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  1. No guarantee on (Almost) All You Need To Know About IPv6 · · Score: 1

    All this crap about IPv6 being an inexhaustible address space is pure unadulterated hogwash. For example, it's rumored that in Internet 2.0, Halliburton will be granted a block of 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPs, to enable individually addressing every oil molecule on Earth. Between that and the nanocytes we'll have scant room for anything else, maybe 3 or 4 Web servers and an FTP site.

  2. Re:This is funny, fanboy's in trouble on Spore Dev Down On the Wii · · Score: 1

    We have got more and mhz on our cpu's

    Mhz, known colloquially as "thermal transfer compound". If you get too much mhz on there, the chip could overheat. So take great care to keep a thin, even layer of mhz on your CPU.

  3. Re:Dumb Flip3D Question on Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP · · Score: 1

    IMO, video should not play when in expose: you're trying to select a window, not watch a video.

    I consider this a feature--using Expose implies you're switching away from or to a window, which means you may not want it playing anyway, and if so you should have manually stopped it. The live updating is useful when viewing terminal windows or progress bars, and it seems unnecessary to special-case video playback.
  4. Re:Dell? on Laptops with Big RAM? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm running my house server just fine off of an old Dell PowerEdge Server with only 512k of memory

    Wow. Apparently 640K is enough for everybody.
  5. Re:Some of us old-schoolers are still waiting for. on Sequels We'd All Like To See · · Score: 1

    And PS1 owners will find it in Pong: The Next Level.

  6. Re: Refine your BS detector on Best Approaches for J2EE Certification? · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the problem lies in your interviewing process and particularly your bullshit detector. A real expert can sniff out faux "experts" with little effort. In your defense, it sounds like you may not have personally interviewed this guy. If you did, work on your interview questions. Ask candidates things that can only be learned through experience. Most people will bullshit at great length on high-level concepts, impressing management, but will fall apart at the smallest test of real-world coding skills. Have them write some illustrative code for you--it's their job, and it's not too much to ask.

  7. Re:Worst thing about OSX is... on 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    To gain this behavior, hide your entire app with Command+H; Command+Tab will then unhide it. If you want to minimize a single window, just navigate directly to it in the dock--don't switch to your application first. If a window is minimized in the active application, you can often press Command+1 (or similar) to bring it up. Or use Expose as another poster suggested.

    Personally, I use Hide, Cmd+`, and Cmd+Tab exclusively.

  8. Renaming (by hand) isn't easy on 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    In the time it takes to rename 150 files with the mouse, you probably could have learned how to use Automator on the Mac. By the time you rename 500 you could have learned a scripting language ;)

  9. Re:Well duh... on Guitar Hero Is Big Hit With Bands · · Score: 1

    To answer your question, at least one.

  10. Re:But.. How? on Social Engineering Using USB Drives · · Score: 1

    Exactly--they thought the file, which misrepresented itself, was something (cool image, company salaries) it was not. They clicked on it and in doing so, unknowingly ran a Trojan. That is why the article compared this technique to email virus distribution, where you are tricked into running a malicious program. (For our purposes we are ignoring the Outlook virus "autorun" "feature".)

  11. Re:For those who are loathe ... on Google Releases Google Browser Sync Extension · · Score: 1

    We use WebDAV as a backup file store/network drive that our sales dept. uses.

    At the risk of going completely offtopic, what is the advantage of using WebDAV in this case rather than, say, Samba?

  12. Re:But.. How? on Social Engineering Using USB Drives · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, if you had read the article, you would know the "autorun" is not done by Windows, but by "humans' innate curiosity" about files named things like anna_kournikova.scr. In other words, they clicked on the other images preplanted on the drive, and then on the virus. Really, it's spelled out in the article, and it is clear that many never clicked through the summary, as usual.

  13. Re:Last week at the park on Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right! It's just like when Microsoft renamed the hip, gritty-sounding "Chicago" to the totally gay Windows 95. Utterly lame, people refused to buy it, and Microsoft went out of business just two years later.

  14. Re:Free CDs! on Slashback: GPLv3, Firefly, iTunes · · Score: 1

    Third base? That's an entirely different kind of media file.

  15. Re:publicly perform? on Apple Sends Hidden Message to Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Services->Speech->Start Speaking Text would probably qualify as a "performance".

  16. Re:Perhaps if never used for entertainment on Dragon Slayers or Tax Evaders? · · Score: 1

    Snark aside, you simply can't deduct the portion of your internet access corresponding to personal use, if you have an account for business and personal use at home. In fact, you're supposed to keep records of your business usage, especially for electronics items (such as home computers) which IRS knows are often written off as "business" expenses when they should not be.

  17. Re:Interesting quote on Behind The Development Of The iPod nano · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it misleading to claim Microsoft has "protected" us from an Apple monopoly, as Microsoft has never been a hardware company, and the entire idea of "commodity hardware" is derived solely from the availability of PC clones and not under Microsoft's control. IBM, not Microsoft, had a stranglehold on the PC market until Compaq reverse engineered the PC BIOS and produced a clone. Had IBM's lawsuit been successful, we probably would have lived with $10K computers for years in a stagnating market, Microsoft or no. It would have been an ugly battle until IBM was finally broken apart. Or until Apple grudgingly accepted low-cost Apple clones and took over the market. See how fun pure speculation can be?

    As a counterpoint, you can imagine a world in which Microsoft did not have a virtual monopoly on office productivity applications and indeed on the entire chain down to the operating system, and had been forced to play nice with others. Perhaps the lock-in precluded some incredible innovation of the software side which our counterparts in the alternate universe simply could not imagine living without. Oh, I'm speculating again. It must be contagious.

  18. Re:You are wrong... This is why on New 1 Kilowatt PSU - Too Much Power? · · Score: 1

    Apparently earlier SCSI controllers used 2^scsi id, but by the time the last drive spun up, there was enough rice on the chessboard to feed the entire world.

  19. Re:But what new models are missing from his essay? on What are the Next Programming Models? · · Score: 1

    So |, * and $ ? Don't forget whitespace: .

  20. Re:Own grave dug on Perl's Chip Salzenberg Sued, Home Raided · · Score: 1

    The first sentence says he brought it up with a company founder and an author of the source code over a month before writing that letter.

    But their alleged blow-off of his concerns should have been the catalyst for either getting a lawyer in preparation for further action, or quitting and moving on. Nothing happened until he threatened actual legal action to the very people who were allegedly complicit, and to their superiors.

    It is unethical and possibly illegal for a company to have your property seized under false pretenses. It is wrong that the legal system is skewed towards those with the money. But many things in life are unethical, illegal, and wrong, justice is not always served, and idealism doesn't change that a whit.

  21. Re:compromised ergonomics on Inside Hardware Design - Competing Against the iPod · · Score: 1

    No, I agree with the OP. The iPod earbuds are the only earbuds I have been able to wear all day without hurting. It must have something to do with individual earshape.

  22. Re:So here it is on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is apple going to sell prototypes of Apple Intel systems to any developer who wants to test their app?

    Um, yes. => "Apple will offer a Developer Kit, which includes 3.6GHz Pentium 4. OS X 10.4.1 for Intel (preview release). Order today; available in two weeks."

  23. Re:This is bullshit. on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 1

    If either of you had bothered to read the keynote, you would know that PowerPC apps will continue to run on x86 through a lightweight emulator ("Rosetta").

  24. Re:From a gentler time on O'Reilly on the Virtues of Rexx · · Score: 1

    So fix it the way we've been fixing it for generations. Unset your PATH or set it to known system directories such as /usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin or whatever. This is good practice even when using taint mode in Perl. If you have "black hat" code in system directories, you have bigger problems anyway.

  25. Re:Even more annoying... on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    gg go to first line
    = indent
    G until end of document

    vim has an excellent help system. :help 30.2 takes you right to the relevant section (30.2). Lo and behold, "If you have really badly indented code, you can re-indent the whole file with: gg=G".

    This is what it means, "learn your tools."