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  1. Aeropress recipes on Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee · · Score: 1

    What do you think of all the complex recipes people come up with on the aeropress, and what technique do you use? Normal or inverted method?

  2. Re:Glass or steel Aeropress? on Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee · · Score: 1

    Their FAQ says they have no plans to produce the aeropress in glass or steel. They do produce special gold/silver/bronze versions for trophies, but you have to win a championship to get one of those :)

  3. Re:I totally identify with this... on Are IT Security Professionals Less Happy? · · Score: 1

    Will it make you better if I tell you the tab on your mustard is there to protect it from the air?

  4. Only cool if you want to play games on Parallels 3.0 Announced, 3D Graphics Included · · Score: 1

    While I'm sure the gamer crowd represents a vast share of Parallel's customer base, I am still disappointed that they seem to entirely neglect their technical customers. New releases often, if not always, come without changelogs. There is no quick way to send a machine image to someone else. There are still no Parallels Tools that synchronise mouse movement etc. for operating systems other than Windows.

    VMWare people, bring it on, release every zig! This is a market where we need some competition.

  5. Re:France wins on How Much Should Broadband Cost? · · Score: 1

    You forget to mention that you can watch the free TV channels on your computer over RTSP, and use the phone service with SIP. The SIP service works even when you're not at home. Oh, and the infrastructure all runs on Linux.

  6. Videos of the vote on EU Says No To Software Patents · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://wiki.vrijschrift.org/EP050706 (CoralCache) has the videos and transcripts.

  7. Re:Mirror on Google Launches Pay-Per-View Web Video · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the user info:

    I have nothing better to do with my life than post mirrors to Slashdot stories. Oh sure, I could create a bot to do it, but a human touch is needed.
  8. Re:security through obscurity on Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE · · Score: 1

    Apple's Safari has already patched this. It actually patched it weeks ago, shortly after the advisory came out.

  9. So what you're saying is... on Solar Minimum Coming Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    this one doesn't go to 11?

    ka-dum *tching*

  10. The movie in question on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1
  11. couple with AudioHijack, stream to many? on Johansen Cracks AirPort Express Encryption · · Score: 1

    iTunes-> AudioHijack -> Multiple Airport Express bases => your music in each room around the house. Would this work? I understand there might be a small sync issue between different stations, but I can live with some echo.

  12. Been there, done that. on Network Attacks Via DNS · · Score: 1

    IP Tunneling Through Nameservers. And you can apparently stop that too, but I doubt it's very efficient unless you whitelist domains unauthenticated clients can look up.

  13. Re:Worried About Competitor Braindrain? on Who Really is the "Director" of Dashboard? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/senders. tiff (remove the space) count as an easter egg? If you open it in Preview you can see eight pictures of Mail.app developers..

  14. Re:Step Seven on A Six-Step Plan for Apple · · Score: 1

    Get Sidetrack for your powerbook. It turns the trackpad into something with six buttons and two scroll wheels, which is better than most mice :D.

  15. Microsoft is not a charity on Microsoft Security Updates for Pirated Windows? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should it have to pay for the bandwidth to support pirated copies? There is no benefit to them.

    Most if not all infected Sasser users around here had legit but hadn't bothered to update. Real crackers use the corporate version of Windows that apparently doesn't require a CD key for updates.

  16. Re:Apple lossless on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 3, Funny

    The extension for the lossless codec is .m4a (yes I checked), these are two short sample files (440 Hz, 1s).

    They're right, it's lossless, I can't tell the difference between the two! :p

  17. The page is 404 on Power Over Ethernet for AirPort Base Station · · Score: 1

    Neither a search on apple's site nor a google search found anything.

  18. Re:Great trick for ssh administration on Debugging The Spirit Rover · · Score: 1

    The grandparent's command will sleep for 600 seconds in the foreground and then fork reboot in the background. What you want is this:

    shutdown -rh +600

    To cancel it, type

    shutdown -c
    IIRC, your machine will still be hosed if your shell dies though. Ideally, you want to run this inside screen or something.
  19. Try this on Nokia Admits Multiple Bluetooth Security Holes · · Score: 2, Informative

    PhoneManager claims it can transfer contacts to/from a 6310i using bluetooth. It doesn't work without a cable for my non-i 6310 so I haven't tested it.

  20. Re:A poem from the heart. on What to Get My Geek for Valentine's Day? · · Score: 1

    Roses are red Violets are blue In Soviet Russia Poem writes you!

  21. and viola on Rumors of Mini iPods · · Score: 1

    Why would you want a string instrument for your open source iPod? So you can play along? Or for the jokes maybe?

  22. Different reply with 2.4 kernel on PPC on Time's Up: 2^30 Seconds Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    It just stays at the limit on 2.4.21 with perl 5.8. The expression at the bottom properly rolls back though. Any idea of why the parent is rolling back to 1901? Shouldn't it roll back to 1970?

    % perl 2038.perl.txt
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
    Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
    % uname -a
    Linux Hertz 2.4.21-xfs #1 Mon Sep 1 17:17:44 CEST 2003 ppc GNU/Linux
    % perl -v

    This is perl, v5.8.0 built for powerpc-linux-thread-multi
    [...]

    % perl -e 'print scalar gmtime 1e10, "\n"'
    Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 1969

  23. Food fights are forbidden on Eating in Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too many computers, electronics, etc. on the ISS to have food fights. If you want to have one, you have to go outside.

  24. Re:Problems with iTunes for Windows on iTunes for Windows Reviews · · Score: 1

    Maximising the window: On Mac Os X, you can alt-click the green button to maximise the iTunes window. YMMV.

    Pictures: Get info for multiple tracks, drag the new picture in the "Artwork" box.

  25. Using a bayesian spam classifier for this? on Essay Grading Software For Teachers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This thing compares the essays it is supposed to grade with already graded papers in its database. Couldn't this be done with something like POPFile? It isn't only a spam/ham classifier and lets you create as many "buckets" as you want (e.g. work, family, spam, mailing lists and system monitoring).

    You could, in theory, create only buckets named (A...F), feed a large number of essays to it, make it "learn" how the essays are classified using statistics, and let it grade essays for you after that.

    Is it possible to find masses of graded essays online? This would be a fun thing to try :).