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  1. Re:Swiss on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Sure, but what good is a standard if only one country uses it?

  2. Re:Europlug and the stupid British socket on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    I've never need to do this. I don't think I've ever seen a European plug inverted either. Can't be that useful.

    In my house, the power points are very near the floor. My phone charger doesn't fit because it extends down. If I could put it in upside down, it would be helpful.

  3. store looks pretty good on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 1

    I didn't even know they had a store until I saw this article.

    It looks pretty good. There's a bunch of stuff, including a nice polo, a Karmic Koala t-shirt, as well as CDs, stickers, etc, etc.

    The CDs are only $1.50 each, so I won't mind buying them if I have to.

  4. XBMC = Xbox Media Center on What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what XBMC is for?

  5. Re:Matt Groening on Original Futurama Cast Seals Deal With Fox · · Score: 1

    "ee" isn't similar to "ay", and Groening appears to be a German surname, not a Greek one.

  6. Services for UNIX in Home edition? on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    I was disappointed to discover that Windows Vista Home Premium edition doesn't support Services for UNIX, whereas XP Professional did.

    Hopefully they provide SFU (which I think they now call SUA) on all editions of Windows 7, or at least make it clear which ones don't.

  7. Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good. on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    Personally, I would like to see a new WM/GUI that doesn't load 240 interdependent libraries, but still provide all the features

    .

    Tried XFCE?

  8. Re:Processor power throttling? on How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:On Markets on Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY · · Score: 1

    Maybe your mother dieing is necessary for a particular market to stabilize.

    You don't say how this is possible. Seems very unlikely to me.

    This is a point that many anti-global warming dissenters miss. They will argue: "The world has been around for billions of years and will regulate itself. We shouldn't interfere." Yes, but the world doesn't care if we live or die.

    The same site actually had a very interesting video on that topic. They pointed out that the most effective way to prevent global warming deaths was to buy air conditioners and malaria vaccinations, not reduce CO2 emissions.

  10. Re:"Least popular"? What about Windows ME? on Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES · · Score: 1

    All versions of Windows in recent memory have had similar problems.

  11. Re:But.... on Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    He he he. I called an older woman receptionist a man's name just the other day!

    If only she'd actually waited for the phone call to connect before she started saying "Hello, name speaking".

    Instead I assumed she was someone else who worked at the company.

  12. Re:But.... on Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one annoyed by gender-ambiguous names? Certainly not going to use such a name for my children!

  13. real crowd may be closer to 1,000 on Australia Says No to Internet Censorship · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to news.com.au, the attendance in Sydney was about 300, so you'd assume nationwide it was closer to 1,000.

    It was also raining, which didn't help.

  14. Re:The first time I used MySQL... on MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par · · Score: 2, Informative
    So you'll know for next time...

    On top of that, passwords are apparently specific to a certain host string. Bizarre. Do I need to use localhost for the actual machine name for local users? What about remote machine without a reverse DNS entry? What's the order of precedence for '%' vs a more specific name?

    The manual seems to describe this in the connection access and request access sections. It answers your question on precedence (most specific to least specific, first match wins), but not the others. You would assume that localhost or 127.0.0.1 would work for connections initiated over the loopback interface (i.e. where the client application connects to localhost or 127.0.0.1), but that you would need to use the real public host name if the application is connecting via that. That's how networking works. Interesting point about reverse name lookups not working. Hopefully it's getting the name from there, and not just using whatever hostname the client asserts when it connects. You'd want to use IP addresses rather than host names to be safer. They mention that wildcard and host/subnet notation is supported.

    Okay, so to change [the root password] do I use root@% or root@computer? How do I know I changed the right one and there isn't still some root@something entry? SHOW TABLES is easy enough, how about SHOW USERS? Nope, that's not it.

    Well, you now know the precedence. The pages I linked to before also tell you that MySQL determines these based on the values in the user table (i.e. mysql.user), so you could just do a SELECT * FROM user WHERE User = 'root' to see what entries exist. From there, you would either have noticed that the passwords were hashed, and so found the password hashing section and executed an UPDATE user SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD(password) WHERE..., or you would have found the SET PASSWORD documentation, or a quick Google search would likely have yielded the more common advice to just do mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD.

  15. Re:Useful parsing configs in bash on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    sed -ie '/^#/d;/^$/d' httpd.conf makes httpd.conf much more readable!

    Seriously, the default format for that file is way too verbose.

  16. "Recording" on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    If the Vim status bar says "Recording", you accidentally typed q then some character.

    Press q again to turn it off.

  17. Re:For those that don't get the joke on Michael Crichton Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    Most people don't have a good understanding of the science whichever side they're on.

  18. Re:For those that don't get the joke on Michael Crichton Dead At 66 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Calling it denial is to equate skepticism with other taboo topics such as Holocaust denialism, and to attempt to shut down debate, rather than offering meaningful theories or evidence.

  19. shell [ syntax and if tests on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    A lot of people don't know that [ expression ] in bash is just a shortcut for test expression .

    The follow on from this is that if [ ... ] is just if testing the exit status of a command, so you can use if any command .

  20. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Much more convenient in my opinion is Alt+p. It works the same, but without the obnoxious "reverse-search" prompt and it lets you start typing the command before you type the shortcut.

    $ ls <Alt+p>
    turns into...
    $ ls /whatever/you/last/did/an/ls/on

    It's default in tcsh, and can easily be added to bash and zsh.

    .zshrc
    bindkey -M emacs '^[p' history-beginning-search-backward

    .inputrc
    "\ep": history-search-backward

  21. Re:.extort TLDs on ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    I don't think I've ever gone to a .info or a .biz domain, and certainly I wouldn't have unless I was specifically directed there.

    By default, I use a search engine or guess a .com address.

    I would have thought buying domains in other TLDs was a waste of money.

    Don't existing trademark laws already protect your brand?

  22. Re:The biggest most awesome change in Intrepid!!! on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    I assume it's the same as this bug: Red Hat bug 468107 - gdm buttons don't work at first.

    Do you know the upstream bug number?

  23. dibs on the drums! on Rock Band Licenses The Beatles · · Score: 1

    Finally some songs where the drums are so easy I can't suck!

  24. Re:.extort TLDs on ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    And none of this considers the way that heuristics work in text editors, recognizing foo.org as a URL without anyone having to say. When .anything can be a domain name, how will text editors know whether you just forgot to insert a space or you intentionally wanted to auto-highlight something as a domain name.

    The only thing it would legitimately have to deal with was abbreviations like i.e., in which case you'd make sure it only highlighted words where the last component was at least two letters long, or maybe highlight any word containing a dot unless it's of the form (<letter><dot>)+.

  25. Re:.extort TLDs on ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    This already happened with .biz, but I don't think anybody cared.