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  1. Re:"take it up with Judge Kimball" on Portions of SCO's Expert Reports Stricken · · Score: 1

    Wow, I just got finished watching that movie!

  2. Re:I might be missing something..... on Polonium-210 Available Through Mail Order · · Score: 1

    That line was based on the one from the book. In the book, look in the houses of healing. IIRC, it was Gandalf speaking to Ioreth.

    Yes, I've read it too many times.

  3. Re:I might be missing something..... on Polonium-210 Available Through Mail Order · · Score: 1
    One of my favorite quotes from LotR:

    Those who live not by the sword can still fall on them
  4. Re:salt/wound? on Novell Dumps the Hula Project · · Score: 1
    Now, there is some great work in Hula and we sincerely hope that some of it will be useful to the community.


    Do you think the comunity is going to touch this code after Novell's deal with MS?
  5. Re:The source is a fucking mess! on Firefox Losing Its Way? · · Score: 1

    I looked through the source he linked to and I couldn't find a single C file

    Maybe you should be looking for cpp files? I thought about rendering pages, and decided to go to layout and the base, which has a bunch of rendering files for you.

    http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/bas e/

    The code is right there, doesn't look too bad. I can't tell you what it does just yet, but with any large project, it takes a little while to become acclimated to the code.

    I've never looked at this code before, and I was instantly able to find whatever functions I was looking for, and I think I could even debug it given some time to look things over. It actually looks fairly good.

  6. Re:yes, but define market? on IBM Weighs In On Novell — Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    Over 70% of statistics are made up on the spot :-)

    Excuse me? I'm pretty sure it was 86%!

  7. Re:GPG not integrated into Mail by default. on PGP Is 15 Years Old · · Score: 1

    I had forgotten how I installed gpg on my mac... but I've been using it almost as long as I've had this MBP. Haven't had any problem with the pgp stuff.

    The only problem I've had is with the IMAP client not seeing new messages in various folders. I have to go upstairs to my workstation to get an accurate view of my new email. :(

  8. Re:Too bad it isn't better integrated into things on PGP Is 15 Years Old · · Score: 1
    It needs to be as easy as hitting send on an email, automatically sign it, and if the recipient is known to have a key then encrypt it to them.


    You obviously haven't tried lately.

    Both Enigmail for Thunderbird and also the mail client for OSX have pgp and key management built in. They have methods for downloading, signing and uploading keys to the key servers. I've been signing my email for years, very automatically. Also, the few individuals that have keys get their email encrypted automatically. It's very easy.

    My key has a fingerprint of 0x33E4CE5D ... and can be found in my user profile here on slashdot.
  9. CS 340 Software Development on Software Dev Cycle As Part of CS Curriculum? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was a class at both Universities I attended...

    What has been missing in all the classes I ever attended (which has been a while) was source management. I think subversion should be explained in the first class and used throughout the whole degree. Many can code; I want to hire someone who knows how to manage it.

  10. Re:Or... on Researchers Find Clue to SIDS Early Detection · · Score: 1
    Insightful?!?! How about -5 Insensitive, -1 Clueless, -2 Moron
    but quite a few deaths that were actually the fault of the parent

    So far their is precious little evidence as to what causes sids. Since the research reports so little that we can actually say causes SIDS, how can you POSSIBLY say it's the parent's fault?

    Raising a baby is difficult and tiring. As a light sleeper, it become absolutely necessary to move our son out to his own room. Granted, we do have a baby monitor set up, and I placed it in such position that I can hear emergencies but not have to hear every breath.

    Our son prefers to sleep on his stomach or side; I know that some research indicates a slight correlation of SIDS with sleeping on the stomach, but there is no evidence of causation. It's the only way he would sleep; what's a parent to do?

    Is there a manual for parents that you know about that I missed?

  11. Re:New tag on Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just wasted mod points for no reason at all.

    What's the point again?

  12. Re:I say let the spam come on Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    ouch, that's a good one. I haven't seen any of these yet, perhaps other rules are catching them first.

    The FuzzyOCR plugin is starting to work on animates gifs by using ImageMagik to break them apart, and I thought the noise stuff was getting better, but I haven't gotten anything out of this one.

    At some point though, if the spammers introduce to much noise, even the few idiots that make spam profitable will not care to read it. I suspect this will even out.

  13. Re:I say let the spam come on Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Care to share your method that is so successfull? I'm sure a lot of other admins would love to know a system that results in very little spam and has a low false positive rate


    Maia Mailguard. With a well tuned SpamAssassin core, SARE rules, RBL Lists (of which Spamhaus is just one), DCC, Razor... and currently we're working with the SpamAssassin folks to get OCR working on image spam. It's an unusual day when spam gets through to me.

    Disclaimer: I'm a Maia Mailguard developer.
  14. Not that bad here either on smcFanControl — Cool Your MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    I've only had a few times where it was uncomfortable on my bare skin. It's never been bad through jeans. It can get pretty warm when doing a lot of heavy stuff, like games or riping dvd's. That said, this program seems to be making all the difference. If it gets hot, just bump the fans up for a while.

    I would like it if they made this a control somewhere that you could easily ramp up and down all the time. Like a hotkey to run the fans hard for 5 mintues to cool things down, or a slider in a widget...

  15. Re:Uh oh on Jupiter's Little White Spot Turns Red · · Score: 1

    More to the point, TCP/IP will timeout before getting to Mars, much less Jupiter.

  16. Smart play on One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End · · Score: 1

    Spamhaus doesn't think that ICANN would be so stupid as to take the somain name away. ALso, it appears that Spamhaus has been planning all along to file an appeal. This was a smart play; they ignored an obviously bogus case, and now they can get an appeals court to smack it down, which will set a heavier precedent and make future lawsuits against them much harder. Very clever. There also may be a SLAPP countersuit available now too.

  17. Re:story line on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know how he changed some characters, Faramir being the most offensive. Still, it was a great movie.

  18. Re:story line on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1
    LOTR was good story telling, but I think the effects were pretty darn spectacular.


    Some effects were not well done, Like Merry and Pippin being carried by Treebeard; but the best effects were ones that didn't look like effects at all, and I agree, those were spectacular (in the fact that I hardly noticed that it was special!). Very few effects in LotR were done for the sake of effects alone, but rather to tell the story. (Legolas getting on the horse in such a stupid manner being one notable exception)

    Maybe the effects in Star Wars wouldn't have been so obtrusive if the storyline was stronger.

    As I think about it, the special effects in the last Matrix movie were quite big, what with all the machines and all, but the suspension of disbelief is so good that one forgets about all the effects. That's good use of effects and writing.
  19. Re:you're forgetting sound on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1
    You're forgetting the sound - primarily the music


    heh, no, I just left it out. The music is actually my favorite part. I don't think Star Wars would have been anything without John Williams.

    One of my favorite CD's is a collection of movie soundtracks by John Williams.
  20. story line on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Lucas states that for the price of one $200 million feature movie, 'I can make 50-60 two hour movies' that are 'pay-per-view and downloadable.'
    ... and yet still have no story line or acting. If I wrote movies that poorly, I'd be afraid to make one too. (Not that I *can* write better, but this is /., where anyone can be a critic)

    Seriously, if the special effect overshadows the story line, you've lost. The first three Star Wars were great, not because of the special effects (which were good at the time) but because of the people. Not computer generated crowds, but real people; Not a fake looking Jar-Jar, but a real actor pulling strings or whatever.

    Peter Jackson did a great job with LotR. There were lots of special effects, to be sure, but most weren't relly all that spectacular. It just that they came in second to the actual story line and acting. Gollum was believable because of Andy Serkis; Jar-Jar just looked fake, as did many other CG characters in Star Wars.
  21. Re:The value of a dollar bill or Windows disc on Linguist Tweaks MS For Redefining "Genuine" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, the plastic is worth more than what it contains... ;)

  22. Re:The show needs someone like Adam on The Mismatched 'MythBusters' · · Score: 1

    I don't know, maybe it's the fact that I've seen several home-school kids go to college a year or two before others the same age, who were intelligent and very bright socially... I think they do better as a whole. There are exceptions to the rule, but all the home schoolers I've ever met were exceptional people.

  23. Re:(sigh) on Voting Machines Wreak Havoc in Maryland Elections · · Score: 1
    you're supposed to take several to keep the secret (you're also getting some in the mail). Put one piece of paper in the envelope (in secret), put the envelope in the box


    If we did this in Florida, the election official would find in the box: 2 papers for Bush, 1 1/2 papers for Kerry (one of them got ripped in half) and a snickers wrapper.

  24. Long to develop? What? on COWS Ajax - Ajax Evolved · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The common drawback these Ajax aids all fail to overcome is that, even with aids, apps take a long time to create and debug.


    What in the world is that supposed to mean? I implemented a autocomplete search text box in only a few minutes using RoR. It really is that simple. It has a rich interface to create all sorts of ajax effects, useful ones that reduce traffic to/from the server.

    Also, debugging is a breeze with the Firebug plugin for firefox; you can see exactly what is getting sent to the server and what is returned.

    Moooove along, nothing to see here. (Sorry, couldn't resist)
  25. Re:how do we know? on Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Never ceases to amaze me how desperate they are to find something to say is good about macs.


    You obviously don't own a mac. :)