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  1. Re:What about us Windows users?! on Wicked Cool Shell Scripts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Somewhere I found a standalone sh.exe that is only 344K and can be run from the command line just like:
    C:\> sh.exe myscript.sh

  2. Re:how can they demand this for media player on Windows Could Lose Media Player in Europe? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the capabilities of your telnet client. I used to use rz and sz all the time over telnet, and then SSH, because it was simpler then loading up an ftp client.

  3. Re:word perfect on WordPerfect Back From the Wilderness · · Score: 4, Informative

    Like the other guy said, you are wrong. Show paragraph marks and stuff does NOT count as reveal codes.

    Reveal codes is like looking at the HTML source of the document.
    Only, <font> tags, etc, are single characters that you couldn't type in yourself by typing < f o n t >, but you can copy/paste/delete and cursor around between tags.

  4. Re:word perfect on WordPerfect Back From the Wilderness · · Score: 5, Informative

    I used it all through college and never once used Word. Now that I graduated I never have to write any papers again, and don't have ANY word processor program installed.
    The reason to use word perfect is simple: REVEAL CODES!
    Otherwise, Wordpad has about all the functionality most people really need to write a stupid paper for a class.

  5. Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 1


    Every place I have seen it used, they enable designMode inside of an iframe, and it seems to work with IE with little extra work that way.

  6. Re:The tides have changed.. Positive outlook on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 4, Informative


    It has to be possible though, and without much extra work, because I have seen WYSIWYG editors on message boards now, that work in IE and Mozilla with no trouble.

    Whatever they use at Codejock, which I think is WebWizForums, says that If you are using Internet Explorer 5+ (windows only), Netscape 7.1, Mozilla 1.3+, Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1+ it should work fine.

  7. Re:What I like on Online Search Engines Lift Cover Of Privacy · · Score: 1


    Mine does DSC, I have pictures from relatives labeled with IMG_ and DCAO and PICT prefixes also.

  8. Re:But Wait... on Microsoft Develops XP 'Light' for Thailand · · Score: 1


    Never realized that before, but never tried a ton of windows machines without a server before either. Just for the sake of completeness, whats the default limits for NT4 and 2000 and can you change those?

  9. Re:sh*t on IC Failures Linked to Resin Series? · · Score: 1


    Why not associate the two? Its not like the same people caused each of these two problems, but the result is the same for all of us. Crappy computer parts that die sooner for no good reason.

  10. Re:Next Xbox Thoughts... on Leaked X-Box 2 Specs Include PPC CPU · · Score: 1


    I know the PS2 has USB ports, but do any games actually support keyboard+mouse?

    God do I **HATE** playing Halo on Xbox controllers, you just can't rotate fast enough without a mouse.

  11. Re:So why not QuickTime? on NPR's Car Talk Dumping RealMedia · · Score: 1


    I mostly agree, other then the stupid skin and thus not really following all the standard OS keyboard shortcuts, and the lack of a real full screen maximize feature unless you pay them money, Quicktime is a pretty good player. I never have any stability problems with it, and it even works great with Mozilla on my Win2000 box. The single frame forward-back and pause/play keyboard shortcuts probably make up for the downfalls just listed above though. Really I guess I could deal with the dumb looking skin if they would at least add support for ALT+space for the standard system menu and ALT+enter for a full-screen feature.

  12. When did I make a Linux distro? on Recent Apt-Gettable Goodness From Ark, Conectiva · · Score: 2, Funny


    Its a joke, don't mod me down.

  13. Re:oo, shiny web site on Google Social Network: Orkut · · Score: 1


    Why do I only see white text on a white background?

  14. Re:How high? on Mine The Moon For Helium-3 · · Score: 2, Informative


    No, Helium-2 could possible exist, it would just have two protons and zero neutrons.
    Helium-1 makes no sense, but if you drop down to only one proton, its not Helium, its Hydrogen. Calling Hydrogen Helium-1 makes little sense though.
    Maybe if you had 2 protons and -1 neutrons, you could call that Helium-1. But how exactly do you get an anti-neutron?

  15. Re:First post - source mongering... on Spider-Man 2 Preview Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Note to self, use preview next time, the playlist file contains:

    <PLAYLIST MEDIATYPE="FLASH"><STREAM AD="NO" APPNAME="ContentMgmt" URLPREFIX="rtmp://" SERVER="flvcontent.bcst.yahoo.com" BITRATE="3000" PORT="" PATH="/pub04root1/Pub04Share04/sonycorp.cm/5550836 .flv" QUERYSTRING="StreamID=5550836&amp;sg_id=39082&amp; pl_b=003FFAD1A744A5CB5B000014AD3FDDF504&amp;s=9642 9575&amp;ru=MozillaOTHERS" URL="" TITLE="Spiderman 2 -- Vyvx feed -- normal frame rate" AUTHOR="Yahoo!" COPYRIGHT="&#169; 2003, All Rights Reserved." STARTTIME="" ENDTIME="" ></STREAM></PLAYLIST>

  16. Re:First post - source mongering... on Spider-Man 2 Preview Online · · Score: 1


    I'm still trying to figure it out. I wget'd the .swf from that page, and used swfdump to extract some information:
    The URL it gets the movie info from is http://playlist.webevents.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.d ll?pt=xml&sg_id= but it appends some junk to that, and then it only gets a playlist file of some sort. I logged my browser requets and found:
    GET /makeplaylist.dll?pt=xml&sg_id=39082&sid=5550836&s =96429575 HTTP/1.1
    But the playlist file only contains this information:

    And I don't know how to go about grabbing the stuff from this weird rtmp:// protocol.

  17. Re:Something to look forward to! on Spider-Man 2 Preview Online · · Score: 1


    Don't forget Kill Bill vol2: after that, Spider Man 2, and RotK, there is nothing left to live for. No, not even Star Wars 3.

  18. Re:What not to do... on A Return Of The King Review · · Score: 1


    wow, they only let us buy 4 tickets per wristband - luckily I only have 4 people going including myself and we spread ourselves out over the days they were giving out the wristbands to make sure one of us would get some. Our best person ended up 80th in line and the other 3 of us had no hope of getting to the front of the line before it was sold out.

  19. Re:What not to do... on A Return Of The King Review · · Score: 1

    12:01? Try 1:00, 5:40, and 10:00 on the 16th. Every self-respecting /.er should have at least tried to get tickets for the all-damn-day trilogy tuesday.

  20. Re:notice on Google AdWords And Ethics Issues · · Score: 1


    I thought that was funny until you fill in the ...

    Society > Religion and Spirituality > Opposing Views > Scientology

  21. Re:Not really cheaper on Public BSOD Sightings? · · Score: 1

    If the application is simple enough, you can just run Linux+libsvga and write your own grfx routines with the basic pixel functions libsvga provides. I'm sure anything thats being piped to a TV someplace would work just fine with even basic 640x480x16. No need to load any modules or anything, you could probably fit the kernel, libsvga, and your app on a floppy or something if you tried.

  22. Re:Aren't you forgetting someone? on New Graphics Company, With Working Cards · · Score: 1

    The savage 2000 was the great card I was thiking of. Did they ever come out with drivers to ever enable the T&L or was that just a joke.
    Maybe the chip never even had T&L features and they just lied about it.

  23. Re:XGI = SIS + Trident on New Graphics Company, With Working Cards · · Score: 1


    You would think, until "Card X" comes along and only implements 95% of DirectX 9.0, but claims they implemented it all, and some certain feature used by only a couple games decides to make those games randomly crash, but only on "Card X"
    Matrox and S3 cards always seemed to work like that to me in the past.

  24. Re:XGI = SIS + Trident on New Graphics Company, With Working Cards · · Score: 1


    I personally agree with you here, no matter what slight advantange ATI cards currently get in the latest benchmarks, NVidia's drivers are simply better, more stable, etc.
    I expect Nvidia and ATI to leapfrog back and forth with their latest cards stealing the benchmark king title from eachother, but I don't expect ATI to ever make drivers I like as much as Nvidia, so I will continue to buy Nvidia's cards.

  25. Re:Aren't you forgetting someone? on New Graphics Company, With Working Cards · · Score: 4, Interesting



    I personally find NVidia's TwinView to work a lot better, if you have a card with two outputs, which most of the GF4s and higher seem to have now.

    We might as well ask about S3 if we're asking about Matrox. Remember that great card they had a while back?

    The best we can hope for is a pricewar I think. Cheaper Nvidia or ATI cards is always better.