Pocket PC 2002 · · Score: 0

    Palms are cheap. that's there advantage
    but they all suck compared to Psions!

    But then I do need a keyboard...

    out of curiosity, how do you play Doom with a styles? (ohh, Psions have Doom, the Nokia can play videos (well the advert says it can), browse the web (Opera 5) and send/recive emails )

  21. Re:Not a replacement for a desktop... on Pocket PC 2002 · · Score: 0

    may I recomend using a Psion device then...

    I have mine for quite some time, and it's NEVER crashed.

  22. Re:PDA wars.. on Pocket PC 2002 · · Score: 0

    watching a friends WinCE device hang in the middle of a lecture was funny... esp as it did not reboot :-)

    Go go AlphaSmart (not a PDA, but did what I neaded at the time)!

  23. Re:PDA wars.. on Pocket PC 2002 · · Score: 0

    I did for a while after BeOS died...

    Alas my mobile is very expenive (even free-phone numbers ;( )

    Psion Revo forever!

  24. Re:Crypto Kills on News.com: Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do · · Score: 0

    >Guns are used in a variety of SPORTS

    Which are all about inflecting damage.

  25. Re:one-time pads on News.com: Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do · · Score: 0

    err... kind of missing the point of pgp etc, i.e. public key encription....

    How do you know if the person you are giving the pad to is who he says he is.
    what if it's a friend of a friend of a friend?
    Thats three possable leaks... now add more people...